(05-22-2017, 01:50 AM)AlyssaRihn Wrote: These are great answers guys!
"So where do most people stand on character strength vs the gameplay in general. "
I was at work when I wrote this..poorly worded. But what I mean is, In the story your character is the Warrior of Light aka a badass. So really what I was trying to ask was. What makes a character over the top strength wise? I didnt plan on making my character super powerful but I am curious.
Oh I see whatcha mean. Typically for FF14 roleplay people tend to stray from your character being "THE" warrior of light. Overall the story makes it out to believe you're the one and only destined hero of Hydaelyn etc... and I guess they assume everyone who accompanies your adventures and etc are just normal adventures or just as equally echo-touched adventurers that can't be tempered and etc.
Basically, it's hard to roleplay the main character in the game when the story assumes everyone else is also the main character. So as far as RP goes, most tend to just create their entire character from the ground up without the warrior of light bs. They use elements from it though on some occasions like my character has some minor echo abilities like to see into the future only mere seconds in advance in tense moments of combat since he's had so much practice/training/study/work/etc with aether and magic. I would just advise creating your own lore that isn't what the story claims but also using the stories current events as the "timeline" we're currently in.
Without me giving spoilers, say for example at some point the end game was Ifrit was a big bad primal that no one could defeat and he was the final boss for FF14 at a time. RP-wise everyone would pretty much just go with the flow and not exactly claim he was defeated or that his threat is necessarily over, they'd if anything assume the time that's in is a current state of conflict. Then say we got a patch after that, Ifrit's dead and they introduce some other group of antagonists that are provoking war or something. At that point, lore-wise we could assume that the warrior of light handled Ifrit and saved everyone etc, and you can use some of the lore from what happened from that point on.. But currently we're at war with some other group. So you could say "oh my character has helped in the conflict against Ifrit and even put up a fight a couple times with him".. But for the current war, the most you could go along with and say is acknowledging the current state of the war going on, not that it has an end or a beginning. This'll be much easier to understand when you finish the game's main story line as it'll clarify a lot of lore and place you in good events to understand.
Tl;dr: Typically most RP-ers stray away from anything having to do with the warrior of light as not to cross paths with canon based stuff with our own ideas. It makes characters more flexible to RP with than having everyone claim they're the warrior of light.
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From that point.... It's solely up to your imagination really. You can have a super strong dark knight that was tainted by the void itself, or just be a regular adventurer or worker of some kind. Ultimately it's up to you within reason, the stuff that's typically frowned upon though are things that take too many courtesies off the lore. Like someone claiming they're a primal, or they're the Azure Dragoon, or they're a king/queen of some nation... Basically anything that makes you god mode to have authority over others or to make you literally OP. Warrior of light "kinda" falls in this category, but more than anything it's just more flexible to create your own character with your own concepts/ideas based on the lore of the game.
Did you have anything in particular interest for your character or any basics come up? Like what race, name, age, interests, maybe what she does as an occupation(if she has one?) or personality, etc. Start simple and then branch it off to grow :p until you feel comfortable enough to just immerse as it and RP with it.