Quote Originally Posted by Mhaeric View Post
That's sort of true, but it would be more accurate to say that certain combinations of jobs had the status of being considered meta for high-end content and the other jobs had to compete for the limited remaining slots. All jobs participated, but some had a harder time getting in.
I don't understand what the big deal is to have one DPS do MORE damage then all the other classes. If each job was DESIGNED to COMPLIMENT other classes then it wouldn't matter how much damage they were doing in a raid, as long as I keep a certain buff up to push the other DPS to do more damage, or a bleed on a boss, etc;. I would LOVE to toss a buff or debuff on boss to take more damage if I knew the BLM was starting their BURST phase. With the logic everyone is saying just DPS the boss and avoid AOE to win! That's boring... The real challenge is in getting a group that has different skills to compliment the whole party, and HOW you use those skills.

RDM was such a disappointment to me when it was just another DPS. I was really hoping they would introduce the support class. A class devoted to just pushing the WHOLE group to heal more, DPS more, and tank better. But instead we got a DPS that has fallen behind this expansion and needed potency buffs to be worthwhile. This would be a different story if embolden was a 30 min buff then a RDM would be nice to have even though its does less damage then others, all of you nay sayers would be changing your tune if you could have embolden for 30 min. Sure bring the RDM! (but there DPS is crap) Doesn't matter because mine will be better!

Trees was just an idea to give our identities back, and suppose if the community knows better then the Devs then the Devs should listen. This is why we are LOSING our identities. The Dev team has really put themselves in a position and I don't know where this is heading come next expansion. But it is certain we are getting more skills to just DPS and that's about it. That is whats stupid imo.