Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Well... we did. Not loudly, nor across what would necessarily appear to be a majority, but yes, we did.

People said they were tired of having their mains locked out of a given party just because it already had a <job or two with whom their job is less synergetic> was already in said party. And many did not feel like having to remember whether to do a 4th GCD, 5th GCD, or 6th GCD opener because of which composition they had to be in.

To that, many in turn said then, too, that it such wouldn't matter even as much as their Crit RNG in a given run, but alas...
The job synergy thing was definitely an issue, don’t get me wrong. But I feel like if what they took from that was ‘we don’t like varied buff timers or control over usage’, they’ve kinda missed the point a little. As you say, the point (as I understood it) was that players didn’t want their overall performance to be heavily contingent on what they happened to have in the party. I.e Bard needing DRG, several jobs needing whoever gave the slashing debuff, I think Ninja or Warrior, etc.
Feels like a bit of a jump to go from ‘make our performance not be based on which jobs we take/exclude’ to ‘2-min meta everything, even the defensive’ lol