(11-29-2014, 05:30 AM)mantraofyosuga Wrote: I've just recently been informed that being a dragoon is "special snowflake" "gary stu/mary sue".
Is it strange that a character could possibly work with all he had to become said Dragoon? Why is it not strange that there are monks, scholars, white mages, etc, jobs that do not even exist anymore, are running around?
I have never once run around with an air of superiority as a Dragoon. In fact, it is never even really mentioned. But for some reason, you're automatically deemed "special snowflake" for something your character suffered to become but is instantly regretful of doing so.
I'm not sure how I should word this, I just don't understand why with every miqo'te running around as a Nunh and a million sultansworn and undercover Garleans, that being a Dragoon is such an awful thing.
I guess this post is really me complaining, but I would like an answer or opinion.
Just to add to what others have said here, yeah. You are fine. Unless you are trying to be the Azure Dragoon of the plot, you are all good. Anyone telling you that there is only one Dragoon from a lore stand point is wrong. Tell them to go watch that Heavensward trailer again. There are three of them standing there, in AF armor. There are also at least two divisions of them deployed in Coerthas with the rest in reserve in Ishgard itself. The presence of more Dragoons beyond the Azure Dragoon of the Job Plot was a well debated issue before the Heavensward trailer came out. With what that trailer showed us, yeah there are many Dragoons. You are not being a special snowflake if you just want your character to be a Dragoon.
As to "why" people have that attitude about DRG? OOCly, blame FFXI there was "lolDRG" going on there for a looooong while, and it has just sorta floated its way over to XIV. Mostly without any real justification that extends beyond "well we did that in XIV." That said, there are bad DRGs out there, but there are also bad MNKs, bad BLMs, and bad everything else. The hold over of "lolDRG" from XI has just brought that to the for front in people's brains, for whatever reason. It also has the perception of being the "Job Everyone wants to play to be cool." Sort of like DRK in XI. Lots of people play one, very few people are good at it. This is again, another holdover perception from XI. Do not let ANYONE dictate to you how you play this game. If you like playing the job, play the job. Be the best DRG you can be. If people are going to be jerks about it, let them be jerks about it. It is YOUR game, and YOUR decision. People giving you stupid amounts of grief because of a holdover opinion from XI are just acting like jerks, and showing you what type of person they really are. Jerks with nothing better to do than give someone a hard time because of what they enjoy in the game.
Play how you want to play, and encourage people to give you a chance to show them that it/you are not as bad as their perceptions would have them think. Keep and open mind, and ask for the same from others. All will be well. ^ ^