Unpopular Opinion: Make all Jobs DPS with a Defender OR Healer stance...

[Kohl]

(Another thing to filed under: Never Going To Happen)

... more or less just what the title says; make every job a DPS that has a "stance" that is either Tank or Heal that when triggered will lower their damage to Tank/Heal level and change their secondary rotation to either a set of defense buffs or heals accordingly.

Healer OR Defender, _NOT_ Healer AND Defender.

Optionally: I could imagine having a mechanic where while playing solo your stance is more generic, like 80/20 in favor of DPS, but in a party you would have the enhancement "Teamwork" and it would be a more drastic shift as you focus more at working as a team. Also, your role Icon would change while in a party to reflect your "stance"... that way it is easier to visually coordinate.

I don't know... just a wild idea. I'll go climb on my pile of firewood now and wait to be flamed.

[weebtext]

Already exists, it's called Blue Mage.

[Bearded]

No thanks - jobs are different for a reason. It’s not like you can’t job switch

[Reinha]

Why?

We can already swap between tank, healer and dps.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

That basically involves creating new jobs for every job. So just... Add new jobs instead.

What people seem to not realize is that it's just as much, if not more work to create and balance specs than it is to just... Make a new job...

[Miracle_Diva]

I don't really see a point of this since every combat job in the game is already a DPS with different icons? Healers being green DPS with the sub goal of keeping everyone alive, blue DPS tanks with the sub goal of holding aggro and mitigating damage and normal DPS?

[_Pigzig]

Impossible to balance
its been tried in other mmos
all hail the trinity

[SamsaraTrickstar]

i be all for tihs. give much more fun to the game

[gotaname1]

I rate this troll thread a 5/7

[nebby00]

Yeah no. That'll make everything more complicated than it needs to be, WoW has that problem with specs for every single job and that's game's balance is absolutely atrocious. It's tough enough balancing the game as it is for the classes that we have, adding specs on top of it would be a nightmare. Besides, the trinity of MMOs have not failed yet. If it isn't broken; there's no need to fix it.