BEST GIRL

[Iromi]

Khloe Aliapoh
IS
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WAIFU

You like children? D:

*runs*

My favorite NPC girl will always be:

[bswpayton]

You like children? D:

*runs*

My favorite NPC girl will always be:

yess finally someone , who gets it Minfilia is number one npc I dono why people hate her

[Kosmos992k]

yess finally someone , who gets it Minfilia is number one npc I dono why people hate her

Personally, she's a bit too hands off early in the story, and it's hard to see why she is the leader of anything. However I think for most it might be the English voice performance. Personally I go with the Japanese audio, so it doesn't bother me at all.

[Mimilu]

Personally, she's a bit too hands off early in the story, and it's hard to see why she is the leader of anything. However I think for most it might be the English voice performance. Personally I go with the Japanese audio, so it doesn't bother me at all.

"Hands Off" is a gross understatement. She's useless.
Other then being the person to send you to places, she serves zero purpose.
She has zero-combat capabilities and hasn't shown any skills in tactical thinking, strategical planning, diplomacy, or any of the in-game sciences or magic. (At least Tataru balances the books, does secretarial work, and has an aptitude for crafting, in addition to having a charm that attracts NPCs)
The only useful quality she has is the Echo, which she doesn't use until 2.5's ending.

Spoiler

The only time she was of any actual use was going with the Warriors of Darkness to their world, aka leaving use for good so Alphinaud can take her spot as the Scion's leader and Krile as the Non-Player Echo user.

[Medicine]

Snip.

Also she's an infamous glory hog who steals all the credit. c:

[Greedalox]

"Hands Off" is a gross understatement. She's useless. Other then being the person to send you to places, she serves zero purpose.
She has zero-combat capabilities and hasn't shown any skills in tactical thinking, strategical planning, diplomacy, or any of the in-game sciences or magic. (At least Tataru balances the books, does secretarial work, and has an aptitude for crafting, in addition to having a charm that attracts NPCs)
The only useful quality she has is the Echo, which she doesn't use until 2.5's ending.

Spoiler

The only time she was of any actual use was going with the Warriors of Darkness to their world, aka leaving use for good so Alphinaud can take her spot as the Scion's leader and Krile as the Non-Player Echo user.

She has a large network of friends in high places and she calls upon them frequently. Half of what we've been able to do is because she is who she is. Saying she isn't diplomatic or strategic would be wrong ;_;

[Mimilu]

She has a large network of friends in high places and she calls upon them frequently. Half of what we've been able to do is because she is who she is. Saying she isn't diplomatic or strategic would be wrong ;_;

What friends?
The Grandcompany leaders only come to her because she is the "face" of the Scions, who are only trusted because of Louisoix and the other Scion's/Circle of Knowing's efforts.
The only beneficial friend of hers we see, outside of the Scions, was Krile, who, like I said, took her spot in the group as the Non-Player Echo user.

[VanilleFang]

Krile

And Krile at least gets shit done herself. She doesn't sit on her hands waiting for you to swoop in and save the day.

[Belhi]

What friends?
The Grandcompany leaders only come to her because she is the "face" of the Scions, who are only trusted because of Louisoix and the other Scion's/Circle of Knowing's efforts.
The only beneficial friend of hers we see, outside of the Scions, was Krile, who, like I said, took her spot in the group as the Non-Player Echo user.

Minfilia was the manager who ran the Scions. She oversaw logistics, co-ordinating information, designation of tasks, recruitment and deployment of people including hirelings. A lot of the information and resources the Scions had were from her work. The Archons weren't involved in that because that work would have been a vast waste of their talents and while Tataru managed the books and sought revenue, it was Minfilia that ran the show.

People who dismiss the value of a good manager usually have never had to work under a bad one. The fact the Scions ran smoothly and we had so few hiccups over trivial things suggests that Minfilia did well as a manager.

Case in point is a quest you have in 2.5 where you escort a scholar. He is one of several scholars hired by Minfilia to gather data on Aetheric levels around Eorzea. If from readings like this that the Scions have been able to draw accurate conclusions on declining Aetheric levels in Eorzea. She (apologetically) asks the WoL to step in and act as a bodyguard because they have found themselves unexpectently short handed. We do in that quest the type of work the lower rank Scions such as Hoary usually do. All of that is Minfilia's work and that is one example of what she is up to behind the scenes that we don't usually get to see.

The Scions, post HW, becomes a much less organised organisation and more a group of associates that share information and assist each other but fundamentally act independently.

[Shurrikhan]

yess finally someone , who gets it Minfilia is number one npc I dono why people hate her

I can't fully pin why, but I liked her well enough in 1.x, and not one bit since. Didn't dislike her, exactly, except for her inability to use linkpearls... just, didn't anything remotely attractive about her as a character.