What if any class could perform any role?

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

GW2 has this and has failed miserably on it.
The only thing that comes out of this kind of "trinityless" is duality. Having that wide arrange of choices, you -or most people arround you- will turn full DPS or full Tank. And that pretty much kills the whole idea of building a character and gettin proper gear.

Now, in FFXIV you dont have any choice, is already decided which is best and doing otherwise is so unproductive that is not even fun.

Anyone remember old school build systems like the one from Ragnarok Online? I would love to have more viable options for my DRG than just getting Weapon Power and Determination. I want an attack speed DRG! or a Critbased DRG! or maybe an off-tank evade DRG? i want to build a DRG... Not just being the exact copypaste from every other.

Damn, i would love to be able to make several characters and build them diferent...

I mean, there is only one kind of build, rotations is the only thing that varies and not that much, im not feeling that our classes are our own and that sucks.

... I miss my autocast swordsman from RO.

I mean it! i want a attackspeed status effect dragoon. That does shit DPS, shit DoT, shit everything, but at least, it is fun and it is diferent. And i can test myself with it. Here, i can`t even choose.

What can i do? use BRD gear and put 30 stat points into DEX instead of STR? even that way the gameplay for the class would be the same.