(09-30-2015, 07:51 AM)Warren Castille Wrote:Well it's sorta iffy. Think of it like this:(09-30-2015, 06:47 AM)Eses Fafa Wrote: While I have quite a degree of respect for people who play their characters as these 'normals' as they remind others that Eorzea is not full of superheroes, I'm not one of those people and neither was this fellow most likely. For all we know, he could very well be capable of mauling a fully-armoured roegadyn all Beowulf style.
This actually leads me to wonder why we haven't had super villains yet. If the level of power is really so drastic when jumping from "normal" Eorzeans to "special" Eorzeans, are we really to believe that no one has ever gone full Doctor Doom yet? The fall of Ala Mhigo displaced huge swaths of desperate, angry people. Not a one of them came into their gifts and decided to take it out on Ul'dah? Or the Empire? If there really are people out there capable of decimating platoons how come we don't have record of these terrifying supermen laying waste to the population? There's not a chance that the Monetarists would be content just sitting around waiting for someone they've financially ruined to develop mega-strength and come hunting them.
Makes me curious if we're all getting it "wrong" and the overall level of power is just a game mechanic to make the WoL looks awesome.
The Warrior of Light is one of the single most powerful characters in the game because they have friends..lots of friends. This character can vary from any job, could be the most powerful of said job, and has been known to take down major villains such as Xande. This could actually take up to 24 people to take them down, and the WoL never did this alone. When the WoL IS alone, they can usually only take on about three or four enemies at most with seemingly regular capabilities. This is from an IC and OOC perspective.
A Dragoon, someone with the physical capabilities of killing dragons, defying gravity and tapping into their soul stone can be brought down by a handful of Brass Blades, regular folk who are trained among the masses because they're shallow and like money. Let that sink in for a second since the OOC side of the game actually balances out character strength quite a bit.
Throughout the game, when we fight humanoid characters like Gaius, they bail after being brought down a good number by 8 people. Gaius is EXTREMELY powerful due to his gear, decades of training and overall abilities. This stuff is taught to him by the elite of the elite, the hardened backbone of the Garlean Empire, yet he can be brought down by numbers of the weaker masses just like the WoL.
Beings such as Ultima Weapon, which are capable of destroying entire regions had to be combated using literal divine intervention, making one realise just how powerless the WoL is without the Goddess at their back at such crucial moments.
The monetarists have never been beaten because they understand the limits to a person's power. Even the WoL can't beat a whole squadron of soldiers. Someone who can potentially flatten Gods can be beaten by regular men, just like Titan was by a handful of mercenaries upon his first arrival, before the WoL.
This is why we don't have super powerful heroes/villains, because 'specials' only exceed normals by a set amount, and a King is only as powerful as the army backing him. Say this gets serious. Say shizzle really goes down with this bouncer and this ne'er-do-well. Say this troublemaker DOES happen to be a soul stone user who can shatter the earth beneath his feet. One or two more bouncers could very well do him in. He's not the WoL, he's most definitely not as powerful since he couldn't take half the stuff the WoL receives in an IC environment (lord knows I wouldn't wanna get buttslammed by Titan..).
'Specials' have a limit just like 'normals' do, but a smart 'normal' trumps an arrogant 'special' anyday.
