theoretically and kind of hard to pull off in practice. I think the solution of these problems in multiplayer action games is pretty easy. The result of such a system are prolonged battles that end extremely quickly on any non-trivial mistake that are both dull and frustrating to the players at the same time and do not play as an action game at all. Furthermore in order to force tanking and healing as primary roles some games make some attacks completely unavoidable which is a huge mistake in an action game. Such balancing is also extremely unforgiving to mistakes and often relies on one or two-hit kills as otherwise there would be absolutely no challenge in the combat system due to the presence of the healer as a primary role. Additionally balancing the game for such a system makes the fights artificially longer than they need to be in order to check the very simple tanks of managing agro or your mana. I think that separating the roles like that is a significant detriment to a game and especially to an action game where one of the main things you do in an action game is learn how to effectively avoid damage while doing damage or completing other objectives.

I hate when multiplayer games are based on the 'Holy Trinity' system of Tank, Damage Dealer and Healer/Support. These are some thoughts I have had for a while and as I started writing some of them in the Subclasses Thread I thought it would be good to expand on them in a separate thread in order to not highjack the existing one.

Dungeon of the endless tf2