Interview with xenosys-vex

[Kabooa]

Anyone that tells you they'd bring a PLD that did 200+ less than WAR and DRK in favor of their utilty are lying through their teeth. This game doesn't, and will never need such a massive amount of defensive mitigation.

It'd be a different tale if party sizes were larger, but this goes across the board with most defensive skills. Encounters cannot require all or even most of them because there's a good chance a certain job will not be present in the current 8 man set up.

I can see them moving all forms of raid defenses into the role system at some point.