>Athena was so fucking crazy because her obsession with unethical research was compounded by black auracite, received from either Ultima the High Seraph personally or otherwise sourced from the same place she came from
>also explains why Lahabrea peering into her mind was enough to plant a seed of mental corruption in him, too, and he rejoins with his excised half in the past era by the end of the story out of necessity, giving further context for why Ascian Lahabrea ended up such a nutcase
cool
>we still don't know what exactly prompted the auracite to be named the Heart of Sabik or anything of the sort regarding its etymology
wait what no
>Claudien casually walks away with the Heart of Sabik
So we'll never hear about it ever again then
>hey yeah i'm just gonna take this crystal with a known malevolent intelligence that manipulates the emotions of the holder
>hahaha that's crazy i feel such a renewed energy for research! anyway, seeya! 🙂
Absolutely insane WoL AND Elidibus let him just walk away with it.
No it's fine all of the evil stuff was gone, they said so.
This was all planned from the start and definitely not a lazy hack-job by gig writers who just want drama with no explanation or consistency.
No, it was the auracite that did that. The Heart of Sabik was the crystal Athena created after studying the auracite that she put her memories into. It has a huge amount of aether in it but it's not the alien space rock/auracite.
The Heart of Sabik IS the auracite.
Why do they keep modeling food with such detail?
It's super easy & makes people talk about it.
I guess this is where all the polygons went. Actually enjoyed the patch but damn you can literally count the pixels in Zero's hair kek
It's a Japanese thing.
They're tsundere for FFXV
golbEX fucking sucks
what a shit fight
on a scale of 1 to 10, how's the difficulty?
kinda hard to say
it's a lot like P7S, 80% of it is piss easy and boring, then you have one mechanic (Gales 2 and 3) in the last leg of the fight that is fast paced and just destroy pugs and makes you wipe
you will get hard stuck at towers then hard stuck at Gale 2 and 3
I hate how you have to remember what attack the boss charged five minutes ago because he's going to cast if after you've survived all these other mechanics and forgotten all about it.
charge jumpscare
Glad it wasn't just me that thought this
Gales 1 & 2 are fucking garbage
What would Athena do If she found the fourth wall and by peering through It find the gods she is looking for? The closest thing to a god from her point of view would be players and devs, including (you), who is controlling the wol.
i'm fairly certain the only 4th wall stuff we've had is the nier raid, and thats just at the tower at paradigm's reach where all the dialogue is addressing the player and N2 is aware that what she's fighting are avatars of other beings
WoL drops his character like a rock and starts talking about meta stuff whenever he's inside a hildibrand questline. They are at least self aware.
I'll have you know my WoL is a brain-damaged funnyman outside of Hildibrand quests too
there's leaning on the fourth wall, like making a meta joke, and then there's acknowledging it
The WoL is the most like his actual character when he's hanging out with Hildie
From the perspective of people in universe there’s really no difference between hildibrand and the WoL.
Are (You) are a shard of Azem?
sex
Forgot to save this one, thanks for posting it again
>letter with Aztec patterns on it
>BLU gets a job gauge
UUUUHHHH DENIERBROS????
Wait. Job gauge?
On the new framer's kit.
Obtainable or simply datamined?
Almost certainly datamined. The BLU update doesn't come out for 2 months.
>two more months until the content I care about
This sucks.
You can look at it now on your own portrait
Doesn't mean anything, they just wanted assets for a framers kit
>it d-d-d-doesn't mean anything...!
Ooooh there's that cope.
You talk like an underage redditor, I hope you're not a grown ass man
Please inform us what that gauge is for, there's nothing there indicating it's a gauge
>You talk like an underage redditor
You're bubbling
>Please inform us what that gauge is for
We'll find out soon
>there's nothing there indicating it's a gauge
Every other job uses their gauge for the portrait accent. This is a completely new asset never seen in anything related to BLU before. It's a job gauge and you will cope.
It's actually lavos bro, and azdaja is actually golbez dude
the job gauge lines up with what athena was talking about
pretending to be retarded still makes you a retard
You're gonna carry that cope
Obtainable, you can go get it from the Mamool Ja.
>So I threw the entire Pandemonium at him
>Here, fight this building
>it’s a literal wall boss
>Estiniens glistening bod made Zero wanna get naked
>Dragonshota denies us a group sex cutscene
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>he knocked the smug look off my face, but luckily I had a smaller, smugger look underneath
>raid weapons look like leveling items
>raid armors are gay girly shit again
>mount probably looks stupid too
Easy skip this tier
mount is probably Pandaemonium
No it isn't, though that would have been hilarious. It's a giant axolotl. Really
>every Savage mount is a boss or part of a boss fight
>P12S mount is something that wasn't even referenced in the storyline
why would they do this
They probably forgot to include the Pandaemonium castle mount in the patch
R-right??
haha le funni el piss axolotl meme
u rike?
I fucking hate the humor chud gays spam in chat
fucking el PISS
PISS CHAT HAHAHAHA
AWOOOOO!!!!!
le cactus piss 🙂
>FFX is set in a Pacific Island expy
>the Pacific Island expy in XIV is confirmed to be the original Lalafell homeland
Who's ready for midget Wakka and Lulu
>all the FFX characters are plains Lala
I've never been more ready for anything in my life
>wind-up cursor is called the hand of fate
>"Where you go, my friend, fate shall surely follow."
Fate is the player.
https://files.catbox.moe/t0awes.ogg
!!!
what the fuck is this for, savage p2? doesnt really fit that theme at all
it's Ultima's theme anon
>dig a little deeper, and you'll find more
what did the bussy meant by this
He wants WoL's warm, radiant aether deep inside
>p12sp2 datamined
>it's just the same model with tentacles
Why are they so fucking lazy?
>savagebabies already crying
SE should just stop putting in secret Savage phases. It's clear you fags don't deserve it.
You're just jealous because you don't get to see them
Doesn't change the fact of what that Anon posted though.
It's the same model, there's nothing to appreciate, normal just hide parts of it
post the model
>tfw
Holy fuck
So is OG golbez going to end up being our reflection from the 13th?
That'd be a pretty meaningless twist
So Claudien keeps the heart of sabik on his person? Didn't we get a bunch of exposition that it influences and corrupts?
Yeah. It's pretty confusing why we just let him walk off with it.
Though that said, he is apparently the top of his field in studying aether and they are fully aware of it's corrupting nature, so if anyone is prepared to study it, it's probably them. Though really it should probably just be destroyed.
It's a nice looking rock, I would keep it too.
In a SP FFXIV this would be a collectable esper and would reach us Ultima.
Am I the only one kind of underwhelmed by the music? Scream and Forged in Crimson were the kinds of songs I could just listen to over and over again for hours, but there's nothing that strong in 6.4.
I did like the music on the Red Moon, and the raid music was decent
the To the Edge remix was good
but yeah pretty middling otherwise
I like the songs, but yeah they don't feel quite as memorable as Scream or Hic Sunt Liones. I almost wish they had leaned more into the vibe of White Stone Black, which they kiiinda did with the first theme.
White Stone Black was way better than it had any right to be for being locked behind savage and 1 fight
But savagetrannies will piss and shit their diapers if they're not pampered and catered to despite bitching and crying nonstop every patch
>random schizo babble
What the fuck are you talking about?
The mental asylum is (that) way
The new mortal instants remix is better than to the edge for me, what a banga
Its probably not soken i guess sinc ehe's busy with XVI
bro
XVI is done and has been done for a long time now
there's no more excuses
I believe Soken announced he was done composing music like a week or so ago.
what? how does that work? the soundtrack on games had to be completed more than a month before release. ridiculous. it's not just composition too he has to arrange and record. that was all done a year ago or so.
the fact of the matter is soken put out incredible tunes for xiv while inventing new leimotifs for xvi AND battling cancer. if xvi has a god OST these last few years will be very impressive for sokens biography.
