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FISHERY NIGGAS
>700 hour braindead grind mmos
YES YES BASED SHADOWBRINGERS YESS
>Delirium is just a shitty Inner Release
I don't like this one bit.
Is there a mod that changes either of the menu themes into typical Final Fantasy blue? Closest I could find is on Nexus Mods and was last updated in early 2018.
dnc bros...
>From those who've fallen, to those who arise
>A prayer to keep us ever by your side
>An undying promise that we just might
>Carry on
>In a song...
Anyone else a fucking moron like me? Where you fucking love playing a job a lot but look for any excuse not to play it for whatever reason or excuse you can think of, such as 'people won't invite me' or 'other people play this role so I won't get invited'?
so our soul is basically an ascian they hinted at being the 14th one
I just finished. Beginning and ending were fucking fantastic but God did the middle suck ass. Shinryu > Hades.
Always remember that no matter how matter how dumbed down you think your job is, it’s still too much for WoW smoothbrains
a 10k dancer buffing up a blm to 14k, what is the problem?
This doesn't include the added damage your partner does.
>play blm
>everyone drops every fucking aoe right on top of you
>The empire still has an unlimited supply of Solus clones on hand
What are the chances they give us our boy back in some way or another?
it should've been them
give me back by ascian bro
He's gone, user. We burned his soul away with the axe of light. Just remember that he once lived.
They are just bodies, empty souls. We destroyed him utterly with the light. But your picture reminds me, we haven't used the auracite yet have we? I don't recall it in any of the Hades scenes
Eighth Umbral Calamity best day of my life
The trolley guys were pretty cool.
Thancred smashes it into Hades after the boss fight. But it does nothing but stagger him. Hades pulls it out. Ardbert's axe enfused with sin eater light did the deed.
It was used against Hades. Thancred chopped it up and threw the shards at him which made them rapidly grow all over him for some reason.
Oh okay, everything was going fast and it was 5am when I beat him. Thanks.
WoW PvP may be a fucking minigame, but FFXIV PvP is literal shit aids.
Which is a good thing, if square decided to start making changes to the game due to PvP you'll get WoW modicum of balance where nothing fucking works because it's either too OP in PvP or PvE.
>only 700 hours
Why is it so hard to find a clean version of this? youtube.com
That's nothing. I'm getting tanks failing to aggro whole groups. All they need to do is use an aoe. Any fucking aoe. Which they should be using anyway.
>make a class about playing music with your bow to magically boost your army
>remove all of the song buffs that class has
So who the fuck is bard playing for now?
GLUG YES MORE HOURS OF RNG GRINDING FOR A +0.43% ATTACK WEAPON GLUG GLUG BASED YOSHIP
It was used right when the retard brigade came in to get their last hits in and buy you time to rev up the mother of all fistings
>It took us 2 expansions to like Gaius
>Thordan wasnt around long enough to be liked
>Zenos was only likable at the end of his expansion then went back to unlikable
>Emet-Selch was likable all throughout
What happened?
>Yoshi P said something about the power of imagination in reference of the Eden raid
>The Ascians are able to create things though imagination
Archerfags.
Post yfw "Just a little further...And you will see the end of a world.
I really don't know what the fuck they were thinking with that.
Even if they decide tofocus on more pvp content it wont affect us at all. You have a different set of skills for pvpenis
>what they were thinking
Trying to bring the lowest common denominator closer to people who actually have a modicum of understanding of a Job's rotation which will eternally given how the casualization of Tanks only revealed bigger shitters.
The worst part is that outside of them gutting our utility I actually like where the class is at. Like they gave us a nice new bike but cut off one of our hands.
Hey at least you canplay metroidvania eckisdee
>emet wasnt being a dick when he said come to the tempest to die with dignity
>he wanted you to come alone so he could show you your past, what befell amaurot and what will come back when you cause the calamity
>and not to make the people of the world and your friends feel disgust at what you will unleash on the world
>he wanted you to genuinely die with dignity
Perhaps Eden is related to them somehow. After all, another GF is.
My heart was racing through the whole dungeon. Then you step into the last leg of it above the world.
A-at least I can have fun with drg before they nerf it to shit
why the fuck is no one mentioning the fact that his left tit is a baby head
dont disturb him hes comfy
What's wrong with that?
Yeah well he also wants to offer my best boy up to zodiark for a midnight snack so fuck that shit.
it's just implied and the implications are horrifying
You don't get it? At his heart, he's a child.
No, Emet only WANTED to bring Zodiark back
Tempered slaves don't have any others wishes, all their goals and desires lead only to one thing
This is why we kill them right away, otherwise they summon their primal
Why did he turn into a beautiful angel? Was he actually beautiful on the inside?
oh ho ho ho delightfully devilish, seymour
Yeah I can see how you think that if you skipped every cutscene with him in it.
>the casualization of Tanks only revealed bigger shitters.
>roulettes are slowly coming back for tanks in need
>flavor of the week has run it's course
I want these clowns off my job already. Things get easier and they still manage to be stupid
>summoning node cannot actually calculate our aetheric capacity
>we are good at every trade, discipline, and combat-style we come across, resonating perfectly with every soul-crystal plopped into our hands
>amaurotine worth was weighed in terms of sheer potential, with the best and brightest making up the council of thirteen/fourteen
>very likely we're a 9/14 shards reincarnation of the amaurotine with the similar-to-hydaelyn name
I just thought it was his clothing
His entire physique is a baby
He has some next level design going on. He looks like a really fucked anime version of Angelicas nightmare brother from Rugrats.
How was he a human/sin eater hybrid? Did his father fuck one of those angel things?
He himself said they were tempered. This is a real big thinky dinky doo now my dude.
Stop skipping cutscenes
You can be tempered and still want to do other things than suck off your god.
He was convinced that bringing back Zodiark would bring back his people. That's the tragedy of it. Yes, he was tempered. But he was brainwashed into thinking Zodiark was the one who would satisfy all his desires.
Did you skip all the cutscenes or something?
>they actually let thancred beat ran'jit
Literal retard.
Yeah, he's tempered by Zodiark and wants to revive him. And he also very clearly has other hopes and dreams of seeing his loved ones restored. He treats you with every bit of the respect and dignity you deserve, doing everything he can to resolve your differences without bloodshed. You're a fucking moron if you think tempering doesn't get more complex than Ifrit's bullshit or if you actually watched those fucking scenes and don't realize who he was.
don't wake him up
>gives Y'shtola clothes back when he plucks her from the lifestream to protect her dignity
Emet is a true gentleman.
>Come let me show you the ruin befell our world
What everyone else said but just to tell you otherwise, they exposed him to sin eaters in the womb
It's probably not even brainwashing, Zodiark likely *did* end up stopping The Final Days, he just needed way more power than he had to do so. If Zodiark is powerful enough to stop the literal end of the world (and keep in mind that Emet-Selch is powerful enough to recreate an entire city and its inhabitants from literally nothing) then he's probably on the level when its said that he can bring back an entire dead civilization.
>rolls his eyes when she starts to come out naked
You think Hythlodaeus was referring to himself?
It's too late, you can hear the whistle of his ass a mile away.
Take cover
>post heavensward buildup to stormblood
>WoD
>Ilberds sacrifice
Overall a great setup for a shitty expansion
>post stormblood quest
>some adventure shit
>"""war""" quest
Terrible setup for an otherwise fantastic expansion.
What the fuck happened bros?
Aus anons which server has the best ping for East coast lads? I ain't playing a game with >150ping in 2019
is he dead
I loved that finger snap sound.
I hope later in the future we could give him a good ending.
can sin eaters get pregnant
>Facet of Gathering questline reveals that there are gigantic invisible dinossaurs all around us in Norvant
What the fuck
what materia do I use on scholar?
They're not really trying to hide it, honestly.
I'm almost tempted to believe we're a fragment of Hythlodaeus.
>DRK tops the tank charts
OH NONONONONO WERE ARE THOSE CHARTS NOW WARKEKS
Emet Selch faltered when reconstructing Hythloadeus and he is the only one able to see Ardbert. Not even Emet Selch could.
It has to be him and he was just being playful not giving away the truth.
It makes sense if you actually played the game.
>Hythlodaeus
>Hydaelyn
What ones did your Lvl 80 victory lap quest give you?
I kinda wish we got an antagonist out of ilberd or something, his sacrifice was a bit weird. I see why they did it but they could have had him around longer.
Nobody plays Warrior anymore. Where have you been?
Alright, what is up with Primal Datacenter Hrothgars. Why are the majority of them braindead? I've yet to meet a Hrothgar that is even relatively average skill in this game. Viera I get a good spread from bad to good but god damn this is worse than Male Miqote.
Holy shit you are retarded
>And he also very clearly has other hopes and dreams of seeing his loved ones restored.
Only because that makes him to want bring his god back more
This is literally how tempering works, you always think about summoning your master back and how it will solve your problems
Remember when people thought that the ascians would be old ff protagonists because of this bitch with Lightnings hair?
you wanna try user?
