Quote Originally Posted by Welsper59 View Post
Edit: SAM is not the only job with risk factors as well. THF, for example, is the only job that technically would stay in front for longer than the SAM for the short time they would. TA+WS was a very common means to keep threat on the tank from powerful DPS doing their thing. This means THF does, in fact, go in front of the mob to do their thing. So... yeah, SAM is not the only one with mechanics or factors that involve going to the front.

... actually BRD would too sometimes. Depending what the tank specifically needed, compared to what the other jobs wanted. Forgot about BRD on that, and I used to main it too lol. Seriously, you should drop the trait argument. Come at me with something else... you're not gonna prove your point on this one, because it just doesn't apply to how the reality is. Now if the trait did something to mitigate damage full-time, I'd be right there with you on it, but that's not the case.
Those are pretty much the jobs with the least risk. THF's whole design is to mitigate risk for the party. And there was absolutely nothing risky about BRD other than pulling, and that was something completely outside the job's design.

Seriously, there was no job with any risks other than DRK. That's the only job that had any risk built into it. All the other dps jobs have methods of mitigating risk.

I also don't know how a dps job "through and through" has a defensive stance that gives it a 100% dodge, and an "evade and counter."