So it appears, through PVP gear and general background lore, that a lot of classes appear to have animal motifs.
For example, Monks have the coeurl, as we see in Temple of the Fist, their first set of artifact gear (Temple) and the Sphairai relic. Then, you have Paladins with lions, as shown from their mount and Lionsmane PvP gear, as well as Astrologians, with them being mages of Sharlayan, sharing the same 'owl' theme with their Owlsight gear.
The question is - what about Red Mage & Samurai? Do we know of their motifs, if they even have one?
Animal motifs for RDM/SAM?
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08-03-2017, 12:16 AMClawbriarAnimal motifs for RDM/SAM?
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08-03-2017, 01:51 AMMirch
redmage would be a chicken, le coq, since half of its skills are french-named.
samurai would be mosquito because yes -
08-03-2017, 03:14 AMDaralii
They currently just use the same sets as BLM/SMN and MNK respectively. Neither have anything I can think of to suggest animal motifs unique to them.
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08-05-2017, 08:53 AMkoichi88
Aside from their generalist skillset Red Mages are know for one thing: Being incredibly flamboyant. With that in mind a peacock would fit them fairly well.
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08-05-2017, 09:11 AMSunAurelI agree with Peacock for Red Mage so much. Something that likes to show off would be perfect for Red Mage + the rapier could do cool things with a beak-design,Quote:
Originally Posted by koichi88
Samurai...maybe a Koi? or the japanese version of a Dragon -
08-15-2017, 07:54 AMZohar_LaharSo it would be a Ryu?Quote:
Originally Posted by SunAurel
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08-15-2017, 08:22 AMShippuuA Fox is far more fitting for Red Mage.Quote:
Originally Posted by SunAurel
A Tiger would be a good fit for a Samurai. -
08-15-2017, 08:58 AMlycropath
Fox is already the Black Mage's outfit isn't it?
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08-15-2017, 11:52 AMShippuuBlack mage is a wolf.Quote:
Originally Posted by lycropath
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08-20-2017, 07:37 PMblindfoldedkaospeacock was already taken from memory by bard and mch, the old pvp has a lot of animal motifs everywhere,Quote:
Originally Posted by SunAurel
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08-21-2017, 05:04 AMkoichi88
MCH is a parrot. Because pirates I guess. The parrotliege set is in turn a recolor/ helmet swap of BRD's birdliege set which might actually be a peacock or some kind of crested fowl. Personally I thought it was a rooster.
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09-08-2017, 07:21 PMAosha
All I have to go off of is the Samurai ability Enpi. The kanji used means "swallow flight" or flying swallow or something of the sort.
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09-08-2017, 08:01 PMYianKutkuQuote:
Originally Posted by Aosha
But is it an African or European swallow
To be honest, the first thought I had for an animal motif for Samurai was a dog. Partly because of Yojimbo and Daigoro, and partly because of the Nanso Satomi Hakkenden story. -
09-08-2017, 08:25 PMCidel
Realistically, if the devs ever decided to go and update the animal PvP sets for RDM and SAM, as creative as people want to be, RDM would get a slightly modified BLM set and SAM would get a slightly modified MNK set. The same thing happened to AST, MCH and DRK. Go look, they are mostly recolors, maybe an extra accent with modified helmets.
Because of this, I figured RDMs would've got a fox set since BLMs have a wolf set. SAM might have a little more creative leeway since, aside from the helmet, not too much about MNK's set defines the "hawk." But otherwise, SAM would be represented by an avian in the same vein as MNK.
If they do ever go back and give the 2 new jobs an animal PvP set that doesn't follow that formula, great. Though that'd be spitting on HW's 3 jobs in a sense.