Estinien is based and I'm glad they can have at least one chad in the main cast. Now if only we could get a proper waifu that would be great, but sadly the game is plagued by androgynous women and fuqbois.
Estinien and Y'shtola need to be rescued from the shitheap XIV has become and be transported to some other fantasy world where they can truly shine again
>Y'shtola wants to travel the shards >Estinien just wants to adventure
This is a perfect setup for these two and really it was fun having characters who didn't interact much before as a focus, nevermind Y'shtola being something of a background character. But no, gotta get the two attention prostitute kids more attention as well as a new draw for women and trannies.
I liked her more back in ARR/HW when she was a curious magician sticking her neck out a little too far, and always displaying that intellectual curiosity. They tried to mature her too much with the Matoya stuff, and now she's just a haughty old Scholar. They even reference this in the MSQ showing that she used to have a girlish cute side with her water summon chant, but has now changed the incantation to be boring and methodical. She lost all her charm. Curiosity killed the Cat('s personality).
I disagree, but I'll admit it's more pulling from my memory of events, rather than looking at specific dialogue to prove you wrong. I just think of things like her showing up in her mining outfit and her enthusiasm was the character trait that shined through the most there. Also I seem to remember her having some flirty dialogue, but I 100% acknowledge that could be me projecting what I wanted to read out of the dialogue.
homie what. In ARR and HW Y'shtola's role was always to stand away from whatever was happening, arms crossed, being the straight man to whatever silly thing the others were doing. Now in EW she's straight up been the comic relief character with Estinien as the straight man, and her sassiness has gotten more playful and less about shaming people for doing something wrong. How the frick did you even come to the conclusion that she's gotten more serious and less girlish.
nta but estinien has his fair share of being silly in ew too. the only straight man in the scions is thancred
8 months ago
Anonymous
True, but the straight man dynamic is always relative. You might say Y'shtola is the straight man to WoL, Estinien is the straight man to Y'shtola and WoL is the straight man to Estinien and it'd be (loosely) accurate most of the time. Same as how sometimes Thancred and Urianger can even be each other's straight man.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Estinien's the straight man put into comedic situations by virtue of being out of his depth in anything scholarly
His parents were weebs and named him Michael Koji Fox, goes by Koji. He was a big FFXI player who got a job at SE translating FFXIV 1.0 to English. After ARR he is much more highly involved in writing the game, he's a good dude (the fact I used to play FFXI with him has no bearing on this opinion).
It's hard to dislike Koji when he's living every weeb's teenage dreams whilst putting in the enthusia.
He was off-key terribly in the first two Primals songs at Fanfest but he just makes it work.
8 months ago
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>He was off-key terribly
anon thinks the primals are fully live, anon, sorry to break it to you but anything outside amanda, the raubahn guy and the lead guitar lines or the gimmicks like soken playing a trumpet is overdubbed, heavily, specially koji lines.
the thing is, the in game versions are heavily processed mixes, talk about flangers on top of chorus, delays on top of fuzzes and this sort of shit, so the sound manipulation makes em sound acceptable in a proper EQ mix, playing live the raw tracks and going thru the event sound tables which rarely are set 100% properly to make up for the stage size, they always show the flaws at it.
there was an old anniversary stream maybe like 2 years ago where soken showed the unedited tracks for rise and unbending steel vs the edits and you can hear it.
no disrespect for koji, i love the dude, but the band is a product.
8 months ago
Anonymous
It was pretty clear that on those first songs Koji was singing live, the other songs all had him go tthrough an autotuned vocoder.
8 months ago
Anonymous
which songs he sang? the first 2
8 months ago
Anonymous
>there was an old anniversary stream maybe like 2 years ago where soken showed the unedited tracks for rise and unbending steel vs the edits and you can hear it.
post eet
8 months ago
Anonymous
i dont have this shit saved, if the xiv youtube channel doesn't delete streams i bet you can find it, just skim thru the thumbails until you see Soken with a laptop
All i remember is that it was their music segment talk and I think they had him composing some 8 bits while some other dudes were doing the ifrit jacket challenge.
not sure thou.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>there was an old anniversary stream maybe like 2 years ago where soken showed the unedited tracks for rise and unbending steel vs the edits and you can hear it.
