Quote Originally Posted by LtPlebberoni View Post
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Another idea: Tanks have a toggle ability for enmity generation. This toggle used to be a damage/defense trade-off system based on whether they were trying to pull as MT or just deal damage as OT. What if Support DPS jobs had a similar toggle which cuts their personal damage output but strengthens their otherwise-negligible party buffs? Deactivation of this skill would cancel any active buffs. Such a system would allow Support DPS to shine in parties without blowing the overall damage out of the water, and their default OFF option would be to hold their own in solo content.

Obviously balance is a major concern. Lots of adjustments to potencies, proc rates, and accumulation of the Soul Voice Gauge would need to be made to account for the utility and activity added by changes like these. The majority of complaints I see about ShB BRD are NOT necessarily concerned with keeping high skill potencies, but the fact that the job is just boring, unsatisfying, and not exactly worth playing now with its low overall contributions. That, and we have almost zero control over *how* we support our party.
Well hopefully you feel better now..... or you just wasted a bunch of time ranting