Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
I don't see this brought up too often and fully agree.

Phys ranged and now to an extent, rez casters, have been on life support with that 1% buff for years now. If that band-aid buff didn't exist, you'd probably just bring 4 melee this tier because you're talking up to 3000 rdps over a caster/phys ranged comp. Having 5 jobs exist in raids only because of a 1% role buff and not their own contribution is awful design and a crutch that allows them to balance badly and get away with it.
It's been brought up since Shadowbringer but the topic was abandonned for some reasons.
Honestly that 1% stats feels like a poor excuse to bring "bad jobs" and not having to balance them. Feels like it was their answer to Piercing Debuff+NIN meta in late HW.
It works within a maximum gap but too many times it feels like you have to bring your little brother play with you and your friends or you won't get dessert tonight.

It's not exactly fun to have a meta imposed to everyone.
And it just artificially inflates the number of ranged/caster players. I can garantee they'd be much, much lower if we didn't had that 1% role bonus.