Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
This is probably true. But I think that's something most everyone can agree on. People like options. No one really wants every Job to be "just like the other 3 Jobs in this role, just with different visual effects". While SFX absolutely CAN and DO make playing something distinct from playing something else, it should be more than just that.

I was always against homogenization in WoW, and I am in FFXIV. Those of you that see my posts in opposition to the "make healers more complex!" posts will, if you're paying attention, also note that I consistently advocate for changing the healers so that they WILL be more diverse and less identical copies of each other. Advocating that WHM stay the same as today...while changing either 2 or all 3 of the other healers...IS advocating for diversity. If WHM (and/or SGE) stayed as it is today while SCH, AST, and SGE were each changed to play differently (surely there's some design for healers that isn't just "one DoT, one spam, and one or maybe two nukes"), that WOULD be diversity.

I think pretty much everyone supports diversity.

Indeed, if nothing else, I think that's one thing that we collectively CAN all agree on.

...hm, maybe someone should make a thread about THAT since you'd be hard pressed to find many people arguing AGAINST Job/Class identity and diversity, I'd wager. (Not saying NO ONE, but...probably not many.)
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...or-varied-jobs but please do pleasure me more with your horrendous takes