Can anyone clearly explain "job homogenization" in this game?

[Connor]

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I understand better now.

In terms of stacking buff classes were they to become more exclusive they could have the abilities give a standardised ‘buff effect’ as opposed to a unique one for every single buff. E.G Battle Voice and Devilment giving a ‘DHR buff’ instead of giving two separate buffs. Or if Samba/Troubadour/Tactician gave a standardised ‘reduced damage taken’ buff. Then they could just have them work like HP shields where using one of the same/lower strength has no effect, but using one of higher strength will overwrite the lower one.

It’d potentially make the classes that do ‘support’ feel more similar which isn’t great, but it’d have a lot of benefits for balancing those jobs and would even make things easier on the buff/debuff cap.

[Carighan]

In terms of stacking buff classes were they to become more exclusive they could have the abilities give a standardised ‘buff effect’ as opposed to a unique one for every single buff. E.G Battle Voice and Devilment giving a ‘DHR buff’ instead of giving two separate buffs. Or if Samba/Troubadour/Tactician gave a standardised ‘reduced damage taken’ buff. Then they could just have them work like HP shields where using one of the same/lower strength has no effect, but using one of higher strength will overwrite the lower one.

Oh like GW2 with its standardized buffs and debuffs. That'd be smart, yeah your're right.