https://www.twitch.tv/finalfantasyxiv/clip/DoubtfulPoorDillTriHard-fmd43EXl_sgMjgGa?featured=false&filter=clips&range=all&sort=time
kek
Japanese women love cute things and being women are vain by nature, so they always go for hyper-feminine males over masculine males. And that sentiment has rubbed off on the West as it's a perfect compliment towards the Western push for women to be hyper-masculine.
true for real life, where she needs the strongest bloke to protect and provide, but in idealized scenarios, where they can play dress up in their heads and fantasize about pegging the dude in a maid's uniform, contemporary women love feminine morons, which is why korean dramas are so popular right now
no clue why, but who cares, its femoid thinking
unfortunately for you, the majority of femoids that simp for these characters, and that play this game, are fujos.
real women are likely doing somethign more important irl like working out or being hot
Making VPR glams is going to be tough, Scouting are generally the weakest of variants across gearsets.
I feel like everyone's going to be using Uraeus Coat, Crystarium, Cryptlurker, or Rinascita.
Bro all of those look like dogshit. The current pvp armor is the 1st one that isn't totally hideous. Have you even seen the shoulders on that judge armor?
Making VPR glams is going to be tough, Scouting are generally the weakest of variants across gearsets.
I feel like everyone's going to be using Uraeus Coat, Crystarium, Cryptlurker, or Rinascita.
What's the overall opinion from everyone for this class?
From what little I've seen from the JP community they're constantly posting SAO mp4s with the move set from the preview and I don't know if that means they like it or if they're making fun of it.
What do you guys prefer?
The current DDR/piano recital dodging raids
Or
Sponge bosses whose time to kill is determined by how much you know your job and how kitted out it is?
I'd like a tasteful blend of both where knowledge of dungeon mechanics and your own skill dictate the raid. But if I can only choose between the binary, the former. I may miss a debuff or a DoT and I don't want my run to be ruined.
Current fight design makes healers pointless. They're literally only there to press 1 button after a raidwide and occasionally rez when someone fricks up a mechanic that doesn't instantly wipe the group.
Hard pass on the latter, but I do think the dance fights have become too piano recital, it needs more random order elements, or other ways to shake it up.
Maybe use the temporary action system more.
Elves are tight. Elezen are disgusting giraffes. Also we just got a region with Old Shar that had a focus on Elezen professors. So it's not like we've been without them for a while.
I'm not a furry, but I hope there's more Miqo society over in Tural. We see Thancred talking to one in the trailer.
>Miqote don't have societies,
based lore ignorer
moon cats are nomads, sun cats form tribes and own territories
its the whole point betwwen a Tia vs a Nunh
one of the big wow influencers, he tried branching his channel to cover xiv too but got whiny because the game didnt allow you to walk away from zenos challenge at the end, then people stopped caring for what he says.
>the game didnt allow you to walk away from zenos challenge at the end
Jesus H fricking christ what an utter wienersucker
>xivies when you suggest an rpg should allow you to roleplay
8 months ago
Anonymous
Cope
8 months ago
Anonymous
>roleplaying a pussy at the end of the universe
Sorry, I don't self-insert
8 months ago
Anonymous
oi lad, you're still butt hurt about it innit? better put those rpg choices in your game m8
8 months ago
Anonymous
why is it that whenever anyone has anything to say about ffxiv that isn’t purely positive you always assume it’s one guy rather than 2/7888000000 people on earth agreeing
8 months ago
Anonymous
only one guy is unfunny enough to have "xivies" as an insult
8 months ago
Anonymous
it’s not really an insult, unless you think military/government people referring to normal people as “civies” is an insult
Probably because normal people don’t do what you do.
talk about video games on Ganker? I guess you’ve got a point
8 months ago
Anonymous
Probably because normal people don’t do what you do.
8 months ago
Anonymous
your boyfriend's complaint were dumb dave, you know it, i know it, he knows it, his arguments are moot because it was never important thruout all his playthru before, but only at the ltieral final moment of the game, suddenly he gets annoyed.
besides, the wol was never a self insert like classic rpgs, JRPGs never worked like that.
you may customize your catgirl and pretend she is your girlfriend, but the story was always about alberto fantasia and HIS motivations, regardless of how few they always were. and roberto fantajy is a combatsexual like zenos and would never ignore that challenge.
now go sell your rogue lite
8 months ago
Anonymous
the fact that you think self inserting is the default other option to playing a preset character you have no control over says alot
8 months ago
Anonymous
>the fact that you think the only other option is another option says a lot
ok timmy, think a little, what other option is there to choose in that fight? you either fight or flee, eduardo imaginario's choice is to fight, epistomologically, any other choice is a self insert choice by (YOU) who disagrees with what the protag wants.
besides, your whole point of contempt is moot when there is literally zero choice thruout the whole game.
you knew what you were getting from the get go, or do you buy Forza and suddenly complains that you can't pick an airplane and roleplay a pilot like in MS F simulator?
