i'm sick and tired of the excuse for not having unique or varied jobs

[Saraide]

low to mid tier players literally don't care about meta unless there's a competitive reason to. so unless you're going for speed kills, or things on the website that shall not be named. you'd literally not care about stats as long as the job is fun.

also for the love of god not every PF is gonna softban SMN for dealing 5% less DPS than a BLM. it doesn't happen now and only happened recently cause of the MASSIVE gap in DPS between PLD and DRK/GNB. hell it even had a small gap between it and WAR who was also quite low. when you have that massive amount of a DPS disparity without the high end players being able to match even middle end players of other jobs in the role. thats not the jobs fault or the players fault. it's balancing issues stop blaming the players and the job itself because it was balanced poorly. literally just some damage number changes and PLD is back to being in good standing DPS wise. wow amazing that huh?



which only lasted like 2 weeks and PLDs were still getting clears so once again this whole point is moot. also it wasn't the players or jobs fault, it was the fact it was balanced extremely poorly. nobody would've looked at that paladin DPS and gone ok ship it compared to every other tank. so much so that even high end PLD players would still risk being lower than middle tier DRK/GNB players thats not a good gap in DPS. regardless of how simple or complex kits are

Congrats, you have correctly analyzed the current situation. This will likely not hold up when job balance is given up for uniqueness.

[pikalovr]

Congrats, you have correctly analyzed the current situation. This will likely not hold up when job balance is given up for uniqueness.

oh no we can't have unique jobs and balance oh god oh shi oh duck. it's not like we already have RPGs that do exactly that. but no never thats heresy and impossible

[Saraide]

oh no we can't have unique jobs and balance oh god oh shi oh duck. it's not like we already have RPGs that do exactly that. but no never thats heresy and impossible

I think we can have unique jobs, we just shouldnt give up job balance to achieve that. Is that way harder than neglecting one for the other? Yea sure, but this is not some small indie dev we are talking about. Excellence should be expected from this game.