FFXIV and Party Setup.

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Funny that you mention wow and its trinity, its raiding experience is pretty good, and far better then Rift who has a support class, and far better then what FF11 had for raiding content, the mechanics were finely tuned in the normal and hard modes. The tuning is possible due to having the trinity, what people are suggesting in this thread is not an improvement but making the design even worse and a watered down experience in the raiding.

The trinity allows for more indepth mechanics to take place in the content and harder raids as they can actually take account for the classes skills that are in place and no class is deemed useless, FF11 had a lot of classes which were considered worthless and no one wanted them in their groups by design, FF14 and WOW has no such thing, every class in its role is viable.

Also support classes either means having a fight require a support or having the fight faceroll/deeming the role useless, support classes are not a good thing or fun for that matter, theres a reason why so few people played them and difficulty had nothing to do with it, its boring.