Necromancer Job Suggestion

[Crushnight]

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Regarding your notion that Necromancy is frowned upon in Eorzea and there'd be no safe haven for the WoL you are correct...IF they committed the taboo of raising the dead. Summoning the dead from beyond the grave in a form of a spirit is not the same thing. Though many would make that assumption which is part of the story I'm working on. My NCR Job is more similar to a mixture of Summoner and Dragoon focusing on mainly AoE damage while darting about the field slashing with your scythe. Maybe Corse is what hints to the act of raising the dead that everyone seems so eager to jump on...however if you know a better physical attacker summon who isn't a Skeleton I'd be happy to change that in an instant.

I'd suggest looking up what has been censored in the Chinese version of the game(Skeletons are gone as one example). While it is way behind us in terms of patches it has the same jobs as the JP/NA/EU version has. Necromancer could be a thing for our version but it cannot be a thing for the Chinese version, it flat out won't be approved, SE will not make 2 different looking jobs for 2 seperate versions of the game or they'll run into we want that job complaints(which is just not worth it).

Everything to do with Necromancer is a hard no on us playing it until cultures change how they view things, helping to guide spirits onwards etc would absolutely work as a concept it just wouldn't be called Necromancer and if it isn't called Necromancer is it really a Necromancer? NO.

For FFXIV Necromancer playable job is an impossibility, the idea of what a Necromancer can do is not however so long as you lean on the more helping the dead rather than using the dead side of things.

During the early parts when I started playing I wanted Necromancer as a job because I thought it would be a cool interesting take on a caster but as the years have gone on, I realised how much is actually out there that conveys to us it is not happening. 5.3's dungeon solidified this stance even more.

[Kikoten]

Everything to do with Necromancer is a hard no on us playing it until cultures change how they view things, helping to guide spirits onwards etc would absolutely work as a concept it just wouldn't be called Necromancer and if it isn't called Necromancer is it really a Necromancer? NO.

For FFXIV Necromancer playable job is an impossibility, the idea of what a Necromancer can do is not however so long as you lean on the more helping the dead rather than using the dead side of things.

I think a Necromancer could work with spirits as well. One of the dictionary definitions of necromancy is, "the supposed practice of communicating with the dead, especially in order to predict the future." The Necromancers wouldn't necessarily have to summon dead bodies, and it could still keep its identity as one who deals with the afterlife.

EDIT: Of course, thinking on this, it leads me to consider the possibility of a job called an Animator, who has the power to absorb and produce aether, shaping into the image of defeated foes. The illusion of calling upon the dead, when the beings are truly neither alive nor otherwise.

[GDofLevin]

I think a Necromancer could work with spirits as well. One of the dictionary definitions of necromancy is, "the supposed practice of communicating with the dead, especially in order to predict the future." The Necromancers wouldn't necessarily have to summon dead bodies, and it could still keep its identity as one who deals with the afterlife.

EDIT: Of course, thinking on this, it leads me to consider the possibility of a job called an Animator, who has the power to absorb and produce aether, shaping into the image of defeated foes. The illusion of calling upon the dead, when the beings are truly neither alive nor otherwise.

Actually I believe the Stormblood Dark Knight Job Quest has one of those as the main antagonist. Summoning umbral aetheric manifestations.