[Lmnop]

Except that the option to fix your own accuracy has been there since the days of CoPs and its only become cheaper - sushi. Not only that, the options for accuracy gear have only increased and gotten cheaper and cheaper. If my COR can come with enough accuracy to hit a mob, what is the melees' excuse?

And why should I dole out a buff that can be covered by food and gear when I can offer better things? Doesn't matter if I'm COR or BRD - there are some avenues you take care of on your own.

While I agree with your sentiment about providing unique buffs, and I feel people should be well-geared, it's not your duty to tell people what build sucks more. If someone wants to build for pure sushi and +attack gear, they deserve that right! It's much cheaper (or was when I was in the 60s) and the performance isn't that different! The bigger problem I have is with the dumb fuck melee who eat sushi through these levels and wear all the +acc they can get. You know what the worst part about them is? You will claim they know what they're doing because you can give them something other than +acc! When I could afford to eat meat in this level range, I did so with ~80-88% melee accuracy (figuring in Aggressor 60% of the time). My gear wasn't ideal, but it was decent. Someone giving me +5% damage dealt would be appreciated. But my output was good enough that I didn't need a Madrigal to perform well.

I know pretty damn well there are RDMs that won't spend the MP to haste you if you don't already have haste gear. I can't say that I blame them. Why should they make the effort when its clear thier PT members clearly don't care about improving their own performance?

These RDMs are tools, too. As long as your melee aren't wearing slow% gear of any sort, they should be getting hasted if you'd like a decent exp rate. Haste gear doesn't define a melee as "making an effort to improve themselves". It means the player now has the resources to push themselves further. Ffs, 'bbq. This entire post wreaks of elitism. I have higher expectations of you than this.

/COR and /BRD don't offer any advantageous job traits, both take away from your DPS.

Wut? Using Phantom Roll + 1 Double Up cuts into auto-attack time as much as activating Berserk + Hasso. Even long-ass Dancer JAs have a long root effect but do not pause auto-attack longer than any other JA.

Gimp your DRG if you want, but the deficiencies of others are not of my concern. Jobs such as COR, BRD and RDM are there to enhance the PT members, not un-gimp them.

Even if there's a full COR in the party, if the buffs are good enough, you can have 3 going. Let the real COR do the rolls that you profess a pure support class will focus on (Samurai/Fighter's Rolls, whatever) while the /COR does Hunter's. I cry a lot when I get CORs in my parties and they do Hunter's against all wishes, but from someone just subbing it? Why the hell not!