Quote Originally Posted by Dualgunner View Post
In the same vein that you're saying MCH and BRD don't fight for the same role, the tanks don't compete for the same spot either. Just like how Bard is the lock in spot for second DPS (after DRG), you have the WAR tank and the not-WAR tank that PLD/DRK fight over. Same with healers: you have the SCH healer, and the not-SCH healer that the AST and WHM compete for.

MCH and BRD are meant to compete for the same spot. It's just that MCH is woefully unprepared to compete for that spot.
We're pretty much coming at the same point from two different angles. I find the dev quote you posted interesting precisely because it suggests something of a blindness to how the players treat MCH, that is not as a support dps but as a pure dps. If the devs truly mean for it to be competing for a spot they will need to change the job significantly in SHB. Either way though a new support dps was needed. And as I said earlier in this thread it would be nice perhaps if they added another healer to fit maybe a pro-active (shields) & reactive (stronger heals/regen) model.

It will be interesting to see if GNB does shake up the tank model at all.