Quote Originally Posted by Zerathor View Post
I find every job fits into these fights if they follow the simple method bellow:
Although I like the sentiment as a response to the overall theme of this thread, its not true when associated with the phrase
"I find every job fits"
My Raid group for example that I lead. I am about a 60th percentile NIN right now. Sometimes better, but never worse than 50. My raid comp with BLM, SAM, BRD, NIN is hitting the enrage wall hard on e2. Our tanks are performing well, our healers are performing sub 50 but i definitely think its in part because of mistakes made by others. Theoretically if everyone in our group performed a 50th percentile run we would clear with 1.9k dps to spare. Despite me and the tanks being the best percentiles in our group I have now had 5 members (i first labeled the roles but trying to be more discreet) private message me telling me I need to switch to monk. Why? Because even at my 60th percentile I'm doing less than our BRD at its 40th, or SAM at its 20th, or BLM at their 15th in terms of overall rDPS contribution. That freaking sucks.
And I'm told also that me switching is our only option if I want to keep the group together because they, and I quote: "know you have the potential and skill to grow where some of our other members don't, and you as lead hold the responsibility to carry the team" I also advertised the team when forming it as casual with an emphasis on fun instead of clears, but behold 3 of the people in the static have now threatened to leave if people don't improve by the end of the week or I dont switch to MNK. And its also funny cause they often complain about each other to me and each of course generally thinks they are the fully capable ones.

I want to play NIN, I like NIN, I like the playstyle, I like the skill, but I'm being asked to play MNK.


My point in sharing this story even at the expense of people figuring out who is in my group (please dont look any of us up, despite my rant everyone in my group is generally a very good and nice person, there is no reason to ostracize anyone here) is that some classes absolutely have the shaft right now.

And without a doubt do not "fit" into the fights for anyone except the overgeared or the expert teams.

As conclusion. I love the enrage mechanic, It makes us DPS have to learn to do our jobs. But I feel it is a bit steep to meet the demands right now IF class balance continues to be this terrible.