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Problem with tanking Samurai is... Another tanking class with a sword. All sword classes are exclusively tanking classes right now. How boring. With, arguably, perhaps, the exception of Ninja which is about dual handed short blades, but... yeah. Why not a mage tank for a change? Or even craziest, a ranged tank (with actual gameplay limited range, shotgun type)? I don't know, make us dream.

Generally, until you get Holy, WhM is a bit awful for DPS. Single target is okay-ish. Bane comes way sooner for SCH. Of course though, Holy is incomparable. Yeah... the bees are technically surviveable, I guess, if you're a tank with full VIT, decent gear, on full health, and with defensive cooldowns up. I think it's best to just keep the tank topped off as a priority, treat them as instant-death mechanic, and have a happy surprise if they aren't. If the healer was blaming the tank for dying to bees but wasn't keeping them topped off... the healer can jog on. That's what I said "ok fine, going to focus fire on bees instead of going gung-ho on AoEs". I'm totally okay with that, but the main issue is that there is one or two groups with bees where there... more than one. You can rush down one before final sting, but you generally will have to deal with it no matter what with the second bee. Better to be prepared for it. I have healed that instance a lot and even DPS classes tend to survive it. I think it's more a mechanic that acts a bit like a tank buster. Same for tank busters, you don't let your tank mid life when the buster is coming.

Especially with MNK and Ninja, that get very intensive in terms of skill speed. At 60 I'm stretching to my limits in terms of brain processing and it gets messy pretty fast. For other DPS jobs there is more leeway, but still. Full hotbars already. I don't want to open a 4th one. I really don't want.

I got into a Qarn run today as a DPS. We got with a shy tank that wasn't talking much, and didn't activate darkside. The AST healer immediately got a bit pedantic, telling him to put it up right asap (there is a way to say it...). That's okay. Then DRK starts dying to bees. I wonder why, start thinking that the tank is not really good, aided by the fact that the heal tells him now "how are you level 60 and forget about darkside, and don't use your cooldowns". So as I wasn't especially paying attention to the tank cooldowns and all as a BLM, I see the other DPS NIN complaining about us not focusing the bees. I say "you can totally survive bees here" which is true, as long as your HP is close to top. I regretted after that to have taken the heal's side (ambiguously) when we got to the first boss. The heal was actually not healing at all and DPSing. He didn't even reprotect the tank. No wonder the tank was dropping and we wiped eventually. So yeah, I understood that instant that the heal was the kind of petulant idiot that thinks he knows everything but is doing a shit job. Why did the tank die to bees earlier? The heal was not healing much, and certainly not keeping stoneskined or close to top health. We kicked the heal soon after.

Obedience without a thought is to be cultivated, but so is the moral certitude to know when to disagree. Was told to Suen by her mother matriarch once, in a matter where she had to disagree with the botanist guild. It came to bite her in the ass later when Suen twisted it to the letter for pretty much anything.

Fair enough. Wouldn't it be more along the model of the Congregation of Our Knights Most Heavenly being the encompassing entity around all the other militaries (Templars, Friars, etc)?

I would expect Ishgardians to be more surprised at the rarer sight of a rising mi'qote or lala or even roe in social ranks than outright against it, if merit has been shown. So yes I would reasonably expect those races to have a slightly harder time overall to rise in Ishgard, not because people will do what they can to prevent them to do so, but more because of the "not expected" factor. Not something you see everyday.

Yes, I perfectly remember the convictory series of quests. It was a way for some to get lots of money, glory, recognition, and potentially a noble status if I'm not mistaken. And that would tend to make my question even more sensed since yes, those are all lowborn and can potentially claim application to the Dragoons. The Dragoons are part of the Temple Knights in the sense that they officially answer to the authority of the Archbishop, Knight Commander, and Azure Dragoon in that order (pre-HW). On a practical level though, they do seem to be more insular and independent. During the raid on the Vault we're shown through dialogue between Aymeric and Estinien that the Dragoons are more loyal to their shared cause than broader politics, and likely more loyal to the Azure Dragoon than the Knight Commander or the Archbishop. Well, obviously everyone has to obey the Holy See and the Archbishop, but what I question is that they answer to the Temple Knights and their lord commander as well. Maybe they do, I honestly don't know. I'm just surprised actually. Where was that stated or shown? The only thing that I can remember is that Estinien cooperates with Aymeric in the MSQ, and so do the Dragoons (or just him independently at the very least).

