What kinda GM was this?

Raining in Saronia 3:40 pmcst.

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Originally Posted by Lenneth_Valkyrie

So that ugly thing is the arcanist weapon..? Just another staff... and I thought we would have gotten combat scythes.. ):

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Maybe a blade or something pops out when its in active mode :P

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Originally Posted by viion

This guy just popped up in besaid at Horizon, Managed to get 4 mins of fraps, uploading to youtube.

He spoke in French, last line English

And of course the most vital bit of information: its raining.

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Nice job!

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Weapon

http://viion.co.uk/upload/files/ss1.jpg

Noticed:
- Obvious one the weathered Gladious
- His undergarmet/bottoms are that of Hume (although he is Elvaan)
- he has sideburns! and some shades lol

Raining in Thanalan as well on Mysidia, no music. No idea where the guy is though, been to the 3 main camps there and nothing. Ul'dah itself is nice and cloudy with music.

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Originally Posted by viion

/check
Weapon

http://viion.co.uk/upload/files/ss1.jpg

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lol they hid his gear

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Originally Posted by viion

/check
Weapon

http://viion.co.uk/upload/files/ss1.jpg

Noticed:
- Obvious one the weathered Gladious
- His undergarmet/bottoms are that of Hume (although he is Elvaan)
- he has sideburns! and some shades lol

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lol this is amusing

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Originally Posted by Lenneth_Valkyrie

So that ugly thing is the arcanist weapon..? Just another staff... and I thought we would have gotten combat scythes.. ):

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Why would they have a scythe? Arcanists are predominantly on the "classic" mage side. Combat scythe should likely go to a Dark Knight type class if anything.

the arcanists are wearing what they are because the physical model you see is a full NPC placeholder which are often created as one file instead of seperates like gear, its just implimented on top of x gear and y stats because the class isnt really implimented yet.
id bet arcanists will get their own basic armour look too much like CONs and THMs, i just doubt they came up with much so far so theyre just using what we see.

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Originally Posted by Punainen

I've seen him. He's a mysterious Arcanist giving out free buffs and ominous dooms-day prophesies.

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Beware the false prophets bearing candy and doom!

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6IaHzkK70s

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Originally Posted by viion

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6IaHzkK70s

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Very nice Viion! Thank you.

i hope this doesnt come to an anticlimactic ending =/

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Originally Posted by Shampooo

i hope this doesnt come to an anticlimactic ending =/

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lol same for me

Raining everywhere 5:48pmcst.... after rain does the GM pop?

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Originally Posted by Shampooo

i hope this doesnt come to an anticlimactic ending =/

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This is FFXIV we're talking about >_>

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Originally Posted by Victor

This is FFXIV we're talking about >_>

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We must unite our egg caps to stop the rain and bring back the music!

He hasn't repopped since and it has rained and stopped numerous times.
No ones said anything about him popping anywhere else, so I'm assuming he does it once per day? I'm at Horizon every day and this is the first time I've seen him here, but ofc we've seen him in Uldah too.

Theres no music in Uldah or Thanalan currently. Dont know about other areas as I dont go to them often.

I definitely remember somewhere about a post that he spoke in Japanese and later in French. I haven't seen anyone report of the GM speaking in English though. Maybe it is just once a day.

Raining now 6:35cst. Outside Ul'dah

LS reporting rain everywhere again


Rain every hour?

wow that 1 arcanist spell animation sucks, its very apparent the class isnt fully implimented yet, or just not being shown off yet.

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Originally Posted by Xenor

Interesting. What happens with the terrain in Abyssea?


I think people are expecting too much with this event when you think about it. I don't think any of the regions will change. They'd have to redesign the routes and locations for every leve, every gathering node/leve, all the quests, missions and all the mob placements. That's a huge task.

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People are mainly expecting Black Shroud to change because Yoshi said that the Black Shroud will change :P

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Originally Posted by Gracious

I definitely remember somewhere about a post that he spoke in Japanese and later in French. I haven't seen anyone report of the GM speaking in English though. Maybe it is just once a day.

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He spoke in german in Fabul lol

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Originally Posted by Xenor

Interesting. What happens with the terrain in Abyssea?


I think people are expecting too much with this event when you think about it. I don't think any of the regions will change. They'd have to redesign the routes and locations for every leve, every gathering node/leve, all the quests, missions and all the mob placements. That's a huge task.

