SAM out classing all other DPS

[Nominous]

I'm not pushing "self generated sadness" on anyone. I am simply being critical. I am critical of Red Mage. I am critical of Samurai. I was critical of Warrior. I was critical of Scholar. I was critical of the DRG/NIN/MCH meta.

Being critical is good, when necessary. People over-exaggerate with threads and opinions though, and that's almost precisely why Jobs get over-buffed, which is what you apparently despise. Because people over-exaggerate, and x buff isn't enough. They tried being patient with AST buffs in 3.xx. They didn't become broken overnight. It's just that no buff was enough, even though they did it on like 2 or 3 separate occasions BEFORE the balance got crazy. It never ends, and it just results in a vicious cycle in which each Job gets 'chosen' to be meta every expansion, while others are left behind.

And I get why people criticize too. I was a DRG in 2.0 when I was an actual detriment to teams, what with barely living through magical defense hits. It sucks when people look at you, fully justified, like you're a liability. But then because of that, DRG became better. Now DRG is worse. Now there's a case to make DRG far better. Then NIN or SAM will be worse. Then again, and over and over. And a lot of the time, because people aren't fine just being satisfactory, even though 'satisfactory' in this game is way better than other MMO's.

Balance cannot be attained without a sacrifice- usually fun factors, or unique characteristics, and people complain just as much about losing that. We should all wait until Omega, but I doubt any current Job is going to make things much harder by being 10-15% behind a SAM, when you factor in their own utility to the party.