Oh now I see my confusion, there was a 'subrole' of heroes called 'Healer', but the actual role was called 'Support'. but everyone and their mother referred to them as 'the healers' because the heroes that were supports, were also healers, the two 'categories' were identical in terms of who was in them. Shoutout to the OW fandom for just refusing to use the official terms



Well, they took the last one away from us when SCH lost Virus, but I'd say we're 3/4 on 'doing support stuff in raids' here in FF14 land (AST actually had all four in HW, including a way to disable enemies literally called Disable), so can we stop trying to argue that 'because the role is called healer, it must be pigeonholed into having more healing tools than it needs', the two terms are basically interchangeable. The only thing that would be an issue if they renamed our healers to 'Support' is that we'd have to come up with a new term to mean 'tanks and healers' for callouts, ie if 'tanks and healers have a debuff to resolve' we say 'supports'

edit: wait scratch that, we actually do have all four still, because Repose still exists. It never gets used on bosses, but it exists

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This was the original plan I think in 1.0, since DRG and MNK could crossclass weird things like Savage Blade (the second step of the PLD aggro combo) and SkullSunder (same but WAR). A random uncombo'd Aggro generator skill seems very out of place, but I think the idea was that if the tank died, the melee would be able to pick the boss up and pseudo-tank it for a couple of GCDs to restabilize the tank HP. That got thrown out because A: it's kinda silly, B: there's no way you'd predict that the tank would die in the first place, so using it proactively to make sure you're 3rd on aggro wasn't really a good idea (it's a big damage loss), and C: boss autos clonk a DPS way too hard to survive. Maybe they were lower back then, or could survive easier because Keen Flurry existed, but it seems like just a relic of a bygone age of design, before Jobs became a thing