Reaper

Swapping from Balmung to Mateus since new friends can no longer join me on Balmung anymore. Or will be, once my game re-installs! Been off for a little over a year now. MMORPG background WOW, GW2, GW (the original one), Black Desert Online, and a few others! RP experience RP on both Guild Wars 2 & World of Warcraft. Years of experience on WOW on both Moonguard & Wyrmrest Accord. Character ideas/info Sylvir, an Ishgardian Elezen. A firm devout follower of the faith, prior to the faith being virtually proved false. He still holds some degree of distrust towards Au'ra and dragonkind, but does what he can for his people. He has faith in the mission of the Mechanists and their goal to use technology to turn war in their favor. After seeing the works of the Garleans he became fascinated with furthering the technology of his people and has been focused on mixing his knowledge of technology with the Alliance's knowledge of magic. He has therefore joined the Arcanists and has been studying both the path of technology and arcane knowledge side-by-side. He continually strives to learn about ancient civilizations and their various application of magic and, where applicable, technology - hoping to use inspiration and knowledge of the past to drive the future. How did you learn about the coalition? Google, about a year and a half ago or so. What kind of a role-player are you aiming to be? (e.g. Light, medium, or heavy) Med/Heavy. Used to be Heavy military RPer in WOW, and as a military RPer virtually any fight I was in was IC. Was always amusing in the most recent expansion to help a player kill an enemy faction player before shouting, "Victory or death!" or other similar things. Anything from real life you're comfortable with sharing? (Work, school, hobbies, etc.) Being an insurance salesman means my phone may ring during RP and I may unfortunately have to leave because of that. Likewise, in the late evenings my wife is prone to seizures (we nor doctors are quite sure why they're always in the late evenings) which may also take up my time if that happens. Sorry in advance to anyone I upset or bother by having to drop out of RP at the drop of a hat! That aside, I enjoy tactical miniature games like Warhammer 40k, RTS games like Warcraft/Starcraft and more recently Warhammer Total War. I also enjoy Pathfinder (which is like D&D 3.5, but better - sorry to those who love D&D 3.5!).

I come from WOW, and have a character on Balmung. Due to the nature of legacy servers, I think I'll be swapping to Mateus. It's a different beast from forum RP as unlike forum RP it's an established world with existing lore. Alike to forum RP, however, the universe is ever-expanding! There are a few things you want to avoid, coming from forum RP. Chief among them are god modding and creating excessive new lore (it is okay to do this within reason!). 1.) https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=god modding 2.) It's okay to say you're from some country in an unknown/undisclosed part of the world. It is not okay to create a new race that's not in-game (like let's say Viera from FF12) and act as though they are in fact in the world. That said, those are probably the two biggest things that anger people (oh, and a lack of proper grammar... but you have that on lock down). So long as you're careful about stepping on people's toes, a great way to meet people is visiting the local drinking establishments in larger cities. You can join Linkshells or Free Companies either In-Character or Out of Character to help you meet other RPers, which can help you in turn find other ways to meet new people! While I'm just returning after a very long hiatus, feel free to let me know if there's any way I can assist, or if there are any questions I can answer!

I'm new to FFXIV RP, but coming from WOW the best thing to do is to look in bars in main cities! Typically, the people there have community based groups you can get involved in for RP. Might be able to join a FC or LS that's OOC that's just for helping co-ordinate RP. Furthermore, they can tell you about big RP spots! I know on the server I'm on (which I'm trying to swap from to Mateus) had a specific public-access apartment that there were generally 4-8 people in at any moment RPing since it had a bar-like feel, but I learned about it from encountering people RPing in the inn in the new content (sorry, it's been a while since I've played - reinstating my time some time tonight or later this week!) who told me about it!

Hello, Thank you for the information. I appreciate the job-tier list. I was wary of RP on FFXIV because I was fearful there would be too many "heroic" jobs, shall we say. I would probably play my character as a scholar/machinist who is fascinated with knowledge of Nymian summoning and wants to pair that with the Machinist's skillset to field battlefields with replaceable soldiers - more focused on fighting the Empire with his knowledge. A freedom fighter focused on the acquisition and use of ancient knowledge with modern developments in magitech, ideally hoping to find a way to create machines with the ability to summon. Do you think such a selection would be well received?

Hello, I'm a returning player and recently moved to Balmung and was curious as to quite a few things on the server. For starters, what "phase" of the world do people most commonly RP in? Or more directly, have the events of the main quest chain already happened, and as they expand the quest chain in patches and expansions, do we assume that all released quests have already happened to an undisclosed "Warrior of Light"? Additionally, how are jobs treated? Scholars and summoners are obviously canonically extinct, yet if I opted to RP it is certain my faerie couldn't be ignored. With that stated, I'm also curious as to how people are treated when they are, say, a machinist and alchemist and scholar - is it accepted in RP to have a faerie out and my machinist's turret out simultaneously in RP combat scenarios, or is it advised that ICly you only stick to one class total (or just one class' abilities at a time)? Next, are there any RP-PVP groups - that is, groups who fight in that open world PVP area that are dedicated to ICly claiming land for their group? Also, is the best RP found in linkshells, or in Free Companies? What are the best RP hubs and sources of RP in the game? Is it safe to randomly try to RP with people out in the field, as I used to attempt to do in Warcraft, or should I assume no one is an RPer until proven otherwise? Lastly, how are IC conflicts resolved? In Warcraft people did one of three duel types - either RP battle, which relied on both parties being reasonable (which sadly most people aren't), roll battles (the higher roll gets to injure the other party, winner is decided by quantity of wounds), and finally actual PVP duels. BACKGROUND I came from World of Warcraft on both Moonguard and Wyrmrest Accord from leading/officering multiple RP-PVP guilds. I am interested in getting involved, but my cousin refuses to RP and wants me in his Free Company.