Quote Originally Posted by Erepio View Post
you make it sound like balancing is only done for the raiders, guess what its not, ppl will want you to be in a specific set up, be it gear or skills, even in open world just look at FFXI
Not only that, but you don't even need party content for people to want classes to be balanced, or else you'll get things like: "That Archer can kill X way faster than my Lancer", "Conjurers can keep themselves alive much easier than my Rogue", etc, etc.