He did 215 songs, all of which needed to be written, recorded, and balanced. It's not that surprising that it might have taken all the way to close to release.
didn't game go gold last month
on the flip, they finish these patches months in advance.
Scream and Hic Svnt Leones were straight up 10/10 bangers but I will admit that the main song this time around is a little lackluster. I like the electronic song of the first two fights more.
I love the P12Sp2 theme, but I'm also a huge FFT mark
other than that I agree, the music this patch is pretty bad
The new base melody for Athena is good but the arrangement can fuck right off
I wish there were a whole song based on this techno or whatever version of Hic Svnt Leones in Tireless One. Best part of the song by far.
?t=111
Why would you come in here and lie?
Scream was so awful I started muting my sound when I got p5-7. Even though the new tracks have some parts of Scream they're infinitely better
The truth is that Silent Scream is better than Scream
I can agree to that. Sadly once I hear it I hear that singing and gotta mute.
SAY
GOOD
NIGHT
tfw no japanese/female decorating skills
Just look at what others make, copy it yourself and if your friends ask, it was your original idea
>decorating
It's about presentation. Everything you see on HousingSnap is filtered to shit and back. They use third-party tools to take screenshots from angles you absolutely would never see in the actual game.
Jap gposers and housing experts are the best
what are they using to make the pool?
Why did ARR lahabrea say that the heart of sabik was a relic from his god? Was he talking about Zodiark?
He's pretty mad at that point so he might have forgotten its origins in his madness
I think that works as an explanation.
The "real" reason was they hadn't thought that far ahead when they wrote it so some things just get retconned. But it's a small enough retcon, especially since Laha definitely did go mad.
Yeah writing that Lahabrea's soul is in tatters at that point and he's basically just a machine that enacts its duty is really saving them with this story they definitely didn't frantically make up along the way. You can handwave away basically anything he said.
I mean basically all long term stories are written as the writer goes to a certain extent. And Lahabrea going mad from thousands of years of committing atrocities and body hopping works for the story.
We also now know that the Heart of Sabik was leaking "go crazy" juice into his mind the entire time.
EW is like an alternate fucking reality. They didn't even attempt to match up Lahabrea with his appearance in ARR. They're expecting that old "he body hopped too much and went insane idk" explanation to prop everything up without even ATTEMPTING to connect the dots themselves.
It's some of the most amateur shit I've seen in FF14. They didn't even try.
He got the heart of sabik from Athena after he killed her right? His crazy half worshiped her as a god, and he did rejoin with it...
Yeah, he also called it a sliver of his god's power. So he was probably talking about Athena the whole time, not Zodiark. Also explains why he was endangering the whole plan by prolonging the Seventh Calamity with his bullshit against Elidibus's orders.
Elidibus...
>Lahabrea wake up! Your son fucked up big time!
>Elidibus...
I think Athena is the worst 8-man final boss so far from a presentation standpoint. Bahamut, Alexander and Omega all look awesome, Alexander has my favorite moment in the entire game with him sending adds to the past to kill you in a cutscene. Eden's promise is a bit less cool in my opinion, but it does have you protecting Gaia's memories. Athena is kinda boring in comparison.
The funnest part of that fight is seeing how many people type 'MOTH PUSSY' in the party chat out of reflex
She doesn't quite have the grand presentation of the other bosses.
But damn if she wasn't fun. Certainly more fun than Eden's Promise.
like it's hard to be more fun than Eden's Promise
Fair, it's a low bar to clear. But I'd say it's probably my favorite final fight in a good while, second to Alexander maybe.
Only casual cucks who didn't do savage Eden's Promise think it's bad.
>however it doesn't eggs
>Athena wants to become a God
>Can't create souls
>Goes to the Aetherial Sea and just starts stuffing the souls there into shit, like the entire fucking building
This bitch cray
what did he mean by this?
Ameliance cleans his butt with her tongue.
He wipes his ass excellently.
It's all but outright stated to be from Ultima or at least Ultima's planet (you can even comment that it sounds like it's from Ultima if you've done Ivalice). The datamined theme from P12S part 2 is even Ultima's theme.
Link? Catbox not working for me.
>what did he mean by this?
Ameliance finally talked him into that threesome with the WoL
The tech they use to power the big statue's water is also used for Sharlayan bidets. Lots of pressure.
So like, the Heart of Sabik was taken from another planet right? Lahabrea says nobody except from Athena knows where its from, and he reckons its not from Aetherys. Maybe connected to wherever the fuck Altima came from?
Seems to be the most likely answer. Those bird bitches were straight out of FFT Ultima in Athena's fight, seems we've got another Jenova type situation.
>Ultima confirmed ANOTHER illegal immigrant
The ascians were right. Revive Zodiark, close all borders, shut down everything.
here's how it went down
>auracite appears in the world unsundered during the ancient times
>they don't know where it came from
>athena found some and experimented on it
>created the heart of sabik
>no we don't know who/what sabik is but it doesn't matter
>heart of sabik is black auracite
>we don't know what makes it different than white auracite
>it has her memories etched into it
>she used this to bodyjack claudien, who had eric's soul which was also inscribed with athena's memories
>killing athena cleared out athena's memories from the heart of sabik so she can't bodyjack him again
>it still has loads of knowledge and aether in it
>we let him walk away with it
while its no longer a phylactery it probably still has dangerous knowledge on it (how to cast Ultima) and really should be gotten rid of
>we let him walk away with it
Most obvious act of "We don't know if we want to use this thing in the future, but we're leaving the option open."
>Ultima, the spell
>Ultima, the seat on the Convocation of 13 (who speaks once in ARR and is never seen/heard again)
>Ultima, the High Seraph
>Ultima, the Heart of Sabik
Are they ever going to connect the dots or is this just another one of those things where I'm supposed to turn my brain off and not ask questions
We know that the Ultima spell is named after the High Seraph. How it relates to Altima of the Convocation is the mystery.
Altima is NOT Ultima. Altima is actually one of the two red masks that gaius had on him in stormblood
Yeah, but Altima should be able to reform since Gaius didn't possess any means of permanently killing an ascian.
Is Vrtra voiced by Nidhogg or Hraesvelgr's VA. When speaking in dragon, he sounds familiar.
He's voiced by Gosetsu.
Technically the convocation member is Altima not Ultima.
Though the connection between the spell and the alien is basically established as of this patch.
I don't think Nissan Altima is related to Ultima
Altima is a sundered Ancient though, unless Gaius destroyed the soul stone there's no reason to think he's permanently gone, not that I think they're gonna bring the missing Ascians into the story any time soon
I could see them bringing the remaining Ascians back into the story soon enough in the future. They'll just have their own plans instead of anything related to Zodiark. Probably not for MSQ though, at least not for 7.0
If the above link isn't working anymore, I got nothin. That's where I heard it.
Yeah I think they'll probably tie up the remaining Ascians at some point in the future, but you've gotta assume they want a break from them for a little while.
Nah, it's just that my cunts isp sucks ass shit and blocked catbox. I would use VPN but I'm not at home ATM.
https://voca.ro/1fuGld5VjQ5y
try this one
Neat, thanks anon.
the g-unit fight was pretty cool
the valens look-alike thing was kinda retarded
>the g-unit fight was pretty cool
I also enjoyed pressing five buttons and then not playing the game.
me too
Is Lahabrea the first NPC smart enough to just ask the WoL what he knows? When they're trying to work out the Heart of Sabik? Usually all the NPCs sit around like retards not knowing what is going on while our autistic mute ass does nothing to help the situation
what the FUCK is this supposed to mean?
it's a fancy way of saying "just rank up bro"
It's so fucking gay how you either wait for the weekly handicraft bullshit to go or just slog like a slave hitting the same circle of nodes over and over and over again.
