They (all 3 of them) are the same person, and they're the janny (hence why they aren't banned for avatargayging). It's the same janny that used to delete these threads on sight. I guess he's now forced to let them stay up after enough people complained to the admins, but now he shits up the threads using avatars so he's "technically" on topic whilst contributing nothing to discussion and derailing whatever discussion there is to draw attention to his avatarhomosexualry.
>They (all 3 of them) are the same person
It's just the purple haired one that's a janny, he just saw an opportunity to ruin the threads and slid into the circlejerk.
They (all 3 of them) are the same person, and they're the janny (hence why they aren't banned for avatargayging). It's the same janny that used to delete these threads on sight. I guess he's now forced to let them stay up after enough people complained to the admins, but now he shits up the threads using avatars so he's "technically" on topic whilst contributing nothing to discussion and derailing whatever discussion there is to draw attention to his avatarhomosexualry.
1) It's widely agreed that the game has actually been getting HARDER, not easier. You're just used to it.
2) You've been playing for several years, while everyone else is relatively new to the game. Our raids are harder than WoW, so many WoW players from 2021 still need to learn how to play the game.
3) You don't raid savage or EX so you don't understand the true nuance of raid mechanics.
In short, you're not a real FFXIV fan and you don't know what you're talking about. Just unsub and play other games if you hate FFXIV so much.
>1) It's widely agreed that the game has actually been getting HARDER, not easier. You're just used to it.
savage and ultimates have been getting harder, not alliance raids. heavensward/stormblood's were significantly more difficult on release and had to be repeatedly nerfed over time (on top of the ilvl creep that makes them into the jokes they are these days).
the only time alliance raids have been remotely hard are labyrinth of the ancients, lighthouse, and monastery. every other alliance raid has been absolutely pathetic
nothing in HW's alliance raids was at all difficult even at launch, it was always a complete joke - void ark was tedious because everything was fricking tanky though.
ozma was never hard, ozma was fricking moron bait but mechanically he's on par with some basic dungeon bosses nowadays
7 months ago
Anonymous
This. Pretending HW was hard is like WoWtards saying Vanilla was hard, yet Classic was steamrolled effortlessly. It's just that people don't know how to play
7 months ago
Anonymous
This. Pretending HW was hard is like WoWtards saying Vanilla was hard, yet Classic was steamrolled effortlessly. It's just that people don't know how to play
coordinating 2 people from each party to drop meteors in the right place is still strictly more difficult than anything in EW's 24 mans
>People don't remember "The Wiping City of Mywiener"
Shame
7 months ago
Anonymous
KILL THE FRICKING SUCCUBUS FIRST buttholeS WHAT ARE YOU DOING
STAND IN THE GREEN PUDDLE OH MY FRICKING GOD YOU FRICKING moronS
7 months ago
Anonymous
>stands in the fricking green puddle twice
H e h nothin personnel comrades
7 months ago
Anonymous
To this day I watch people stand in the overlap positions and get rekt.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Weeping City wasn't hard, people were just shit back then. You have to remember that people used to consider Aiatar in Brayflox to be a casual filter because the tank had to do the bare minimum and move him slightly sometimes.
>It's widely agreed that the game has actually been getting HARDER, not easier. You're just used to it.
part 1 was the hardest part of the EW alliance raid series and Red Girl from the Nier raids has singular mechanics that are both harder and more creative than anything in the EW alliance raids.
in fact if we want to go even one step up, remember that Yoship said that Zeromus EX was initially barebones as frick and he had to step in to make it harder with just one mechanic and people still think its one of the easiest EXs, on the same patch that the universally agreed most fun EX, Thordon, became an Unreal, and the difference between Zeromus EX and Thordon EX is staggering.
savages and ults are getting harder though, EW was just the worst expansion to do that in with the simplification of jobs and the lack of content for raiders to do when they aren't progging
i don't know if i can ever trust old players again after doing thordan unreal. THAT is the fight "universally" agreed to be the best extreme? nearly every mechanic can be solved by stacking the party until ground aoes are baited and then splitting out to clock spots. the only thing with any vague challenge is the ranged/healer towers, meanwhile melees and tanks have nothing to do the entire fight.
What are you paying $40 for? Do you give them the money and you join them and they teach you how to do it or do you give them your sign in information and they just do it for you on your account.
>eight fricking years from the time i created my character until now for this random choice in character creation to impact the game in any slight way at all
lmao
Ah, reminds me of the existence ofelemental materia. What a terrible idea that they haven't taken out of the game because the code is held together with gum and silly string.
The raid story was great and I refuse to pretend it's not. First time in the game the entire fight was based in joy, rather than anger, desperation, or revenge. That little opo-opo, man. I teared up. Fricking beautiful standalone story, plus it gave both the Eorzean and Ancient backstories for the gods. 8/10 fights in all 3 were probably the least complicated of any of the other raid series which was a bit disappointing but otherwise appropriately refreshing capstone to all the worldbuilding and drama of 2.0-6.x.
PS I picked Oschon back in 2014 and am feeling pretty smug about it.
>picked thaliak on a whim >started as WHM and swapped to SCH in ARR >swapped to SGE in EW >get an acknowledgement from thaliak this patch
i'm satisfied
I liked it as well. I picked Oschon because he was The Wanderer years ago.
It's definitely the best AR for me and felt cinematic like I want them to be. I have some gripes and wishes for the future story and AR difficulty, but it doesn't detract from the fun I had with this one.
>target someone with my SCH in Frontlines >he's in a group of 15 people attacking one of my teammates >immediately guards randomly when I target him >he's completely safe in his group of allies and at full health with none of my team by them
yeah
alright dude
>play SAM in frontlines >get a kuzushi on some dude, don't even have LB up yet >AS SOON as it happens, get chain hex and stunned by WHMs that are pretty far in the back
Same. If I run into a SAM that's popped his counter stance thing in Frontlines, I'm not taking any chances. If there's a lot of allies around I try to poly them early in the hopes they'll get chain CCed. If it's just me and I accidentally hit them during it, I poly them and run as far away as I can until the debuff falls off.
People seem to forget some folks DO read people statuses and can tell when someone has it up, only time I die robot is when I’m just aoeing a big team and they in the middle and even then they end up dying because I’m in the back behind like 10+ people
>tldr;
They had no idea if man could survive without blessings from Nophoica's fat milkers.
They had no ideas if man could craft without Byregot's blessing.
etc;
did people really expect that in a game that goes out of its way to show that literally every other cultures gods are fake, even the big goddess of light is just a primal, that actually the players gods would be the only real ones?
>a game that goes out of its way to show that literally every other cultures gods are fake
I love how every gay that says this gives away that they haven't done the Kojin quests.
Also the game never says other gods are fake. It says primals are fake. Primals are imitations, it's completely possible that there's a genuine Ifrit somewhere.
>it's completely possible that there's a genuine Ifrit somewhere
ifrit stems from efreeta which was a pre-fab concept made for manipulating fire, the ifrit the amal'jaa worship is also a bastardization of zurvan in a similar way to how ramuh is a bastardization of rhalgr
>implying ancients obsessed with stewardship of the star as its gods, named after the greek pantheon and utopia characters, would accept spirits and deities they didn't make to be present
During Pandaemonium they frequently reference how Athena is stepping on the toes of the gods, reaching into divinity, etc. So they do have gods as a concept, regardless of whether they believe them to be real.
