Disruptive Frontline Gameplay

[Raionek]

No matter the game and how you balance it. There always gonna be meta.
FFXIV is overbalanced in many cases. That annoys people a lot. Like in pve all jobs got almost the same skill kit.

The only way to avoid in PVP things like "everyone plays the same combination of characters because it is the strongest" - is to make all jobs do pretty much the same thing.
Do you really want that? I would rather look for ways to deal with that kind of combination. Like having specific players in your party to do the same thing or just insta-kill the annoying players as samurai or something.

In the current meta you can pretty much always find a way how to counter something specific.

[Chasingstars]

No matter the game and how you balance it. There always gonna be meta.
FFXIV is overbalanced in many cases. That annoys people a lot. Like in pve all jobs got almost the same skill kit.

The only way to avoid in PVP things like "everyone plays the same combination of characters because it is the strongest" - is to make all jobs do pretty much the same thing.
Do you really want that? I would rather look for ways to deal with that kind of combination. Like having specific players in your party to do the same thing or just insta-kill the annoying players as samurai or something.

In the current meta you can pretty much always find a way how to counter something specific.

Meanwhile I can look at a starting party comp in frontlines and get a pretty good feel of what the match is going to be. "Oh we only have one tank or only one healer and the rest are dps? Guess we are coming in second or third today as we don't really have a frontline".

Also its a lie to say "You can pretty much always find a way how to counter something specific" when most people don't treat frontlines more than as a free exp roulette. And therefore why should people give any actual thought into how something seems unbalanced or how to counter it. As for the average person they play it once a day at most then they are done. If they do more runs its because they are on a winstreak. Meanwhile if they get a 3rd place, they might just end their ff14 session early because they feel too frustrated at "not being able to get 1st place enough times" for a title or a mount or piece of glamour.

[RyanCousland]

hmmm ive only had a cursory look at this thread but seems like its the same as all others that have an issue with DRG,DRK,SCH,AST in FL or any other class so the only solution i have is to remove the ability of changing your class during a match, i imagine this might hinder those that are trying to level one class then change to the supposed meta whether or not this is good or bad i cant say but aside from creating a separate large scale HB toolkit, or removing LBs from FL, theres not much that can be done for the state of FL