From Meleewalker to Meleetrail

[Shurrikhan]

Sub role gear roles has been dead since they removed the unique debuff each one gave to the boss in like SB, I’ve never understood the desire to maintain the three melees sub gear classes for no reason when they really don’t do anything unique, like how the new class absolutely has to be a scouting class, or you know maybe just delete scouting gear

Even that was never exclusive, though. Scouting, Striking, and Fending all had access to Slashing. Fending and Striking both had INT Down. Etc., etc.

What was originally more exclusive, though, was tactical implications. If you were, back at early ARR with min ilvl, running Amdapor Keep with 2 DRGs, you tended to focus-target and plan a bit differently than with 2 MNKs, or especially 2 Bards/Summoners or 2 BLMs. (Heck, the differences were even larger before level 40, with Double-Bard preferring to kite-circle with an aggressive healer [or a SMN instead, if they could manage it] and a single-targeting Tank.)

Granted, that takes some actual distinctions between jobs... and a bit less leniency (a component of difficulty). Which... would never fly now.