Quote Originally Posted by ADVSS View Post
So think really log and hard about dedicated tanks and healers who get no new job to slog the first week of stormblood in. I want to play red mage, but im going to do story as smn or blm. Ive seen this happen in hw, and was one of those level the new shiny first ty[es/ Thhe best approach is to let others server first that 7p while youre already got a full set of tome gear in the time it took them to start story. because "no new tanks and no new healers make career tanks and healers something something."
I'm actually stoked there are no new healers and tanks in Stormblood.

It means that from day 1, there's a stable base of both of them going into the expansion, people who know what the hell they're doing on their jobs, unlike with HW, where I met far too many toy healers unable to keep their groups alive (and without a clue why they'd even need crossclass skills) -- and I still meet far too many (undergeared) toy DRK's without ANY crossclass levels (Money quote: "I don't need Provoke, I have Unmend!") unable to maintain even small pull aggro even in dungeons.

So going into Stormblood, there's going to be a reliable base of healers that know what they can do, when to do it, and why - and the same for tanks.

So no, I don't mind the lack of new tank/heal jobs - I'd much rather have fewer new jobs that are actually well designed and offer new synergies rather than a flood of "it's like job X but not as we know it" additions.