Helare shortage in PF: what would bring you back?

[Renathras]

Genuine question to you guys. Be as honest as you can:

If Support WAS ACTUALLY made into a full fledged role in this game, would you play it? If, say, DNC, BRD, RDM, and AST were made into a role that actually focuses on Support with more incidental, but controlled, healing (so not SMN's Firebird party heal which cannot be controlled at will), would you enjoy such a role existing and playing as it? A role focused more on supporting the party with buffs and mitigation, incidental healing, and more of a DPS posture?

FFXIV did this in ARR and that's largely how SCH's were played, just it wasn't officially recognized as distinct. But suppose there was some magical way to convince Yoshi P to do so. Would you find such a role appealing to you at all?

Not gonna lie, I enjoy Support gameplay from time to time and would love it personally, though it would always be an alt thing for me since my base love is healing. But would you not find it enjoyable?

EDIT:

here's a thought which occurred to me just now as i type this: what distinguishes a healer as 'in the healing role'? take this thought experiment as an example: overnight, SE has released a patch. Curing Waltz on DNC is now 20y radius like medica2, and has a CD of just 2 seconds. Shield Samba has also been reduced to a 30s cooldown, to match Soil and Kerachole. This would EASILY be enough to complete anything up to extreme trials, and i'd hazard a guess it'd even have been enough to clear P1S and P2S with week 1 gear because they hit like wet noodles. Still, the question is, with those changes in effect, would this recategorise DNC to be a 'healer'? IMO it would not, but it'd have more HPS potential than any of the other healers like this. So, what makes a healer, a 'healer'? how many healing skills vs not-healing skills it has in it's kit? how OFTEN it presses healing vs not-healing skills? some other metric we've yet to see or understand?

This, though, is actually a good question. I like this.

Do this more, I think this would be a good point for a discussion. Might start a thread on it, actually...