Why is Warrior a healer in all but role?

[Rithy255]

Anyone could be a Tank/Healer through a system similar to a mix variant dungeons or Bozja while I don't think would be perfect would unironically work better then whatever we got right now.

FF14 doesn't offer a variety of healers it offers the same basic archtype of magic only backline, which because of ff14's very basic fight designs will likely stay the same, but you can obviously work around that with a job who has ranged options that are only slightly worse (hmm I wonder what tank has that).

Perhaps the best way to implement a customizable system similar to bozja would be to restrict it from effecting savage+ content, so people don't have to cry about meta and ruin the idea of customizability existing. You could also have specializations and builds some jobs could already very easily fit a tank or healer by changing up a few skills and putting damage down onto a reasonable level.

A way to do this is a massive overhaul to the materia system, tied to job stone where you can change job skills to have different effects, ways to add in skills and passives that effect one aspect of your job, lets say damage gets reduced by you gain more defensives and access to a enmity stance, You could even do stuff to DPS such as black mage to have longer cast times again.

Though at the end of the day the only issue is the playerbase hates any sort of customization a lot of hardcore players will only pick whats the "Meta" rather then whats fun then people will complain about illusion of choice so instead of having any choice we go back to very strict and standardized job design.

Edit:

Retrofitting a trinity game into a non trinity game would be a nightmare and making it a “soft trinity” only works if every role can have something of every other role, right now nobody can tank except the tanks and neither support does effective damage to be considered “off DPS” as all content is balanced around the supports doing damage anyway

I have to point out anyone can tank inside a dungeon, ignoring the fact ive cleared dungeons with 4 dps (no rdm or smn) 3dps and 1 Healer would work perfectly fine in current dungeons, you'd likely want a dancer and have to be careful about enmity but you sure can clear content without a tank and have DPS who can effectively tank.

Further more didn't they clear fru without tanks? I think it's safe to say you can tank on a dps, it's way less effective then bringing a tank (just like it is for healers) but wasn't the argument it's a problem it can even be done...