Quote Originally Posted by LordSaviour View Post
Need Support Class.
I doubt we're going to get a true "support" role, mainly because the devs have already demonstrated through BRD and SCH that Support isn't a role on its own; it's a secondary role that can be activated at the cost of your primary functionality (Selene has less healing than Eos and activating the resource songs reduces BRD damage by 20%).

Interestingly enough, while I was delving through the piles of interviews with Yoshi-P last night, I found this one, from right before 2.1 released, which has Yoshi-P saying something pretty interesting:

Yes, we want to make sure that there is space in the party for at least two people of each role. 4-6 players is a number which has been used frequently in recent MMOs, but I stuck with the figure of eight people since back in the design stage for the aforementioned reasons. You can have two each of healer and tank and four DPS in the present situation. Once we add the hybrid role (which serves multiple roles), you'll be able to have two players from each role, for a total of 8 people.
So, apparently they don't have "support" as an explicit role planned, but they *do* have "hybrid" planned, which is, in all likelihood, going to be implemented with RDM as the archetype (similar to how PLD is the tank archetype and WHM the healer). I'm very curious as to how they'll do it though, especially since, to make the role justifiable, they'd need to change a lot of content to require someone who can bounce between roles from fight to fight (or even phase to phase).