The Origin and Lore of Equipment

[VisRalis]

fadiators...

[Vydos]

As for the maidservant / manservant stuff... hints of the vanity system to customize the look of your retainers? Original set they come with once you unlock it - which can be removed from them and used by you if you so choose? No idea!

Perhaps it will be related to Hildibrand's appearance and quests in 2.1. Simply trying to look at it from a different angle lol.

[Pentacus]

Lore and game mechanics rarely work together and so we should consider them almost 100% separate. Otherwise, why would the story mode primals even worry the nations at all? They could send a single guard (which are mid 30s I think?) to slay Ifrit. Basically, in the lore of Eorzea there are no such things as levels (because there are none in real life either), they're purely a construct of the game, not the world the game takes place in.

I know right? it's not like an entire squad of flames got their souls claimed by ifrit after a single attack and therefore made him more powerful, with the only survivor managing to not get their soul stolen surviving due to already being claimed by hydalen (aka, sheer dumb luck) or anything.

[sinfull]

People in ilevel 70 darklight armour lost to the level 40 chimera? >_> really? Not even the coerthas one... The cutter's cry one? Must of had fail healer.

The original dungeon was level 50 and required a party of 8 the same as Aurum Vale, these were harder dungeons back in 1.0 then they are now. Also there was no such thing as ilevel gear, back then your AF used to be worth having and not as easy to obtain.

[Hiroradius]

People in ilevel 70 darklight armour lost to the level 40 chimera? >_> really? Not even the coerthas one... The cutter's cry one? Must of had fail healer.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...9c5e9adf9f6b1c

As shown hear with story behind the darklight raiders from 1.0, cutter's cry was an 8 man dungeon of level 45 or higher, so the lore wise, you had to play 1.0 I guess to know the lore behind it.

[Teknoman]

This game reeeeaally needs a comprehensive lore resource.

Personally i'd like to see some sort of library in the game where we could just read through various text entries.

[Kuromori]

Personally i'd like to see some sort of library in the game where we could just read through various text entries.

That would be awesome. That or to have quests where we can collect books that reveal more of the history and lore of the world.

[Anonymoose]

Personally i'd like to see some sort of library in the game where we could just read through various text entries.

This has been brought up many times over the ages, and every now and then it'll spurn a fun discussion. In this thread about it from 1.0 we came up with some spur of the moment ideas for it. I particularly liked things like having books locked until you found them in the world, collecting pages to restore books you can read, completing battles/quests to help pen new tomes with new info they acquired from other sources, achievement rewards, lol. Who knows, maybe someday! It'd be a great way to hint at new content and flesh out things they don't have many flavor-text opportunities for.

[Kyan]

I think I have recovered enough pages of the Necrologos to make a book, but then the pages keep crumbling and exploding into monsters from the void

[Sedant]

People in ilevel 70 darklight armour lost to the level 40 chimera? >_> really? Not even the coerthas one... The cutter's cry one? Must of had fail healer.

They followed this pattern, blue = run in, violet = run out.