What if Tanks were designed like Healers?

[Icecylee]

Hm...are you talking all abilities, or just oGCDs?

The initial offhand comment was piggybacking off the idea of classifying jobs based on their primary ogcd usage, so yeah that was strictly just ogcd and not including GCD cooldowns or normal weapon skills.

Other stuff

While the idea of just... constantly adding more jobs anytime they want to do notable changes to how something plays is... *nice*, in theory... It's probably important to recognize that the job design team is *already* struggling immensely with the number of jobs we already have and there's no way in hell they'd be able to keep up with nearly doubling it to just even get back to the baseline of "stuff vaguely similar to the HW/StB era, + whatever we have now", even without factoring in that some (MCH, AST, DRK) were wildly different even between HW and StB. It's just not practical for everyone to get what they want. Best they can really do is try and cast as wide a net as possibly by making every job as different as possible and hope there's at least one that could appeal to potential players. Similarly they've got a long history of showing they're not really against radical changes if they think it might make something better (even if they often don't seem to understand what exactly it is the player base wants from them) so "but what if we lose this one particular playstyle" just... doesn't really feel like an actual concern.