Could have SE unknowing set FFXIV to fail....

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Nah, the trinity class is great. It is less flexible indeed, but it is far more controlled and easier to balance content. And it's not excluding jobs XYZ if you are not the VIP Job of the Month. FFXI is the worst, cherry picking certain jobs, and pretty much decide the rest of the rooster are crap since you are not monk, ranger, samurai, bard, scholar and white mage. Those are the VIP jobs of the moment on FFXI, Paladin is used heavily for some bcnms, but pretty much deemed useless for others. We do not need that discrimination here.

Discrimination happens in XIV anyway, just in different forms. In XI it's have the preferred jobs, in XIV it's "know the T9 dance or boot after one wipe" or "hit X dps". In XI fights are decided by players playing their job to a high level, in XIV it's 8 players playing a single player game and hoping the other 7 people don't lose their single player game. In XI if you make your own groups you can go in with non-standard compositions and still clear, just like you can make your own groups in XIV with people who know the fights or are willing to accommodate people who are learning. People prefer those jobs because they're time-tested strategies that guarantee a larger percentage of success with pick-up groups, no different than people not wanting to take first timers into Coil instances or EX primals.