Unpopular Opinion: Make all Jobs DPS with a Defender OR Healer stance...

[Lihtleita]

youre right. this is an unpopular opinion.

[Chekopacheko]

But...all jobs are already DPS jobs

[Puremallace]

They tried this before in ARR and the playerbase hated it with an UTTER passion. To enforce it so it would even matter you would need to lock people in at the beginning of an instance and would also have to effectively design the raid encounters with an extreme amount more damage as healers would only be dedicated to healing or dps?!?!?

Your idea never made sense then and it still does not.

[SenorPatty]

But...all jobs are already DPS jobs

And here I was going to say that as nasally as possible.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I dunno, a healer ninja sounds awesome. They steal your injuries and then throw it back at the enemy!

[PondHollow]

I don't really see a point of this since every combat job in the game is already a DPS with different icons? Healers being green DPS with the sub goal of keeping everyone alive, blue DPS tanks with the sub goal of holding aggro and mitigating damage and normal DPS?

The main problem with this is that the developers don't give healers offensive actions proportionate to how much of their time (50% is a conspicuous underestimate for content intended to be difficult) is spent on offense. Perhaps they could be convinced to do otherwise if they just dumped the idea that we need healers. Healers are effectively built for a game that isn't there.

[Kes13a]

what they should do, is remove all dps jobs, would require some retooling I imagine.

but if we are making unreasonable discussions about removing entire parts of the game the norm, why not? dps spend a lot of time on the floor, be a lot less stressful on healers having to raise them, and tanks wouldnt have to step over the bodies.

honestly though, there are games out there where every class is teh same, just different looks, with no triad.. suggest you try one of those if thats what you are looking for. it is not needed here

[TaleraRistain]

That sounds dreadful. We can't get tanks to pick who's going to MT in Alliance Roulette, but somehow we're going to coordinate on the fly in PUG groups who's going to heal, tank, and dps?

[Katie_Kitty]

That sound dreadful. We can't get tanks to pick who's going to MT in Alliance Roulette, but somehow we're going to coordinate on the fly in PUG groups who's going to heal, tank, and dps?

yep, just take a look at BLU groups to see how poorly that works. Nobody wants to tank or heal on BLU.

[TaleraRistain]

yep, just take a look at BLU groups to see how poorly that works. Nobody wants to tank or heal on BLU.

As a tabletop gaming person, it brings to mind for me how no one ever wants to play the cleric.