Growing tired of this Stigma

[Bourne_Endeavor]

The problem is that it really doesn't change from fight to fight or patch to patch. Bard has been meta since 2.0. NIN since it was added, same with MCH.

Hahahaha, no. Machinist was borderline trash upon release. Bard also saw a substantial decline throughout various portions of Heavensward. The whole reason Bard and Machinist became meta was due to the devs constantly needing to buff them until they pushed both beyond the casters. The only job to never once get benched from the meta has been Ninja.

AFAIK it has been. There were many saying NIN/DRG/BRD/MCH was meta throughout 3.0 and into 4.0

May have been later in 3.0 though. I stopped raiding during Gordias and didn't pick it back up until creator.

Probably people overextending 3.4. BLM basically slotted in until Creator, though SMN has a fair bit of popularity. BRD/MCH traded places with one another primarily based on which the devs buffed this patch, and if you ran a heavy physical or magical comp. Only after 3.4 did people start to work out how incredibly OP DRG/NIN/BRD/MCH were.