This is not a complaint thread, but rather one of curiosity.

I'd like to ask my fellow end-gamers whether they have managed to find a good, practical use for taking off the job crystal and resorting to using a base class for any endgame content thus far.

I'm aware there are advantages to doing this in regards to having more cross-class abilities enabled, but the disadvantages of losing stats seem to provide an always clear winner for all endgame content....to keep the job crystal always on.

Before 2.1, mostly everyone was only using relic weapons/myth pieces that can only be equipped by your job. However as more and more lvl 80/90 pieces that can be equipped by both classes and jobs, are being made more available (primal drops, coil T5 weapon) perhaps things are about to change.

Do you think there could be opportunities arising that would benefit parties to make more use of the base class, whether it's soon, or in distant future endgame content? If not, then why do you think SE added endgame gear to be equip-able by those classes? (except for myth)