Aetheryte vs. crystal

[Chakra]

So is this where people go to get their post counts up now? Seems like a bunch of idiots arguing over stuff thats not FF 14.

And you get your post count by being the voice of reason?

[Draylo]

FF9 is my favorite FF, just because you don't like it doesn't make it the worst

[Kaluuki]

so... getting back on topic.

What classes do you think they'll add to mage? Obviously WHM if Thaumaturge isn't a WHM already.

[bechyni]

Thaumaturge could be the starting disciple for the mage type in which it could branch off to other types i.e. whm blm rdm?

[Kaluuki]

Thaumaturge could be the starting disciple for the mage type in which it could branch off to other types i.e. whm blm rdm?

Yeah, but the basic class for fighters already has a bunch of disciples on it's own, without branching.

[bechyni]

True, I think if anything Thaumaturge would be the base for blackmage just from the look of it's armor

[Chakra]

so... getting back on topic.

What classes do you think they'll add to mage? Obviously WHM if Thaumaturge isn't a WHM already.

Don't know where it came from, but I read Elmer saying a few threads below that one job they were discussing translates to illusionist which gets me all hot and bothered. In a good way. Sha-winggg!

[McGoonagle]

Thaumaturge could be the starting disciple for the mage type in which it could branch off to other types i.e. whm blm rdm?

Thaumaturge means "miracle worker" so I guess it's the top term. I'll throw out the obvious ones: healing, divine, elemental, dark, enhancing and enfeebling as the next levels.

No pet classes to begin with, so no summoning magic. BLU could be represented by "animalistic" or "plantoid."

[Agito]

Synthesis Crystals have nothing to do with the Home point lol. Well the Home point looks like a crystal and the Home point looks like the Aethertype.

[Correction]

Don't know where it came from, but I read Elmer saying a few threads below that one job they were discussing translates to illusionist which gets me all hot and bothered. In a good way. Sha-winggg!

Your ugly sig pushes 4 megs and induces seizures.

[Xeynaar]

Aren't Quadav Thaumaturges in Dynamis RDMs?

[VaguStae]

Aren't Quadav Thaumaturges in Dynamis RDMs?

Nope, they're BLMs.

[McGoonagle]

Synthesis Crystals have nothing to do with the Home point lol.

I hate to sound argumentative, but I don't see how you can come to that conclusion. Home points in XI are crystals, tele points are crystals, and synthesis crystals are crystals.

Everything crystalline in XI is called a crystal. In XIV, the first crystalline entity we see is not called a crystal, but an aetheryte. Can we exclude the possibility that when the game is finally released that the word crystal will be replaced completely by aetheryte?

[Correction]

Everything crystalline in XI is called a crystal. In XIV, the first crystalline entity we see is not called a crystal, but an aetheryte. Can we exclude the possibility that when the game is finally released that the word crystal will be replaced completely by aetheryte?

Sure, just look at everything else they've renamed:

Hume => Hyur
Galka => Roegadyn
Mithra => Miqo'te
Tarutaru => Lalafell
Elvaan => Elezen
eleven => fourteen

Coming in 2025: Final Fantasy XVII - Online! play one of six diverse races, from the multi-talented Hyoom to diminuitive Shmarushmaru. Or picka hulking Malka or sleek, feminine Shmithra as you battle fearsome monsters through the realms of Shmana-shmiel! It's an all-new experience.

[McGoonagle]

Sure, just look at everything else they've renamed:

If you read one my earlier posts you would have learned that I observed that on the one hand that it can be simply seen as a nomenclatural change, like changing HTLV-III to HIV-1, but that it is also a reminder that this is a different game from XI.

That's a point a lot of people have not really grasped, and that's why I started the thread.

[Correction]

They're only 'different' in that in one game we know the mechanics and have all the math sorted out already, and in the other game chances are the equations aren't even programmed into the game yet, so it's up to our imaginations to make them different. In this case you either work from experience with MMOs and other FF games, which tells us it's just a new label on the same ol' same ol' to keep the lore sounding exotic, or you speculate optimistically and hope for a brand new mechanic.

If I were a gambling man my money'd be on the former.

[Silenka]

All synthing requires a crystal, so I'm sure this culinarian's guild NPC used one as well, but he still needs a burner and pan.

All 'new-fangled' synthing does, a lot of the NPCs in FFXI talk about the old way of crafting without crystals (especially the SAM starter quest guy in Norg who made swords the traditional way). Obviously XIV is going to require crystals for adventurers to synth too, unless they're going to implement minigames like cooking mama or something >.> I wonder if there is going to be a similar tradition of crafting without crystals in XIV, or if people have been doing it that way since the dawn of time or whatever... (maybe the gods showed them how to do it?)

[Xeynaar]

Nope, they're BLMs.

Ah, thanks. Only remembered them casting black magic.

[Talka]

Sure, just look at everything else they've renamed:

Hume => Hyur
Galka => Roegadyn
Mithra => Miqo'te
Tarutaru => Lalafell
Elvaan => Elezen
eleven => fourteen

Coming in 2025: Final Fantasy XVII - Online! play one of six diverse races, from the multi-talented Hyoom to diminuitive Shmarushmaru. Or picka hulking Malka or sleek, feminine Shmithra as you battle fearsome monsters through the realms of Shmana-shmiel! It's an all-new experience.

Truth!
If it weren't for the combat system, I'd say we have the exact same game.
Maybe they should have re-sold FFXI with improved graphics. XD

[Xplicit]

truth