>>721100847
>Everyone plays ensuring this spreadsheet is done perfectly.
Only mentally ill parsefaggots do that. SE had sealed their fate by catering to them. It always happens to every fucking mmo that caters to spreadsheet and numberfaggot autists that treat their fellow players like they are means to an end instead of human beings. They are not fun to play alongside of, they are impossible to interact with, they are a blight on every fucking game they infest. SE had to flatten the job damage rates and homogenize the fuck out of everything because the "elite raiders" would blatantly exclude specific jobs from raiding and their conclusions propagated downwards from places like The Balance, to shape the opinions of the rest of the playerbase when it came to interacting with endgame content, very frequently not knowing any better.

All of that had to be done just so that it would be possible for people that enjoy playing specific jobs to get to experience content as those jobs, because otherwise you would not be fucking allowed to raid. Stormblood made that issue particularly pertinent, where party compositions depended entirely on the presence of "damage taken debuff". It's why all of that had been sacked in Shadowbringers. This is why the 2minute meta was made and why every job now adheres to it and plays practically the same, because the playerbase SE ended up cultivating would not permit for anything else to fucking exist.