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The change from gear pieces to coffers actually made even just gearing your main job harder if you're pugging the fights, because you can safely assume that everyone in the pug is always gonna roll need on every coffer, even if they already have the item that just dropped.

If you're pugging, everyone wants gear anyway. That's why they're there.
If you're rolling on specific gear, then you have a 1/7 chance, as there are 7 gear sets, or a 14% chance.
If you're rolling on coffers, you have 1/8 chance, rolling against each other player, or a 12.5% chance. 1.5% difference.
Now, if you're with other players who share your gearset, tanks, healers, MNK/SAM for example, then you have a 1/14 (7%) chance if the drops are direct gear instead of coffers. With coffers, it's still 1/8.
So you can see that Tanks and Healers were always screwed over by direct gear drops, coffers practically doubles their chances.