#as soon as I finished msq and alliance raid quests I had to do duty support for sohr khai

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Ser Aymeric de Borel and Hali Aloke in Sohr Khai

AKA: Sexy Blue Elf Man and His Tiny Girlfriend go fight some Dragons

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DC/FFXIV

laurelsblue: No but I want to hear all about this now.

Okay, so with a familiar but incomplete knowledge of DC and FFXIV, the notes on what the main six Green Lanterns play, plus other DC characters:

Hal Jordan played back in 1.0, but he joined right before the server death and he might not even have finished the quest-line to have the Legacy player back tattoo or not. Clark Kent, Diana, Bruce Wayne, and Barry Allen do. Alan Scott, the first GL, was a Legacy player, in fact he was one of those FFXI players that moved over to XIV during the first beta. Alan doesn’t play as often- he’ll let his subscription go in-between expacs and resub right before they drop to catch up on all the patches, but he’s still allowed on the Green Lantern FC discord. The Green Lanterns are one of the larger FCs on their server and are known for events and things like full FC alliance raid runs where they all have a green glam theme. The frog suit and the metallic green dye is very popular. Comparisons to the Jades is a reoccurring reddit thread. I’m not sure what Hal’s man job is - he might be one of those guys that changes the job to match the theme of the expac or whatever the most popular job of the moment is. He definitely played Dark Knight back in HW and broke himself trying to prog Gordias Savage. The burnout and anger was so bad that he ended up unsubbing for a while until SB when he came back (Parallax/Spectre joke). He is the FC leader but sometimes he has passed duties to the second officers/co-leaders. Hal plays as a Hyur Midlander- not only that but a default face basic guy jokes were made when Ardbert appeared.

Guy Gardener joined in 2.0. He picked SeaWolf Roegadyn, max height, green, will glam is outfit to be nothing but a speedo and hat. You know, the typical choice. He wanted to play a giant ax-wielding berserker fighter so he picked Marauder/Warrior. Turns out that playing a tank is perfect for him. The rotation and job duties are simple (Fell Cleave, Fell Cleave, Fell Cleave), he likes the job fantasy of controlling his inner rage (Red Lantern plotline parallels), but most of all he loves that he’s the party shield. He takes the hits so his party doesn’t. No greater joy than hitting that tank LB3. He’s also one of the most genuinely helpful guys to new tanks on explaining their roles and offering tips.

Jon Stewart is the embodiment of ‘Jaded Healer, Dead Inside’. This man has had to carry so many parties, rez too many idiots, and get no coms. He will Rescue Hal and Guy into AOEs. Everyone is just Blood for the Blood Lily. He is also the FC co-leader in charge of the housing- he decorates the FC House and is one of those people that has found all the glitches and tricks to create those incredible rooms. People are terrified at how he manipulates the floating shelf and stage glitches. Most of the time you can find him in the FC Workshop. Appearance-wise he might have fantasiaed once or twice- his current look is a Viera. Saint Walker is his fellow healer (AST) from a different but friendly FC and they play together as co-healers on the same static.

The true fantasia addict is Kyle Rainer. That guy changes player race and name all the time. Catgirl, lala, Au’ra, he even was Hrothgar for two weeks. He mains Dancer for dungeons and raids but likes Bard for the Performance feature. He’s the RPer of the group and loves to play tunes in the starter city states. Has macros to switch his minion and mount depending on which glam/job he’s currently playing as to be color and thematically coordinated. Active in multiple statics. There was a brief time before SB where he was de-facto FC leader.

Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz joined recently, soon after another, and as the two sprouts they teamed up to play through the MSQ together, especially as this helps Jess’s social anxiety to have at least one FC member with her for PUGs. Simon wanted to play Machinist for the gun, but learning that he had to play all the way through 2.0 and unlock HW to unlock that job, so he was convinced to play Arcanist, both him and Jess, since the class split into two jobs so they thought that would be cool. Hal and Guy would be their tank for fast queues for the first fun dungeons. When they both got to 30, Simon decided to focus on Scholar because healing was too much pressure for Jessica. To his surprise, he loves healing. Eos and Tonberries are his bae. He thinks the mortarboard hats and school robes of the artifact gear is stupid but he loves everything else about SCH. Also he’s eagerly waiting for the return of the FFXV crossover event so that he can get his own Regalia car mount. Jess plays Summoner and loves the huge dps numbers and the Bahamut and Phoenix summons. She’s also started to branch out into Red Mage (easier rotation and she likes the giant flower explosions) and Guy has been helping her dispel the tank anxiety and teaching her WAR (though she thinks she likes DRK more). I’m not sure what race they play- I think they might both be Au’ra- Jess likes the cute lizard girl kawaii popstar emotes without going into full catgirl, while Simon thought the tall horned Au’ra looked badass and then discovered they had the dorkiest run and you know what, it fits.

Clark Kent is in a world-first static (Justice League) but he’s one of those Ultimate Legends that isn’t an asshole and still does PUG dungeons. Not sure what he mains- maybe Red Mage or DRK oddly enough. Lois is a causal RPer (she’s unique in that she plays as a reporter for one of the two in-game newspapers) but also helps to run a Hunt Train for their server, which everyone agrees in one of the rare non-toxic ones. Both are very popular. Well, there’s bad beef with Lex Luthor, one of those jerks that bought up an entire Ward of houses with shell FCs. Lex is on a data center wide blacklist.

Diana Prince (Viera) has always mained PLD, even when it was memed as the weakest tank (who’s laughing now) and can solo almost anything. She is disappointed that there aren’t more permanent prominent female characters. Cried that we couldn’t save Yotsuyu.

Bruce Wayne, ninja main, has two characters that he plays. One is on the JL data center, but the other is his non-hardcore raider that he uses for more causal RPing (he still raids on that character, just not exclusively) where he owns a mansion in Shirogane and does large party events and controls the MarketBoard. The Batfam is his FC on this sever. He’s also one of those rare Duskwight Elezen players.