Dear SE, stop homogenizing jobs

[Raqrie_Tohka]

We can stop homogenized classes as soon as people stop asking for balance. People will stop asking for balance when they get over their personal favorite classes not being the nest for a raid tier.

My solution? Make every raid teir use different classes with different strengths. You may go 1 savage tier not playing SAM because it's not needed and 3 casters are. You can have multiple jobs on a character so the only excuse not to pick up another job to do current tier is because you are entitled and whiny.

Perhaps the strength adaptation could mostly be focused on different jobs within the same class structure, so no strength comparisons across melee and casters, but just within the melees, for instance.
This allows you to add variety to both inter-job and inter-class. The jobs will be different in how they adapt to each specific boss, and the classes will be outright different in how they handle certain mechanics of the raid.

[Mistyregions]

Perhaps the strength adaptation could mostly be focused on different jobs within the same class structure, so no strength comparisons across melee and casters, but just within the melees, for instance.
This allows you to add variety to both inter-job and inter-class. The jobs will be different in how they adapt to each specific boss, and the classes will be outright different in how they handle certain mechanics of the raid.

That could work, it would be almost recon bard etc. You would have to build a raid around that.