Trading Classes?

Okay, don't take this 100% serious. I think it'd be a cool idea, but the devs would never put it in the game. This is just cause I had the idea and wanted to throw it out there. So, let's say you are doing a dungeon and you are the healer, but you realize you can't keep up with the tank. You ask him or her to slow down, they refuse. A dps on the party happens to have a healer class at proper level and item score. You can then do a class trade. You offer to become a dps, they become a healer. It would only be allowed once per dungeon of course, and you'd all have to be out of battle as well as both meet the new class requirements for the dungeon you are in. What do you all think? Thoughts? Add on ideas?

There are plenty of times where I've lost a tank or healer in a dungeon or trial and we ended up having to abandon because we couldn't fill the part. I do wish in those instances I could switch to the needed job because it's always easier to find dps to fill holes.

"Technical Limitations"

Potentially open to abuse. I've seen it in another game on the odd occasion (not that often, mind). Someone comes in as a tank as its a quick queue, and then demands another player tank it, or they just makes a mess of it by trying to tank it as a dps spec, thus putting a greater burden on the healer.

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Originally Posted by Natsuno

Potentially open to abuse. I've seen it in another game on the odd occasion (not that often, mind). Someone comes in as a tank as its a quick queue, and then demands another player tank it, or they just makes a mess of it by trying to tank it as a dps spec, thus putting a greater burden on the healer.

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Solution to that could be preventing people from changing off of a tank or healer if noone else in the party fits that role. That way there is at least 1 healer and 1 tank, any changes after that would be voluntary.

Seems like this feature would create a whole mess of problems when it comes to the gear/level syncing done within the game. It would be a nice feature, to be sure. But we'll probably not see something like this because it would be a programming headache.

This was in use in 1.0, when dungeons like Aurum Vale and Cutter's Cry were the highest endgame content. I remember everyone had to change to Monk for the last boss of one of those. Can't say I miss those days. :)