Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
So what happens when they inevitably drop to 1 new job per expansion? How does your pattern work then? Do we only get alternating Tank/Melee DPS for the next 'however many expansions are left in the game'?
They will be forced to change it up.

Also claiming that this pattern has been going for a decade is a bit of a stretch, when ARR hardly counts as it featured every role, and HW had the benefit of three jobs to cover all main roles. At most this is a pattern they've stuck to for three expansions, and the first of those was not part of any pattern because it was the first two-job expansion.

In every other aspect of the game, they've demonstrated they want to change things, and this will apply to jobs at some point.
They won't drop it to 1, I already explained why this won't happen unless the raiding community dies out it will always be 2.

How is it a stretch if it already happened? Even if you don't count ARR, it's still there also we didn't get a new ranged(but back then DPS were just DPS, we didn't have subroles) or tank.

They have demonstrated that in HW and SB but not anymore they haven't, designs have been extremely stale anyone could tell you this.