Quote Originally Posted by seraseth View Post
Actually some of the classes in wow can fill multiple roles (like paladin being tank, healer or dps), so it let's you select what role you want the dropped gear to be for. So it could work the same in ffxiv, you can play tank, but have monk selected for the gear you want.

Which could actually get more people playing their tanks/healers for the fast queues if they knew they could guarantee drops for their dps job, without being on that job.
They use 95% the same gear because it changes to suit your spec (str will change to int if you swap form dps to healer for example) only thing that are unique to a spec are trinkets. I don't think they could do that in Final Fantasy 14 there would be no good way to make say a set of tank gear transform to healing gear when you switch to healer. Probably require a lot of item overhaul.