Is there an unneeded hostility towards regular classes in this game?

[Ryuko]

Don't give me orders to stop posting anywhere on here like I need to follow anyone's authority, none of you are the master over anyone no matter how puffed up your ego is because of what you know about the game.

I can't control you, nor am I commanding you. Maybe I was unclear when I expressed my opinion that you should stop posting. It's pretty clear that either your points aren't being heard or you just aren't going to get anything else out of this thread. You're just going to get the same responses over and over again, which you seem to realize pretty well know. Anyway, to answer your... "Why it was not possible or even a noticed thing that it can be done in some dungeons and the like without problems?" The answer is, clearly, time and dps. Again, you recognize that arcanist dps is lower (that is what people are repeating -- but I don't think you realize WHY that matters)... a lot of players are impatient and want to beat a dungeon ASAP. I still remember the days when people did AK/WP runs and wouldn't even let people join unless they had a relic weapon... so if you know the dps of arcanist is much lower, that is the reason people don't want arcanist in dungeon groups post-30. (Well, you don't get Fester until 35 so it could be argued that arcanist is okay until 35, but that's a topic for another discussion.) The healing buffs of cross-class abilities don't matter because all dungeons can be solo-healed, and even many 8-man trials can be solo healed.

Another example... a WHM's job is to heal, right? A lot of players are impatient and won't invite a WHM to dungeons if that WHM will not AoE damage (Holy spam). Even some trials greatly benefit the uses of AoE Holy spam. As a secondary WHM, I holy spam if it helps (particularly on plumes in Garuda extreme). Technically it is not in the WHM's job description to dps, but people expect a WHM to dps if it will help a fight go faster/smoother. I bring up the healing issue because this was something that was super controversial when players started asking healers to help DPS. Some healers were ok with it while others were not. So, following that same mentality... people expect you to choose the best gear/abilities suited for a dungeon... and that includes the highest damage and fastest run. Can you still beat a dungeon with arcanist dps? Sure! But it's like going into a dungeon with i70 gear rather than i90 gear because you 'like' the look of the gear better... it's an aesthetic difference, and a detrimental one... even if it doesn't directly 'cause problems' and make the dungeon impossible to beat.

Anyway, maybe you are not realizing this yet because you haven't got there... but Allagan armor isn't always *the best*. Best-in-slot items for min/maxing your stats (and yes, it really matters for overall damage and performance) are a mixture of AFv2/Allagan armor... with certain stat priorities taking precedence. Having all i90 either way is still good, but there are many ways to push your role to the highest potential.

I personally would not have booted you from CT for going as arcanist (the skill range of people who enter CT is very very large and I try not to judge in there), but I would not have seen it as something wrong if I witnessed someone else boot you. Why would I want someone making our fights longer just because he refuses to use SMN? It seems silly. Actually, it reminds me of the summoners in FFXI who refused to sub WHM because they never ever wanted to cast even one heal. Even with the nerf to T5 in 2.2, I do not see arcanist being viable for Twintania UNTIL groups start getting gear better than i90 (since the fight was designed for ~i80 gear). Unfortunately, the lack of fester is REALLY going to hit you in conflag phase, especially short ones... and dreadknights would be really annoying to kill too.