I'm seriously asking. Why do you gays treat the """"gear treadmil"""" as a bad thing? Why do you associate playing more of the game = bad? It isn't what RPG players enjoy the most? playing to get more loot? Why is it now a bad thing and less content is a good thing now? I just don't get it.
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When people are pointing out the "gear threadmill", they are actually pointing out how degenerated the classic goal of RPGs have become in online games. Sure, it is to "get stronger". However, it is hard to ignore how utterly soulless and devoid of meaning the whole process is, when it is this apparent, that the whole thing is just arbitrary numbers. That gear you are working for literal months will be given out like candy after a while, once they remove the arbitrary time gate. This is the point when many players put the very valid question to themselves: why am I even bothering putting all this effort into it, when it's all meaningless? They put in the next carrot on the stick, the current carrot will be given out for free to everybody.
The only exception to this is Ultimates. But those are so impenetrable to casuals, that they hardly come up in this discussion.
And if you don't see any problem with the "gear threadmill", meaning you are aware of how meaningless it is, but you enjoy it anyway, then by all means, good for you. But it isn't very hard to see why it's so off-putting to most people.
>The only exception to this is Ultimates. But those are so impenetrable to casuals, that they hardly come up in this discussion.
Wrong. You and me can clear UWU and UCOB right now with next to no effort because of how ilvl sync works. It's super easy, so it just applies to the same logic you used at the beggining of your post. "Why even bother" if you can clear it easier next expansion.
Then why it's so popular? It's because it's treated as a glorified RP game or just baby first mmo?
>Wrong. You and me can clear UWU and UCOB right now with next to no effort because of how ilvl sync works. It's super easy, so it just applies to the same logic you used at the beggining of your post. "Why even bother" if you can clear it easier next expansion.
Really? I admit I haven't really been keeping up much with how Ultimates are, even though I'm still subbed to the game, I hardly ever play these days. I was under the impression that you still can't cheese even the older ultimates and they require proper progging. Maybe it's easier to hit max stats with gear without going out of your way to farm and meld the level appropriate gear, but I was under the impression that those don't give so much power up that it would trivialize the encounter. Maybe I was wrong, but certainly surprising to me.
There's a lot of mechanics that can be skipped all together with this ilvl. Like you can skip divebombs on Nael right now. Ofc the "one hit KO" mechanics are still there but everything else is free game.
While it's true the potency and ilvl creep has made a lot of mechanics easier if not outright skipable now. You are still not going to take a casual fresh party of 8 through the fight in a fast manner even if they study all the mechanics before hand.
Also some people just really suck at the game and usually there is no helping them for various reasons.
It's much easier than in StB but still takes a decent amount of time and effort. The big mechanics are just as hard as they used to be
bro you take 8 people who never did ucob with current potencies nd ilvl and they will die to twisters over and over
what you mean is getting carried by people who already cleared the fight
you cannot clear ucob or uwu with 2 useless players.
You need at least 7 competent highly skilled players to corpse-drag the 8th through, and even then you'll still have to learn to do thermal low bait, suppression, and primal roulette so you can contribute some damage.
>threadmill
kys
because its always the same shit every xpac every patch theres no variety
you're doing the same thing that you were doing years ago in the same linear dungeon layout for 60 tomestones every day for weeks
forever
i prefer ffxiv's deterministic system over wow's random ass system where a ring makes up 10% of your dps until they nerf it and then your class is unplayable bad so you have to go level up another class and do the whole random ass gearing system with them again so that you can continue to do current content.
They're experimenting with bonuses on gear with the crafting relics this expansion, maybe they'll roll the dice and put that kind o stuff on the actual relics next time around.
I just wish we got rid of this loop rotation we have so we can get fun stuff in like haste or even quick. There will be so much ground to experiment. Maybe use the autocombo from PvP. That way jobs can give more diverse buffs to everyone without thinking "this will frick the rotation of my dps". They can keep the 2min shit if they want since i guess it's what works rn (?)
