Tierlists are toxic because they warp the metagame to benefit the best players. At least this is what I've noticed, especially when the community surrounding it are lemmings. The people at the top just take advantage of the knowledge that a majority of people are going to follow the tierlist. Again, provided that the tierlist is treated like gospel by most of the playerbase.
Considering the level of autism in the P1999 community, other posts in this thread, and the draw of wanting to roleplay in a fantasy environment regardless of competition, it seems like the potential of new emergent strategies due to tierlist warping is going to be minimal. Additionally, the aforementioned warping effect would be most pronounced in a fresh server environment, which likely will never be seen again in our lifetimes. Even more so considering that when fresh servers are rolled, groups of IRL friends prefer to form 3somes, 4somes, 5somes etc, of which you generally see a balanced profile of classes.
The main warping that would occur would be in the money market, but surely guilds could use knowledge that most players would be following the tierlist to their advantage in other ways. According to this video, players should roll something in A or B tier for their first character, and then roll anything below it after rushing to endgame. The narrator specifically mentions the 2nd character being a Cleric, or perhaps a Warrior. TLDR imagine P1999 fresh server and the entirety of Antonica is filled with only Bards, Druids, Monks, and maybe the occasional Shaman, Rogue, Mage, Enchanter sprinkled in.
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