8 months ago
Anonymous
>eduardo imaginario's choice is to fight, epistomologically, any other choice is a self insert choice by (YOU) who disagrees with what the protag wants
PLEASE be trolling
8 months ago
Anonymous
letting Zenos live after the events of Ultima Thule would be a bad idea. If he wasn't able to get his fight then, and having witnessed the power of dynamis, his fight autism would elevate him to the power of the endsinger but without the AI mentality that Meteion had
plus, well, he did kill off his own people and all. Their are two correct answers to his challange, 'That I can't deny' and 'I'm sick of your shit and I'm putting you down'
The first is obvious, the latter I feel works too because Zenos already offered to accept you as his friend at Ala Mhigo, and if you accept, he then denies you. Any platitudes beyond that are just him trying to rectify that mistake and the teleporter reappearing is his final gift to you, either way
I asked this in another thread, but just to see if I get a similar answer, would XI be a fun time playing through WITH one or two friends? Like will we actually travel and experience the story together? Or is it like XIV where we just do MSQ separately and meet up for instanced content. I guess I'm asking if there like a quest sync or meaningful moment to moment overworld content that's not just running from dialogue box to dialogue box.
You can do the story together and there's very little reason to ever split party. But as with any game, it's more fun with friends.
I love scholar aesthetics but hate XIV scholar, how is scholar in XI?
I asked this in another thread, but just to see if I get a similar answer, would XI be a fun time playing through WITH one or two friends? Like will we actually travel and experience the story together? Or is it like XIV where we just do MSQ separately and meet up for instanced content. I guess I'm asking if there like a quest sync or meaningful moment to moment overworld content that's not just running from dialogue box to dialogue box.
You can spend every step of the journey together. There's no point at which you have to disband and do some shit like a solo instance. You can level sync down to the lowest level party member and quests aren't level locked. You'll spend 90% of your time trekking through the overworld together because dungeons aren't instanced content.
Damn that sounds fun. I might try to actually get a couple friends to play with me in prep for the alliance raids so we have that context, and because it's the one game mainline FF game I haven't played through before.
I've played XI since high school and 1.0 since beta. Wtf happened between XI and XIVs animations? XI was always so much more detailed. I even remember 1.0s cutscenes being around the same level of detail as XIs but after ARR it's like the characters can only nod or do the most bare bones of movements. Was there ever an explanation for this?
different engine and budget, you have to remember what is most cost effective when remaking an MMO. It was their fiduciary duty to do what they did.
the fact that 7.0 will be adding back 1.0 bone structure & animations is a good thing.
>the fact that 7.0 will be adding back 1.0 bone structure & animations is a good thing.
Did they really say this? I knew we were getting a graphic update but I thought it was just shader shit? Big if true.
Wtf are you talking about? They were even more complex in 1.0 and they had way more animation. They downgraded in ARR and most of 1.0 and XIVs models are direct asset rips from XI???
For MSQ it should all be new animations made by hand. I expect them to use the shitty default emotes for side quest but holy frick. I thought MSQ was the selling point for this shitty game and it's mid at most.
I'm pretty sure all the 1.0 animations were motion captured which is why there's such a difference after ARR. Since 1.0 didn't live up to expectations, they dialed back on the graphical quality and cut whatever budget they had for motion capture to zero I assume.
That said, anyone got a straight link on bringing back 1.0 bones?
STR increases the potential max damage, and Attack increases how closely/often you'll hit said max damage or close to it.
>Nuker
that's my favorite kind of class in dnd so based, might play xi one of these days though having to pay another sub is annoying
I usually only play during Free Logins myself (they run for about 2 weeks or more). Historically they run Free Logins about twice or more a year. Pay once and you're golden.
>the fact that 7.0 will be adding back 1.0 bone structure & animations is a good thing.
what? how? when did they say this?
>the fact that 7.0 will be adding back 1.0 bone structure & animations is a good thing.
