The length of battles, the pace of combat... and the overall feel of combat.

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That's kind of how the game is set up for XP parties. You can roll with whatever classes you have available and easily make a successful party even without a main healer as long as your party knows what they are doing. XPing is a means of advancement for everyone and should remain accessible to everyone no matter what class they are, lest we return to the days of searching for hours for a Healer/Tank/MP Refresher. We just need more involving fights through quests, dungeons, and other events throughout the levels as an alternate means of advancement for those that want something more tactical so they can be properly rewarded for their efforts.

Oh I definitly don't argue with the fact that it should remain accessable to all. I have no desire to spend hours looking for a party (unlike now where we do only because of a lack of players) because you need a specific formula to be successful. What I mean about strategy is, jobs should excel at what they do best. So while pugs and mrds should be able to also get hate, if a glad steps in, it should have no trouble getting hate off of the rest of the party. The same goes for DD's and mages. So a party of mages will need to behave diffrently than a party thats lancer heavy, but still has the same rate of success. Real combat is controlled chaos, and right now I just feel like combat is only chaos, with no real levels of control.

It just feels like there is no need to DOT mobs or set up sneak attacks or flanking attacks. Everyone just takes the mobs down quickly by wailing on it. I miss the feeling of NEEDING to silence specific mobs or using blind on others in order to keep the party alive. There isn't a mob type I have run into yet that had a formula for defeating it that didnt involve everyone just attacking it flat out.