I have to agree with most of this. There should be more role options. For example BRD and MCH. I would rather play as a gunslinger or ranger as a full time dps than be a tp/mp battery. There are enough cross class utilities to make up for the tp problem and blm, smn, sch and whm can manage there own mp now. I don't see why BRD and MCH have to be a support class it ruins the whole idea of a range physical dmg class. However if we have role options we can either choose to be pure dps or play as a support class.

They did that with SMN and SCH. Why not combined WHM and BLM as 1 class then separated them into 2 different roles. They can do the same with bow (BRD and Ranger), gun (MCH and gunslinger), axe (WAR and Beast mode).... Ect. Dark Knight should have been a dps role and could have been PLD's alt role.

More options for roles would really go a long way to make things better.