Do YOU think we'll get a new Tank and/or Healer in 4.0? And vice versa.

[Glasya]

I hope not.
With AST SE have shown they have no idea how to design novel healers and balance them effectively. You had a really interesting mechanic with Synastry, then you turned it into Divine Seal 2.0; nice job, you incompetent spods.

[ADVSS]

I hope not.
With AST SE have shown they have no idea how to design novel healers and balance them effectively. You had a really interesting mechanic with Synastry, then you turned it into Divine Seal 2.0; nice job, you incompetent spods.

No they had an opportunity to just put time mage in as a healer and didnt want to commit entirely - as a result we got a dilapidated healer that started off with low potencies, because i truly believe it was designed to seem-lessly switch in combat as whm or sch at will, and they didnt do this because "too stronk". So better than that idea(i had seen too many instances of a whm dying and noct ast being screwed in 8 mans) they just upped its potencies and gave synastry a (clemency) effect. This, I feel like is where the entire idea went bad. I mean at the root of it, if youre gonna make a tank/healer be half of both healers/tanks, thats...thats just not good identity design, but if the idea is either or at a moments notice, then you have a good fill in. which is all it ends up becoming. The meta has to become looser or even tighter for both of the crucial roles, before they can just add one, but the meta itself is sort of what ruins it when it comes to role/job design. This is why I feel like 2 dps is almost risk free. Almost. They can do DPS pretty alright. MCH being a gun bard, no thanks. They have to look at gameplay in this next expansion, and I feel like the smartest move is to take a while longer on tank and healer especially, until they can find a way. Its that reason alone I almost hope for 2 jobs tops- fine make em dps. Spend another year to calculate and formulate what makes a new tank or healer new and great.