[Tanks/Healers]: Are you disappointed there is no new job in 4.0?

[Altena]

DPS also got a new shiny in HW with MCH...

Melee DPS didn't.
Caster DPS didn't.
They are both very different roles to a support ranged DPS.

At a stretch, your best argument here is that NIN is a melee.

"All DPS playing in the same red DPS icon = DPS fill the same role or even remotely appeal to the same audience" is an extremely closed minded way of thinking.

And a PLD doesn't play like a DRK or WAR. A WHM does not play like a AST or SCH. Each tank and healer job brings something different to the group and plays differently. Just because they have that blue and green icon next to them doesn't not mean they play the same way.

The difference between a PLD, DRK and WAR is negligable compared to the difference between a MCH and a DRG or MNK. Same can be said if you flipped the tank jobs with the healer jobs in that statement.

I main WAR, but I play all jobs to some level. You should too. Branch out and enjoy the other classes and be happy that we will finally have new options for caster and heavy melee.
Many people have been waiting for a new heavy melee since the release of 1.0 and we haven't got it.

[Claire_Pendragon]

Melee DPS didn't.
Caster DPS didn't.
They are both very different roles to a support ranged DPS.

At a stretch, your best argument here is that NIN is a melee.

"All DPS playing in the same red DPS icon = DPS fill the same role or even remotely appeal to the same audience" is an extremely closed minded way of thinking.



The difference between a PLD, DRK and WAR is negligable compared to the difference between a MCH and a DRG or MNK. Same can be said if you flipped the tank jobs with the healer jobs in that statement.

I main WAR, but I play all jobs to some level. You should too. Branch out and enjoy the other classes and be happy that we will finally have new options for caster and heavy melee.
Many people have been waiting for a new heavy melee since the release of 1.0 and we haven't got it.

Caster Tanks, Projectile/support tanks (at best WAR is a stretch for support tank)
Melee Helaers, Projectile/support Healers.

Considering tanks and healers lack the diversity DPS gained, they need it more than DPS need more diversity.
(PLD to WAR and WHM to SCH are examples of much more drastically different play styles. AST and DRK were just jobs that try to meet in the middle of the two. Only making PLD feel more like WAR, despite not being more like WAR at all. Same with AST making WHM and SCH feeling more alike, though WHM did get more instant casts)