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Hey while overwatch gets all the glitter, warhammer total war also came out last night. I played it a bit, seems good. Dwarfs are too slow, but have several beard based research topics and random events, so that's good. Overall it's the fastest and most polished total war yet. Loading the game only takes like 10 seconds! In Shogun 2 it still takes me like 2 minutes to start the game on the same computer. Anyway, if any one else got it let's nerd out.

Damascus is a Discreet Adventurer

"Steak, steak~ Wonderful Steak~" It was a strange sight, the miqo'te skipping along Emerald Avenue, her arms full with a bulging package wrapped with paper and string. She wore a tight, military looking jacket, emblazoned with the symbol of a Raven astride a field of stars. Her face was covered behind a carved white mask. "La la la~ Steak~" None of that was the truly strange part though. It was her singing. "Cook it up~ Taste's so good~" "It is my~ Favorite food~" Passerby's gave her strange looks as she passed, but the Miqo'te seemed not to notice or care. Finances had been tough for a few weeks at the Night Ravens, and fine food was a luxury they had gone without. The Leve to bring in the coblyn cores had been a twelvesend, and their coffers were comfortably full after nabbing a half dozen of the things. She adjusted the satchel on her back, wine bottles clinking together inside. "La la~ Laaaa~ Steak~" Ueno and Iyrnahctwyn had been as dependable as she expected, and even Eris had pulled more than her fair share. "Juicy meat~ cooked just right~" "Going to have~ Steak tonight~" At the back of her mind though, she was already thinking of the next steps. Specifically a pair of likely prospects she had met in the refugee camp. There was no rest for the wicked, she supposed. There was however, steak for them.

I loled, then felt REALLY bad about that. >w< Feral busses are the leading cause of injury to RPers each year, please remember to spay and neuter your busses. Our linkshell page is here! http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=15521 We haven't bothered to do much with a website yet, as we're small enough that we can currently just collaborate in game or on skype. Anyway, take a look and if you're interested send me a PM :3 Either way, happy hunting!

I don't think there would be much difficulty in doing day one dungeons, unless everyone gets hit by busses that day. There are 5-6 of us on most nights, and all of us are at least decent at PVE. I run Alexander Savage, and a few others are working on extreme primals and stuff such as that. If you want a huge bustling FC it probably won't scratch that itch, at least not for the moment. But it is warm and friendly, with a solid IC backing (we're a proper IC FC, associated with the Flames). For your evil character, I'd be fine with them in the FC, but we'd have to discuss if it would make sense for them to be a member ICly. The FC has a very strong 'Thankless adventurer' vibe, we're the people who make the little differences behind the scenes, whether it's killing a god, or a boar who is eating all the carrots in Eastern Thanalan.

Lots of words! The Night Ravens is is a small RP/PVE FC, we have a house and about a half dozen active members. We have a small house, and are working on doing more events. We had our first IC leve yesterday as part of Nikha's Noirzea plot. Obviously we're quite small, but that means we're at the point where everyone who joins is special! Not just another face in the crowd. People can help the direction the FC will move in, OOCly and ICly, and the way it grows (Hopefully it grows!). There are usually at least a few of us on most times as we have EU and NA players, and there is almost always someone up for RP or PVE. If you're interested let me know, I can tell you more about the theme of the group and our little IC quirks as an FC.

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No I'm the Queen!!!

Ignore this! I forgot about Nikhas leve! The Night Ravens have critters to catch.

NOW IT'S TWO.

No one will marry you now.

I won't stand for this Oppression! I will... -is muzzled- "MPHGHGH" "MMMMMPGHHH"

Honestly, at this point, I'm just arguing to troll the SE defense squad. Haha lol sweet troll bro. epic man.

Sorry I'm 2 kewl for the rules ;D Welcome to RPC. -Bites Again-

-bites-

Sounds cool! I run a small FC called the Night Ravens: http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=15521 We do quite a bit of small scale pve, and some of us raid. As for RP, I'd be happy to have the FC leader meet your char to see if you like the atmosphere. Other than that, happy hunting!

Black Mages Matter :c

Lol it's been a while since we've argued about housing. -Checks list- Looks like we're due for a White Mage thread again soon.

Hey! I run some stuff you might be interested in. Do you have any details about your character or RP style?

blegh nevermind.

I wonder how we would have done with something like Sephirot or Ravana hard back then? Would it be the fight everyone thinks back on with a mixture of fondness and ptsd? It's sort of interesting that unlike most games, MMO's are often a limited time experience. People who missed say, first coil, can never really have that experience again. It's gone forever. Appreciate the game today (including the bad pugs), it will be a different one tomorrow

Yeah something like that. I remember back in the day when enemies in higher dungeons only gave you 10-15 gil at a time, and repairs would cost 2000+ gil. At the 2.0 launch, they actually expected people do do leves for money, so they could repair their gear for expert dungeons and raids. Lol Yoshi-p please. It was one of the most 1.0-styled things in the game. Enemies in dungeons originally didn't even drop money, did they? Or it was only humanoids and only like, 1-10 gil? The game's economy was pretty fucked until like, 2.08 because there wasn't any real way to make money, and repairs to keep playing were bleeding non-legacy servers dry. It was an amazing time to play the game. People were doing sac-pull strategies through Wanderer's Palace because it did less damage to your armor than killing things did (oh also it meant you could clear it in around eight minutes, I'm sure that didn't hurt either). This was back before there was even a roulette mode, so capping your 300 tomes every week meant hemorrhaging out thousands of gil. Yeah, I miss certain aspects of it though. Like the dungeons were hard enough that some groups would actually fail and disband on things like demonwall. The Relic weapons quests were short, but difficult. It was a different philosophy. Instead of getting the number of some token from 0 - 1000 or whatever, you just had to grind hard primals until you struggled your way through. It was just a grind that didn't have a ticking number next to it. I'm not sure if people have just gotten better though. Sometimes it's rose tinted glasses, everyone was really bad at 2.0, including myself. Fights like Sephie hard seem like a cakewalk compared to something like titan hard, but that might just be because everyone is just better. I'm not sure if titan hard objectively had harder mechanics.

Yeah something like that. I remember back in the day when enemies in higher dungeons only gave you 10-15 gil at a time, and repairs would cost 2000+ gil. At the 2.0 launch, they actually expected people do do leves for money, so they could repair their gear for expert dungeons and raids. Lol Yoshi-p please.

Well, one fortunate thing (or unfortunate) is that armor damage in this game is actually more based on enemies killed than wipes. You lose a few percent on a wipe, but killing enemies actually breaks your armor faster. (This can be seen in fights with lots of high level enemies like Gordias 2. So wiping a lot doesn't actually cost you that much money (Unless you wipe a lot and then have to kill the same enemies over and over).

Come visit me in jail! (in game, thankfully)