Thread: Predictions from the Patch 6.2 Trailer & Patch Website

Originally Posted by Misplaced_Marbles

Yeh, but reaper doesn't work conceptually anyway considering the WoL is supposed to be a hero with a bleeding heart, so much so they feel bad for the "bad guy" they're killing most of the time. Making a silly pact to make a monster your pet that will absorb souls of your victims (while it devours your own) is pretty nuts!

The lore for 'em is just "lore" that doesn't mean anything and doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Which is par for the course, i suppose.

I admit I've had a few pauses of 'uhhhh, are you sure' about Reaper and its Avatar, but overall Reaper fits the 'edgy antihero' vibe that Dark Knight also had; still a hero, just one that doesn't play by the typical Hero Rules. I don't think we're meant to think hard enough about Reaper to realize that the fact the Avatar is eating souls means that it's probably the single most dangerous thing we've ever encountered (since at least with everything else reincarnation still happens), I think we're supposed to look at it more like Ghost Rider.

...also I'm pretty sure that by job quest bodycount Reaper's one of the least murderous jobs despite that lore bit, weirdly. Whereas Dark Knight 30-50 is probably still reigning champ, and we've all decided we're fine with that.


EDIT: For what it's worth, while I'm not against us dealing with another apocalypse scenario (as mentioned, those are pretty common in MMOs), I think right now is the wrong time for it regardless of ignition event. 6.x and 7.0 have the challenge to try defining what FFXIV is about OUTSIDE of the context of its previously ongoing story, and starting off that journey with 'let's threaten the entire planet again' starts us on an exhausting and tedious foot. Because then it just says that the only thing worth our attention are threats of equal or greater scale than the last one we stopped, meaning that all future expansions must either also be apocalypses, or will be beneath our apocalyspe-stopping reputation.

Ease up on the world-threatening disasters, you've gotta keep them special when they do come!