#Like Thancred taking on a goddamn big pull and giving me a heart attack

[kaldwinroyalty]

Thinking about it, its kinda wild to me that. The Scions as an organization are supposed to, outside of primal slaying their main role, like, handle diplomatic relations and yet.

And yet you have basically a group of zero actual diplomats.

Like ok listen. Minfilia was the one who handled the majority of that when she was around, ARR made it clear she handled a lot of the bureacracy, but after she's out of the picture its the Scions taking on the role on a 'whichever one of us is closest to the current diplomatic meeting' basis, not a 'yeah I want and/or trained to do this'. Yeah you could say they have Alphinaud but like, huge plot point was him not getting the nuances of politics and fucking up big time, it wasn't till a lot of development did he get to where he is in Endwalker where he can pull on diplomatic relations like a pro so.

Zero proper diplomats for a good chunk of the MSQ

Cause Y'shtola is a magic scholar who constantly toes the line of "maybe casting dangerous magic isn't a bad idea", and is only not permanently living alone in a cave because thats a slippery slope to being like Matoya

Thancred is a goddamn spy, the guy behind the scenes, and once he's out of his flirting stage he's rather blunt and short tempered when dealing with people being slightly annoying

Alisae basically dragged her feet to joining the Scions at all and voices several times diplomacy not being her cup of tea

Urinager doth verily speaketh like so

Estinien gives me a heart attack each time he turns to an ancient dragon and goes "bitch"

I suppose Tataru and Krile I'd trust, but Tataru is much more in the mercantile world and Krile has had other things to deal with instead of working out relations between city states

So until G'raha showed up, it really was just Alphinaud with a shaky dream, AND EVEN THEN. Mister Crystal "stop trying to make me king" Exarch only pulls out his commanding tone when he really has to, otherwise he's content letting others handle it. This super powerful group is coasting through their peace keeping job with luck, very specific and relevant knowledge, and the ability to go "we can ask the WOL, a practical walking nuke, to kill that for us"

#ffxiv #i know its so much more nuanced i know it is #and i know at least urinager yshtola and thancred probably have some training in it #but like #none of them outside of alphinaud would choose diplomat as a profession #ffxiv spoilers

[mirror-alchemist]

A bit of post MSQ patch stuff. 

I never thought Ami would be a goddamn mecha pilot but here we are lol. Anyway I’ve been playing around with G’raha as a full-fledged trust. It’s nice. Though I think my personal preference is him as a DPS, if only because it’s hard to break me away from Thancred and Urianger being in my trust group. 

...even though Thancred’s usability as a GNB takes a hit with da boys set up.

#Final Fantasy XIV #Final Fantasy 14 #FFXIV #FF14 #5.3 spoilers #patch 5.3 #ffxiv screenies #gaming things #spoilers #Though I get to see some interesting situations as with this set up #Like Thancred taking on a goddamn big pull and giving me a heart attack #Or Urianger eating absolute shit when he rarely dies #But then I found out that Thancred just throws a phoenix down if NPC healer is dead and Alisaie isn't around to revive him