Which class fantasies of base classes do you like/miss?

[Enkidoh]

The reason for PLD being associated with Ul'dah was kind of out of necessity, given it was one of the original Jobs added late in 1.0's lifetime, and at the time, there was no player accessable location in Eorzea that fitted the traditional fantasy kingdom associated with knights in shining armour, other than Ishgard, and that was closed off and completely inaccessable in both 1.0 and ARR (they already stretched things by having DRG assocated with Ishgard in 1.0 but having the DRG trainer residing in an outlying hamlet in Coerthas).

Limsa is a thalassocracy with marines and pirates who wield guns and axes, and Gridania is a forest commune that relies solely on LNCs and ARCs for it's military. New Sharlayan was abandoned and inaccesable, and Ala Mhigo was a Garlean province sealed off from the rest of the continent.

Ul'dah was a monarchy, albeit a sultanate rather than a European style kingdom, so it was the closest they could fit a knight type Job, and hence PLD became the royal guard of the Sultan/Sultana, rather than a 'holy knight' beholden to a divinity or it's church (if you think about it, no matter what Job you really are, you're a 'holy warrior' in general already anyway, being the Warrior of Light, as champion to Hydaelyn and all.).

Accordingly, the player's character is still just a gladiator that has learned a few sword and shield skills from said royal guards and are basically a knight errant as an adventurer helping people and defending the helpless rather than a guardsman stuck patrolling the Hustings' Strip.