Quote Originally Posted by AreeyaJaidee View Post
SMN can have most these mechanics and decent damage, why must everyone auto assume it's going to be OP out the gate?
Mostly because we base our experience on FFXI. They cannot make it so that SMN can do as good damage as full fledge DD and as good heals/support as full fledge healers/support classes. They just cannot because then it would not be fair that a single job can do everything jus as effectively as someone else that can only do 1 thing.

The result? They would unfortunately need to make it so that it's not as good a DD than a DD job and not as good a healer/support than a healer/support job because sadly people would complain if they could do everything just as good.

But you may be right, there might be a way to balance it all out, I just can't think of any.