FFXIV draws too heavily on wow

[Connor]

PCT is heavily based on Relm Arrowny from FFVI, to the point a Lalafell Archon named after Relm is the creator of the school of magic in-universe, it actually leads to PCT being extremely flavourful, and tied to Gunbreaker(who is in turn based on Squall/Leon) as the XIV-original Job that has the strongest connection to past FF games, as opposed to RPR, VPR or SGE(Sage exists in other games but Sage as it is in FFXIV is so different it is Sage in name only).

‘Don’t seem to care much’ isn’t supposed to literally mean ‘do not care at all’.

The extent varies between jobs. Black Mages does what a ‘final fantasy BLM’ does, which can be boiled down to ‘uses elemental magic to attack’. Likewise with Pictomancer which can be distilled down to ‘draws magic pictures of creatures to do magic/attsck. Bard absolutely does not lol. It what. sings to power up its own arrow attacks? lol And some jobs have lost a lot of what made them feel closer to ‘traditional’ like Dragoons losing a bunch of Jump skills. To me the level of ‘Dragoon’ any job has is directly proportionate to the amount/frequency of Jumps lol. Hell they could make it like 22 Jump abilities and I’d be like ‘at least it’s a classic DRG’ lol. Or Astrologian having elements of its design that mirrored an FF ‘Time Mage’ like Time Dilation or Celestial Opposition. Plus Retrogradation from PvP in HW or SB lol, I remember you!

Summoner is another one that I’d say has ironically lost some of its ‘ff flavour’…in their attempts to make it more ‘traditional ff’ lol. The job is usually associated with two things; high MP costs on a variety of versatile summon spells, and having generally long cast times on those summons. Instead we only have 3 summons out of the billions of options we could’ve had, and to make things worse the job’s entire identity is being siphoned into association with a single summon (Bahamut lol).