Quote Originally Posted by HiirNoivl View Post
Specialization happens no matter what the armory system.

Ask the people in the Linkshell "who The Tank is?" and they'll point to a half dozen people if they're lucky. "Who's the WHM?" Maybe 3 or 4.

While it's possible to completely master every job/class (and by "class" I mean THM) no one really does it. The armory system allows you to try out every class/job so that you can choose which one you really want to play. And that's what it's good for.
Exactly. However, way too many people expect you to master all jobs. I wonder if it's something more prevalent in the Western community btw, looking at youtube videos, it seems that the Japanese are more relaxed/tolerant when it comes to the job choice for a particular content.

A word of warning: this is not meant to be a "Japanese are better, all hail the Japanese" post, but merely an observation.