7 months ago
Anonymous
them having gods isn't in question, zodiark didn't come out of nowhere for the summoning after all, the deal is they're just as fictitious as any other primal
7 months ago
Anonymous
>zodiark didn't come out of nowhere for the summoning after al
Well he's a concept Lahabrea already had in his lab, not necessarily something from their own mythology. >the deal is they're just as fictitious as any other primal
Says who? >The genuine gods can't interact with the world under normal circumstances, exactly like in FFXI. The celestial god of fire, Ifrit, who the Ancients once revered long before they became full masters of the star, sleeps somewhere in the deep parts of the planet, waiting to be awoken by the Lay of Immortals.
It is really just that simple.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Well he's a concept Lahabrea already had in his lab
huh? statues of zodiark are outside his lab but nothing about that implies he's an existing concept, clearly not because he couldn't be summoned willy-nilly, he required mass sacrifice of amaurot >Says who?
zodiark is a primal and a pre-existing figure in whatever mythology they hold >The genuine gods
lol they're not going to reveal there were real gods after 13 years and repeatedly deconfirming any real divinity that exists and isn't related to ultima who's from another universe
7 months ago
Anonymous
Speculation on my part but there's a chance the Zodiark concept was initially meant for something much smaller scale.
7 months ago
Anonymous
My personal speculation was the Zodiark was meant for mass return to the star
So sort of what Ra-la ended up being
7 months ago
Anonymous
>statues of zodiark are outside his lab but nothing about that implies he's an existing concept
Why would Lahabrea have statues of a concept that doesn't yet exist? >clearly not because he couldn't be summoned willy-nilly
The Zodiark that was summoned needed to be able to bend the laws of reality to his will. So they had to supercharge it. You can make a small version of any concept or primal, it scales to the aether and faith offered. That's why ARR EX primals are stronger than the hard modes. >zodiark is a primal and a pre-existing figure in whatever mythology they hold
It's never said that he exists in their mythology, but he is a primal, yeah. What's your point? There could still be a genuine Zodiark either way. The same way there is a Shiva primal and a genuine Saint Shiva. >lol they're not going to reveal there were real gods after 13 years
They could if they wanted. I just showed you how simple it is to handwave it. >and repeatedly deconfirming any real divinity that exists
Kojin quests.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Why would Lahabrea have statues of a concept period? That's turbo important whether you want to write Zodiark off as a concept or not. "Concept" is pretty specific, it's something put into a library to be drawn out and recreated as needed. I don't think Zodiark is or was ever intended to be a concept for them, he's supposed to be their god.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Why would Lahabrea have statues of a concept period?
Anon? Lahabrea was the expert on concepts. He collected concepts from all over the world. His lab in Akadaemia Anyder is full of statues of different concepts.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Did you just skip every cutscene for Pandaemonium?
7 months ago
Anonymous
What I got from the story is that they would only act if shut was really about to go down like if one more shard was left and mankind was doomed then they would have showed themselves and helped
7 months ago
Anonymous
So like the original dead WoL/Black Rose time line? Dragon Daddy is the only one that bothered showing up.
7 months ago
Anonymous
WoL has died in the past, other Calamities have gone off before, business as usual
7 months ago
Anonymous
Frankly it's funny how much the Ancients are behind EVERYTHING and yet all we get of Ancient society boils down to one super ultra turbo deluxe HD boomer's biased memories that can kinda-sorta act on their own in very select circumstances, and time travel to a fricking animal laboratory designed more like a preschool zoo with superjail attached to it where we see said boomer as a dork in his youth and the world's end be sent into motion by one really depressed dude. I don't want any more Ancients horseshit at this point and yet their actual religions, their general beliefs beyond "we all return to the Star", why they came to believe the Star is a greater force and entity, and so forth are a complete and utter non-factor.
The storyline has made it clear there are greater entities in the universe. Dragons, Omega, Ultima, you name it. But for how powerful the Ancients are, and how incidentally universe-devastating one of their creations was by pure accident, you'd think the cast would've mentioned more about something bigger than them or what gods they worship rather than having to infer that Zodiark is just "a thing we must do to save ourselves."
7 months ago
Anonymous
Other than Ultima and whatever she is the Ancients are more powerful then what we have seen in the rest of the universe. Why do you think that the dragons or Omegas race would do better or stand a chance?
7 months ago
Anonymous
It's Dynamis that helped the Warrior of Light overcome Omega. Hell, it's Dynamis that helps the Warrior of Light survive several major antagonists and plotlines. The Ancients are basically physical gods by Etheryis standards and would be able to hold their own or better against Dragons, but if a piece of auracite from Ultima is considered one of the greatest weapons repurposed as the Heart of Sabik, and Ultima ultimately was a bit player in the WoL's journey despite the alliance raid tier threat, AND the WoL could overcome an unsundered Ancient and the Heart of Zodiark going all-out, there's a dangerous power wankery balance to be estimated here.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Ancients are more powerful then what we have seen in the rest of the universe.
No they aren't. You make the mistake in assuming they are all as powerful as venat and emet. They run away from weak monsters you kill in more than one dungeon. I saw nothing in the game that would suggest Omicrons would not defeat the ancients if they invaded.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Ancients know how to use Aether better since they have a unique planet that is flooded with it. Considering Alleg captured Omega easily and regular sundered people handle dragons fine yeah, ancients win.
It's Dynamis that helped the Warrior of Light overcome Omega. Hell, it's Dynamis that helps the Warrior of Light survive several major antagonists and plotlines. The Ancients are basically physical gods by Etheryis standards and would be able to hold their own or better against Dragons, but if a piece of auracite from Ultima is considered one of the greatest weapons repurposed as the Heart of Sabik, and Ultima ultimately was a bit player in the WoL's journey despite the alliance raid tier threat, AND the WoL could overcome an unsundered Ancient and the Heart of Zodiark going all-out, there's a dangerous power wankery balance to be estimated here.
Yet Alleg handled Omega and they were guided by Emet, not even Emet doing the heavy lifting. Yeah Alleg was peak technology but no one thinks Alleg could have beaten the ancients. Ancients also have Azem prime along with Emet, Vanet, Elidibus, and Lahabrea just to name a few. I do think that they could absolutely be taken by surprise at first since they are not used to war on that level but their sheer mastery over either on their home turf just further puts them in a long term victory.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Considering Alleg captured Omega easily and regular sundered people handle dragons fine yeah, ancients win.
And sundered people would kill Ancients. We literally do. Sorry Shadowbaby, Ancients ain't shit. They are literally wiped out by their own shitty creations.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Special sundered people sure. I am not arguing that. There is zero evidence that Omicrons would win and I provided actual parts where Omega, an Omicron, was beaten. Eytheries is just a special case planet anyway, whoever started there can't be beat on the planet but they are also fricked hard off the planet. The ancients could never take over the galaxy like the Omicrons did since their main sorce of power doesn't work well off planet due to the lack of aether.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>There is zero evidence that Omicrons would win
Literally the only race in the game stated to be the strongest in the universe. Your homosexual Ancient hippies died to random mobs. Get off the Ancient dick Emetcuck.
7 months ago
Anonymous
One average Ancient is about as strong as 12 people going off of how Sundering works. They are strong and have powerful magic but they aren't some kind of overwhelming force. A group of people can kill one and have done so multiple times throughout the story.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Sure. Sundered I would even say have a
say more combat experience. But when sundered can beat omicrons and dragons why would the ancients not be able to do the same if they ever decided to come to their backwater planet? Not saying ancients are undefeatable, Ulitma's race clearly has an advantage over them. I just don't think the omicrons or dragons can beat them.
7 months ago
Anonymous
In fairness, we never actually fight a peak homeworld dragon to the death. We fight Nidhogg, who is missing half his power (and we have it) the first time and is basically a ghost possessing a sundered guy the second time. We fight Hraesvelgr but he is only testing us. Midgardsormr is also a ghost and we still can't kill him. The rest are all either Primals formed in the shape of a dragon, and we have an advantage against Primals, or Omega's recreations.
