implementing new jobs

[Tzain]

Doubtful. There is no room for "off-tank" in a game with 4-player content. (And really, PGL as anything-tank?)

I think most second jobs will be role changes. It is difficult to differentiate two jobs with the same role with how much they ultimately share. A few possibilities would be:

Sub roles mean nothing unless there is an overlap and the only time you get an overlap is when there are more than 4 players (in the case of tanks)
So essentially, if GLA had a Main tank and an off tank, both would be tanks in 4 man content and only become Main and Off in 8 man or more. Which is exactly what's happening now.

Take Ifrit, if you have two GLA in the group, one is tanking and the other is interrupting. In this case the "Off Tank" is playing that part in the tactics. So if you wanted to make an off tank role flavored to GLA, you might want to build it with a heavy interruption and control factor. This way when tanking, they work by keeping the special (cast bar) attacks directed at them to a minimum. This of course means that the tank in question would have to be on the squishier side of the spectrum for balance, thus making them ineffective in the main tank role. Which of course is fine and dandy considering the GLA has equal access to both Main and Off Tank jobs. And considering the off tank job would not have automatic access to "Shield Oath" is completely possible.

Hope that illustrates what I mean better.

the business model behind an mmo is to keep people playing as long as possible and usually means starting at level 1

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