Done with FFXIV until RDM comes along...

[Kaonis]

So now bosses hit 7% faster and the debuff is required. Yay?! Yet another thing to track in the middle of a fight.

Using FF XI for reference doesn't really help your case. The development team for XI couldn't find "game balance" with a Ouija Board and an extra set of eyeballs.

What was I thinking? You're right anything not pure DPS should be gutted from the game! It's not like tanks and DPS have debuffs already that have to constantly be put on and kept track of. Let's just remove all skills that aren't pure DPS or better yet just make 2 buttons, one for AoE and one for single target! It's not like having a variety of actions including non-DPS moves is fun or remotely interesting anyways! [/sarcasm]

FFXI is a great reference at least, cause it was a game that was actually fun and interesting. Combat is bland and beyond mind-numbingly boring in this game.

[Alkimi]

FFXI is a great reference at least, cause it was a game that was actually fun and interesting. Combat is bland and beyond mind-numbingly boring in this game.

But FFXI had zero balance amongst the jobs. They just threw a whole bunch of them in there (20 at last count) and people just stacked the most useful ones for any endgame content. It had support jobs yeah, but they were massively overpowered.

Even your precious RDM has been useless since the level cap was raised and it's taken them 4 years to add Haste II to make them relevant again.