Likewise, we never fight real Omicrons besides Omega, who has been sitting rusting away underground for millennia. I also don't believe it is stated that the Allagans ever subdued him, just that they found him presumably after he already crashed. I could be wrong on this, but if you look at Ultima Thule, the Omicrons have several Omega equivalents in their arsenal, and I imagine an army of Omegas could utterly crush the Ancients effortlessly.
The whole Pandaemonium storyline is about an ancient researcher who wanted to become a god, so clearly they already had the idea of beings higher than themselves.
>kills off all original lore >poaches half the team to make xvi >comes out tepid >dawntrail will be a worse endwalker
Tanaka-sama, where are you? This one trick pony needs to be put out of his place
You people have been wanting the Scions slaughtered and replaced, the story to stop sucking 1.0 and ARR's dick, and to move on to new shit for years. Now that the latter two are finally happening you're throwing tantrums about it.
>choose Azeyma as patron because making deities out of the Sun just makes sense, life on Earth would be pretty hard without it and if it looks at us the wrong way we also die >also it's funny because my character is a mooncat >don't think too much about it for years, some of the other deities get cool lore around them what with them being important to the citystates but w/e, the Sun is great >fast forward to Shadowbringers, hmm turns out the WoL is a reincarnated shard of the sundered ancient who once held the seat of the heroic "Azem" in their government, how amusing, maybe there's a connection to the later invention of deities like Azeyma and Azim? Haha, it'll probably never be at-the-forefront-relevant as usual for the Twelve but fun to think about >Azeyma and all the Twelve are real, actually, but never did anything particularly important that we know about (outside of nebulous "keeping the world together" stuff), now they all gleefully jumped on your sword, whoops. Also, as ancient constructs, the person who Azeyma was based on was just some Azem fangirl
>all cool schizo speculation about the AST cards is now dead in the water >nothing came of it all >nothing means anything
As a loregay, I am extremely depressed.
My only hope is that Dawntrail will legitimately be the start of a new adventure, and it won't just instantly have another Ascian/Ancient element squeezed in. If we can finally just go to a foreign land, deal with local issues, have fun with new NPCs and make new friends, I'll call it a good expansion. Better yet if we make a lot of local allies and it isn't just "The Scions Save the World: Chapter 6(7)".
I don't think there's really any wiggle room or relevance for Ascians (except for the less relevant Convocation members like Altima, they're all dead, and Amon/Fandaniel was the only one who had any apparent drive or plans of his own) or Ancients (we've already seen all there is to see in that regard, Amaurot and Elpis were "the most important places", we've met and interacted with most of the Convocation which ruled humanity in one way or another via the Unsundered and the other Ascians as risen-up shards)
I feel like we should have done that way before going to other worlds and traveling to the edge of the universe to kill the most dangerous being to have ever existed aswel as Hydaelyn and Zodiark. Doesnt this shit feel kind of beneath us now?
I imagine the hook will be some kind of civilization capable of traveling between the worlds. Like similarities with the ancient civilization in the New World being similar to Ronka.
The Endsinger wasn't really that powerful if you think on it. She had a singular capability to tap into a mostly unknown power that requires the lack of Aether to even have an effect. Her strength came from mastering an unknown that even the ancients barely knew existed.
>The serpent that sleeps in the deep slowly sheds its skin of old. >Eventually, the serpent devours its own tail, and renders new flesh using its own. The pain felt with cause the earth to quake, the mountains to crumble, and the rivers to run dry. Thus, seven wedges must be driven into its back.
The whole succession of rulers and golden city stuff will just be for the 90-93 MSQ, the rest will be another world-ending ancient evil awakening from the Lifestream and rising up in the New World.
honestly I can half-see the remaining Ascians harassing us or mulling on their plans now that the Zodiark job is utterly ruined, perhaps even establishing their own sub-arcs or trying to figure to bury the hatchet. but when it comes down to it, I think it's time to produce a new "primary group / hook" going forwards and the Scions get either de-emphasized or simply grow outwards as a new organization now.
All the honorary types and side-characters basically got cameos at best and stopped being relevant two expansions ago already, might as well spread again.
Dawntrail is going to be more of the same shit because they didn't have the balls to retire the scions and give us an entirely new cast to adventure with
They could have made some of the Twelve mortal and our new travel companions. I'm a Halonegay, but Llymlaen seemed like such a cool girl. Would have loved her as a new character. We didn't even get to talk to her like other gods.
They could have made some of the Twelve mortal and our new travel companions. I'm a Halonegay, but Llymlaen seemed like such a cool girl. Would have loved her as a new character. We didn't even get to talk to her like other gods.
>femhroth opens the city of gold one step ahead of us after Urianger and Y'shtola already said it's probably a bad idea to go in there >oh no femhroth got possessed by Chaos
because it's a literary dead end to keep going back further and further in history and figure out where zodiark absolutely first came from when as far as the story should know or care zodiark is the god of the ascians and/or amaurot
My lust for Yoichi Bow is almost physical. I made sure this time to buy two rounds of all the Perfect market-board items so that when I do Excalibur + Aegis Shield in the future I won't have to buy them again.
i haven't gotten past bj/cc but so far it's maybe more fun than ucob and uwu (to prog at least)
a bit more muscle memory involved in every pull, similar to uwu whereas ucob has some randomness to it
will try to do every ult before spring next year
I mean they knew you would beat their ass since you were the one that stopped the Final Days
also they enjoy the joy of battle. They wanted one final fight before dying
Aether is released during battle, and that released aether is also much more dense and potent than normal aether. This is why Monks go to old battlefields to unlock chakras.
Why would anyone not pick Oschon? He fits the best lore wise and WoLwise. Plus he stuck around and is the only one who made mention of you picking them.
they all have a different line if you picked them
plus I think Byregot has special dialogue if you have a crafter leveled
I've seen a picture of all of the lines, but I didn't save it
Before ShB/EW >There's multiple afterlives, particularly those worshipped directly by the Cities >Not just under The Twelve, but also abroad such as in Doma >Reincarnation isn't specifically a thing. Souls can and do reside in the afterlives. Delita waited over a thousand years to see Ramza again, and Tenzen was dead for a long damn time too >Hydaelyn herself also seems to have an afterlife realm, as stated by Ramza
After ShB/EW >EVERYONE IS JUST ANCIENTS REINCARNATED AND WILL ALWAYS REINCARNATE ON DEATH >THE TWELVE'S REALMS ARE ALL EMPTY, THEY'RE ALL ANCIENTS >HYDAELYN IS AN ANCIENT, ZODIARK IS AN ANCIENT >NO HAPPY AFTERLIFE WITH FRIENDS FOR YOU, REINCARNATE ASAP (Unless you're an Ancient, lol) >No, the Twelve MUST die even though you've spent several patches getting to know them and getting attached with them. You don't even get to say goodbye, frick you. >No, Hydaelyn MUST die even though you finally met her and got to personally know her more >Please enjoy going to the Golden City to find out how it actually ties back to another Ancient plot device so we can bring back Emet and Elisibus again
Take me back, please, I even miss Lyse at this point.
none of the scions are as far as we know
only the WoL is
Anyone with The Echo is, that is literally what the Echo power is. The Scions have the Echo as they are able to fight and be near Primals without being tempered.
This is shown in ShB postpatches when Elidibus awakens the Echo by showing the meteors to people, the ones with Ancient souls develop the Echo.
