Dynamis - Limit Breaks

[Cleretic]

Let's be honest, the devs are pushing very hard on the Dynamis = Power of the heart and friendship = limit break

you can hide it all you want in The Omega Protocol with "Run: ****mi*" but when Hello Distant World and Hello Near World gives you a stack of Dynamis, it's pretty clear what the asterisks word is

Not to mention in the final phase when you cast a limit break 3 it turns the 3 stacks of dynamis into radiant dynamis, then gives you back 3 bars of limit break, and you have to use 8 total limit breaks in the entire phase

And yet, we have explanations for every single limit break as of Stormblood in the Encyclopedia Eorzea, and very few of them are actually described in a way that suggests we're using dynamis at all. In fact, most of them are described in ways that point to an entirely different confirmed in-universe phenomena: the highly active aether of battlefields that's described in the Monk questline.

I think this easily-debunked assurance of 'all LBs are dynamis because it's cool' isn't just really frustrating when it comes to discussing concrete facts, because it ignores them and introduces multiple plot holes (namely, the Ktisis Trusts and Seat of Sacrifice boss being capable of LBs despite explicitly not being able to manipulate dynamis), it also poisons the well of discussing the other things that legitimately do seem like they could be dynamis, but are less flashy. Manawall's Encyclopedia Eorzea description makes it a prime contender to me, but we're not going to get to that point until people stop ignoring all non-circumstantial evidence to claim that Meteor is, because that sounds cool!

The one thing I'd give is that a couple times, there are LBs that seem to be jacked up with dynamis. Specifically:
1. That one LB in the Endsinger fight, but it's in a space where basically everything is dynamis-powered, so it's not exactly special. (This may debatably mean that all LBs in the Stigma Dreamscape count too if you really want them.)
2. Rhitatyn's post-revamp attack buff, maybe. He might just be really mad.

TOP cannot be admitted into evidence, because it's in-universe what-if fanfiction written by the Wandering Minstrel, a man who has no real credibility on the subject. It's fake even in-universe, it'd be like arguing real-world scientific theory based on an Avengers movie.

[RyuDragnier]

And yet, we have explanations for every single limit break as of Stormblood in the Encyclopedia Eorzea, and very few of them are actually described in a way that suggests we're using dynamis at all. In fact, most of them are described in ways that point to an entirely different confirmed in-universe phenomena: the highly active aether of battlefields that's described in the Monk questline.

Wasn't it mentioned by the devs themselves that the EE are basically written as if they were in the game itself, using information that the scholars who wrote it would have access to? That's mostly just to clarify that the EE can and is modified as need be. As for the aether of battlefields, said battlefields also cause surges in emotions, which also make dynamis a factor. Note that I say factor, because it's not the only thing.