What Can Be Homogenized

Homogenization kills job identity and that is what is happening currently, but What are the abilities you think that cannot be removed in all roles?

for me:

Tanks:
Hate generation ability.
defensive skills

Healers:
Target healing
AoE healing

DPS:
AoE attacks
Single target attacks
Burst attacks

I am all for homogenization. Who doesnt hate to not able to play their job because another job is superior?

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Originally Posted by Varilyon

Who doesnt hate to not able to play their job because another job is superior?

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I don't care if XYZ job is superior to my main.

Tanks:
Damage reduction (we used to have blocks, parries, physical defense buffs and raw mitigation, STR down, INT down), but all these differences caused major issues when fights did a different damage type. Thereafter, they were homogenized. But we always effectively had a 20% and 30-40% buff on tanks in some form or another, even if their attributes were slightly different.

Provoke. Because it's basically in every other MMO too.

An aoe attack to establish threat on multiple enemies, whether that is an AoE attack, a pure enmity effect like Flash or an AoE Provoke like Ultimatum was.

Healers:
Esuna

DPS:
At least 1 button that reduces the damage of an enemy.
At least 1 button that reduces the damage of multiple enemies.

All roles:
A ranged attack of some form is desirable for when not in melee range. If not, something like Monk has instead where it can charge up an attack, a gauge or do a long-distance melee attack.

(Note my lack of mention of heals. Since FFXIV has proven that healers don't need to actually have heals lol)

Tank homogenization should end at Provoke/Shirk.

You could have unique flavors like they doing for the 40%s for Rampart and Reprisal as well instead of boring role actions.
Likewise I wouldn't hate it if tools like Low Blow had their own variants per job.

I would like to see role skills completely killed off and replaced with individual versions and not every job likely needs them. E.g., I'd rather have an extra cast of triplecast than swiftcast on BLM

The only skill every tank needs is provoke..

They don't all need mitigation they don't all need gap closers just a hate grab that's it.

Tank A for example has 50k hp could have a skill like rampart that reduces damage taken by 20%. So a 50k tank buster would smack them for 40k damage. Tank survives with 10k hp.

Tank b could have 50k hp could have a skill where they go RAWR!! And there max hp goes up 20%. So now they have 60k hp get hit with a full 50k tank buster and survives with 10k hp..

Just 2 very different ways of dealing with damage... homoenization not needed at all. Same goes with every other role..