Quote Originally Posted by Massterchef View Post
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Read my post about LOTRO and I said the exact same thing as you, and its the same in all games... in middle/intermediate content all of these outside the box things work... try it in a true endgame situation and they will rarely work.

As an aside, Captain was different in that the 3 specs truly did different things... it had a healer shell but buffed different things in different specs.

On topic... Ive done WP as a WAR w/ 3 BLMs. Ive tanked Low Level dungeons on WHM and BLM (purposely). I've DPSd as a PLD. I've DPSd as a WHM. Ive tanked as a DRG. All on purpose, all with a game plan in mind. I would never dream of doing any of those things at all endgame.

FFXI permitted things like that to happen end game. There was a boss(es?) that were much easier with a BRD tank... the game allowed it to be so. Id like a fraction of that present in FFXIV at the end game level.