Why not just make everyone a DPS?

[RapBreon]

I think another part of the problem is the total reliance on tank busters and scripted fights. When pretty much all the damage in any fight except the known tank busters is considered fluff damage that regen takes care of I think there's something pretty wrong with the fight design. If the damage was more consistent you'd have a more organic fight.

The biggest problem honestly is that the content is just so lazily designed. Dps is the only thing checked, there's no real mitigation stat in the game, fights are 100% scripted so it's just a game simon says, mitigation is 90% passive etc.

Yeah but that's MMO raiding in general FF:ARR especially. Its entire philosophy is 'learn the dance' (Titan anyone). It's the very core of this game. If you take issue with that, then I'm not sure what to say 0.o.

Healers are certainly being checked though. The oppressors check healers...oh yes do they check the healers. And they kind of check the tanks? Albeit it's can you press buttons when you see a cast bar! But it's there...but I'll concede it's a shitty one.

Not if you need to keep the part and head away from each other.

That's just an idea I had after 5 minutes, I'm pretty sure a full team of experienced developers can create a lot of bosses with these kind of mechanics

You could also make time kills where the main target has to die around the same time as the last lesser target of a long train. So, killing the main target the fastest is irrelevant.

Ok so then what is the MT doing? Sitting there casting Clemency and Riot blade combo? Throw tomahawks? If the DPS on the head matters, then he'll be a WAR. If it doesn't, then he's a weird support character for a fight (AKA only a PLD could do that fight optimally). Like I said, it'd work for a single fight and it'd be cool. But a whole tier, eh, not convinced.