MAGE STRIKE

[Shai]

I'm sure they will. There's still the Job system to think about.


I have no idea why you think I'm saying that. I'm saying that this is a videogame where you can choose your identity. Race and Sex are things you are born with.
If you're going to compare race and sex in real life to the game, do it with the actual races and sexes of the game. Aspects you can't change once the character is made.
I still think job discrimination is a better comparison:

"I can work whatever job I want (which is currently pre mid-1970s janitor) but no one wants me to do under the table repairs.
It's about janitors, who is now "Clean Bitch" and can never be anything else."

Ok - I'm sorry. I didn't mean you are literally saying that.
But just because I choose to be CON doesn't mean I should be called names or told I've been put in my place. It's similar (in nature) to saying "You don't feel you're treated fair as a black man in USA? Move to Africa." Similar, certainly not the same and I didn't mean you yourself were literally saying it.

CON was born with Fire and Flare and Burn and Rasp.
It came to 1.18 and was told "We know you can do lots of things, but too fucking bad."
Similar to black slaves - maybe they were powerful and popular in their native land, too bad.
See? I know there's a distinct and vastly less important difference. I'm just drawing analogies.

The reason I'm even doing it at all is because people think it's fine and fair to say "CON should stay in the back, resting for MP and not playing or helping in anyway - like it was designed to!" They say it as if its not offensive or ignorant or intolerant of others feelings or play-styles in any way. First of all, it was in fact designed to be whatever I wanted it to be - be that nuker, tank, support, or strict healer. Now, it's been forced into slave labor because no one will want a CON in the party for anything other than what it's EXTREMELY good at (and that they have no alternative because they can't count on THM for heals or raises in a pinch).

So I hope this clears it up for you. I totally realize they aren't the same thing. I'm only taking what people have said about the CON change and drawing parallels to real life and what clearly everyone can agree on is ignorant and offensive to illustrate just how rude people are being to those of us who don't like CON the way it is now and don't have any other job like the one we were playing 2 days ago (that we liked) to fall back on.

I'm sorry it's so difficult to express to people.