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More offensive skills for GLA/PLD are always welcome. Maybe people will realize that our DPS can contribute to the fight (got scolded for switching to Sword Oath while bosses can't hurt me because of mechanics). As for Final Heaven... Isn't that already a LB?

Dirty, dirty outsiders. No, no, no, you go to Mor Dhona with all the other vagabonds and vagrants. *shoos* With that said, I'd probably prefer to just take the armor from Ishgard and wear them but not be part of them like a free paladin would I have a feeling that every new Job quests for existing jobs will be available only after completing 2.55, getting Heavensward and will be related to Ishgard. Not sure about others, but Alberic is already there, and Jenlyns will probably go "Screw this place, the Sultana's dead, I'm outta here." Sadly, I heard that ARR stories and most of the ARR NPCs and job NPCs will remain the same to keep the 2.0's plot and have 3.0 NPCs do their roles in 3.0 contents. So they probably won't do it for another expansion. Oh well. I guess they will at the very least send us to the 3.0 NPC. Nobody would figure out where the new job quests are otherwise.

Dirty, dirty outsiders. No, no, no, you go to Mor Dhona with all the other vagabonds and vagrants. *shoos* With that said, I'd probably prefer to just take the armor from Ishgard and wear them but not be part of them like a free paladin would I have a feeling that every new Job quests for existing jobs will be available only after completing 2.55, getting Heavensward and will be related to Ishgard. Not sure about others, but Alberic is already there, and Jenlyns will probably go "Screw this place, the Sultana's dead, I'm outta here."

For some reason, I want to think that the Archbishop is probably some Elder Wyrm in disguise. That would be rich. Could explain why Estinien is still the Azure Dragoon, even after the Dragoon quests.

Well, I thought Ilberd was an awesome ally (*cough*Suspicious but still better than Alphinaud*cough*) Now, I think he's an awesome villain. I'll love to hate him. Although during his battle with Raubahn he had a face creepier than Edda after Tam Tara HM.

With only one arm he's more of a shieldless Gladiator.

Hm... "Before the Fall" indeed.

I haven't played it yet, but... A traitor? Is it Ilberd? Because people totally weren't expecting it AT ALL. Also I want to see Yugiri's face ASAP

I think the update is mostly about the Ul'dah situation, so I'd doubt there's much new information on the Au Ra. Unless Yugiri does some disposition at some point during a cutscene. I can't really check it out until after work, myself, so I can't say anything definite. Well, we know from the trailer that Yugiri reveals her face. So I'd be surprised if we don't get any information.

Ok, now that patch 2.55 is out and I can't play it, I thought I could bump this thread. Did they give any informations about Au Ras? Would my character idea be at least possible?

I hate and love Cerberus at the same time. I always end up on Party C, so I end up tanking him (A=Adds, B=Belly, C=Chains/Cerberus, right?) I had just got WAR to 50, and someone in my FC asked if someone could help him. I accepted, and I decided to use WAR instead of PLD just to see how it would play in a raid. I am in Party C, as usual. Everything's great... At least until Cerberus. Someone asks if we're doing the usual A=Adds, B=Belly, C=Chains/Cerberus strategy, but one of the other tanks starts bitching I can't tank because I still have Bravura Zenith (didn't really need to upgrade it at the moment, Atma has the same stats as Zenith). People in the alllance start calling me a noob (even if the rest of my gear is pretty good, a mix of Noct and Demon gear). I try to ignore them... I don't really know what to do if I'm not main tanking Cerberus, so I ask in my party, but no answers. We go in, I try to get adds, but I end up getting killed because no one is DPSing them so I end up tanking too many Wolfsbanes at the same time. Needless to say, we wipe. And one of the healers in my group says to the alliance it's because "we have a stupid tank". So we get back to Cerberus, people still bitching and insulting me... And I run in. Defiance, Infuriate, Unchained, Berserk, Internal Release, Tomahawk, BB combo, and Cerberus is glued to me. People (luckily) follow me in, and we clear Cerberus not only without problems, but pretty fast too. I ask in the alliance chat: "So who was the stupid tank, uh?" And so from that day I'm known as the "Zenith Beast" or "+1 Beast" in my FC.

I used to get at least 3 hours of queue for EVERY FUCKING THING as a ROG/NIN when I first got into the game. After getting 307 minutes in queue for Garuda story mode, I decided I'd never play a DPS job again. And that's what I did. I erased that character and started again as GLA. Without even liking to tank, I just wanted to be able to play without sitting around for hours.

Couldn't find it anywhere here, so I'll just post it here hoping this is the first thread for this.

I was thinking about a macro for this situations. Not sure if it can work, I never use macro usually. /tell [Go back to masturbating, you pervert.] /.slap /mk ignore1 /return

Circle of Scorn counts as a PLD skill? It makes sense, with that name... I guess they gave it to GLA since there is no reason to change back to GLA after getting PLD. Well, Spirits Without and Bloodstain are interesting: while it would make sense if they are the weaker, unsworn version of Spirits Within, as they are used by GLA enemies, we have Jenlyns, who is, if I remember correctly, the captain of the Sultansworn. I get it, the charge time and AoE effect on them is to make the fight easier, but they also have weaker potency, and in Bloodstain's case, no DoT. Why doesn't Jenlyns' version at least have the usual name and the usual potency/effect? Sadly, I don't remember if Solkzagyl used them in the last PLD quest. Probably if he used Spirits Without and Bloodstain it would mean they are just for NPCs, since Solkzagyl is surely more experienced.