I've seen 5 today and they were all hilariously terrible at their job of holding aggro somehow
so we just forgot about him
>UMMM NO HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY WANT TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE HE WASN'T ACTUALLY SAD OR LONELY AND HE NEVER ACTUALLY SPENT THOUSANDS OF YEARS HOPING TO FIND A SUCCESSOR IN HUMANITY BY LIVING AMONG THEM NOPE
Actual fucking brainlet.
Yes. Not just yes, but hells yes.
Well then you have my condolences.
Well thank gods we already killed her
there is no Hythloadeus user, its all from Emet's head.
He said “her” about my character, interestingly enough.
depends on if he wants to lead the empire or not but if he does the empire will turn into strained allies most likely
if I don't get light aids sure
So when are we going to get to summon Ramuh, Shiva and Leviathan?
Since Phoenix is literally just a reskin of Bahamut might as well reskin Ifrit, Titan and Garuda as well. The models are already in the game, can't be too hard.
I've never come across a bad hrothgar desu
I have like 16 VII clusters and 8 VIII clusters from duty roulettes and my bag is full of VII materia, I have a lot of piety materia so I'm just thinking of plopping those but I don't know if something else is more important, like spell speed or mp regen or something
why crystarium deliveries role quests are so much better than the combat ones
Is Eulmore the new ERP city?
we did?
No shit, it bases it on your characters gender.
I mean I did want Ardbert inside me but not like that
I wanna say she's Vauthry's sloppy seconds, but based on the size of him I don't think he's seen his dick in decades.
is that lala male or female
Out of all job quests Dancer has the most bizarre questline. You travel Eorzea dancing away an ancient curse that makes people dance to death because they're sad
That was Igeyorhm.
Don't think so. Hythlodaeus was just Emet-Selch's best friend (but not on the councoil) who took a neutral position.
The 14th Ascian was the third friend who quit the council and afterwards started the movement to summon Hydaelyn.
she might break you
ah piety is the mp regen, then I wonder if I should just buy tenacity VIII materia or not
that's a male exclusive hair
The dumbing down in XIV is in the encounters.
Wouldn’t that mean the 14th’s gender is based on your own?
He's also the most reliable look we have into what Emet-Selch is thinking since he skipped a beat when conjuring up his memories of that specific ancient, and gave Hythlodaeus cognizance that neither he nor the city are real
Vautrhy is pure.
And his live among humanity only made him want to make bring his master ifri... I mean Zodiark back more. Just like it would happen with any long lived tempered slave
He didn't cared about his race or their wishes. True not tempered ancients decided that shattering world is the only way after they saw Zodiark. Only tempered slaves think otherwise and ready to justify it in their minds
Does it matter?
Maybe, but not before receiving my very own "flood of light" within her.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with completely erasing a world from existence to bring back the dead from the apocalypse as long as the good guys are doing it. Sorry everyone born after the calamity who probably won't exist in the timeline we want.
Then I envy you user, every Hrothgar I've gotten is utter shit at this game with some actually standing still turning around and then running forwards to get thru turns in dungeons. I'm honestly just baffled at my luck with them.
Female
Emet looks like the love child of Frollo and Cruella
The people from that timeline were given a choice and consented.
Really? Amazing. I remember the scene vaguely, how you guys keep up with all these details is amazing.
Which is why I said reconstructing. Hythlo turned out different from the other illusions and he theorized himself that Emet Selch made a mistake because he meant something to him, as a friend.
It is explained the magic of creation makes it so that the slightest distraction can have huge consequences. Why would Emet Selch mess up Hythlo in his immense power if he wasn't the friend he cared about even after hundred of millennia?
a small price for knowledge on sin eater pregnancy and a future where loli obacenities are a thing
Auracite imprisons the ascians in it, so likely having a bunch of shards of it stabbed in him made them start growing because they were absorbing Emet's soul
Play on miqo'te being sluts either way since she's referred to as Obscenity. With the specific-race sin eaters (the ones modeled after viera, elezen and miqo'te females) they're named after some negative trait that can be ascribed to their race in general as a sin
I want a comfy prequel story about Emet, Hythlo, and the WoL's original self.
ULTIMATE PEPSIMAN 5.1
Branching timelines.
Realistically how long does it take to level crafters? I'm starting to think I'm just wasting my time.
What, all of them or just the Ironworks cult?
It's shame expansion missed opportunity to show us a cloud of light
Seeing hades true form I'm sad that we didn't get that from Lahabrea
>I'm honestly just baffled at my luck with them.
get gud
Encounters have gotten linearly more complicated as time goes on, Innocence EX and Titania EX are harder than Lakshmi EX and Susano EX for example.
Expansion isn't over yet.
The fact that Blood Weapon and Delirium are such lackluster cooldowns is probably my biggest issue with DRK in this expansion. I like so much of the rest of the class.
>"Let expanse, contract! Let eon become instant!"
>Seven other fragments of our shattered soul appear.
>A REFLECTION IN THE GLASS
>RECOLLECTIONS OF OUR PAST
>SWIFT AS DARKNESS, COLD AS ASH
>FAR BEYOND THIS DREAM OF PARADISE LOST
Difference is that we aren't tempered to do that, Emet is
It doesn't take time, it takes gil and leves.
nvm I see that tenacity is tank only, so it's between determination, skill speed and piety for me
I get that. What i ment is that if the false Hythlo can sense Ardbert then so can Emet, its all him at the end of the day
There aren't even 7 other fragments of your soul left, dipshit.
You know, I'm curious. Emet-Selch says he's going to erase you by going back in time once he's finished with the G'raha.
Instead of that, why not just go back and prevent the original calamity so Zodiark doesn't even need to be summoned and no one dies?
but crit is good too, hmm I'll guess I'll use the ones I have and buy determination ones for now
I mean of course, that happens to every mmo, but that's because people evolve alongside with them, but the encounters in XIV are still far easier than WoW during a raid release.
People clear wow raids at a higher percentage only because Blizzard starts nerfing them and people get too much gear and begin to brute force them, but in their starting state they are much harder.
Except they're not actually killing life to continue their own unlike the Ascians. In undoing their timeline they hope to push reality into a timeline where people thrive, civilization holds and the Warrior of Light is still around longer. Have you forgotten that Alexander himself has taken into account the multiple timelines and pushed you alongside the path to the best one as well?
>comparing it to Emet
While his intentions were close to those of the Source's future the Source decided to just undo itself and change the variables up for a new timeline. Emet wanted to push Calamity onto Calamity till all Shards were whole to bring back Zodiark which in then he would offer up the lives of the survivors from the Calamity itself in exchange for his people.
Because he's tempered. He can't erase Zodiark.
It was honestly kind of sad after beating him. I dont know, I have a soft spot for characters who deluded upbringing leaves them honestly believing their dogma. Seeing him confused and on the verge of tears over being beaten when he legitimately saw himself as a just god was rough
Because he can't. He literally can't. Emet-Selch is tempered by Zodiark, and as a result, he cannot take any action that is detrimental to Zodiark. Preventing the first calamity negates the need for Zodiark, meaning he's never summoned.
The real sad truth is if he wasn't tempered, that is almost certainly what he would do.
is there more to this image
>leveling lancer is incredibly boring
>DRG suddenly becomes fucking amazing the instant you hit 50
What happened?
There were seven rejoinings as of present, so it's probably the fragments that were already rejoined to you, pulled from a point in time before their calamity.
He's not the one with the ability of affect space and time, zodiark is.
You got that dragon juice.
But Ardbert always stood by WoL, not only that it was shown that he was literally next to WoL when he was in the process of turning in front of Emet Selch.
He couldn't sense it. He doesn't have the ability to see the soul of someone else. Hythlo could.
The Amaurotine folks reconstructed were based on actual people, it doesn't seem far-fetched that they can sense their own souls in a way that Emet Selch couldn't. He himself probably didn't know Hythlo was a mistake.
they remove skills to reduce bloat on our hotbars with no thought to the leveling experience
yeah she pinning down some poor guy raping his cock to death
its really sad
Or they are just "champions from beyond the rift" like they are literally stated to be. Why do people always have to make everything more complicated?
Indeed, with the powers described by Hades, Zodiark may be immune to time shenanigans anyway.
What should I be melding as a tank? Did Tenacity ever get buffed enough to make it a consideration for progression at least? Is Crit still king with DH second? If I plan to have GNB as an alt, is SS any more important for them than other starts?
I agree with that. Abyssal seems fine but I wouldn't mind the CD being shaved off if you hit a certain amount of enemies with Flood/Quietus or something, although I won't mind if it stays the same as it is right now.
Where do i turn in my mendactiy and genesis tomestones?
Sometimes people just want a cool moment to be a little cooler even if it doesn't entirely make sense.
none of them give it the miqote markings that tells you it was a fucking cat before a sin eater
Nabriales invoked Zodiark when using his time magic. Honestly Zodiark may just end up coming in from that other timeline.
Has anyone drawn out the timeline in graphic form? I understand all the events and how things played out but due to the supposed time desyncing between the Source and the First (Conveniently getting back in sync for your arrival) things are kind of muddy with how it all lines up. Especially with what is revealed at the end of the Twinning.