Fucking bullshit. They call this gameplay? Managing a fucking schedule to make money? Fucking Japanese garden gnomes.
>We fought The Super Groomer
>mind breaks the resident femboy
>made her son just for his body
>emotionally manipulated him throughout his entire life
I was entertained, kicked the shit out if the msq
why did Lahabrea, renowned for his workaholic autism, stick his dick into this?
he needed the bad poosy
He was a much younger man then. Also a highlander
>why did Lahabrea, renowned for his workaholic autism, stick his dick into this
He was convinced he could fix her
ancient middie pussy
He was manipulated by a master manipulator
Can’t resist the allure of white woman pussy
You learn in tier 2 that Lahabrea is fucking UGLY as fuck, so he took the first chance he had to romantically involved with a woman. She basically knew that he was a lonely virgin
The convocation made fun of him for being a virgin
Pandaemonium and MSQ were written by the same dude so maybe 7.0 isn't a lost cause.
Nah, he had a backdrop from years of build up for the ancients and pandaemonium from better writers
When he's creating something new like with the void, it's fucked
He better not ruin Krile
Stop looking at the camera you're unnerving me
Pandæmonium was kino, how can the shitter who wrote ivalice craft something like this?
I really love how this game solves problems with things that were already established in the lore in a way that makes you think about how you didn't see it coming. You need to go to the 13th's moon, so you use the Tower of Babil, made to transport Aether to the moon, to open a voidgate there, and then you can even use Zodiark's seal to stop voidsent from coming to this side. I think it's neat.
but it doesn't have the sheer spectacle and drama of the jailer getting the sigils
I definitely do not mind their ability to use preexisting items and locations in lore instead of inventing everything out of whole cloth every new patch story, I'm just shocked at how easily they seem to achieve these things. It's very practical but also boring problem solving. Have to defeat Zeromus in the 13th to get the dragon's soul back, cool makes sense. Ward that keeps people from becoming voidsent can't deal with zodiark voidsent, ok we'll find some way to strengthen it with alchemy again probably. Not much to theorycraft.
A lot of problems could be solved any which way, they could have simply come up with another way to deal with incoming voidsent (if anything restoring the wrecked brands seemed almost too easy only requiring Shtola and the alchemists’ presence), but it is still neat to tie things in with established plot elements. The real reason why the seal was needed was to have a reason why Zeromus doesn’t start wrecking shop until the next patch despite existing as of right now, anyway.
Well they did say the ward was pretty hastily set up. They are pretty sure Zeromus could probably break through as it is right now. It's more the fact that it needs time to fully coalesce before it can go that they have time right now.
They are master to reuse npcs + stuff from before. Like people always make theories and goes out of their way to ignore previous stuff.
>Themis would never have wished to be your enemy
🙁
>Falcon punches my miner hydaelyn wife and my pet cat
😐
He forgor
I completely forget how Minfilia knew Krile, I guess she tracker her down because she has the echo and could have
>I completely forget how Minfilia knew Krile
Through Louisoix, since he and Galuf are old friends.
I like how Vritra starts talking in the dragon language when he meets his nee-san. Its especially cool because you can tell they're not just saying gibberish, since if you pay attention you can make out words like characters's names.
Koji did indeed create an entire functional language for Dravanian. He's not a Tolkien-tier language autist, but he's up there.
they literally made a dragon language for heavenwards.
Technically Koji made it for 1.0, but it didn't see use til HW.
>P12N
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HERE, I RISE CLEAN, MY CRIES
EVERY MOMENT EVERY SACRIFICE
IN ANABASIEOS I AM THE TRUTH DEFINED
I miss her bros...
.
So who was the letter from? Did Thancred and Urianger receive the same letter?
>So who was the letter from?
Sakurai.
SHE'S IN
So what's Krile job changing to Ganker?
Corsair
Krile is gonna cap some nigs
she has two paths imho, Rydia and Terra. since summoner is already a thing, i'm going with Terra who gained power from her Trance transformation which was based on emotion
>Trancer job
Jesus imagine the shitposts
>Trancer job
>actually a fucking cool idea where we turn into a primal-like entity
>Ganker is too fucking obsessed with trannies
Jesus Christ that'd be the expac that'd get chud word filtered from here.
i've been calling it Esper to get away from that. think Zidane from FF9's Dyne abilities with a Enshroud style transformation more akin to Esper Terra. Entelechy is probably a good name for the job too, but Entelechy doesn't have the reference power that Esper does
even had the idea for the weapon, which is a winged brooch ala meteion.
is too fucking obsessed with trannies
Honestly, you could say that about anything related to this game. Or really any game. It's not even restricted to games.
Beastmaster.
corsair
of course its Mime
or Berserker
Oracle job based on her recent adventures studying the Twelve first hand.
Only thing I understood about this retarded raid story is that the writer has serious mommy/daddy issues. Reminds me of Miyazaki's son trying to emulate his famous dad by releasing his first film that features a father getting murdered by the end of it.
>Galuf's teleport magic he used to dunk the Isle of Val into the Lifestream was described as being on par with Ultima
This guy could have just wiped out the Ascians personally if he'd gotten off his ass.
He killed an Ascian permanently with that manoeuvre. He's the only individual, besides the WoL and Scions, to have ever done that
>Dunking an entire continent or more in the lifestream to kill 13 morons
That's like setting off a nuke to kill an elephant. Plus Emet Selch would clearly shrug It off. Still, congrats to him for casting a kino spell.
If Galuf tried that shit with Emet-Selch aware of what was going on he'd probably be able to reconstitute all the other Ascians back from the Aetherial Sea. That is definitely not the way to kill Hades.
He killed a unsundered ascian. Literally replaceable.
That's not the point. He was capable of casting Ultima-tier magic.
Wasn't that because he had a full armory of impossibly magicked up shit from Eureka rather than him having that much raw power?
So is the next expac
1. New World
2. Meracydia
3. Shard funtimes
4. All of the Above
5. Complete asspull that combines everything and takes us on a wild ride with even more wild new shit
outer space is completely plausible imho. i also believe that a calamity is looming so they may be revamping eorzea as a whole
If we're alluding to ultima's alien race and the consequences of auracite I could see a proper space expansion where we visit alien worlds.
maybe the plebs will get the scary space eyeball they wanted meteion to be
Erenville said he's returning to Dalmasca, right? I wouldn't be surprised if we visit him there to find out more about Auracite.
I think he was talking about Erenville the village. His lodestone short story mentions it.
Sounds like we could be heading toward Meracydia with the southern middle of the continent as a staging point.
>he didn't catch the blunt force trauma foreshadowing with his vernacular
>"homecoming"
>only Viera on the planet with glowing yellow eyes
Dude is evil
Diabolos?
I assumed he was butthurt about his "homecoming" because he was expected to stay there as a breeding twink or whatever and his people are mad at him for leaving and finding his own way in the world. Maybe he is evil but I think that'd be pretty out of left field
Golbez used the term "homecoming"
Huh, I missed that. Maybe he is Diabolos.
I don't think they'll be pulling a Cataclysm any time soon. Especially not the expansion AFTER Endwalker when EW would have been the perfect time for that.
Having us knock out several of Emets bulletpoints in one go would be colossally retarded if they want to continue stretching this game out.
I want to say we probably aren't going to be spending time in the 13th for 7.0 with how much focus the patch storyline has had on it.
Personally, i think Meracydia seems the most likely. Maybe also going to G'raha's home island, whatever it was called.
mainland hingashi
6.timeskip into new or alternate eorzea
Seems like we're probably going to be exploring on Hydaelyn. Corvos and Dalmasca are both possibilities, maybe as staging-ground zones on the way to Mercydia or the New World. I'd be surprised if we deal with another Shard before 8.0, or the 7.0 post-MSQ at the very least.
