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

[Carighan]

My skepticism stems from having seen similar design decision being tried again and again and leading to similar issues again and again. I know I sound like the Endsinger... I am that burned by past experiences. You can picture me in shades of grey.

Oh? Do tell.

Because I only readily see the Healer Split, and that caused no problems for them (healers have lots of problems, but they're not a result of the split, even the loss of Astro stances was because Sage was added directly, not indirectly from the split, it was just back to an even number of healers).

Which other roles were split into subroles where that caused a problem?

I mean obviously this split could be problematic. And the names are kinda meh as from what they said they don't really intend them to be MTs or OTs in the classical sense - compare DAoC with Hibernia's Hero vs Blademaster for an actual example. But then again, if you think it through, if you have 4 tanks as homogenized as the current ones are (so effectively 1 tank), and you split it into two sub-roles, now you have 2 tanks. In the ideal case, we'd split into 4 sub-roles (or 5 with EC), meaning every tank is unique. So in a lot of ways, splitting in two specializations is an improvement, albeit only a small one because we need 5 total soon, not 2. But definitely not the 1 we have right now.