Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII! (Exploring Patch 4.0)

[Ruminator]

Recently it was mentioned that the "ability to influence the party's damage" is a determining factor in a job's balance.

Has the development team ever visited the idea of focusing on this concept when designing a job, to create a play style that would be primarily supporting their party (for example, FFXI bard)? If so, are there any key points of that discussion that you'd be willing to share?

[mithena]

Recently it was mentioned that the "ability to influence the party's damage" is a determining factor in a job's balance.

Has the development team ever visited the idea of focusing on this concept when designing a job, to create a play style that would be primarily supporting their party (for example, FFXI bard)? If so, are there any key points of that discussion that you'd be willing to share?

i was thinking if this does happen maybe change bard to pure support like instead of healer dps and tank add another role called support jobs like bard fill and maybe add a alternate class to archer like ranger from FFXI where all the dps abilities go and just like how other jobs like arcanist has summoner and sch or other base jobs that have two upgrades maybe give archer both bard and ranger