Anyone ever got turn off to play certain class just because their aesthetic?

[ChloeGrace]

I dislike most of the armor models in this game, in general.
I get that it's coming from artists with a Japanese background, but do they really need to make everything look like a dress? Even tanks?

The healer stuff is getting completely monotonous. Every patch/xpac: Oh look. Another white robe. Marvelous. /s

[Fyrebrand]

Aesthetics, lore, and tone is the reason my main is a White Mage and not a Scholar. I like feeling like a magical, nature-based healer -- not a physician academic who puts leeches on people.

It's also why I keep an alt character for when I want to try melee or tank classes. I just can't see my main character doing these things.

I actually didn't play BRD for a while because I didn't like the "aesthetic" of it; it was too fruity for me, and I prefer my ranged classes to be woodsy archers.

I like both -- I just wish Bard and Archer were actually separate jobs, not smooshed together into one thing. I really don't get why FFXIV did this. Bard and Archer have always been separate jobs in Final Fantasy, and very different from each other.

[Greedalox]

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Because with the standard 4 man this game never really had room for dedicated support, their utility would have to be so powerful to make it so that the remaining 3 people in the party could make up for a pure support just supporting- but at the same time we also have 8 man groups, and could you imagine how immensely effective they'd be by effecting 7 people instead of 3?

XI had 6 man groups that had up to 4 dps or 3+ BRD and their group sizes never went up. Yes they had alliances but bards didn't influence groups they were out of so that's moot. So simply put, they mashed Bard and Archer together as a means of adding a utility heavy class into the game without having the difficulty of balancing playing with 1 dps or 3 in your party, depending on 4 or 8 man content.

[Fyrebrand]

Because with the standard 4 man this game never really had room for dedicated support, their utility would have to be so powerful to make it so that the remaining 3 people in the party could make up for a pure support just supporting- but at the same time we also have 8 man groups, and could you imagine how immensely effective they'd be by effecting 7 people instead of 3?

Ah, that is an excellent point. Still, I think there could be ways around it -- there could be "chants" that are dedicated to only a single ally at a time, or group-wide buffs that divide their potency according to how many allies are affected. Heck, Bard could have easily just been a unique style of healer. Maybe have some songs that debuff enemies to mitigate damage.

Soloing could get a little weird, as pure damage attacks for a Bard seem dubious. In the old FF games you'd literally shoot musical notes at monsters, and pretend like that was an "attack." Meh, stranger things have happened. In Guild Wars 2, you can have a horn as an off-hand weapon, and summon a flock of birds to peck at your enemies. Or you could do some Skyrim shouts, knocking enemies back or breathing fire at them.

Regardless, I get what you're saying. Making a "true" Bard would come with a lot of hurdles, and it would be a disaster if the balance just wasn't there. The connection with Archers still doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but what's done is done.

[Gumbercules]

its a bard-cher! A caster bard-cher! with flava for days!

[gumas]

As for the colorful arrow, i kinda like it though, at least its better to look at than.. Normal arrow color which is bland and probably cant see well lol

[gumas]

i got put off by summoner because of that too, i know SE probably think people running around with primal summon (full size) will look awkward

so at the very least i though the summon is going to be something like "powerful but long cast time and long cooldown" spell so we can summon full primal like titan or garuda but as glorious attack spell or such

not expecting a pokemon trainer class though lol

[Valenth]

There is one job I don't like to play because of aesthetics, and that is WAR. I don't like how they hold and run with their axe (except the idle pose on Roe males, that looks great) and I especially don't like how Storm's Path (or eye, either of those two) looks as it's essentially a mix of previous skills' and auto-attack animations. That was a big let-down when I got it...

[Obsidia]

I was intrigued by Dark Knight when it first came out but I hate the combat stance with the Great Sword. It just looks so awkward and stupid haha. I mained Monk in FFXI and thought of doing it again, but when I was playing during launch I found their job armor to be laughably atrocious so I never fully leveled it up. Also avoided Paladin because I don't like the sword/shield combo. Blah, overdone, no thanks. I'm tired of being another knight in a fantasy game. Been main with SMN forever, but if they announce Samurai I'll drop it faster than you can say Bio. Just sayin'...Katana, gimme! T_T

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

The goofy poofy potato sack robes that dominate the bulk of the leveling process for casters made leveling my first character (started as arcanist) somewhat painful due to aesthetics. A breath of fresh air arrived when I hit 50 and could use glamours. The game became more fun for me once I could customize and enjoy how my character looked. I honestly can't understand why the quest to unlock glamours isnt accessible till so very late in the game.