This is more of comparing the job system within FFXIV. The one thing I liked about FFXI was even against heavy odds, people found ways to beat the tank-healer-dps system. Players were given tools to make soloing, even though difficult, possible.

With dungeons and end game content, it's so dependent on tanks that a DPS player could not survive soloing and end up being driven down like a nail in wet soil. There's no way that I can see a party of Bards or Black mages making grounds in content.

Funny thing I always mention is in the strategy guide for Ninjas for FFXI, they said it was a hard sell in the subjob area. Who knew what it became when people figured out ways to use it as a subjob.

Could they break the Tank-Healer-DPS system? Would it be too powerful if they did?