What Weapon Should A Blue Mage Use?

[Nestama]

go get the Mithra minion and come back after reading its descriptor and tell me that again, not to mention Ivalice storyline, at the very least it's a amalgam of various worlds.

I think I'll trust the lore book and the overall 'history' of FFXIV's world (re-watch the 3.2 cutscene with Minfiliaedalyn) over some silly minion description. As well as the dev team themselves stating that FFXIV and XI are not connected in any way.

A: Maehiro: To be absolutely clear, there is no direct connection between FFXIV’s Hydaelyn and FFXII’s Ivalice or even FFXI’s Vana’diel. They are not the same world in different dimensions or time—they are their own separate worlds. However, there are certain connections to people or objects that appear in these other worlds that figure into the story of FFXIV as it has been conceived and is being told.

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Heck, I'm pretty sure FFXI's own lore can disprove this as well (especially the Summoners/Summons).

[MomomiMomi]

I think I'll trust the lore book and the overall 'history' of FFXIV's world (re-watch the 3.2 cutscene with Minfiliaedalyn) over some silly minion description. As well as the dev team themselves stating that FFXIV and XI are not connected in any way.



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Heck, I'm pretty sure FFXI's own lore can disprove this as well (especially the Summoners/Summons).

To be fair, those are pretty old sources, especially the live letter one. They may have changed their minds since.

[Nestama]

To be fair, those are pretty old sources, especially the live letter one. They may have changed their minds since.

So far they haven't, especially with Ivalice (it's treated similarly to Crystal Tower. Is only referencing the game it's from, but is in no way the same place. Has its own lore, etc) and it would be very silly of the FFXIV team to make some parts of the official lore book irrelevant, as well as important plot-points within the story (Bahamut and summons in general, as well as Hydaelyn explaining her history in 3.2).