More like pick your flavor text. Seriously each expansion following the Warrior of Light and his pals from Sharlayan as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the PS2 imagery, the games only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of particle effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Square Enix vetoed the idea of Tanaka directing the game; they made sure the game would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for their earlier games. Final Fantasy XIV might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-Dragon Quest in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the story is good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the VN was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character died, the author wrote instead that the character was merely incapacitated.
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that trope was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Ishikawa's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Final Fantasy XIV by the same Ion Hazzikostas. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are playing Final Fantasy XIV at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to play World of Warcraft." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you play "Final Fantasy XIV" you are, in fact, trained to play World of Warcraft.
I can't believe it, you're right, SE screwed over the FFXIV fanbase by cancelling the 2nd Shb Ult without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
I left xiv like a year or two ago and want to return, how is the new game+ system?
Have some legacy shit and store shit I rather not lose making a new character but want to experience the game from the beginning.
I feel like a huge flaw for variant dungeons that no one notices is that partying up sucks
If you have a different route or someone else does something stupid it just wastes your time and makes you have to run the same route again
Is 6.5 the most hype patch we've had in a while. Apart from cringe narcissistic clickbaiter Youtubers, pretty much everyone is happy with the patch so far. Yes, they're all playing other games, but it's nice to see from afar that everything's doing fine.
Where the frick did he go? Last I saw he was getting groomed by trannies on Twitter and met up with F1nnst5r at Twitch Con and has been MIA since. No new videos, no streams, nothing.
That's lower than my MNK which also isn't BiS. Probably a mid-high 20 if I had to guess. As long as your pushing your buttons atvthe right time under buffs and keeping full uptime then you're good.
I have been killing things and leveling up while doing fetch quests in between the story progressing, I dont know if Im going to be that into doing this much longer.
wow so it's just like real religion?
and this "fantasy" game actually let us take part in mythology instead of it just being some flavor text in a book? craaazy.
I'm not a fan of collaborations, especially on this level of depth, and I don't want it anywhere near XIV. Simple as. Collabs with other FF games are fine.
Who gives a frick about Nier, the first game had a cool story but Yoko Taro's moronic autism ruined anything Automata had going for it by spreading half the story out into other shit, some of which isn't even accessible unless you live in Japan or are willing to play a dog shit gacha game. He's the up-his-own-ass hack that people accuse Kojima of being.
It should have stayed far away from XIV, now XIV's canon is tainted by being tied to that piece of shit.
>Disgusting. Revolting. Hateful. I hate you. Disgusting. Revolting. I can't understand. I don't want to understand.
Uhh, sisters....is xiv a chuddy game after all?
you're left with all the morons, you never do the new alliance raid, savage or unreal near on mondays because everyone competent already did their clears for the week
do it on reset if you want people with braincells
>>>/vg/
For me, it's Halone
Amazing how you are the first replies every single thread without fail. As if you are here 24/7
They (all 3 of them) are the same person, and they're the janny (hence why they aren't banned for avatargayging). It's the same janny that used to delete these threads on sight. I guess he's now forced to let them stay up after enough people complained to the admins, but now he shits up the threads using avatars so he's "technically" on topic whilst contributing nothing to discussion and derailing whatever discussion there is to draw attention to his avatarhomosexualry.
L
>instant seethe from a samegay
anon, this isn't /soc/
stop posting selfies
i bet he's more good looking than your obese ass
why did you add yourself to it anon?
is that you in the middle?
your parents must be proud of you
You will never be e-celebs.
>They (all 3 of them) are the same person
It's just the purple haired one that's a janny, he just saw an opportunity to ruin the threads and slid into the circlejerk.
I love schizo lore
I just filter them, they post the same shit over and over so it’s easy.
Wanderers rise up!
do tea
>delirium unsuspected
tea
>>>/vg/
why the frick is the new alliance raid so damn easy? I don't even touch savage & EX and I didn't die once in there on my first clear.
You're better at the game
All kinds of scrubs still wipe in there
Oschon owned me once with the waves of Arrow Rains
i somehow was still top DPS in all the fights despite going in blind
1) It's widely agreed that the game has actually been getting HARDER, not easier. You're just used to it.
2) You've been playing for several years, while everyone else is relatively new to the game. Our raids are harder than WoW, so many WoW players from 2021 still need to learn how to play the game.
3) You don't raid savage or EX so you don't understand the true nuance of raid mechanics.
In short, you're not a real FFXIV fan and you don't know what you're talking about. Just unsub and play other games if you hate FFXIV so much.
>1) It's widely agreed that the game has actually been getting HARDER, not easier. You're just used to it.
savage and ultimates have been getting harder, not alliance raids. heavensward/stormblood's were significantly more difficult on release and had to be repeatedly nerfed over time (on top of the ilvl creep that makes them into the jokes they are these days).
the only time alliance raids have been remotely hard are labyrinth of the ancients, lighthouse, and monastery. every other alliance raid has been absolutely pathetic
nothing in HW's alliance raids was at all difficult even at launch, it was always a complete joke - void ark was tedious because everything was fricking tanky though.
ozma and hashmal both constantly wiped parties for months after release, were you even playing the game?
ozma was never hard, ozma was fricking moron bait but mechanically he's on par with some basic dungeon bosses nowadays
This. Pretending HW was hard is like WoWtards saying Vanilla was hard, yet Classic was steamrolled effortlessly. It's just that people don't know how to play
coordinating 2 people from each party to drop meteors in the right place is still strictly more difficult than anything in EW's 24 mans
>People don't remember "The Wiping City of Mywiener"
Shame
KILL THE FRICKING SUCCUBUS FIRST buttholeS WHAT ARE YOU DOING
STAND IN THE GREEN PUDDLE OH MY FRICKING GOD YOU FRICKING moronS
>stands in the fricking green puddle twice
H e h nothin personnel comrades
To this day I watch people stand in the overlap positions and get rekt.
Weeping City wasn't hard, people were just shit back then. You have to remember that people used to consider Aiatar in Brayflox to be a casual filter because the tank had to do the bare minimum and move him slightly sometimes.
>It's widely agreed that the game has actually been getting HARDER, not easier. You're just used to it.
part 1 was the hardest part of the EW alliance raid series and Red Girl from the Nier raids has singular mechanics that are both harder and more creative than anything in the EW alliance raids.
in fact if we want to go even one step up, remember that Yoship said that Zeromus EX was initially barebones as frick and he had to step in to make it harder with just one mechanic and people still think its one of the easiest EXs, on the same patch that the universally agreed most fun EX, Thordon, became an Unreal, and the difference between Zeromus EX and Thordon EX is staggering.
savages and ults are getting harder though, EW was just the worst expansion to do that in with the simplification of jobs and the lack of content for raiders to do when they aren't progging
i don't know if i can ever trust old players again after doing thordan unreal. THAT is the fight "universally" agreed to be the best extreme? nearly every mechanic can be solved by stacking the party until ground aoes are baited and then splitting out to clock spots. the only thing with any vague challenge is the ranged/healer towers, meanwhile melees and tanks have nothing to do the entire fight.
melees and tanks have movement which is more engaging than standing in the middle with a giant hitbox and doing the same thing everyone else is doing
Off to a great start, lalaslop and vg posters
>he doesn't love the lalaposters
Nyaa and Chi sexo
but lalas are vg posters
WTF SPOILERS!!!!!
how much did this cat pay for that clear
0
your top clear?
they haven't cleared top
>they
well then he hasn't cleared top
dat a boy
>tiktok video of a zoomer Hispanic doing a reddit meme
Yep it's a /vg/ thread
dont you have a middle eastern war to pretend to care about?
>automated random /misc/shit non-sequitor
Now we're talking
you for got to give me an extra (You) in text bloody bastard
getting dragged through DSR 3 patches late with wroth auto markers and the safe exa spot is whatever then.
