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**Unnamed Mercenary** · **08-26-2015, 04:23 PM**

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(08-26-2015, 04:13 PM)Amelia Wrote:
(08-26-2015, 03:57 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote:
(08-26-2015, 03:12 PM)Amelia Wrote: -deep sigh- Oh well... I guess at the very least, Amelia doesn't ICly CALL herself that... I just do. Kind of sucks... I don't want to be a special snowflake, I just wanna be a damn White Mage...

I guess as long as I just keep continuing to play her ICly as a gifted healer no one will notice my sin and shame...

-slinks off to lurk again for several months-

Wait! Come back! There's something you brought up that could be an excellent and potentially dangerous topic of discussion: What is it about having the title of White Mage that makes it more appealing than say, a Conjuror, Arcanist, Astrologian or Scholar? Naturally, we know that White Mage is a big-name job within the Final Fantasy series. But that's a concept that widens the scope of discussion beyond just FFXIV.

-mutters softly- Conjurers don't get the cool classic robes. They get shapeless potato sacks.

I guess being a long time fan of FF9, I always wanted to make a WHM/SMN combo. It's no secret that Amelia is heavily based off of Dagger. So naturally the role of a WHM and SMN was very appealing to me.

But you're right. It is really the title I'm being a baby about. I get bristly sometimes when I'm told "No, you can't do that because of lore" when mechanically, I WORKED for that damn title. I healed that damn tree with my own blood and sweat... leaving it a really messed up looking and smelling tree in the Black Shroud, but DAMN that quest was hard at the time!

Would being a conjurer instead of White Mage change Amelia's story? No. Mainly because I don't really have her walking around calling herself that. Again, it's just something I associate her with. I guess the most she'd ever say is call some of her abilities 'White Magic.'

I don't really want to make people mad by bending or breaking lore, but telling someone that they can't ICly be something that they can actually be in the game just seems... I dunno. There's a word for it that escapes me. Unfair-ish?

Again, it's not something I want because I want my character to be a special snowflake... but because it's something that just feels like it really fits. I know that thinking and feeling this way is wrong as a Role-player... and I know a lot of people disagree. For that I apologize.

Here is the part I tell you something amazing: Most of those fancy WHM robes really have nothing to do with White Mages (in FFXIV)! (Aside from the lv50 stuff. Yes, you did dig up a dead guy's robes that had been spread around the country). That fancy i90 robe? Rowena made 'em. All the other gear you've gotten from her? Basically crafted. So...yes, it might require the job crystal to equip because of game mechanics, but that's simply glamour and battle mechanics. Replicas of "legendary" or "artifact" equipment is [while yes, maybe rare for poor people or nonadventurers] common enough for people to have!

You've nothing to apologize for! Look the way to want to. Smile

...now if you start casting White Magic, the lore hounds may OOCly question how. (but looking at the skills, the Battle Team at SE has made skills inconsistent all over. Why are Cure 2 and Aero 3 somehow Succor but the rest aren't?!)

Little edit: The colors of the CNJ robes are actually their rank. So I guess one levels from boring potato sack to shiny potato sack. :p

characters that seemingly break lore (but don't)

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