New Role?

[AnimaAnimus]

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No, if they added true support they would have to make pts 5 man minimum because of how true support roles work, but again the way battle works in this game true support would not fit as about 95% of the things a support job can do, simply doesn't exist in this game. Dnc is as close as we can get tbh without a complete rework of every fight in this game. And since they refuse to touch old content to bring them up to continue to meet the challenge as our lvls and ilvls raise, there is no way they are going to redo them to fit a new system.

I think a lot of this argument stems from the fact that many people wanting a full support role, have never played a game with actual pure support role since they went extinct about a decade ago. I true support and cc job rarely engages the enemies. They buff, debuff, sleep, dot, etc. but really don't pick up a sword and charge into battle.

So lets look at bard in ffxi, a full support class in a standard lvling pt.
First you would be sure your party has whatever buffs they needed and were ready
Then you would pull a mob and bring them to your party.
Then you would slow it, dot it and apply any other appropriate debuffs (str down, acc down, def down etc)
Then you would make sure your pt buffs where still active, haste, refresh, str up, dex up, acc up, macc up, etc
then you would pull another mob and sleep it so the pt can grab it when they are ready.

In a boss a lot was the same, sometimes even the pulling part, your job was to keep buffs and debuffs going and control any adds or links, maybe throwing a dot or 2 on the boss.

Now you see there is no real fighting going on, its all crowd control and support. Also why it wouldn't work here, battle doesn't work even remotely in this way. But in ffxi they were a major boon to any party in nearly any content and could easily replace a full dps job because their role worked so well with the system. And you had enough to do that you were almost always busy even without actually dpsing.