I really want Meracydia. Apparently they never fully recovered from the Allagan invasion, so its kind of a wasteland down there, plus they still harbor resentment for everyone from the northern continent. Its also where Bahamut lived, and we know very little about him from when he was still alive. Lots of cool things to explore lore-wise.
Speaking of Bahamut, where did Tiamat go after helping kill lunar bahamut?
Back to Meracydia
merycadia to clean up the mess fandango made down there
i just want to see the transformation sequence
Back to Meracydia to see if any of her or Bahamut broods survived.
all you need to know lore wise is Garlemald has never lost an armed conflict with another nation
I imagine it being more or less fantasy australia where a huge part of the continent is a waste but the edges have various lush jungles and swamps.
Center of the wasteland/ground zero could have a massive Allagan city/ruin.
It'll probably also have voidsent living there and all the pissed off tribes that probably still use primals since they don't have contact with the mainland.
I 100% expect a remix of this song if we go to Meracydia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6QPwQB0tvA
>woman moment: the raid
>Woman believes in astrology and crystals and it leads to hell
A common occurrence
>all this auracite talk
Time to leave this gay Source and go invade THEIR planet for once
>That scene with Zero and the Loporrits
I chuckled
>the robots run away in terror
Only rabbits would make robots that know fear.
Why the fuck did that loporrit that was fixing the robots sound so sexy in the Japanese version?
Link
It was funny but also cringe due to writer's pet Zero wankery.
>ummm I'm better because I'm a voidsent
>fights like a regular person
>isn't even a voidsent, just part way but larps as full void
lalafell
That is literally my wife
>Ivalice expansion
Sneed expansion
I CREATE
MANIPULATE
YOUR KIND IN MY IMAGE
MY CHOSEN ONES
FOR YOU
THE TIME HAS COME
THE SUN IS SETTING
>athena minion
>not even her monster form
>savage mount is just the fucking axolotl
>absolutely mid savage gear design
holy fuck i feel bad for raiders
I don't care about any of this.
The only thing I care about is how fun the fights are.
lmao.. is the savage mant really the axolotl? why???
the axolotls have some relation to Elpis
axolotls were the creatures Hermes and Meteion were looking for when we first saw them in Elpis
Seems like the Axolotls are related to Azem, maybe they're one of his creations
What did Zero mean by this? I thought she was a lesbian?
In Japanese she says "do we also have to disrobe in this room?"
Everyone is gay for Estinien
Yes.
>GAYsvelgr and TiaFAT not lifting a finger to help Vrtra and Azdaja
Fuck dragons
Just like papa sleepygardsormr!
The biggest absentee father, amazing how little he interacts with the plot of dragons anymore.
>just basically realized we are a month away from 7.0 expansion news
jesus christ bois.
they're really, REALLY good at red herrings in their trailers. given that its scheduled to be out before 6.5 any expac trailer we get won't give us any real information
i mean we wont get a real trailer until another year at least
just a snip of it soon
They are usually pretty straight forward in the expac announcement trailers. HW trailer let us know we were going to ishgard, announcement SB trailer let us know we were going to Ala Mhigo, announcement ShB trailer let us know we were going to the First, and announcement EW trailer let us know we were going to the moon (which meant Zodiark). We'll likely get something pretty concrete.
>announcement ShB trailer let us know we were going to the First
We didn't know we were going to the First until the last fanfest. They baited us with "IT'S TIME TO DESTROY THE GARLEAN EMPIRE"
The first trailer pretty clearly showed off the First.
We knew that was where the bulk of the story would be.
They usually split the trailers in half to hide the real good shit.
SB didn't make it clear we were going to Sushiland until the second shoe dropped in the following event.
Oh fuck, you're right.
I wonder how explict they'll be about the direction of the story. They said that 6.5 leads straight into 7.0, so the reveal trailer could give us a big hint about how the next patch will resolve.
>its true
I'm not ready. I am literally NOT READY.
Snake has cat ears.
>not an oven
10/10
I still don't get why this woman wanted to mantle godhood
she realized it was *possible* and it became an all-consuming obsession
its your standard 'scientist wants to control evolution' trope
Her horoscope said it was her day
Basically let intrusive thoughts about playing god win.
I wonder if Zodiark's aether on the First will be the foothold needed to open a gate between it and the 13th
I imagine Zodiark's aether is sacrificed to help initiate the flood ASAP.
I just wonder if we'll get more zodiark-born monsters in the other shards.
Because it amuses her.
Rules of nature, literally.
>your people are all powerful
>surely there must exist some kind of higher being
>a rock comes from space
>pretty much the most powerful shit you ever seen stored in such a little rock
>maybegodisrealpng
>only way to know that is to become a God, so the higher being notice you
>waste years of your life + killing yourself to obtain godhood
>you die to a retard grape loving bastard.
She is basically the opposite of Hermes, where artificial natural selection is good if its done by a higher being vs Hermes being a cry baby.
She's just Venat but a real woman.
You know in retrospect Zodiark's aether not vanishing from the 13th is really obvious
I literally said so in 6.2. The aether had no where to go. The fact that it wasn't obviously for other people annoys me
>Elidibus was Elidi'lil'bro all along
>Hydaelyn becomes a god and sunders creation
>fuck my boipucci, mommy Venat!
>some writer's obvious projection of how evil his mother was wants to become
>noooo, you can't do that!
Yeah but Venat loves me and Athena only loves herself. Sociopaths are offputting, many such cases.
Forgive my retardation but how did Athena call upon Themis/Elidibus' soul from the aetherial sea? Isn't he stuck in the first, trapped in the crystal tower?
There's a small flow between the Source and each shard. That's the path the Ascians send the aether down when doing a rejoining.
They kinda glossed over that honestly. I guess she was close enough to hydaelyn strength with the aetherial sea at her command that she was able to summon his soul back like Hydaelyn did for Minfillia and Emet.
Athena was the big eyeball in the sky in pandaemonium, especially the laboratory where P8 takes place. its gone now that Lahabrea literally burned Athena out of Hegemone. she was aware of how powerful Themis was and was able to tempt him to her side by giving him what he wanted, which was to test himself against you
that big eyeball is gone now, btw
Am I the only person that found it funny that Lahabrea just walked up to Hegemone, set her on fire, and Eric is like "I-Is she going to be alright?" afterwards?
I mean she was, but still.
>Lahabrea: It unnerves me that I could be driven to such depths that I'd use this forbidden research for nefarious ends.
>Also Lahabrea, not even a full five minutes later: I fully embrace my insane half and choose violence.
It was bizarre that WoL witnesses what's basically Laha's villain origin story and then hears Elidibus talking about how he'll keep Laha in line if he starts to stray from morality despite the fact we know he definitely does not. And the WoL just smiles like it's super heart warming instead of really depressing.
Because neither the Laha nor Elidibus we're interacting with are real, they're weird memory golems constructed by Athena. The WoL is just happy to see Themis happy.
That scene happens in Elpis, they're 100% the real Lahabrea and Elidibus
It was the Laha and Elidibus in the past who said those things, not present day them.
Also on a side note, that was real Elidibus. Athena dragged him back from the First which is how he had memories of our fight. Only Laha and Eric were constructs.
My headcanon is they are smiling because it’s funny
I'm starting to believe they're actually going to nail the finale to this filler arc narrative.
Look who finally woke up. You're late, Barry.
>Golbez invited Zero to his hero squad
>gets called a creep because of how suHispanicious he looks
>later he dies and his friend takes over his name and his goal
Kind sad ngl. Especially after we saw how OG Golbez treated life.
I don't understand why people are calling Zero a mary sue. She blew off the heroes who could have definitely used her and died alone without accomplishing much of anything.
