Gabineaux

Arvid Greave, Hyur Midlander, IC/inspiration: http://eaglepants.tumblr.com

As a raider I miss coil. I miss coil's story and most of all coil's music. :lol:

This exactly. Maybe not exactly. I can be kind of anti-social sometimes....... D;

I'm pretty happy the prices weren't raised. The only thing now is, will the bot army that's scripted to spam the server with new characters right after maint ruin our chances of logging in and getting our new houses? I need just a little more gil to get any of the plots of the size I want and I'm hoping they're not all gone by the time I log in. Last time wards dropped I didn't get online for a solid... I want to say 40min or so. That may be long enough for most of the plots to be gone, hence why I need more gil in case I can't afford the lowest class plot. I'd like to get the lowest possible class so I'm not left with 0 gil, but we'll see. That being the most affordable plot, those will be the first ones gone.

(I just can't explain that.) After all the puking and the crying:

I like the first one the best.

Sometimes I take a break and make a new character. Sometimes I pour gasoline on that character and set them on fire with some real messed up plot crap and destroy as many IC lives as I possibly can while doing so. Other times I just off them because I'm like, yup. Ok. Done. Out with the old, in with the new. Other times it's like an art block (which I severely have one of those right now HURHUR I CAN'T DRAW HALF AS WELL AS I COULD A YEAR AGO AHAHA ;o; AHAHAHAH) and you just have to RP through it. You just have to push your character out there no matter how boring or dumb you think your character is and you might just be surprised with where you end up. ...Maybe that last part didn't make sense. Mmm. Well, I like to do this thing where I think of my character as a secondary character, when I get VERY bored of them. I try to find a character to make a 'main story character' and kind of support whatever kind of plot they have going on. Or what their FC has going on, whatever. People looooooove when you want to RP what they want to RP. I mean if it's within your character's boundaries and you're not doing much with your character anyway, where's the harm in it? Also a fun way to find an 'out' if you want to kill your character off. But be selective. Don't toss your beloved character's head to the nearest edgelord for no reason and with little plot development. It's like ERP. Make them work for it.

1. Expeditioner's Tabard 2. Orchestrion 3. Lesser Panda 4. Morpho 5. Owlet 6. Calca 7. Bluebird 8. Fatcat

Here is the TLDR video version: xuWkvyeAu0E No no I am watching the video you posted though and it is good, it has a lot of info that people might not know about. ...I've played ...almost every FF cept the weird 'new' side ones. New being anything after 2009.

Can't you edit your response to the census? Like I think at the end of it when I did it there was like a.. change response thing. Let me look again real quick. Edit: nooope it wants me to fill out another one MMMMM mmm.

But how much will it cost. :dazed:

A shame they're not banned fast enough for us to make alts. Or for us to log on after major patches. Then again, we're all trying to log on after a major patch anyways.

Well.. Arvid: Its body is also hollow, and its food source remains a mystery.

I tried to colour it for a little while, but then I was like nah I don't know how to do colours. arvid ref: http://40.media.tumblr.com/621cc07f572d10689357f2c6eef81da4/tumblr_o5peftmsQ31vrvorho1_1280.png you don't even have to draw the stupid hyur draw the bird instead for real I guess if you want to draw the hyur here fine http://40.media.tumblr.com/0140e7d1ef58c2c9b40ac7f7ac1a5fb7/tumblr_o5o735T1Ax1vrvorho1_1280.png

Had loads of fun, even if my character was kind of out of his element! EAGERLY AWAITING THE NEXT EVENT!

Are you saying you'd all be IC as soon as you get into the game? Or like, everyone's character is just straight up them? You don't plan a character and rather just kinda become them the moment you log in? "It's not real! IT'S NOT REAL!" That's an interesting idea. I like to plan too much to be truly happy with that, but it definitely would fix those things for certain. It would take some adjusting, but I wonder if I could do it. I'm saying ...well, no OOC. They don't have to be their character. You are still you, but if you don't like someone OOCly, you find an IC reason to have nothing to do with them. Say some asshole wants to diddle you and you don't want that, you find a reason for it IC. Even if it's just, hey you're a fuckin creep go away. Or, you have an ugly face I don't want it. Whatever. Still planning, you still you OOC, just ...no OOC? MAN I DUNNO. YOU GOT MY BRAIN ALL BEFUDDLED NOW VIRARA.

