A big Problem that MAY come up with Stormblood...

[Niyuka]

As far as I can see, not a single DPS player in my guild, nor in any of the guilds I know (and we have a HUGE raid community) is switching to a tank or healer for Stormblood. However, we are losing roughly half of our tanks and about 1/4 to 1/3 of players to the new DPS classes. Of course not ALL of them are going to stay, but some are.

There is ZERO incentive outside of queue times to be healer or tank in normal everyday content in SB over picking a DPS player. There is zero new reason to switch, 2 healers and 2 tanks got actually conceivably nerfed and its all over the forums if someone cares to look it up. But there is 2 big incentives to go DPS.

So I dont think the idea that tanks and healers will soon go back to being just that, and the total mix isnt going to change, is gonna fly this time. It may not get MUCH worse, but it WILL get worse.

[Dualgunner]

So I dont think the idea that tanks and healers will soon go back to being just that, and the total mix isnt going to change, is gonna fly this time. It may not get MUCH worse, but it WILL get worse.

We will see. But given the only trend we've seen in Final Fantasy XIV, that people won't switch role completely to tank or healer just because a cool job is in that role, we could extrapolate that to mean the opposite as well. If people want to tank or heal, they will tank and/or heal.