What do you feel is your job identity in flavour and gameplay?

[Iscah]

Summoner as "dreadwyrm mage" with the focus around Bahamut, building trances and eventually summoning it felt good lore-wise to me. Maybe it's not what people expect "a summoner" to be, but it works as its own concept, and (combined with the job story's tendency to sit close to the MSQ) seems appropriate to be the class for my main character. A powerful mage with a special link to dragons, an important force in the overall story - it particularly made the climax of Heavensward and Dragonsong feel very significant.

I don't like how the core focus on Bahamut been pushed aside to make way for Phoenix - I know that has its own significance but it divides the previous focus of the job and what made it main-character-ideal to me, while creating a big new aspect with no direct story explanation. It's been over two expansions since we saw Phoenix; why are we suddenly summoning it now?

[purgatori]

Summoner as "dreadwyrm mage" with the focus around Bahamut, building trances and eventually summoning it felt good lore-wise to me. Maybe it's not what people expect "a summoner" to be, but it works as it's own concept, and (combined with the job story's tendency to sit close to the MSQ) seems appropriate to be the class for my main character. A powerful mage with a special link to dragons, an important force in the overall story - it particularly made the climax of Heavensward and Dragonsong feel very significant.

I don't like how the core focus on Bahamut been pushed aside to make way for Phoenix - I know that has its own significance but it divides the previous focus of the job and what made it main-character-ideal to me, while creating a big new aspect with no direct story explanation. It's been over two expansions since we saw Phoenix; why are we suddenly summoning it now?

A fate which has befallen many of the jobs, I fear. All these shiny new ultimate abilities, and not a lick of lore to account for them.