Quote Originally Posted by Travesty View Post
That's not really the equation. It's more like, what would you want, 1 BLM and 1 WHM, or 8 people with Cure and Damage spells, who also attack and do everything else.

Think of it like percentages. If 1 WHM fulfills the "WHM role" at 100% efficiency, but 4 hybrid classes fulfill the role at even just 30% efficiency each, that's still 20% more "WHM powa" than the single WHM.

Of course that's a very rough kind of analysis, but you get what I'm saying.
But then those classes could be losing out on some other aspect.

you can have 1 whm focusing on their job, or have 4 people doing it. But those 4 people are also supposed to be DD, so every time they toss a cure they lose out on an attack round.

I dunno about you, but when I play Lancer I don't want to stuck healing unless its vital for the PT's survival. Same goes when I play any melee class sans Gladiator because Cures are an awesome provoke.