Clearing old ults isn't hard. I've done then all on patch so I can make fun of these types.
better late than never
That's true for the current two and maybe TEA still kinda.But UWU and UCOB lmao.
Why are you so insecure?
HE CLEARED THEM ALL DON'T YOU GET IT
HE ISN'T INSECURE HE GETS TO LAUGH AT OTHERS
>he
High end raiders have autism which gives huge overlap with the troony community, you have no clue dude. They're speedrunners.
aren't clears like $40? Nothing compared to the story + level skips combined.
What are you paying $40 for? Do you give them the money and you join them and they teach you how to do it or do you give them your sign in information and they just do it for you on your account.
the latter
Why is Ganker so insecure about the fact that they're too bad to raid?
Even Sakaguchi has cleared savage and he's 60 years old, why can't you?
he isn't playing on a NA DC
i do not have the patience for these people
I no longer have the patience to put up with static drama or PF morons after doing so for ~7 years from ARR to the middle of ShB.
oh shit the Gooch actually did savage? I assumed all he had the appetite for to get enamored with the story and that was it
JP has a better Raiding culture than the west.
PF is for practice, DF for clears.
No frick off! Either mods can do their jobs and clear up the avatargays or back to >>>/vg/
>eight fricking years from the time i created my character until now for this random choice in character creation to impact the game in any slight way at all
lmao
Only for some gods and only one tweaked sentence lmao
When resistances were a thing didn't you have a 1% bonus resistance to their element?
yes
Ah, reminds me of the existence ofelemental materia. What a terrible idea that they haven't taken out of the game because the code is held together with gum and silly string.
The raid story was great and I refuse to pretend it's not. First time in the game the entire fight was based in joy, rather than anger, desperation, or revenge. That little opo-opo, man. I teared up. Fricking beautiful standalone story, plus it gave both the Eorzean and Ancient backstories for the gods. 8/10 fights in all 3 were probably the least complicated of any of the other raid series which was a bit disappointing but otherwise appropriately refreshing capstone to all the worldbuilding and drama of 2.0-6.x.
PS I picked Oschon back in 2014 and am feeling pretty smug about it.
a fat twitter roastie hands in her 30s wrote this post
>picked thaliak on a whim
>started as WHM and swapped to SCH in ARR
>swapped to SGE in EW
>get an acknowledgement from thaliak this patch
i'm satisfied
>stops as soon as he thinks about his monkey
>all the other gods encourage him to stay behind
I fricking cried
I liked it as well. I picked Oschon because he was The Wanderer years ago.
It's definitely the best AR for me and felt cinematic like I want them to be. I have some gripes and wishes for the future story and AR difficulty, but it doesn't detract from the fun I had with this one.
>PS I picked Oschon back in 2014 and am feeling pretty smug about it.
Based, same
>target someone with my SCH in Frontlines
>he's in a group of 15 people attacking one of my teammates
>immediately guards randomly when I target him
>he's completely safe in his group of allies and at full health with none of my team by them
yeah
alright dude
>play SAM in frontlines
>get a kuzushi on some dude, don't even have LB up yet
>AS SOON as it happens, get chain hex and stunned by WHMs that are pretty far in the back
hmmm
Honestly I keep my eye out for all samurai when that pops up and cc them as much as I can
Same. If I run into a SAM that's popped his counter stance thing in Frontlines, I'm not taking any chances. If there's a lot of allies around I try to poly them early in the hopes they'll get chain CCed. If it's just me and I accidentally hit them during it, I poly them and run as far away as I can until the debuff falls off.
People seem to forget some folks DO read people statuses and can tell when someone has it up, only time I die robot is when I’m just aoeing a big team and they in the middle and even then they end up dying because I’m in the back behind like 10+ people
I cant believe i was manipulated into helping 12 people commit assisted suicide
Hydaelyn was bad enough
>ancients willingly off themselves when they're done living
why didn't the twelve?
>tldr;
They had no idea if man could survive without blessings from Nophoica's fat milkers.
They had no ideas if man could craft without Byregot's blessing.
etc;
>survive
harvest*
Girl, it's not like it's the first someone has manipulated the WoL into assisting their suicide
which is the one we did a quest with in elpis?
Althyk and Nymeia
one level away from Sage on being able to round up the ShB role quests. Are the EW RQ worth getting RDM and SGE up to 90 soon enough too?
The caster one is worth doing, your opinion on the healer one will vary wildly. The finale role quest is nothing special, not like ShB.
>DUH MONKEYYYYY OMGGGG IT'S SO SADDDD THE MONKEYYYY ;_;
>LE WIDDLE CHONKER MONKNE MOOKNY MONEKY
It's not the monkey itself. It's what it meant to oschon.
did people really expect that in a game that goes out of its way to show that literally every other cultures gods are fake, even the big goddess of light is just a primal, that actually the players gods would be the only real ones?
>a game that goes out of its way to show that literally every other cultures gods are fake
I love how every gay that says this gives away that they haven't done the Kojin quests.
Also the game never says other gods are fake. It says primals are fake. Primals are imitations, it's completely possible that there's a genuine Ifrit somewhere.
>it's completely possible that there's a genuine Ifrit somewhere
ifrit stems from efreeta which was a pre-fab concept made for manipulating fire, the ifrit the amal'jaa worship is also a bastardization of zurvan in a similar way to how ramuh is a bastardization of rhalgr
>Lahabrea named his Ifrita concept after the fire god from ancient Amaurotine legend
>also he's real
It's just that simple.
>implying ancients obsessed with stewardship of the star as its gods, named after the greek pantheon and utopia characters, would accept spirits and deities they didn't make to be present
During Pandaemonium they frequently reference how Athena is stepping on the toes of the gods, reaching into divinity, etc. So they do have gods as a concept, regardless of whether they believe them to be real.
them having gods isn't in question, zodiark didn't come out of nowhere for the summoning after all, the deal is they're just as fictitious as any other primal
>zodiark didn't come out of nowhere for the summoning after al
Well he's a concept Lahabrea already had in his lab, not necessarily something from their own mythology.
>the deal is they're just as fictitious as any other primal
Says who?
>The genuine gods can't interact with the world under normal circumstances, exactly like in FFXI. The celestial god of fire, Ifrit, who the Ancients once revered long before they became full masters of the star, sleeps somewhere in the deep parts of the planet, waiting to be awoken by the Lay of Immortals.
It is really just that simple.
>Well he's a concept Lahabrea already had in his lab
huh? statues of zodiark are outside his lab but nothing about that implies he's an existing concept, clearly not because he couldn't be summoned willy-nilly, he required mass sacrifice of amaurot
>Says who?
zodiark is a primal and a pre-existing figure in whatever mythology they hold
>The genuine gods
lol they're not going to reveal there were real gods after 13 years and repeatedly deconfirming any real divinity that exists and isn't related to ultima who's from another universe
Speculation on my part but there's a chance the Zodiark concept was initially meant for something much smaller scale.
My personal speculation was the Zodiark was meant for mass return to the star
So sort of what Ra-la ended up being
>statues of zodiark are outside his lab but nothing about that implies he's an existing concept
Why would Lahabrea have statues of a concept that doesn't yet exist?
>clearly not because he couldn't be summoned willy-nilly
The Zodiark that was summoned needed to be able to bend the laws of reality to his will. So they had to supercharge it. You can make a small version of any concept or primal, it scales to the aether and faith offered. That's why ARR EX primals are stronger than the hard modes.
>zodiark is a primal and a pre-existing figure in whatever mythology they hold
It's never said that he exists in their mythology, but he is a primal, yeah. What's your point? There could still be a genuine Zodiark either way. The same way there is a Shiva primal and a genuine Saint Shiva.
