Quote Originally Posted by mallleable View Post
I feel like tanks, and healers are already kinda intended as the 'support' roles with healers as 'ranged support,' and tanks as 'melee supports.'
DPS supports are supposed to be DPS first the Support second. Tanks and Healers are meant to be support first dps second in traditional MMOs but ARR from the ground up was designed with Tanks and Healers doing DPS so you're right they are technically support DPS which is part of the reason why Phys Range is in a severely awkward place, that and the fact support systems in this game do not exist, theres never any esuna use in high end content and interupting, controlling aggro or even constant healing just isn't in this game anymore. The only support left is telegraphed healing, mitigation and buffing, though all roles have options for this now so really the niches of Tanks and Healers and their main support systems don't exist. It would be a different story if raid buffs werent common and healers were the only ones to heal/mit and tanks had to control the boss more, right now theres no real true support jobs its just DPS with support options.