Sincerely doubt it'll ever go on PvE gear; I imagine FFXIV will go towards "mastery levels" after hitting lv. 99 or lv. 100 like FFXI did to keep the level up progression going without actually raising the normal level cap.
not a xi player here
can you explain it for me?
FFXI have like two progression systems after you hit lvl cap. One that levels you stats and other one that let you enhance your abilities to do more damage (or have other properties(?) i don't remember that one too well)
But i doubt ffxiv goes that way. Yoshi is too afraid to make any fun option that angries the raid community or makes the casuals play the game more.
Does it give you something like talents, then?
Something like that because you gotta choose what abilities to enhance. Also you have more options for your subjob (never ever on ffxiv) since you have one more ability from them now.
I wonder if they could do something similar then.
Enhance existing abilities, add some new ones, have an option to bring back some old removed ones. You know.
Kinda. It raises the cap of your job's combat/magic skills per level and the subjob ceiling raise with every five levels also gives you more options than you would otherwise. Obviously XIV doesn't have a subjob system and this would basically translate to continuing the stats increase on gear with every level.
FFXI hit level 99 as their level cap and immediately introduced Master Levels and "Exemplar Points" (EXP hurr hurr hurr) as a replacement level-up system. Master levels are functionally identical to level-ups, cap out at 50 master levels per-job, increase HP/MP/stats and your skill cap for that job, and increase your subjob's level cap by 1 per five master levels.
Essentially I expect them to introduce an alternate level-up system to replace the usual one after we hit the traditional RPG level cap. What that will actually entail as far as job progression, I have no idea.
I really want the cap to stay at 100. Prestige points that let you equip certain glamors once you've leveled to 100 a certain number of times is acceptable, or like Bozja where you can add small increments to your stats (or maybe let us power up abilities with Skill Points or something) would be decent as well. I don't want to do 110, 120, 130 etc forever that's fricking whack
yeah, I hope the regular level cap is at 99 or 100 as well
maybe then they can stop pruning old abilities to add new ones and just hammer out their more or less definitive design without having to account for "MUH 10 MORE LEVELS" every expansion
>100
i would murder you gays for ever suggest that.
FFVIII combo broke the series sorry
gomen na sorry, 99 would murderfrick my autism
get used to it buddy boy
we got artifact armor at level 89 this expansion
it's comin
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
when are you gonna commission tresh3D for an animation of your lalafell getting pussy-pounded by a hyur and we can end this farce once and for all
because gear treadmill is cancer meant to artificially prolong an unfun journey
let people get things at a consistent and reliable rate instead of rng-fricking them like you're a pozzed western developer
Remember this?
pre-Endwalker theories were a sight to behold
>everyone that insisted Lavos from Chrono Trigger was gonna poke his head out of the ground and be behind the apocalypse
nyahahaha
>Why do you gays treat the """"gear treadmil"""" as a bad thing?
XIV has worst gear treadmil in entire history of MMO. ONE GEAR. SAME FORMULA FOR FRICKING DECADE. Literally NOTHING can exist outside of this formula. You can't have any new gear. It's always the same. Always. The same one set.
>XIV has worst gear treadmil in entire history of MMO. ONE GEAR. SAME FORMULA FOR FRICKING DECADE. Literally NOTHING can exist outside of this formula. You can't have any new gear. It's always the same. Always. The same one set.
Sounds good.
It’s not fun.
I’m a new player and spent a long time doing MSQ and catching up just to have every bit of gear I’ve earned become useless trash.
It just makes me wonder what’s the point of doing anything? Old content is easy, current content is inaccessible unless you put 30 hours into hoping you win rolls for gear.
It’s pointless.
Speaking about XI
>even after new lvl caps it still has prper RPG gear system
>even in 2023
Just look at this. Google some class guides. Max levl character has different gear for different purposes. Different weapons.
I think the only other MMO with similar system is fricking ESO now
It also has an extremely small playerbase comprised of people that have already been playing it for 10+ years and as a result the game is unfriendly to any new blood. Go play Diablo if you want to tinker around with gear for hours. Or, hell, just sub to and play XI.
