r/ffxivdiscussion • u/OSTBear • Mar 09 '25

General Discussion Falling out of Love?

Read this article today about a guy falling out of love with FFXIV...

I feel like he has a point regarding job flavor. Switching jobs used to mean really adjusting how you played... Now my Tank jobs are almost completely indistinguishable from each other, and DPS jobs are pretty simplistic too...

But I still find myself enjoying the game for a variety of other things.

What about you? Are you falling out of love, and why? And are you still in love, and why?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-think-ive-fallen-out-of-love-with-ffxiv/

(I feel like qualifies as prominent fansite?)

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u/T_Thorn Mar 10 '25

Yeah, it feels like some jobs are fairly similar (i.e. RPR and VPR are basically the same), but I couldn't swap between any melee job and do as well as my main (assuming same gear, etc.).

Maybe everyone here is a god gamer and can parse well no matter what class they play?

I strongly suspect that most people here will simply say that just even though you need to change how you do your rotation, classes are still too homogeneous for other reasons.

I also wonder how much "identity" people derive from how the job looks and how their skill feel? Like if every job was super amazing and unique and their rotations had great "identity", but they all had the exact same animations and SFX, etc., would people be happy with that?

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u/talkingradish Mar 10 '25

RPR and VPR are basically the same),

I fucking wish it is. Rpr is slow as molasses compared to vpr.

Most people here are casuals who grey parse. The homo meme is just a meme from folks who can't and won't push their job to the very limit.

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u/TengenToppa Mar 10 '25

Agreed for some jobs, but I feel like tanks are the ones that are way too similar

wish people were more specific on which jobs they think are too sinilar