I'm not totally sure where you are getting at so my apologies in advance if I understood wrongly... In any case, on immigration, the thing with the UK is that the country is not integrated at the same level than say, founding nations (Germany, France, Italy, Benelux). They are not part of the eurozone, not part of the free move Schengen zone (unlike Iceland by the way, which is not even a member and that is funny), and the latter means that immigration has always been controled as the UK saw it fit rather than to the european letter. They had deals with France in the north of the country so that they could directly exert that level of control here, upstream, before they get on the island proper. All in all, immigration in the EU has been pretty much left to every member unlike many other things, and most countries are doing a bit what they want on the matter, as we have seen with the recent fiasco around all the Middle East refugees (the opposition between northern countries that did what they could to welcome the most of it, and eastern and southern Europe that groaned a lot not to do it, or outright closed their borders like Hungary). For Scotland being allowed back in, it's... an incredibly arduous process: you already need two years to enact article 50 to leave the Union. That article has never been used up until now and was actually rushed in haste into the existing Lisbon Accords when the EU constitution was scrapped due to various referendums 10 years ago (in Ireland, France, etc... well I can only speak for France where that constitution was deemed way too liberal/capitalistic for most people). So it means it will be even harder since it will be the first time with the UK. The UK are also waiting for their next Prime Minister to enact it, which delays the thing even further. At the same time we have Scotland that wants a new referendum because, quoting Sturgeon "The priority is on the interests of Scotland and they don't want to leave the EU against their will, due to someone else decision". We don't even know where this is going, but if Westminster even allows that to begin with, then you might agree that an independence process for them might take a bit of time too. They have to first leave the UK, then join back the EU. Not a small feat, you will agree. Then comes the other major hurdle, which is getting back into the EU. Because willingly or not, Scotland will have in essence left the Union, and like the UK, will have to start negotiating back all those agreements from scratch, and even more in their case, they will have to actually apply to be a member again. Those applications takes a lot of years, or decades sometimes. I'm sure it can be sped up a little bit since they were already part of it, but you see the issue. That's the bureaucratic side of the giant that the EU administration has turned into. So it's only the beginning and I'm afraid that to have answers, we will have to wait a certain amount of years/time now, because nobody really knows where all of this is going...

Are you sure that the Knight Dragoons are part of the Temple Knights? Is it said somewhere, because it sounds a bit weird to me. They always struck me as a very independent organization that only answers to the Holy See and have great leeway into doing whatever they want to get to their ends when it comes to their duty, slaying dragons and protecting Ishgard. Also, same, are they really for their crushing majority from high born blood? We see some of them from the Brume, and Estinien himself, unless mistaken, is from very humble origins. Which could be exceptions mind you, I grant you that, but that's the thing with Dragoons. They never seemed to care much about noble ascent to the opposite of your average isghardian knight. And even then, I may be speculating, but if those knights (not dragoons) are any close to what was IRL in medieval times, then a lot of them were actually not even always nobles, but the very few people rich enough to buy a horse, a weapon, and an armour, with the blessing of their lords. As for soulstones, they are the repositories of lost arts. If you get a mentor alive, you don't really need a soulstone, as far as I know, even if it can speed up the process. Some of them, like for the NIN class quests, are traditionally given to the practitioners as a symbol, so that those soulstones also get impregnated by the soul of the warrior they accompany.

If we don't get to go to Ala-Migho and possibly then Garlemald or at least a heavy leaning on garlic society and how it's like in the Empire and all, i'm gonna be salty

I'm trying to find the source, but I think they are referring to some of the different counties/regions within Scotland voting almost 50/50, not Scotland as a whole. Found it: Source Although there was only a couple of regions that voted below 55% Remain. Ah thanks. Interesting. Most of them are indeed above 55 then. The emphasis was on the fact whilst Scotland did vote 62% to remain a member of the EU, in quite a few regions it was much closer then the SNP would of liked. It certainly wasn't an overwhelming majority of 75%+ of the vote. I think I see what you mean. Well, the thing I was also getting at is that 62/38 is actually very unbalance already. It's not just 12% over 50 (half), but a difference of 24% between both, which means a equivalent of a quarter of the population. It's not exactly small, it's usually already considered pretty sweeping in most election stuff.

