Not that I expected anything less, but I'm laugh/crying at the reach attempts here. Healers and tanks don't even have enough classes to separate into "types" of healers/tanks and we've got salty (spoiled) DPS crying because they want new animations to do the same thing they always do. I've been listening to people describe the way Gunbreaker "should" have been on various threads and the majority comes down to: "shoot a bunch, then jump into close combat and melee a bit". Now, correct me if I'm wrong... doesn't that sound kind of familiar?



Huh.

"OMG ARE YOU STUPID? ONE IS PHYSICAL, ONE IS MAGIC!"

No. If all I do is "push buttons to make people's health go up" then all you do is push buttons to make people's health go down. What you want is just new animations and aesthetics - and so do I.

"But I don't like half of the classes in my chosen role, so let me explain why I want more." I don't like SCH. I'm not fond of the playstyle, I prefer big-number heals/regens to shields. So I get to count that out, right? So I only have two classes to pick from (that's how this works, right?)

I mean, I could point out the main difference between "tank/heal/DPS" - the level of responsibility. After all, DPS just get to push a memorized button rotation while (rarely) avoiding mechanics (note: there are those of you who have learned to do both and I love you for it.) Tanks get to do all of that but also backwards and while also watching aggro (for the "aggro is the best parser" dipsticks) and tank swap mechanics. Healers should be maintaining as much of a DPS rotation as they can while also watching the same (or often extra) mechanics and the lives of the DPS who have tunnel vision and decide that Cid's mechanics are just "suggestions." (To be fair, there isn't much ambient damage if the other teams don't miss mechanics like duskblade [they always do] but you'd better hope you don't have more than 1 vuln when you take that crush tether or you're going to lay there until I decide I can spare the MP to rez you.) So I get it. It's super appealing to play roles that focus and require less multitasking. But don't then belittle the people who do want to take on that extra level of responsibility you really don't want and tell them to be happy with "new aesthetics" once every 6+ years.