Why refusing customization is a fallacy

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I want to see healers go do content without Swiftcast and see how people react for the sake of customization.

[Reynhart]

I want to see healers go do content without Swiftcast and see how people react for the sake of customization.

My girlfriend finished ARR storyline and CT without Switfcast because she didn't like playing THM.

No, FFXI is proof that you're wrong.

Again, in FFXI, people could chose what they want. That's why jobs were discriminated.

Or you tell me that if you go in Duty Finder 4-man as a DPS and ends up with a DRK, MCH and AST, you'll kick everyone or leave ?

Or that you kicked someone because he didn't have a Zeta ? You know, the item that was the absolute best so that every none wielder was undoubtedly weaker and "deserved" to be discriminated.

[Gilthas]

Again, in FFXI, people could chose what they want. That's why jobs were discriminated.

Or you tell me that if you go in Duty Finder 4-man as a DPS and ends up with a DRK, MCH and AST, you'll kick everyone or leave ?

Let me repost this and bold the part that you keep ignoring:

Having unbalanced jobs is bad for everyone. It's bad for the player that likes the job because he gets shunned from most parties, and it's bad for those who don't play the job, because they get stuck with an underperforming job in duties.

Bringing up zetas is a different story altogether. It's natural to expect that not all players will have the best of the best of gear. What you're asking for is to make jobs bad right out of the box.

[Reynhart]

Let me repost this and bold the part that you keep ignoring:

I'm not ignoring the issue...you're just making mountains of a molehill.

It's pretty obvious now that BLM is a better DPS than BRD in every way.
So, please let me know. Do you leave a 4-man Duty where you ended up with two BRDs because they are underperforming compared to two BLMs ? This "balance' issue is not tied within a job, but includes the whole cast already.

What I'm asking for is to make jobs different to be more "fun". Besides, I'm not saying "make a spec overpowered but the other garbage", I'm saying, "it's not that big of a deal if one spec performs slightly better than another, because, apart from hardcore raiding, no content requires to be that min-maxed".

And like the Zeta, it's natural to expect that not all DPS will be optimal, pretty much like you'd expect to end up with something other than BLM and/or DRG now.