#ffxiv arcanist

[mosthuggableffxiv]

Most Punchable Class Trainer (levels 1-30)

Admittedly calling K'rhid Tia and Silvarre trainers is a bit of a stretch, but I had the space so I thought I'd give y'all the chance to punch them anyway.

[amons-hat-enthusiast]

I've once said I'm never gonna make a lalafell character, as I just couldn't see myself playing as one.

You're never gonna guess what I did.

I made a lala alt.

Look at him! He's adorable!

His name is Ikira Zoira and for now he's just a little guy. With a book. And a slightly different carbuncle lol

Nobody knows why his boncle looks like that. He swears he did the spell correctly. Multiple times. Always the same result. Ah well.

[ffxiv-swarm]

prompt 25: perpetuity

Zoraal Ja is mad, and his madness lends him strength far beyond what even his glut of souls can account for. The Scions are fighting for their very lives, never mind the fate of the star—and they are losing. They are losing. Gan nearly tumbles off the edge of the tower, only held back by Evrard diving to save her; Alan barely notices, so hard-pressed is he to defend against the King of Resolve’s attacks while Wuk Lamat gets her guts shoved back in by Alphinaud’s and Urianger’s frantic healing. Ritanelle is far back enough to see the entire battlefield, and she knows they’re not strong enough.

She knows—but she hopes.

And she reaches inside of herself, where the aether of every primal she’s ever faced slumbers like currents along the ocean floor, and she flips open her spellbook to a random page, and she prays. Anything she can summon to wrap around her valiant Ifrit-Egi will be a help. Anything.

She prays—

And raw aether erupts inside her, whiting out her vision, filling her ears with the clamour of great grinding bells and the steady tinkling of crystal like a dancing windchime. For a heartstopping moment all is white fire, she can’t see, she can barely think—the spell feels like Demi-Bahamut but different, glass instead of crackling blue flame. What has she...?

She thinks she feels a cool white hand brushing her cheek. She thinks she hears a voice whispering words she can’t make out, filling her with peace and resolve. But then it clears, and there is only the dragon.

It is lean and sinuous, stripped-down to its bare essentials. It has the horns and tail and great curved claws of Demi-Bahamut. But it’s a pale blue-white, as pale as the moon, and its wings—its wings are swords—no, its wings are Brands, whole and unbroken, a barrier against destruction—

It wants her to command it. It waits, patient as the Light, and there is a heartbeat of stillness where even Zoraal Ja’s frenzy seems to slow.

She finds her voice, and her aether. “Lightwyrm! Exodus!”

It’s not until later—much later, in fact, after Zoraal Ja is slain and Sphene is fled with the Key and something truly terrible is likely about to happen between their shards which they’ll have no way of preventing if they’re running on fumes—that she has the time to figure out what happened. New summons don’t appear out of thin air; even if they did, new spells certainly don’t, and she doesn’t think she was ever so deep in a frenzy of innovation that she’d forget writing it down.

Once she’s settled in her inn room with a mug of maté, she flips through her grimoire; each spell is bookended by inert dividers, because the last thing she wants is for any of the ink—or aether—to bleed. She can’t imagine what would happen if it did, but she’d be lucky if it was only the book that exploded. Carbuncles, Ifrit, Garuda, Titan...they’re all there, and that dragon was none of them. Demi-Bahamut was copied straight from Prin, and hasn’t been tampered with. The half-crazed scrawl of Phoenix, written while she was dying on the First and bolstered by infusions from the crystal of Azem. (She owes Avery her life many, many times over.) She’s never bothered writing down her trances; she doesn’t need equations to shape aether into fiery claws or gusty wings or heavy stone walls. But beyond Phoenix...

She runs her bare hand over the blank paper, feeling the echoes of aether. A cold so deep it burns. The profound stillness of glacial ice, of the peace found at the end of a long journey. Hope and love and a single crystalline tear sliding down Her Mother’s face to drop upon the open page. It had fallen open here, when...when...

“Know that my love will be with you forever, my dearest children. Ritanelle...I am so proud of you.”

Arms around her, the first and final embrace. Aether rushing into her like a river.

