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

[SendohJin]

I rather wish people wouldn't say, "4 ranged." It feels disingenuous. Its more accurate to say we have 2 ranged, and 2 mage DPS.

people say that because that's how party composition works. many fights are designed so that you have 1 tank in front of the boss, the OT on one flank, a melee on the other flank and another melee in the rear. then you have 2 healers + 2 ranged spread out behind. one of the ranged is support and another is a caster. this is the most balanced you can have a full party. you can spread the group out so that no player targeted AOEs clip each other, you have TP/MP regen, and you have all available LBs for all situations.

or you end up with people like this guy who is all wrong.

At the moment, we have:

3 tanks
3 melees
2 supporters
2 mages
3 healers

Time to throw in 1 additional Supporter (Redmage?) and 1 additional Mage (Geomancer, Dancer, I dont know) ; )

Light Parties do not have 5 spots taking one from each, Full Parties do not have 10 spots taking two from each.

[FunkyBunch]

Light Parties do not have 5 spots taking one from each, Full Parties do not have 10 spots taking two from each.

Now there's a good idea!

[Katana190]

The title for this thread confuses me.

First time making a thread D: Sorry if its confusing, I tried to sum it up below the title though.

[Laerune]

The only thing that I do not want to see is another Knight type tank and another long ranged magic caster class.

[FunkyBunch]

First time making a thread D: Sorry if its confusing, I tried to sum it up below the title though.

I think the Vice Versa is what's confusing... It doesn't make any sense since you used "And/Or" which would make the title by adding "vice versa" technically :
Do YOU think we'll get a new Tank and/or Healer in 4.0?
And
Do YOU think we'll get a new Healer and/or Tank in 4.0?

[Stormfur]

I'd like to see them dump the trinity idea altogether but that would be a balance nightmare. I remember reading in a LL or something that they weren't going to do a ninja-style introduction again, where they just plopped the class in the middle of the patch cycle like that.

I also saw where they thought 3 new classes were too much to add in Heavensward and they didn't want to repeat that either.

I do think we'll get Samurai and Red or Blue Mage. The reason I think Samurai is because at one of the HW events, there was a music folder for it on one of the dev's computer. That might have been music for DRK in the end, who knows -- but I'm sure they wouldn't just throw that away. And Red/Blue because of the programmer event.

I still have hope for Beastmaster though...

[Katana190]

I think the Vice Versa is what's confusing... It doesn't make any sense since you used "And/Or" which would make the title by adding "vice versa" technically :
Do YOU think we'll get a new Tank and/or Healer in 4.0?
And
Do YOU think we'll get a new Healer and/or Tank in 4.0?

Huh, yeah maybe a miss use of 'vice versa'. It was more meant to mean like prioritise healers over tank or tank over healers, but it was most definitely not needed so sorry about that.

[Felis]

The ratio is 3:3:4:3 Tank:Melee DPS:Ranged DPS:Healer

3:3:2:2:3
Tank:Melee:Ranged:Caster:Healer

[Doki]

I'd rather they flesh out the existing jobs this time.

[SendohJin]

3:3:2:2:3
Tank:Melee:Ranged:Caster:Healer

please read this from above

Light Parties do not have 5 spots taking one from each, Full Parties do not have 10 spots taking two from each.