I think the problem with some stuff is that people read far too into things. For example you talk about Gaius like he's some kind of god where it would take hundreds of Adventurer's to kill him. He's not that badass, regardless of personal opinion. Every other dungeon or encounter before the end of the game required for people, which we can assume means the intent for the difficulty would mean a small group of adventurer's could take it on without much trouble. Gaius requires 8 people, so clearly he is stronger than your typical encounter, but not so strong that one should assume that it would require more than 8 people to have defeated him.
There is a thin line in an MMO between Roleplay and Fanfiction, but the line is still there and at times people tend to lose sight of this and cross it all to easily, and often times they will justify it by taking things well out of proportion, my above example for instance. You can't simply justify that you killed Gaius by saying "it would have taken x amount of people to do anyways" when clearly it didn't, it only took 8 people and even if we assumed it took 50, or 100, there are more RPers than that on Balmung alone who also may be claiming to have killed Gaius.
Far be it for me to tell you what you can and can't RP, but if you want to paint your character as the hero, the slayer of Primals, Ultima Weapon, and the one who defeated the XIVth Legion then perhaps you'd be better off writing fanfiction than RPing.
There is a thin line in an MMO between Roleplay and Fanfiction, but the line is still there and at times people tend to lose sight of this and cross it all to easily, and often times they will justify it by taking things well out of proportion, my above example for instance. You can't simply justify that you killed Gaius by saying "it would have taken x amount of people to do anyways" when clearly it didn't, it only took 8 people and even if we assumed it took 50, or 100, there are more RPers than that on Balmung alone who also may be claiming to have killed Gaius.
Far be it for me to tell you what you can and can't RP, but if you want to paint your character as the hero, the slayer of Primals, Ultima Weapon, and the one who defeated the XIVth Legion then perhaps you'd be better off writing fanfiction than RPing.
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