What's the point of ranks?

[gifthorse]

basicly I like to Role play in a role playing game. And ffxiv can have that wicked easily. I can role play as a fisherman/fish monger If i wanted to. I can role play a monk with powers over fire if I wanted to. I can role play a camp cook and give to to all the mages a fighters.
I was a bit shocked that se added alot of role play but no role play server.

Yes well if you can find joy in even the crappiest situations, and you find joy in FFXIV, then that just tells me FFXIV might be a crappy situation.

Tanaka must be spinning in his grave seeing the aggro indicator and ! marks above NPC's heads. The latter two of which seem quite contrary to what a role-player would want, btw.