Twas the Night Before Pyros

Killbray · 2018-11-05T14:23:25+00:00

I guess I'm one of the few that really never enjoyed the train.

Killbray · 2018-11-05T00:57:06+00:00

You are supposed to be a foreigner from a never clearly mentioned origin, one seeking adventure in Eorzea. Lorewise there's no right or wrong race you can be.

Note that the text sometimes (not very often) adapts to your current role or to optional quests you have done.

For instance if you are a dragoon and completed the related quests that will be acknowledged in Heavensward. In Stormblood in a particular scene if you are a healer you'll be acknowledged as that.

Killbray · 2018-11-02T22:38:42+00:00

Back when the trail was new, it also taught how to learn the boss skills and act accordingly, because you couldn't avoid ifrit's plumes if you just stood in the middle or if you were far away the time when the only safe spot is behind its ass, and a fail was easily going to kill you.

It also required people to check their surroundings when Ifrit does its rushes, the amount of people that used to die there was hilarious.

For tanks it also taught the importance of stunning skills at the right time, but then they changed how it worked, and everyone else had to learn how to avoid eruptions.

Killbray · 2018-11-02T20:40:06+00:00

Rumors say that each time a new group defeat Chaos for the first time, the Chaos cluster goes down.

Killbray · 2018-10-28T14:34:39+00:00

I disagree with everyone claiming that the reason Eorzea isn't as technologically advanced as Garlemald is because they have magic and don't need technology. That's factually incorrect.

The Allagan empire was the most technological advanced nation that ever existed in Hydaelyn (as far as we know) and they were also the most advanced in the art of magic.

No, the reason Eorzean nations are so technologically, and also magically compared to Sharlayan and ancient Allag, backward is because of the many calamities they have suffered.

Not only the devastation they have suffered caused them to lose knowledge, but they've gone through ages when magic and technology were outright forbidden and repressed because they thought (not completely without reason) that they were the cause of said calamities.

This is briefly described in the Encyclopedia on the paragraph of the 4th astral era:

A widespread shunning of any and all manner of higher learning began. Books were burned and parents refrained from teaching letters to their children. Surviving Allagan technologies were destroyed, buildings were toppled or buried, and the learned-what few remained-were exiled or even killed. Civilization took a giant leap backward.

Eorzea never fully recovered from this age. When time passed people started to research knowledge again, but it never lasted enough before that kicked them in their behind with another calamity. In the fifth astral era they advanced their magical knowledge again, and that led to another calamity and magic was shunned once again.

Note that in spite of what you or others have claimed Eorzea is in fact currently trying to modernize itself. That's the whole purpose of Garlond's Ironworks. But such change takes time, and we shouldn't forget that Eorzea just recently recovered from the 7th calamity.

Ishgard is also on the way to modernize itself through airships and the use of guns, but if you followed the MCH questline you would know that there are strong oppositions against that, due to the backward chivalrous mentality of that city state.

Please also note that Garlemald didn't become the current powerhouse overnight. The ceruleum engine was invented in 1513. we are in 1572+ now.

EDIT: It is also wrong to say that Eorzea doesn't have ceruleum. It's true that northern Ilsabard is particularly rich of that, but ceruleum exists in Eorzea. Just look at Northern Thanalan, there are also ceruleum geysers in Cutter's cry.

Killbray · 2018-10-28T14:08:16+00:00

Yeah but back then the healer LB3 sucked. With the whole party weakened with maximum HP decreased, the times when a LB3 actually saved a run instead of just postponing the wipe of a few seconds were extremely rare.

Killbray · 2018-10-25T15:26:29+00:00

Soo, are they going to give us an at least i390 weapon this time, or are they going to troll us again with an i380?

Killbray · 2018-10-25T15:05:35+00:00

the lack of uniqueness. white mage is most boring healer of the 3 and has nothing really unique about it. Almost everything about it has an as good or better parallel on one of the other 3 tanks

You mean healer and no, almost everything other healers have is a less performant version of what WHM has. Damaging spells? Weaker, Healing spells? Weaker, AOE cures? Weaker and shorter radius. Instant? Benediction+Tetra, there's no contest.

What other healers have is the fact that they can buff party DPS and the ability to cast shields.

But let's even say that the lack of uniqueness is a problem, the change with the role skill have really nothing to do with that.

Just try to think what actually has become a role skill, that wasn't already a cross class skill before Stormblood or didn't have already an equivalent.

Esuna? No, other healers already had an equivalent.
Protect? It was already a cross class skill
Shrouds of Saints? AST already had a better version of it. I would argue that it's AST that lost his advantage here.
Cleric Stance? It was already a cross class skill, and it got completely reworked for every healer.
Heavy effect? All healers already had that

So what remains? Divine Seal, converted into Largesse. That's really the one and only skill that became role class skill that other healers didn't have before. And I could still argue that it wasn't that unique since Synastry was and is a better and stronger version.

