05/02/2008 The Myriad Arms of Balrahn

[Tovaud]

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/topics ... 80502.html

The Myriad Arms of Balrahn (02/05/2008)

By now the name of Balrahn, great restorer of the Empire of Aht Urhgan, has resounded throughout Vana’diel, reaching the ears of all in the form of both history and legend. Blessed with multifarious talents and gifted in nearly every field of human endeavor, the tales of his exploits and travels have become an undying source of entertainment and delight. The restoration of the reign and dignity of the throne which he ushered in has earned him recognition as the greatest hero that empire has ever known. Though, we would of course be getting ahead of ourselves to posit that his grandeur or regality was on a scale with anything approaching that of our King Ranperre.

During his time on the throne, Balrahn garnered enormous respect amongst the people for his utter lack of interest in the superfluousness of royalty. The magnificent structures, the lush garments, the grand banquets… Rather, Balrahn was obsessed with, and dedicated himself wholeheartedly to, the amassing of rare and powerful weaponry. Indeed, the vast majority of valuable weapons stored in the Imperial armories are from his personal collection. These are weapons heralded to be unparalleled in their artistry in form and efficacy in battle.

However, according to an Imperial spy, the official ledger containing the list of those weapons, though guarded to the utmost and never permitted to pass through the palace gates, was obtained by subversive means and made known to the public. What degree of truth and significance can be ascribed to these entries? Could it possibly be some clever scheme on the part of the Empire to leak false information for its own ends? Or could this truly be an instance of espionage unprecedented in scale throughout history?

But for our purposes here, this is a moot point. The information has been made known, adventurer. Whatever action that knowledge may lead to is entirely in your hands now.

History teaches us that the misuse or misappropriation of weapons of this magnitude can only lead the most disastrous of consequences. We can only pray that a threat so great as to warrant their consideration for use will ever cast its shadow over our Aht Urhgan.

Halver M Borel

I suck at HTML, so if someone else wants to get the images of the weapons up, please do so.

[Thufir]

"Restoration" and the fact that there are 20 weapons makes me hope for Nyzul weapons to be useful.
But it's SE and that makes me sad that it wont come true.

[Rellikard]

Nyzul Relic weapons

[LD]

There is no hope, there is only certainty.
20 weapons, all Job-Secific, based around a Near Eastern Hero. These are the Nyzul Relics.

[Octavious]

I couldn't directly copy the images since they run javascript to expand into a bigger definition of each weapon, so I just print screened it. Here's the pictures of each weapon, the POL site contains a description about them.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2...weaponswu9.png

[Rai]

/bricks

Why'd they have to make Laevateinn the BLM weapon though ;-;

[Therin]

FUCK YEAH NYZUL RELICS FINALLY YES.

<3

[miokomioko]

Those PUP Kenkonken are hot as shit :3

As are pretty much all the weapons, those look really nice, visually.

[Lordwafik]

HOT HOT HOT

I want the thief dagger!

[Wycor]

monk one is , however.... whm is rly a club?

And yay finaly relics here.

[kenshyn]

Man those weapons are sick looking the corsair death penalty and Dancer Terpsichore are so fing sweet it isn't funny I could only dream of dual wielding 2 Terpsichores that would look just so bad arse.

[Spira]

yay nyzul relics XD pretty pictures

they look so much prettier than normal relics from those pics..
I WANT A NIRVANA

[TT]

The Nagi is totally the Katana that Galka NIN is using in the update notification last week.

Perfect timing on this, just got DRG lance from Nyzul yesterday lol.

[Suteru]

I want that cannon NOW.

Hello, sinking Selbina ferry


edit: I WANNA BE THE GREEN RANGER THF! Dragon Dagger GO! Dun dun duuuun dundundun!

[LD]

Ok, discussion time.

How will we get these from nyzul to bad-ass level?
Will these have the new WSs?
Will the mage weapons be lolClaustrum, or will they have special effects that are actually worth a damn?
How will they compare to current relics?

Can we combine the two to make super-mega-ultra-shitridiculawesome Relics that do 1k damage when drawn and data drain mobs?

[TT]

Since the Salvage guy can store the weapons, maybe they are gonna expand salvage, or include upgrade items in salvage on bosses or some shit. Prolly like 10k gold pieces too would make them a little hard to get.

[Izzy]

Since the Salvage guy can store the weapons, maybe they are gonna expand salvage, or include upgrade items in salvage on bosses or some shit. Prolly like 10k gold pieces too would make them a little hard to get.

Just merit. 10k gold pieces aren't that hard to get compared to Dynamis currency.

[LD]

Some of this shit's pretty funny for a weapon description.

"Though handed down through generations of bards who carried on the tradition of singing that royal line's glories, it was seized by Balrahn and added to his collection, stating simply that bards, "don't need daggers to sing.""

[Suteru]

Now that I think about it Balrahn sounds like an asshole for stealing all these weapons.

[Maxxthepenguin]

HAPPY, BITCHES?