Quote Originally Posted by Droxybrobotnik View Post
Square balances around endgame content tho
They absolutely do not.
We have more statements where they talk about balancing the jobs around the lowest common denominators of player skill than they do saying anything related to needing to balance around endgame content. And if you need more proof to that front, the recent (upsetting) changes to SAM and NIN prove that, while they have to think about end-game content because it is content that they are releasing, they are most certainly not going to consider balancing the game for high-end content before they consider balancing it for the skill-floor.

Replace one critical part of a machine and you got a bigger problem on your hands. I'm afraif that if Square is actually gonna do something so drastic then you need more than a thread and some thumbs up. How about solliciting practical examples with demonstrated cases of your points for instance? That might get them to at least look.
We have videos all over the place of no-healer runs of various current/end-game encounters, and we constantly talk about them. They even talked about it during the famous "go play ultimate and suffer" live letter.
Believe me, they know. They're just arrogant enough to be able to make stupid statements like "go play ultimate" because they know they'll get away with it since the white knights get even more whitey and knighty as long as Yoshi-P will tolerate their incessant fangasming and entertain their inane questions.

Can't they just increase tankbuster damage or something for that tho?
No, they can't. Because that would increase the outgoing damage, which is something they do not want to do because it would be too much pressure on newer (less-skilled) healers. They've already gone on record and said this, too.