Role quest should lean into the roles

[aiqa]

I just finished the healer role quest, and I don't like the concept much. It's just a slightly more involved side quest with a specific level requirement, that would work just as well while playing as a tank or dps. There are 3 things in the whole quest line where you notice you play a healer.
- the dialogue mentioning you being a healer a few times
- two completely arbitrary NPC's you need to heal, that might as well not be there
- the final boss encounter being tuned so you need to heal the NPC's a bit

Since we're not getting more job quests, I think role quests lines should lean how a role works in Eorzea outside of running dungeons. Like healers quests focus on healing people, tank quests on protecting people and towns, dps quests focus on taking out threats.

[FionaSilberpfeil]

Yeah, tanking role quest was the same. Beside the one time i had to provoke the last boss, i fought exactly TWO mobs. Which died in 5 seconds. I dont see why they were named "role quests". You beeing a tank or a healer is just a footnote in 99% of these quests. Mechanically speaking, you could do it with every class.

[DrWho2010]

Remember these are supposed to be clearable by even brain dead people so *shrug*

[MistakeNot]

Nothing new about this for the role quests - most of the class/job quests for tanks and healers don't reflect their roles either. In the majority of the quests your job is to kill enemies, rather than keeping aggro or healing someone.

[miragedive]

I felt the Shadowbringers role quests brought more to the table than the Endwalker ones. Running the ShB tank quests as a DRK was even cooler as an experience because you got to have that dichotomy between two kinds of Dark Knights. The healer ones were also great, highlighting how even a healer can cause harm purely by healing. The list goes on, and personally I felt much more fulfilled finishing the ShB ones than the Endwalker ones. Not because their individual stories are bad, but because when I asked myself “why didn’t I do this on another role?” There wasn’t a clear answer like there was for ShB.