What if Support Role was Added to FFXIV?

[Raven2014]

It was changed because any legitimate attempt, even, to balance it was apparently beyond the devs and because they axed the systems underpinning a third of its cards. As soon as it went from a nuetral to controversial fact that it was balanced around luck as much as it was about leveraging tools (in no small part simply due to the lack of synergetic features like a CD-less spread or second charge on Draw and a retroactive Royal Road).


Except that's only due to having screwed over the underpinnings of each. If the devs had actually tuned content, stance modifiers, and the opportunity costs in such a way that tank stances could actually be danced (outside of bardic legends of shitshow Savage PuG runs), then external mitigation tools, too, could retain relevance since that lever wouldn't have been made passive. If MP were an actual mechanic in this game, instead of a Rez-Meter, so would Ewer. Etc., etc.

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2 Months ago when I talked about this very same thing, I remember you dismissed and argued against me hard. No, we had 2 round, once at beginning of Nov and another in Dec, over the exact samething.

Remember someone talked about how MP and enmity management should have been refined instead of removed?

Remember someone used the example saying that when you decide to remove one color from the pallet, you lose not just that one color but all the combination of it?

Remember someone kept using the pennies saved up to dollar argument?


That someone ... was me.

And remember someone else argue against that ... ? Well, you weren't the only one, but definitely one of the most persistent of them all. You even asked for my idea of what I would considered a fix for AST ... and I obliged.


So yeah ... no argument with this particular quote ... after all that have been my point for months ... years even.

If MP were an actual mechanic in this game, instead of a Rez-Meter, so would Ewer. Etc., etc.

At some in the long distance past ... it could have been.