Doing chain 100s on Colibris already put me in front of the screen and active every second as a RDM. If anything, there isn't much difference for us casters. I am sorry you can't just auto-attack, go drink a sip of coffee and come back to hit your TP button. It is all very fair to me.Should it really be necessary for ppl to sit in front of their screen, every waking moment, just to be "efficient?"
That also put exp leechers out of business, unless of course the others intentionally tolerate it. And learn to "ask" your group members for a break, if you need it. A regular exp party should be able to handle a few minutes of your absense, incidentally probably because they can equip healing spells, which you appear to be unhappy with as well.
Right now as it is, you get a lot of break time waiting for mobs to re-spawn, not like that is a good thing however.
Incidentally, that got rid of pigeon-holing jobs to a specific role. Do you want the "sit in town" forever just because you are a DRG or BST all over again?In FFXI, there were clear, distinct roles designated to each job.
Despite the fact that some groups went for all ranged for Ogre, its not harder to go with a full melee team...and make that a more or less random melee team to win the fight.
Some jobs are still better at some roles than others regardless.Nothing is unique about them but the "weapon they carry" and the "title they possess" -as I said before.
Actually I would laugh at said person's idiocy of equipping less than optimal gear, but that's just me.When a person is level 40, and he or she see someone, level 20, wearing the same armor he or she waited until level 40 to equip, it's discouraging.
The level scaling of armor will make a lot more sense if level-syncing is introduced, assuming that they will do that. And following your suggestion, even if I have a R50 melee, I can't use it for my R1 melee classes? By your logic, I have already "earned" it, haven't I?