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(01-11-2014, 09:28 PM)TheLastCandle Wrote: I'm still not 100% certain as to why there is such an outcry about what are, for all intents and purposes, mere labels. In the case of White Mage: you are an adept conjurer, using the forces of nature against your foes to great effect and are a potent healer to boot. Is your character concept diminished by being "a powerful conjurer" rather than a White Mage?
Better yet, to use my own character as an example, would Yvelont be more interesting if he were a Dragoon-turned-Warrior as opposed to a former Ishgardian knight who happens to have learned to wield axe, sword, and spear? The core concept would remain largely the same.
There's a very massive difference thematically between a conjurer and a white mage, or a lancer and a dragoon, or a pugilist and a monk, or a marauder and a warrior. If someone specifically wants to RP a job, they generally want to pull on the unique themes of that job - e.g. a white mage with access to succor who is constantly aware of the potential destructive nature of the power and whose actions are always at risk of coming under the thumb of the elementals should they do something that could displease them (note how removing the "you are the only non-Padjal to have ever been a white mage" thing does not in any way harm the integrity of the job's key themes); or a dragoon, who represents a very particular cultural identity within Ishgard and whose existence has been tailored to fight a very particular enemy - the dragons.
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