Personally I really wouldn't want XIV to become as finicky as that.
But a little more customization would be nice.
>years and as a result the game is unfriendly to any new blood
This isn't result of people playing games for 10+ years because it's not PVP game
You have a moronic amount of catch-up to do if you start playing and even once you get there people will prefer the oldheads. It's not friendly to new players.
>You have a moronic amount of catch-up
You don't. Stop anon. This is not how it works. The game is just old.
We're talking about if you start playing the game right now, dummy. Yes you have an extreme amount of catching up to do before you can even start to hang with the older players.
>We're talking about if you start playing the game right now, dummy.
No.
>It also has an extremely small playerbase comprised of people that have already been playing it for 10+ years and as a result the game is unfriendly to any new blood
And it's not true. The game is just old. And designs are old. Let it go.
Who the frick flatly says "no" to the entire premise of the conversation he's having so he can rant about something else? Should've been a 75th trimester abortion.
Adding to this, the catchup is mostly following the main story quests. Everything's gated behind it. You don't need to worry about being behind in gear or a similar treadmill.
>You don't need to worry about being behind in gear or a similar treadmill.
you will when you're starting to tango with people that have heishi shorinken or fudo masamune ground out
Just make the fights easier so that way the upgrades are just fancy shit that you don't actually need (just like how relics are now on ffxiv)
durrrrr
Okay yeah if you're competing in parses then you do need the top gear. But that's about it, you can do pretty much all content with market board gear.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT XI!!!! WE'RE TALKING ABOUT XIIIIIIIIIIII
Whoops. My bad. In my defense, I did google the heishi shorinken and the first result was a 14 weapon with materia slots, so my brain went on autopilot there
Yeah it pops up as an artifact-armor weapon for NIN in XIV, Shadowbringers. The amount of shit XIV cribs from XI without being 100% derivative of it is pretty nuts actually, even the AF armors specifically referencing XI's like Paladin aren't 100% the same.
I think XIV does a good job of referencing previous games without necessarily copying them wholesale.
FF3 is surprisingly faithfully condensed into the Crystal Tower raid without ever once actually being a beat-for-beat story recreation
The question is why try to hamfist a stupid-ass treadmill in XIV when every other MMO already has one.
Just go play those MMOs. Leave XIV to the people who don't want to be dealing with RNG for months on end to get the specially upgraded level 5 version of a ring with an extra procced stat and an additional materia slot.
>who don't want to be dealing with RNG for months on end to get the specially upgraded level 5 version of a ring with an extra procced stat and an additional materia slot.
WoW really broken a lot of people that think ultra RNG on titanforge is the only way to handle gear.
>add talents via master levels
>allow gays to bring back kaiten and dark arts via spending master level points or what have you
>gays happy
because I want to play other games as well
Then play other games, moron. It's a way to extend play time for this game. No one is forcing you to stop playing other games.
It's like you're so addicted to virtual rewards that you feel an obligation to continue playing a single video game.
OP wants to make it so there's a gear treadmill that I have to follow in order to do the content I used to do. So I won't have time to play other games.
>So I won't have time to play other games.
You mean gacha games?
Any games
10 hours long movies?
Why do people always want to enforce their way of playing other MMOs on XIV? Can't XIV just have its own thing going on that if you don't like it, you don't play it?
Not every MMO needs to be WoW, or ESO, or GW2, or FFXIV.
"Hmmm this should be like OTHER GAME" is usually a pretty big flapping red flag for a migrant.
I've never played wow and xiv should have their glamour dresser system 🙂
🙂
true but that's just an objective upgrade, not changing the fundamental way the game works for the sake of a subjective improvement that might alienate the existing audience to court an audience that might still not care to play it and that has every other MMO to give them that type of gameplay
>OP or (You) made thread about gear progression
>WTF?