People around her find her charmingly autistic and she's still helpful, if conceited, so she's a mary sue in their eyes.
She's more of a writer's pet OC waifu than a Mary Sue.
I mean to be honest what the fuck was he thinking walking around dressed in that towering cyclops horned black armor, who is going to look at that and think "damn, the hero arrived"
I just really want fuckin Mystic Knight. This should have been the expansion we got it with Thavnair being so relevant.
I hope we get it one day.
>I want Paladin
How is mystic knight paladin? It would be more of a DPS class. Combine multiple elements with sword skills. Paladin is a cross between melee and holy magic, but they don't directly interact. It's either sword skills or holy spells.
A closer thing than what he's saying would be Samurai which is a mage-sword in lore and uses magic effects all the time
I still grant that, flavor-wise, Mystic Knight and Samurai have no similarities at all
I was thinking it could be like bard mechanically but melee. You have 3 or so elemental stances you cycle through, and each one does something different.
A cross between Bard, Red Mage and Samurai with stance-based swordfighting and mechanical differences between each stance, leading up to a big finish, sounds really good
Mystic Knights exist in FF14. There's an order of mage-knights in the land Gabranth came from.
It's Ivalice/Bozja lore so the chance of it being glazed over is possible for something unrelated tho.
>Getting close to job announcement time
>CORfags are getting uppity again
It will NEVER happen, cope and seethe.
It is extremely suHispanicious that Merlwyb got custom animations in an instance that would otherwise be pretty throwaway
Remember, Simba
Remember Red Mage and Samurai
Remember Reaper
Remember . . .
that instance came out in ShB, coper
And Ran'jit was the first Reaper tease in 6.0
>dual wielding pistol DPS focused corsair
i'd resub
I like the new dungeon more than any of the other level 90 dungeons, it's very chill.
This game looks so fucking ugly.
nah that's you
the game is a real beauty
I mean it's basically a PS3 game. It's understandable that it's showing it's age.
FFXI is aging better than XIV.
well yeah basically ever Jap game on the PS2 is prettier than it's 7th gen counterparts. or, at least aged better. I mean, look at something like XII versus XIII, and you'll see what I mean.
its not showing its age
its showing its putrid, rotten skeleton
https://streamable.com/pv539z
you get used to it, in fact sometimes it looks gorgeous. No joke.
ONION KNIGHT KRILE
nice bush
looks like a fucking 1994 game
The raid story was a better MSQ than the MSQ
What the fuck were they thinking?
don't worry, 6.5 will feature a scene of us raw-dogging ryne and gaia
>ryne and gaia
>not Alisae
The zero golbez shit is a glorified trial series they stuck into the MSQ
that's insulting to the trial series, most of them had good stories
Not if they replaced the MSQ though. Like imagine if all of SB post patch MSQ was replaced with the four lords except at the very end they cram in gaius and emet
Really though
It started in ShB with 5.4 not EW
Its the only way they can make content ignorers do trials. Imagine the asspain if they make another optional raid series 8/24 man, mandatory for MSQ progress.
They should have done it for the void series from HW
They should make doing every role quest mandatory before you can enter 7.0
>What the fuck were they thinking?
How to cram two full expansions worth of story into a single release.
>6.0 was originally supposed to take place entirely in Ilsabard with Thavnair, Corvos, Magna Glacies, Garlemald proper, etc.
>Would cover the Garlean civil war and Zenos antics, likely with Anima as a lv87/89 trial rather than just a dungeon boss, and the Final Days would either be the finale or the post-MSQ build-up to 7.0
>7.0 was going to have us finally go to Sharlayan, the moon, etc. and either would have proceeded down the same time travel route or deal heavily with flashbacks via the WoL > Azem connection.
>At some point while 5.3 was in development a decision came down from corporate or even YoshiP that they needed to wrap it up, either because of Square's borderline-psychotic fixation on NFTs and phone games, or marketing types not wanting to do a 10 year-anniversary before the grand finale of the story
You can blatantly see where they originally intended for 6.0 to go before taking a massive turn by introducing Fandaniel in 5.4.
The fact that we suddenly circumvent the rules of aetherytes and teleport directly to Thavnair rather than organically travelling there says a lot on its own.
>>At some point while 5.3 was in development a decision came down from corporate or even YoshiP that they needed to wrap it up, either because of Square's borderline-psychotic fixation on NFTs and phone games, or marketing types not wanting to do a 10 year-anniversary before the grand finale of the story
That was when they started drafting for XVI's full development cycle, so that's probably more the reason than anything.
I haven't done the MSQ yet, but I'm surprised if that's true since the Raid story didn't do much for me.
>Athena has generic motivation of just wanting to be a god
>is at least somewhat entertaining in how much of a bitch she is to her husband and son
>Elidibus II was kind of neat, but the actual fight is literally just "avoid sides for purple, avoid center for yellow" and nothing else
>other two bosses are just weird monster things with no other relevance
the fight is really similar to Fatebreaker
I thought it was kind of neat he had the same Tankbuster as Zodiark.
>gets amnesia in ur path
he uses Styx too, which is the multi hit split attack. which is also what the zodiark trancer uses to kill hydaelyn in our favorite comic
>this is bad because
>?????
MSQ is clearly setting up 6.5. Also if you didn't like the Golbez reveal you are a fucking retard.
Fleeting Moments is the opposite of Mortal Instants. Imagine instead of the Ancients wallowing in their own doom and gloom they actually get their shit together and fight back against the hordes of Terminus abominations.
>venat and the last azem switching between jobs mid combat
>hephaistos and ericthonois in their combat forms guiding survivors to pandæmonium for safety
>hades and themis rallying others in amaurot to fight back
I wanna see Venat's combat form
yeah people saying its a To The Edge remix but I hear more of Mortal Instants in it
Fleeting Moments is probably the best rendition of Amaurot's theme
To the Edge the fruit of the tree Mortal Instants
I feel like its not drastically different but to the edge just has different beats to it compared to mortal instants
To the Edge and Mortal Instants are the same song.
Though sound wise, it definitely has more in common with mortal instants given its no vocals and piano focused.
>I wanna see Venat's combat form
Would be neat, but I don't know if I want to spend more time with Ancients after EW.
>more helmets and hoods I can't wear as a Viera
Purgatory gear got my hopes up
Necromancer Krile
Berserker Krile
Thief Krile
>yshtola going on another aether mechanics rant
shut the fuck up nerd noone cares
She wants the WoL to care about her interests!
i finished msq and raid. where zenos at? he was in the trailer
He's in the revamped duty support dungeon
I believe that was showing off that the Stormblood dungeons are now doable with trusts.
you get one flashback shot when zero is talking about friends, skipper
When the fuck did we learn to do the Hades reinforce-that-memory-ghosts-aether thing?
It's Aether, I ain't gotta explain shit
Hope you're ready for the infamous femHeoth pirate queen Faris to make an appearance soon
So I see that they changed the Aulus mal Asina fight in Ala Mhigo. does the bodyjack mechanic still happen? Kinda makes Fandaniel look dumb during the garlemald arc
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo fuck this fucking retard I was so close to escaping LET ME OUT
If it makes you feel better you won't see much of her ever again after Stormblood.
>Island Sanctuary cave music
>Kino fart music
why do women like Estinien? he is severely autistic
But that's the best part.
fujos love himbos
Why do people keep misusing this word
Estinien is a husbandobait for normal women
Now G'raha is the fujobait
you haven't seen the vrtra/estinien porn huh
it is 1 artist forcing it
Estinien's biggest ship is Estinien x Aymeric so you're just wrong
more women ship themselves with G'raha than Estinien
>implying women aren't the ones into Estinien x Aymeric
who do you think is the biggest consumer of BL stories anon
it ain't gay men
>Estinien is a husbandobait for normal women
>Now G'raha is the fujobait
then what the fuck is the difference between husbandobait and fujobait????? dumb ass
fujos are so fried out on sexy men that they no longer consider themselves part of the action when having fantasies. this is why they like yaoi and such
you didn't really answer the question
i know what a fujo is
what im asking is why is estinien normal husbandobait for women when his biggest ship is a homo one, but graha on the other hand is fujobait when theres far more female wols being shipped with him than with estinien
it makes zero sense retard
g'raha tia is cute, not sexy. estinien is sexy, not cute
Long spear
I need a himbo! I need a himbo in the dark of the night!
