Quote Originally Posted by VanilleFang View Post
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TBH, your post added just as much as mine did. It's easy to point out the problems, but unless people offer solutions it's all just talk. How do you *make* someone *want* to play a tank or a healer? If you force people to play these roles, you're making people who don't necessarily like the role do something they don't want. That's not fun. But you can't exactly have a healer or a tank do just as much dps as a dps class either. That'd ruin the balance of the game. In games like this, tanks and healers are the jobs people criticize the most. No one likes to be in that position. Maybe the Astrologian will be interesting enough that more people want to play it. It certainly has me intrigued enough to play it instead of my whm. Maybe people will like the Dark Knight as a tank.

Healer wise, I think they stand to benefit if they could find a way to make something like RIFT's chloromancer fit into FFXIV. The Chloromancer was a mage class in RIFT that healed by doing damage. I always thought they could try to do something like this with the Onmyoushi (The Yin-Yang mage) or even the Red Mage. Tank wise... I don't know. I don't really like Paladin or Warrior, but unfortunately aside from "they just don't feel right to me," I couldn't tell you why.