No, Anon, that's not what my post says.
the reason xiv has stuck with the same gear treadmill since heavensward (where they tried goofy shit with the diadem and it backfired tremendously) is because it works. thats the answer to the question "why do they do it like this?", it's what their main demographic wants
This is indeed "no fun alloweed" the game.
Fun- for you.
Other people prefer determinative and and reliable gearing paths.
>it's what their main demographic wants
No shit. We even have easy mode for MSQ now because "some creatures" from main demographic were not able to beat MSQ duties. Not even talking about the state of official English XIV forum. The anon above mentioned Diablo loot. Diablo is giga normalag dudebro game and XIV main demographic is below this audience. The lowest of low among entire MMO genre. Can't believe long time ago Ragnarok Online was ERP anime game. It's complex combat simulator compared to XIV.
One, I don't want to treat a game as a job. Two, how the frick would you implement an engaging gear treadmill in 14 without having to redesign the entire combat system?
>Two, how the frick would you implement an engaging gear treadmill in 14 without having to redesign the entire combat system?
By ending at 7.55 and making a new MMO
>making a new MMO
It will be gacha. Read Yoshi's interview from 2019-2021 (I think) about MMOs generations.
Yoshida's argument was that he doesn't know what form the next MMO will actually take since he (correctly) views MMO "waves" as being Everquest, WoW, and Some New Third Thing. Quite probably the next MMO from Squeenix will be a multiplayer ARPG in the vein of Dragon's Dogma Online or dumb shit like New World since people keep trying to put out games like that.
>Quite probably the next MMO from Squeenix will be a multiplayer ARPG in the vein of Dragon's Dogma Online
They call those type of games MO as I remember.
You have created a thread that will soon build into a splitting image of this salt cave
Congratulations Anon
I can imagine you giggling to yourself like a moron when you took this picture
>I'm totally gonna post this on Ganker next time I see an FFXIV argument nyehehehe
Oh my, it seems a giant salt crystal has already formed!
>nyehehehe this is gonna get me so many (You)s
What are some other abandoned plot points?
underneath the stage in Zodiark's fight
cid's goggles
remember Zenos is Emet's great-grandson, so... thats why
>Emet's sons didn't dream of Amaurot
>Emet's grandson didn't dream of Amaurot
>but Emet's great grandson dreamt of Amaurot
Makes sense
How do you know they didn't?
isn't emets grandson zenos
No.
Varis is his grandson, Zenos is his great grandson. Both of Emet's sons died before the game takes place.
They remembered Heart of Sabik, they're not going to forget anything else
ofc the Black folk remembered because everyone was asking about it. Then they just went "yeaaah it was actualy ayyylmaos"
In the other hand i'm still waiting for my new gold saucer game. The chinks thought i forgot about it. Where the frick is it.
>hubba whaa?????? the auracite was... auracite???? made by the thing we saw make auracite in the ivalice raid???
Heart of Sabik was always Black Auracite in the JP dub afaik.
I love how Pandaemonium created more questions about the Heart of Sabik than it actually answered. Guess we have to wait for the Fanfest Q&A sessions for things to be cleared up.
I'm surprised they didn't retcon the auracite into being crystallized dynamis.
>magic alternate dimensional stones that manifest the emotions and desires of its weilders
Sometimes the multidimensional stone is just a multidimensional stone and not fantasy dark-matter.
I mean they are already retconing Ultima's existence so why not go all out? Not like it would effect the Ivalice raid, and even if it did who would care?
>retconing Ultima's existence
what?
he's using words he doesn't understand
She was summoned into our world in Ivalice by one of the Zodiac Braves, yet somehow thousands of years before that appeared in the unsundered world for no apparent reason.
She was already around for quite some time per the lorebook, as a mindless destructive entity before getting consciousness through fear-worship.
>what actually happened:
a piece of auracite was discovered by the ancients
>what anon is implying
ultima the high seraph, in her post-eikonized form, appeared before athena and gave her the heart of sabik
Auracite comes from Ultima. For it to appear in the unsundered world means she herself had been there. Did you not talk to Claudien after finishing the raid and watch the cutscene with them talking about Ultima?
your statement relies upon one thing that is really, REALLY unlikely.
