What jobs are we hoping to see in the next expansion?

[Ametrine]

Way to ignore the evidence there just to disagree, not to mention provide any solid evidence for your disagreement. Your opinion though, and you are entitled to it.

I think what's being asked here isn't a class that pulls concepts from different jobs (which is traditionally what a RDM is) but a job that could actually exist and queue in two or more roles of the holy trinity here.

Like, I can queue to leveling as a tank with this job, then turn around a act as a healer in trials.

RDM's Vercure is powerful, but one good heal can't cover a savage raid party. RDM hasn't the VIT gear, nor any proper defensive cooldowns to tank one, either. RDM is just a caster DPS with a sword, not a proper hybrid.

[Joe777]

I think what's being asked here isn't a class that pulls concepts from different jobs (which is traditionally what a RDM is) but a job that could actually exist and queue in two or more roles of the holy trinity here.

Like, I can queue to leveling as a tank with this job, then turn around a act as a healer in trials.

RDM's Vercure is powerful, but one good heal can't cover a savage raid party. RDM hasn't the VIT gear, nor any proper defensive cooldowns to tank one, either. RDM is just a caster DPS with a sword, not a proper hybrid.

If that is the hybrid they had in mind then it's never going to happen. There are some cases where DPS can relieve a healer, namely with Vercure, Clemency, and Revival abilities, but making a job capable of pulling 2 or all 3 roles is just asking for too much. Even if SE did decide to do such a thing, it would be way too stretched out to be acknowledged by endgame meta, and making it potent enough to run endgame would make it OP. FF14 cares too much about the role trinity to just throw a screw like that into it.

[Zojha]

[...] but making a job capable of pulling 2 or all 3 roles is just asking for too much.

Tanks and healers can viably replace DPS in all but the most hardcore content with the tightest DPS checks. At the end of HW, echo buff was enough to allow for an 8 tank A12S, 23 healer Rabanastre has been done while it was current. It's already a thing. It's just DPS that get gimped by not being allowed to double dip into tanking/healing much, but tanks and healers are already very much double dipping into DPS rather extensively.