Quote Originally Posted by drgonzo View Post
People wonder why the devs don’t take this forum seriously. So you want it to be a dps but an off support and off tank, hell why not off healer that shoots lighting out it’s taint. This would be a utter train wreck and if you actually understood the job design of this game you would know that but eh great community brother.
Well, you know, you got a Bard that has a defensive cooldown and some defensive abilities and a heal, Machinist that also has Palisade, Red Mage that everyone takes as a revive tool that can also be semi filled with Summoner, of which the summoner can also use Titan-egi to tank to a degree, all the healers are DPS to begin with, and Paladin can heal as well.

What I suggested is merely just a little bit more effective in regards to this. Rather than being specialized, it's an all rounder, which takes all the archetypes of a dancer and wraps it all into one. I guess I'll put a tiny amount of effort into explaining this to you.

In my suggestion I pointed out that the method for Dancer to tank a single enemy is through their basic rotation which would make the enemy miss. Naturally you can easily make bosses or even some basic enemies immune to this, such as with silence or stun. It also doesn't effect aoe's in this slightest. It merely serves as a slightly more effective tank than what you can already do by stunning and silencing until something is dead. Additionally one could foresee that Dancer would have weak defense in general, and as such tanking more than one enemy or failing to use your rotation would make you a very flimsy off-tank. As such, this is more of a niche idea than what you have in mind.

I didn't even mention any specific buffs or heals. It could easily be just a weak party regen, or something else entirely. The idea is that dancers dancing is not exactly an offensive action, but meant to raise the spirits of those who are watching, so what else should a dance do other than that? Towards the previous point, the nimble and flexible dancer technique is what allows a dancer to engage in a 1v1 fight without too much risk, even if they should not be geared as well as the enemy, to which you can further include level disparity to weaken its effect.

Or maybe you have any further concerns other than a healer that's also a dps? Maybe you forgot that White Mage, Astrologian, and Scholar all exist.