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Ive always been a fan of support skills like support shot, and ive always played classes like paladins

What do you guys think of doing some changes to taunt and windguard to be supportive?

Like taunt debuffing enemy defense by an amount that matters(berserked status) and/or windguard giving a defense/prot buff to party in the vicinity while its active

adding those to rank 5+ or something

Hmmmmmm. I agree that the game is lacking support options. So far I can only think of support sho and special music scrolls and healing. They aren't even being used generally because of the low reward for such a high amount of effort

I think support is not really a main class since with high combat mastery, you can still have a lot of health with a lot of damage. And supporting really boils down to not getting your team killed or not getting yourself killed. When you're cornered, which do you pick? And you base your skills on one of those options

TLDR, if this skill will help my party but get me killed, I'm going to pick the other skills

One of the issues is that most of the content isn't hard enough to warrant collaboration for endgame players, and thus AP budget is mostly used on skills that help you solo. There would be more incentive and demand for support skills if they were required, but they aren't really at the moment.

The main intent is to honestly give these skills no one uses some use. Right now they just sit there unused because theyre kinda useless. If it was given support options then it will have at least a niche use

Mabi is lacking direction in this aspect. I hope that the support skills have more use in the future