Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
So, apparently they don't have "support" as an explicit role planned, but they *do* have "hybrid" planned, which is, in all likelihood, going to be implemented with RDM as the archetype (similar to how PLD is the tank archetype and WHM the healer). I'm very curious as to how they'll do it though, especially since, to make the role justifiable, they'd need to change a lot of content to require someone who can bounce between roles from fight to fight (or even phase to phase).
Hybriding class seems to be what they may have originally attempted with the Arcanist, what with it able to fulfill three roles, not very greatly, but still. I can see the RDM being both a Tank and Healer and being able to que up into a Duty Finder being as either/or. This opens the parties up a bit more for say, Tanks are in high demand: You party up as a RDM. You get in and team already has a healer. You can then focus on Tank role and pulling support heal if needed better than a paladin could.

Same with DPS/Heal hybrid (Much like SCH). If they already have a Healer class set, you can back them up in the harder parts to dungeons where one Healer may struggle, and once it events out quickly go right back into DPS mode. With the talk of Hybrid classes, I could see a RDM as an end all Hybrid being able to tap into all three.

If we get Support at a later time I hope they restructure the party or make Support a Hybrid only and add some support skills or make older classes into Support Hybrids. (Similar to DCUO's Tank, Healer, Controller (Support), and DPS settings where practically anyone is a DPS. Wish DCUO had picked up on proper Hybrids cause Troll/Healer Hybrid would have been outstanding...)