New Horizons

Another FFXIV RP Blog

[newhorizonsxiv]

Introducing the Alt Army

Oh hey! I finally got one of those fancy pinned posts. 

The alt army is larger than this but these five are the ones I RP on and write fic for the most so these are the ones I am pinning.

J’lyneth Khal

* Sunshine and Snark * Wit and Whimsy * A Maze of Masks *

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#j’lyneth khal

Ilthus Dawnsinger

* Freelance Troubleshooter * Insufferable Bastard * Trash Cat *

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#Ilthus Dawnsinger

J’shihan Tia

* Someday I will stop being cruel to this character * Today is not that day * Tomorrow isn’t looking good either *

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#J’shihan Tia

Corafel Velasyn

* The Princess Saves Herself in This Story * The Dragon Helps a Little * No Knight in Sight, Yet *

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#Corafel Velasyn

Ghislain Virray

* Think Honoroit if Emmanellain was cruel instead of just clueless * And then he dies * And the poor kid has to go on the run to avoid getting blamed for it *

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#Ghislain Virray

[glysreia]

"Zenos was too emotionally stunted to be a villain, that's why Emet is a well rounded well written villain"

THE FACT HE'S EMOTIONALLY STUNTED IS THE FLAVOUR!!!! YOU GUYS WILL ONLY LIKE VILLAINS IF THEY GO BY THE USUAL FORMULA OF SAD BACKSTORY LEADS TO EVIL DRAMATIC WORLD ENDING PLAN

I'm not here to bitch about Emet since I also like him and I like the way he was written and even how it makes you question yourself: if you too had to live while everyone you know and love had to die, would you not go to some great lengths of trying to bring them back IF YOU COULD? Would you not also be stuck in the past in some sort of melancholy and nostalgia and would you not also feel like every time you presently believe you're getting better, you're only proven wrong by your peers and find them lacking and imperfect, and then that plan of bringing everyone back starts ringing back into your ears?

Cool, cool, but Zenos having the also very human backstory of despite being born into the most privileged family and class of his country, ending up as an emotionless husk of a person because he was not even RAISED into an adult, he was merely allowed to exist only by Empire rules and FOR the Empire's goals, is apparently not enough and only gives him the "emotionally stunted" tag? That's the whole fucking point!!

The whole fucking point is nature vs nurture, the whole fucking point is showing that the Empire was so rotten from within it wouldn't even support its royal class, the whole fucking point is lack of any kind of human connection WILL bring you into this state. We've had this guy on and off for 2-3 expansions, reaching a boiling point in EW where he gets that one moment of epiphany, given to him by a teenage girl no less, where he turns around, thinks on it for a while, then COMES TO OUR RESCUE ACROSS TIME AND SPACE. He could very well let us die there since he himself talks about how much he doesn't like being alive. He even tells you you can walk away from him at the very end and that he won't force a fight on you anymore (not my fault that the game still pushes you to fight after cause duhh script).

But sure, he's emotionally stunted :( he doesn't qualify to be a villain. I guess only the guy who allowed 5000 years worth of nostalgia, melancholy and depression to make him attempt mass cross universe genocide gets to be a villain, oopsie.

[sylphchild]

i take my tomestone to ishgard and show it to a sickly brume child and i say theres this band called imagine dragons do u wanna listen and he stares shellshocked off into the distance and says i dont have to imagine them

[elizabethrobertajones]

why IS it always Azemet-forward and Hyth is also there or With Hades when I see stuff from that ship. AzemHyth is an ideal dynamic of gremlin 4 gremlin and conspiring to make Hades' day worse. Competitive giving him a headache rankings. He's so ride or die for Azem's familiar no questions asked and acts as the diplomatic intermediary for us just as much as he encourages us to go bother Emet Selch. Stop getting caught up in the grand romantic 10,000 year arc and think about a random tuesday in Amaurot where Emet Selch feels the hairs on his neck rising and Knows that Azem has returned to the city and crashed into the chief architect's office with some ghastly find from a far flung corner of the star to show Hythlodaeus that is about to be His Problem.

Hyth can't be [communist bugs bunny meme] our dead wife if you don't ALSO have a dead wife montage with him that's just as good or better than Emet Selch's. In fact you should make it a point of pride and competition to have the best dead wife montage of the two of you. You should make Hades sit down and watch them back to back so he knows it.

[higharollakockamamie]

Emet-Selch could have so easily be just another Dead Wife Guy, but they made the extremely good decision to make what he’s mourning not a person but a civilization. The easier and more obvious route would have been to, say, have his moment of keen nostalgia and homesickness be brought on by seeing some reminder of Dead Wife: instead, it comes from seeing a bunch of people work together on a municipal project. This is a weary, bitter man who could be moved by a well-organized chore wheel, and I love that for him.

