Quote Originally Posted by SaitoHikari View Post
Yeah, the problem with MNK is two-pronged.

They happen to be one of the top DPS in the game, as a class that isn't even selfish. They have more party utility than half of the classes below them, so the uproar against them is because they seemingly escaped any support tax that was placed on every other DPS with a party buff below them. Dragoon too, kind of. They have more utility than even freaking Bards. Why does party-wide Mantra share the same cooldown as -single target- Minne when they both do the same thing? The only plus about Bard's Minne is that it's +5% more healing. Oh, and Brotherhood happens to have half the cooldown of Battle Voice too. Sure, all ranged get raidwide mitigation, but all melee including Monk also get Feint with half the cooldown.

Actually, the way support is handled this expansion needs to be taken a long look at. It feels like at this point, some classes got gutted of their support options with nothing to make up for it, while other classes didn't lose anything and gained everything from it.
Agreed. The ideal party setup (in my eyes) is

-Main Tank
-Support tank/OT that can either swap or help bolster the main tank
-2 selfish dps
-2 support dps
-2 healers

It's not so clear cut and more often than not balancing spots for 4 classes out of (how many DPS do we have now @_@) is going to be hard, but that's also why people like myself fought for classes like Dancer to be Heals. Having literally everything in the DPS category stifles the designs.

BRD and DNC should be loved for the utility they bring, but in their attempt to break the meta to not "needing" roles like NIN and stuff, we now have just "do all the damage" and that really sucks.

I hope we get more fleshing out of support because right now classes like BRD and DNC are nerfed only to barely be used outside of casual content.