Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[ZephyrMenodora]

Here is a hot take. The convenience of being able to change to any job on your character at any time has made it impossible for your character to have any real identity. You are forever just the generic WoL.

Completely disagree as a roleplayer. Being able to change jobs has made my character quite Unique. Note that I do not actually have my WoL learn every job in the game for RP purposes - as I can separate that out and it would be quite the Mary-Sue (more than they already are) if they were adept at literally everything.

He began as a White Mage for reasons I came up with for his backstory. Due to something important that happens in Shadowbringers, he found himself taking up the Axe as a Warrior. By Endwalker, due to how much he's been through he took a liking to being a Reaper.

In other MMOs I cannot have my character grow or express other talents without rerolling- in which case they then have forgotten their entire prior history since I had to reroll to change classes.

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Even narratively having all classes makes sense. The WoL is written to be an "Adventurer" who befriends and interacts with people and cultures all over the world. That he or she is willing to maybe learn from these diverse peoples and adopt parts of their styles here and there IS the character.