We have enough melee dps

[Balmung_Griffin]

Carighan is on point, FFXIV combat system is extremely basic.
There's little to no interaction between players and bosses: you just do damage while bosses remain unfazed and do their assigned rotation.

A simple example:
Imagine a situation where a party is fighting a Garula.
This Garula will attempt to wild charge the group, however there's a tank action that if used successfully would topple it and create an opening for massive damage as the downed state opens up new and stronger attacks for all players.

Suddenly, tanks no longer need to have high DPS because their role allow them to create openings for increased damage, the game is no longer shackled into time awareness but you'll react to certain situations and move away from rigid rotations.

An enemy target a DRG for physical damage, perfect dodge Jump would make new powerful attacks available for a short period, so what that you have a brief invincibility? You're not doing damage if you don't use it correctly or maybe an enemy won't target you at all.

Of course this will never happen, but yeah, FFXIV is formulaic to a fault and no amount of skills and abilities will change its feel if all they do is become more flashy.

[Keichi]

One kind of Meele dps (or a new tank) that whe are missing is a mace/hammer user.
They should include that weapon typ to^^

[Carighan]

One kind of Meele dps (or a new tank) that whe are missing is a mace/hammer user.
They should include that weapon typ to^^

What would a new weapon do when the skills you get and importantly the underlying combat flow is going to be - once again - the exact same as everybody else's?

At that point, just add the mace/hammer as a skin for an existing class like for Warrior who already has two of those. Because that's about all the depth SQEX offers with new classes at this point, thin veneers over existing game mechanics with exactly 0 reason for a new class to be added for it. It's so lame, it's not even worth the database rows to index weapons for them on vendors, IMO.

[Reginald_Cain]

Tbh for tanks i would mind a proper dual mace or war hammer job but I'd prefer something with chains and hooks. Use them for vaulting freely like en evant, snare enemies, and elemental infusion for not only enhanced attacks like mystic knight but also whirling around the chain spreads elemental shields and buffs to allies