Combat system is beyond saving.

[Ramiee]

Heonestly the closest thing to identity is the starter classes and the beginner dungeons. You just freeform it more or less and role skills are viable. Stuns, head-graze, even leg-graze at times, and of course sleep.
But you are expected to change to your job. And it's probably not convenient for the narrative spun here.

Reminds me of the fact Scholar in the earliest dungeons doesn't have Succor and the only aoe regen they have is whispering dawn. That already makes you play it completely differently then how you would play WHM, SGE or AST.