Return of the Explorers; Part 1

This I disagree with. I could have agreed with it pre-antileech patch. Before they fixed the leeching ratio, I trained my priest 70-113 ONLY by supporting a marauder. Even as a Cleric I leveled ONLY by supporting her as a brawler at Windraiders. Then it was Windraiders, Himes, Skeles, and whatnot. Everything was pretty sweet, woo, I was a support class, I was only like a level behind her at most, and we leveled together ALL the time.

Then we got the leech patch, and suddendly I was getting less than 1/4 the experience the attacker does. I was better off soloing Himes. Nowadays maybe a low level Priest can get better exp partying at Himes, but if you're near 4th job don't even bother. Just heal/shining ray Himes for life, it's better exp. Been there. Ask any young Cleric/Priests how good it's to be a support class right now.

Now you're telling me we should be mainly supporters during 4th job too? Sure! Just bring back the old leech ratio. But if you intend us to be supporters with the current leech ratio, we would go from being the fastest leveling class in the game to the slowest one. Not exaggerating.

There, you finally said it. If you remember, back in the days people would make Lukless Clerics to fund other chars, in the days of leech, being a Priest is arguably the easiest leveling class, and once you hit Bishop, it's no longer an argument. The question is, does the branch deserve that training speed/ease in exchange for their "supportivity"? I mean, if you choose to be a warrior (strong/bulky), you choose strength in exchange for mobility, if you choose a thief (fast/nimble) you excel at dexterity, but lose out on survivability, if you choose to be a supporter, you lose the ability to attack. Doesn't that make more sense than OH POOR YEW GUYZ NO ATTK SKILLZ? WELL HERE'S A FREE GOD-FORGIVE-ME ULTIMATE @@@

The fact that they earned Genesis, in my opinion, is to make up for the hellish (religious?) training they should have gone through (yet they didn't!!!) in earlier jobs, much like how you say it makes sense for a Corsair to top the DPS chart since they simple suck in pre-4th jobs. If it's all smooth sailing, what is the point?

tl;dr
Being supportive => lacking offensive capacities
Being supportive =/=> being compensated with 5x training speed compared with the rest