Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
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I really don't understand what your fascination is on hybrids and how things were in previous FFs? Yoshida doesn't want Dancer to be a RPDS. Fine, but so what? The fact remains that if he wanted to, he damn well could have made it a healer A full healer and NOT a hybrid. And that is the simple point I am making here. Whether it's what you consider it a hybrid or not doesn't matter. If Yoshida wanted Dancer to throw healing darts at people to heal them, he could very well have done that. Hell, Overwatch has Ana who heals people by shooting them with a freaking sniper rifle! He didn't. That's fine. But that doesn't mean he couldn't take any other job and make it a healer if he so pleased. He doesn't have to make anything a hybrid. He can do anything he wants with a job to fit it into the game. That's his job or at least a job he can delegate to someone else. Just because he decided not to do something, does NOT mean that he couldn't have done it.

Healing through DPS has been done. Quite well in fact. Go download RIFT and play a Chloromancer. It's fun. It works. It's a mage class that heals through DPSing. Does it have heals in additon to the dps mechanic? Sure, it does. But it still primarily heals through its dps. No one is saying a Dancer or a Spellslinger or a Potion thrower can't have a few spells or something for when you can't DPS a target and need to heal. DPS is trash in comparisson to how much healing is needed? Simple, make the abilities that do DPS heal over 100% of the damage dealt. Problem solved.