Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
That depends IMO.

If you were dead set on playing a particular job and said job was a dumpster fire then that's a fair view to hold.

If you were flexible on what you played then IMO it actually wasn't a bad thing at all. I did Gordias as SCH then WHM, Midas as both WHM and AST, then Creator on AST. The shifting meta and balance gave me a firm push into mixing up what I played, that alone does wonders for preventing things getting too stale and I'd credit that as a healthy portion of why I have some 80 or so A12S clears logged alone, at least half of which were PF.

Meanwhile with the current status of balance above all, I generally just sit on WHM and leave it at that as there's little to nothing to be gained from playing a different healer. Thus things got stale fast I guess.

Sometimes you've got to save the playerbase from themselves, having jobs/classes that are inherently somewhat unbalanced but with a meta that is always evolving over time helps do just that whilst FFXIV's job system means that the 'penalty' for switching to a more flavour of the month job is relatively minuscule compared to what you used to see in WoW.
True but I dont think its a good mentality to be like "Oh this one job I like to play is actually super bad, guess I'm forced to play something else". Game shouldnt be the one to make that decision, the player does and if the balance was that awful, its not something that can be easily ignored. People like their jobs and if every job is viable then that should be the standard.