Necromancer: Discussion of the dead

[Andrien]

Necromancer is just not a FF-ish 'heroic job'. Running around with corpses and skeletons as minions is what villains in a FF game do -- and we aren't villains.

Even the (non-western/non-traditional) form of Necromancer Job in FFV:Advanced serves as the exception that proves the rule.

The dev team had looked at necromancer-style play for FFXI, and that is where they came up with the more FF-thematic 'Puppetmaster'. You have a much better chance of seeing that job surface at some point in FFXIV, than you would with Necromancer.

And then there's the Chinese undead censorship issue.

Here's how I see it:

• Do you want to summon otherworldly beings? Get ready for Summoner
• Do you want to have a mindless minion that follows your every whim? Ask for Puppetmaster Job
  
• Do you want to command powerful monsters attack your foes? Lobby for Beastmaster Job
  
• Do you specifically want to play an ~~Eeeeevillll~ western-style Necromancer with hordes of grotesque undead minions? Look elsewhere, 'Final Fantasy' might not be your thing...

You can't say that because it is a job in a Final Fantasy V advance. The only Final Fantasy titles that had necromancers as enemies was in FFV, FFVI, and FFXI.

Yet in China they play Diablo III. They replace all the undead monsters with something else. so what? Necromancer or not, SE will have to change all the undead monsters anyways.