If you continue to dumb down the game, you will lose half your player base

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They actually are not different in nature. They are to make classes more player friendly, and to homogenize the classes. This is the exact reason WoW did this as well, which they eventually fixed for tanks and healers but DPS for the most part is pretty terrible to play in WoW. Currently WoW has more fun gameplay if you want to tank or heal, FFXIV has more fun game play if you want to DPS. With the route FFXIV is going with classes though, WoW will just end up having better game play.

Honestly some jobs are worse then some wow classes, smn, physical ranged dps in general, and now they're after melee dps. It's starting to feel like I should play a different game before they start butchering sam any farther. All healers in ffxiv are worse then any healer in wow which is hilarious, and can't really comment of tanks.

It honestly feels like if you want a valid raiding mmo the two options are bad or worse.