Quote Originally Posted by Neptune View Post
Why assume everyone is so selfish? Why would you assume I don't care about other players getting excluded? What is going on right now is ridiculous. I log on, my group farms Batraal, and we practically throw away axes that drop since nobody has Marauder up. It's completely unfair for 4/5ths of melee to be so looked down upon. I've been looked down on in FFXI for trying to do my thing so I know what it feels like to have the community turn against you.. because of the initiative of the battle planner.
I'd have to agree with Tirion on this.

My first impression from reading the OP was you just trying to blame Matsui's MP cost changes for the "problem" we're seeing now. You clearly emphasized ridiculous MP cost hikes as being the root cause of the problem. So to me, it seems that your OP is just another plea for SE to lower MP costs and nothing more.

Fact is, the dungeon is easily completed with just about any setup. It's just common sense that it's easier and arguably quicker with a CON/ARC setup. Regardless of what classes we bring with us, MP management is never an issue, for either boss. I will however agree that ARC is still completely OP, dealing far more damage that any other class while at the same time mitigating all possible damage simply by being out of range. The problem lies with class balancing, not content design and not MP cost adjustments.

The only thing you might not be able to do with a random party setup is getting the 5th chest. This will hopefully change with patch 1.18a later today.