I love the job system in ffxiv but it takes something away I have always taken for granted. In other mmos, playing other classes means you will have to make more than 1 character. This allows someone like me to make multiple different looking characters of different race/gender/height/build and experience a different feel while playing though the game. Now you certainly can do this in ffxiv but with being able to play all the jobs on one character you would have to be mad to not take advantage of it.

If we were able to have a few character pre-sets we could switch between just like we can with jobs, you would have the best of both. A very ideal and alt friendly job system and multiple characters to choose from. You could even have different characters assigned to different jobs. DRG set to a male Hyur and DNC set to female Au Ra.

I understand most people will probably have a lot of arguments against this like "this is standard for mmos, it breaks immersion/doesn't make sense, my character name won't fit for another gender/race, its unnecessary" and that's fair enough. My only argument against the immersion would be the phial of fantasia. We can already change our appearance, its just more permeant as of now so you lose your previous character design.

At the end of the day, in my opinion this would be a great addition to the game and add a lot of flexibility but then again I'm biased so I would love to hear the opinions of other players.