2 tanks and 4 dps can beat P9?

[Nebelheim]

Is that really true though? Was I really more powerful?

In FFXI, by myself I was literally nothing. It took me 15 minutes+ to solo a trash mob that was barely above grey to me. Calling an FFXI bard powerful is completely misunderstanding the job because they were anything but. What they were was an amplifier and enabler. We took bad matchups and made them good, we took good matchups and made them great.

For WoW, was I really the powerful than the warrior who was one/two shotting our victims? By themselves, the Warrior was vulnerable and an easy target. By myself I was a brick wall but also little more than an annoyance if simply ignored. Together, we were devastating and synergised perfectly.

Overall, FFXI is a particularly good case study to look at. It's not that one role was more important than the others, but rather that the game played into the trinity HARD.

Simple merit farm mobs would literally 1 shot a caster and the DPS/support wouldn't fare much better, maybe 2-3 rounds if it doesn't use a damage WS on you? No tank? No go.

Tanks, Healers and Supports did somewhere between little to no damage and in most cases, it was actually detrimental to allow a non tank or DPS to even touch the mob unless it was dots as you'd feed TP allowing it to potentially do considerably more damage. No DPS? No go.

Supports were vital to enable DPS to reliably connect on IT rated mobs. Without those BRD/Cor/etc buffs, you'd be missing/bouncing often enough that you'd have to step a tier down which was a HUGE loss in exp. No Support? No go.

Healers were similarly important. Even tanks would still get tied in knots by some mob weapon skills and no matter what gear you had, you'd need a healer babysitting you even up against a simple merit farm trash mob. No healer? No go.

Meanwhile in mainstream FFXIV content, Healers can survive tank busters and deal damage. Tanks can heal and deal damage. DPS can heal and survive tank busters. See the problem here?

FFXI was an MMO through and through, you relied on other people just as other people would rely on you.

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In ff11 jobs were more complex then simply fitting into a tank/dps/healer role like modern mmo games. FF11 jobs were a lot more complex with much bigger kits then most modern mmos. And there was a lot more strategy to get job combos to work unless you were a beast master which they were off solo.