What if every job was like how it started?

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Yeah Red Mage would be doing alright. There's more stuff than just the finishers that'd be changed (Embolden in its original state vs now, Acceleration being one guaranteed proc with nothing else, no Engagement, etc) but overall it'd still be the same job.

...and it would get Tether back, so really that'd make up for all the other potential downsides!

what does the tether do? :0

Yeah, I did see that about the positionals. Positionals in general held a lot more weight back then because it really was feast or famine with them. With Dragoon, the combo starters had positionals while the follow ups didn't it seems, so you didn't need to maintain that position throughout the combo, but if you were in the wrong spot at the start of your combo, the entire thing would flub. I should've added that.

And yeah, with the tankiness stuff, I was just wondering if there was at some point this idea that maybe Dragoon could be a sub tank or something on the developer side, but they never committed to it. Or perhaps the idea was just that at lower levels, a Dragoon could be the tank for something like FATEs or whatever by having the pseudo tank gear on and using, what was it, Helm Splitter? As a cross class from Marauder to generate Enmity. Who knows.

I'm pretty intrigued by old dragoon-
What would the game be like if positionals were still very important?

Shroud of Saints was always white mage exclusive. Aetherflow was more than enough for scholar and astrologian was introduced with Luminiferous Aether which was Shroud of Saints but better and could be extended by Celestial Opposition.

Was it possible to use Liminiferous Aether to make your enmity go to 0 back then? Like say the tank died and you're out of swiftcast?

SCH during ARR is swimming in MP. Barely had any MP issues with it compared to WHM. I can only Holy so much then my MP goes bye-bye

Was there a particular reason why ARR SCH had an abundance of MP?