(10-20-2014, 11:10 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: I do feel a bit bad for pureblood Garlean defectors who've decided to play highly trained mages, however... the devs did more or less obliterate those characters with a single answer.
Oh yeah, definitely. This was such an interesting play for many Garlean roleplayers but now it's been flushed down. But I think these people can use magiteks or gunblades to support their game I guess.
I am also sure they did this on purpose to let players know that Garleans are unplayable races and will remain that way. (After all, they were originally antagonists from 1.0!)
Even for those who wanted to be XYZ class or XYZ race had to be retconned because they don't really exist. Which is a shame.