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

[Carighan]

In general I don't like the "you should bring 1 of each" design philosophy, because it effectively means telling the player "bring the job needed, not necessarily the job you might prefer to play".

While there is always going to be some structure vs. flexibility, IMHO the devs' design should focus on "bring the job you prefer to play, we will make sure it will do great". A 2T/2H/4D comp would have structure but more flexibility than a 1MT-1OT/1PH-1BH/2MD-1CD-1RD comp.

That's a fair take, and I apologize. Universally applied that's a solid idea. I kinda like that conceptually too, I will however say that from... ouff, by now nearly 30 years of playing MMORPGs ( :scream: ), I more think it won't work, at least not... not truly.

I mean hell, even GW2 kinda has roles, and that's a game that intentionally wanted to remove them all. But imbalances always exist, and it feels silly to pretend that "proper" balance can actually exist. If it could, someone would have managed by now. But nobody ever did. And while providing sub-roles isn't how I'd work with imbalance (I prefer unique class up- and downsides but people hate those even more usually as they mean singular specific classes are best for any individual encounter, and worst for other specific ones, too, but I like it as it allows great asymmetry between classes), I can accept it as one way of working with it. In a game like FFXIV at least, where swapping to another class within the same base role (not sub role) is so trivial, and the choices are vast and levelling is so frictionless and gear is even shared between various classes.

But yeah, fair opinion. Mine differs, but it makes sense that if you universally don't like sub-roles for that reason, then of course an MT/OT split is also not something you'd like. And from the perspective, I fully agree!