>There is only 1(one) being in the universe like Ultima the High Seraph
I don't have the requisite proof, but i'm hypothesizing that auracite, the relationship between dynamis and aether, Ultima and the Meteia are all connected
Ultima wasn't from our universe though. She was from another dimension and until Pandaemonium was purposely summoned into our world.
So for them to just have her, or a being of her kind, show up in the unsundered world to shit out the Heart of Sabik and then leave is incredibly lazy writing.
Anything is possible with time travel
who purposefully summoned Utlima so that athena could get the heart of sabik pre sundering?
because it says in game that Athena found the auracite and eventually made the heart of sabik HERSELF. nothing of where the original piece came from. there are a myriad of explanations that make more sense than 'interdimensional being personally gives monkey's paw crystal to crazy woman'
as per fft and 12's lore, the Auracite always find their way into the hand of people with desires.
Athena desire for goodhood was likely what summoned it.
althou we can go with two methods for this, the first being that auracite is drawn by desire, or that they use a facilitator(think lemarchand's box, horny frickers and the hobo peddler)
if they go with the middle man approach, I think this would be wonderful for future story telling possibilities.
but they will likely just explain it as being drawn by emotions because Dynamis.
Athena is purposefully lying or very vague when she talks about the Heart of Sabik and where she got it, Lahabrea notes that she never actually clearly told him where she got it. I personally think that her own megalomaniacal personality is what "informed" the personality of the primal that became Ultima the High Seraph, especially since both Athena's Savage form and Ultima herself have visible features from Hydaelyn and Zodiark, with both monstrous and flowing white aspects. It's much clearer with Athena's Savage form since that outright uses thorns and tentacles from Zodiark and the flowing white Amano-ish design of Hydaelyn for her main body.
>she's lying
well we can throw out pretty much anything from the game then if we're going to just call any statement in the game a lie
Lahabrea outright tells you she's never been truthful about where she got the Heart of Sabik anon it's not some purposefully vague thing on that post's part
i'm in the inn. give me a quest name and cutscene number
>he didn't talk to npcs between quests and cutscenes
NGMI
Heavensward has the best zone design
>Huge maps
>Amazing vistas
>Great verticality
>Actually dangerous enemy strongholds
>Flying as the final reward for explaration and map mastery
The only good HW zone is Coerthas Western Highlands
>Heavensward has the best zone design
It was beginning of decline. Just compare all those zones to Twelveswood. It was small but SOULFUL
Dravanian Forelands is my favorite area in the game. The first time during HW that I finally moved through the area transition from the frozen wasteland that is western Coerthas and suddenly found myself in that forest with Ysayle guiding us I was blown away. And the chocobo forest and Tailfeather are comfy beyond belief.
Though I still do think HW areas need a texture update the most out of any expansion. Way too much of that endless grey stone shit.
>that pic
Bros, I thought Y'shtola was a cat, not a slampig
She's a witch, she can be whatever the frick she wants.
YOU can also be whatever the frick she wants, my little toad.
Sounding very Master Matoya right about now.
>itt current ffxiv demographic is homies that don't like to loot in a RPG
Times really have changed....
Anyone have a mod for third eye SAM ability. So when i parry with it has like a sound effect?
Because it turns all of your accomplishments into trash that is just meant to be discarded whenever the next iterative content that is the same shit comes out in a few months
In old MMOs shit would be used for years if it was from a good enough encounter, and there would be even harder shit you might not have access to so being able to have anything was an accomplishment
in XIV it's all just samey garbage that you toss out every update, no accomplishment at all
Even shit like savage only equipment is worthless as a trophy because level sync gives you the same rewards as people who cleared it day 1
Sex with Ryne witout protection
cute couple
can always tell who to avoid by their interpretation of ryne and gaia's relationship
cute non-canon couple!
