Picto makes the game less fun

[Supersnow845]

This idea that damage output is everything and hence the "pure" jobs are automatically "dominating" because they do more damage needs to die. To quote that right back at you.

The whole idea is that while damage ouput is measured as a number, non-damage output is not done so, but as it exists, it has to be taken into account into the whole package. As in, a Red Mage's rezzing and defensive ability are helping the raid, just not as a number you can later look at in a pretty chart. Does that personally upset you in some deeply emotional way?

This would imply that the jobs are remotely balanced based on the actual contribution their non damage utility brings and not just have it haphazardly thrown into different classes balanced on the axis of damage only

If there was clearly defined paradigms of how much utility is “worth” and jobs were balanced relative to that that would be fine, but jobs are balanced purely on damage (except for rezz), everything else just sort of exists and doesn’t play into how they balance anything

And then there is the argument of what actually constitutes utility, does VPR’s insane disconnection ability count as utility? Should it be taxed for it? What about SAM’s less mobility compared to the other melee. The only paradigm they can seem to actually stick to is taxing rezz harshly