Can anyone clearly explain "job homogenization" in this game?

[CNitsah]

Know 1 tank, know all.

Now do the same for ranged, magic and melee. Using the tank role where the problem obvious to tell ninja, samurai, dragoon and Reaper or Red Mage, Picto and SMN play the same is really bad faith. Reading this thread, I came to see some point of view on the general design I can understand even if I don't agree on the importance. But the 1 on 1 sill works only for tanks and maybe some healers.

[Supersnow845]

Now do the same for ranged, magic and melee. Using the tank role where the problem obvious to tell ninja, samurai, dragoon and Reaper or Red Mage, Picto and SMN play the same is really bad faith. Reading this thread, I came to see some point of view on the general design I can understand even if I don't agree on the importance. But the 1 on 1 sill works only for tanks and maybe some healers.

You can map the healers like this and you can also map VPR and RPR like this (the only difference is VPR has its whack condensed combos)

So you have 10 out of 21 jobs that can functionally be mapped 1 to 1 to at least one other job then of the remaining 11 you have 11 flavours of builder spender that all have no utility and very likely have a disconnected 2 minute raid buff with at least one nuke inside that burst and functionally identical AOE mitigation profiles to others within their role with minimal differences

[Carighan]

Now do the same for ranged, magic and melee. Using the tank role where the problem obvious to tell ninja, samurai, dragoon and Reaper or Red Mage, Picto and SMN play the same is really bad faith. Reading this thread, I came to see some point of view on the general design I can understand even if I don't agree on the importance. But the 1 on 1 sill works only for tanks and maybe some healers.

Viper and Reaper are really easy, as they have so many similarities. They both have a CD-based combo breaker that enables two more moves, one side and one rear positional. They both have a resource based mode switch that swaps out abilities. They both have finishers for these modes. They both have a 120s CD that interacts with these modes and re-enables them.

They have more similarities, but these are the big structural ones. Viper was very clearly derived from the very successful Reaper-skeleton. This is why you can have *extremely* similar hotbar setups for both.

[Commander_Justitia]

Now do the same for ranged, magic and melee. Using the tank role where the problem obvious to tell ninja, samurai, dragoon and Reaper or Red Mage, Picto and SMN play the same is really bad faith. Reading this thread, I came to see some point of view on the general design I can understand even if I don't agree on the importance. But the 1 on 1 sill works only for tanks and maybe some healers.

Sadly not everyone can play damage dealer. Some poor souls have to play tank and healer and have fun with that. Healer feeling useless, because often their "healing" is not required. And tanks feeling bored because 90% of the content they cannot die easily even when stacking 8 vulnerability stacks.