Did they really say this? I knew we were getting a graphic update but I thought it was just shader shit? Big if true.
>the fact that 7.0 will be adding back 1.0 bone structure & animations is a good thing.
Huh what?
Addressed in the panel after the EU keynote. You should see the freakout about mods since it's going to break every mod.
technically they'll be adding the bone structure but animations hasn't been confirmed yet
>since it's going to break every mod.
It absolutely isn't, since mods are just clientside lua based overlays that come with their own bones and their own meshes. And painting new bones to move the new ones won't exactly be difficult either.
RNG laden, build up TP and shoot from afar. They were perfect for EXP Parties because one of Corsair's abilities gave a boost to EXP.
In lore they are the Pirate class, and one of the main characters in ToAU is a Corsair that makes a deal with the devil.
>Exblain the real creation myth
Altana, goddess of Dawn, and Promathia, god of Twilight, gave birth to a perfect world together. Promathia being the god of Twilight was always fated to suffer a 'perfect death'. And he eventually did. To bring him back to life, Altana fragmented the original Mothercrystal and placed his essence in its five pieces. This act destroyed the perfect world and gave birth to Vana'diel. The 'perfect death' of Promathia was thus fragmented into the concept of mortality, and the essence of his element of Darkness lived on in the five new races born of the fragmented Mothercrystals. >and what the fck prishe did to promathia.
She used the Star of Tavnazia to crystallize his darkness into magicite so Altana could scatter it back into the lifestream.
tl;dr for pretty much everything: Altana & Promathia created the five races after the Zilartans did their business, Altana gave them life while Promathia cursed them (which is what the Ark Angels represent).
Because of a Zilartan, Mildaurion, Prishe's emptiness (the curse Promathia gave) was crystalized, which was then weaponized against Promathia to weaken him enough for WoC & crew to fight them off.
There's a lot more details that I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's pretty cool.
>Exblain the real creation myth
Altana, goddess of Dawn, and Promathia, god of Twilight, gave birth to a perfect world together. Promathia being the god of Twilight was always fated to suffer a 'perfect death'. And he eventually did. To bring him back to life, Altana fragmented the original Mothercrystal and placed his essence in its five pieces. This act destroyed the perfect world and gave birth to Vana'diel. The 'perfect death' of Promathia was thus fragmented into the concept of mortality, and the essence of his element of Darkness lived on in the five new races born of the fragmented Mothercrystals. >and what the fck prishe did to promathia.
She used the Star of Tavnazia to crystallize his darkness into magicite so Altana could scatter it back into the lifestream.
There's also the added layer of stuff RoV & TVR did too like what they did to WoC.
>Altana & Promathia created the five races after the Zilartans did their business, Altana gave them life while Promathia cursed them (which is what the Ark Angels represent).
This isn't quite right. The Five Races were born out of the Mothercrystals from Promathia's darkness. The Zilart were original lifeforms from Paradise, but they lost their divinity when the the Mothercrystal was sundered. Even though the Five Races had yet to be born, Promathia's darkness was still permeating through the world, and it began to gather in the once-perfect hearts of the Zilart and robbed them of their Whisper of the Soul. Zilart without the Whisper were called Kuluu and exiled. But as the phenomenon became more widespread they created the Chamber of Eventide to suck the darkness out of themselves. Eald'narche then made contact with the Al'taeiu Mothercrystal and received a vision of the original world. And all Zilart with the Whisper received that vision as a broadcast from his soul. After seeing that world, they began their work to rejoin the Mothercrystals. Arks were constructed around each of the Mothercrystals with lines all leading together to Tu'lia. Five Zilart warriors joined themselves to each of the crystals, and in doing so they became the perfect archetypes of what would later be the Five Races, and the particular pieces of Promathia's darkness that shapes those races. Those are the Crystal Warriors, the Ark Angels. The rejoining process was then stopped by the Kuluu. Selh'teus and Bahamut attacked Al'taeiu while another group sabotaged the Ark around the Vazhl crystal and triggered the Meltdown which wiped the Zilart off the map.
Fun part is when you explore the implications of Promathia's lore because he created The Void as seen here
Meaning it's because of Promathia that Cloud of Darkness is a thing, why Xande in III was able to gain as much power as he did, why Exdeath in V became obsessed with nothingness, and more.
