(08-30-2014, 05:32 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:(08-30-2014, 09:39 AM)Enteris Wrote: As has been stated, more or less, throughout this thread already, I believe Limsa would come out on top.
Gridania has their hands full making sure the forest around them doesn't swallow them whole. They'll be busy using their conjury force to appease the elementals as opposed to healing their lancers and archers.
I greatly disagree with this. Â Gridania has a lot of Conjurers, and honestly, the best of the best don't leave the Shroud. Â They stay with the Fane and serve the Forest, but there is absolutely no reason to believe they would be unable to balance both the needs of the Elementals and healing their own. Â The bigger issue is that Gridania is defensive by nature, not offensive. Â They are primarily pacifists and wouldn't seek conflict in the first place if they could at all avoid it.
My apologies for not being clear. I was working under the assumption that because they are very defensive in nature, should a war engulf Gridania, it would be on their home turf, so to speak. As such, all of the battles would likely take place somewhere in the Shroud. War is messy, there'd likely be a good amount of collateral damage to the nature itself.
As such, it's possible that the longer the war goes on, the more angry the elementals will become... maybe so much so that they would actually consider waking the great one. If this is the case, then it makes sense to me that more and more conjurers would have to be pulled away to commune with the elementals and calm them down.
I didn't mean to say or imply that they would have zero conjurers on the front lines as healers, but I would still argue that should the above situation be the case... they would certainly be stretched thin.Â
Granted, I don't even pretend to know the ballpark number or percentage/population that Gridania has of conjurers. So perhaps they would have plenty to spare to cover all elemental threats, actual battlefield healing, and even have a fair number back home drinking tea and waiting for their deployment.
Raandal Bennett (Deceased)