Aesthetics, lore, and tone is the reason my main is a White Mage and not a Scholar. I like feeling like a magical, nature-based healer -- not a physician academic who puts leeches on people.

It's also why I keep an alt character for when I want to try melee or tank classes. I just can't see my main character doing these things.

Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
I actually didn't play BRD for a while because I didn't like the "aesthetic" of it; it was too fruity for me, and I prefer my ranged classes to be woodsy archers.
I like both -- I just wish Bard and Archer were actually separate jobs, not smooshed together into one thing. I really don't get why FFXIV did this. Bard and Archer have always been separate jobs in Final Fantasy, and very different from each other.