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be nice and he's gotta be not very bright!
big time himbo with a bunch of good fujo ships
>p9 boss in jp
just sounds like the people who's souls it ate because it's copying them, as a setup for the idea of putting souls into other people and another example of how voices are soul based like all the times ascians possess people
>p9 boss in eng
GRR IM SPOOKY LOOK HOW IM STRAINING MY THROAT
huh
the werlyt side quest was weird. right?
>some guy gets plastic surgery to make himself look like varis
>even after they explained his plan i still don't get it
>the ghost children are back. let's paint them
>here's a copy of the painting of the ghost children whom you helped kill
the quest should've been about the chais in eulmore idc if it wouldn't have made sense
He was a body double for Valens.
He worshipped Valens and wanted to continue his dream.
>He was a body double for Valens.
oh shit ok. that makes things make a little more sense. really thought he was just a weirdo obsessed with valens. it was still kind of stupid though.
He was a weirdo obsessed with Valens but he was also the body double decoy when Valens was still alive.
i think this is ripe for a barbeque meme, but the details elude me
I tried
HORY KINO
good job retard
>zodiark '' my defeat seals my victory haha im GLAD u killed me ''
>golbez '' you won the battle, but i won the war lol thanks for defeating me now i can imbue azdaja's hopes of going back home with zodiark juice and void cum!!! ''
this shit trope of defeating the big bad but it actually being a victory for the bad guy needs to be retired for at least three expansions, i fucking hate it
It's a typical jrpg story trope. Villains are cutscene heroes and actual battles rarely matter.
To be fair, it is the Final Fantasy IV expac and that shit was all over that game. In fact, 95% of that game is just Golbez going "Haha, but I win anyway" up until Fusoya bitch slaps the evil out of him. Then he does that shit for the good guys' side.
my favorite 'i still win, bitch' moment is when golbez's hand crawls to the crystal and steals it anyway
'' my defeat seals my victory haha im GLAD u killed me ''
Are you a retard? He needed Zodiark to die for the finals days to start. He just wanted to go full ff6 Kefka on the world before he kills himself. Also he wanted to kill you too for being annoy fuck
'' you won the battle, but i won the war lol thanks for defeating me now i can imbue azdaja's hopes of going back home with zodiark juice and void cum!!! ''
You know that we cannot kill him in the 13th, right? Our plan was to escape with Azdaja, but we failed. So his dialogue make sense.
chud GOLEMS
I REPEAT
chud GOLEMS
i'll get to kill the rainbow every expert roulette now. also, i call them gaylems
>pride golems
>they start killing your gay ass
lol
do these ones cast self-destruct?
>Zero: Sometimes too much Aether is a bad thing.
She said this as a trust when you ran into those golems. Uhhhh is Zero a chud?
its been confirmed
>BEHOLD THE PRIDE GOLEMS
why do they keep catering to pedos?
Imagine the seethe if they had named itghe "Magicked Lalafellin Bed" instead
>if you go back into the main hall at the annex you'll either find krile or g'raha there
cute
Which Ancient is Zeus?
me
From 1 to Barbie, how much of a pug killer is Golbez EX?
just below barbie, way above rubi
There are definite walls. I can usually make it past through the flare/towers in pugs now.
>no further hint in the raid about themis' relation to venat
boo
>Nerfing Bard's silence
>Now DRK/DRG/WAR gays can do more as they jump on your group
FUCK YOU YOSHI
They buffed warden’s paella though so your frontline gays can be more annoying. Dumb change
Frontline is a melee man's game
Ranged exist only to make their melee better
CLAUDIEN NO
he's black it's ok
HORY KINO
Was I the only one tearing up a bit during that last scene with Elidibus? They've gotten so much mileage out of that character it's insane.
Was definitely a nice scene. Especially since it's likely his final send off.
>final send-off
>in FF14
Expect to see flashbacks about a dozen more times. It's been 6 years and we're still not over Haurchefant for fuck's sakes. Emet-selch has almost as much dialogue in EW as he did in ShB - the expansion where he DIED.
Azdaja looks like a fucking ixal
I love how much Laha hates women
He's just like me
I love that Lahabrea is self-aware enough to acknowledge that he could become a cackling, maniacal villain in the right circumstances. Directly lampshades Emet-Selch constantly denying that.
just like me fr
I think he just hates his wife. He's basically a sitcom dad.
>try to have happy marriage
>wind up marrying a deranged control freak with delusions of godhood
>try to have a son you love
>he hates your guts because your wife groomed him
>try to confront your wife over her unethical experiments
>she does the Fusion Dance with you to infect you with alien brainworms
It's like the weirdest episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, except they kill Debra at the end.
>except they kill Debra at the end
If only that series ended that way.
>voiced raid quests
WHAT
THEY CAN'T DO THIS
That's how you know Themis is gone for good. He's probably gonna be the companion from the rising this year if it's not Zenos.
you mean like they did last expansion?
Eden never had voiced cutscenes outside of the fights
Don't click.
fucking slut
AAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>slaps his nasty jerky hand away
Why would we think of that? This is literally the last person my WoL would think of in that moment.
Hes your friend 🙂 haha All those other people we love and care about mean nothing to us
They're seriously placing these "Wol thinks about Zenos" moments at the worst time. Like I give a shit that he wanted to hold my hand.
It isn't necessarily the WoL thinking of Zenos as a friend (though it could be that if you wanted), I read it as the WoL realizing that Zenos had mega-autism like Zero and that he genuinely thought he was friends with the WoL
How embarrassing for him.
The only thing I ”trust” Zenos with is coming up with the most deranged ways of saying ’pls notice me’.
"muh wol" you are wearing the skin suit of meteor, a distinct character. your OC means nothing because meteor canonically liked zenos
so why was our timeline lahabread a crazy retard? He was based in the past
He reabsorbed his corrupted schizo half in order to set Hegemone on fire. Lahabrea was doomed to go full retard at that point.
>merged back with his crazy side and was like "eh whatever happens happens"
>held onto the rock that makes you crazy a little too long
>spent 12,000 years body hopping more than usual
It was mildly interesting that instead of throwing a surprise twist in about him at the last second the writing just sort of acknowledged that sometimes a character is doomed.
Same as Emet in the end, just went schizo over time.
But despite knowing his outcome, he still stands by his principals and convictions regardless.
>Character looks up to the sky as the gang talks about friends
>Zenos dying
Im so tired of seeing him man, fuck off.
retard
Golby Ex feels more like a Savage boss than an extreme.
>Yshtola is about to drop a legitimate non fucked shard hopping method on the world
This is going to be the thing that Yoshi P was talking about "changing the world as we know it" in this patch series. The whole thing has been a convoluted set up to introduce non fucked up shard hopping methods.
>non-fucked
I hope all of existence and reality is permanently altered. He’s talking about the graphical update though anon nothing actually cool
All she will do is get a way to syphon Light to the Void. She made it explicitly clear that she is no closer to shard hopping and the current method only works because the void is fucked up enough to be an easy anchor point. I assume we will have to travel to the first in 6.5 and talk to Ryne (not gaia since she is raid story and can never be in an MSQ) to redirect the aether flow or something.
I mean she mentions every reflection is pulled towards the source, so maybe she might find a way for the reflects to pull towards one another.
