Honest question: If every player/class/job is equal,who is unique? (Gameplay topic)

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Only jobs with true difference in terms of role while in party content are Scholar and White Mage (One cannot effectively do what the other one does, Scholar will never be as good as AoE healing/Party Health management as White Mage. White Mage will never be as good as single target health management as Scholar.). Everything else fulfills the same role + one or two things that happen differently which lead to the same result. Even Black Mage which is supposed to be "The AoE job" has arguably some of the best if not, the best single target DPS in the game since the buffs went through and before that was the worst in that category.

The only other time we even had a situation close to the current difference between Scholar and White Mage was 2.0 release Warrior vs. Paladin where Warrior was basically excluded from content because SE's vision for it failed to pass their own content design in the eyes of many players (Also you needed Silences for ADS which Paladin had).

Ultimately I think a lot of the 'sameness' debate could be alleviated if SE had just added support classes from the get go, the holy trinity feels passable now because there are so few jobs but I think that as more jobs are added we may see more discontented posts such as this. I hope that once the amount of jobs added expands SE realizes that the addition of support roles could do a lot to spice things up.