I figured they were other Warriors of Light from the remaining shards. Not /you/ specifically, but Hydaelyn's Chosen.
is that crop all that's left of the evidence of the said rape
Mor dhona
That was most likely what he wanted to do, Emet places an immense amount of importance on his own calamity. It depends on the nature of Zodiark's tempering as well, since it was a primal specifically created to stabilize reality, and being tempered doesn't necessarily mean you will re-summon the primal at all costs, ie Ramuh and the Sylphs where he gave his tempered specific instructions to not summon him again unless it was absolutely necessary.
You could probably argue that restabilizing reality by making sure the Amaurotine calamity never happened is in line with Zodiark's wishes. There's other primals perfectly fine with their own self-termination or self-imprisonment to protect the world, like Alexander, though he didn't have any tempered that we knew about to draw parallels to besides the two au ra he sent back in time to become their own ancestors(?)
tenacity is still shit, skill speed is been nerfed into the ground, crit and dh are your best bets. where you can't get those, fall back on DET
>stop the original Calamity
It's already stated that they could not do that. Even with the knowledge they have now they still assume Zodiark himself is the will that brought Law back to the star itself. Not mentioning the fact that he's tempered of course. If he wanted to undo it all he'd prevent the summon of Hydaelyn but that would bring a new problem, Zodiark's constant demand of life to further fuel his power and keep things in check. Honestly all that will arise from this story is Hydaelyn and Zodiark either being brought to terms to act as balancing forces or something else doing it in their stead. Hydaelyn tries to maintain life to such an extreme that it has fractured the world and Zodiark demands life to further sustain his will creating an eventual decline and overall death of any civilization, Ascian included.
One of the major reasons why this expansion's story was so successful was that we only focused on one story. It wasn't split between two storylines and didn't have us constantly shooting back to the Source or another silly area to do something that wasn't really what we wanted. We wanted to go to the First and that's what we got even to the point that almost everyone is still stuck on the First.
Heavensward was similar, but only because Heavensward's second story was so shitty and forgettable, most people forget that the expansion had a concurrent story-line throughout.
Stormblood suffered heavily by going to Japanland. We were under the impression we were going to liberate Ala Mhigo and instead got to spend the vast majority of the expansion liberating and hanging out in Japanland. The two storylines fragmented the story and made it a pain to deal with.
My only fear is that SE will take the woman who wrote this story and offer her another position in the company as her ability to tell stories is of a higher quality than the last two expansions.
What about SkS on Gunbreaker since it quadruple dips on all their skills for them?
I swear Shinryu was more difficult, but it might just be everyone has improved since then. The only wipes I've had on Hades is from new players not knowing all the mechanics right away, where Shinryu had a lot of instant kills like the tidal wave and frost pushing people off the edge or Ahk Morn killing tanks that didn't stack.
I guess. To me its more that Emet is fucked in the head in some ways and only unconsciously could sense Ardberd, the same way he unconsciously gave Hythlo "free will", who goes on to notice him
>gil and leves
Isn't the point of crafting to make gil? It seems like a chicken-and-egg type deal
skill speed is good, but the amount needed right now to get any worthwhile gains isn't really worth it unless they buff the stat. they hit it hard with the combat change from stormblood to shadowbringers
Zodiark didn't demand life constantly, just to invoke literally world changing shows of power, which...Honestly, if you're stopping the slow encroachment of magic cancer on the world, then fixing the broken lands left behind? Yeah, I'd say that tracks.
"distant stars" doesn't even seem to be about the shards specifically
You must invest money to make money.
You invest gil into leveling it up to make more gil
Doing it the slowest, cheapest way through beast tribes probably takes about a month per crafter. With a full set of 100 leves and the ability to make HQ gear, you can go from 1-70 in a day. 71-80 seems to be pretty easy too.
emet not being able to see ardbert is a plothole considering he spoke about the color of yshtola's soul when he was pulling her out of the lifestream. if he was able to see that he should have been able to see you and ardbert.
>epics cutscene to the final battle with hades
>summoned warrios of light come to you
>one of them is in a fucking frog suit
by the twelve
sauce that
Ask a white mage to cast Holy on your dick and that's pretty much how it must feel
I think it was left vague whether he demanded it or not.
The text during the QTE claims they all have the Blessing of Light though, so they would have to be from other shards. There doesn't have to be only one from each shard though. We've met five other characters on the Source with the Blessing. Ramza, Tenzen, Krile, Minfilia, and Ysayle.
>Needs BING BING WAHOO style instant gratification
Dilate
Eh, my first time I had a lalafell MT in the ghost costume, and we 1 shot the the thing.
everyone in that timeline was going to be food for zodiarc
Ala Mihigo was an ugly shithole and not having to spend the whole expansion's story there was it's saving grace.
Aggressive healers is my fetish user.
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witch is why i think he can, and does so only through the fake Hythlo, but not consciously
This is fair, but the mere fact that those who summoned him are tempered they would eventually continue invoking him leading to the same problem in the end. Hydaelyn is the only reason the new life itself has thrived in a sense but as Emet puts it they're all incomplete and frail reflections of what was. You can make things whole again by rejoining the shards but the eventual use of Zodiark will eventually kill off that life since the constant invoking of him by his tempered followers would not stop till they were out of the picture.
Where is it said that Zodiark constantly needs power? The thanos snap only applied if they wanted something that needed immense amount of power. Like bringing back the sacrificed Ascians. And where has the sacrifices been applied since then if he truly needs energy? The rejoining of the shards weren't sacrificed for the sustenance of Zodiark itself.
Hydaelin would also need constant energy if it was the case.
every class is shit ass boring until 50 leveling wise, has been the case since HW.
did you just do it and was he a whm named leonardo?
cause that was me
It was never said he needed energy.
Mor Dohna
To be fair, Ardbert doesn't show up until after Emet's fucked off before the big showdown, where there's so much shit going on you can forgive him for missing Ardbert's shard in the veritable lightshow that's going on. Especially so when your soul color seems to be "white", so I imagine Emet misses Ardbert simply because Ardbert's borderline invisible with you around to cover his ass.
Ryne was also able to see the colour of his soul. This doesn't mean you are given the ability to see a fragment of someone's soul detached from the host itself. This is not the same thing.
But nothing I can make so far is actually profitable. The only worthwhile stuff is at cap and from what I can tell it'd take millions of gil to reach it using only turnins, which I don't have.
soon, fellow Chadbreaker
Is blm still a pain to do content blind with?
>aoe appears underneath you/some mechanic comes up
>oh shit
>interrupt cast, move/aether manip and eat the full clip on top of it
>my dps's face when
Obviously there's no problem if you've memorized it, but god the virgin pulls are always spaghetti
I'm only 72
>Hydaelin would also need constant energy if it was the case.
Hydaelyn doesn't need energy because she's, umbral. static.
>The only worthwhile stuff is at cap
Invest money
Make money
If the text lines are anything to go off by in one of the cutscenes you do end up asking him where he was in which he replied that even he had to give you your privacy. Or with Seto as he walks away after learning how much his bird loved him. Ardbert only really joined you when you were alone as to not make you seem crazy.
Now my question is if you're actually one step closer to becoming an Ascian as Ardbert has fused with our soul.
Is this game actually good?
t. wow private server faggot
Reminder the Alexander story establishes time is a closed loop. We haven't stopped shit yet.
Ardbert specifically says he will always stick with WoL starting from Tempest. He followed him all the time.
Yes, that's why Emet caught the brief glimpse of your original self.
Is and always will be, BLM's lived and died by its huge cast-times since 2.0
>forgetting the First's take on Umbral Light and Astral Dark
Light creates stasis and is the main aspect behind Black Rose. It's why the First being flooded with light would have been properly paired with the usage of Black Rose. Hydaelyn herself is a passive force, Zodiark on the other hand is an Active force that needs to be invoked upon to have anything done and by Emet's own words each time he was invoked it cost half his people.
Relatively fun, you can play the trial to level 35 as any of the base ARR jobs, which will give you more then enough time to decide if you want to sub/pay for more expansions.
If you like heavy story focus that locks 99% of the content behind it, yeah.
Leveling GNB right now. Should I weave brutal shell combo into AoE combo during big dick aoe pulls? Kinda hate that I either have to pick between AoE, or self healing/shield single target combo, seeing that th eonly other way to heal myself is with aurora.
Yup, we're 9/14ths complete now instead of 8/14ths.
Yes, it's a great game, and a great mmo. It's not like wow, but that is a good thing. I'm a former wow player myself.. I have the 10 year statue, too. Play this game as its own game, not thinking about wow, and you will be able to enjoy it thoroughly.
TAKE CARE YOU AREN'T SOAKED IN WATER
what's the fastest dungeon to spam to get my GNB from 60 to 61?
>chadbreaker
Let me stop you there, my friend. Most Gunbreakers are going to be shit. It's a Tank class with MCH's latency dependency because most of it relies on weaving in oGCDs. Most people either cannot weave competently, or do not have good enough internet to weave.
we wont be an ascian but definitely more powerful. ascians are basically really powerful ghosts that have to take over mortal bodies. we already have our own body. if anything we're coming closer to becoming our true amaurotine self.