Yes they're very cute sister-wives to the WoL, and will be cuter when their bellies start growing out togeher.
Isn't Gaia more like a conquest? Oracle of Darkness, and all.
No because te WoL is also the Warrior of Darkness
Okay, but that was a LARP, you know.
Gaia actually has darkness abilities and is the reincarnation of an Ascian who died doing Ascian things.
>Okay, but that was a LARP
So is the whole Warrior of Light thing
Nuh-uh! You're Venat's champion.
And you conquered Gaia's cradle of darkness (womb)
>Okay, but that was a LARP, you know.
The Warrior of Light is too. They're just manmade titles that get applied to [Main character].
eden was probably the lamest non-job storyline in the game and its still incredible to me how a large portion of the playerbase lapped it up because it happened to have the barest hint of lesbian minors
>"Is that two female friends?"
>"OH MY SCIENCE THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY LESBIANS!!"
OH MAHR GLOB! THEY STOOD IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER
They're obviusly bisexuals in a 3 way relationship with the WoL
Cute!
Weak to hypnosis!
cant find the og artist with reverse image search, anyone know him
Lala cultists are like furries, they must CORRUPT
whats wrong anon? don't wanna date a lala? afraid you may like it?
We can also destroy
>those fingers
where is jessica
>he mods his game
sad tbh
You know you can just play on non-US servers, right?
>replying to the bait bot
aren't you a moronic eh?
JUG tank for 7.0
ShB added tank, EW added healer, 7.0 will add two DPS
If it's not JDG i will kill Yoshi, also i would prefer them as a heavy armor dps. I would even main them for those cool glams.
>heavy armor dps
maiming is full
full of shit. Make SAM a maiming job. Fricking Yoshi making all that shitty MNK gear that SAM has to use. Who the frick thought that was a good idea AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
There is no gear treadmill in FFXIV or if there is it's vastly superior to WoW's. You can get geared to do all normal content via the MSQ or normal mode side content with minimal effort. There are sets obtainable from:
MSQ
Raids
Alliance Raids
Crafting
Tomestone trade in
Marketboard purchasing
Getting geared isn't an issue it's just morons that log in to AFK in limsa that complain.
Which is why op is complaining that its too easy. Did you even read what you're replying to moron? He wants to spend 100s of hours grinding.
>every MSQ character I am into is in a relationship with me
Yes.
Is Ultima truly gone when auracites can still create Espers despite her "death"
No one's ever really gone.
She was from another dimension, our rules don't apply to her.
This game could do with more slice of life themed plot questing.
Its already headed that way
You just know Emet and Hythlodaeus will be back to help WoL defeat Hydaelyn created by The Watcher who absorbed Zeromus
Hydaelyn was a primal, so can't we just summon her with enough hope and aether?
Yes, but the Watcher will be the one to create Primal Hydaelyn
She'd just be a simulacrum
Would she be a clone or a perfect copy?
Just a physical approximation driven by the desires of the person who created her.
Would be the same deal as with the Eden versions of ARR primals. Similar, but not the same.
Ultima was probably sealed by Azem in a pocket dimension
what do we do now for a year sisters
is it over?
>one month of wild 7.0 title predictions
>July is both 6.45 + expansion reveal
>theories about expansion
>September is 6.5 Part 1
>maybe November Part 2?
>couple months of theorizing and plapping
>April should be 7.0
sex with ryne and gaia every night
Been playing with the same group of friends since the ARR early access
>Lost interest after 6.0
>All my friends also stopped playing
>Keeping you subbed by holding housing hostage
>Lost my personal house because I didn't login one day too many
>FC also lost its housing because none of us were playing for a while
>FC leadership was transfered to some literally who that hasn't logged in for like 4-5 years, because once again, no one was playing
>Login one day to witness the fact that all we build as a community was destroyed because we didn't play for a fee months.
