The problem is that utility leads to specialization, which in turn encourages a "meta" for those raidtroons to ride into the dirt. Suddenly, there's optimal grouping for each fight because X job does Y and now you have no job choice because some neet faggot treats the guides of another neet faggot as gospel, because said neet thinks his grouping is 2.13% more efficient. It's exactly what happened in WoW for multiple expansions. You don't have an alt in X class fully leveled and geared for the new raid because you don't like how it plays or just want to play something else? Guess who's losing a spot in raid group A unless they grind that shit out in a week of no sleep?
We saw this with Ninja enmity shit (because back in HW especially, without Ninja you are griefing the tank's damage basically), Summoner kiting in T7 being the defacto strat, "who does 2 target damage best?" for anything that wasn't a singular boss for like 90% of the fight, Scholar's unique utility of "I'm the only good shielder" for HW alongside Eos/Selene being free healing for no gcds kept Sch as the best healer in HW, "Need Supervirus" meant we also always brought Scholar/Summoner, "Need Int debuff" meant we brought Monk for prog in ARR, fucking damage type buffs in general also had this issue (which is why we removed them), MP/TP management shit (Goad being a big one for Ninja for example), or "best aoe" for mob trash "bosses" like A2S.
As a healer main? I'd fucking love this. This is what we've been asking for, for quite a while. What I can't understand though is why they keep adding more defensive utility to other jobs. Massive healing skills to tanks, more mitigation on DPS jobs, etc.
Because the game's designers literally never play them. All of their design choices over the last ~6 years make perfect sense when you step into the shoes of some DPS main who goes, "healers? They like to cast Cure or whatever right? We'll give them more cure spells. But I better not die so gimme self heals just in case. Design done!"
The problem only gets bad when the boss fights get so overtuned that the only way to beat them is through specialization, this means the "hardcore raiders" will plow through content , but I've seen the alternative happen too many times where the developers cater to the world first raid streamers to such a degree that every boss fight becomes a fucking take off checklist of mechanics where lacking some utility will be the difference between a wipe or a clear even with BiS gear
This hasn't truly happened outside of tryhard parser PF groups (that are relatively rare) since Gordias and maybe Midas. It was Stormblood and beyond that ultimately showed the whole "Everything is viable" spiel that is in relative MMO terms is quite true. Gordias was such a disaster and nearly killed raiding at the time because anyone who wasn't a HC raiding masocist gave up within a month of a3s and even the other end of the coin hated the tier because A4S was a terribly designed fight in a multitude of ways such as:
Oh I wasn't talking about my experiences in FF14, I feel this game doesn't push the limit so hard as to make classes unviable, but in other MMOs that has definitely been the case
on the other hand it homogenizes classes, why bring X when it's basically Y with a different icon?
Never gonna happen. Healers need to have dps spells to clear story content, and most of their time in raid is spent pressing the dps button.
for all the faggotry that some of the more uwu side of FFXIV brings, im glad it sometimes keeps hardcore raidtrannies from bitching in shit outside their autism raiding
Sadly it splits over into the dungeons on roulettes/level grinds. Can't go get my grind in without some FC circle jerk putting some faggot tier shit. Even warned them one time; "You pull early, you die" and added some "I'll sell your organs after" for comedic effect, but they never listen. Which I just kick back and watch them get their shit pushed in while laughing in their face, then afterwards they go into an autistic screeching mode going "Why you ain't helping the team" or "Nah, you're mad af" while ignoring the fact I was laugh emoting them when it happened, but it always end in a rage kick which I get a kick out of.
Pretty much this. XIV's raidtrannies almost never stay in their own lane. Too often can you see their social media postings conflating their place in the community as being larger and more influential than it actually is.
Apparently there are people openly posting "Logs > 90" in the PF for the current pissbaby extremes. I think we need another raidtranny shoah, GM-kun.
I'd almost be tempted to join as a total newfag to the Extremes out of spite, then revel in the spergery.
Ocean Fishing I believe is the general best way to level fishing, especially early on assuming you don't just buy the leve turn-ins. Fishing is very different from the other two gatherers in many ways due the fact it cares about the time of day and weather for fish to spawn.
