Falcon's Nest - Mysterious & Rare Disciple Icon (Request from Fernehalwes @ Fanfest)

[Evane]

The guild was supposed to be the shepards' guild. Something from the Tanaka era. Here is a list of classes that were supposed to be in the game before it tanked.

[Morningstar1337]

The guild was supposed to be the shepards' guild. Something from the Tanaka era. Here is a list of classes that were supposed to be in the game before it tanked.

There are also Mystic, Flayer, Samurai, Fencer and Enfocer classes. Maybe the expansion will see the return of some of them (ARR did bring back Arcanist)

[Leonesaurus]

The guild was supposed to be the shepards' guild. Something from the Tanaka era. Here is a list of classes that were supposed to be in the game before it tanked.

Yep! This is the same chart that we referred to back then when we were considering what class it might have been. We always thought it was Shepherd or a possible Beastmaster considering the empty animal pen out back with feed in the trough.

[Galuizu]

Start the Fernehalwes summoning ritual! Where is my sacrificial Lalafell?

[MistxAshefall]

Start the Fernehalwes summoning ritual! Where is my sacrificial Lalafell?

1 sec Ill go get one!

Also nice post dude!

[TinyRedLeaf]

Here is a list of classes that were supposed to be in the game before it tanked.

Seeing that list reminds me of my earliest impressions of FFXIV 1.0 being a more open-ended, sandbox type of game than what we have today in FFXIV: ARR.

At the time, I felt that Eorzea was a "pristine" frontier inviting hardy pioneers to brave its dangers and tap its resources.

FFXIV 1.0 seemed to have "exploration" as a key theme, in that players were encouraged to try a variety of ways to build a "life" of their own in a persistent game world. Disciples of War or Magic would cut the path into the wilderness, allowing Disciples of the Land to harvest materials from the land, which would then be used by Disciples of the Hand to create items for the community.

(In other words, kind of how WildStar turned out.)

The precursor of the Scions, the Path of the Twelve, had the same theme of "exploration", though in this case, it was more about personal, spiritual exploration, as each Pathwalker strove to find out where the Echo would lead him or her. I remember that I used to think of the Path as the Eorzean equivalent of Freemasons.

FFXIV: ARR no longer has that open-world feel, because its central plot is so much more clearly defined than FFXIV 1.0's. It's one of the few things I do miss about the original iteration of the game.