What if Support Role was Added to FFXIV?

[PredatoryCatgirl]

City of Heroes did this. Technically it didn't even have healers. The four roles were tank, DPS, support (not healer) and mezzer. And most classes could fill more than one role.

It was wildly unbalanced in a way that wouldn't fly in the post WoW era, even though it was a ton of fun to play. It was also designed from inception to be like this, rather than adding it in later.

[Raoabolic]

Weird, I always assumed the green dps had a support skill or two.

[Deveryn]

Adding another role would require overhauling how instances and parties work. We can't even get full hat compatibility on all of our races.

It's by design. Get over it and move on.

[TheMightyMollusk]

It's by design. Get over it and move on.

Don't wanna, can't make me.

[Ishe-P]

Why offer support when doing more damage will do the trick?

[ForteNightshade]

Putting aside the likely impossibility of them overhauling the entire gameplay system to support another role. A pure support role in general just wouldn't work in this game.

Balancing it would be damn near impossible because you either have enough support to supplant a dedicated DPS, in which case you always want that job/role. Or the support isn't enough to supersede raw damage, in which case nobody would even think of bringing one. At best, they'd have to force its inclusion via the 5%. That doesn't exactly make for a worthwhile investment.

[Raven2014]

What exactly you want a support role to do?

- The only support DPS will care about is buffing their damage, of which the game already have plenty. Even PF has enough DPS to skip like 1/4 or 1/5 on several fights.
- Supporting tank and healer? I mean ... why would you? Their kit is so powerful already that their focus is not even on tanking or healing, but DPSing. "Please don't make your healer heal even less" is a meme.

[Derio]

Its called "physical ranged dps" thats the support class. Technically all jobs are considered support because they can support the party in buff of party members or debuff of enemies in at least 1 way.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Honestly just give more unique buffs/debuffs for both healers, ranged and casters and design boss encounters were stuff like that is actually useful like a MMMMHMPH and rpg should?

[Gemina]

Would it make sense to add a fourth role to the Trinity of Tank, Healer and DPS to help create a better balance between all the job classes?

What's a support role going to be tasked with in FFXIV?

This question doesn't even begin to compute for me.