Who did you pick as your Guardian?

[Talia_Hailwind]

Thaliak the scholar/learner,
because thats pretty much coil,
Learn Learn Learn.
And I main healers.

[AskaRay]

Never understood why there are such useless options in some games. For example choosing a guardian deity in this game does not have any impact on the game or the plot. It's just there to puzzle new players who will not know what to choose and for what reason. I know that some people like such things that build up the huge lore but those options do not have any impact in game thus they are totally useless.

Lots of people can use it for roleplay and such. Also I think it's pretty cool.
Though, honestly, I'm surprised MORE people haven't answered like this... I was wondering how many people chose because they thought about it vs because they had to.

I'm hoping in the future they do something with it, too. That'd be neat. Like, a spell, or armor, or something.

[TouchandFeel]

I'm hoping in the future they do something with it, too. That'd be neat. Like, a spell, or armor, or something.

That would be awesome. It could be something like there is a unique piece of themed glamour gear (or potentially a whole outfit) that you could get based on who your guardian is.

It could even be a whole set of quests where you prove to the Twelve that you are worthy of their blessing and the items/gear is gifted to you as a token.

[LineageRazor]

I wanted a female guardian, and decided on Earth as an element because earth element never gets any love. :P I didn't actually know any of the lore behind the deities at that point - it was just Earth + female = Nophica.

It wasn't until after I'd settled in as a career Paladin that I learned about the rivalry between Nophic and Halone. Oops! Now, though I consider the dichotomy to be quite interesting; a follower of Nophica using the techniques of Halone...

Also somewhat ironically, Botanist was one of the last classes that I leveled in my goal of leveling all the classes. Guess I'm not a very GOOD follower of Nophica.

[myahele]

Nophica since Gridania was my starting city state + cnj was my 1st class it made sense that the Patron diety of Gridania (and cnj) will by my guardian

[Velox]

Althyk mainly because Keepers worship Menphina and Seekers worship Azeyma and I couldn't decide between the 2. Althyk is their father so the "all-encompasing" choice seemed the most logical. Get the best of both worlds.

[aisustrong]

halone
icy fury for days

[Razzle]

Thaliak, picked it from 1.0 before I even knew about it. Because I like water element and out of the 2 water elemental gods I liked his description more as a healer character

Turns out Louisolox or whatever also picked it

[RayneBoemir]

Halone because Gladiator/Paladin is my main.

[kyuven]

Menphina. Not only is she the Moon'qote's guardian deity, but she is the goddess of love.

Nearly 15 years ago when Everquest 1 came out, I was really impressed with this little tidbit of EROLLISI MARR's description:

That reminds me...that game's way of handling deity choices was...
...interesting...
We criticize our system for doing just slightly less than nothing, but THAT game could cripple your character or give weird perks based on your deity.
Faction was a lot more diverse, where certain things hated you or liked you based on your faction level. Well, 'what you are' played a significant part in your starting position for a lot of factions.
Your "faction" was based on your race, class, and, somewhat uniquely, your deity.
For example, Dark Elves were "evil" and thus had huge faction penalties with a lot of "good" and "neutral" factions. This penalty wasn't always enough to make them hate you, but would lower your faction enough that they wouldn't do business with you, though some would just flatout try to kill you. Now, you could actually mitigate this by choosing a neutral deity (such as Agnostic, which yes IS a choice, or Solusek Ro, the fire god.) and a neutral class (such as wizard or warrior) and just have some quirks but in general get by fine.
However, if you chose the patron deity of the dark elves, Innoruuk the Prince of Hate, and an evil class, like Shadowknight or Necromancer, then NOBODY that wasn't evil liked you.
It was totally interesting and part of the fun was seeing who did or didn't like you, such as worshippers of the nature goddess being able to roam around and do quests on her Plane, or gaining access to certain pieces of armor exclusive to your deity.

...I hope something like that never, ever shows up in FFXIV, though. It was convoluted and restricted some aspects of game development. For example, they added a new race that was forced to worship the dragon goddess. The problem was they could be druids, whose "epic weapon" (think relic weapon) required dealing with NPCs that would talk to regular druids normally as their deities were all "Good", but since you worshiped a "Neutral" deity, you didn't get the proper bonus and thus had to work harder to get the thing.