>Finally unsubbed, last one of my friends to do so
Had fun for a few years with my bros I guess.
same. it's really hard to be subbed and play xiv when there are so many other better games out
>don't play game
>lose ownership limited quantity feature
Shock and awe.
Why doesn't Golbez just ask us to open up a voidgate with an execution squad waiting on the other side and let voidsent through who want to die one at a time?
Because Voidsent bad. Also that would throw off the balance of our world with all the darkness aspected souls flooding into the lifestream.
Why don't we tell him about the First and ask him to help us find a way to send the voidsent there to die?
Because the first is the furthest from the 13, it's harder for the 1st and the 13th to connect than it is for it and the source, furthermore, the source of the lifestream is the... well, the source, it's like trying to reason with a sea fish to go into another aquarium that resembles the sea, when he have already seem to the sea.
lol no. The First and the 13th are both adjacent to the Source, which is why they are the easiest to get to
>he never did role quests
>he doesn't even have all jobs to 80
ngmi
Think of the reflections as a circle. Starts with the Source, then the First etc until finally the 13th. Source and 13th are both adjacent to the Source. The distance between the 13th and the 1st is the same as the distance between the 13th and the 11th. So to say it is the furthest away from the First.. is wrong
This was confirmed numerous times in the game, amazing how you have to explain it to people.
>skips role quests
>can't understand metaphors
>thinks he is smart
NGMI
Why don't you just say what you're gonna say instead of making vague implications?
>only the 4th, 8th, 9th and 11th still exist (other than Norvrandt on the 1st)
I really hope they don't relegate each shard to a single zone and instead make each reflection its own expansion
>inb4 the 8th or something is just literally irl >because of how far it is from the source, it lacks as much magic
>a few zones, probably shibuya or some shit
Makes me wonder what elements those shards were going to be for their rejoinings. Seemes like there's more shards than there are elements.
One shard per aspect per element
That wouldn't be possible unless the Ascians figured out a way to get do overs on the 13th and 1st though.
Probably flip between light and dark forever, once they have 8 or 9 calamities total Zodiark is powerful enough to break out and just wrench the other reflections back though.
Shouldn't Zodiark already be 8/14 in the other timeline?
Theoretically yes but there's some kind of complications going on there, most likely the near-dead surface. They do still need souls/aether even after full rejoining since they want to restore all Ancients by cycling their souls out of Zodiark.
6 elements, each can have an astral or umbral charge, on top of light and dark.
But I think some old lore ARR stated that they only really need an 8th calamity aspected to light to finally break Zodiark seals. as the 7th was dark aspected
i think they ditched this at late HW because I've never heard of this implication again, and the future timeline having an 8th probably kills this theory
That's probably going to be the case since WoL will have to collect Azem's soul in each shard
why the hell would he do that
To be the very best; the best there ever was.
she*
When WoL will eventually absorb real Golbez soul he'll unlock Azems future sight ability where he see vision of a greater threat than Endsinger. Using the Source's moon he travel to other shards where Azem souls is conveniently sealed or is the antagonist of that shard.
die
azem is invariably a hero across each shard so far
In 6.5 we'll get OG Golbez's soul from Zeromus. Remember Durante-Golbez threw it in the pit.
why you trancers are so obsessed with this bullshit of getting soul shards?
not only this will never happen, but this is counter productive to the story, it's moronic
what sort of narrative benefit would getting all shards bring outside making the WoL an even more stupid plot armor killing machine?
If anything I hope the writers ditch and murder this soul shard pseudo theory and bury it because it's some of the most cringe predictions in this whole game.
>travel to the 8th
>it's full of witches and flying military schools
>Think of the reflections as a circle.
That cutscene in the CT is an aesthetic representation
it doesn't mean the shards are floating in the rift in a circle you absolute cromossome hoarder.
can't your peanut brain understand analogies or metaphors?
It's established over and over again that the First and Thirteenth are the closest to the Source. As recent as the most recent MSQ update even. The one where we traveled to the Thirteenth's moon.
