Patch 6.21 - DPS Roles & the State of Endgame Balance

[ForteNightshade]

the last few days i am seeing several party finder queue not letting RDMs join p7s clears. As in they removed the RDM job slots.

I feel very alienated =(

I really hate saying this but I'm almost glad in a way. The dev team only seems to respond with meaningful change when the community as a whole finally gets so fed up they refuse to partake in their nonsense. Monk saw a complete rework largely due to the playerbase revolting after Shadowbringer's media tour when Yoshida claimed, "We're most proud of the changes to Monk" only to discover they did almost nothing. Machinist is now reaching the point where Savage clear numbers are a mere fraction of every other job. While both Warrior and Paladin were buffed after people wouldn't shut up about it.

For all the criticism WoW gets for ignoring player feedback, FFXIV is doing the exact same thing. The only difference is FF has more players willing to defend SE over any little thing. There's no excuse for the jobs to be this horrendously balanced two Savage tiers in. What's worse is we have an Ultimate on the horizon yet a handful of jobs will be locked out of it unless we see some pretty serious changes come in 6.3.

[CKNovel]

I really hate saying this but I'm almost glad in a way..

This is literally a necessary evil. If they refuse to listen to the feedback, the community ends up biting.
Banning jobs from the party finder is still soft but strong enough for the Dev team to be forced to acknowledge the problem.

I'd really like to avoid scenarios like WoW where it ended up as "Community Vs. Devs".

It worked well for DRK, maybe it will work as well for RDM/MCH.
Maybe the 4 years old feedback will finally reach them.

[Altera]

I really hate saying this but I'm almost glad in a way. The dev team only seems to respond with meaningful change when the community as a whole finally gets so fed up they refuse to partake in their nonsense. Monk saw a complete rework largely due to the playerbase revolting after Shadowbringer's media tour saw Yoshida say, "We're most proud of the changes to Monk" only to discover they did almost nothing. Machinist is now reaching the point where Savage clear numbers are a mere fraction of every other job. While both Warrior and Paladin were buffed after people wouldn't stupid up about it.

For all the criticism WoW gets for ignoring player feedback, FFXIV is doing the exact same thing. The only difference is FF has more players willing to defend SE over any little thing. There's no excuse for the jobs to be this horrendously balanced two Savage tiers in. What's worse is we have an Ultimate on the horizon yet a handful of jobs will be locked out of it unless we see some pretty serious changes come in 6.3.

I have seen BLMs from PF also removed from joining parties lately. A lot of PFs now seem to almost wanna skip the Stat bonus from bringing other Job roles to 4 Melees as their combined damage and ease of uptime negates the bonus etc.

I remember in Stormblood META era I had diffifulties getting farming done as I was excluded from PFs as I only play BLM and have done since they added Job System in 1.0. I have leveled all Jobs to max every expansion but none hooks me like BLM

If I again get excluded from doing content outside of my static, I start to wonder if my 10-11 year journey across Eorzea and its Reflections has come to an end. I feel really bad whenever I feel I am holding my static back because I love my BLM and they tell me to play the job I enjoy :/