Supporter

[Jandor]

I believe Yoshi has stated that he plans to add a 'Hybrid' role. Which I assume will mostly end up being hybrids of DPS and 'support' because support abilities (like what a bard has) are useful but it's very difficult in the current game to build a full class out of them. Support sort of sneaks into the game a kind of 'half-role'.

I don't see how anyone will want any other combination of hybrid in a group when a job dedicated to tanking/healing/dps is bound to do it better. I'd like to be wrong though.

[Kitru]

I believe Yoshi has stated that he plans to add a 'Hybrid' role.

It was stated in the hypothetical as something they've been thinking about but is nowhere set in stone or even really a priority. He specifically clarified that "hybrid" role would be one that can tank, heal, or DPS while taking the place of DPS in the current group composition (which basically means that it would be a slightly inferior DPS that can, when needed, swap to fully effective healing or tanking for short periods of time)

Support is a different construct within the game and is basically a subrole that any role could feasibly have by gaining some optional group augmentation capacity that comes at the cost of their personal output. The two "support" classes we have right now are BRD (songs; decrease damage to increase resource regeneration for the group) and SCH (Selene is an inferior healing pet but she buffs speed for everyone).

[Jandor]

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That hybrid sounds pretty cool, I'm not sure how useful it would be in the current content but if they implement it I trust they can make it work. Thanks for clarifying.

As for support, it's pretty easy to change a dedicated DPS class into a hybrid DPS/support role with the 5 job skills. Which is why I thought it'd be the route they'd go.

Assuming every class is eventually going to get 2 jobs then introducing a 'support' role that everyone knows is basically just DPS with some extra tricks tacked on allows them to create something that's technically not another DPS job on classes that are really hard to thematically turn into a healer or tank role.

Not very creative or ideal I suppose, but not something that would particularly bother me.