Potential Solution to Job Balance?

[Dzian]

The problem with support jobs in this game is it lacks any systems that support jobs can interact with or control.. they've stripped away nearly everything that did exist and any support that remains is basically a direct modifier of damage +/- x%.

if resources like tp still existed and were actually finite then supportive roles could be beneficial. a minor tweak to jobs where you could have lower power but higher cost combos and higher power but higher cost combos. making management more important. and a question of balancing those combos.. something akin to very early monk iterations where they could effectively do 2 true strikes to 1 twin snakes for increased damage but at increased tp cost. whcih could see them tp starved without support from a goad or bards paeon..

then you could have the final fantasy iconic elemental wheel assign monsters types elelments allow a support job to enchant those elements to dps that found they were resisted. a mob might be weak to blunt resist piercing, but succeptible to wind. so while a monk could punch a way happily without support a drg could benefit from an elemental enchantment.

i'm not going to write a book but there's literally hundreds if not thousands of things they could do just looking at past games in the final fantasy franchise,. but the issue is they've stripped everything away so much that all that matters is damage... it doesnt even matter where that damage comes from or how. just as long as its damage. whether its a blm a monk or a brd.. all that matters is damage and who brings most..

you cant have a deep and engaging combat system without deep and engaging systems to interact with.

[Shurrikhan]

The problem with support jobs in this game is it lacks any systems that support jobs can interact with or control.. they've stripped away nearly everything that did exist and any support that remains is basically a direct modifier of damage +/- x%.

Aye, at which point it just becomes a matter of "Here, take my buffs, for which you sacrificed direct DPS in taking me instead of a "Damage" job, in order to carry my rDPS through your exploitation of said buffs. Oh, also, we're inherently more fragile now, because we're more dependent on the multiplicity of stacked buffs to be viable and any death means desync, causing us to underperform relative to a more independent (e.g., SAM/BLM/MCH/etc.) comp."