Next Jobs

[Archwizard]

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I think there's room for many of those buffs to be added to the game without having to create a role dedicated to it. Several games have tried to reinvent the Trinity before or at least suggested the possibility, but I'm not sure any have ever managed to balance it to a point it's worthwhile; either you create situations where certain buffs and debuffs are always expected anyway as a bare minimum for all raid DPS and encounter mechanics, thereby crippling your composition if you don't have X specific job in the party (which is why we have Role Actions for those types of mechanics); or you create wildly imbalanced scenarios where some buffs work too well for certain encounters and others have no effect too much of the time to be remembered when they are useful or sustainable as their own abilities in the long-term (like the attitudes toward non-stun CC in this game).

I'm reminded of Instructor Razuvious from WoW, where one of his mechanics required players to mind control his minions in order to break through his mitigation. Since only one spec was capable of mind control (out of 27 when it was current content), it meant at least 2 players in each raid were required to be Shadow Priests to beat the boss. The devs later reworked the encounter so that mind control crystals were available inside the arena to avoid forcing any one class into or out of the raid, and future encounters that required CC usually had access to CCing items within the arena.
Or of how one class, Shaman, was given exclusive access to the Bloodlust spell that gave the entire raid a massive damage buff once per encounter. Encounters were then balanced with Bloodlust taken into account for DPS checks, or build with short windows where this buff could be used at all, which then necessitated spreading out that buff to other classes.

I'm 100% for certain jobs gaining effects like En-elemental buffs or Thorns, or even increasing the viability of debuffs like Blind and Slow so that CC has a place and more diverse/complex tactics can be deployed for high level encounters. (Bearing mind that elemental vulnerabilities aren't actually a thing in 14 since ARR, and that all elements are just flavored "Magic" damage, so that each job's access to certain elements, particularly BLM, is more focused on relation to mechanics than damage types.)
I also think these are things that jobs we already have could do. We already have Bard, Dancer and Astrologian casting regular buffs in addition to their main role, and I'd be happy to see GEO introduced with its own spin on that. Effects like Slow and Stop would be perfectly fitting in AST's arsenal, both aesthetically and as mechanics for reducing damage intake to fit its role. I'd love to see SCH's Selene reworked so that her Fey Union puts Spikes/Thorns on her target or some channeled AoE attack that follows an ally, or have their Repose replaced with Toad.