Support Classes/Jobs (Looking at BRD)

[Claire_Pendragon]

Obviously not, but if you only play whatever you want the community will not be as eager to let you participate.

I more so mean, just me and 4-8 friends. (edit, obviously not 8 friends as that's 9 ppl lol)
My RL friends play with me in MMOs, and I'm usually the only person who plays supports, but personally I'm currently not really interested in playing ARC to take up BRD. (I might change that)
Outside of my friends, I usually play Tank or Healer willingly.

"Do I want to look like a Ninja while I tank or a Paladin?"

Actually, MRD and GLA have different play styles, same with PLD vs NIN in XI.
(Even more so in games like WoW, you would be surprised how drastically different the classes feel. I end up picking which class to play as, based on which play style is more fun, and better suited for my style of "Thinking in a Panic". Plus any issues that arise from my Carpal Tunnel. Aka mashing the mouse button to switch targets too often as WoWs WAR vs PT member targeting as PLD)


edit
Also I kinda agree that Ranged Damage Dealers tend to be 'unfair' (imo) in that, they are supposed to have the safety of being out of AoE range of the boss, yet they deal just as much damage as the melee?

BUT there are ways to balance it, and now that I think of it, lowering dmg, for buffs, that raise others offense, does seem like the reasonable trade off.

But regardless, using WoW as a typical example, Melee (in PvP) have 'anti-CC' to help fight ranged, and some bosses are designed to make melee have an advantage sometimes...

Over all I won't touch too much into this subject.