Feelings on FF14's Trinity System?

[ty_taurus]

This is now a healer thread

It's almost like in a discussion about the role trinity, the role in the worst state inevitably comes up.

[Boblawblah]

It's almost like in a discussion about the role trinity, the role in the worst state inevitably comes up.

touche.

back on topic, Mao got me thinking,

I do remember an mmo (can't remember the name, maybe Warhammer Online?) where if you heal spammed, you would quickly take all the aggro no matter what your tank or dps did. Tanks served the same role, but DPS and healers both had to be a bit careful not to go overboard with their healing/dps or they would find themselves the target.

I'm not sure how that would work in FFXIV, we've done it this way for so long that people would be unhappy if you suddenly changed how they needed to play in a fundamental way.

Personally I like how ffxiv doesn't enforce an absolute strict trinity, with how often you're meant to be doing roulettes and group content. Most players still very much need the trinity in most content, and runs suffer if one of the roles is lacking severely and/or missing, which imo is how it should be.

[Niroken]

touche.

back on topic, Mao got me thinking,

I do remember an mmo (can't remember the name, maybe Warhammer Online?) where if you heal spammed, you would quickly take all the aggro no matter what your tank or dps did. Tanks served the same role, but DPS and healers both had to be a bit careful not to go overboard with their healing/dps or they would find themselves the target.

I'm not sure how that would work in FFXIV, we've done it this way for so long that people would be unhappy if you suddenly changed how they needed to play in a fundamental way.

We did have that before with Shroud of Saints. The devs took it from WHM, removed the reduction of enmity, changed the name to Lucid Dreaming and gave it to every healer. Scholar had passive enmity reduction because the fairy had it's own enmity regarding healing.