Hello everyone! New player and long time roleplayer here and looking to get a few feet into Eorzea.
My friends and I picked up the game about two weeks ago now and have been really having a great time so far. The game itself is great, the world is really nicely realized, and the emote system and UI stuff is still constantly blowing me away. We've had ever intention of transferring to Balmung to join in on the roleplay and really add to the immersive nature of the world and settle in. We're looking to find a way to both enjoy the community and the game at the same time.
I'm a long time veteran of MMO Rp, I got my start back in Everquest 2 and I've dabbled across Rift and GW2 since then. My friends are more tabletop oriented, mostly being D&D players with only a few forays into MMO settings. I'd consider them to be light to medium RP, with myself being more of a heavy roleplayer. I'm a huge lore buff and a long time FF fan. Eorzea is really cool so far and I'd like to make sure we're all heading towards a mostly lore friendly and immersive backstory for our characters before we try and transfer and find people to hang out with and FCs to join ect.
Right now we have two Keepers of the Moon who are brother and sister, a Seeker of the Sun, and a Xaela in our core group, with an few friends who are sort of dabbling right now as a Lalafell and a Elezen. Not sure how long the other two will be sticking around.
So over the last week I've tried to collect some brainstorm questions from everyone and thought I'd see what people who have been around the scene for a long time have to say and if there's any advice, lore pointers, or general server vibes to impart on us to make sure we're sticking as close to believable as possible.
1) How relevant are story hooks like memory loss, things related to the Calamity still to the game story or RP stories as a whole?
2) Seeker of the Sun tribe norms are laid out pretty well with the U but Keeper of the Moon don't have a lot of examples. Noble houses tend to be Elezen territory but are there any examples of say and influential Keeper family? While small in size would it be unfeasible to portray them as sort of a mix between nobility/mob styling culturally?
3) Jobs are pretty specific with the soul crystals and some of them seem really exclusive as the quests put them. Any tips for playing a Dragoon or Summoner without stretching too much?
4) Speaking of which how how much does class/job identity play into most peoples stories? With how easy it is to switch them around are more people free form freelancers or RP stricter class roles when it comes to telling stories?
5) Of the three healer classes who's got the most RP hooks? Conjurer seems fun with nature loving, Astrologian has cards and star powers so that's already a win, and scholar gets fairies. It's a tough choice.
6) Where the first Au Ra brought over with Yugiri after they got pushed out of Doma or is it one of those things where they were supposed to have always been around and just rare before then, we just have to suspend our disbelief a little because of game reasons.
Anyway thanks for reading this, and looking forward to seeing more of you once we all get over to Balmung hopefully sometime next week!
My friends and I picked up the game about two weeks ago now and have been really having a great time so far. The game itself is great, the world is really nicely realized, and the emote system and UI stuff is still constantly blowing me away. We've had ever intention of transferring to Balmung to join in on the roleplay and really add to the immersive nature of the world and settle in. We're looking to find a way to both enjoy the community and the game at the same time.
I'm a long time veteran of MMO Rp, I got my start back in Everquest 2 and I've dabbled across Rift and GW2 since then. My friends are more tabletop oriented, mostly being D&D players with only a few forays into MMO settings. I'd consider them to be light to medium RP, with myself being more of a heavy roleplayer. I'm a huge lore buff and a long time FF fan. Eorzea is really cool so far and I'd like to make sure we're all heading towards a mostly lore friendly and immersive backstory for our characters before we try and transfer and find people to hang out with and FCs to join ect.
Right now we have two Keepers of the Moon who are brother and sister, a Seeker of the Sun, and a Xaela in our core group, with an few friends who are sort of dabbling right now as a Lalafell and a Elezen. Not sure how long the other two will be sticking around.
So over the last week I've tried to collect some brainstorm questions from everyone and thought I'd see what people who have been around the scene for a long time have to say and if there's any advice, lore pointers, or general server vibes to impart on us to make sure we're sticking as close to believable as possible.
1) How relevant are story hooks like memory loss, things related to the Calamity still to the game story or RP stories as a whole?
2) Seeker of the Sun tribe norms are laid out pretty well with the U but Keeper of the Moon don't have a lot of examples. Noble houses tend to be Elezen territory but are there any examples of say and influential Keeper family? While small in size would it be unfeasible to portray them as sort of a mix between nobility/mob styling culturally?
3) Jobs are pretty specific with the soul crystals and some of them seem really exclusive as the quests put them. Any tips for playing a Dragoon or Summoner without stretching too much?
4) Speaking of which how how much does class/job identity play into most peoples stories? With how easy it is to switch them around are more people free form freelancers or RP stricter class roles when it comes to telling stories?
5) Of the three healer classes who's got the most RP hooks? Conjurer seems fun with nature loving, Astrologian has cards and star powers so that's already a win, and scholar gets fairies. It's a tough choice.
6) Where the first Au Ra brought over with Yugiri after they got pushed out of Doma or is it one of those things where they were supposed to have always been around and just rare before then, we just have to suspend our disbelief a little because of game reasons.
Anyway thanks for reading this, and looking forward to seeing more of you once we all get over to Balmung hopefully sometime next week!
