Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
Meh, it eliminates "Duelle, you suck because you like playing PLD more than DRK and don't even carry a DRK set. Our needs should be more important than your in-game enjoyment" entirely, which isn't a bad thing. Take it from someone to who got burned with dual specs in late WotLK/Cataclysm.
No it doesn't. If the people you're playing with are going to give you crap about the class/job combination you want to play, they'd just give you crap about it before rolling into the dungeon rather than in the middle. The only way around that is to not play with assholes, and instead with friends who don't care how you play as long as you more or less get the job done.

Even in a theoretical world where everything was perfectly balanced, the sort of people that 'force' you to play on a certain job would still be doing it, since without everything being mechanically exactly the same (and then what would be the point of having the illusion of choice?) there would still be certain combinations that were fractionally better and have slightly better synergy than others and they'd leap on it. Or it just suite their play style better and see everything else as inferior.