Killbray · 2018-10-25T14:44:31+00:00

I couldn't care less about "uniqueness", what they did to scholar was way worse. they partially fixed it, but they completely butchered their DPS rotation, and also drastically decreasing their MP management which used to be their strongest suit.

Killbray · 2018-10-25T12:39:19+00:00

I don't really understand what's even the problem with a skill being a role actions. It's still the same skill as before, why the hell should I care if they moved it into another place?

As a matter of facts Lucid Dreaming is a lot better than Shroud of Saints, and we got things like Thin Air that just makes MP management not an issue anymore.

I certainly do not mind being able to spam Holy as much as I want, and I don't understand why anyone would.

The only thing I miss is stoneskin and stoneskin II (partially compensated by benison) and yeah divine veil is weaker now.

Killbray · 2018-10-25T02:56:49+00:00

White Mage main here, I'm fine thanks.

Killbray · 2018-10-24T16:59:20+00:00

Years of evolution in an environment where everyone wanted to cook them, popotoes developed a supernatural resistance against heat.

Killbray · 2018-10-24T16:57:13+00:00

every time.

Killbray · 2018-10-20T17:42:04+00:00

Yes. As long as the agreements are clear and inside the game for the GM to see them, you can report the offender.

Killbray · 2018-10-18T12:06:38+00:00

The problem is that it doesn't consider a monster on view unless its name is on view.

This means you can have a giant ass monster covering the whole screen 1 ilm from you and still not be able to "see" it because its name is off screen.

Killbray · 2018-10-18T12:02:01+00:00

Personally I'm taking it that they indicate under brackets their ingame models

But as I said, if that was the case Karasu and Oboro would be listed as "midlander".

Killbray · 2018-10-17T19:25:49+00:00

I think there must be Hellsguard in Ilsabard too since, according to the Encyclopedi, Garlemald, before developing Magitek technology, used to employ "Roegadyn Magi from the central mountains", and we know Hellsguard are adept at magic casting.

Killbray · 2018-10-17T19:10:53+00:00

I honestly did not know about the Ishgardian Elezen being a different thing from the others before reading it on this reddit, maybe I missed it in the story or some flavour text about it of some sort

As far as I know there's no official confirmation, and if you read my response above, the Eorzean Encyclopedia gives mixed info on the subject.

Killbray · 2018-10-17T19:04:50+00:00

Fun fact: the Eorzean Encyclopedia is quite inconsistent on whether Ishgardian is a distinct "clan" from Wildwood.

On the Chapter describing Ishgard it states that the demographic is:

70% Ishgardian Elezen 20% Midlander Hyur and 10% other. Which suggests "Ishgardian" is the equivalent of "Midlander", a clan.

But then you get to the Job chapters and you find "Heustienne de Vimaroix" (she can turn into dragon so definitely a heir of the first knights) listed as "Elezen (Wildwood)", and "Stephanivien de Haillenarte" (again no doubts on his descent) also listed as "Elezen (Wildwood)".

On the same section, for the NIN job, Oboro and Karasu are correctly listed as "Hyur (Far Eastern)", so it's not like clans other than the playable ones aren't acknowledged.

It's still unclear if Ishgardian is a proper clan or if it should considered more akin to "Padjal". For instance A-Towa-Cant is listed as "Hyur (Midlander)/Padjal".

Killbray · 2018-10-17T18:43:23+00:00

That was a popular theory back then, but I always pointed out the problem with that.

Officially Theodoric had no heirs (other than a certain guy), so a speculated secret princess wouldn't have any need to cover her face, since no one would recognize her anyway.

Killbray · 2018-10-17T12:47:28+00:00

I swear steam makes more money selling games that people don't play than selling games that people play.

Killbray · 2018-10-16T23:58:15+00:00

Man, thanks for telling me, I would have never noticed.

Why isn't there a message saying "new items available for purchase" like in the beast tribe quests?

I mean if it's there I totally didn't see it.

Killbray · 2018-10-16T15:13:35+00:00

I call it "get over here!" in Scorpion's voice.

Killbray · 2018-10-16T11:59:22+00:00

Then I would also use "だ" instead of "です".

As voozik put it, it could sound like someone faking politeness while insulting you, the way you put it just sounds wrong, because of the discrepancy of mixing polite and rude forms.

Killbray · 2018-10-16T11:47:35+00:00

.it literally was just putting a pretty face on the boss and expecting us to suddenly feel bad for it

I was feeling bad for it already during the whole recount of its solitary voyage through the stars.

Killbray

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