Please implement something to teach players how to play

[SomeRandomHuman]

Ion himself has also many times said all specs are balanced to be able to clear all game content(bar world first), and even though bad average metaslaves will disagree because the sims show X meta class do 20% more damage the fact remains that all content included mythic raids can be done by all specs after the first few weeks where people have farmed some mythic gear so they can easily get over that 20% metaslave advantage(Advantage that only exists if you are able to abuse said meta spec btw).

That is the truth, what does THE COMMUNITY instead do? Refuse to believe that non meta classes are viable for content and keeps labeling anything non meta "unviable" and keeps crying about how terrible everything is.

THE COMMUNITY cannot be trusted because it is filled by easy to influence and basic people who never bother to understand the game indepth like the devs, it doesnt matter that the lead dev says something that goes against community beliefs, THE COMMUNITY will keep ignoring them and keep living on its own bubble where everything non meta is unviable because that is easy and simple to spread, and that is why you should never listen to THE COMMUNITY.

With the huge influx of wow players in FF14 and its rising in popularity dont be surprised if after a while some sweaty people figure out which 8 man comb has 2% more dps and start advertising that and THE COMMUNITY starts pretending dps jobs outside of that list are "unviable".

This has always happened in XIV. It's been a thing since long before WoW players starting swarming to XIV. It's always going to have a certain stigma because it's an MMO. That's also the main reason why they never did any extra effects on actions. That's why people start their own raid groups when they can't find one.

The community can be a toxic cesspool yes, but I'm sure you've heard the legends of the lines of Dark Knights in memory of Berserk's author passing away. I've also read of small memorial events happening from time to time on servers where a player has died or become otherwise incapacitated.

As long as the community is strong enough to focus on the positive more than the negative it has the potential to work out great, but this is social psychology territory and we know how tricky this basket is.