Find people who like to play support jobs, so it's FUN for them when they play! They must exist...

... hey, even I like playing Dancer to be a healer/support... but nobody wants that. I'd play an item-based Chemist type healer, if they existed like in my Job proposal (ideal expansion thread)
... but I wouldn't force anyone to play a job they don't like. Bard is annoying to me... Corsair... can't stand random for drops, why rely on it for my job too? ... mages... more of a personal choice to never play a mage in any game ever... (I loved that Vagrant Story had a "never used magic" accomplishment!, beat FFXII without magic, beat FFI, FF5, with all monks (sometimes Dragoons, I like dragoons too, but not in FFXI, FFX, I put all my characters through the physical sphere paths, so Lulu's dolls were crazy strong!)

This game isn't a job... "take one for the team"... "be miserable"... not things I'd say. Anyway... enough of that. It's an MMO... find all those crazy people who like their jobs!

Defend myself from what? Burden, meathead, failplayer, complainer...

In my groups in FFXI, I've been an asset, not a burden. Did Dynamis twice a week for years (staying awake!) long after I got everything I wanted from it... Did tons of abyssea together, finished tons of empy+2 gear for the whole team. I joined a couple established static groups later in the content's lifespan, so I was playing catch-up on gear, so it may have felt like they were doing more for me than I had for them at some points... (never finished my Usukane... they finished all their gear early, and just gave up on the event when better gear was released, and didn't want to do more to get my last 2 pieces to finish 2 pieces) but I can't really force anyone to play content they don't want to, now can I? Not fun, ok. I'm probably going to go solo those pieces to finish them up soon, just for the completionist in me.

So... anyway...