Paladin vs Warrior - ARR better set roles!

[Velhart]

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Actually, every time I was in an Ifrit Extreme win, the tank was a WAR each time. Awesome healers were awesome. Awesome WAR was awesome. Its not to say your strategy doesn't work, but the warrior setup was quite legit.

I've seen those comments, but to me it's a pointless debate when WAR can't perform comparibly to other jobs in DPS outside of AoE spam (which got nerfed before the end of 1.0, if I recall). Not to mention WAR being hybrid goes against the whole point of their job system, which is role-centric.

WAR's hybridity was never on the table for me because if the job system is going to be roles, then I expect WAR to be put in one role or the other and go from there. 1.0 is basically hold-over content and that is something I feel some have never realized or gotten wind of.

This remains to be seen. I just get annoyed by people who go under the idea that having one master tank is a great idea. I know that mentality carried over from FFXI and older MMOs (Lineage II for a while ran the "Dark Avenger or go home" bit for tanks), and that modern MMOs have tried to squash it as best they could.

I really wish they would release more info on the battle system. At least my worries might be put to rest if I knew what they were planning to do and how they're approaching roles per job.

Well, we have 2-3 weeks till we can get a feel for them ourselves. They won't be lv.50 though and won't be able to determine how they function end game till phase 3 at least. However, we can see if abilities up to 35(?) have shown any difference to the role of Gladiator and Marauder. Actually, hell if I know if they will even give out jobs themselves. It might just be classes for now.

I agree that there shouldn't be a "one job to rule them all" method, look at my debate(?) with Starlord. I just have a gut feeling that is not how it is going to be, but for all I know I could be wrong till I get more information. I feel like we are debating over the past, and then when the future becomes the present, we will look back at the thread and go "Wow, we were way off.", or "Rabble rabble rabble.", one of the two.