Quote Originally Posted by Cynric View Post
To be fair, you can make anything work as a DPS if you want to. Don't get hit by an AoE, spend health on Attacks, gain it back with others, with the proper cooldowns , Traits, any job can work with any role if it's designed to fit that role. If you're gaining back health you spend anyway, no one has to heal you there. Designing jobs takes time, and can be hard to balance properly right away. But it just requires an idea of the role you want it to play and a base idea of how you want it to be played in that role.
Hah, dodge.

On a serious note, there's a lot of battles in endgame content that involve fights that have wide damage AOEs that can't be dodged. And those take out well over half (defensive manuevers, primal enrages) of your HP just from one BOOM. Some even well over 2/3 of your HP (Megaflare). You would have to be very timely on your rotation, just to get health back, just in time to avoid getting One shotted by a single unavoidable mechanic.