Quote Originally Posted by Zheri View Post
The reason it worked in Rift but will absolutely not work in XIV as it stands now is party size. In a group of 6, there are enough other people that the support abilities have a significant enough impact to be worthwhile while not being completely broken in larger group settings. By going with a base group size of 4, SE has pigeonholed any support-type class into doing comparable damage to a true DD which means minimizing the support aspect so they are not terribly OP in larger groups.
Which is why I believe my solution would work and add some more flavour to end game, more options for future jobs, more party diversity without changing those current players who want to dps as a brd.