People wanting a support class. Why?

[Barraind]

Support class would be cruise control for end game. No need to vie for a raid spot among other dps only to be nerfed one patch or another. With a pure support class groups will need you regardless.

Maybe.

Pure supports work in games theyre designed to work in, with raid sizes designed around having support classes.

You'd have to provide MASSIVE buffs/debuffs to get a spot, because they sure as hell wont let you run 1 tank or 1 healer, which means you'd always be competing for that DPS spot.

Right now, its about a ~23% damage increase for the entire fight before a support becomes more valuable than any dps'er. If you had healer level damage, its still a total increase of 13% you'd have to provide, meaning you'd have to provide more than 5 times the damage from your support abilities a dancer does in order to provide dancer level rdps.

In groups, that baloons significantly beyond what a support could possibly provide.


For comparison, supports in games where raid groups can be 5 dps + healer, a support class filling one of the dps spots needs to provide 8-10% to pull even with rdps (and do significantly more than that, which is why you basically stack dps groups with bards when you can recruit bards, because bards are fantastic in basically every mmo except 14).