(08-24-2013, 09:10 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:Wow I'm really glad you said something about this. Â I just hit lvl 15 before I had to rest up a little for work. Â So if I wanted to IC'ly fight primals there really isn't any other way around it. Â The game has been pretty great so far guys, hopefully more snippets of Lore in the main quest will help me better formulate my background.(08-24-2013, 02:33 AM)Dubs Wrote: Not sure at this point if I personally am going to acknowledge Main Story arcs and tie them into my RP. Seems to contradict a lot of backstory and IMO is too confining. Don't get me wrong it's great for lore but if someone is going around beaming my brain claiming to metagame or godmode with Echo then well I'm just going to have to hand them a tin foil hat and put on my lead circlet.
The fact that it's not controllable means that it's harder to use for metagaming or godmoding, though of course jerks and bad RPers will come up with ways to work around that. The Echo's actually woven through most of the story of XIV 1.x and 2.x, and of course, it's the only canonical way that you can fight Primals -- the Echo acts as a sort of spiritual shield against being Tempered, and once you're Tempered, well... suffice it to say that you quickly get on just about every PC's and most NPC's hit lists.
EDIT: In terms of how I use it in RP, I basically just restrict it to "can't be Tempered, convinces L'yhta that Hydaelyn itself is her patron deity, sometimes allows her to know lore that appears in cutscenes." As with other powers, I leave the door open to other players if they want to say, "hey, if you want, here's something you might remember about me through the Echo," but I'd never ask a player if I could have the Echo grant me knowledge of their character's history.