What in the ever-loving FUCK went so wrong?
Surely changing one writer wasn't all the difference.
>Complaining about story in a FF game.
Not worth it. Use a defensive cooldown, you're losing a ton of damage for a rather meager shield and heals. if anything use Aurora.
Shit Areas and Shit Characters save for like a couple.
gubal
I really want to know how they'll do the live action. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a different cast of characters.
The story was a lot more focused.
It definitely can be. The Head writer determines a lot of how a project can pan out
t. writer
Split the potential for 2 expacs into just 1 and muddled it all.
I usually pair Aurora/Camouflage as a singular tank cooldown, don't bother getting in Brutal Shell during AoE since it'll just get shredded away before you can even get back to AoEing.
low leveled gameplay is boring as sin. story takes a long time to ramp up. it's a great game but you do have to slog through a lot of bullshit to get to the good stuff.
not much, I liked it
GOBLINS ILL LIKE FIRE
He needed half of the Ascian population to be offered as a sacrifice to stop the Final Days, and then he needed half of the remaining Ascians just to bring back the ambient life of the planet that was killed off during the Final Days. It's heavily implied that it wouldn't have stopped there and he would have led to the extinction of the Ascian race (and then would need to find another source of Aether to succ)
Doma
Juust do MSQ roulette once and hope for Praetorium. And just alt tab out and play a diff game
My connection is fucking ass and I can still play GNB. Only trouble I've found is finding the space for Bloodfest.
I wasn't complaining though, I actually love that the story is mandatory. It's not a lie to say the overwhelming majority of content you want to do is locked behind it though.
Ishikawa's generally been the better writer. Her writing credits aside from Shadowbringers for this game are
>coerthas section in arr
>haurchefant's overall character
>crystal tower
>alchemist questline up to 50
>dark knight questline
>azim steppe
>hien's overall character
>tsuyu & gosetsu post patch storyline
'twould seem all roads lead to the crystarium, Arisen.
Actual content was great but its premise of an Ala Mhigo expansion went out the window immediately. Incidental focus on raid-buffs in job design ended up breeding a huge amount of autism in regards to party meta that's still attempting to persist even in Shadowbringers where personal-DPS is king (unless you're Dancer).
Its a WoW clone with a story focus. It's raids are more encounter based than anything with the game just plopping you down in front of the boss. Best to play it for the story and sub 3-4 times a year for the Raid tier itself honestly as getting your crafting/gathering done is child's play after the Expansion launch as you end up relying on macros. If you're trying to avoid Theme Parks then you won't really find anything new here other than 2 good story expansions, one shit expansion and a boring slog at the first half of ARR.
I do love the story but you must be really retarded if you think most people will excuse such a heavy lock behind story in MMOs just cause of the brand name itself. I personally understand as someone who has played all the mainlines including XI but for most people just itching for an MMO they'll lock at FF and probably think twice about touching it. Never forget that its competing in an MMO space.
Lord Vauthry could stand to commission new roads...
>Lyse and Hien
Meh
>Graha and Ardbert
Total bros
>Zenos
Meh
>Emet-Selch
Total bro
The point was that the scions totally understood the hypocrisy. It was Emet that didn't.
Alisaie admitted that she would do the same in his shoes. Alphinaud said he sees where Emet is coming from but he's still going to fight to defend the people he cares about. Emet expected them to roll over and let him have his way. Emet was justified, the heroes knew he was justified, but they were also justified and might made right.
>get alexander prime in roulette
>tell other tank I'll take care of the LB3
>don't use it
NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
Unironically Lyse. Couldn't have given us a worse lens to view the liberation through than that bitch.
It should've been a grief-struck Raubahn instead.
>Scholar can no longer deploy critlo to survive it
lol
Cool, thanks for the info. Leveled PLD, WAR, and DRK to 80 and GNB seems so squishy in comparison. Wish brutal shell was more than basically a neat little bonus and more of a decent shield.
There's more room for mistakes. AF timers are longer so you can dodge aoes and still get your fire IVs in. Sharpcast is on a 30s cooldown so you can sharp fire to get yourself more AF time and get your despair off as well. Xeno is also instant cast so you can save your polyglot for when you need to move and keep dealing damage while mobile. Umbral soul might also help if you need to move and happen to be in UI.
Probably will never ever be as blind-friendly as RDM, but it's more forgiving.
Where the fuck is the template for this?
they also sacrificed people to summon hydaelyn. both require aether but only when they're being invoked to do something. they aren't a constant aether drain like regular primals.
>complaining about samurai complexity
Literally anyone can play SAM. Put the DoT on, light up the runes, do fucktons of damage. Now twice. How is that so complicated?
Revolution stories are not very interesting in the first place and with how the story went you can't do a lot with it.
The only issue is that they split the story into two concurrent arcs that were written by different writers and it never goes well 90% of the time. See Xenoblade 2
>If he wanted to undo it all he'd prevent the summon of Hydaelyn
This is literally what he wanted to do after getting hands on cat
Well shit, thank you user.
GNB is definitely a bit squishier but I can't pin down exactly why since it has equivalents to other tank cooldown abilities. Oh, and don't sleep on Arm's Length, that Slow it deals out now is invaluable.
Just started Stormblood and there are two lines of MSQs. Which should I do first?
>Never forget that its competing in an MMO space.
Competing against who? WoW? That's the only other successful MMO outside of Korea bullshit. A case might be made for ESO, but even then it's still not near the levels of FFXIV.
It's clear that story matters a lot and that's the defining characteristic of XIV. If people are going to get butthurt about having to do a story well then they shouldn't bother playing. I'm sure there's some flavor of the month battle royale they can play.
Split story focus that only hurt the impact of bother liberations, not to mention rushed in the launch patch itself instead of being spread throughout the expansion as a whole, Eureka being shit and locking the Relic which has propped up longevity of older content and mostly unmemorable content as a whole. Not to say most of it was bad but most of it was barely edging on good if anything. Mediocre expansion all around.
personally i use rampart+aurora and camo+heart of stone since camo is a lesser damage reduction
so how the fuck did cid make an alexander omega fusion time machine when both entities fucked off forever, is he really that good or did he just steal nero's work again
It doesn't matter, you have to do both at some point anyway, just like in HW.
>tfw people like to meme "it get's good at x hours in" a lot
>it's actually the case with FFXIV
Heh
>lol what if we split the story so we focus on liberating two countries instead of having one super focused story on one place
>not like that worked for heavensward right?
Ala Mhigo literally got shafted from 60 until 67 it was basically an after thought compared to all the shit you did in doma. Then lets not even mention lyse.
But the Ascians wanted to sacrifice the "ambient life" in order to bring its civilization back.
It could have ended here and then. Emet Selch isn't so stupid even tempered if his plan was bringing about the extinction of his own race.
This is not SB anymore. DRG is the new SAM when it comes to braindead melee. Not being able to dump Sen and having to get to Senei, Higanbana and Tsubame as fast as possible makes the job a perfect middle ground between DRG's snoozefest and NIN's autismal zerg.
AHHH EMET HELP A WEEB BROKE INTO THE PALACE
You gotta do both lines to continue I'd say do the one with lyse first. Makes more sense story wise
it wasn't that bad
Cid didn't make it. Cid died long before its completion.
The only thing "more squishy" about GNB is their invuln. Everything else is great. Spam Heart of Stone on CD, use other mitigation to fill in the gaps. Camo is a weak one so use it in conjunction with Aurora or at the end of a pack when the mobs are starteing to die.
>Cid
Cid didn't make it, it was future generations of Ironworks that did. Did you not see the final cutscene of that Quest in which the 3rd Briggs left a message for G'raha Tia? It took generations and 13 presidents of the Ironworks to even get that far.
Heavensward had a splitting story, but the second story was so fucking bad that people forget it even exists.
>she wrote the only good parts of SB
Explains a lot
Seemed like a 100% mechanical reverse-engineering of Alexander Prime. Has interesting implications for the primal itself that you actually fight, namely that its time-travel was a purely mechanical process instead of an innate ability of the primal.
Cid didn't live to see the Ironworks Alexander or send G'raha Tia off, post-dungeon the voice on the recorder is Biggs' grandson and the eighteenth president of Garlond Ironworks.
Yeah, I'm generally willing to give 14 a pass because they really had to rush that shit out after the nightmare that was 1.0.
Cid and Nero worked until death on the project. Together. Then the heirs of Ironworks continued their work, putting the theory to practice.
>GNB is definitely a bit squishier but I can't pin down exactly why since it has equivalents to other tank cooldown abilities
That's because it isn't, it's a fucking meme. Camo and Aurora are great for autoattacks, Heart of Stone is like Shelltron and will always be up for busters or AoE and you still get Rampart, Reprisal and Nebula, on top of Brutal Shell, as minimal as it may be.
One of the big questions I'm left wondering is how exactly the original catastrophe came into existence for the Ascian utopia. Didn't Emet basically say that the laws of the planet itself began to basically unravel? This is an evil which is the oldest yet known.
