What is your RPG playstyle?

[Cynric]

This looks like fun.

Ever since I was a kid I always gravitated towards characters that attacked/moved fast, this led to me playing lots of Thieves, Rogues, and Assassins, which in turn led me into playing lots of characters that dual wield. I also really liked swords a lot so if I had an option I'd usually pick a Sword as my weapon. Ironically even though I liked attacking fast and the rogue archetype, I wasn't actually a big fan of daggers.

Eventually almost every game I tried to play characters within that type. I was an Assassin Cross in Ragnarok Online(swords/katars/crit) , a Combat Rogue in WoW before they removed it, later a Frost Death knight (Dual Wield) and a Demon Hunter,(momentum), a Blade in FlyFF, Sith Marauder in Swtor, the list probably goes on, even in single player games I gravitated towards anyone who could dual wield and for a little while I was also really into playing stealthy too so it worked out. Like in Oblivion and Skyrim I played the typical assassin with sneaking.

Though at some point , probably around the time I started playing Death Knight in wow, I kind of stopped enjoying the stealth portion of jobs and wanted to be more of a frontliner, and really enjoyed being able to do that.
This sort of really hit home for me recently in Baldurs Gate 3 when I tried to play Rogue but wasn't enjoying it, and enjoyed simple Two Weapon Fighting Fighter / Ranger much more.

Anyway, when it came to ffxiv since I started way back at the start of the game, even though I was really excited to play the game, there weren't any jobs that really fit me either. Paladin had a sword but I didn't really want to be a tank and I'm not a huge fan of shields. I wanted to be a DPS but there really wasn't a rogue character at the time. The closest that the game had was monk since it had rear positionals and had a speed buff, but I still was kind of hoping for swords. So when Rogue released I was honestly super excited, but then it turned into Ninja and I was instantly disappointed.

Fast forward to now and we're getting Viper so that's pretty exciting for me, I've basically been waiting like 11-12 years to play the kind of character I usually play. lol

All in all I guess it evolved from stealthy rogue to fast attacking dual wielding frontline DPS, or maybe it was always that, and stealth just happened to always be shoehorned on to the dual wielder.

I'm not sure if there's a specific archetype for what I like in reference to the older ones anymore with how my playstyle changed over the years.

The only thing thats remained the same is I'm really not a fan of casting or charging attacks, probably because it's too slow for me and I like the "death of a thousand cuts" fast attacks coupled with dual wielding.