Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
This. The Scions for the most part cannot keep up with us nor are on our level, and this becomes apparent if you do Trusts. Why they don't AoE, why they don't attack while moving, why they wait for an attack to go through before going back, why they have so few skills/spells/abilities, there's a reason other than a technical standpoint. Because they themselves are already pushing themselves to the limit fighting a single enemy, dodging attacks, and have a limited amount of moves that their bodies can use at any given situation because any more might push their bodies too much. Estinien and G'raha Tia are the only two Trusts who have actually been able to transcend their limits to a degree, through Estinien's temporary fusion with Nidhogg and G'raha Tia's century of knowledge and experience as the Exarch, and are actually closer to our level than the others.
This leans a lot on gameplay inconsistencies. What makes trusts more indicative of the other Scions abilities than duties or cutscenes where they can get away with pulling room clearing abilities out of nowhere that honestly embarrass the skills of the jobs we get to play as the WoL? I'll not get specific, but it surely doesn't take much thinking to remember an instance when we had to buy time for someone to charge an attack that destroyed everything on the battlefield. Sometimes they don't even need us as a distraction and the power gets used to save us. It happens all the time in FF14.