(07-13-2016, 12:03 PM)Warren Castille Wrote:I enter those tournaments to win gil point blank and simple lol. I won't even lie to you. That small chance of winning 150k is enough motivation for me.(07-13-2016, 11:50 AM)Valence Wrote:(07-13-2016, 09:22 AM)Aaron Wrote: But that's besides the point. Aaron my character for example is very good at both magic manipulation and swordsman skills considering he spent like three years training with it non stop before his current self I rp. Like, he literally did nothing else but train.Â
3 years is absolutely peanuts in that kind of things. A drop in the water at best. You will probably be a neophyte after that, nothing more. That's how it works with art, drawing, music, martial arts, swordsmanship or whatever else.
Swordplay and spellcasting are, so far as demonstrated in game, completely different schools. 3 years spent doing both would break down to roughly a year and a half each, if you spent every day working on both equally.
Better, if you developed your own style to incorporate both, you would be completely writing a new way of doing things. Those sorts of disciplines can only grow as much as they are challenged, so you would have to be fighting other styles constantly in order to establish how to maneuver around them. Given the different tactics used amongst varying styles of one type of weapon (boxing, wrestling, muy thai, juijitsu just to name some popular barehanded methods) you would be forced to be fighting every type of martial school AND every type of magical school in order to work on those reflexes.
What you're saying is that your custom-grown style has become strong enough to have a response to every form of known combat and you created, honed and perfected it in the time between the Calamity and ARR with time to spare.
Also, for someone who hates fighting, Aaron enters a fuckton of fighting tournaments.
I bullshit IC reasons for joining just to get involved in it because IC Aaron's a pacifist 9/10. If there was no gil involved I'd never join. Was thinking of just throwing a mask over his face and rping a different character every Saturday just to get in that thing but where's the fun in that? Do note, since I've said this now if it irks anyone please let me know. I'll stop joining if my motive really grinds somebody's gears.
Edit - Oh yeah, for further clarification when I say he's good at magic I'm not talking about arcanism or that stuff. I'm referring to the style he's made up (Which is completely fucking made up and has no base class for reference in game, like a ice spell sword or some shit) and gotten good at using.
I'm not throwing meteors from the sky at people like some rpers I see. But I'm just gonna sip my tea on that.
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