Thread: 8.0 and World

Isnt the maraudor/warrior practicly or viking?
They comes from the north. Their class armor looks like viking (sometimes). They are practicly berserk. Who are usually connected to the vikings.
A hammer/mace using class is missing. But it feels that viking are allready covered up.

And, i dont want to go to the north. Its cold. It was cold in heavensward and in Galemald^^

Originally Posted by Keichi

Isnt the maraudor/warrior practicly or viking?
They comes from the north. Their class armor looks like viking (sometimes). They are practicly berserk. Who are usually connected to the vikings.
A hammer/mace using class is missing. But it feels that viking are allready covered up.

And, i dont want to go to the north. Its cold. It was cold in heavensward and in Galemald^^

Viking and Warrior are kinda both part of a weird lineage, in that Viking was sorta the proto-Berserker in III, and XIV's Warrior is essentially 'Berserker but we can't actually do Berserk so we need to dial it back'.

I'd personally call Viking a 'scraping the barrel' job choice, honestly; there's not much interesting you can make of it conceptually and mechanically outside of 'give it hammers', and we've already got a hammer user in this game people are WAY more interested in. Like, if that's the best nostalgia pull you can reach, go original for the next tank instead. (Or just don't make a new tank and instead focus on making the existing ones not obsolete the entire rest of a light party, I'd probably prefer that.)

I suppose they could take a page from Tactics Advance 2's incarnation of Viking. Themed around water and storms and surprisingly quick for a class that lugs about a slab of metal.

Though if I had my way we'd prbably get a Tank like Guardian from Bravely Second. If only it'd actually make mechanical sense.

I understand I'm actually a bit of a nerd for Norse history and mythos, but it's really a bummer that everyone hears "viking" and thinks berserker with horned helmet. Berserkers were exceedingly rare, and that helmet isn't historically accurate.

Meanwhile, Odin was a spearman that impaled himself to the world tree to learn the magical language of Runes and learned the previously female only magic from Freya because he wanted to know everything. Loki is a shapeshifter, Thor is a storm god that was really like flexing on giants to protect humans. That's just the well known ones.

We can be creative.

I have a hunch that Beast Master is gonna have Viking vibes to it.

8.0 will probably focus on shard travel. Expect this to be where the Thirteenth's relevant again. If it were up to me I'd leave the Scions EXCEPT for Y'shtola, who desperately needs more of a character arc.