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    Gilgamesh
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    Astrologian Lv 93
    Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
    Absolutely, 100% wrong. You can't balance the game around content that 90% of the playerbase will never experience.
    But Savage and Ultimate are the only content where jobs actually need to be balanced.

    You can have horrible imbalance in dungeons and alliance raids and it would never matter. People won't be kicked for being the "worst" healer in a roulette.

    Tight job balance only matters in Savage+, and honestly only really affects that 10% of players. Designing AST, SCH and WHM to be comparable in Savage and up should be the goal. If WHM dominates in 4 man content, nobody should care. The content is still so easy that it'll never matter what jobs you bring.
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    Deceptus Keelon
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    Behemoth
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    Sage Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Towns View Post
    But Savage and Ultimate are the only content where jobs actually need to be balanced.

    You can have horrible imbalance in dungeons and alliance raids and it would never matter. People won't be kicked for being the "worst" healer in a roulette.

    Tight job balance only matters in Savage+, and honestly only really affects that 10% of players..
    EX Farm parties are where many people learn about job inefficiencies. In HW and SB WHM were actively being excluded from EX's.
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    Veteran healers don't care if we need to heal, but right now we don't. We want interesting things to do during the downtime other than a 30s dot and a single filler spell that hasn't changed from lvl 4 to lvl 90.
    Dead DPS do no DPS. Raised DPS do 25/50% lower DPS. Do the mechanics and don't stand in bad stuff.
    Other games expect basic competence, FFXIV is pleasantly surprised by it. Other games have toxic elitism. FFXIV has toxic casualism.[/LIST]