Oh, she thinks. Oh. Venat lives on.

She has the presence of mind to grab a napkin before she starts crying all over the page. When she can see through her tears, she’ll have to write the spell down properly. Gods know what’ll come out next time if she doesn’t.

[miqo-tia]

Seeing cute carbuncle fanart of them being basically a lil cat-fox buddy is the best, but it does make me sad that in canon they're basically constructs of your aether that are fully controlled by you.

Tataru's was an outlier that is multiple times remarked upon being amazing for seemingly having free will unlike any other carbuncle.

What if I also want a blue cat-fox companion for my journey? 🥺

[bixell-pixell]

Bro I am so upset about the FFXIV Arcanist quest. Like black mage was my first ever class and the quest story was so much fun, the coco brothers and their antics running the thuamaturgy guild are genuinely funny and charming, the law of thaumaturgy is delivered in small enough snippets that it’s not overwhelming, but enough to be able to relate to the actual gameplay and better understand the class. Seeing cocobusis fight to prove to his brothers that he’s worthy to be in guild is engaging and I just loved it all. Meanwhile in the arcanist quest you have a bunch of nothing dialogue spouted at you that’s made purposefully convoluted so that the arcanists seem smart. Then you meet the miquote girl, I cannot for the life of me remember her fucking name, shows up and start prattling off a bunch of over convoluted nonsense that makes her seem super duper smart and boils down to you are really cool and awesome and powerful. Then you go to inspect a ship with illegal cargo or something, we fight the pirates on their, then some super powerful pirate guy appears and triggers a traumatic episode in the miquote which is related to the old guild master (I forgot to mention the og guild master is missing and miquote girl was close with him and keep saying your just like him or whatever) and I guess were meant to care? But her character is so ridiculously shallow that I just kinda stared in slight confusion and boredom as it happened. Finally you go back to the guild master and they’re all like “are you mad?” Like, no??? Why would I be??? And it just makes me upset because playing arcanist is so fun bro. I hope to god the story picks up at some point because damn.

Anyway that was my daily rant about something inconsequential that’s been slowly eating away at me for hours, have a nice day

[gammawilson]

My Roegadyn Summoner and his giant carbuncle. He’s an alt the deserves more art.

[myffxivgallery]

Arcanist issues am i right folks?

[bearer-of-the-torch]

I love having a healer spec that I can just swap to. ACN best class just for that.

[eriyu]

...Mhitra you JUST told me that it was invented to help the Allagans conquer my homeland

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 25 - Fate

"It's almost funny; that my adventures would lead me right back to the isles I had thought to have left so far behind me. Is this all a coincidence or is this fate?"

[bunnalien]

carby says trans rights or else ❤️🔪

these prideful little guys are the latest addition to my carbuncle sticker collection, and you can grab your own over on my Etsy store! 🌸

[mosthuggableffxiv]

Most Huggable Class Trainer (Levels 1-30)

Featuring a couple of bonus characters corresponding to the punchability bonuses

[nabaath-areng]

" Sörj icke, gråt icke vännen min Din gråt är som regntunga skyar mot jorden Skrattet ditt glittrar som sommarsolen Blänker som böljan på vida vatten... "

[johnnylandslide]

"You have the shape the spell in this precise pattern, and hold it steady. If you just try to force your way through it, you'll shatter it and waste aether. Arcanima is all about logic and efficiency, rather than raw destructive power!"

"I'm trying, it's just so different from thaumaturgy... I can't believe so many people say that this is easier than black magic!"

[golmorehotgirl]

fake ass summoner doesn't even have a real carbuncle are you serious rn

binches be like 'take my photo for my Lookbook!" and there are LITERAL people freezing to death in the bg smdh

[akirakirxaa]

[ day 7 : familiar ]

Upon her arrival in the future, Persephone created a new familiar which she christened Pomegranate, or Pommy for short. When the arcanists asked why she gave it a sword, she told them if he was meant to fight at her side, he would need a weapon. Fiercely loyal to his mistress, he does not suffer fools and has a taste for the most Eminent Emet-Selch's ankles.

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