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    Alexandre_Noireau's Avatar
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    Dec 2018
    Location
    Ul'dah.
    Posts
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    Character
    Fredya Falenas
    World
    Hyperion
    Main Class
    Gladiator Lv 81
    Impossible.
    This game is too stuck with the trinity to think outside the box.
    Support Role is viable in games with deep character customization, interesting combat mechanics and worthwhile class synergies. Things that this game sorely lacks.

    A support role could be introduced as a 5th and 9th-10th party members or to have a DPS slot replaced by an hybrid Support/DPS slot.
    Then you would have to give some meaning back to 3 things: Status Effects and Resistances, Elemental Defenses, Weaknesses and Damage, Damage Types, and many more Stats manipulation. Which would requiere heavy customization of many of the battles.

    Sorry but our game has been streamlined and stripped of any significant mechanical depth so a proper support (buffer-debuffer) could work. At best it would boringly translate in already done and boring stuff, like merely increasing damage. Instead of totally altering the type, element of damages, or adding side-effects, etc.
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    "The will of my friends has etched into my heart, and now ill transform this infinite darkness into eternal light
    Unmatched in heaven and earth, one body and one soul that challenge the gods!"

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    Jkap_Goat's Avatar
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    Feb 2016
    Location
    Ul dah
    Posts
    720
    Character
    Jkap Goat
    World
    Gilgamesh
    Main Class
    Weaver Lv 80
    ^^^^ agreed
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