Actually not so much like gw2 ^^
In gw2 they removed the holy trinity and forced every single player more or less into the damage role, yes you could equip some supportish type of abilities but those where mostly extremely weak (stuff like get knockback immunity for 4 seconds every minute etc).
You could not create a pure healer character, it was a dd with some minor healing abilities that could never outheal against focus fire.
Eso on the other hand will have the holy trinity if you want to play a pure healer you can do it, if you want to be a pure tank you can (and if it works correctly you can do so with all classes) etc
but it also allows (presumably) to create any hybrid inbetween, want to be a Stealth Healer? pick Nightblade and resto staff...