>lol they're not going to reveal there were real gods after 13 years
They could if they wanted. I just showed you how simple it is to handwave it.
>and repeatedly deconfirming any real divinity that exists
Kojin quests.
Why would Lahabrea have statues of a concept period? That's turbo important whether you want to write Zodiark off as a concept or not. "Concept" is pretty specific, it's something put into a library to be drawn out and recreated as needed. I don't think Zodiark is or was ever intended to be a concept for them, he's supposed to be their god.
>Why would Lahabrea have statues of a concept period?
Anon? Lahabrea was the expert on concepts. He collected concepts from all over the world. His lab in Akadaemia Anyder is full of statues of different concepts.
Did you just skip every cutscene for Pandaemonium?
What I got from the story is that they would only act if shut was really about to go down like if one more shard was left and mankind was doomed then they would have showed themselves and helped
So like the original dead WoL/Black Rose time line? Dragon Daddy is the only one that bothered showing up.
WoL has died in the past, other Calamities have gone off before, business as usual
Frankly it's funny how much the Ancients are behind EVERYTHING and yet all we get of Ancient society boils down to one super ultra turbo deluxe HD boomer's biased memories that can kinda-sorta act on their own in very select circumstances, and time travel to a fricking animal laboratory designed more like a preschool zoo with superjail attached to it where we see said boomer as a dork in his youth and the world's end be sent into motion by one really depressed dude. I don't want any more Ancients horseshit at this point and yet their actual religions, their general beliefs beyond "we all return to the Star", why they came to believe the Star is a greater force and entity, and so forth are a complete and utter non-factor.
The storyline has made it clear there are greater entities in the universe. Dragons, Omega, Ultima, you name it. But for how powerful the Ancients are, and how incidentally universe-devastating one of their creations was by pure accident, you'd think the cast would've mentioned more about something bigger than them or what gods they worship rather than having to infer that Zodiark is just "a thing we must do to save ourselves."
Other than Ultima and whatever she is the Ancients are more powerful then what we have seen in the rest of the universe. Why do you think that the dragons or Omegas race would do better or stand a chance?
It's Dynamis that helped the Warrior of Light overcome Omega. Hell, it's Dynamis that helps the Warrior of Light survive several major antagonists and plotlines. The Ancients are basically physical gods by Etheryis standards and would be able to hold their own or better against Dragons, but if a piece of auracite from Ultima is considered one of the greatest weapons repurposed as the Heart of Sabik, and Ultima ultimately was a bit player in the WoL's journey despite the alliance raid tier threat, AND the WoL could overcome an unsundered Ancient and the Heart of Zodiark going all-out, there's a dangerous power wankery balance to be estimated here.
>Ancients are more powerful then what we have seen in the rest of the universe.
No they aren't. You make the mistake in assuming they are all as powerful as venat and emet. They run away from weak monsters you kill in more than one dungeon. I saw nothing in the game that would suggest Omicrons would not defeat the ancients if they invaded.
Ancients know how to use Aether better since they have a unique planet that is flooded with it. Considering Alleg captured Omega easily and regular sundered people handle dragons fine yeah, ancients win.
Yet Alleg handled Omega and they were guided by Emet, not even Emet doing the heavy lifting. Yeah Alleg was peak technology but no one thinks Alleg could have beaten the ancients. Ancients also have Azem prime along with Emet, Vanet, Elidibus, and Lahabrea just to name a few. I do think that they could absolutely be taken by surprise at first since they are not used to war on that level but their sheer mastery over either on their home turf just further puts them in a long term victory.
>Considering Alleg captured Omega easily and regular sundered people handle dragons fine yeah, ancients win.
And sundered people would kill Ancients. We literally do. Sorry Shadowbaby, Ancients ain't shit. They are literally wiped out by their own shitty creations.
Special sundered people sure. I am not arguing that. There is zero evidence that Omicrons would win and I provided actual parts where Omega, an Omicron, was beaten. Eytheries is just a special case planet anyway, whoever started there can't be beat on the planet but they are also fricked hard off the planet. The ancients could never take over the galaxy like the Omicrons did since their main sorce of power doesn't work well off planet due to the lack of aether.
>There is zero evidence that Omicrons would win
Literally the only race in the game stated to be the strongest in the universe. Your homosexual Ancient hippies died to random mobs. Get off the Ancient dick Emetcuck.
One average Ancient is about as strong as 12 people going off of how Sundering works. They are strong and have powerful magic but they aren't some kind of overwhelming force. A group of people can kill one and have done so multiple times throughout the story.
Sure. Sundered I would even say have a
say more combat experience. But when sundered can beat omicrons and dragons why would the ancients not be able to do the same if they ever decided to come to their backwater planet? Not saying ancients are undefeatable, Ulitma's race clearly has an advantage over them. I just don't think the omicrons or dragons can beat them.
In fairness, we never actually fight a peak homeworld dragon to the death. We fight Nidhogg, who is missing half his power (and we have it) the first time and is basically a ghost possessing a sundered guy the second time. We fight Hraesvelgr but he is only testing us. Midgardsormr is also a ghost and we still can't kill him. The rest are all either Primals formed in the shape of a dragon, and we have an advantage against Primals, or Omega's recreations.
Likewise, we never fight real Omicrons besides Omega, who has been sitting rusting away underground for millennia. I also don't believe it is stated that the Allagans ever subdued him, just that they found him presumably after he already crashed. I could be wrong on this, but if you look at Ultima Thule, the Omicrons have several Omega equivalents in their arsenal, and I imagine an army of Omegas could utterly crush the Ancients effortlessly.
The whole Pandaemonium storyline is about an ancient researcher who wanted to become a god, so clearly they already had the idea of beings higher than themselves.
>kills off all original lore
>poaches half the team to make xvi
>comes out tepid
>dawntrail will be a worse endwalker
Tanaka-sama, where are you? This one trick pony needs to be put out of his place
>kills off all original lore
You people have been wanting the Scions slaughtered and replaced, the story to stop sucking 1.0 and ARR's dick, and to move on to new shit for years. Now that the latter two are finally happening you're throwing tantrums about it.
>choose Azeyma as patron because making deities out of the Sun just makes sense, life on Earth would be pretty hard without it and if it looks at us the wrong way we also die
>also it's funny because my character is a mooncat
>don't think too much about it for years, some of the other deities get cool lore around them what with them being important to the citystates but w/e, the Sun is great
>fast forward to Shadowbringers, hmm turns out the WoL is a reincarnated shard of the sundered ancient who once held the seat of the heroic "Azem" in their government, how amusing, maybe there's a connection to the later invention of deities like Azeyma and Azim? Haha, it'll probably never be at-the-forefront-relevant as usual for the Twelve but fun to think about
>Azeyma and all the Twelve are real, actually, but never did anything particularly important that we know about (outside of nebulous "keeping the world together" stuff), now they all gleefully jumped on your sword, whoops. Also, as ancient constructs, the person who Azeyma was based on was just some Azem fangirl
>all cool schizo speculation about the AST cards is now dead in the water
>nothing came of it all
>nothing means anything
As a loregay, I am extremely depressed.
My only hope is that Dawntrail will legitimately be the start of a new adventure, and it won't just instantly have another Ascian/Ancient element squeezed in. If we can finally just go to a foreign land, deal with local issues, have fun with new NPCs and make new friends, I'll call it a good expansion. Better yet if we make a lot of local allies and it isn't just "The Scions Save the World: Chapter 6(7)".