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You know it wouldn't be crazy. People have complained about copy pasted terrain so this might fix that. Just a possibility.

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Originally Posted by Dreadnought

wow that 1 arcanist spell animation sucks, its very apparent the class isnt fully implimented yet, or just not being shown off yet.

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Isn't that Blood Rite?

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Isn't that Blood Rite?

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The part where he leaves is the animation for blood rite. Yes.

all the spell animations are Ferocity II, the leaving is Blood Rite II. Probably just testing the buffs themselves, most likely they don't have finished animations for them yet.

i doubt they will give arc that much power, they are prolly just using arc weapon cause it looks weird, and the buffs are probably just a gm ability type thing

I wouldn't look into it too much as an Arcanist they are probably only using the weapon to make it stand out so people notice it and same with the buffs as that is a huge AOE range.

The whole point of this is to cause confusion

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Originally Posted by Physic

i doubt they will give arc that much power, they are prolly just using arc weapon cause it looks weird, and the buffs are probably just a gm ability type thing

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GMs don't have special abilities beyond GM tool stuff. HP/MP boost etc are indeed class buffs. You get quicken if you have the item from having an active FFXI sub, which lasts 25 min instead of 10.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

GMs don't have special abilities beyond GM tool stuff. HP/MP boost etc are indeed class buffs. You get quicken if you have the item from having an active FFXI sub, which lasts 25 min instead of 10.

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You don't think they could have knocked something up quickly just for this event? Also watching the vid posted the "NPC/GM" didn't even use the weapon it was on his back the whole time while the buffs went off.

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

You don't think they could have knocked something up quickly just for this event? Also watching the vid posted the "NPC/GM" didn't even use the weapon it was on his back the whole time while the buffs went off.

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These specific effects been in the dats since closed beta 3, which are tied to a class that isn't fully implemented yet, so there's no actual "use" animation for it, just like Lancer's have access to jump already, but its rank 99.

Yes they are in the .dats BUT the game is undergoing heavy changes from the original plan, so while they have been in the .dats it doesn't mean that they will actually be used on a class. Like LNC having jump, with the job system coming Jump may very well find it's way to DRG.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

These specific effects been in the dats since closed beta 3, which are tied to a class that isn't fully implemented yet, so there's no actual "use" animation for it, just like Lancer's have access to jump already, but its rank 99.

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are those effects tied to the arcanist tag? its obvious that the effects exist, im just wondering if they are tied to arc, the dude did it without even a weapon out, even with no animation, id think if they were using it through arc, it would have to hold its weapon, maybe not

He's not the first Arcanist in the game.

There are several NPCs in the Arcanist guild, most prominently in the Limsa storyline.
There is also one in the Alchemist storyline. Rank 20 Quest, I believe, but could be wrong.

Their weapons look like mechanized staffs. They have weird shapes and pieces that look like "Machina."

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Originally Posted by Shai

He's not the first Arcanist in the game.

There are several NPCs in the Arcanist guild, most prominently in the Limsa storyline.
There is also one in the Alchemist storyline. Rank 20 Quest, I believe, but could be wrong.

Their weapons look like mechanized staffs. They have weird shapes and pieces that look like "Machina."

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yea, i havent seen them cast anything though.

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Originally Posted by Physic

yea, i havent seen them cast anything though.

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lol pretty much this, it's not the first Archanist in the game, but it's the first person controlled one that can use spells and you can check it's gear. It's basically shows the Archanist class is fully implemented into the game and is just not player accessible yet.

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Originally Posted by Isaaru

lol pretty much this, it's not the first Archanist in the game, but it's the first person controlled one that can use spells and you can check it's gear. It's basically shows the Archanist class is fully implemented into the game and is just not player accessible yet.

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Not really if you check them out they are decked in Gladiator gear showing that they just pasted a archanist NPC ontop of there gear. NPC gear and our gear doesn't always match up in the .dats. I remember this from my .Dat moding days in XI trying to place a NPC's unique item on a PC didn't always work out that well.

I don't mean to get all Grammar Nazi on you guys, but it's spelled arcanist. Trying to prevent the improper spelling from catching on. Every time I see it spelled "archanist," all I see is "anarchist." :p

So, which servers has he been seen on?

Urianger Augurelt appeared on Wutai a little after midnight (EST) this past Friday.

I'd just like to add that the Quick spell he casted on us was much slower in speed than that of Quickstride for Archers, but that's understandable given the spell duration.