MCH..The dying breed?

[RiceisNice]

Yes, but a lot of jobs offer utility beyond just those debuffs. DRG offers crit buffs, NIN offers Trick Attack, and so on. They offer the synergy with those abilities alone.

It's supposed to encourage synergy like having a bard to boost caster, dragoon to boost bard. Another way they could have gone about it was making MCH blunt (which isn't that far off, esp when you look at things like gauss round) so mnk isn't being selfish anymore.

Battle linanity and trick attack doesn't encourage synergy of classes since it boosts everyone and everything.
There's a couple more, but with the current set up of party metas that it becomes both a given and nessecity, can't clarify right now on a phone though.

Egis are also entirely magical now, down to even their auto attacks.