I don't think there's really any wiggle room or relevance for Ascians (except for the less relevant Convocation members like Altima, they're all dead, and Amon/Fandaniel was the only one who had any apparent drive or plans of his own) or Ancients (we've already seen all there is to see in that regard, Amaurot and Elpis were "the most important places", we've met and interacted with most of the Convocation which ruled humanity in one way or another via the Unsundered and the other Ascians as risen-up shards)
I feel like we should have done that way before going to other worlds and traveling to the edge of the universe to kill the most dangerous being to have ever existed aswel as Hydaelyn and Zodiark. Doesnt this shit feel kind of beneath us now?
WoL of Light can have a little low-powerlevel adventure too.
I imagine the hook will be some kind of civilization capable of traveling between the worlds. Like similarities with the ancient civilization in the New World being similar to Ronka.
The Endsinger wasn't really that powerful if you think on it. She had a singular capability to tap into a mostly unknown power that requires the lack of Aether to even have an effect. Her strength came from mastering an unknown that even the ancients barely knew existed.
>The serpent that sleeps in the deep slowly sheds its skin of old.
>Eventually, the serpent devours its own tail, and renders new flesh using its own. The pain felt with cause the earth to quake, the mountains to crumble, and the rivers to run dry. Thus, seven wedges must be driven into its back.
The whole succession of rulers and golden city stuff will just be for the 90-93 MSQ, the rest will be another world-ending ancient evil awakening from the Lifestream and rising up in the New World.
I agree and I think it's funny that people actually think we're getting a whole expansion of lighthearted beach fun.
honestly I can half-see the remaining Ascians harassing us or mulling on their plans now that the Zodiark job is utterly ruined, perhaps even establishing their own sub-arcs or trying to figure to bury the hatchet. but when it comes down to it, I think it's time to produce a new "primary group / hook" going forwards and the Scions get either de-emphasized or simply grow outwards as a new organization now.
All the honorary types and side-characters basically got cameos at best and stopped being relevant two expansions ago already, might as well spread again.
Dawntrail is going to be more of the same shit because they didn't have the balls to retire the scions and give us an entirely new cast to adventure with
They could have made some of the Twelve mortal and our new travel companions. I'm a Halonegay, but Llymlaen seemed like such a cool girl. Would have loved her as a new character. We didn't even get to talk to her like other gods.
>vgh....
>Scions..should be killed
>new luckybancho
>population up overall from July
Doomsissies...?
nah luckybancho doesn't count
Oh I thought it counted again when it showed a dip last time... my mistake.
no, luckybancho only counts when it fits my narrative. get it right
it's over...
the luckybancho did not redeem...
He's... he's okay right?
Sir...
You didn’t sell a single fish so he died
I can't decide if I want to make a catboy or dragonboy. I wish catboys weren't such manlets.
If you make a dragonboy everyone will assume you're a creepy groomer.
>dragonboy
we call those maleraBVLLS around here
Only bad thing about being a cat is short but still normal compared to lalafell, no idea how people play that
>dragonboy
https://streamable.com/b2o8xg
don't
The Nikes make this much funnier than it should be.
What is up with the influx of malera memes?
They see themselves as badass hyper cool anime main character types, so the community has decided to meme them down several notches.
What do we think is gonna be in the Golden City when we inevitably open it (don't open it) and unseal whatever's there?
I suspect a Lucavi AYYY
Gwooolden Cityyyy
>femhroth opens the city of gold one step ahead of us after Urianger and Y'shtola already said it's probably a bad idea to go in there
>oh no femhroth got possessed by Chaos
whatever type of energy this is
i was fricking kidding about the Chaos oh god darkness never dies
That's Ra'kaznar and the energy is Tartarus darkness
>those holes
its xenoblade chronicles 3 all over again
"zodiark existed before" is moronic
Why?
because it's a literary dead end to keep going back further and further in history and figure out where zodiark absolutely first came from when as far as the story should know or care zodiark is the god of the ascians and/or amaurot
You can see the statues in Akadaemia so it's 100% confirmed he did exist at least as a concept before shit hit the fan.
I just wish they had a few more "exotic" mechanics in the 24 man this expansion. The entire thing felt very plain, just dodge the AoEs.
Feel like the last fight should have had more overlapping mechanics but I liked it overall also better music
It absolutely should have.
Need more alliance mechanics.
I wish there was a proper Werlyt expansion... Portugal is awesome
>Primals version of In the Balance
Yep it's kino
I'm afraid not. Population is up in the latest census.
>he doesn't know
I think god everyday I’m not as pathetic as this guy
Yea frogs and wojaks should get you aa 30 day ban then a permanent one if you post it after that.
nald'thal chads and fujochads rise up
I need new material to edit, someone post your WoL
you're terminally online and i bet you barely move. you will die soon
Pinklala a cute
Calm down there Sephiroth
Based, you're almost to the good model and glow
My lust for Yoichi Bow is almost physical. I made sure this time to buy two rounds of all the Perfect market-board items so that when I do Excalibur + Aegis Shield in the future I won't have to buy them again.
Best I got
Same
That cat does kind of give off extremist vibes
tough screenshot
Oh it's you
I figured it was you progging ulti fights
i log in
i prog ult (not all the time)
i come here to shitpost between pulls
Well I hope TEA is interesting
Think you made a post saying you were having fun
i haven't gotten past bj/cc but so far it's maybe more fun than ucob and uwu (to prog at least)
a bit more muscle memory involved in every pull, similar to uwu whereas ucob has some randomness to it
will try to do every ult before spring next year
Very
you turned it into a good screenshot
here's one from 2016
>old MNK chad
Very nice
it was a fun job, nin too and sam when it released too
old screenshots with bunch of skills on it remind me of when i used to tryhard melee dps
there's a story here
I'm an edgy bastard
You've already made me a bunch
Have a sneering Krile instead
Should be "from mew" instead of "From you"
I'll post my WoC instead
Beautiful
>allagan israeliteelry
>nier hat
>eastern chest piece
>viera heels
>GNB weapon
it clashes but it doesn't at the same time
RNG glam.
name of that robe anyone?
Yakaku Dogi, you get it from Tataru's Grand Endeavor, iirc.
MY EYES
?si=OYbSKH-oLmcU3lzz
My only disappointment was the lack of further investigation of why certain groups picked a diety in canon.
Like why do Mooncats worship Memphina?
Why did the 12 need you to beat them up before jonestownsing themselves?
because by spending their aether fighting you they were returning it to the star
That's moronic
yeah but that was the whole reason they killed themselves. to return the aether people have given them over the years by praying back to the star
I don't mean the fact that wanted to return to the star, I mean the fact that beating you up was how they had to do it
I mean they knew you would beat their ass since you were the one that stopped the Final Days
also they enjoy the joy of battle. They wanted one final fight before dying
Aether is released during battle, and that released aether is also much more dense and potent than normal aether. This is why Monks go to old battlefields to unlock chakras.
Why would anyone not pick Oschon? He fits the best lore wise and WoLwise. Plus he stuck around and is the only one who made mention of you picking them.
>only one who made mention of you picking them.
moron.
Ok, he is the only one that matters.
they all have a different line if you picked them
plus I think Byregot has special dialogue if you have a crafter leveled
I've seen a picture of all of the lines, but I didn't save it
Except for the boring pretty boy because this game is for homosexuals.
