Quote Originally Posted by Sjol View Post
It's entirely possible that when they started, she was going to go green mage, but that job design couldn't make it work in time. Also, it's entirely possible that Alphinaud was supposed to be PIC as teased, but that the story team nixed it after seeing the concept drawings.

A lot of stuff gets changed mid-development which leads to early teases sometimes not paying off.
Yeah, it's how a lot of decisions at square enix seem to go for the last 2-3 expansions; as we saw with the genderlocked races; shoehorning hrothgar to attract WoW players (this is my hypothesis, no matter how many times PR Yoship tries to spin it).

These "was supposed to be" and "changed later on due to story" is causing quality issues. There's way too much improvising for such a big game/live service operation. This reeks of blizzard's "let's half ass it and patch it later." Then the patch it later turns out to be 3-5 years later as we see with viera 5 years later still not having all the basic hairstyles. These hairstyles should've been all ported over by the end of shadowbringers.