Um. UMMM. UMMM. Ok here we go. IPUSHBUTTON. THERE IS NO OOC. EVER. No one is worried about being politically correct IC. No one is creeping on anyone OOCly. No means no when it comes to erps. Everyone regards their character as pretend times only. It's just nothing personal, ever. Everyone is writing to write their own personal plots for entertainment. Nobody gets OOCly butthurt over what happens IC, because IC is not real. IT'S NOT REAL. (nobody is under 18, all those kid are playing neopets or whatever the kids are doing.. what? they playin call of duty these days? ok they doin that) I could add more onto this..... There would be no ooc friendships, that's true. But in some cases thaaat's not so bad.

Oh no I'm gonna be late! I love your tavern!

As of right now Augustine is.. in jail, sooo. Sort of unable to RP on him right now, unless your character REALLY wants to visit him in jail. Or maybe you want to.. have.. jail RP . But the other two are A-OK. I also made a tumblr for Arvid. It's a sub-blog though so I can't follow anyone back. http://eaglepants.tumblr.com/

I. Basic Info Characters: Arvid Greave Primary character: Arvid Greave Linkshells: Too many to list. Primary RP linkshell: OpenRP [*][*][*][*] II. RP Style Amount of RP (light, medium, heavy): Heavy RP when I do RP. I guess people use the term 'mirror RPer' these days. If I get a big post, I'll write a big post back. I'm totally ok with /say dialogue only. RP is RP, I'll take it. Views on RP combat and injuries: I like predetermined fights. I like dice rolling. I do try to avoid character vs character fights with people I don't know OOCly. Injuries are fine, they happen. As long as there's no death going on, I'm cool with it. Views on IC romance: Spoken for? It's complicated most of the time. I like romance RP though, my character doesn't. I enjoy torturing my character. Views on non-romantic RP (family ties, etc): I like it! Non romantic RP is my jam. Family ties are ok too, one of the main reasons why I use randomized last names. Where my cousins at? Views on lore: Yes, lore, please. Give me the lore. All of the lore. I'm ok with slight lore bends. I'm not going to ream someone's character if they don't stick to lore exactly but I'll probably avoid them. Views on chat functions (/say, /linkshell, etc): /s is IC, a lot of people do the "thing" in IC but I have stood my ground and haven't bothered doing that, as I normally would just put any actions my character is taking in an emote. (( parentheses/brackets is universal ooc )) /em is IC unless there's some (( ooc going on )) /p is for not public RP, not just ERP. Maybe a fight we don't want someone barging in on? Maybe a private conversation you don't feel like mistelling? /tell is fine for IC stuff too My only IC linkshell is my FC one. [*][*][*][*][*][*] III. Other Info Country: Canada Timezone: MTN Contact info: In-game or PM me here. [*][*][*] [align=center][glow=blue]~Special announcements can be found in the posts below~[/glow][/align]

Healing things like the hammerfaust (sp? The big faust after the two little fausts on savage) isn't so much precast, as it's spam cureII and hope that tank is using cooldowns at the right moment and isn't autoattacked for a lot right after being chunked. Raid healing on FFXIV is just medica II and sometimes a medica/cure III depending on how stacked up your buddies are. It doesn't really feel... turn based to me? It just feels like.. WHERE EVERYBODY AT? WHERE YOU STANDING? WHY IS THAT GUY IN NARNIA HUH? eddited to snip out a lot of convo ..and well, the start of hammerfaust isn't so bad but near the end of that badboy it's real ..clenching.