Before ShB/EW
>There's multiple afterlives, particularly those worshipped directly by the Cities
>Not just under The Twelve, but also abroad such as in Doma
>Reincarnation isn't specifically a thing. Souls can and do reside in the afterlives. Delita waited over a thousand years to see Ramza again, and Tenzen was dead for a long damn time too
>Hydaelyn herself also seems to have an afterlife realm, as stated by Ramza
After ShB/EW
>EVERYONE IS JUST ANCIENTS REINCARNATED AND WILL ALWAYS REINCARNATE ON DEATH
>THE TWELVE'S REALMS ARE ALL EMPTY, THEY'RE ALL ANCIENTS
>HYDAELYN IS AN ANCIENT, ZODIARK IS AN ANCIENT
>NO HAPPY AFTERLIFE WITH FRIENDS FOR YOU, REINCARNATE ASAP (Unless you're an Ancient, lol)
>No, the Twelve MUST die even though you've spent several patches getting to know them and getting attached with them. You don't even get to say goodbye, frick you.
>No, Hydaelyn MUST die even though you finally met her and got to personally know her more
>Please enjoy going to the Golden City to find out how it actually ties back to another Ancient plot device so we can bring back Emet and Elisibus again
Take me back, please, I even miss Lyse at this point.
we've known shit goes to the aetherial sea regardless of religion since heavensward
>EVERYONE IS JUST ANCIENTS REINCARNATED
it is specifically stated that not every person is a shard of an ancient
Everyone that matters is.
Scions probably aren't
Anyone with The Echo is, that is literally what the Echo power is. The Scions have the Echo as they are able to fight and be near Primals without being tempered.
This is shown in ShB postpatches when Elidibus awakens the Echo by showing the meteors to people, the ones with Ancient souls develop the Echo.
>The Scions have the Echo as they are able to fight and
They can't, which is pretty explicitly why they let you do it
the only Scions that have the Echo besides the WoL are Krile and Arenvald, and Arenvald is out of the fight
And Minfilia and the 1.0 scions who died in the waking sands raid
Cutscene skipper holy smokes. You almost could not be more wrong.
none of the scions are as far as we know
only the WoL is
Literally only Krile and Minfilia are ancients reincarnated. Other then you of course.
More like pick your flavor text. Seriously each expansion following the Warrior of Light and his pals from Sharlayan as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the PS2 imagery, the games only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of particle effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Square Enix vetoed the idea of Tanaka directing the game; they made sure the game would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for their earlier games. Final Fantasy XIV might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-Dragon Quest in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the story is good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the VN was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character died, the author wrote instead that the character was merely incapacitated.
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that trope was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Ishikawa's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Final Fantasy XIV by the same Ion Hazzikostas. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are playing Final Fantasy XIV at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to play World of Warcraft." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you play "Final Fantasy XIV" you are, in fact, trained to play World of Warcraft.
didn't read
I can't believe it, you're right, SE screwed over the FFXIV fanbase by cancelling the 2nd Shb Ult without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
heh
Should've posted a pic of JRPGs tierlist or something to complete the pasta, still nice edit
I left xiv like a year or two ago and want to return, how is the new game+ system?
Have some legacy shit and store shit I rather not lose making a new character but want to experience the game from the beginning.
I tried this game. I wanted to play an MMO and instead I got a bad single player RPG.
it's more like a vn than anything else, until you reach expansion level caps and unlock mmo things to do
the Matron's teats
>the seething this caused on twitter
kek
chestlets and troons b***hing about 'stealing the show' and 'causing the objectification of women'
Women need to accept that breasts are great and true examples of femininity. All breasts are great but big Booba is better.
Wait for real? lmao I missed the fest but the seething from this makes me regret it
It was glorious, praise and love be to massive mammaries.
>tattoo
yuck
this
i mean b***h you're cosplaying
cover that shit up with make-up or something
There is a tattoo?
>soon we're gonna have english slags dressed up as her
P-phew...
I have come from the future and green mage is OP in PvP
Wouldn't surprise me
I feel like a huge flaw for variant dungeons that no one notices is that partying up sucks
If you have a different route or someone else does something stupid it just wastes your time and makes you have to run the same route again
Is 6.5 the most hype patch we've had in a while. Apart from cringe narcissistic clickbaiter Youtubers, pretty much everyone is happy with the patch so far. Yes, they're all playing other games, but it's nice to see from afar that everything's doing fine.
The best part of the Void Arc is when it ended.
Mounts should be 50 totems. I'm bored.
they already cut it down from 100 kills to 50 anon-kun, maybe spread your kills out a bit so it doesn't get stale too quickly
Where the frick did he go? Last I saw he was getting groomed by trannies on Twitter and met up with F1nnst5r at Twitch Con and has been MIA since. No new videos, no streams, nothing.
She got bottom surgery, taking time off to recover.
He threw too many times in my ranked CC matches so I hope he stays gone.
Tried using ACT for the first time ever. I parsed between 10500 and 11500 as reaper during Zeromus EX. I don't have top gear. How shit am I?
That's lower than my MNK which also isn't BiS. Probably a mid-high 20 if I had to guess. As long as your pushing your buttons atvthe right time under buffs and keeping full uptime then you're good.
I have been killing things and leveling up while doing fetch quests in between the story progressing, I dont know if Im going to be that into doing this much longer.
Sidequests are not worth doing untill SHB.
Why are we still here
just to suffer
>makes Ancients flee in terror
Yeah, I'm thinking Dragons would win
Anon, that boss has nothing to do with Ancients. That's just a fish b***h that moved her clutch into the ruins.
wow so it's just like real religion?
and this "fantasy" game actually let us take part in mythology instead of it just being some flavor text in a book? craaazy.
what a predictably boring resolution
i'd even say nier's raids had a more memorable ending in its own fricked up way
I never did post-nier restoration quests, what are they all about
Connecting XIV to Nier & Drakenguard further. If you cared about the twins, then you'll appreciate it.
I "love" it so much I consider it not canon period. So nothing of value of lost
I don't mean this to be confrontational, but do you also not consider the Nier Gacha game or the stageplays not canon either?
I'm not a fan of collaborations, especially on this level of depth, and I don't want it anywhere near XIV. Simple as. Collabs with other FF games are fine.
you sound like a b***h dude.
Who gives a frick about Nier, the first game had a cool story but Yoko Taro's moronic autism ruined anything Automata had going for it by spreading half the story out into other shit, some of which isn't even accessible unless you live in Japan or are willing to play a dog shit gacha game. He's the up-his-own-ass hack that people accuse Kojima of being.
It should have stayed far away from XIV, now XIV's canon is tainted by being tied to that piece of shit.
I'm so happy my husband decided to live and explore the world.
Auron hairstyle when?
how do I find a hag xiv gf that plays a femlala?
This is now part of XIV's canon.
Where is this from?
Nier short story
https://nier.fandom.com/wiki/The_Witch%27s_Banquet/Fan_Translation
wasnt this from nier replicant?
For Automata to be canon, Replicate also has to be.
>Disgusting. Revolting. Hateful. I hate you. Disgusting. Revolting. I can't understand. I don't want to understand.
Uhh, sisters....is xiv a chuddy game after all?
That's not from 14, dumbass.
>He didn't read the new Fordola short story
In which expansion do I get to exterminate ascian Black folk with extreme prejudice? Getting tired of their shit
Ra-La will be a mogshop mount. Frick these israelite devs.
DT Collectors edition mount.
after they put the obvious blu mount in cash shop and gave the cash shop mount to raiders i have ezro hopes for proper shekel pinching etiquette
>obvious blu mount
Delusional
WHY THE FRICK CAN'T PEOPLE DO THORDAN EX RIGHT
WHY THE FRICK DO moronS KEEP WALKING INTO MY CLOCK POSITIONS YOU STUPID FRICKS
FRICK YOU FRICK YOU
you're left with all the morons, you never do the new alliance raid, savage or unreal near on mondays because everyone competent already did their clears for the week
do it on reset if you want people with braincells
Nice I'm rich
wtf how many chests did you open
woah, gratz on that ix materia anon