Yeah I can relate with the people recognizing you for the content you appear in. I made some really good regular friends back in the time when I played Eureka in order to do all Relic weapons. Some of my best times in this game I had there with players that just keeped meeting again and again.
Heck I tendet to do so many Duty rouletts daylie that some people even started to remember my name simply because I keepet popping up.
But all that leant on the core principle I liked, the way the Jobes played so every time another big change took part of a jobs identity away it left a bad tast in my mouth. I remember Yoshida saying how he heres the playerbase in regards to the Homoginazation issu... then bamm a monthe later Monk gets scrubed clean of all dot´s and selfbuffs...
7.2... I was honestly not even mad when I saw the patchnotes... I just thought yeah... why would I even be suprised... loged int... went to the next dummy... and tested Black Mage... casted Fire 4 till my MP were empty... and then just stood there... 10 effin Minuets staring... I feeled empty.
I havend done a single Roulett since then. I only loged in to help a firend through Bozja and currently eureka, I left my Island Sanctury to rot, I lost any kind of passion I had left for this game because I know no matter what job I will try to invest myself in it´s only a question of when not if the Devs come around and castrat that job as well.

as kajv95 sayed it, If I use the game to have fun with my friends... then I could just have fun with my firends while playing and also fun game.
In terms of WoW I really do not like it´s grafik but at this point I am ready to give it a shot anyway and depending how Caster plays in that game I may even like it in spite of it´s look.

However if some one knows a game with great caster classes (heck dosen´t even have to be an MMO) Please let me know.