Revelations from the Announcement Showcase

[EdwinLi]

This was in response to someone saying that the WoL being a Paladin was essentially "full circle" since he started as a Gladiator. I don't think box art with a partial view of a blade and armor is enough to really consider this to be the case. He was never a Gladiator in game. We also have box art of Black Mage. You can see what the path of jobs that the WoL has taken in the Shadowbringers trailer. Archer > Warrior > Dragoon > Monk > Dark Knight.

I'm just saying I don't think the WoL being a Paladin in the trailer has anything to do with being a Gladiator in 1.0.

The 1.0 CGI Trailer did show WoL is a Gladiator in the start of his journey at the end. When WoL grabbed his bags and left with his 2 companions, we can see his Gladiator sword used in the box art which suggest WoL switched from Gladiator class to Archer class sometime after that scene. A little detail I think a lot of people missed due to how the Archer class became the iconic class for WoL image in 1.0 due to the combat sequence.



However, considering it was a Echo vision event, WoL most likely was only a Archer class during that scene due to how the person he is seeing the Echo vision from was a Archer him or herself.

The Archer job was probably chosen due to how the 1.0 CGI trailer made WoL being a Archer in the beginning iconic since that was his chosen combat style during the combat sequence of 1.0 CGI trailer.