Scotland voted 62% for remain. That's not 'almost everything was near the 50:50 margin' or something is borked mathematically in the UK...

Ah, "funnier" news: - Spain didn't wait very long to "offer" to London to co-rule Gibraltar because Gibraltar has been voting massively for Remain, not to lose access to the EU market. They said that it would eventually lead to a return in spanish territory. I thought at first it was just a troll... - Agreements made between France and UK for boundary/customs to be able to be done in Northern France to limit immigration to the UK, which was favorable for the UK and less so for France, have been put into question this morning. Some are pushing to remove them and push back the boundary where it's supposed to be. It might actually made immigration more problematic for the UK if it ever happens (the irony). - The winning side has called for an Independence Day to be created!

That's a lot deeper than a comparison with NATO. Although the UK isn't a signatory of all of the EU's treaties, like the Eurozone and Schengen zone, it's still part of many agreements, economical especially (for the most important, agriculture, and the monetary support for eastern Europe, which is measured in billions per years), and that's more than just withdrawing from a military alliance. We have to remember that the EU is more than just an union of agreements. It has a growing government and parliament, and is issuing a colossal amount of laws and regulations, and is progressively taking a more and more important part of each member nations governing autonomy. Another issue remains that withdrawing from the EU is technically a black hole, because it's not taken into consideration in the foundings of the union proper. It's not forbidden mind you, but it has never really been taken into consideration. That will obviously not prevent it from happening, but it's a first. Then once it's done you get the status of the country itself as major issue: it would leave UK like a country that has absolutely no agreements or deals with the EU whatsoever (to give a perspective, even Turkey has some of those). Not only would they require full visas to get in/out of territory, but all economic ties would be lost. To make a (very!) gross analogy for americans, it would be like Canada suddenly losing all ties and travel/economic agreements with the US, and becoming like Mexico. They would have to re-apply for all of that and that would take years. Nobody wants that and that's probably why they are willing to negociate a lot around it. Then you have the issue of all the duties/benefits that the UK had to honour while in the EU, like the yearly financing for the lesser developped countries of the Union (like all of the new eastern Europe members, for whom ironically the UK was the biggest proponent, and these countries were strongly in favour of the Remain vote). Or like fishing quotas, etc. The UK would not have to pay for that anymore, and that would mean for the biggest contributors like Germany and France to give more to compensate among other things. The UK would also stop getting european subventions (like fishing, esp Scotland). The biggest nightmare for everyone right now is to see independence movements being embolden by that move. Denmark for example, has grown quite anti Europe (not to the extent of the UK for now). People are afraid that could snowball. Internally in the UK as well, with europhiles like Scotland and Ireland. Then you have all the speculation going, that is less about facts and more about predictions: the City of London losing progressively its central place on stockmarket and moving to the EU other hubs, the UK losing lots of growth over ten years without the EU behind, etc. Only time will tell. Maybe it's going to be the contrary, who knows. And well, it's also a huge loss for the EU, which account for approximately right now around a quarter of the world's GNP and economy, by far the first. UK is a non negligible part of it. On another note, we don't know how it's going to shift the powers inside the EU as well. The UK is close to the northern countries way of thinking, which are big proponent of free open trade. If the UK leaves, it will leave Scandinavian nations in an awkward and weakened position against the more centralistic views of the founders. There is also the language thing, perhaps. The UK gone, the only english speaking country left would be Malta. It is therefore possible that the (bastardized version of) english being the main language would be challenged by the french again, because Germany would be left without a strong excuse against it. All in all, for some countries, the UK was a much needed third player, for that they tend to see otherwise something that could be taken as a napoleonic nightmare. ______________ But I feel like doing a disservice to a very complicated matter with that gross summary here... with maybe inaccuracies. I would highly suggest finding a more exhaustive and factual source than my own europhile bias.

