Quetzalcoatl.Valli said:
» Entire events hinge on the whm being skilled/efficient/knowledgable.
I don't know how you accomplish this, but there needs to be some incentive for the extra burden you bare as a non-DD.
Maybe they could just start with the incentive being some slight changes to the UI and stop using the chat log for freaking everything.
Put battle target TP moves additionally somewhere else instead of just the chat log. I don't play FF14, but something like that. Make playing support/stunner a little more eye appealing than just staring for freaking lines and hitting keys. Right now, it is all about reaction time and less about the appropriate reaction quickly.
Even though most melee should be carrying around remedies, something as small as party/alliance/mob status effect icons would help. It would also let you know when you have a healer/buffer/stunner that didn't bring echos.
This might sound like baby mode for some people, but isn't playing a melee for most of this content already baby mode enough?