Why are people so adamant that raid story shit will never come up in the MSQ when the entirety of ShB hinges on Alexander and Omega happening
I haven't done alexander or omega and I understood shb, I didn't even know they were connected to shb
You didn't understand ShB
Omega's really not important and only comes up in the optional level 80 dungeon that expands on the alternate timeline backstory, Alexander does directly relate to the premise though.
>(not gaia since she is raid story and can never be in an MSQ
Yoshi-P tend to spoil shit in the liveletter without it being in the game. Aka Zenos voidsent being important in 6.0, but we didnt get a answer to it until 6.2. He said something about us seeing Gaia again, so I expect that we will see her in 6.5
Speak for yourself. I still got myriad questions about how the Ancients procreated when their entire race is essentially
>Stoic, overly-clinical scientists who look at everything through the lens of a mad god trying to perfect creation
I am amazed they even indulged in carnal pleasure at all.
>(not gaia since she is raid story and can never be in an MSQ)
Just because they don't assume you've played the raid doesn't mean things that were in the raid can't appear in the main story anyways, Alisaie and Phoenix aren't banished to the shadow realm just because you never finished Coil and Nero reappeared in MSQ way back in Heavensward when all of his character development was still optional.
what's lahabrea's current status, is he still just fucking anal vore'd in thordan's sword?
Super dead but if he was somehow revived he would chimp out and do evil shit again
He's dead. Thordan ate him. He was never just hanging out in the sword.
>got anal vored into Nidhoggs eye, which got anal vored into Shinryu which got anal vored into Zenos and then finally poked into a puffcloud by Estenien
If there's anything left of him he's probably so scrambled up he'd be unrecognizable
He died years ago in game, his soul would have already been dissolved.
Athena was able to use the actual Elidibus Soul, because he only died a few months ago when he sent us to Eplis.
The lahabrea we meet is the same as the one we fought. He is clearly withholding information
The Laha we meet is assembled from the memories in the crystal that Athena sent to the present from her own time. It can't possibly contain memories of his life post-sundering because that hadn't happened yet
I'm the only person who noticed the dungeon travel things being Death Stranding zip lines
so....
are they ever going to tell us how did he stole the original WoL body???
Who?
some combination of tempering and possession
>he thinks it's over
Did you not see the last cutscene?
so what was the light themis saw?
Bright future for the planet.
aw gay 🙂
Probably his rebirth
Can't be his rebirth, his persona wasn't even washed away yet.
>The course of history is set by it's victors. It is immutable. And yet...
>Should this star continue upon it's path...
>Look...
>The light...
I take this as something
A. Specific.
B. Related to "the course of history" being changed.
>C. Related directly to the light that's engulfing him.
Well he doesn't have future vision and I doubt we're going to go to the past again and see him. I guess it's possible he did see something floating out in the aetherial sea but it really came across as a character passing away moment. The lines sort of read like a person beginning to drift off to sleep.
Maybe recovering all his memories now that he returned to the Aetherial Sea? The ones between his time spent with us as Themis and eventually being defeated in 5.3. The Elidibus we meet in the CT to send us back in time seems to have all his memories intact, but the Themis we interact with in the raid clearly doesn't know everything yet because he hasn't experienced those episodes yet
Azem insane 5D demension chess plan that somehow saves all ancient souls from the final days through time manipulate shit, which is what Elidbus saw.
you guys are gonna be so disappointed
They are totally bringing this shit up again. If he was being reborned why the fuck would he go all like
>if the star continue on this path
Azem (who is basically dead by the way) somehow showing up to pull some solution that saves the entirety of the Ancients out of their ass would basically be going against the messages of two expansions.
>if the star continue on this path
He is making a guess. He cannot see into the future. There is no secret plan of Azem's that he knows is going to somehow bring him back to life.
>He is making a guess. He cannot see into the future. There is no secret plan of Azem's that he knows is going to somehow bring him back to life.
He cannot see in the future, but Azem surely could you. But this is just a theory until it is confirmed. JP was more clear with this.
He said something about the
>"Should this star continue upon it's path"
like something is happening that will save him and his friends from their horrible doom. Like time itself is finally fixing itself. Aka Azem did something, which is why he knew about us, and called us a shooting star.
AZEM
Pretty much the only big question mark remaining from the Ancient period is how much Azem knew and what the fuck he was up to during the Sundering
jacking off/schlicking
I think he just quietly surrendered in a cave somewhere and waited for the sundering, personally.
I feel like Erichtonios kind of gave us a clue. Saving people and killing monsters for the most part. Sure he was talking about us as in the sundered Azem, the WoL, but the story has time and time made it clear that we are very alike, so I suspect that's what the Azem was doing.
How Emet, Laha and Elidibus avoided being sundered is another unanswered question, though not one likely to ever be addressed I think
Doesn't Venat mention she tried to spare Emet since she knew he had to live and that brought Elidibus and Lahabrea in the avoiding too.
Well, Pandamonium felt like a lovely epilogue for our Elpis trip.
The makeshift lore of the 13th is so fucked up, all this Golbez wanking but Cloud of Darkness and Scathach were still there until like 5 minutes ago.
They're busy being evil somewhere else, assuming Scathach isn't still part of Diabolos in some way.
Wow it's really handy that void India happens to randomly be a gothic castle where they wank some fag on the moon.
Something tells me you don't have anything but grumbles you're passing off as critique.
I don't know how do you feel about finding a crystal with exactly the memories of a scene Zero just told you about.
Somehow the void is a big enough place to have several unrelated super evil conquer the source plots going on at any time but also small enough that they all separately involve the same 4 people over thousands of years.
oh romeo just HAPPENED to die? how CONVENIENT. fucking hack shakespeare
>hides the real MSQ in the raids
I'm onto you, gay
whats with the last pandecutscene? The one underwater with the light at the end? Did I miss something or its something for the future???
That was Elidibus in the aetherial sea moving on to the next life.
I need this mount. Now. How do you get it?
it's blue achievement mount for doing savage eden raids. it's not in the game yet.
ALL of them?
uh i think it's just e4 e8 and e12. i don't do blu so i'm not sure how it works.
this is likely correct as that's how the others work
Oh so I'll never get it as I don't have the autism level required to stomach that.
Are BLU savages easier than normal or harder?
Almost certainly from clearing Eden as a Blue Mage
mounting cylva
>Real Golbez is dead and most likely our shard, sealed away in a crystal we just found that villain Golbez kept hidden on the moon
So we're gonna release our shard aka real golbez from the crystal and team up right?
How much longer are they going to keep writing redemption arcs for characters that unambiguously wanted nothing other than the annihilation of the WoL, their friends, and everything else?
Is 7.0 going to have a story arc where we travel back in time to find out that Igeyorhm was actually a heckin wholesome cat lady? Did Nabriales run an orphanage for Ancient children?
>How much longer are they going to keep writing redemption arcs for characters that unambiguously wanted nothing other than the annihilation of the WoL, their friends, and everything else?
a villain getting more insight and development doesn't equal redemption. athena was a spiteful bitch right until the end.
A character's motivation and history being explored doesn't it make redemption.
I mean Lahabrea only got redeemed into being an okay father, nothing else. Either way, ascians are villains only by circumstance.
Athena was a cunt to the very end, happy?
Was P10 meant to be the "Dread Beast Pandemonium" that Themis spoke of initially? That really didn't go anywhere, unless it was referring to Athena I guess
"That really didn't go anywhere" is pretty much the theme of everything we've gotten post EW
Just finished the pande story
Holy shit that last voice scene was kino
>Speak with Claudien again after finishing the quest
>Get extra cutscene
Huh?
do you guys actually get emotionally invested into the story
yes? We arent souless trannies
Holy shit
LMAO
I JUST WANT TO CREATE CONCEPTS FOR GOD'S SAKE
need to redraw "i hate my wife" boomer comics with lahabrea and athena
jej
>tfw he made Pandæmonium to satisfy her curiosity because he loved her so much
>it didn't work
>he failed to fix her
Holy shit, probably why he is so miserable
I am glad Elidibus' soul is back in the aetherial sea. What did he see in the end though? The light? Also, so happy his lines were voiced too.
