What if Support Role was Added to FFXIV?

[Gemina]

Sure (though primarily through easily spread undermechanics). Why not? Encounter design, at present, can be unnecessarily restricted and thereby dull.

Simple. It's not the direction the game has gone or is going. If you find encounter design dull, hackneyed, or boring; it is not a feeling that is shared across the entire playerbase. You talk about reinvigorating the game, but what exactly is and needs to be invigorated? Most people seem to want to revert FFXIV back to a state it was in. That's not reinvigorating. That's reviving/reverting. Trust me, I know all about how this issue is felt all over the gaming industry. Not just FFXIV. Many echo your thoughts, and I am not dismissing them. My indifference comes from a mindset that recognizes how impossible it is to make an entire mmo community happy, yet still putting in considerable effort to do so anyway.

So you're arguing that healers specifically also have "extremely powerful... supportive abilities" just because their healing is strong... in a thread that explicitly differentiates "Support" tools apart from mere healing, and as a reply to a conversation that likewise clearly separated "healing" from "Support" functionality?

I can't tell if you're just really not reading the room or are making an purposeful conflation in order to move goalposts here...

I wasn't arguing about how powerful healers are. That would be you. I didn't move any goalposts. I merely elaborated my point since you forced me to defend it. Do you have a problem with that?

I did, at 130+ ms ping and frequent packet loss. Bunny medium, very rarely. Bunny Medium maybe once per few hours of raiding, under lag spikes.

Congratulations.