My girlfriend and I are going to change Grand Companies as well as race change to the Au Ra when Heavensward launches. It be nice to fully change City-State as well. :cool:
Ishgard and changing City-State
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04-20-2015, 12:20 AMArasielIshgard and changing City-State
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04-20-2015, 12:29 AMGunspec
City state just indicates which starting questline you did. I remember them talking about adding a way to experience the other questlines or giving you the option of changing later, but that conversation was a year ago so they probably aren't going forward with it.
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04-20-2015, 01:18 AMjomoru
Ishgard isn't getting a grand company nor a starting area.
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04-20-2015, 01:21 AMIromi
That would be impossible seeing as how they stated we have to finish the entire 2.x story line to even ENTER ishgard. >.>;;;
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04-20-2015, 02:00 AMArasielYou sure about that? I could have swore they were getting a GC?Quote:
Originally Posted by jomoru
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04-20-2015, 02:05 AMNikitaI'm not sure where you heard this but it's my first time hearing it lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arasiel
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04-20-2015, 02:24 AMBabette
Imagining a frontline 24v24v24v24....
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04-20-2015, 02:32 AMMatthiasSImagines: 56:07 in que, Avg Que Time: More then 30 minutesQuote:
Originally Posted by Babette
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04-20-2015, 02:41 AMBluevannFrom the old Lodestone:Quote:
Originally Posted by Arasiel
Grand Companies are organizations that take the burden of organizing and administrating a city's military power with the aid of adventurers, sellswords, and freelance suppliers such as crafters and gatherers, and their leader works, if not as the city-leader himself (Merlwyb, Kan-E Senna), as a close second to that (Raubhan, member of the Syndicate, without which the Sultana cannot act). The Holy See is fully in the hands of the archbishop, who controls its economic, military and internal as well as external affairs in all their aspects. To allow a Grand Company to be established within Ishgard would go completely against the lore of fully independent, self-centered and xenophobic state as the one the Holy See is.Quote:
The Grand Companies of Eorzea are a military alliance of nations united in common cause to avert imminent catastrophe from engulfing the realm, each city-state charged with mustering its resources under the banner of an elite regiment.
TL;DR: Grand Companies are, in short, factions established to unite resources in nations where they would be otherwise not be gathered together. The Holy See already has all its resources gathered under the will of the Archbishop, and as such, do not require a Grand Company to be formed.
I believe what you're thinking of is the news we received that the Grand Companies will receive new ranks. That is confirmed, but it's only applied to the three starting cities' GCs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arasiel
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04-20-2015, 02:58 AMkyuven
There's absolutely no incentive for SE to add new GCs, considering there's no storyline reason for additional ones to exist.
Ishgard probably just has their own versions of GCs, implied through the existence of multiple Houses. However, even these aren't anything like the GCs we have, as they're internal factions whereas the GCs are more of an external one, and other than Ul'Dah there isn't all that much tension between the factions, with the Maelstrom and Twin Adders handling situations their "internal" counterparts the Yellowjackets and Wood Wailers can't.
There's also no practical reason for them to exist, as adding a new GC would upset the already grossly imbalanced PvP system. It's very, very rare for multiplayer games to have more than 3 factions, as things just get messy and spread way too thin. -
04-20-2015, 03:22 AMFrederick22
Bluevann, when did you hear that we will get new ranks for the current GC? People has been asking for this long ago, but they have never being implemented yet. And I havent seen any sight that they are gonna be implemented on the expasnion
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04-20-2015, 03:43 AMCoombahYou can see then now at the GC. They are greyed out currently. There are at least two more ranks comming.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frederick22
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04-20-2015, 03:45 AMFrederick22I can see a list of the next higher ranks, but nothing that they will be implemented.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coombah
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04-20-2015, 05:00 AMAryalandi
I do wish that they would make it so that you can experience the other two nations beginning storyline, especially given recent events.. i intend to make the same auri character three times (at once) and go through all the city stories before continuing on one of them as though i had just been to all three places, it means more emotional attachment to the grand company leaders and other important figures..
As for new grand companies i would imagine as others have said that the four great houses could fill that role if needed -
04-20-2015, 06:31 AMBluevannIt was in one of the latest interviews/live letters. I am pretty positive of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frederick22
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04-20-2015, 08:51 AMFelis
During the time the city states refounded the GC (they got refounded 1 year after 1.0 launch), Ishgard was not one of them. I'm sure they have still not refounded their GC in 3.0
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As the Sixth Astral Era drew to a close, the three city-states of Limsa Lominsa, Gridania, and Ul'dah once again revived the Grand Companies—a final attempt to forestall the coming of the Seventh Umbral Era. With a number of remarkably talented adventurers among their ranks, they stood fast against the beast tribes and the savage might of the primals, as well as the Garlean Empire, the invaders from the north.