Also, I'm really sad that ShB is done and over. The First is amazing, and I really do not want to have to back to the dumb empire this soon
ずさんな
Alexander was created by scholars, his mechanical workings are a bit magical, but he also has basically magical science on his side, so to speak. They used their studies of Alexander for time manipulation. And studies of Omega for travel in the Rift.
>200 years of blood and sweat and the hopes of every surviving Ironworks engineer put into one machine
>WoL immediately blows it to bits after encountering it
it's kind of sad
They probably didn't think a single city state would carry a whole expansion story, but splitting the story is never a good idea.
>done and over
>he doesnt know the eden raid is part of the MSQ and we still need to reverse the flood
our job isnt done yet senpai
>But the Ascians wanted to sacrifice the "ambient life" in order to bring its civilization back.
Nope, they explicitly state that it took half the Ascian population to HALT the apocalypse, then they were preparing to offer up half their remaining population to REVERSE it when the Hydaelyn summoning happened. Considering this is how literally every other primal (except Hydaelyn who is literally dying as a result) operates (having its followers offer up more and more Aether until nothing is left) it's safe to assume it would have led to the eventual extinction or near-extinction of the Ascian race. Or more likely, someone resummoning Hydaelyn to counteract the loss of life and an endless repetition of the cycle
Also pretty hilarious when WoL gestures Ardbert to come with them on the elevator and the dude behind him thinks he's being signaled to until some thot gives him the "you wish" look.
It seemed more like a natural disaster which itself may or may not have been the result of the ancients themselves overusing creation magic.
It showed meteors causing most of the earth's destruction so it was probably aliens. Maybe Jenova or Lavos
It doesn't explain anything because Banri Oda is also the main writer of Shadowbringers.
>forgiven obscenity
does that mean it's okay to sex her..?
>ShB is done and over
We still need to find a way back home for the scions, and Eden will probably be about trying to rebuild and reclaim the world the Flood has taken. I'm guessing we'll also eventually figure out what caused the catastrophe, and will have to have a talk with Hydaelyn about what her deal is.
What was the disagreement about Ascians even about then? They weren't going to sacrifice themselves to death, they had a fall back plan to bring everyone back.
Nah, trying to be 2 expansions in one is why SB is the worst expansion.
Is it destroyed or simply shut down?
>You destroy the ultimate Boilmaster which has since gained sentience to boil the ultimate cup.
The worst offender, honestly.
>alexander is created by scholars who are given instructions by alexander to create alexander so that alexander which has a will of its own can erase itself from existence because alexander is a threat to the timeline and also there's a cat
really makes you think
The story got fucked because it splintered itself, Doma was better then Ala Mihigo but literally the entire fucking bridge quest and Balesar's wall builds into Ala Mihigo, then we just forget it for like 8 levels and fuck off.
The Exarch wants you to do it so obviously it's too dangerous to leave alone.
If you release your flood of light within her, you are forgiven.
Easy answer. The narrative was split in a way that it became non-cohesive as a whole.
How the fuck do I enjoy combat in this game? I can't even get to lv 20 because every spec is just 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2.... 3!-1-2-1-2-1-2
They were going to sacrifice themselves to death, they had no "fallback" plan. Zodiark likely wouldn't be able to actually resurrect all the dead Ascians without a tremendous amount of Aether. Emet-Selch planned to offer up the ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE FUCKING SOURCE as a sacrifice just to bring back the Amaurotines, let alone the rest of the Ascians. The group who split off and summoned Hydaelyn likely did so because they foresaw the demands of Zodiark spiraling out of control and unlike their brethren didn't trust him to not continue escalating his demands.
My theory is that he's bubbled himself for a reason, and will be important in one particular point before performing sudoku
>can't even level 20
dumb anime poster you are fucking weak, you can get to level 30 in an afternoon if you even give a remote fuck
The meteors were created by panicking ascians, same as the monsters. The actual catastrophe was their creation magic going fucking haywire and making all the scary shit they could think of reality.
>calling XIV a FF game
The early game is terrible. Stick it out or pay to skip.
1-50 is total dogshit in this game
Yeah, he was the reason why they were able to time travel.
How do people take the MSQ seriously as a Lalafell?
It has been pretty FF so far, and this current expansion hit a fucking homerun. This is one of the top FF's now.
DNC is fucking OP. It adds at least 2-3k damage for your partner + your overall utility in a group. It was never meant to have high DPS.
>ascians heard an unearthly screeching, or screaming of some sort, from deep beneath the earth
>anyone who heard it went absolutely batshit and couldnt control their creation magicks causing all manner of horrors to form
>yoship has a massive square boner and loves fanservice
>would absolutely send the game off in its finale with a 24 man raid vs lavos
if the final boss of ff14 is lavos i will eat my own shit on livestream
And you don't see why people wouldn't disagree with literally offering up their planet's life force to a god which already gobbled up half their race?
That's the thing. This game is so fucking boring that I can't stomach it. How do you tolerate it?
retard.
>pay to skip
so alexander is roko's basilisk
neat
Yes and no. While there's no word on further sacrifices, the other Ascians understandably reasoned that having a supreme overgod with complete control over a race of demigod creators is a disaster waiting to happen. You can't really say Hydaelyn and Zodiark are villains, as they're only doing what they were summoned to do. Hell, you can't even blame the pro-Zodiark Ascians. By Emet's own admission, they summoned him only when they were completely out of options. He was the Hail Mary.
There are no true villains playing the cosmic game, that's the catch of Shadowbringers. Every Ascian on both sides had a perfectly valid reason for doing what they did, and genuinely and truly believed they did the best they could with what they had.
wasn't there a line saying that some unknown force caused the ascians to completely lose control over their creation magic? and the other side of the world was already getting fucked before anything happened in amaurot
They don't. Lala players are literal memelords who thinks they are hilarious by simple virtue of playing lala.
So, considering how fucked up the setting of Shadowbringers is, my big question is: how the fuck will they implement the Hildibrand next set of stories in the next patches?
It's why I always fantasia back to a Hyur for the MSQ and then back to a Lalafell for the grind.
Watch YouTube.
I understand why they would disagree. I don't understand how it implied they would sacrifice themselves (Ascians) to death
>mfw it was zodiark instilling fear in the ascians so they would give birth to him in the first place
Ala mhiggo
I don't like or care about them, memes about them being niggers aside. They simple unlikable, and scene in 4.1 with them stoning father in front of his daughter made it only worse
Uh, they literally fell into a portal to the First at the end of SB.
I just finished the msq. How do I access the level 80 job quest?
you're right
...what was it?
i've been a lala for so long i just see the WoL as a lala now.
Either its back in the Source or we get the New Bildibrand Banderville adventures.
Dalai-Chai was better than half the storyline of SB.
And you guys know I'm right.
in the sense that it works towards its own creation before it's even created, yeah, but luckily alexander is benevolent
The Hildibrand quests don't really follow the rules as it is. That being said, Hildibrand has had moments of lucidity where he understands the gravity of the situation.
just go to the guy who you usually do job quests with
God damn I love the Chai's. Nothing bad better happen to them.
Honestly I only stay as a Lalafell at this point cause im the shortest and youngest member in my Free Company and it has become sort of a running joke. Would honestly feel out of place to suddenly change race when I've been a Lala since 1.0.
Hildy and Greg go on a field-trip, Nashu becomes a Forgiven Obscenity by accident but retains sentience and nothing really changes for her, hijinks ensue
There's probably a higher power than Zodiark. At the end of the day he's just a primal.
>Why are the majority of them braindead?
They're ex roes.
I'm not saying any were in the wrong, I'm just explaining why there was a splinter faction in the first place. Many didn't agree with their lives basically existing in eternal subservience to a being who had already effectively demanded half their race as a sacrifice to stop the calamity and would have demanded half again just to reverse the damage so that they could then offer up their planet's life force to it just to bring back the ones that were sacrificed.
Playing the game isn't free, either
>lose sub days
>lose time
>have to pay for pc uptime
based
It was turning Ul'dah into a democracy and Nanamo not actually dying.
>sacrifice half you population to summon zodiark
>summon half of the remaining half to unfuck the world
>another half is sacrificed to summon hydaelyn
>split happens
>to rejoin, you gotta sacrifice some worlds and cause calamities, killing a bunch more people
>once the rejoining happens, gotta sacrifice what's left to get Zodiark up
>probably needs some more sacrifices after that to fix what's left
>the future G'raha Tia comes from is completely and utterly fucked post-calamity, suggesting that the rejoining and revival of zodiark didn't fucking work
Was Emet's plan doomed to fail from the start?
Where can I find the GNB guy?
I need Ryne lewds
the "chubby old lady who is also very kind" personality hits too close to home. I love her
Zodiark needs aether to survive, it's a primal like anything else.
>genuinely loves his fat wife and threw out the previous artist for an unflattering/realistic rendering of her
>World stuck in a perpetual Calamity
>Literally every single character you come across is infinitely more friendly and supportive than most of the people back at the Source
Why is the square enix website so completely unusable? I have tried to start a free-trial like 5 times now over the past year and I can never get past account creation.
Except that timeline in the end wasn't pruned because the Exarch still exists and he himself remarks this. So FFXIV's world has branching timelines and the doomed timeline still continues and could even be the setting of the nier raid.
