New Gear... for class only? [Glaring Issue] [Request]

[Vanguard319]

I'm just going to quote myself here as well:



And the fact that as a LNC, PGL, MRD or THM you have access to stoneskin...why would you even think about not having that when you go solo? It's basically like an extension to your HP bar - you get zero damage for a specified amount. Why waste having to build up to self-heal or cure when you can just bypass that easily? That's already one huge plus to have classes instead of jobs as solo.

Classes are also meant to be more MALLEABLE. Yes, you can solo seven lvl 50-52 mobs easily as a DRG rather than as a LNC, but it isn't impossible. If I can do that in Zahar'ak on my LNC, I believe that counts. But once you use up dread spike....once you use up Second Wind....and more mobs come along and agro....what then? You're a sitting duck until your timers flash back again, by which time the higher survivability of the LNC will prove it's boon towards then just being a DRG.

I'll only deal with the four classes/jobs I major in. I already expressed my LNC/DRG above.

ARC and BRD damage the same? Dear me, Invigorate and Blood for Blood increase the ARC's damage tremendously over the BRD. Since you love to use self-heal as an example to counter against classes, I'll use this as a case where ARC's can self-heal better than BRD with second wind and bloodbath. ARC's can have a higher chance of evading attacks on Featherfoot. Survivability of an ARC versus a BRD in solo situations? Winner goes to ARC.

A CNJ's damage output is much better than a WHM's. In solo situations, while your stone and aero combos are on cooldown, rock out with a Thunder. Need to attack, but want HP as well? Necrogenesis your Aerora. About to be hit by a large attack and want more MP to nuke/heal more? Rock out with a Sanguine Rite. In small parties, you want to damage more, but don't want enmity? Quelling Strike and Chameleon afterwards. Winner in terms of damage and adaptability? CNJ.

And THM and BLM....I don't even need to go into this. Just look at Ifrit parties - why are THM's always requested over BLMs? The sacred prism effect for both stoneskin and sanguine rite, the ability to help with curing and raising the dead....you can't just take damage into account. For solo-ing, BLM's will definitely go down faster against high-damaging opponents.

The only way that you will always have a Job outperform a Class is if you play your class as if you will play your job. They're two different ENTITIES - jobs are a SPECIALISATION of a possible role that the class was shaped around. As a job, you PLAY that role. As a class, you play a MIX of roles. Why limit yourself to just one role when you can adapt to so many others as a class?

This, I've been playing around with the mailbreaker and some of the new gc gear, and found that one can turn a gld into a fairly decent dd. Due to the way grind parties typically fight multiple mobs at once, most people tend to prefer war over pld, so when the level cap is raised, a gld may have to resort to such a setup in order to gain levels. This would be a good example of why you would use a class in parties.