If there is a job that can do anything

[Heatmind]

First of all, I am Japanese. For that reason, please forgive me that I am not good at English.
If there is a role to eliminate the concept of "role" and to be able to turn around to almighty, would you approve of having such a role? Is it the opposite?

If I say somewhat, it is the opposite.
Because I thought that gameplay named role playing would be diminished.

[alimdia]

Gameplay without defined roles can be too boring, a good example of this is Guild Wars 2, although the game can be fun the lack of defined roles makes combat feel a bit... stale. I'm happy with how roles are defined in FFXIV.

[Bacent]

That would just be giving people the Class of Onion Knight and having everyone do everything with one class. While it's one of my favorite looking classes from all the games (And he looks great in Dissidia), I think being able to have all jobs on one character is good enough. We don't need a class to end all classes.

[Riko_Futatabi]

I've had thoughts about something similar to this before. It was more along the lines of each Job having an alternate "role" or "style". This thought was unfinished, but I'll give an example: Perhaps through switching Weapon or Soulstone the Tank role DRK can become melee DPS. It's almost like the SCH/SMN situation, but not quite, it would focus on one "Job" having different "styles" as opposed to 2 different Jobs stemming from 1 Class.

And I believe the alternate styles of play should be unlocked at whatever the maximum level is at the time. Maybe to preserve the original intended way to play the role. Because thinking about it now, if this was something you could unlock ASAP with the Job then it might hurt the current system and queue times for certain roles. So if at any point this was to be unlocked, it would have to be at max level. I really would like Jobs to have alternate styles of play though.

[RiyahArp]

We already have the job, it's called paladin. It's probably the only single job you could stack with 8 of them and do most content in the game. It's just most people don't play paladinss. You generally find a lot of reddit posts where 8 tanks do current content.

[Riko_Futatabi]

We already have the job, it's called paladin. It's probably the only single job you could stack with 8 of them and do most content in the game. It's just most people don't play paladinss. You generally find a lot of reddit posts where 8 tanks do current content.

Lol it's funny you say that. It was my first thought when I clicked this thread. "Is this thread about PLD?" :P

[Shurrikhan]

I personally prefer the idea of "specializations" over "roles", and tend to prefer softer or mixed specializations or benefits as fitting for the archetype of the job over those tools filling out a strict role.

Even here, now, roles are sort of a misnomer of course, and "specialization" a more apt term. Unless you're truly locked out from doing something, everyone is still responsible for everything; the one best suited to dealing with something has lead thereon, but it's not as if others are permanently free from those concerns nor is free to act without coordination with the players countering them.

I'd personally like to see a true hybrid job. In fact I'd like all jobs to be largely "hybrids", taken for their kit -- which can benefit whatever "role" in whatever portion they may -- rather than simply mildly varying burst curves and faintly different defensive CD rotations, or ability shields or HoTs in place of spammable shields, etc.

(I can translate this to Japanese if needed.)

[AppleJinx]

Technically the warrior of light is just that. But no I wouldn't want a job like that since it's going to either be broken or under powered and I'd imagine it would be too much of a balancing nightmare for the devs to ever consider it

[The_Promised]

Every RPG need a Druid class. The only one that can be a werewolf tanker, elemental dps and a tribal healer.

[Heatmind]

Everyone who commented, Thank you for your cooperation.

Because there was a person who said "I want to make jobs that are not bound by roles" at my Japanese forum, I would like to ask how overseas players are thinking, with such thought Thread was created.