Quote Originally Posted by TomsYoungerBro View Post
Red Mage - Magic Barrier, Rez
Summoner - ???, Rez
Black Mage - ???, ???

Dang weird how the tools don't line up like how you said they are supposed to so one job isn't picked over another. It's like we keep trying to find a reason for homogenization to exist, but there is always a hole. Its like i've been trying to state from the start that homogenization hasn't solved what it was meant to do . It's only made the game worse. We can keep going for more examples of this if you'd like?
Weirdly enough, casters are the outlier in this. However, a res on BLM would be too strong due to infinite mana and SMN and BLM do both still have personal defensives, which Magick Barrier can also be used for, so it isn't as one sided as you make it out to be. Infact, with Summoner's being on a 60 second cooldown and having 2 charges, it makes it a very very useful and flexible tool that the other casters do not have, couple that with an easy job to play and you can see why SMN dominates the caster spot in TOP. This is the unique attributes of the job showing that it is much more favoured than the other 2 casters, which is, again, showing that having something more unique in the utility toolkit, as well as rotational differences, can make a job absolutely stand out as the clear favourite for a specific fight.

However, back to Bard, you still have not shown why homogenisation has meant that Bard doesn't get picked for TOP. Nothing you have stated shows this at all and infact, as I have stated multiple times now, every example you try and show proves the exact opposite. So again, stop trying to use homogenisation to talk about things it was never meant to fix.