The Problem with the "Buff Everyone Up to Reaper" Approach

[Alaray]

it didn't matter at the start of EW and it doesn't really matter now. Reaper being "so strong" was overblown, and any class now is completely fine when it comes to their damage contribution in fights.

[Lieri]

So you prefer the nerf approach? rather than buffing underperforming classes, bring down the overperforming ones? can you imagine the amount of complaints? been there done that. Its how blizzard did it and some of the classes were unplayable because they can undertune sometimes too much.

[Recon1o6]

Both nerfing and buffing have their places. Unfortunately this game has an endemic problem with undertuning content relative to the strength of actual job kits and gear and adjusting potencies to indirectly nerf swaths of older content each expansion by buffing potencies the moment they are acquired instead of at (old level cap+1)

Case in point: when dragoon was fresh in ARR you got jump at 200 potency and dragonfire dive at 250 every 3 minutes. One out of two Jumps could get a boost to 300 every minute. Nowadays dragonfire happens every 2 minutes and its potency is upped to 300. jump starts at 300 before getting buffed to 400 at level 74 when high jump arrives

If those damage buffs happened at level 51, then dragoon would be closer to its ARR strength for ARR duties and we'd actually see mechanics

[Payadopa]

Kupo, do you really want old raids to take forever? kupo <3

It would not take forever. All you do is punish new players. You don't build up a big bad only to stand in every single AoE without consequence and the fight is over before the 2nd phase of the music has even started. The fact you want them to be over faster tells volumes of how boring they actually are.

[Absimiliard]

Not gonna lie. I would love fights that are reaction-based instead of memorization-based. That truly would be a test of your reflexes.