Job Individuality/Pride/Dedication

[Crevox]

1) That's not the dev's fault
2) stop playing with bad players and play with people willing to experiment.

Everything in the current game is viable with any setup. It's just not efficient. The game goes for any other MMO out there. DRGs in FFXI were shit pre-abyssea, and they still got into parties.

1) The developers designed the system in that switching is that easy. The content is also designed so that switching is optimal. The systems the developers designed cause it to be optimal to switch, which makes people enforce it.
2) "Bad players" is just about every PUG group I've played in, if you want to use that term.

And yeah, the last thing you said is right, a lot of things are viable, but the playerbase won't allow it because it's too easy to switch to something that IS optimal - to the point that they won't invite you if you don't obey that rule.

I knew plenty of people that only played one job and everyone still accepted them...

Congratulations, but by monk friend got refused from Cutter's Cry, Aurum Vale, The Raven Nevermore, and Garuda because he was a monk. He didn't have any other classes; he can't do end game content because he chose to play a monk? Parties won't accept him because he doesn't have multiple classes on hand to use - why should he even have to play anything else?