Nothing like what I did in WoW, but I did have a static during First Binding Coil. I quickly realized that it was not for me - the encounters are too simplistic, the issues with the GCD were a continuous irritant, and as much as I love the healing model, the sync issue was immensely frustrating. Just wasn't worth it for me to try to carve out time to devote to raiding in FF when I was actively raiding in WoW, too. The Benediction issue is enraging. It's honestly worse than watching GS go off and not save the tank in WoW. Tetra is a mini pissoff but I usually don't use it when something is at 25%. I should be able to bene someone at 10%, but I usually use it at 20-25%. Even then it's.. unreliable. I've used it at 40% before just to use it successfully and save some MP in a pinch. Depends on the fight really. Ilwe usually got my back.

I was a hardcore raider in WoW. I raided in US Top 50 and 30 guilds. Even with their fast as hell GCD, I was always looking to get another spell out, as a healer. The slow GCD drives me absolutely bonkers. And I've had sync issues from the beginning that I've never gotten in WoW. It got better when they fixed the netcode, but there are still issues. Have you done progression raiding in FFXIV? Just curious, because I hear this a lot from people who's experience of the game comes from lower and mid tier content. Part of it is confirmation bias though, because if the GCD bothers people enough, they never get into raiding to start with. idk I'm doing a6s tomorrow /shrug I don't like the GCD just because I'm a healer and I can't account for tank's cooldowns/what things people are going to stand in. As a WHM I have.. one mini oh shit button, one big oh shit button and those only work -sometimes- depending on if the server likes me or not. Assize is nice though.

I got my own beefs with WoW as a game, but ...I do have uuhhhh.. goddamn I don't know? Four level 100s? Way too many lvl 90ies. I have a 90 of every class I don't have a 100 of. I did preorder Legion and I am planning on playing it when it drops. I've played that game since closed beta vanilla and I'll probably see it through til the end. The global cooldown on FF sucks for sure. WoW's got that over FF but ..going through the world and seeing stuff that's 10 years old also makes me squint. I'm forever going to be upset that they'll never update some of my favorite mount models. Particularly the low lvl brewfest ram that horde can ride. The nail in the coffin for WoW, for me, was in Cata when they introduced LFR. I raid hard, I get gear. People raid minimal, they get recolored gear that looks pretty much just like mine. I've been told that LFR might be on its way out come Legion though. We'll see.

Yeah, so old. Just like PS2. I don't spend a lot of time looking at landscapes unless it's my house. And.. well. My graphics not even max on FF but they sure as shit max on WoW. And why is the cloud eating? I don't know, the cloud's gotta eat. WoW: http://i.imgur.com/GFpu2BH.jpg FF: http://i.imgur.com/EDjf6bk.png http://i.imgur.com/2xhRZb8.png And I spend a lot of time looking at my character's faces.. WoW: http://i.imgur.com/a4vPYIO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/TXWnN1R.jpg (great landscape but look at the pixel texture of my dated mount in the corner.. to me, that's kind of like agony. Some things look good but then there's these big ugly reminders that not everything has been updated.) FF: http://i.imgur.com/oquqJMw.png (even in the dumbest of outfits with dirt on his face, looks better than wow..) http://i.imgur.com/RFIo1kP.png WoW model updates: http://i.imgur.com/fqTR51Q.jpg She looked better before if you ask me. Her face, anyway. I don't like those weird new eyes. They're awful. The model update was certainly kind to some characters, but not that one. http://i.imgur.com/yQP7NB1.jpg What the hell even happened here? How did they manage this? I was so mad about this I wrote several tickets. I don't think I need to explain what's upset me in this picture. http://i.imgur.com/LJW7V8C.png Again, somewhat whitewashed. I know nobody on WoW liked that we could have semi-tanned elves, but I reallllly liked my semi-tanned blood elf. Now.. he's no more. Just looks like the rest of them. ....And the landscapes on wow, what you've shown? The RPers only hang around stormwind for alliance, silvermoon for horde. So.. those shiny new WoD places? Yeah not so bad to look at, but if you're gonna play WoW the way I would be playing it you're stuck in a dated looking tavern/cathedral that's 10+ years old. 11? I think 11 years old. Anyway, as for ps2 graphics. Looks just as nice to me. If not nicer. Again, on par. The people look better and the landscapes in that game are just as eyepleasing. ...Dare I say.. I find this game more eyepleasing. I do. Honest.