Ability Names that sorta make no sense, and what names do...

[Shurrikhan]

Riposte - a counter-attack --> used as an opening thrust
Zwerchhau - a high horizontal "hewing strike" made with the false edge of the blade, usually to intercept and defeat downward diagonal strikes --> used as a Zorro signature
Redoublement - returning a line of attack to its position from before it was displaced --> thrusts lots
Diversion - The act of drawing the attention and forces of an enemy from the point of the principal operation --> reduces enemy's attention on... you, the diverting player...

[Shurrikhan]

"Apocatastasis" apparently refers, in a general way, to returning something to its "original," or perhaps its "primordial" state. It is super archaic and mostly appears in works that were originally in Greek. It might have been better off as an AST skill as it's often used in reference to returning the body or soul to its natural state (i.e. curing sickness) and also has some astrological uses. It was also sometimes used to refer to military movements and city affairs. It shows up in various religious concepts, as well, but I don't have the energy right now to parse through all that.

It probably comes from the original (pre 1.2) take on Thaumaturge, in which they were more like Oracles / Dark Priests.

[Rongway]

I still don't know wtf an apocatostasis is supposed to be, let alone the old debuff it used to give when it wore off which was even less pronouncable.

I don't recall the name of the debuff, or I'd have looked that up, too, haha.

Ekpyrosis.

[Imakun]

Riposte - a counter-attack --> used as an opening thrust
Zwerchhau - a high horizontal "hewing strike" made with the false edge of the blade, usually to intercept and defeat downward diagonal strikes --> used as a Zorro signature
Redoublement - returning a line of attack to its position from before it was displaced --> thrusts lots
Diversion - The act of drawing the attention and forces of an enemy from the point of the principal operation --> reduces enemy's attention on... you, the diverting player...

Zwercchau should have been called Chant du Cygne, because it's exactly the same animation as the XI WS of that name. Also Impact should have been Death Blossom for the same reason. Unless those are coming later with the next level cap.

[RyuujinZERO]

Any samurai class skill. /thread

(I know, i know, they're all Japanese sword techniques. But I can't for the life of me keep any of them straight)

[Daralii]

Riposte - a counter-attack --> used as an opening thrust
Zwerchhau - a high horizontal "hewing strike" made with the false edge of the blade, usually to intercept and defeat downward diagonal strikes --> used as a Zorro signature
Redoublement - returning a line of attack to its position from before it was displaced --> thrusts lots
Diversion - The act of drawing the attention and forces of an enemy from the point of the principal operation --> reduces enemy's attention on... you, the diverting player...

Wouldn't Redoublement be more or less correct? Corps-a-Corps starts with the rapier at the center of the body, it's moved to pointing down and right by the end of Zwerchhau, and Redoublement moves it back to the center.

[Waliel]

Aeolian Edge: Straight damage. Aeolus is a Greek god of wind.
Ex-Dancing Edge: Reduced Slashing resistance.
Armor Crush: Extends Huton, a wind based Ninjutsu, timer.

Steel Peak: A shoulder tackle.
Shoulder Tackle: Extends a hand that you might interpret as something like a peak. Beak? Something that suits Steel Peak's icon.

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[Lelila38]

Took me a bit to find this again:http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...threads/324160

It deals with names used ingame and their meaning.

[Shurrikhan]

Wouldn't Redoublement be more or less correct? Corps-a-Corps starts with the rapier at the center of the body, it's moved to pointing down and right by the end of Zwerchhau, and Redoublement moves it back to the center.

I've only ever seen the term used to describe a return from a displacement caused by the opponent. But I've never seen or heard of someone purposely leaving center line by such a large margin as they'd need to double back, let alone to attempt to cleave someone's thighs with a "foil" (an edge-less, ball-tipped training sword).

[Vanitas]

Trying to use logic in an FF game in 2017 smh