Roles for Samurai, Red Mage, Dancer

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I miss being able to use the series related combat debuffs, specifically Paralyze. More accurately I guess, I miss support role duties lol. Battles are too streamlined here to make such things not OP to maintain on the mob, like you would in other FF games (if that was the strategy).

DNC could actually pull off all 3 roles decently in XI, though they certainly didn't stand out in any compared to other jobs. It was kinda left in the dust for group activity because of that, though it's the most popular subjob for many melee jobs solo. Maining it was common for soloers as well.


As the devs stated in a recent Q&A:

hahahah thats awesome! we could use a good solo dps, we got war and sch, though theyre really not happy about them being so good atm it seems

I feel you about "fair" debuffing, i mean mobs get to debuff the hell out of us, but being able to smack a raid boss with paralyze would trivialize the whole affair, making the forced 2 4 2 be more like a whatever crazy strat the team can think of thing.(Which i would welcome) That being the case, it is rather sad to see so many possibilities get nailed before theyre tried because of this rigid role balance were all stuck to adhere to.