Black Mage - the solution for everything?

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Many people never do and never will think outside the box, because the fight isn't what they're interested in. The reward is. The fight is just and annoying "necessary evil" they need to deal with to get it. Read enough posts and "listen in" on enough conversations, and it becomes clear, many people couldn't care less about the fight, the storyline, the quests or any of the other content. They want the rewards, and that's it.

This is a sad truth. At the same time, there's a threshold for what each of us considers reasonable. I don't mind a daily grind, grinding rep, killing a boss in hopes of a drop and so on...within certain parameters. If the daily grind is korean MMO style I'm going to have a problem. If the rep grind is going to involve fighting over lolsand like in vanilla WoW, I'm going to have a problem. If the boss drops nothing or drops logs 99% of the time, I'm going to have a problem. It's really about finding the middle ground.

As far as thinking outside the box, the going with the "most effective comp" thing has been inherited from FFXI, in part because that game's mechanics encouraged jobism instead of inclusion of all jobs for every type of activity in-game. Some use the job and armory systems as excuses for allowing that sort of thing, whereas I think it's BS.