>headcanon
>ignores the dialogue that states that the 1st and the 13th are the furthest apart because his monkey brain thinks an aesthetic diagram is a factual representation of shards.
dumb burger
>I'll ignore literal lines of dialog from MSQ stating that travel to the 13th and 1st are so possible because they are adjacent to the Source for my theoretical headcanon
moron.
What is Cloud of Darkness doing?
giving head
Gear treadmill is annoying if you want to play as multiple classes because the way things are timelocked, it takes multiple months to get one class maxed.
I like playing every role except phys range, and like multiple in the same role too. That's a lot to juggle and a lot to leave on the table for months.
Time Mage when?
With the state of the game rn he cannot give us neither haste or quick. So why the frick bother to frick another emblematic job in this shitty game.
give me back HW AST Yoshi pls...
it's not my fault the MNK couldn't handle the 1.5 GCDS
MNK was the onky job other than BLM that liked arrows though
and reddit and the forums were infested with scrub MNK crying how ASTs in their party ruined their TP because of it.
it was this and raid morons crying about balance dps boost that made the devs ditch the cool cards system.
I just want my 2 min cards and stun extentions again Yoshi... I will personally massage your wiener if you bring it back.
Sure bub, I believe you
>haste just works like the arrow did
>Quick is a personal CD that shortens recast time to 1.5s
>elden ring is one of the most successful games of the past years
>it builds up on the estabilished dark souls systems and methods
>diablo 4 tries to reinvent the wheel despite being in a genre with a very specific and hardcore meta taste
>gets lambasted as barebones and jocklingly called diablo 3.5
GEEZ OP, I WONDER WHY TRUE AND TRIED METHODS WORK BETTER THAN TRYING TO REDO SOMETHING THAT ISN'T BROKEN
but i wouldn't expect someone on HRT to understand
>diablo 4
At least pick a game that's sold complete
thats a hard thing to ask anon, considering most west stuff is either half baked or baked by half
Ultima being around presundering at least explains why the Espers sigils are the same as Convocation 13
you want a real eye opener? there's a sigil on the walls of the convocation chamber of P11. match it up
only vanilla wow and tbc (before zul aman and casual patches) did MMO gear progression correctly. XIV trying to ape the cancerous part of wow such as wotlk onwards is just laughable
Why do WoWaddicts think their video game opinions are ever relevant lol
wow already fixed rng gearing this patch, you could get practical bis on literally the second week of the patch with only extremely minor upgrades to grind out from there if you’re extremely dedicated
and they didnt have to sacrifice interesting loot or the satisfaction of progressing your character like xiv
>7.0 will be FFXIII themed
>Caius Ballad shows up
How does your dick react?
>Lahabrea created Pandaemonium not to lock up the creatures but Athena herself
Savage
>the plausible deniability of housing strange and powerful concepts like vampires
>both themis and lahabread agree the whole facility should be fricking nuked, but (You) pull up and they both think it'll be worth a laugh to let you fight stuff in it
and then you win the absolute madzem
Can't blame him.
zepla betrayed us she is playing diablo
Streamers will always play new releases, it's how they try to keep themselves relevant.
now show her leaked nudes
>casual streamer is playing another games because there is nothing to do in xiv beside raiding
how long until actual content comes out anyway
i want to blu meme for a while
6.45 in a month+.
I am going to marry Krile.
>Asphodelos got a new song
>Abyssos got a new song
>Anabaseios got remixes
What happened? XVI crunch kick in?
WEBS
LIKE UNTO CHAINS
>he doesn't have at least one of each role leveled
its actually sad how bland and uninspired the jobs are in ffxiv, probably the worst job/class design in any video game I’ve ever played
I'm sorry to hear that.
what is there to look forward to in a new expansion? all your job is going to get is a new 60/90/120 second cd ogcd 800 potency with aoe falloff
the jobs are too rigid to actually add anything of actual importance
How was the First the 8th Umbral Calamity when we averted it?
It wasn't averted in the bad timeline
which we prevented?! so how was it rejoined?
>le cutscene skipper