Quote Originally Posted by DrWho2010 View Post
you have to consider dev philosophy here tho. they desire balance. have they ever made any indication that they would want to go in such a direction as yours? no. jobs are made to be cookie cutter so that anyone playing can do the same job as someone else. all it comes down to then is how good/bad the person playing is. end of story. therefore there is no point in "wishing" something like your idea to be made possible.
Its totally fine to wish on something, the cross class system did get overhauled completely by 4.0 into cross role skills, but the idea was still very much once a part of FF14 a long long time ago. I actually feel the same way as other posters in the thread, but i'd be ignorant to say you're wrong(about the obvious direction the game has been headed for a very long time) In short to OP, something something something - and thats why we cant have nice things. Palace of the Dead is about as good as we will ever see this game having content that rigid roles do not matter so much. As was stated above me, they've gone the cookie cutter route for balance. All tanks can tank, just as good so theyre balanced. All DPS can dps, and all healers now are 3.0's vision of Astrologian, heals and shields and more heals and heals.