(10-20-2015, 01:44 PM)Isaelt Haragin Wrote: I've been struggling since I started playing FF14 to find a 'main' class I enjoy and can RP at the same time. While I'm not going down the winding discussion of jobs and soulstones in RP, I'm a player that likes to connect his PvE with his RP. I find that enjoying the aesthetics and feel of a class and tying that into my character helps me create a better connection for that character's story as I write for them.
Am I alone in this, or is anyone else out there as ardent about that connection as I am? It's so much that when I started playing the game and wrote Isaelt as a BLM ICly, I ended up tweaking that because I simply could not stand the BLM playstyle.
I'm not very fond on tying my characters' IC abilities and background to specific in-game classes. Â Strict adherence to IC classes and PVE gear is too conceptually restricting and requires obscene amounts of PvE time for certain characters. Â
However, I try to harmonize the class and equipment of a character as closely to what I desire to portray in RP without spending huge amounts of time leveling every associated class. Â Sigurd, for example, utilizes some DK-esque aether powers and a greatsword as a secondary weapon. Â I tend to set his class to DK while RPing because most of the outfits and equipment are very consistent with his IC aesthetics. However, he has several skills that are not depicted by the dark knight class. His primary weapon is a single knife, but RPing him as a ninja would be inconsistent with his primary character traits. Similarly, he is a vintner by trade, but I have no aspirations of spending a ton of time leveling a culinarian.Â
It is plausible and reasonable for characters to possess certain IC skills and abilities that do not directly relate to PVE content or classes (but have support in lore). Â The only thing I attempt to avoid outright is blatant violation of well-settled lore, or RPing a character of an entirely different PVE archtype ( i.e. - do not RP as a mage while the in-game class is a warrior, etc.).
