I'm bored when I heal because I need more complex DPS rotations

[Shinkuno]

I guess I don't really see the point of bringing this up? It seems like a way to dismiss the issue as being not really an issue at all, but more of a personal problem for people who have skin with deficient thickness. Please correct me if I'm misinterpreting what you're saying though.

But it is a personal problem. Sorry but i dont think crying over being told to do the job you signed up for is anyone elses problem. Not the other players, not the devs. Ive read that some of your friends are "barely good enough" for the baseline content and i have to say - sorry, but at that point you cant further nag the devs or get mad at other players calling your friends out.

The baseline in this game is already intelligence-insulting levels of easy. People press 1 button while spending 90% of their time looking at their second screen and still clear content. If your friends have issues with content that has been already dumbed down so hard you can barely call it "playing a game" then maybe its either time to get better or quit and move to a more suitable game... whatever that game might be cause outside of idle-autoplay mobile games i cant think of a single game that is this easy.

Heck, no one commented in-game on the absolutely atrocious DPS that led to the 14+ minute, wipe-free run of P7N that I got to experience.

This - it takes ALOT for people to start speaking up, they rather carry an absolute deadweight through the finish line than speaking up. So if they do, you know that something is horrible wrong.

SE also have consistently failed to push the strength and flexibility of the armoury system. With the number of jobs we have now, IMO it makes perfect sense to have some jobs more suited to content than others. As long as everyone gets their time in the sun somewhere but being off meta isn't crippling, it's all good IMO.

Before someone comes along and says 'but noooo, it'll be bad because 'insert favourite job here' will get blacklisted from PF in content it's not meta for'. My honest response is 'deal with it, make your own if you care'. FFXI showed the strengths of this in action perfectly. I'd always be one of the first to arrive at the raid and I'd usually start out on SCH so I could cover a bunch of different roles until more people turned up. As the raid gathered I'd switch out to BRD, WHM or BLM as needed and I can promise you, the variety of gameplay really kept things fresh far longer than they would have been if I'd just have turned up as BRD and spent the evening on that day in and day out.

Sometimes you've got to save players from themselves and pushing a bit of variety on them is a good way to stall burnout even if they aren't entirely onboard with it. Besides the penalties for switching jobs are minute in this game compared to a more traditional MMO like WoW.

YES YES YES thank you. It bothers me so much that people try to sweet-talk this absolute homogenization with "but what if my job was not meta?" SO WHAT, you can freely switch the jobs in this game. If someone refuses to do so because they want to play pretty flower WHM then thats on them and the game should make it clear that they dont get to do certain content then.