Quote Originally Posted by RoninDarkchild View Post
If youre upset at ppl job stacking, or having certain jobs for certain events, that not fully SE's fault. Some jobs excel at certain things easier than other. And often people will pick the job combos that they feel are the most efficient. If you want to go Mnk to Garuda, then why not find a group that will let you? Show that youre good at it. And if you guys wipe over and over than work on that or swap your party to something easier.

I makes no sense to want options taken away from the player base to suit your own personal needs. So instead of arguing to take away said options, why not argue with your friends to do a diff setup you like, and show them you all can win with that set up.

Again In FFXI, if i was on Dancer And we were about to enter Abyssea and fight some NM where the strat called for only teh tank to melee, and they didnt WANT my dnc, the shell is going to make me go home and change to what they want. I like not having to go back to my mog house just to change jobs. You having Mnk and Blm lvld, isnt going to make you able to play Mnk if your group wants you on Blm.... what do you think will happen? That if you have to go back to your room th leader will say... "oh darn, we will have to wait 5 mins for him to change, ok stay Mnk and lets enter".... no he will make you go home and change. But as it stand now, you can swap to Blm outside the entrance to a fight.

So it seems to me, your topic should have been more an argument on making every job just as viable in every fight.
Some players excel at any job, some excel at a few and some are best at their one 'special first-love' job. It's totally your choice how you play this and the flexibility with the way SE allows us to change jobs quickly makes things much better in terms of game experience for me.

I am one of those players with all 50 having played since CE release but I know that when my Linkshell asks me to play BRD or DRG because they need one for what they are doing, I ensure I give them the standard warning that my BRD is inexperienced or not geared well - eventually over time I hope to be better at those jobs too! If they still want me then cool, if not I can just elect to go and do something else or see if someone else in the linkshell/party wants to change. Because of this flexibility players in our shell with only one choice (because it's their only 50 or otherwise) get to continue playing that particular content with us because other members have the flexibility to change so they get included. If SE didn't have job change via weapon then that lone WHM or DRG simply might not have a place in the party.

I also agree that it's not SE's fault that you get cookie-cutter groups for Garuda etc. It's up to the community to try and figure out new ways of beating content. Take the Moogle fight for instance. The standard is to have your blm burn but you can swap things around and do mnk burn and thanks to some innovative people a whm speed run burn which is such fun (and I never beat before the end ). Part of the fun for me was to get a core group together and do some experimenting and I salute people from BG etc for spending the time and effort figuring things out for people. If I want to copy a strat from BG it's a good experience but it's also fun to try new things.