If best way is the only...why do we see different setups ?

[Bashum]

Kudos to all of you, by the way, it's the first thread I see about customization that doesn't end with nothing but insults after the first page

Yeah? well screw you and your hippy moustache!

[Lexia]

That is a mindset I see a lot and there are a lot out there that think if you don't conform to how the masses do things then you are a bad player.

[Caitlinzulu]

That is a mindset I see a lot and there are a lot out there that think if you don't conform to how the masses do things then you are a bad player.

Thats pack mentality at its finest. Those people will get the middle finger from me (even have a macro ingame to do that). I will play how I want/can/enjoy, with the gear I choose. That doesnt mean I wont give it my best effort.

[Ibi]

XI never was and never will be, and a lot of that has to do with a lack of communication and stubbornness on the Dev Teams side. But if you think the dozens and dozens of unique stats found on weapon and armor had no part in it, you're kinda absolutely wrong.

XI wasn't imbalanced because balance was difficult to achieve, it was imbalanced because achieving balance wasn't one of SE's goals.

And, outside of a very small number of rare and unusual items (Ridill, relics, mythics), XI's imbalance had almost nothing to do with unique stats found on weapons and armor and almost everything to do with job and system designs.

[Reynhart]

Yeah? well screw you and your hippy moustache!

And that's our quota

XI wasn't imbalanced because balance was difficult to achieve, it was imbalanced because achieving balance wasn't one of SE's goals.

And we can remember than XI dev team was the one that did 1.0 before Yoshi-P. And, boy, was it a balance mess...

[Jim_Berry]

I'll say that, while only have cleared A1S, I've kept playing my PLD despite getting insulted and sometimes outright harassed in Duty Finder for "slowing them down" or "being suboptimal" (Before anyone says to git gud, note that these comments usually come at the start of a run, when they see a PLD tank, before they even see how I preform.) In fact, there was certain individual on my server, whose name will obviously not be said, who, until recently, kept Job locking his PF's for Thordan EX to WAR/DRK because he had such a bias against PLD.

People will still gravitate towards what everyone considers the best because of this game has effectively turned into an efficiency simulator. Even if the other "worse" jobs/strategies can clear content, people will prefer the jobs/strategies because they're faster or offer less of a chance of failure. Or simply because they read something on the internet that says "lol, PLD/AST/MCH/whatever sux" and nothing on the internet can be wrong, right?

Aaaaaand this is why I'm mostly a solo player, because our community has higher expectations for content and what roles they want in. I like, though, how they lock out PLD, then later are still looking for a WAR/DRK (because they didn't clear the first few times).

[Bashum]

Aaaaaand this is why I'm mostly a solo player, because our community has higher expectations for content and what roles they want in. I like, though, how they lock out PLD, then later are still looking for a WAR/DRK (because they didn't clear the first few times).

Heh yeah, and I saw someone with a Thordan "clear" party who as a paladin, restricted the second tank to another PLD or DRK. Must have been someone with no experience MTing and wanted the ideal "main tank". Because it's impossible for a warrior to MT that right?

Needless to say, his PF kept popping back up about every 10 minutes all night lol.

[Dualblade]

Heh yeah, and I saw someone with a Thordan "clear" party who as a paladin, restricted the second tank to another PLD or DRK. Must have been someone with no experience MTing and wanted the ideal "main tank". Because it's impossible for a warrior to MT that right?

Needless to say, his PF kept popping back up about every 10 minutes all night lol.

Shouldn't they want a WAR OT for the massive deeps though? Its what I always hear about em atleast.

[Andrea]

Shouldn't they want a WAR OT for the massive deeps though? Its what I always hear about em atleast.

I think he means the PLD didnt want to MT it and instead wanted to dump that task on someone else.

[Dualblade]

I think he means the PLD didnt want to MT it and instead wanted to dump that task on someone else.

Reread, I see it now, thanks!