>What did he see in the end though? The light?
The afterlife. How are so many people confused by this? You've never heard the phrase "going into the light"?
I have. I guess I am just trying to be hopeful because I want him to go on more adventures with us. Still glad his soul isn't stuck in the tower though, same with Lahabrea's soul put back in the sea too.
>You've never heard the phrase "going into the light"?
That's not what XIV's afterlife is.
XIV's afterlife is literally just another life. What does being born look like?
He can't be being born because he still has his personality.
Did you even read his dialogue in the sea? Also rebirths doesn't happen that fast lol.
>The Theodore clone wasn't actually Golbez
Clap
welp, was a good day of discussion. back to the usual bench sitting tomorrow, then next week we'll get people onionfacing about the undoubtedly cool transformation sequence in savage but since none of us actually raid it'll just be that till .45
remember, unmodded lala thighs are the true path
REGION TRAVEL COMING ITS FUCKING OVER
12627,"Voyager"
12742,"The Home World of <Highlight>StringParameter(1)</Highlight> is on a data center in a region different to you. Send friend request?" ※You are unable to view the login details of players on your Friend List while they are in a different region.
Voyager will be the title added to your name when you travel to another region
ohohoho shit though
Japs are gonna be fucking livid when westerners start shitting up their PFs lmao
Holy fuck, I never have to deal with Americans again.
If you think nips are going to embrace you with open arms you've got another thing coming gay
they're not going to have a choice
Obviously. But anything is preferable than the NA DCs
NA DCs are paradise compared to French-heavy worlds.
Nah, French girls actually flirted with me when I lived in Paris for two months. Would rather be surrounded by frogs than hang around even one American.
You will find that getting hit on by French prostitutes is not the same thing as playing online video games with Frenchmen.
How very glib. But they weren't prostitutes
>he doesn't know about the French in video games
The worst fucking shitters on the entire planet bar none
JE SUIS MONTE
Those slant eye fucks should be groveling at my fucking feet for bothering to bring my presence to their shithole
>this moron rolled on an NA server and complains about americans
Goddamn you are stupider than an american
I AM American. Still can't stand my fellow countrymen. This country deserves to burn.
Still better than Americans
Absolutely not. I would never wish being paired on the French with anyone. Ideally they should have their own containment DC that isn't allowed to world visit anyone else.
Explain the french hate
They're just really fucking bad at video games.
have a nice day, amerimutt. EU servers are sacred thanks to your muttato ass not being here
Be nice dude I thought you guys like refugees. I'm not a homosexual so I promise you won't be bothered by my presence.
Watch the JP DCs be exempt for some contrived reason.
I don't want fucking region travel, that shit is useless
I want these fucking retards to add cross DC PF already
says you, i've got spanish friends i want to see without needing a world-change
I will go to JP and fuck their DC until they decide to add chat bubbles.
They're coming.
>He forgot about Minfilia's power point presentation of how death works on FFXIV.
Tisk Tisk, put down you phone and pay attention zoomie!
I'm ready to leave FF4 Namek.
>people still trying to shittalk the msq because DUH WHY CAN'T I BEAT 1/14TH ZODIARK when they literally say seconds before they leave that their anti void protection is wearing out and they gotta get outta there
it doesn't matter if you can effortlessly choke someone out if you're going to die of radiation sickness anyway
The NPC jobber crew doesn't matter except for rescuing the stupid dragon.
lmao enjoy raidfags!!!
Only teenage esgekords would bate this thing it's adorable
>no big moth or one of those ultima angel mounts
>weapons are crystals instead of being angelic/moth-themed
man
I like it.
So what's this "Seigneur" set from? Mogstation?
Does anyone has the datamined raid weapons?
They look like shit
This
Any specific requests?
SGE and WAR if possible
I guess it look nice, if too normal.
Not even a special effect on them?
They have a very faint, subtle shimmer effect like the Casting/Healing gear has around the shoulders.
My will to clear this tier just plummeted to 0...
The Abysseos weapons looked cool at least, SGE one especially is the coolest one in the game so far IMO but these...
If P12S is as painful to clear as P8S I won't even bother honestly.
can i see pld's sword + shield?
My only problem with that is the ridiculous handle to blade ratio
BLM
>the reason Azem went MIA is because he was going after Auracitefags, the TRUE villains of FFXIV
HOLY FUCKING KIIIIIINNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>I am the emissary I will never die
He wasn't lying was he?
Zeromus will breach the Source but is defeated at the end of 6.5.
But the damage he inflicts will crack open Meracydia and awaken the beast coiled around the Lifestream. The great serpent... LAVOS!!!
I really hope there aren't unironic Lavosfags still kicking around
Isn't Lavos a cicada? Also, I think I've had enough of major MSQ villains being references to other Final Fantasy games. Ultima Weapon and Shinryu were fine, since they're recurring entities. Thordan is Knights of the Round and Emet-Selch is Hades, but those summons had no lore attached to them, so giving them actual character was fine.
But then we just get "Amon from FF3" and "Golbez from FF4" and it feels weird since those characters were actual people involved in wholly different plots. I mean, imagine if Sephiroth suddenly showed up and was involved in the MSQ. Shit would be weird.
A lot of those characters had very little depth or characterization to them. Sephiroth is probably way too fleshed out to port over to XIV.
I mean Amon at least is also barely a character, he was just an evil pawn of Xande that barely even did anything except be part of the one fight in the game where Scholar is useful
That's Hein, although FFXIV Amon is actually a composite of the two but the bosses in the CT raids all come from that last LotA/Eureka/Syrcus/WoD gauntlet so it has to be Amon in particular.
Amon from FF3 had no lore either, he's just some random palette swap in a cave. The fact they decided some random fucking filler boss loser in a second tier alliance raid was akshually the main villain of the game all along was fucking ridiculous though.
Yshtola already said Zeromus has to be fought in the Thirteenth so they can do some soul bullshit with poo dragon's sister.
He'll fire a laser through the gate
>CCCCRRRuuuuUUUMMMMBBBBLLLeeeEEE!!!
First time I've cringed at a voiceline in a long time
>Shatter is ruined
How do we cope?
I unironically like the new Shatter more
Most of the Frenchies are bad because the game is translated in their language, so you are constantly dealing with normalfags who couldn't learn English and kids.
The French being bad at video games is not a problem unique to XIV
Frogs have been a plague in every multiplayer game since at least Everquest. They're inherently bad at video games.
You see black auracite makes people go crazy because something something Watchers
Post Athena P2 right NOW you fuckers
>Matsuno got taken off Bozja during Shadowbringers... in order to be the big guy for 7.0
Based, japanese femoids seething, I hope he kills Graha.
That one guy who flips his shit whenever Matsuno is mentioned is gonna have a stroke if this gets confirmed.
There never was an Azem. It was always (You), you're going to creat a prime taradox by traveling even further back in time once you reasumvke your soul in 12.0 and become the original Azem that fixes the Ancient timeline yourself and prevents 12000 years of fuckery at the source.
Golbez overstayed his welcome
Making him a good guy and also probably another shard of Azem is a bit hard to accept. Dude really put on that ridiculous armor and threw around powerful magic spells and thought no one would conclude he's not to be trusted? It works for real Golbez because real Golbez is not that.
>Athena reveals her motives to Eric
>her mask literally comes off
bit on the nose
So he was Theodore, but who was Cecil
(You)