Character worth

Wow, really? Since 4th job I've almost never not-had SE. Granted, most of my time since 4th job was spent on a Bowmaster so I gave it to myself. However my Corsair has had SE since... forever. Carlos and I used a friend that quit as an SE mule in our early 7x (he was using it since 5x, actually) until Carlos got a good level of SE. Once he got SE, I had it every time I've been training ever since. I've had it on every non-solo boss run I've ever been to. SE is as common to me as booster.

And Cider adds 6k to my DPS while SE adds 8k (4k and 11k for RF). Just sayin.

 For Dusk

I know you don't consider this kind of stuff, but Octopus can actually add a pretty large amount of DPS to RF and Cannon. Even in unfavorable conditions, I found it adding at least 20k DPS to Rapid Fire and 15k to Cannon. Octo is our Snipe <3

That's because you two are friends and you train together all the time

And NLs are very common at boss runs, and they pretty much require SE to function, so of course they'd need an archer there.

I don't like how people assume that SE is always provided because I see R> archer for Zak in BL/Alliance often enough to know that you actually do need a person to fill a character slot to have it, and that they are not always available. Maybe it's just because I'm a Corsair and I don't even care enough make sure I have buffs when I attack to recruit archers into everything I do.