Quote Originally Posted by Seera1024 View Post
The more different builds a game can have the more harder the game is to balance.

You can either have well balanced builds or a wide variety of different builds.

No game has figured out how to have both.

Some games go for variety and hope to have a vast majority of builds be viable for content that most players play.

Other games try to have every build relatively balanced so that no one is excluded because they chose to play a specific build.

You want the former. SE has chosen the latter. I highly doubt that that's going to change anytime soon for one main reason:

How they are handling the balancing and build variety is working. You don't make drastic changes to a game's playstyle unless you're already hurting numbers wise. Because players choose to play specific games for specific reasons and drastic changes can mean you've alienated your core game player base.
there isnt a build variety at all though removing it completely you basicly done every player into a drone running on auto pilot with the job, hell anyone could essenitally make a bot with just a autokeying program with how they have it to clear stuff perfectly lol

plus *cough* they drasticly changed ast from its stormblood orgin and tbh same with bard