What if DNC is SHOMHOW a DPS?

[Hazama999]

:P How would you react / feel if your preferred role did not get a new job in six years while every other role did?

I'd be like /shrug "ok, guess I'll play another job."

[Amaya-Asha]

I played whm as my main from arr - sb then switch to ast cause wanted a changed and loved it. sch I suck at it. Whm changed but I didn't like it anymore. For a lot of us who prefer healing as main job dancer as healing class would be something refreshing to try. And totally get why Dps want dancer but us long term healers want something new.

I don't post often mostly lurk but had to say something

[MorbolvampireQueen6]

I'd be like /shrug "ok, guess I'll play another job."

Ya sure you would come back and say that when you main a healer for 6 months and 1 out of 5 partys stand in flames or bleed zone then yell at you while you get jack lol

[Hazama999]

Ya sure you would come back and say that when you main a healer for 6 months and 1 out of 5 partys stand in flames or bleed zone then yell at you while you get jack lol

That... has nothing to do with what I said... lol.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I don't know what the %s are of people that main DPS that now main SAM or RDM, but it doesn't matter - new DPS gave them something new to play with, experiment with, level, enjoy. Even if a RDM player went back to SMN or BRD or whatever their main was, they still had a new toy.

That's what we want - a new toy. Not even two, like DPS got with SB. Even if half the healer mains went back to their current class after playing/levelling DNC, it still would have given them something new to play with and enjoy. So many people saying "healers wouldn't switch" or "it wouldn't be my main" - okay? It doesn't have to be. It's just another option for us. Why is the expectation that DPS can sandbox their 9 classes, playing whatever they want at will, but healers and tanks should only get a new class if it's going to be The Best and we're all going to switch to it?

I won't stop being AST main, for many reasons (one of which is that I love the class - I hope they don't completely restructure it. But I'm still looking forward to playing around with a new class. Who knows? It might become a tie for my favourite.

[EdwinLi]

:P How would you react / feel if your preferred role did not get a new job in six years while every other role did?

The real question should be is the Job the right Job for that Job Role.

IF SE just slaps on any job into Healer and Tank Job just because they need a Healer and Tank Job, they may go a bit too far just to satisfy the demand for more Tank and Healers such as making Gunner Job the next Healer Job that shoots Magical healing bullets at party members to heal so it acts as a instant healing skill Job because "magic bullets! I don't need to explain anything" with grenades that explodes on a placed location to create a healing chemical AoE Healing zone similar to Imperial Agent and Trooper from Star wars the old republic.

Or Gambler as the next Tank job that focus on "betting the odds" to Tank as a Tank Job that use Magic to randomly applies how much damage is reduced and how much enmity it gets from all enemies around himself that he or she does not hit with a attack for each attack it does thus being a AoE 24/7 enmity generating tank that does not need to hit their enemies to generate enmity on them.

[WhiteArchmage]

I'll go "oh, cool" and not have to worry about never using it in Savage because it's likely our healers won't switch just because I wanna dance. If it IS indeed a healer, I'll ask very nicely if they'll let me heal the 5.x raid tiers :P

[Floortank]

Three meaning there's no way they're not giving us a healer, so if DNC is a DPS, we'll also be getting a healer class.

Getting tired of all of the DPS-selfish threads here. "I love x class, so it has to be DPS bc healers and tanks don't need anything new, they already have stuff!" Same people, every time. Gunbreaker was tank, you've finally had your 5 days of mourning, and now you're on to DNC.

Most healer mains I know will probably quit the game and have expressed as much if they don't give us something new. Have fun with your DPS queues then.

Can you please stop using this absurd line of reasoning? It's divisive, and creates an imaginary argument. The game is meant for multi-classing.

[EdwinLi]

Can you please stop using this absurd line of reasoning? It's divisive, and creates an imaginary argument. The game is meant for multi-classing.

This type of argument is not going to stop because it is a mind set born from lacking new tank and healer jobs every single expansion.

Some people just don't care what Job is a Tank or Healer now as long it is a Tank and Healer.

[SoleilAlphi]

it is exactly the argument that is happening on many threads. "I play dps therefore every class must cater to me because I cba to tank or heal, oh as you are also a minority, you don't need new jobs". It is not the people who main tanks and healers who create the divisive argument, but the opposite. Heck, I main dps, and yet i'm very happy tanks get something new. I also heal often enough to be bored with 3 jobs, and would really like dancer to be the 4th healer. Variety is good.