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I don't know whether this is going to be a controversial opinion, but I feel like the concern that was expressed during today's livestream - that Animal Husbandry might end up beefier than other crafting paths - is possibly misplaced. Animal Husbandry is a massive draw to the game for a lot of players, myself included, and if it's deep enough it may fill the same kind of niche that a lot of people play pokemon for, in which they customize and make their monster pets as perfect as possible by utilizing all the systems they can.

With that in mind... is it really a problem if customizing your hippogryph is more in-depth than customizing a sword? We want to avoid overwhelming players, certainly

So, Bladesworn appears to be somewhat polarizing - those who dislike it find it to be clunky and unfun, or have some other thing they hate about it, while those who love it, love it; I'm personally in the camp of it being fun and enjoyable, as it fits my class fantasy for a skilled warrior. What nobody can contest is that it's rather powerful in the right hands, pulling roughly 25% more DPS than current meta builds.

Why is this? I've been looking at it for a little while, and I've come to the conclusion that Bladesworn just straight up has too much cooldown reduction. It's able to refresh its skills too quickly, which allows it to throw down m

So, something that's introduced at a very early level in FF14 is a small thing called Hall of the Novice. It's an extremely small-scale single player affair that the game introduces you to at level 15, which is early enough to have a few of your class skills and such. What it asks you to do is simple - accomplish several simple one-man instances structured to train an early-level player how to react to the game's mechanical systems and be competent in their role, having a different set of teaching instances for DPS, healer, and tank classes. It's simple, and while it's nothing new for long-time players of MMOs it's an extremely handy guide for newbies who aren't familiar with MMO mechanics t

I'm considering picking up a suit of operator armor from the marketplace, mostly because I'm under the impression that it has some mechanical effect, based on what DE said about operator combat in the past.

But everywhere I look, I can't seem to find any sort of indication that they actually give any sort of stat boosts. Their item descriptions don't include anything, either in the bundles or from the standing store. Are they solely cosmetic pieces?

Since we can basically guarantee that skins for your mount will be available through the gemstore, what are some things you'd love to have as skins?

The idea that I can't seem to shake is some kind of motorcycle raptor skin. With rocket boosters in place of, well, legs for super jumps and venting in place of a tail swipe, there's only a little conversion work needed - a few new animations and some new sounds, and it'd become the mount of choice for a lot of my characters, as most of them would prefer a mechanical mount over a living one (particularly my charr engineer).

What about you?

I just finished the new episode, and I'm left with the burning question of "why the hell did we do any of this?"

We get in contact with the shining blade by pure chance, talking to Anise because we go to talk to a priest of Balthazar. Then Balthazar conveniently has one of Lazarus's aspects? Why? Why would he have held onto something like that? Furthermore, if he had a reason to hang onto it, why would he drop that later with no fanfare?

And then, to get inducted into the secrets of the Shining Blade, we take an oath that will kill us if we tell anybody about them, which is a horrific position to be put in for a character that needs the trust of friends and allies, and appears to be a si

A pet theory of mine that I've held for quite a while now deals with the way magic works in Tyria, and the way it can collect in a given person or object, as well as how it relates to the dragons and the gods. After u/woodenpotatoes video yesterday (which I recommend watching, it has a very interesting theory about abaddon), some people asked me to present my theory, so I figured I'd go for it.

The Basis

The thing we have to recognize going in is that something that's become increasingly clear as time goes on; Concentrations of magic wish for more magic to come to them. This is why people overwhelmed with magic feel a need to gain more, as the unbalance of their personal stores of ma

Right, so, I've been thinking this ever since we heard that every Elder Dragon has a weakness, and frankly, I don't think Taimi knows what she's talking about this time. Yes, Mordremoth's mind was his weakness, but I really doubt that Jormag and Primordus will have weaknesses so cut and dry as "Fire" and "Ice". As a matter of fact, I really doubt the Novans didn't already think of that.

Negating the magic of the Elder Dragons is, in fact, something we've already seen done. Something we've already seen happen several times, and it was never done by "apply more dragon magic to it". Instead, you may recall the Divine Fire from season two of the living world - activating wards that sent Mordrem

There's no question that some people are more creative than others. With the overwhelming complexity achievable with what was shown of the musician warframe's music, we're looking at something people are going to want to share with others, and I don't know if there'll be any way to do that other than youtube videos and soundbytes, which aren't enough for this in my opinion.

Some dude makes some tunes that are absolutely mind-blowing that he'd love to share with the community, and what better way to share them than letting other players download and listen to them themselves? Just food for thought.

I got a few guild commendations earlier today, so popped into the GI HQ to get something with them and noticed something I'd missed back when the area was first released to us.

Here, see for yourself: http://i.imgur.com/TpCTlRa.png

One female human hairstyle, found on the Guild Armorer. One male asura hairstyle found on a Guild Initiative Representative in the North Wing quietly burying his face in a wall. And one last one, for a male norn, found on the GI Notary, Grimur Oddursson.

Check them out yourself if you like. I wonder when they'll be released; I really like that ponytail.

So, a friend of mine is starting up an Edge of the Empire game soon. He's a very flexible GM who's willing to run with a lot of different things including stuff from the other star wars RPG lines, and I figured I'd take the chance to play a droid character, since I rarely get an opportunity to play a robotic character in any game.

Trick is, I'm coming to the realization that the Droid species is the advanced option; lots of customization in exchange for a few limitations. Advanced options can be problematic, so before I get lost and screw up character design, I'm asking people who know the game better than I do to help me with this; what is the way to make a droid that isn't suboptimal? I d

So, I took another look at the druid art, and I've come to a conclusion that I think isn't something many people have given much consideration to. What I mean is... well, take another look at the image and see for yourself.

Above the butt of the staff is the head, I think that much we can all agree on, but there's no readily discernible facial features. Behind the druid's back and head are branches, long and covered in leaves, though detail-less. ~~Near the Druid's right hand is something large and white - a boulder perhaps, being held in the hand of this creature? I think that'