The same way they take the MSQ itself seriously. Also femlalas are adorable.
Sadly this can't be the case for me user. Roegadyn's have generally been average players whenever I get them, or god like if they're a tank, but for whatever reason all Hrothgar I get are utterly shit at this game.
>Was Emet's plan doomed to fail from the start?
Ask the fucking jobber. Moron keeps fucking up his other comrades plans.
I was really waiting for her to turn into an evil shitter, but she never did. It was actually really nice.
>underage AND a manlet
It might have turned out better if they had more material and time. It'd still have likely been a dusty shithole but you could have had Himalayas with monasteries, maybe some verdant rainforest in the mountains a'la the Caspian Mazandaran region of Iran or the foothills of the Himalayas. Given the kung fu vibe you could throw in some of that crazy Southern China landscape thesanetravel.com
>You would have been able to depict the tension in the aftermath of the revolution in MORE THAN JUST ONE FUCKING PATCH WITH ONE FUCKING CHARACTER (Fordola). Deal with the question of bitter-ender loyalists to Garlemald, the animosity towards collaborators a'la after WW2, an actual drama to whether it is to become a monarchy (with the monk quest son of the mad king) or a republic.
>Have the brilliant lady who did Azim and SHB and have her give the Ala Mhigans an actual cultural flavor the way the Rak-Tika Night cultists did, or Eulmore or the Crystal City or the mord (Kobold dudes)
>Beast tribes more than just the retarded lamia
4.0 should have been Ala mhigo and South Ilsabard/Thavnair. 5.0 Would be the Far East. 6.0 would be the First as shit is hitting the fan and the Garleans are scared and preparing black rose. 7.0 is the conclusion and you finish Garlemald and go to the moon and fight Zodiark/whatever the fuck is the original calamity.
What are Hunts for? What do they give?
Don't forget Ul'dah becoming a democracy was totally dropped afterwards since it was another of Nanamo's hare-brained ideas.
Gilgamesh has always been a dimension hopper. They clearly went to the first in that portal.
they're wowfugees
no one sane would play a furry race save for those used to them from their previous game
Yeah, it was a gradual thing that spread across the world. By the time it reached Amaurot, shit was pretty much beyond saving.
yeah but there's no indication yet as to Zodiark's motives or personality or anything, we just know that the Ascians are tempered in some way that is unlike the primals we know in the Source, and that the Ascians are self-sacrificing to a fault and that the 75% offering to Zodiark was voluntary
Revenant's Toll was where they were left at lv. 70 I believe
What if we fight Elidibus until the big bad that forced the births of Zodiark and Hydaelyn shows up, shows up, then he ultimately joins us?
I actually see a lot sprouts on omega, some of them even bunnies and furry so people actually bought game
They give you nuts so you can buy a green pepe suit and slay minorities like a true Gamer
Because that's what would actually happen. We've been so poisoned by media to expect that the end of the world would bring nothing except looting and rioting when in fact it would likely bring us together.
Yep, they dropped the idea completely. That's why Heavensward is so good. The second story was so shitty and ended so poorly that people don't even register it in their minds when they think back to HW.
>the future G'raha Tia comes from is completely and utterly fucked post-calamity, suggesting that the rejoining and revival of zodiark didn't fucking work
This one is actually Elidibus's fault. The Ascians have made it clear time and again that if the Source gets fucked, it's game over. The Light Aether infused Black Rose, which was Elidibus's idea, wound up wiping out damn near all life.
It's not that reviving Zodiark didn't work, it's that Elidibus fucked the Source beyond all repair before they could even get the plot for 9th Rejoining up and running.
I think a great deal of that is thanks to our boy G'raha.
>manlet
Fair enough, I'm not that tall so I'll admit to that
>underage
Maybe during 1.0 user. You do realize how old a good chunk of the 1.0 players were right? A good chunk of the ones I know are well into their 30s now.
If it was Emet or even Lahabrea joining us, I'd be down with it. But having single-digit-IQ jobber extraordinaire join us would make me feel nothing
>tried Tit EX with 3 different groups over 4 hours and couldn't get a single clear
>accidentally join an Innocence EX no-guides blind run group and manage to get 4 clears
I don't get it
There was no big bad. It was creation magic going out of control because the nightmares of a sterile society began to pile up.
Is this good for someone who wants to skip the lv 1-50 slog? What is the end-game level right now?
what is khloe saying
They work fine as casters, especially BLM and RDM. Shit like Lala DRK is 1IQ fags who think they're the kings of comedy.
fastest way to farm Goetia
What's the point of Drachen Armor now that I have Wyrm Armor? Also what does True North do?
I thought I saw someone say that Emet only needed eight calamities to get Zodiark back. A full rejoining was impossible the moment the thirteenth turned into a useless void.
One require some coordination. The other doesn't.
I had a friend rant about that earlier and I forgot it existed. It was mercifully brief. Still it's worth remembering that HW wasn't as strong as this expansion and that likely is part of it.
Either the ancients abused and misused creation magic (the manipulation of aether) and so enraged the gaia spirit of the star it sought to cleanse them ( neoseeker.com
Or it's Lavos/Jenova.
The momentum of their own madness and panicking played a part but I refuse to believe the original calamity is literally just "An ancient heard a spooky noise, made a monster because he thought of it - that scared 2 more ancients who made more monsters which scared more ancients" because of how stupidly banal that is.
It was the sound from below, the cacophanous keening that drove them mad and in the process led to panic creating even more monsters and horrors.
People who buy jump potions are the same faggots that cry about having nothing to do.
nice link, retard. also
>skipping
True north means you ignore the position of the enemy. Meaning, during the time of the buff is active, you get positional bonus regardless of your actual position. Use it when you find yourself unable to move due to aoe's or other things.
You're wrong, eventually the land would have begun to heal again and repopulate, even if it took centuries. The rejoining isn't a short term plan and past umbral eras lasted generations, only in 2.0 they decided to just end it after five years because plot. It's entirely possible that in that timeline there weren't any more calamities because the ascians were biding their time.
3 Dungeons
and 2 trials.
And PVP lol
The Drachen armor (the level 45/item level 50 stuff that's weaker) can be augmented with a special item which lets you dye it. The Wyrm Armor (the level 50/item level 90 stuff) can't be dyed no matter what, just use it as your gear until you get better gear (either Ironworks gear from tomestones of Poetics in Mor Dhona, or the MSQ gear)
Not entirely sure they made the Cthonic boss monster. Furthermore the 'Keening' that drove them insane likely has a source in the form of something that could be considered a 'big bad'.
Drachen is effectively pointless now but you can dump it into your armoire, it's special gear and won't take up a glamour-dresser slot. You can als craft or buy some armor augment items to get a dyeable version of Drachen armor.
True North lets you ignore directional requirements for moves, like the boosted potency on Chaos Thrust.
I mean't like is the max level 80 or 90 or what?
No it wasn't. Listen to the dialogue again. Something triggered the calamity.
I mean, it's possible but it would make for a flaccid ending to the Amaurot story and would leave too many questions, like how the calamity they were facing started on the other side of the world, whether Amarout was the only society with super-accessible creation magic (the implication is that Amaurot was special given the dialogue), and the fact that Zodiark was created to "rewrite the laws of reality"
Assuming that is the case, Elidibus's Black Rose plan still screws the overall scheme; can't sacrifice the population of the Source if there's no one to sacrifice.
80
Best girl (male)
Am I getting close to the end? I just killed Innocence
80
>Male
u wot?
Close but not the best is yet to come.
Pixies are genderless
You have like 4 hours to go.
you have to fuck her to stop her from turning you into a bush, would you choose her giant form or her tiny form
>alexander lyrics came to mind after The Twinning and a recreation of the primal was the crystal tower's time machine
Falling back right into the system, of falling back on all that's erased
When fighting back right out of this system, means falling back right into this space
Yes, falling back right in with the system, who'll see you falling back to the end
When falling back is better than simply, falling back into PIE-CES A-GAIN
>skipping story in a story focused MMO
I just started doing pvp to get glams and shit and I'm actually having fun. Is this the power of turning your brain off?
both
We don't know if the original calamity was caused by someone or something and it's implied not even the amaurotians knew. However a calamity did happen, it was described as a screeching sound coming from the earth that made creation magic go out of control.
While i'm loving the story, I don't want to get left behind in endgame shit and wanted to start this weekend. Thanks.
Why is AST so fucking boring? I can handle it being weak ), but being boring is unforgiveable.
I would definitely skip ARR but none of the others
I mean you can enjoy it.
God knows i do.
The calamity was caused by some kind of fraying of the fundamental laws of reality. The conversations with the citizens of Amaurot show that "spontaneous creation" was already occurring in distant lands, and the convocation was already making plans to summon Zodiark, even before Amaurot itself was feeling the effects of the calamity. The effects were a gradual undoing of the fabric of reality and not just "there was a big noise that made everyone go insane", which is why they had to summon Zodiark to rewrite the laws of reality.
It still bothers me that they use Titania as the title of king instead of Oberon.
