(08-30-2014, 06:04 PM)Enteris Wrote: My apologies for not being clear. I was working under the assumption that because they are very defensive in nature, should a war engulf Gridania, it would be on their home turf, so to speak. As such, all of the battles would likely take place somewhere in the Shroud. War is messy, there'd likely be a good amount of collateral damage to the nature itself.
When I say "defensive," I mean that they are way more likely to simply turtle and not attempt counter attacks. Â They'll hold their position, and they're in a really good place to do so. Â They basically don't need anything they import, whereas the other city states (especially Ul'dah) import much, if not all, of their food, minerals, and other natural resources.
Quote:As such, it's possible that the longer the war goes on, the more angry the elementals will become... maybe so much so that they would actually consider waking the great one. If this is the case, then it makes sense to me that more and more conjurers would have to be pulled away to commune with the elementals and calm them down.
At that point, I don't think it would matter. Â Calming the Elementals seems like a time-based thing, not a numbers-based thing. Â You either calm them down, or you lose control. Â But, on the other hand, there's a really good chance that they would simply allow the Elementals free reign in certain parts of the forest and just move their own people out. Â Come into my parlor said the spider to the fly...
Quote:I didn't mean to say or imply that they would have zero conjurers on the front lines as healers, but I would still argue that should the above situation be the case... they would certainly be stretched thin.Â
Granted, I don't even pretend to know the ballpark number or percentage/population that Gridania has of conjurers. So perhaps they would have plenty to spare to cover all elemental threats, actual battlefield healing, and even have a fair number back home drinking tea and waiting for their deployment.
It appears, from quests, NPCs, etc, that there's a relatively high number of Conjurers to regular folk in the Shroud. Â But rank-and-file Conjurers wouldn't be involved in calming the Elementals anyway, at least not at first. Â They'd send the Hearers to deal with the Elementals before they sent anyone else.
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