Oroban

I know you. I KNOW YOU. Haw haw, I made you come RP.

I'll be there! A bit late due to work constraints, but I'll be there. Looking forward to ittt.

She's right, that's vurry pretteh. I really should get on finding people to invite to the LS before Sio picks Khyros up by his hair.

Feel free to join us on Balmung, we're very welcoming! Mostly. Sometimes violent.

Ooh, I'll have to keep an eye out. That's something to look forward to!

Hurray, I got in! And I didn't even have to fight in any way. Sio invited Khyros cuz he's a genuinely nice guy. That or because once she saw my OOC costume she couldn't resist. 8-)

Bullets. But no really, he's overly naive and positive, and he's aware that it gets him sneered at sometimes. He also has a habit of being overly formal and standoffish. Or trying to wax poetic and coming across as a weirdo. Or his temper. Also bullets.

Oh jeez, those are gorgeous. I really wish I'd been around to get in before you closed up. I'll keep my fingers crossed for the future!

What she really means is that she drags me by my ear to go along! :bouncy: It sounds like she has a good plan, that's all! Good on her. :lol:

Wait, is that how DPS see it? "If the tank doesn't take the time to mark everything, I'll just go after something he's not keeping the attention of?" Because sometimes I either forget to mark, or I have DPS that like to initiate if I take the time to do it. Running around is never fun.

Yeah, when I played it as DPS, I had no problem running around and killing them on my pugilist. The two DPS I had literally didn't care, even though I made sure to stop them outside the room and explain the stages. The best part was the jerky healer kept screaming at them and I just...phoned it in at that point.

hehe, I did that tonight on my alt(MRD) why do the DPS insist on charging ahead to their doom? I try to set things up with markers for a nice clear order of when things die, and some DPS jumps the gun and gets all the mobs locked on them... This isn't XI where the archer pulls and then the tank steals the hate easily. nope in XIV who ever hits it first is GOING to take damage, and a decent amount too. I end up spamming my AoE just to get things attention, and that's not cheep on the TP cost. I've had a couple good parties that let me do my job and tank, but those are too far and few between. It is quite draining to have to tell the party what to do the entire way because no one knows how to not attack the mob that is happily wailing on me, but is marked number 3 and we are still killing number 1... I feel so sorry for tanks after playing my first few trips of halatali and toto-rak as a tank.(is it really worth the instant que times?) We did fine up until the last boss of it, where the arcanist and thaumaturge completely ignored the dalaalalalala whatever and the noxious, whereupon the small explosions added up and killed the Thaum. Not to mention the bigheaded healer who thought he should run around in front, open chests in the middle of fights, and constantly cast aero on every enemy no matter what. It's like running a preschool class.

I know what you mean, I've only been a tank for a few days and it's burning me out already. Run a copperbell party, tell the new people about the bosses, and an archer (of course it's an archer.) at the last boss decides; "Ignoring the adds and focusing on the boss the entire fight is the better plan, you must be new or something." We proceed to barely win the fight, with about 6-7 extra giants in the room with us at that point, mind you. His comment then? "That fight took too long, you guys should do more damage." since i'm seeing this fight being discussed I thought I'd bring up an interesting strategy a group of mine used. Pull the boss to where the second set of adds come in. Let the tank pull everythings hate and DPS spams AoE (works best if you have THM). The adds drop like flys and your still focussing dmg on the boss. also, as an added bonus, when the limit break is ready everyone is in one spot, meteor it up and watch things drop. Yep, that's what I'd been doing is dragging him to the second boulder to let the DPS AoE. But tonight I moved onto Halatali, and the joy of teammates who refuse to kill the fire wisps and thus get us all incinerated. Joy! :lol:

Pretty much this exactly. I was all excited about endgame gear as a monk, until I found out the AF was eye-destroyingly yellow and undyeable. Which sort of baffled me, just because monks/blackbelts have always had either blue outfits or no shirt/puffy pants in pretty much every FF incarnation (Barring Amarant from FF9 and the brown armor from 11, which was nice in its own right.) I can understand wanting to leave Dragoons and White Mages untouched, but deciding on arbitrary color palettes for classes and not allowing you to deviate a whit seems pointless to me.

I really love your use of colors, and your proportions. They look really, really good. Mad jelly man. I'll need to start harassing my artist friends soon. :lol:

Fantasia lets you change pretty much everything but name and class, yes. Height, muscletone, hair color/style, voice, male/female, etc. I used my 1.0 one already, but I wasn't paying attention to note if I could change race or not. Well, I'll get another after a month, so I'll see eventually!