G'raha Tia states at the start that "he" will help you with items from across the rift. It's a boy including theTitania you fight. They are a king after all, not a queen.
>urianger
lmao
I just heard Feo Ul's English voice, holy fuck how can people play with this?
Alag calamity was even worse with entire continents reshaping and millions dying in years
But hey, world is still full of people you can sacrifice:3
And let's not even start with calamity just before bahamut, even surviving waves and water, dying in swaps was a shitty way to go
I wonder how fire calamity went
>girl (male)
Not today trap-fag, those eyelashes and screeching Scot housewife attitude betray the fact she has eggs that demand to be fertilized right now
I think a lot of the fun is coming from the fact I'm playing PLD and shitting over everybody
Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with Elidibus' fucking everything up. Was just pointing out that the eighth calamity was pretty important for Emet because the immediate next step was trying to get Zodiark up and running, rather than plotting the ninth calamity, which makes our victory over him all the more important for us and all the more devastating for him.
tiny form is for patricians, pixie cunny is very elastic
It's the most active of the 3 button wise. The problem is all those buttons amount to nothing
You're not going to fall behind. The good tomestones aren't even coming out for another week. You can do the EX primals with just your base artifact gear and clear it with ease since they are meant to be easy. The difficult stuff won't happen for another month.
heavensward is great but it feels really silly that the entire plot hinges on a godslayer getting chased out of society by a single group of lalafells backed by some literally who mercenaries
It's actually not much different from what it was before.
>Titania EX
>Hard
Cleared second pull with a pub learning party. It isn't much harder than normal. The fight is only like 7 minutes long.
No shit it's just 1-2 you fucking retard, you're level 20
You still have another week before the raid comes out, you're fine. Just enjoy it.
not even godslayers are above the law
It fits the character and I'd prefer races to have different accents, Norvrandt is still a pretty goddamned big place since it's pretty much the Eorzean continent.
>english translations
who cares
There are no different races during the Ascians time and thus all creatures had the ability of creation magic. Somewhere and somehow creation magic started to go array and nightmares were being created and destroying civilizations on the planet. At first it was small and not such a big deal, but as time went on the conflict got bigger and bigger until finally it landed in Amarout and destroyed it. As people fled in fear, more and more monsters were created and attacked.
I'm not saying the monsters were consciously created, but were created sub-consciously. As more nightmares were created, more people felt fear, and as more people felt fear, more nightmares were created. It likely took longer for it to hit Amarout as their society seemed to be devoid of individual differences. So it probably took longer for their creation magic to go array, but that didn't stop the council from trying to figure out a way to stop it.
Sure but
>Lakshmi EX or Susano EX
>Hard
I don't think it is said anywhere that they were going to summon Zodiark after the 8th calamity.
This is what I hate about speculative lore discussion its just rampant spread of misinformation and in the end you can't discuss anything at all because everyone is working off personal conjecture and wrong information that they "heard somewhere" from someone who was just making shit up.
>It still bothers me that they use Titania as the title of king instead of Oberon.
Why? Because you're a brainlet? Titania is king because Titania was a pixie before they had the concept of kings. The reason they chose the title King and not Queen is because the title was a tribute to Voeburt's fallen king. It also lines up with history and mythology because many female monarchs were called king in the past.
Why are people having so much problems with the plank operation? It is very simple.
>its all him at the end of the day
Not quite; all of Amaurot is very much real, it was created by Emets creation magic which is why it persists even after his death.
How close to becoming an Ascian are we now?
The citizens also mention
>None can point to the source of the phenomenon. Tis as if the star itself has fallen ill - as if a force inimical to life now festers and spreads
>Tis said it starts suddenly, a cacophonous keening from beneath the earth. The sound distorts all living things within earshot, and wrests from us control of our creation magics.
The Ancients' creation magics creating their own terrors is eluded to later. This plays a part but is not by any measure the genesis of the calamity. Something else is causing it before they go mad. The madness just intensifies it. And their sins somehow are what truly doomed them - and Therion is that third and final doom, and Therion in the past game purged those who violated the flow of the crystal's energies.
So I agree with you, reality was being undone. But it wasn't precipitated because of someone mishearing a noise. Something was causing creation, the star itself, to grow sick and inimical to life.
Either that was the abuse of magic and the crystal having a fever or antibodies to kill off the infection (The ancients) or it is Lavos/Jenova analogue. I am inclined to believe it's the star itself screaming out at the abuse of aether and magic.
Mpreg is a great fetish, friend
why was she so perfect, bros?
>it gets good over 9000 hours in
An Ascian is a follower of Zodiark, so we're nowhere near becoming one.
9 shards of 14
Considering past FF, wouldn’t the planet itself be the cause of the original cataclysm? Maybe the power of creation drew from its lifeforce and it was its «defense mechanism».
The plot would be that the planet is focused on its own self-survival and mankind would be constantly slain without a Primal to take over. They’re the only barriers between them and the will of the planet (which is not sentient, but more strictly focused to preserve itself)
zodiark was summoned to rewrite reality, not to stop the ascians from shitting their pants with paranoia
That "group of lalafells" effectively controls an entire nation and army, could threaten everything you've worked for up to that point (eorzean alliance). The implications of their actions are far reaching than one would normally think.
Can that Nvidia overlay filter help reduce aliasing at 1080p? 4k Downsampling isn't really an option for me.
9/14
Because no one gives a shit about Ala Mhigo. And most give even less of a fuck about the shitty not-Japan-land. Literally the only enjoyable section was with the fucking roaming lizard tribes at the Steppe; because that section was blessed to be essentially entirely separate from all the rest of that shit no one cared about.
I kinda wish the Scions said more when Alphinaud wins over the citizens of Eulmore. He gives a great speech, gets a whole city to help out and he all he gets is a quip from his sister.
To rewrite reality to stop the out of control nightmares.
Playing the wrong genre wojaktard.
>What in the ever-loving FUCK went so wrong?
Ala Mhigo didn't get nuked the first day of the expansion
Why are you even trying to play a mmo if you're just a impatient drooling retard?
>16-18 celsius and rain outside the past 3 days
>tfw sitting home and playing ffxiv max comfy
Encouraging him too hard makes bad things happen
>Somewhere and somehow creation magic started to go array and nightmares were being created and destroying civilizations on the planet.
And that something, somewhere was the start of the calamity. Creation magic started going wrong because something made it go wrong. You wrote all that text to btfo yourself in the fist paragraph.
>people look at this list
>WOW BLM IS SIK BRO BEST JOB
>blm gets dnc buffs
>blm to be above mid tier needs near perfect execution personally and group wise
same shit with drg/sam/mnk - they're all getting fucking dnc buffs
What are the sacks of nuts good for?
>Can't get past the first 3-4 hours of the game and get to level 30
Gee user, I knew your attention span was limited but I didn't think it was this bad.
~35C and 90-95% humidity the entire past week
>power through XIV despite making soup in my shorts because it's my week off of work and shadowbringers just came out
stuffing in your mouth lmao
This is why DNC are the top chads.
>3-4 hours
Yeah, only a speedrunning vet is going to know how to do that, not some newbie.
>buff slave with bad personal dps
nah lmao, shut up and buff me you sissy
It could have just been a retard Ascian making a retarded monster that caused paranoia in othe retards. I don't know. I do know that it was a cascade failure the moment the ??? caused people's sub-conscious fears to become reality.
your nut sacks are used for clan rewards, such as materia, pets, music rolls, and later as patches come out, additional rewards too. they will require books which run about 500 nut sacks each, rarely dropping from S ranks and may drop from the new SS ranks too. Now that's a lotta nuts.
Alright anons lets hear it. How have you been setting up your game sessions to make the most out of your time playing FFXIV since the Expansion launch?
I don't think he'll easily repeat the mistakes of the past, especially after he commented that Vauthry reminded him of how he used to be.
>taking a week off to play ShB
Ayyy, I did so too. Great decision.
Few would disagree 1-50 is a slog, especially with job changes, 1-30 in particular has always been meh. This is literally, unironically an instance of "it gets good after 20 hours".
Literally just do the fucking story
>"hey we gave summoner phoenix its cool as fuck and you get to our your big pets out more"
>cool summoner looks based as fu-
>we didn't reduce spell bloat or add qol changes like we did for most other jobs lmao haha
>also summoner is low tier dps and (probably) unable to truly benefit from group/dnc buffs
make all trance/bahamut/phoenix related everything 1 button
buff dots/ruin II
Literally all you have to do is roulette, hunting logs, and the MSQ. Getting to level 15 takes 30 minutes, dude.
Really? Because I'm pretty damn unimpressed. WHM is comparatively simple but at least Holy can be fun to cast and even a spell as basic as Stone feels punchy from a visual standpoint.
Everything on AST just kinda feels meh, you have the card gimmick but it's just input -> output instead of it being dynamic. Visually none of the spells you have are that appealing either except collective unconscious.
Guys literally all wear hoods because they were afraid of negative emotions like jealousy
Stop trying to find monsters everywhere
It's actually significantly different from what it was before
Not him but;
It's significantly more different.
>harder time dealing with wall to wall pulls due to no enhanced bole.
