The Chimera, the Monk and the Guard

[Rydin]

This is what it keeps coming back to. If you want flexibility then found an LS that is open to it. In the meantime, since I need to run CC at least 200+ times with speedruns to gear our LS I am going to do it the most efficient way possible. This isn't closed-minded, rather efficiency-centric.

Someone earlier responded to my statement that you could complete ACP and Alexander with non-traditional setups. This is true but I wasn't going to risk a two hour tower climb for 50-50 odds. I chose to level an alternative class that would also allow me to participate in other battles. In the end? I loved RNG to the point it was my 3rd favorite class. The same thing happened for me in this game - I had no desire to level THM/BLM but did it because I ran out of stuff to do and assumed it would be needed. The result? It's hard to get me off BLM!

Lastly, you are asking for a cookie-cutter system in which balance/fair-play is prevalent. That isn't really the FF way. The FF history had been similar to sports: find a weakness and exploit the hell out of it. This is infuriating at some times and yet highly rewarding and oddly addictive. It's the same in any game. I know that some people try to pull the "fair play/I want challenge" card but that's a joke. I played ball with a coach who preached that day and night and on gameday we ran right at the Will who over-pursued, leveraged the DE who couldn't contain, and pressed the X because they ran a timing-based variation of the WCO. End result? Everyone loves a win.

Thats why the west coast offense hinges on a QB who keeps his head and anticipates the blitz and looks to dump a screen pass to the flat, as opposed to wasting time checking down receivers when a speedy DE or DB is coming

As far as the OP... now that we've identified that it's the content and the way it is designed...
Do you think this under-designed content is just a product of 1.xx?

Is it possible that Yoshi-P is testing the waters... or just putting in filler content and at 2.0 there will be so much diverse balanced content?

But then, a similar thing happened in Beta... People kept thinking the problems were just because it was Beta, assuming they'd be fixed by launch... and they never were