Elephant in the room - action changes from the lore standpoint

[Kailok]

The community does nothing but moan and whine. And zero personality? And you think generic jobs will somehow be better than what we have now, or that this somehow "fixes the game"? I'm getting tired of people like you constantly trying to turn this game into XI-2 (then lying, claiming they aren't), if I want to play XI I'll go play XI.

Considering I quit XI a few years ago and want nothing to do with XI, I'd say I damn well don't want XIV turning into XI-2. But what does that have anything to do with wanting personality in classes in this game? Nothing. And just because they've been used before doesn't mean it's generic if Yoshida's team can find a way to give them their own personality in this game. Which is also a reason why Lore is important.

And yes, I think it will do better. But, I also think anything can do better than the lifeless classes that Tanaka gave us. You honestly think Gladiator isn't generic? Or Pugilist? Really? All they did was take those classic classes/jobs and stick a different name on them hoping people would go: "OMG, DIFFERENT NAME. SO ORIGINAL *O*" No. They were shitty lifeless versions of jobs from earlier on in the series. The only difference is the original team got stuck because they wanted you to pull abilities and traits from everything else so they ended up building classes around other classes around OTHER classes. Why do you think Marauder ended up being another tank? Because they wanted Gladiator to have to level it up and work around it. I don't know about you, but I don't remember Pirates being the type to keep the attention of monsters and protect others. If I remember correctly, Pirates are supposed to be cut-throats who are in it for themselves. They aren't "protectors".

If THM and CON and MRD and everything else actually FELT like what they were supposed to be, and built for their own class instead of moving around other ones, nobody would be complaining. Sure, the names were weird at first, but I got used to it quickly enough. The problem I have is that my Marauder, that's supposed to be a pirate with all it's "pirate-lore", acts/looks NOTHING like a pirate. I also hate that my Gladiator had to level 4-5 different classes, and if I didn't I was considered "less than optimal".

I don't know about you, but I'd prefer my class excel at doing it's own damn job and THEN pulling abilities from other classes in order to mix my play experience around a bit. But no, Tanaka built the game so that you needed to level 4 other classes in order to do your own job, and if you didn't, people wouldn't bother with you. All that does is battle AGAINST Class Identity and you know it.