>don't have 30 seconds of tank god mode while you focus on dpsing or healing dps
>Synastry made worse
>no stun
>no buff extend
>worse mana problems
>nerfed lightspeed
>nerfed sects
>no spread
>no RR
>everything is pretty much different
Some abilities may be the same but the order you use them and how you use them is completely different.
>It could have just been a retard Ascian making a retarded monster that caused paranoia in othe retards.
It wasn't and it was explicitly said not to be.
>I don't know.
Because you didn't read, dumbass.
>I do know that it was a cascade failure the moment the ??? caused people's sub-conscious fears to become reality.
No one is debating that. You're still wrong about it being brought about by the Ascians themselves. Their creation magic was going haywire in response to an outside force.
>roulette, hunting logs, and the MSQ
Again, a newbie is not going to know what any of that is.
yeah, but seeing as the entirety of Gridania and Limsa believed in you and how not even Ul'dah would be united in taking you down (Godbert in particular wouldn't take this lying down), and the consequences of the events led to Minfilia dying for real, we could have used a little more stuff than just a panicked escape sequence to Ishgard
as a healer I've had some difficulty coping with the chain pulls. How do you do it? Feels like I need to stop and hard cast an lot of heals on the tank.
Ninja and Summoner despite having the most obtuse and hectic double weaving nightmare of rotations hit like absolute wet noodles.
It's pretty dumb
killing emet already was a mistake
>Guys literally all wear hoods because they were afraid of negative emotions like jealousy
Did you bother actually reading the dialogue? They aren't afraid of negative emotions. They don't even care that you're wearing weird clothes, they'd just prefer you didn't.
>hunting logs
Every single new player I talk to does these
>msq
It's just the fucking story you dumb fuck, what the fuck are you doing playing a videogame if you don't know how to advance a fucking story
He was tempered slave without free will, killing him was the right thing to do
>SMN does barely more damage then RDM now
Well time to drop any preface of doing the higher damage class, I like RDM more then SMN now and if they hit almost the same fuck it I'll take my chance.
Again, a newbie isn't going to know what the acronym "MSQ" means".
It's like you don't understand what I am saying. Is English not your main language?
ninja is more JOHN FUCKING MADDEN opener then kinda simple until tenchijin is back up, while smn is playing a piano and a fucking 4 minute rotation
ninja also needs some potency buffs, and i would love to see trick attack turned into a nin only dmg buff, and large potency buffs. ta is a blight on game design
I mean we pretty much are too
Then that's their fault for not PLAYING THE GAME. You have to be a special kind of retard if you don't know how to queue into a dungeon, use the roulette which the game expressly tells you about in big fucking popup icons, or even PLAY THE STORY FOR EXP.
I'm already leveling BLM. I largely expect smn to be buffed in the raid patch or savage raid patch. There is no chance they'll leave it this bloated/complex and low/mid tier dps. Sam is absolutely fucking braindead and is probably the best overall dps.
Are we tempered? Ardbert was raising his hand against Hydaelyn for a while.
So you're telling me it wasn't brought about by the Ascians themselves despite the fact that it's not stated explicitly at all how the cataclysm started? What we got was someone hearing a noise and then things cascaded out of control. You don't know what the noise is and neither do I. The simple fact is the noise could have caused one retard to come up with the most horrific thing ever that caused the end of civilization.
We're talking about beings that can literally create anything out of almost nothing.
Our primal was created by true not tempered ancients to not have Zodiark fuck ups
Mother crystal is ideal primal without any downsides
Careful, you don't want to activate the "raid buffs make me unique" and "i exist to provide for them" soys.
>Enhanced Army's Paeon
It's still shit.
I've seen the graph already, but i'm still not sure what JOHN FUCKING MADDEN means. Is that an AVGN reference?
There is a big ass icon on your screen that says Main Scenario when you login, and stays there. Apparently English isn't yours you brain dead troglodyte
SMN is gonna get the 3.0 AST treatment, right?
They're gonna see everyone hates it and scholar and bring it back in line like they did with AST right?
I don't care either way, I just play -color- mage
It's weird having the Goddess/Soul of Magic title when there's a caster class I haven't touched in two expansions
Should I just skip the bazillion side quests the game gives me and stick to the main story quests only?
The new brain dead big dick is DRG, unironically they hit more then SAM and they have tether/litany so fucking good job there SE.
>Mother crystal is ideal primal without any downsides
we actually don't know for sure, she hasn't talked to us in a while
>Mother crystal is ideal primal without any downsides
sounds like something a tempered savage would say
You failed to address my argument.
0/10, good say, sir.
A newbie would realize they should play the game and do story content to level up, seeing as dungeons and gear are locked behind them, but you seem to have a hard time grasping this.
iirc it's because all the squiggles and lines all over the place between the skills look like a john madden overlay
That's because she's dying. She refuses to eat anymore aether.
Please delete the game
I haven't seen a single DRG out damage a SAM yet, but their battle litany is disgustingly OP compared to trick attack even. How did they get away with it?
I'm fine with ninja's having a raid buff, but it doesn't really fit their aesthetic to be honest. Trick attack just sucks cock because it makes other jobs play weird, like SMN almost insta deathflares out of trance to get bahamut out faster. Its bad design.
something about scribbling all over the football map to show plays, its referring to how you're pressing a fuck ton of buttons frantically
If you want to subject yourself to MSQ walls where you have to stop and gain additional levels sure.
If that has precedence in a prior FF then it's a valid idea, but otherwise it's an incredibly underwhelming and almost amusing reason for everything - the 14 divisions, the Zodiark and Hydaelyn war, the birth of primals, all because a Ediiblibususyth got sent a jumpscare by Hierophatanaxyus.
Also I neglect to mention the keening NPC: Anxious Amaurotine, "The End of the World" questline.
>Tis said it starts suddenly, a cacophonous keening from beneath the earth. The sound distorts all living things within earshot, and wrests from us control of our creation magicks.
then the very next line of dialogue
>ONCE that happens, all is lost. Fear, pain, despair, every dread impulse is siphoned from our minds and given substance. an eternal fall of fiery rain; an incessant spawning of nightmarish beasts.
So very explicitly the underground screaming precedes the panicked spawning. The underground screaming wrests control of their creation magicks. Judging from other dialogue it appears like an Amaurotine before this calamity has creation be a conscious decision - it's not as if the minute they think of anything it exists. Rather, they have to concentrate and focus. If something happens and their mind drifts during the concentration then the creation is twisted - see the gryffon dialogue.
But what the calamity does is it takes away their ability to control it. It makes it so, curiously, only dreadful thoughts manifest. Not hope, just the negative things.
your argument is that new players are somehow even more retarded than you
there is nothing to be gained from even pretending to address it
My hypothesis currently she is trying to limit her own power and intervene as only absolutely necessary, such as Lahabrea doing Ultima on us before we came into our powers. Even Hades said she was imbued with a will to protect life.
DRG is considerably harder to play properly than SAM. It's faster and you HAVE to hit your positionals and are heavily punished for not. Also keeping up tether is a harder mechanic than SAMs entire existence because people are retarded.
You used to have to work for your Wyrm armor.
...
Are there any frilly dresses in this?
I guess the fact that she's literally killing herself to not hurt our world is a sign of her being good
>battle lit is better than TA
if you honestly believe this
Completely doable, but you'll have quest markers clustered around your aetherytes.
Do them at some point between roulette queues and MSQ level walls. The stories are nice sometimes. The only side quests you really should do are the ones that get you aether currents so you can unlock flight in that area.
Then what the fuck are anons talking about by saying just stick with the main quests? Do I or do I not?
Never played Revolutions in any fight.
Honestly yes. MSQ should give you more than enough to hit 50 before the end of ARR as long as you do your roulettes. Save those side quests for when you're levelling a DPS alt and need something to do. Plus theres about 100 level 50 MSQs after you finish the last dungeon to do afterwards so you'll have plenty of EXP to go around.
Also do the Hildibrand questline for kino content.
I've kinda disliked all the dialogue options because I've had some regrets about ones I've picked throughout the story. It usually doesn't hit me until after I've picked one, because there's some tough choices.
>heavily punished for not
And a SAM not hitting positionals means offsetting its kenki rotation instead of a simple potency loss
Tbh, I would really like it if it was that underwhelming. It actually makes it a lot more realistic in the idea that such a powerful race can be laid lo by such a minor thing. Not everything needs to be a big bad evil and I like the idea that there's nothing stronger or greater than the Ascians and that it was themselves who ended their world.
FF precedence probably means you're right and it's just going to be some big bad from another FF game.
I do.
Tbh, they don't matter. Some of the dialogue choices will literally give you the same response. You can also re-do a lot of dialogue choices by going to the inn.
If you see a side quest with a picture in its quest log, you should do it. it means it's a actual story not just a one-off "kill shit" quest.
How does leveling a 2nd job work? Do you do the same exact quest lines except for a few job specific ones? Like say you completed a hub of side quests, would those be available again while leveling up another job?
Do you seriously think 10% crit every 3 min is better than 10% damage every 1 min? You are legit fucking retarded dude.