What Red Mage may be in 4.0

[Mjollnir]

this would require some MAJOR changes to the queue and job systems, for the expert duty roulette you would be in the queue 6 times instead of 2 and stance switching skills would be disabled while on the DF server

That would be an awful way to code it and pointless too. Better to drop you in the first available party filling in whatever gap is needed (so usually, but not always tank or healer), or choose the stance when you hit queue (in which case you'd know if you were going to be a dps because the wait would be greater than 10secs). Thinking about it, letting the player choose the stance when they queue sounds like the best way (tank/heal/dps/random).

Yes stance switching skills would be disabled in the instance, in the same way PvP skills are disabled outside PvP instances, so presumably precedent for that is already there.

[Ageofwar]

That would be an awful way to code it and pointless too. Better to drop you in the first available party filling in whatever gap is needed (so usually, but not always tank or healer), or choose the stance when you hit queue (in which case you'd know if you were going to be a dps because the wait would be greater than 10secs). Thinking about it, letting the player choose the stance when they queue sounds like the best way (tank/heal/dps/random).

Yes stance switching skills would be disabled in the instance, in the same way PvP skills are disabled outside PvP instances, so presumably precedent for that is already there.

nice idea but you know that SE is only going to shoehorn the RDM role into one of the three roles to save on skills and to make it fit the trinity system. I'm hopping for DPS but expecting healer for RDM

[Mjollnir]

nice idea but you know that SE is only going to shoehorn the RDM role into one of the three roles to save on skills and to make it fit the trinity system. I'm hopping for DPS but expecting healer for RDM

Haha, yes, in reality I know this. I'm just a sucker for throwing stuff out there, because every once in a while it sticks.