Dancer Job

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I really like the concept of dancer as tank too. There's a song by Sting (the night the pugilist learned to dance) that just paints such a great story for it.

Coincidentally, if you want to make dancer a healer, I would recommend making it a TP-based dps leech healer. The basic mechanic is that the player gains a stack of a certain buff every time they total a certain amount of damage. Players then gain a skill that lets them spend those stacks as a heal. So essentially, this boils it down to the more damage you deal, the better your heals will be. This will of course make the class a very bursty heal (in more ways than one) by design.

Unfortunately, there's some major balancing issues with this idea. First, the monk combo is already difficult to use because of the combo chain and positioning. If you have to add the fact the same player has to watch the party's hp bar and the enemy's status bar to maximize heals, it can be quite overwhelming. It is also difficult to say how the healing and dps will be balanced after testing, as I'm certain the possibility of a tanky dps healer will most certainly be considered with the above mechanic. It'll be a challenge to make it viable but not overpowered.