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

[Carighan]

That depends on encounter length (ignoring special scenarios like the boss becoming untargettable at the wrong time). E.g. in a 9:30min encounter you would have zero flexibility: you would have to use the pot at pull and on CD to not lose buff uptime.

True, although it'll be a massive improvement to now if encounter length pot optimization is the only issue remaining.

[Mukuku]

True, although it'll be a massive improvement to now if encounter length pot optimization is the only issue remaining.

Which to be fair could be fixed if they somehow make the DPS gain unaffected by buffs, but at that point why even have DPS as reward? Even the design space for the job and encounters becomes limited if you have to ensure nothing interacts with the counters' dps portion in a way that leads to degenerate gameplay.

What could be rewarded for a proper counter instead of DPS and which pros/cons would that have compared to rewarding DPS? Why would rewarding e.g. a heal not be better?

[Carighan]

What could be rewarded for a proper counter instead of DPS and which pros/cons would that have compared to rewarding DPS? Why would rewarding e.g. a heal not be better?

Maybe for a Pally in particular getting a free heal would be better, yes. In particular if it has to be used on someone else, never yourself. Very fitting and all that. Or maybe even automatic, if you block it'll heal someone for X% of Clemency, but unless you are absolutely the only person with any health missing, it'll never target yourself.