The Unofficial "Why is this still a thing" Thread

[Tanathya]

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When I used to do Salvage, last tier was my last, the opener was the problem, right after that, a BRD nor a MCH should worry about their enmity as much to depend on a queller. Probably things changed, but it doesn't feel like they did.

About DRG being taken out of the equation in case of the piercing resistance down gone, well, they (SE) can very well work their numbers so their personal damage makes up for the loss. Again, every job should lose that in my opinion. Since it's all in the reign of speculation and wishes, everything's on the table, but very doable in terms of raw numbers.

You keep mentioning tank jobs, but I’m talking about DPS jobs. All other physical DPS jobs are able to apply their own resistance down debuffs except for BRD/MCH, and they are the only ones that suffer unnecessarily when a group lacks a DRG. If there was some uniqueness to the resistance downs, then maybe I would get behind leaving it as DRG-only. But, as it stands now, MNK applies Blunt (and is the only one who benefits from it), NIN applies slashing (which it benefits from), SAM applies slashing (which it benefits from), and DRG applies piercing (which it benefits from).

To be fair, you know (as you mentioned) that a DRG is invited into parties to potency BRD's and MCH's. Meaning, these last two have a spot for sure in every party, and it revolves around them. I mean, I'm a SAM, and I'm suffering from the exact opposite even though I can increase both my damage, ninjas', and tanks'.