It’s not difficult at all.
I’ve actually never heard anyone call it difficult! This surprises me, as a Gunbreaker main.
I’m beginning to suspect a lot of what I was told when I started was possibly not very reliable. Everything I was told is hard, apparently isn’t? And everything I was told is easy, is… not
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It’s also entirely possible that Gunbreaker just meshes with my play style and that it is difficult for people.
GNB isn’t “difficult” really but it does play more like a DPS than a tank. So, lots of buttons and a fast rotation compared to something like WAR. I thought it was really fun but if you’re struggling with faster classes, go PLD or DRK for your tank.
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I don’t know if it’s optimal per se but I know at some point or another you can / would be expected (for optimal dps) to hit almost every offensive ocgd and do like two separate full rotations within your 20 second dps cd.
It has a lot of buttons to press and you can press them very squished together and for some folks that can be tough I suppose. And uhh… Not to like, knock any one or anything, because it’s not a negative per se, but mmo’s are marketed to an impossibly wide base. They don’t accomplish that with complexity, and I would expect that to account for a lot of pretty interesting takes.
Anyways always try something out for yourself because at the end of the day only you can be sure of your own strengths and weaknesses.
There’s also a surprising amount of Viera stuff in comparison to most other races, though it all comes from one exposition NPC aboard the airship in Kugane. And well, it doesn’t really apply a whole lot to players since Viera players are explicitly leaving their society and cultures behind. It’s impossible to play a traditional Viera because a traditional Viera never ever leaves their forest, which is not an actual zone that we can go to in the game.
Hrothgar get the Bozja questline too (technically it’s not strictly Hrothgar, but they’re the vast majority of Bozja’s population), and we interact with a couple traditional Miqo’te tribes here and there.
Yo so here’s something handy for anyone who hasn’t seen it, the (as of current) complete labeled world map:
https://i.imgur.com/JTbvskE.jpg
Big image.
Aerslaent, the Sea Wolf Roe homeland mentioned earlier in the thread, is that island in the northwest, far north of Eorzea. The Lalafell homeland is an archipelago south of Limsa, I don’t think it’s actually on the map.
More stuff not on the map and we’ve only heard of it in passing: Meracydia to the south and the New World to the west.
Yes.
A lot of stuff in FFXIV is taken from other games, like thematics, enemy models, plots, even bosses wholesale, all given an XIV sheen to them, but that’s expected considering revisiting these FF stock characters is a thing through the whole series (the primals being FF summons, for example)
Then there’s the two times you had characters from other FF games pop in to say hi (Lightning from the FFXIII saga and Noctis from FFXV, both in limited-time events). If you stick around til November, Noctis is coming back and you get to drive his car (if you pony up 200k MGP).
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Gunbreaker isn’t hard but an actually good Gunbreaker is an entirely different beast than a mediocre one, at least in my experience healing them.
It’s mostly a sign of “why is this GNB always on the cusp of death?” because they’re squishy little beans and they’re always very confident in their ability to mass pull before suddenly panicking and popping superbolide instead of using other CDs.
I’m surprised Sunseeker Miqo’te have such a small population in Ul’dah, unless it’s only counting the city-state population and not the surrounding lands. Considering canonly several tribes are seen chilling in the area and the U’tribe have their own major settlement.
yeah most of these are just counting city-state residents, the ones gleaned from encyclopedia eorzea
pulls from wall to wall in paglth’an
5 dragons and 20 imperials trying (keyword, trying) to eat me
Sint reloads her Gunblade with malicious intent
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I find it kind of interesting that Keeper Miqo make up a larger portion of the Gridanian population that Seekers make up in Ul’dah despite the racism they face.
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why is Owen such a twink
If you have DRK, most servers are doing Berkserk memorials in Ul’dah right now. It’s pretty impressive. This community is so good
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I’d go even slower and say Warrior. Warrior is my only tank at 80 and I’m sleeping at my desk after my 7 seconds of Fell Cleave.
I was there. I’m still kinda reeling from the whole thing.
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You’re welcome.
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Keep in mind that Sunseekers are fairly spread out all over the place. The U tribe can be found in Thanalan, but you can find another one in Gyr Abania, and then Y’shtola herself, as well as her sister, are native Sharlayans, meaning the Y tribe likely hails from Old Sharlayan.
By contrast the Moonkeepers exist almost exclusively in the Twelveswood.
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The Final Fantasy franchise recycles names and concepts across most if not all of their games. For instance: all of the different Cids (there’s one in I think EVERY game at least, and they all share some core concepts), some of the iconic classes namely dragoon and white/black mage, moogles, location names, among other things. It means that when you get into a new FF game as someone whose played the old games, you can draw parallels to old stuff because it’s still mentioned.
FFXIV mentions and makes canon some elements of the older FF games. The Ivalice arc is a throwback to Final Fantasy Tactics for instance. So when the devs say that the zone on the Moon shares a name with something from FF2, you can begin to theorize and plot, wondering about parallels because while the other games aren’t completely canon, they revisit names in particular very often. It’s sort of a hallmark of the franchise and a sort of weird little reward for being an old fan.
tldr; concepts are reused across the final fantasy franchise, which allows for lots of crazy lore fun. some things from old FF games are canon altogether (you can go play FFT and make a Viera char based around it!), but most of them just inspire and influence. it’s definitely a ‘hey, remember this thing?’
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