People wanting a support class. Why?

[HumanNinjaToo]

Give me a support class with abilities to haste PC skills, slow enemy skills, regen, mute enemies from casting spells, cast float to avoid certain 'earth-based' AOE's, cast Demi/Gravity (possibly this as an ultimate type skill that deals 25% dmg), cast stop on all enemies (maybe as an AOE interrupt), teleport self and other PC's around battlefield, cast Return as a Limitbreak (which would reverse time by 60-120 seconds and give a soft reset for bosses before a wipe), cast Old on an enemy to add stacks of debuffs (kinda like bosses do to us), cast Quick (make a PC be uninterruptable for 2-3 skills or 15 secs), and how about a Banish type spell that wipes trash mobs (set up to empty the MP pool like Flare with BLM). Hmmm...

I know! Give me a friggin Time Mage SE!!!!!

[Razard]

Give me a support class with abilities to haste PC skills, slow enemy skills, regen, mute enemies from casting spells, cast float to avoid certain 'earth-based' AOE's, cast Demi/Gravity (possibly this as an ultimate type skill that deals 25% dmg), cast stop on all enemies (maybe as an AOE interrupt), teleport self and other PC's around battlefield, cast Return as a Limitbreak (which would reverse time by 60-120 seconds and give a soft reset for bosses before a wipe), cast Old on an enemy to add stacks of debuffs (kinda like bosses do to us), cast Quick (make a PC be uninterruptable for 2-3 skills or 15 secs), and how about a Banish type spell that wipes trash mobs (set up to empty the MP pool like Flare with BLM). Hmmm...

I know! Give me a friggin Time Mage SE!!!!!

So... a bunch of either useless, niche skills or utterly game breaking spells.

Blue mage is that way ----------------------->

In all seriousness the only reason people want a "pure support class" is because they want to be the Princess Bard from ffxi again. Where every group wants them (yet, paradoxically very few people wanted to play it) and everyone showers them with praise because they park their butt on the other side of the arena and do the equivalent of:

[HumanNinjaToo]

So... a bunch of either useless, niche skills or utterly game breaking spells.

Blue mage is that way ----------------------->

In all seriousness the only reason people want a "pure support class" is because they want to be the Princess Bard from ffxi again. Where every group wants them (yet, paradoxically very few people wanted to play it) and everyone showers them with praise because they park their butt on the other side of the arena and do the equivalent of:

I don't know what princess bride class you're talking about, but I don't see how it would be game breaking skills. The purpose of a support class' I think' would be to not deal hardly any dps and instead buff the PCs and debuff the mobs. Healer jobs already have limited dps. Support would, in my mind, be different than a healer because it would have either one very weak heal (mostly to supplement a real healer) or no heals at all (since we already have a job that has the regen skill).

I could see how if done correctly, a support job would be a way to change up the usual recipe of tank/dps/heal. If done incorrectly, it could be a huge disaster and either useless or boring.

I would think that trading self dps for either increasing other PC dmg or decreasing mob dmg as fair. Granted the rewinding time would be a bit of a cheap tactic, maybe... Only one way to find out

[gman1311]

So... a bunch of either useless, niche skills or utterly game breaking spells.

Blue mage is that way ----------------------->

In all seriousness the only reason people want a "pure support class" is because they want to be the Princess Bard from ffxi again. Where every group wants them (yet, paradoxically very few people wanted to play it) and everyone showers them with praise because they park their butt on the other side of the arena and do the equivalent of:

This is true!

[MomomiMomi]

So... a bunch of either useless, niche skills or utterly game breaking spells.

Blue mage is that way ----------------------->

In all seriousness the only reason people want a "pure support class" is because they want to be the Princess Bard from ffxi again. Where every group wants them (yet, paradoxically very few people wanted to play it) and everyone showers them with praise because they park their butt on the other side of the arena and do the equivalent of:

Don't know what game you played. BRD was a more active job than any other job in XI. You were constantly doing things and repositioning, while other jobs just auto-attacked most of the time.

[Mikhaill]

I know! Give me a friggin Time Mage SE!!!!!

Had one. Was AST.
Got fooked, sorry friend.
Closest thing as we were going to get there.
(Yes, still a salty AST player.)