Well of course he wouldn't teach them to everyone... For example, if he found a village with no one able to fight, he would teach them sword and shield combat so they can defend themselves just fine. But, for example, if he found someone training in the use of the sword, he could decide to teach them more advanced techniques. Of course he wouldn't do it with everyone, but just with one or two peoples, and test if they are fit, both on a physical and mental level. He's not going to teach it to someone too weak and frail, nor to someone who could go mad and abuse those techniques. And yes, I thought the same: you can become a Paladin, a Warrior, or whatever you want, you just need training. The job crystals just speed up the problems by giving you access to the memories of people that went through your same training.

Oh, I have another question: I mentioned my character would be passing down combat techniques to the common folk, in order to teach them how to defend. While he would be able without a doubt to teach GLA skills (and more in general sword and board fighting), what if he took an apprentice and decided to teach him more advanced skills? Would that be possible without a job crystal? And how would Sultansworns react? Would it be "legal"?

Well, although I know I could still use the PLD abilities (a lot of GLA NPC use them, the most notable example is Hoary Boulder), I really wanted him to be a Paladin that left the Sultansworn due to moral conflicts... I thought that a wandering Paladin that protects the weak and passes down his techniques to the common folk would be cool. Also, I already have a character that is new to Eorzea, this time I wanted to have one that can go around ICly without being guided.

Oh, Fantasia is actually a thing IC?

Ok, thanks.

Well, I thought of him leaving the Sultansworn about 7 years (I have a fixation with the number 7, not sure why hahah) ago, so he definitely left before the Calamity. I knew that playing an Au Ra would be tricky, but I didn't think about this. Hm... What if he just kept his horns and tail hidden (most likely for the same reasons as Yugiri, racism and whatnot)? I guess glamour isn't really an excuse, because only voidsents actually use them to hide their real appearance, and, while the tail is of course flexible and it could be hidden in the armor, I don't think there is a helm that can completely hide the horns. Sultansworn are tasked specifically with the duty of safe-keeping the line of Ul. Hiding your identity would be relatively impossible, not to mention a liability if discovered. I know people always disagree with me when I compare them to the United State Secret Service, but imagine being tasked with protecting the President without having disclosed your entire identity to the parent agency. It's unlikely. Again, not to say that this isn't possible to roleplay. I'm just thinking that "au ra" and "paladin" are difficult to reason at current times. If Yugiri unmasks next patch and reveals that she's had agents hidden here for years just in case, then all of this goes up in smoke and everyone's got an in for it. Au Ra might be Skrulls. Well I guess I'll keep an eye on the next patch, even if I can't actually play it at the moment. If they say Yugiri was the first Au Ra in Eorzea, I'll just change race. I didn't even want to make my character's race a central part of his backstory, I wanted it to be an Au Ra for the sake of being one. But I can adapt.

Well, I thought of him leaving the Sultansworn about 7 years (I have a fixation with the number 7, not sure why hahah) ago, so he definitely left before the Calamity. I knew that playing an Au Ra would be tricky, but I didn't think about this. Hm... What if he just kept his horns and tail hidden (most likely for the same reasons as Yugiri, racism and whatnot)? I guess glamour isn't really an excuse, because only voidsents actually use them to hide their real appearance, and, while the tail is of course flexible and it could be hidden in the armor, I don't think there is a helm that can completely hide the horns.

I recently had this idea for a character, and I wanted to share it before actually creating it (not that I would have been able to create it soon anyway, but still...) I was thinking about a Paladin that left the Sultansworn, feeling he was unworthy of the title, and now travels around the world, posing as a merchant, but still protecting the weak and the innocent. I wanted to ask a few questions: - I wanted him to be an Au Ra. I'll probably get to create it when Heavensward is out (at least I won't have problems with naming), so I'm not sure if he should disguise his appearance like Yugiri does, or if he can just go "LOOK AT ME I'M A DRAGONMAN, UNTIL YESTERDAY NOBODY DIDN'T EVEN SEE THEM BUT WHO CARES" (of course not he would never act like this, but I think it makes my point clear) - Do Paladins normally know spells like Cure, Protect and Stoneskin? Or does that imply they had to be Conjurers before? Most PLD NPCs (Jenlyns, Solkzagyl and the Sultansworn Squires) knew Cure in the job quests but I don't think they ever studied conjury. - If my character was a Sultansworn, it means others Sultansworn should know him as well. So if I happen to roleplay with a Sultansworn, should I send them a /tell or something? I don't think I can just say "How can't you remember me? I'm [insert name here]!" without making them look like dumbasses.

Ophelie tries to pray to Garuda... Except that everytime she tried someone saw or heard her. So it's not really a secret anymore, since 8 out of 10 who know her know this secret. But of course people end up knowing it, if, whenever you feel the urge to pray, you start asking if there's a place where the wind blows anywhere near.