Armory/Job system I would have preferred (Probably too late, but whatever)

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There are zero useless classes in FFXI, there's only player perception and idiocy. For example name one useless job that isn't hated by players for a dumb reason, I bet the first thing you'll mention is Puppetmaster, Summoner, Dragoon or Beastmaster amiryte?

This reminds me of a story:

There once was a MMO called 'Rock, Paper and Scissors'. This MMO was remarkable due to the fact that each of it's three classes was perfectly balanced. Monsters also used the same classes as players, which meant that every encounter was balanced as well.

Originally, the world was divided into equal sized islands inhabited only by mob parties. Each mob party consisted of one of each of the three classes. This was done so that when fighting, all classes would be necessary to win and nobody was left out.

But there was a problem. The game was very boring. Every area was exactly the same and every battle was as well. There was really no point to travel anywhere. Seeing this, the development team decided they would make the world a bit more realistic and irregular in it's design. They made some mobs that were not part of mob parties, and made some mob parties with more than one of the same type of mob.

Shortly after the launch of the game, some efficiency-minded players found an easily accessible place in the world where there was a few more of the 'Paper' mobs than others. Upon learning this, the players who wanted to progress faster than the others immediately switched to the 'Scissors' to take advantage of it. Other players began to look with envy on those who had advanced so fast. They also changed their class to 'Scissors' in order to exploit the situation.

A few weeks had passed and 'Scissor-spam' quickly became the only way to play. It was very difficult for anyone to get into a party unless they were playing 'Scissors' and even those who didn't like 'Scissors' at all were forced to take it up just to get an invite. (LOLPaper = No, Thanks)

Not much later, the 'Scissors' players (most of the player base) were capped and began to complain about 'Rock' and 'Paper' being weak, irrelevant, and a grind to level. Those few who did not play 'Scissors' complained as well, claiming that 'Scissors' was far too powerful.

The developers heard the feedback and they wondered why 'Scissors' had become so powerful when their internal testing had shown that all three were as balanced as they could be.

With considerable internal testing showing that 'Rock' and 'Paper' where already balanced, they decided to nerf 'Scissors' a bit. This angered the player base who was furious that all their hard work was now wasted on a gimped class. The player base quickly ditched 'Scissors' and the Efficiency Hounds quickly found the next most accessible spot, with slightly more 'Rock' mobs than in other places.

The news got out and the players quickly switched to 'Paper' class in order to take advantage of this new discovery.

And so it goes...