Originally Posted by
Kazela
If hybrids brought other benefits aside from their assigned role of tank/heal/dps, then maybe there would be a point in playing a handicapped class.
In FF14, Bards and Machinists are behind all other dps in terms of raw damage output. They make up for this, though, with buffs that increase party damage for casters (bard) and physical damage dealers (machinist). Shaman had cool stuff like that forever ago, like Windfury Totem, and (before class homogenization set in) Bloodlust. If stuff like that still existed for shaman, sure, being behind could be (slightly more) tolerable.