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<blockquote data-quote="GSHamster" data-source="post: 5731701" data-attributes="member: 20187">The idea is that there are different &quot;roles&quot; that people naturally take in a combat game. Some people go for heavy defensive stuff, some people go for weaker defense but higher damage. Some people don't attack the monsters directly but make other people better. Some people inhibit the monsters mobility, but don't actually deal damage to kill them.The argument is that these &quot;roles&quot; always existed, but in the past were very implicit. If you made a fighter with sword and shield, you tended to fight more defensively, to put yourself between the monster and the wizard. If you dual-wielded instead, you tried to do lots of damage.4E made the roles explicit, and assigned classes to each role.&nbsp; That way you could talk about multiple classes being the healer, rather than specifying druid/cleric/warlord.Then, because relatively few people want to play a pure support character, they named the &quot;support&quot; role &quot;leader&quot; to attract people to that role.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GSHamster, post: 5731701, member: 20187"] The idea is that there are different "roles" that people naturally take in a combat game. Some people go for heavy defensive stuff, some people go for weaker defense but higher damage. Some people don't attack the monsters directly but make other people better. Some people inhibit the monsters mobility, but don't actually deal damage to kill them. The argument is that these "roles" always existed, but in the past were very implicit. If you made a fighter with sword and shield, you tended to fight more defensively, to put yourself between the monster and the wizard. If you dual-wielded instead, you tried to do lots of damage. 4E made the roles explicit, and assigned classes to each role. That way you could talk about multiple classes being the healer, rather than specifying druid/cleric/warlord. Then, because relatively few people want to play a pure support character, they named the "support" role "leader" to attract people to that role. [/QUOTE]

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