Jobs and Class, I am nervous now.

[Reaujien]

And this whole statement you made is the reason why we have class-stacking, this is what happens when developers do it another way.


Wizards were the power-house of the casters, every other caster were pet classes, except alchemist. It had really good buffs and had potion (ammo) and really good debuffs. The petters could steal do good damage, not as high as wizards, but you could have the pet tank one mob while the master can attack another. Clerics were hysterically awesome at killing undeads, which it had several raid areas with undead.

Sir, look up Everquest Online Adventures for the ps2. Yes the game is very old, but it will show you how well class balance was in that game. Every single class was useful, you could take any class anywhere on a raid.

You can't have two casters, one being a healer with heavy armor that can do roughly the same damage as the one who is only a damage dealer with cloth armor and less health. Or melees, which positioned correctly have just as little threat to some enemies as casters to being hit. Lancers against Ifrit for example, or archers to moogles. Anyone who times the self-explosions or learns a mobs pattern can easily avoid the damage.

When crap hits the fans let's say and the paladin dies. The mob will go after whoever does the most damage. Who is more likely to live long enough for one healer to spam heal while the other revives the tank? Sure as hell won't be Black mage/thaumaturge with it's low defense and hp. Look at mister melee warrior who can dps and possibly tank taking several hits not dying in 1 to 2 hits.

Or Mr. Pugilist/Monk who can evade some hits while the tank is getting back up.

I am sure Lancer can do it to if someone tried hard enough.

No class that can take a hit should ever exceed the one that can't take the hit. It's called Balance.

You're right, we're all wrong.

FFXIV needs to be more like some non-FF PS2 game.

All is well. Then end.


(For the inept, this is the definition of sarcasm...)