Aetheryte travels makes me see gil as pretty expensive all in all. It is clearly stated in lore and by lore team that the fees are enormous for your average commoner. Take that at best it's around 600 gils for the longest trips, then yeah, gil is expensive. A boiled egg is worth 2gils or something in NPC merchants. Stuff that is worth 700 I think, well... It's a lot of course. It's hard to reconcile. I could see it as some very luxury high cuisine or something I guess... So, based on the boiled egg price for example, it's probably cheaper than the standard US$. Maybe half its worth? Still close enough in my book.

I have been seeing a lot of new green sprouts over the time, especially recently, often as tanks, that well... Can't play their job properly. No flash, no aggro, no enmity combos... Well you probably have had to deal with that too. When you start getting into lvl30 dungeons or above, it gets really rough. There is no issue with green sprouts not knowing their job perfectly, or being confused about their role. I expect that in low level dungeons (or even higher but still). You can't know your role like an expert in the first few weeks of play. You can definitely have trouble understanding how a tanking role in a traditional MMO is supposed to work because it's your first time, or for any other reason. Especially for tank roles. It's the most confusing one to get at first, especially as weirdly enough the tanking classes have the most difficulties to hold aggro at low level. No complain about it. Then you try to explain it to people, rewriting your remark several times to be sure it's not perceived as insulting or condescending, or just rude. You make everyting possible to appear friendly (and you are!). But they don't answer. They continue to fuck every encounter up to the point where you wipe against the smallest packs of mobs, because the healer gets interrupted all the time, or whatever. You continue asking, offering help or advice, and they do as if you said absolutely nothing, or as if they speak another language. Fine then, you start using the autotranslate words and do actual, real efforts. Still no answer. Then you get to the point in Haukke when you have to type /return. They get stuck behind like we all did the first time. Fine. You tell them to type /return, not expecting much since they don't seem to be looking at their party chat. And suddenly, they use it. Seriously man. Stop taking people for idiots. So many of those. Grow some guts and say you are inexperienced. It's not the end of the world.

Maybe he is a half-breed (gasp!)... Anyway, we don't really know from where Wildwoods and Duskwights originate, correct? Who came first? Could the first elezens living in Dravania be descended from elezens coming from the Shroud? Or be totally unrelated? Can Ishgardians even be classified into the usual Gelmorran denomination (Wildwood and Duskwight)?

Hello! I feel that you may - perhaps unconsciously - be in a delicate spot, since as I understand it you are new on the game? Well, Ishgard has been going through A LOT of changes since 3.1, and it's a bit uh... yeah, delicate not to spoil you since it directly concerns the state of Ishgard proper, the war, and dragoons... So, without spoilers (or very mildly), basically, the war has ended recently! It doesn't detract from her character, quite the contrary, but be aware that if you start speaking about Ishgard with other RPers, you might get... spoilers and nasty surprises. Maybe a necessary evil? Up to you, if you still wish to start RPing before having seen Heavensward so far, sadly. Feel free to reach me out!

Hello, I'm kinda looking into FCs (or just linkshells...) that would be designed around all the steampunk/techie stuff: it can be engineering, industrial, steampunk, airship, magitek, Garlond, etc. All those things. I have a character that is a tinkering maniac and that's basically the kind of hook and everyday thing I'm looking for. That is not to say that I'm closed to everything else, quite the contrary, but I feel I'm lacking development on that side because... Well, it's not easy to find, weirdly enough. I'm not promising you that I'm immediately going to join or anything if I get answers of course, but I am prospecting a bit more seriously! If I missed something in the Linkshell Hall, or somewhere else, I'll be glad to have overlooked it! Thanks in advance!

They even ask people to report. Not gonna complain.

Maybe they are actually not planning anytime soon to make plot houses in Ishgard so they use that instead...

I'm sure only douches would get pissy at someone saying they have to poof away for health issues...

Still available! Will hit you up ingame at some point soon..

There was Dhoma on Othard before the Garleans conquered it (and now burned it). There is also Thavnair, located in the east. I'm not sure we know about possible nations on the New World and Meracydia. The only thing I know is that Meracydia proved to resist and never got totally invaded by the Allag Empire in the 4th Era.