Quote Originally Posted by Zarkovitch View Post
You guys know back in shadowbringer it was 0,6 mins raids buff burst and certain job can be ditch out due to excentrique rotation and certain meta comps right? RIGHT!?! So before saying 2 mins is the plague you should do maybe research of old expansion. The current one we have is the most balance I've seen all my life in ff14. Shadowbringer was a lil mess but there was force comps due to certain raid buffs alignments .In Stormblood MCH,BRD,NIN,DRG when? Oh yeah bye bye SAM,MNK,BLM,WHM,DRK get those trash out my yard. In Heavenwards NIN,DRG,BRD,WAR,SMN when? Oh yeah bye bye PLD,MNK,BLM get those trash out my yard.
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I'm sorry but you must have barely started playing if you genuinely believe this. Endwalker has seen the worst balance since Heavensward. They had to nerf a damn Savage fight because so many jobs were laughably underperforming. You mention the old meta of Heavensward and Stormblood but that fix has almost nothing to do with the dev team and everything to do with FFlogs changing their ranking system. They used to rank based on personal DPS. If that category remained, every single selfish job is instantly dead.

When Asphodelos launched, Machinist, Dancer and Paladin were grief picks. You could technically clear but it meant demanding significantly more out of your team for zero benefit. The Casters have been a mess almost the entire expansion while Warrior has been buffed three times now and they still haven't gotten it right. Abyssos was so bad on release, a rank 47% Dark Knight was only 100 dps less than a 100% Warrior or Paladin. I should know, I was that Dark Knight having switched jobs because even with a damage down, I'd still outperform Warrior. Prior to the panic buff three weeks later, Dark Knight was pulling ahead by 11%. To illustrate just how utterly absurd this is, the Piercing debuff was originally 10%. Which means it was actually a smaller loss to deprive your Bard of a Dragoon in Heavensward than to bring a Warrior over a Dark Knight in Endwalker.

Viability doesn't mean balance. Warrior could clear both Dragonsong and Abyssos on release. Dark Knight just demolished it, thus allowing far more mistakes from your team throughout prog.