What kinda GM was this?

Well, rain again. Nymeia must be wailing her eyes out to be crying this much....Are they trying to turn all of Thanalan into a swamp? At this rate, perhaps even Thanalan will get a massive make-over.

If they redo Gridania zones after this storm, it would be nice if they added some monsters to it like Mandragoras or Ochus. It can be explained that prefer to come out only in more moist conditions and be very leafy in design. Also the 12 archons are like our guardians so wouldn't their rebirth be a good thing for us? Maybe our Guardian alignment can actually have some sort of beneficial effects because they were reborn. They did say those would have some sort of bonuses eventually yes?

They could be reborn, but would they retain their memories of good? Perhaps they'll regain them over time as they age and take up their duties again, but as they're reborn, they can think as a normal person from birth, and who can't say that they'll be influenced by discord and evil? I'm hoping they all stay the 'benevolent' dieties they are in the legends, but who knows in reality...Althyk could be a lecherous old man who laughs at little children.

For those who haven't read yet, here is some of the stuff the Ul'dah guildleve issuer is saying:

Totonawa: ...Recently, I overheard a client mention she was finding strange items on the creatures she slew while on levequests. I cannot even begin to fathom what these items might─

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Totonawa: ...Another party of adventurers returned today with tales of crystals drained of their elemental aspect. I shudder to think of what might cause such an unnatural phenome─

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Totonawa: ...Even the weather has proven quite a fickle mistress. One moment the skies are as clear as a mountain spring, the next, they are spewing down ice and stone. I cannot but help to believe this all portends something─

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Each time she cuts herself off with:

Totonawa: Oh, pardon me! I did not see you arrive.
Totonawa: Ahem! Greetings, adventurer. I deal in the issuing of guildleves for regional levequests.

What I'd love to see in an MMO is dynamic terrain. For example if you get a lot of rain in Thanalan part of it will flood and new rivers will appear for a while. Then the water drains away and it goes back to normal. Same with snow, have it turn the ground white. Strong winds, where are my fallen trees?! Why does Thanalan lack sand dunes if we get sand storms so often, why don't those dunes move? There's a volcano north of La Noscea, I want to see it erupt every earth year or so and change a bit of the terrain in northern La Noscea!

Maybe technology can't yet achieve this without it being too demanding on the system, I don't know.

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Originally Posted by Yarr

Was this a true "GM" at all?

http://www.yarrthepirate.com/phpbb3/...p?f=52&t=13023

Hes got an outfit Ive never seen before, its unlike any GMs ive seen before. At first I only noticed him because of the GM icon and then the outfit caught my eye.

Ignore my sassy comments, I was hoping to egg him into talking. No luck, he didnt say a word. I doubt he even spoke any english.

Like everything else SE does in FFXIV, I have no idea what he was doing.

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No its not a GM it does not say Rep before the guys name, all FFXIV GM say Rep XXXXX, most likely its a instanced NPC or something.

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Originally Posted by Elkwood

No its not a GM it does not say Rep before the guys name, all FFXIV GM say Rep XXXXX, most likely its a instanced NPC or something.

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It's a false prophet that the other NPC's were warning us about, run for your lives ^^

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Originally Posted by Elkwood

No its not a GM it does not say Rep before the guys name, all FFXIV GM say Rep XXXXX, most likely its a instanced NPC or something.

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I realized it wasnt a normal GM, but it had the GM Icon. Thats why the subject is called "Strange GM". It was a human played character, it was not an NPC. The player was targeting people.

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

It's a false prophet that the other NPC's were warning us about, run for your lives ^^

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That would have been really cool, but he said nothing. He appeared for around 2 minutes and said nothing. I have a few more screen shots. He was also wearing glasses with his hood.

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Originally Posted by Xenor

Maybe technology can't yet achieve this without it being too demanding on the system, I don't know.

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FFXI does this, not to an extreme extent, but it does have dynamic terrain, especially in Abyssea.

OMG I think he's an arcanist too! Awesome! I hope arcanist is a buffer/support class like bard ;D ;D ^-^ ^_^!!