Eve Malusion

Wanted to get a character made for my brother since he decided he wanted to try game out, got up an hour before maint since its usually up like 20 minutes early. It comes up nearly 50 minutes early while I'm getting a drink and has already locked again before I make it back. Balmung problems, I suppose.

Much like I imagine an emperor penguin does as it excretes with such force as for the markings to be seen from outer space, I now truly feel magnanimous.

Vengeance!

All the plushies are mine. Except the ahriman. He's not cute enough.

Lalas. It's always lalas.

Well I say those are the two debated but really its more: Vast majority of the time, Mercy stroke. The rare times when you're going to be aoeing and such a bunch or taking hits that can / should crit, Awareness. Foresight is taken because we're honestly on the low-end of how many defensive CDs we have, and some of the more unreliable ones (Dark Dance) can use the slight buffer. It still comes out to ~5% reduction, and can also be stacked with Reprisal to deal with the smaller stuff. Really? I thought it came out closer to around 15% I notice a substantial difference when using foresight on PLD. I do not feel confident enough in this to say you should quote me on that, its been a long time since I looked at the numbers and I may have forgotten a 1. In addition my numbers are pre-HW, so they would be dubious at best regardless!

Well I say those are the two debated but really its more: Vast majority of the time, Mercy stroke. The rare times when you're going to be aoeing and such a bunch or taking hits that can / should crit, Awareness. Foresight is taken because we're honestly on the low-end of how many defensive CDs we have, and some of the more unreliable ones (Dark Dance) can use the slight buffer. It still comes out to ~5% reduction, and can also be stacked with Reprisal to deal with the smaller stuff.

Dark Passenger is actually worth it for DPS to keep permanently on CD, as long as you don't Dark Arts it. It has a very inefficient Dark Arts bonus unless you're going for the aoe blind (which is broken at the moment anyway, just like every other AoE dark arts combo), but is your second highest potency per mp spent if you just use the raw ability. At 60 the numbers for your MP damage spells are: Dark Passenger: 0.169 pot per mp (a variety of other higher numbers depending on bard / MCH debuffing) Carve and Spit: 0.1979 pot per mp (0.21 if slashing debuff) Souleater: 0.0678 pot per mp (0.074 if slashing debuff) The important thing to remember is that Dark Arts doesn't give you 400 potency if you use it on Souleater, it gives you the bonus of 140 over the usual 260, and that can further be lowered to 120 because without Dark Arts you'd the vast majority of the time be using Delirium, as it has a 280 potency without. To get back to the topic of DRK as a whole, I am enjoying it immensely and it has reinvigorated my interest in tanking in this game, as up to now due to jobs I didn't like it has been the only MMO I haven't mained tank in. Its a bit rough around the edges and could use some fine tuning, and still needs fixes for the myriad of bugs, but even still it should be good enough for me to head headfirst into Alexander with as is, and its the dreamtank for any AoE-enthusiast its large array of AoE skills. Currently the debated two are Awareness / Mercy Stroke on a situational basis, Provoke, Convalesense, Foresight and Bloodbath staying on fulltime. I may end up having Bloodbath being the one I drop off when I get into proper 60 raiding, as well. Since all our AoE damage is magic it can't be utilised as well as on Warrior. I've never really been a fan of Mercy Stroke personally, so I might be slightly biased, I will admit.

Because Qestir seems like it would be a pain to RP.

I've gone Xaela and name changed to Evalun Goro. Of the Goro tribe. Yes the horse marrying one.

He's a runner. A really fast one. Rumour is he can break the sound barrier. As would be expected from such a fast runner, he's highly desired, and as such has a lot of places to go, but he's more of a free spirit. Follows his rainbow, so to speak. I'm not sorry. Also the one I'm actually going to use.

We've got some lore from the benchmark. Raen: Auri creation myth tells of a Dawn Father and a Dusk Mother from whom all the spoken races of Eorzea descended. The Raen believe their veins to run thick with the blood of the former - their brilliant white scales and iron wills serving as proof of this divine lineage. Unlike their sister clan, the Xaela, who bloody the land with endless tribal conflict, the Raen have embraced a life of tranquillity and solitude, long abandoning the nomadic lifestyle of their ancestors to settle the deep valleys of Othard's mountainous eastern reaches. Only on rare occasions will one emerge from the valley mists to seek adventure in realms afar. Xaela: Auri creation myth tells of a Dawn Father and a Dusk Mother from whom all the spoken races of Eorzea descended. The Xaela believe their veins to run thick with the blood the latter - their lustrous black scales and fiery wills serving as proof of this divine lineage. Unlike their sister clan, the Raen, who lead solitary lives hidden behind the savage peaks of Othard's eastern reaches, the Xaela are free spirits who roam the vast western steppe in close-knit tribes hunting, gathering, and warring as their ancestors have for countless generations.

So, I know this thread died and I haven't really done much to keep it active but I thought this translation from the Nico Nico stuff was worth mentioning in regards to this thread. "Au ra are not related to Dragons. Their motif are demons." Fan translation, but oh is it ever so relevant to this thread.

I probably shouldn't be allowed near the fantasia button anymore.

Probably afk maybe. Ignoring the tanking Cerberus part.

I'm getting there. Just a few more now. And completely unrelated just because it was in the folder for some reason.

I tripped on the stairs.

Alas, the only art I have is of my midlander days. And I am just too slow about things to even update my avatar so it likely stays that way! These are lovely, though.

14th of April. I have a foolproof system to determine this. Its the most inconvenient Tuesday this year it could possibly be on for me.

Lalafellin!

We fell.

Oh that Kahn'a.

Good loitering weather.

Lalatime! I could not find a rainbow.

I had a wedding! I'm glad Exantraux could make it and was not at work and edited in after the fact.