News Flash: Three New Expansion Scenarios Announced at Vana'diel Festival 2008! (11/2

[Firewind]

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I agree with Kitten here. being a roleplayer I love the characters I've created and have a lot of fun roleplaying her in this game. a race change would seriously cheapen it if you could instantly change your character purely in an aesthetic whim.

Personally if I want an aesthetic change I'll just load up plastic surgeon and play around with that. I do think that Elvaan make very cool looking mages especially WHMs and RDMs and fishing as a Mithra is fun but would I ever want Sardia to stay an Elvaan or Mithra? No way in hell would I want to change my character permanently just because "It looks cooler". I would personally want a much better reason to change before I consider that.

[Armando]

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a race change would seriously cheapen it if you could instantly change your character purely in an aesthetic whim.

Well, nobody said it'd be free.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I wouldn't expect it to be free.

I wouldn't mind a "stylist" character that changes your hairdo, though.

[Nataka]

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I agree with Kitten here. being a roleplayer I love the characters I've created and have a lot of fun roleplaying her in this game. a race change would seriously cheapen it if you could instantly change your character purely in an aesthetic whim.

Personally if I want an aesthetic change I'll just load up plastic surgeon and play around with that. I do think that Elvaan make very cool looking mages especially WHMs and RDMs and fishing as a Mithra is fun but would I ever want Sardia to stay an Elvaan or Mithra? No way in hell would I want to change my character permanently just because "It looks cooler". I would personally want a much better reason to change before I consider that.

But for some of us it's not a whim. I was originally an elvaan long ago when NA released, but since i wanted to be a mage I got pressured into being a taru at a time where I was a lot younger and didnt know how to stand up for myself yet. I felt like I wouldn't get a party as an elvaan mage as at that point*, people were very wary to invite any mage that wasn't a taru, or at least a mithra or hume.

Not to say I dont understand where you are coming from. I'm a fiction writer and have role played a lot in different games before. I actually have someone who feverently RPs in my LS and I greatly admire his ability to RP, as he is a heck of a lot better than I have ever been.

I agree that if I people changed race just for stats or on a whim, that's a little odd. That's obviously why it shouldn't be as simple as a snap of a finger. In cases like mine though, I'm actually changing TO something that more represents my original vision. True I'm not changing back to an elvaan like my original, but i don't think that's really here nor there.

I'm sorry if my original post seemed slightly vain in my reasons for not wanting to be a taru. I really didn't mean it as such. I just figured most people would ignore my post anyway and didn't feel like writing a dissertation, especially since SE probably does not read these forums. I was also fishing at the time so that didnt really help much heh.

*Note: Obviously we know better now, but at least 80% of the populace did not back in 2004-5

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I found the Brady guide suspect the moment they said /WHM was a great sub for DRG, but never said why.

[Susurrus]

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I found the Brady guide suspect the moment they said /WHM was a great sub for DRG, but never said why.

I'm no DRG expert, but I thought DRG/WHM was good for healing breath and such?

[Aksannyi]

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If you know how to do it right, and, as anything else, shit's situational.

[Nataka]

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I'm guessing the guide probably recommended it as a fulltime subjob. Like it would recommend pld/war I guess?

[Firewind]

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DRG/WHM is awesome for solo/duo/trio play but is situational in an exp party. The guide probably recommended it as a full time subjob for general exp party use. /WAR or /SAM are preferable in exp parties because of the abilities from those subs as well as breath damage added to Weapon Skills.

I'm not a DRG expert by any standards but if you have a good tank and a good healer the DRG should never really have to sub WHM in an exp party.

[Armando]

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BBQ's point is that they never said why it's a good combination. You know it's a good combination now, but don't you think it's dumb that it doesn't say it?

It's like "Go PLD/WAR, it's good!"

[Malacite]

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Changing Race would reaaaaally fuck with CoP/Zilart unless they come up with some kind of Divine BS where the Altana herself interferes with reality and changes history...


But other than that I declare BP the winner of this thread.

[Armando]

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Changing Race would reaaaaally fuck with CoP/Zilart unless they come up with some kind of Divine BS where the Altana herself interferes with reality and changes history...

They don't need to come up with an in-game explanation for it, just like they don't need an in-game explanation for character deletion or server transfers.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I know what DRG/WHM does

When I found out at first I wanted to be DRG/WHM and nothing else. Then I found out how anal-retentive the FFXI community actually was.

[Kailea]

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True, that guide sucked -.-

I still have it though, don't know why ;p

Atleast they should make an updated one -.-

/WHM is so outdated for DRG soloing its not funny ;p

/BLU /SCH or /DNC are better by far, or even /RDM

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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/BLU /SCH or /DNC are better by far, or even /RDM

Don't see why anyone would even waste time with /SCH or /DNC when power attack has the fastest trigger. /SCH for Celerity or Sublimation is kinda silly since the criteria for activating Healing Breath conflicts with the criteria that makes Sublimation work. Plus most of the casting times on White Magic are fast, making Celerity superfluous for its own effect. Penury in the light of Healing Breath is also kinda silly, given the wyvern's breaths are the DRG's MP savings. Regen II is the top feature of the sub.

/DNC murders your DoT on DRG, preventing you from doing Pentas as often as you'd like.

RDM is meh, lacks a few key features and Enspells are pretty lol without the proper support for them, like having a SCH around to give you weather effects to help with the damage.

I'd say /WHM is still the best all-around solo sub, its just /BLU has better durability and a faster HB trigger. Stat bonuses and free traits don't hurt, either.