Quote Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa View Post
Nah. Standardization is better. Why would I play BLM in the content I care about when I am unwilling to play non-standard and will therefore be doing less than I should be doing relative to if I were to pick another job? It's a team game and that's called letting the team down for selfish reasons. It makes me feel things like "Black mage isn't really the job for me. I really want to play it, but mechanically I have gripes with the playstyle at the limit so I shouldn't play it. I am not a true black mage" and that's just poor design.

If you can't adapt to the changes, maybe you're the one who isn't a true black mage. The job is about maximum explosions, not esoteric math and addon abuse to track mp ticks.
Im sorry did non-standard existing force you into doing it?
We didn't point a gun to your head and say you have to play non-standard, there was no party finder conditions that said "BLM Non only" or anything like that. Only speedrunning or parsing raid groups would complain about you not doing the highest possible damage you can do and at that point its YOUR fault for surronding yourself with people who don't want you to play how you want to play. Im not a parser in fact I hate it and any record of my parses are recorded by other people and I infact played non-standard because I enjoyed having flexibity and adaptation in my rotation. So please explain to me why me losing my option to play the same Job as you in a different way effects you, when both ways are perfectly viable to do the most important thing clear the content.