Please Reconsider Splitting Main and Off-Tank Roles Based on Job

[whiskeybravo]

I'm sorry, but you can even have equivalent hotbar setups on all 4 tank classes.They all use the same basic structure, too. They all share:

Not really. Looking out the airplane window from 5 miles up is not the same view you get on the ground. Yes, you can say WAR/DRK and PLD/GNB are closer in design to each other but in actual play they are still all quite different, particularly at the higher end where the nuances in playstyle are more pronounced. I'm a much better WAR than PLD because I've spent 1000s of hours on WAR and NOT on PLD. Maybe some gifted types could hop around and preform at similar levels, but as far as my experience goes that's pretty rare. A 95% DRK might never be able to be a 95% GNB. Even with "virtually identical hotbars/combo/cd structures". Not without actually putting in the time to figure out it's unique nuances.

This idea that tanks are overly homogenous, just from my perspective, is an overly reductionist idea. And a bad one most of the time because people will just keep "reducing" until it agrees with their argument. It's low-resolution view from 5 miles up. At least, that's what it looks like to me.