Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
Actually, it's "totally obvious" that they were written as role quests. There is a common theme for the role that carries throughout each questline. Healer role?
That's the "tacked on" part. Nothing about the quests line specifically require the specific role. Patching up a minor wound for Fordola is hardly something that "requires" a healer of the WoL's caliber. It's hardly a healer role quest when the healing could be probably done by a anyone, in the past the job/quest tie specicially scenario where it "has" to be you.

You act as a healer in cutscenes in ways that only make sense as a healer quest, and main fights are specifically designed based on you being a healer. Ditto for tanks, dps, etc..
If anything, the "token" mentioned for role just make it more obvious how they were trying to shoehorn the role into the questline after the fact. I don't recall any situation in any questline where you have to be a tank or DPS either. The worst one is probably the physical range. I mean ... out of the nations, Hien probably has the most competent range army with the entire Au'ra tribes united under him who are born hunter. Not to mention they are also partially airbone with that big birds a lot of them ride on (which they even battles imperial airship with), so there is like ... no reason at all to specifically call for the range version of WoL.