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Feb 17, 2022 20:12
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I don’t know if the classes have names,but Rhitatyn and his gunsheilds, and Nero with his gunhammer. I imagine we’ll get a hammer class eventually.
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Feb 17, 2022 21:50
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Edmund Lava posted:I don’t know if the classes have names,but Rhitatyn and his gunsheilds, and Nero with his gunhammer. I imagine we’ll get a hammer class eventually. There's whatever Gaia's doing with her hammer, too! I am very excited for The Hammer Class. I don't even care what it is. HAMMER.
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Feb 17, 2022 21:54
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We have three Botanist classes but only one full-time Miner class? What is this lopsided representation? (No, I don't care that WAR and PLD sometimes cosplay.)
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Edmund Lava posted:I don’t know if the classes have names,but Rhitatyn and his gunsheilds, and Nero with his gunhammer. I imagine we’ll get a hammer class eventually. I was trying to distinguish it as a style that we can infer either has or had multiple practitioners. Greathammers are interesting because we can infer that they're broadly a legitimate weapon, but also that Nero and Gaia probably aren't using codified schools. This is also why I consider Ran'jit a 'maybe', because it's hard to tell if he's a lone weirdo or the last remaining practitioner of a style. Interestingly, we can tell that gunshields actually were some sort of a standard technique, because Memoria Misera confirmed that Varis wielded one back in his day.
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Feb 17, 2022 23:01
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Granson from the tank ShB role quests has some unique names for his skills when they would be dark knight flavored for us. Kinda neat. idk if you'd consider every person in the First who casts Ronkan [x] as a different job but I would
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Grynewaht actually uses a gunhammer AND a gunshield.
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Hogama posted:Grynewaht actually uses a gunhammer AND a gunshield. I would propose that the Gunshield is the particular focal point here. Much like how Paladins whilst they can have a variety of main hands, are largely defined by their shield. Look at Varis, whilst he uses his gun sword, much of his mechanics are around what his Gunshield is firing, or doing defensively. Also I’ve mentioned in the past but male Viera likely have a relatively codified spear and bow guerrilla warfare fighting style. Lord_Magmar fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Feb 18, 2022 |
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Grynewaht fucks. I do not believe that Grynewaht has ever had sex in his life
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Grynewaht fucks. he fooooooooooooooooooooooooocks
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Feb 18, 2022 01:11
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I bought the Final Fantasy isekai manga and there’s a Roegadyn equivalent race named Hyuuj. The Miqo’te are called Catters
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That sounds like a gobbieword, Illuminati cat, Illuminati catter, Illuminati cattest.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Grynewaht fucks. No he just sucks.
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There are lots of characters in the game whose stories could be called tragic, or sad, but Grynewaht might be the most pathetic
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FuturePastNow posted:There are lots of characters in the game whose stories could be called tragic, or sad, but Grynewaht might be the most pathetic Grynewaht is interesting because he is a Garlean true believer with all the ideas of supremacy and arrogance, but he lacks the strength and cunning of someone like Zenos or the resolve of someone like Gaius. He’s someone who was probably seen as a lesser domestically and was lured in because in his mind “A Garlean going abroad means I get to go be a bully to others.” We see “strong” Garleans in people like Gaius, Nero, Zenos, Nael, and even Varis. Grynewaht is a person that thinks the Garlean identity can turn him from a loser to a champion. As his defeats start to shatter this worldview, he gets more and more desperate until he sacrifices his very identity.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Grynewaht fucks. he absolutely does not
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But would Grynewaht say “gently caress”?
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It has come to my attention that Grynewaht does in fact not gently caress.
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lets just say his namedays arent the only thing to have come at once 
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Every character in FFXIV fucks. Yes even Magnai. Especially Magnai.
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Countblanc posted:Every character in FFXIV fucks. Yes even Magnai. Especially Magnai. Whatever you say, little sun.
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Magnai asks if there are any ladies on the moon. 
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Grynewaht is noted in passing by NPCs to be a fairly formidable combatant. He's just neither on the level of Zenos in prowess, nor is he much of a leader at all - and he keeps running against the Warrior of Light and crew, so his shortcomings keep getting magnified. The Enyclopaedia Eorzea (II) notes that he was also pretty green - he'd barely ever seen action before he got sent into the field with his own command at Carteneau at the end of Heavensward (not that the higher ups really cared if he did anything with it).
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Yea Grynewaht is likely a good soldier, he just has the problem of being a 'good' combatant who goes up against The loving Warrior Of Light in nearly every part of his short career and has loving Zenos as his superior so the guy never really had a chance to shine.
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That profile does not make it sound like he has much to shine with. Like it's going out of its way to say that he's good at wrecking stuff and not much else.
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Him showing up with an army the instant after the WoL got an army of their own was the height of hilarity to me.
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Thing I wanted to post somewhere but it's very much not appropriate for Sanguinia's LP thread so here I am. The GSM level 60 quest is fantastic, and this game's music is fantastic. The questline involves making a pair of music boxes for a married couple looking to celebrate their anniversary, and when paired together the tunes from the two boxes is very much a mellow, slowed down version of The Maker's Ruin, the upbeat fighttimes song that first plays when you fight Ultima Weapon, and is kind of Your Theme. Except I did that quest well after beating Shadowbringers so when it booted up my immediate reaction was "What the gently caress why is Ardbert's Theme here in an old Heavensward quest?!  " So I went looking into what the music box song was, and realized that it was a rendition of The Maker's Ruin, and in turn found out long, long after playing Shadowbringers that Ardbert's Theme is our theme, cause, well, you know the rest.Soken's leifmotif game is so wildly good, he may as well have been musically shouting ARDBERT IS YOU, YOU ARE ARDBERT from the rooftops from the first moment you meet the guy, and did it without spoiling that plot point at all, for me at least. Instead it was just an intensely melancholy, nostalgic feeling like I'd been reunited with an old and beloved friend, when it was a guy I barely knew outside of fighting him.
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Super No Vacancy posted:[bravely] soken reuses motifs too often I admit, I got a little annoyed with this in StB, but I came back around to liking it in ShB and EW.
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WrightOfWay posted:I admit, I got a little annoyed with this in StB, but I came back around to liking it in ShB and EW. The issue I had with Stormblood was that the leitmotifs didn't blend well. *something light on the strings, soft but high energy building to--*  STORM OF BLOOD! BORN FROM BLOOD! OF OUR FALLEN BROTHERS!It just doesn't show up at anything less than an 11. Heavensward blended much better, as do most of the other leitmotifs. When they want to be strong they go all-out, but they can also be more subtle.
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Super No Vacancy posted:[bravely] soken reuses motifs too often I sorta felt it at its worst in stormblood, definitely. diversifying motifs by region instead of by expac in shb and ew really helped. ashamed to admit it wasn't until I got my sage into mt. gulg did I realize it was the kholusia motif
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The Heavensward motif is pretty obnoxiously overdone to me, though that might be in part because crafting and gathering and such on level keep me in those zones far too long.
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Jamming the whole motif into the quest accept/complete jingle made me roll my eyes early in Endwalker Most of the actual music is fine though
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endsinger is The Leitmotif Boss and it’s nice that they just let soken get weird with it. the stb dungeon boss music is rad too
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Vitamean posted:I sorta felt it at its worst in stormblood, definitely. diversifying motifs by region instead of by expac in shb and ew really helped. my favorite motifs are the ones that slap me in the face months after i first hea them
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Magres posted:my favorite motifs are the ones that slap me in the face months after i first hea them The real "recurring character shows up right at the end to everyone's cheers" moment in Endwalker is Maker's Ruin during the Endsinger fight.
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