[ardentmystacina]

I bet that he'd love that Limsa Lominsa's customs office is run by people so good at math that they can create adorable aetheric fox-cats as animal assistants for the customs agents

It's not Creation but it is good old fashioned bureaucracy and civil service whilst making little guys with Jobs

[viiioca]

i think my favorite ff14 narrative gimmick is that the savage raid unlocks are explicitly just the WOL having adhd daydreams about the cool shit they've done. the omega raids are even explicitly about cid trying to put on an ASMR tibetan meditation spotify playlist to calm them down but the WOL is unmedicated so it really only makes the problem worse

[kakushino]

All of theseare great like

Wtf am I supposed to reblog?

[straytheskies]

its 3 am and im tire d and someone posted this strategy board in ffxiv and im crying

[thelostpretzel]

siblings (tm)

[hotshotriot]

its like strippers and the economy to me

[rhymingteelookatme]

#eorzean proverb: one scion is happenstance two is coincidence three is impending calamity

via @ofdarklands

[artistic-cocoon]

POV: Thancred

[trans-estinien]

[tritoch]

everyone likes to make jokes about how huge and unusable the FFXIV settings are but the unfortunate truth is that that's kind of just what you need to have a large number of actually useful settings. like they could definitely do better at labeling (and it desperately needs, though I"m unsure the backend could accommodate, some kind of search), but it's also straight up the most powerful set of settings and tools a game has ever offered me i think

like this tiny slice of the sound panel alone is better than 99.99% of computer games. absolute gamechanger that nothing else even comes close to matching.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

we joke about the cubus in amaurot but honestly if a new yorker made a simulacrum of new york 10,000 years in the future and someone was like "why are there fucking rats" they Would react like that one tweet

[tritoch]

ffxiv is so fucking funny because relatively few people in this playerbase understand how good they have it (which is a fine thing overall because it means the game isn't horrendously flawed). like in my browsing just now I went from a long discussion about roulettes and whether they should be tweaked to change player incentives to a destiny 2 postmortem where someone's explaining that part of the game's problem is they just straight up ripped out large chunks of it as they went and you simply cannot play "the main story of destiny 2" in any meaningful way.

like on the list of things that make FFXIV insanely good to play is "most content except seasonal events should be evergreen and always playable, and there should be incentives for endgame players to go back and do it." you would think this is the most basic player retention and growth thing ever and yet the other mega-successful mmos don't actually do it (which is not to say it's totally unique, waving to my eso friends here). class dps balance issues which make people frustrated here wouldn't even register as issues in most games, which have significantly higher deltas in damage output between the best and worst performers.

which is not to say people should not complain about and critique FFXIV! only that sometimes, listening to the complaints, I feel a bit like I'm in the front room of a nice house, and someones pointing to and complaining about a crack in the window, and it's not that they're wrong—the crack is real and should be addressed—but they don't even realize the finger they've pointed at the crack is also pointed at the dilapidated apartment building across the street I used to live in, which I can see through the window, and I can't really follow the complaint anymore because I'm just like "wow it's soooo much nicer not living there anymore"

[tritoch]

like, could FFXIV pvp be better? Yes! Was the feast really bad for a really long time? Sure was! But imagine if FFXIV had a mode that's like crystalline conflict only you have to win SEVEN MATCHES IN A ROW for the really desirable stuff, and also some of it is still random drops, and despite everyone repeatedly pointing out that winning seven matches in a row is a completely unreasonable goal that makes it impossible to have good matchmaking, they refused to ever change it. AND your gear affects your damage. This is a real mode destiny 2 players suffered through discourse about for years!!!

[newhorizonsxiv]

Is it a massive wall for new players to have to go through the entire 100 levels worth of MSQ to catch up to the end game content? Yes. Do I still prefer it to WoW where it's actually completely impossible to follow the game's story from your starting zone into the endgame now even if you wanted to do that? 100000% also yes.

[tritoch]

emet-selch's role in the garlean empire is one of the best and funniest retcons ffxiv has ever implemented because all of a sudden almost every setting detail that didn't quite add up now works because an evil wizard did it.

like the nael thing goes from "what do you mean a young garlean officer's sister disappeared and father died in what was widely assumed to be an act of patricide, and then he publicly executed his house's officers and guards, and solus zos galvus said 'hang on, put THAT GUY in charge of a legion NOW'? how does that make any sense?" to "oooooh yeah. yeah he would do that."

[pointyhatspointyears]

Slay, bestie

[pointyhatspointyears]

[anneapocalypse]

"Stop dumbing down dungeons! More complex mechanics!"

(pulls out a Nerf gun) and how will you respond when players get those mechanics wrong and slow down your run? answer quickly.