Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
Oh? Well, if it's not lifesteal, I imagine that nobody would miss it if the devs removed it from the game. Since that's not the theme they're going for, after all.
Ah yes, you calling it something it isn't will mean people won't miss that which it actually is...
As I said, lifesteal means taking the health from the enemy, which warrior does not do.

You can argue that from a technical PoV there's no difference, which I could accept just for the sake of argument, but you're then purposefully twisting that to meaning it doesn't fit the job fantasy, which is where I strongly disagree. You seem to sticking to the term just as a means to beat on that. Strictly speaking I don't think FF XIV has any jobs that really lifesteal from a "fantasy" PoV, you need to go to other games for that.

Arguably the de-facto "standard" for lifesteal "fantasy" jobs is the Necromancer, and for tanks that is likely EverQuest's Shadow Knight (which Blizzard "borrowed". WotLK's iteration was pretty much a carbon copy insofar the mechanics of each game allowed), which is a combination of Warrior *and* Necromancer (those would be EQ classes though, which, as most of us know don't exactly translate 1:1 to Final Fantasy)