Thread: Summoner 6.0 Rework (my reimagining)

Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

It would of worked if it were just... classified as something inherently broken/excluded/imbalanced/half-as*ed. Okay.

"Broken" and "imbalanced" perfectly describe BLU (as well as the whole concept behind "Limited job").
That's exactly why they're "excluded" from DF's match-making, as well as certain content.

"Half-as*ed" though?
Objectively wrong.
Especially with the latest spells they've introduced.

Originally Posted by P0W3RK1D

True, AST still uses "cards" but the cards have been stripped of what the class identity was about, which is bacially reading fate, and bending it to your benifit, thats why post shadowbringgers had an rng card system that felt like it did something. Now we get Balance, but its every single card, there is no longer any choice, no longer any fate to bend. Not to mention, AST also had TIME MAGIC which SE all but completely did away with, that was part of AST identity, and its been robbed.

And yet, the fact that it still uses cards for "reading and influencing fate" still remains.
Even if the cards themselves have been "stripped" (or rather "optimized", considering 90% of the time people favored the old Balance), its identity as presented in its lore/quest-line is definitely intact.

Originally Posted by P0W3RK1D

And bard...you cannot tell me that that class's "songs" are what identify that class. That class is not a BARD, that is a RANGER that was forced to take piano class in highschool. Even its Traits tell the story perfectly, NONE of them have to do with song, music, or even increasing the songs you have, its all about the next arrow shot, and i can guarentee, if SE changed the skins of the songs today to something more nature or animal like, and changed BRD (bard) to RGR (Ranger), the class would make total sense. Bard as it is now has little in the way of music, or what a final fantasy bard actually is and plays like.

Yes they do.
Exactly as presented in FF14's universe ever since Legacy (1.0):
Bards are expert archers that have the power to fortify both themselves and their allies through (magical) songs.

The bottom line in all of this is that what you proposed earlier would be completely changing the established lore for not only the job itself (that we've had since the very start) but also the rules/foundations this game works on.