Quote Originally Posted by Mikey_R View Post
PLD and GNB being similar? No. PLD's burst is the same for the most part, but the last 2-3 hits are dependant on where you are in your combo.
Seems like stretching here. My hotbars for the two are setup the same and there is barely a difference aside from GNB being more oGCD centric due to Continuation, and the Atonement combo on PLD.

What is unique for PLD is that much of its core rotation can be done at range, it can heal people indefinitely with Clemency and it's always had a lot of utility like Cover.

What I will give you is that tanks have always been pretty homogenized since the start, so I think people are just thinking of the little nuances like WAR having a cone AoE, DRK having to "unlock" certain abilities with Dark Dance and having to "empower" certain abilities to give them different effects and having "keep up" meters with MP mattering, more unique animations (many of the role actions used to be unique to DRK or PLD) and separate combos that had a purpose (applying magic damage downs, physical damage downs, or damage vulnerabilities) as opposed to everyone just having Reprisal.

Same with healers really. They were always homogenized with a Cure, Cure II, Area regen, Area heal, Esuna, Rez. So they're just referring to whatever unique things they had like number of attacks, how AST cards worked, SCH's pets or Cleric Stance. But also it's just pretty true that SGE mostly cloned SCH with the main nuance being that attack heals replace pet heals and regens.
Gap closers not available to melee jobs? All melee DPS have always had access to a gap closer. The only discrepancy was with tanks
Exactly. Tanks are melee jobs. And they started adding them to ranged jobs over time, with WHM being one of the latest to get one.