Quote Originally Posted by Feyona View Post
Yes I get the extra support is required, and that all classes have them but not one of the other classes have to play a completely different role with different skill set, mindset, and playstyle to support, I play ast, when Im using cards I dont need to change role, I am still healing with the same skills I use as a healer. The argunent that support is a different role is debatable and sorry that was meant towards lambdafishes comment not yours
Its all semantics really whether or not support is a role or not. I've said this so many time in so many threads that roles are fluid in this game. BRDs lower their DPS to aid in TP and MP regen, PLDs have access to healing skills and party mitigation skills, NINs have enmity reducing abilities, WARs are identified as DPS tanks, and healers have access to cleric stance and DPS skills. It doesn't matter what your definition of a role is, because the definition of every role is to do your best within the confines of your skillset. The way you play SCH is to mitigate, heal, and use skills like rouse to open up windows in which you can go into cleric stance and throw up DoTs and shadowflare, that is using SCHs skillset the way it is designed regardless of the fact that it is a healer (unsure on the other two, but you can do the same thing with regen and aspected benefic).

Healers are designed in a way that allows for gaps in healing, this is so that they can do mechanics, or if they don't need to do mechanics then they can do something else (whether it be mitigating, using cards or DPSing), there is no "playstyle choice" there, it is how healing in this game is designed, just as DPS jobs are designed to be played a certain way but people can choose to spam impulse strike.

I won't kick you for not DPSing, but that doesn't make it the correct way to play