This is relevant as I made a long tumblr post about it a while back.Â
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Quote:Taken directly from LiveVoltage20's Tumblr post.
"Urg.... after a long and very hard weekend.
Mainly of RP and leveling my main in FFXIV, I finally unlocked all combat job classes currently out there and let me tell you, I can finally tell which classes are lore friendly to play as and which one’s arent and which ones are conditionally lore friendly to Role Play with.
Paladin and Bard
Have to be the two easiest to RP as. Paladin you just need to walk into Ul’dah and they practically give you a soulstone if you ask for military training.
Bard is basically and archer who fancy’s poetry and ballad’s. The only difficult part is rationalizing how a moogle gave you a stone but thats the only part you really have to get creative with.
Warrior and Dragoon
Warrior is pretty easy to be IF youre not originally from Eorzea. Otherwise, get really creative cause youre going to be a special snowflake if you dont.
As long as you’re an Elezen and from Coerthas, you can practically and easily RP as a Dragoon. Remember though that there are differences you need to keep in mind when RPing as a regular Dragoon, one of them is that you will most likely NOT have access to all of youre Dragoon powers save the regular jump and evasive jump. Anything outside of being an Elezen and not from Coerthas requires you to get creative or be a special snowflake.
Monk
Im kinda iffy on this one. They use chakra to help them fight, which is essentially having strong soul force and having faced numerous close encounters or visited ancient battlefields. If you get over that hurtle than youre pretty clear otherwise.
Black Mage and White Mage
By lore standards, both classes are pretty much special snowflake if character is from Eorzea, no exceptions. If they are from outside of Eorzea than you could rationalize it that way but you will need to get super creative.
Summoner and Scholar
Summoner lore wise is a bit difficult to rationalize both in and outside of Eorzea because its essentially a ‘lost’ allagan art. Get creative though and you can easily avoid special snowflake.
Scholar is the same as Summoner. Lost nemian art,etc, etc. Stones and ancient stuff are found every now and then so as long as youre a student of arcenimia then its pretty easy lore wise to be one.
In short, thats generally how the breakdown of classes Role Playing wise are lore friendly to play as. Cant wait till Ninja for 2.4 comes out so that way I can see how that class is ICly."
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