Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
I think this is unfortunately part of the problem. FFXIV's combat design has become EXTREMELY rigid. I'm honestly kind of surprised RDM and SMN can raise, and that they haven't shunted all party damage buffs to the Ranged and all party mitigations to either Tanks or Healers. They would probably have all Casters be able to Raise already if it wasn't at such odds with BLM's class fantasy, and they almost removed SMN's in the rework but left it in realizing the weight of legacy and meta on it existing.

In LOTRO (and other games like it), you have a lot more variance. You can have some classes that are more dedicated, and specs to swap them up.
Good points. Simply put, we are pigeon-holed into 3 roles and SE has backed themselves into a corner. This is why we wind up seeing limited jobs like BLU. That's how they can allow these jobs to exist, but not allowing them to do any current content.

Warden was an example of what LOTRO would consider a fairly complicated job. I'd love to see something similar in FFXIV, but it would have to set into one of the three roles and would probably lose all its flavor.