I keep meaning to post in here, so I suppose I'll do it while I'm burned out from helping ungrateful louts through early story dungeons! Category A: You, OOCLY 1. Are there any any races you particularly love the opposite (or same) gender of? The models, the history, the lore, anything. I think the Miqo'te females are really cute, as are the Midlander/Highlander Hyurs. Elezen ladies are pretty as well, but something about their proportions just seems to make them feel sort of alien to me. Lalafell are darling, of course, especially since their movements all seem so...spast...er, energetic, yeah. Roegadyn women though, are a huge surprise to me for how adorable they are. Yes, adorable, that's the word I used. 2. How do you view interracial couples in -game-? Specifically, let's not get into a debate about whether or not it's 'gross' to you as a person or if there are too many people doing it. I'm all for it. Love is something that supercedes things like biological distinction and ability to breed. It's a shared emotional connection that's a lot deeper than continuance of genetics, to me. If it wasn't, then that'd be a big slap in the face to the committed couples in the LBGT community even in the real world. 3. Do your OOC feelings towards a particular race make you more open or affect what your character is looking for when they're either flirting around, pursuing romance, or just, in general, acting differently towards those individuals. Only a little, if that. He's his own man (despite you know, being MINE, hah.) Though I think my fear of hurting a Lalafell might make it harder for me to convincingly let him bond with one. It's not completely precluded, of course. Category B: Your character 1. Does your character seek friends or partners based predominantly on race? Nope. He was raised by a Midlander father and a Highlander mother, and his best childhood friend was a nice little Lalafell. People are people, that's how he was raised. You all do your best for what you see in your future, and you help out those around you. So...yeah, he's a bit naive, but he's a nice guy to pretty much everyone. Usually. 2. How does your character view interracial pairings and are their feelings different from your own? His view is pretty much the same as his view on friends. If he clicks with someone, he clicks. You work for the future, whether that means you do it alone, or with someone of a different skin color, or with a tail, or whatever. Since he grew up with a mother who was a good foot and a half taller than his father though, he has a thing for taller ladies like Roes. You won't catch him dead admitting it though, because he's essentially a prude, despite being from Ul'dah, where people love to talk about debauchery.

Welcome aboard! Always glad to have more people around Balmung. I'm sure anyone'll be glad to RP with you if you just give 'em a poke~

I'll be around pretty much til...5am or so, haha. Once you're around I might try my hand at Halitali, since I'm getting tired of Copperbell and lower...time to move on up!

I know what you mean, I've only been a tank for a few days and it's burning me out already. Run a copperbell party, tell the new people about the bosses, and an archer (of course it's an archer.) at the last boss decides; "Ignoring the adds and focusing on the boss the entire fight is the better plan, you must be new or something." We proceed to barely win the fight, with about 6-7 extra giants in the room with us at that point, mind you. His comment then? "That fight took too long, you guys should do more damage."

See, I did that fight fine. It was the one before that that I ended up dead. I usually don't dirt-nap so early unless DPS pulls too early or healer is positioned badly. That was actually my only down while tanking so far (Maybe...10 dungeons so far?), and it was only me, since it was the last enemy alive and it only dropped me. I got a raise, we went on to fight the ooze, life was good. I just wasn't expecting a random mook's AoE to be an instant death technique. That'll teach me, I guess!

I had the exact same problem at that fight, but being a gladiator I slapped on rampart, fleet of foot, and keen flurry (yay cross-classing!) while spamming blind-flash, and thankfully my DPS ground them down before they could chew me up too bad. My only KO was from finding out that the non-boss blasting caps insta-kill you when they explode. Oops.

Now that I've been on both sides, I'm still hesitant to throw around the 'bad tank' label, but honestly, SOME tanks just aren't so great...like I had a tank in Brayflox's Longstop who just never dodged dragon breath, or lured Aiatar off of the poison, and then complained that we DD characters just weren't doing enough damage. While the boss was regenning.

I'm starting to get why people don't like to tank as much as DPS, honestly. It's like watching kindergarteners at day care half the time. I'm only tough enough to do the first three dungeons (Well, I'm high enough tank level to DO Halitali, just no confidence I'd survive it) and all I see all day erry day is DD characters deciding that they're gonna poke whatever they want, whether or not I firmly have its focus. Oddly enough, I'm still having tons of fun. Most of the time. /Masochist? Anyway yes, here's one more person who'll take some of your queue time down, until I lose hope!

...it's looking like most people posting in this thread are night owls. I'm not quite sure what to make of that. :lol: