support jobs

[Assirra]

And this is exactly why pure support classes are so hard to balance. If their buffs and debuffs are too powerful, you all but force groups to always bring one along in order to be as strong and efficient as possible, at the expense of the players who don't have it or don't want to level it. BRDs in XI had this very problem and I don't recall it ever being solved by the time I left; the buffs and debuffs provided by BRDs were so powerful every group had to have one (getting a party as a BRD was about as easy as getting one as a tank).

So how is that any different than tank or healer?