No, pay attention to what Balamor is saying. Promathia's darkness is called Emptiness, it's the idea of death, longing, the idea that you are imperfect which causes you to reach for the light. He says flat out that the Void is not the Emptiness. The Void is non-existence. The joining of Promathia and Altana is what banished some part of the Void to create Vana'diel. When two divinities join either through love or conflict, their astral winds clash and blow away the Cloud.
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Anonymous
Forgot to add that this almost happened a second time when Odin and Alexander fought around 900 years before and the resulting astral storm created a supernova which caused daylight in Vana'diel for an entire year.
8 months ago
Anonymous
The Void despite being non-existance is still a tangible thing in FF lore. And it's (the tangible Void's) creation was because of Promathia's darkness. We've seen how powerful Altana & Promathia are considering they made WoC a demi-god, they joined the darkness & light which is a counterbalance to The Void. We've seen what happens with too much Darkness in FF games before not just in XIV but III as well, it creates another part of The Void.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Promathia has nothing to do with the Void except that he and Altana banished part of it to create Vana'diel. Balamor says it to you in the previous image, pretty flat out. Emptiness (Promathia's darkness) is not Void. >We've seen what happens with too much Darkness in FF games before not just in XIV but III as well, it creates another part of The Void.
Neither World of Darkness is part of the Void, you're confused. FFIII World of Darkness is a parallel dimension to its World of Light, they both normally exist in harmony. The Cloud of Darkness simply invades one or the other when they tilt out of harmony as a means of further disrupting the harmony so that the entire thing will collapse back into Void. The Darkness itself is not Void, it's just that an imbalance will lead to collapse. She tried to do the same from the World of Light thousands of years beforehand too.
As for FFXIV, the name Void is a misnomer. The Thirteenth is entirely aspected to darkness. It earned the name 'Void' because taxonomists kept finding certain completely alien creatures and declared that they must be traveling to Hydaelyn through the Void (the actual FF Void), and called them voidsent. When it later turned out that these voidsent were all coming from the Thirteenth, that world was then called the Void because they were already calling the natives voidsent. Darkness =/= Void, Void is absence of anything. Darkness is a necessary part of life and balance in the FF cosmos.
8 months ago
Anonymous
lorelets really have to stop beign autists who think the void and/or CoD are one big entity accross all games
Ex dad also had dealings with the void, but in his scenario it was just the power to destroy reality.
8 months ago
Anonymous
In FFV Void was the name of the magic that let him pull things into the Interdimensional Rift, which is absolutely a joining factor between all the FFs. We have more than enough games confirming that. Void is just the concept of nonexistence that's common to the multiverse. The Cloud of Darkness is just one way the Void is personified. It's not necessarily the same entity, in FFIII she's an active interloper trying to collapse things on purpose. In FFXI it's an unthinking, unfeeling force of nature that simply just consumes things. But it's the same metaphysical idea across all these FF dimensions.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>he same metaphysical idea across all these FF dimensions.
key point there, concept
its tiresome that people try to connect all games by the terminologies and come up with dumb shit like "each shard is a ff game universe" when there is a tangible connection in the rift already.
I think that the only true tangible singular object between multiple games is Greg.
8 months ago
Anonymous
First Japanese storytelling trope?
8 months ago
Anonymous
> Umi wa mite iru sekai no hajimari mo >Umi wa shitte iru sekai no owari mo.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I appreciate the candor, but I respectfully disagree on the interpretation. I took Balmor's dialogue as him clarifying what the Emptiness was in the big picture, not trying to separate the Emptiness from the Void.
And if you wanna see more of my interpretation, check out FF Dimensions 1 which involves what happens when you put too much light/darkness individually, take away too much light/darkness and when you combine too much light/darkness.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Well I'd just encourage you to read through his dialogue again. He draws a direct opposition between darkness and Void. Dimensions is on my list but I can assume it's similar to the FFIII situation.
>he same metaphysical idea across all these FF dimensions.
key point there, concept
its tiresome that people try to connect all games by the terminologies and come up with dumb shit like "each shard is a ff game universe" when there is a tangible connection in the rift already.
I think that the only true tangible singular object between multiple games is Greg.
>I think that the only true tangible singular object between multiple games is Greg.
Shantotto, Noctis, and Lightning too. Plus Dissidia in general.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Ultros & Typhon as well
8 months ago
Anonymous
oh yeah, i always forget the cross overs, thanks for reminding me that cloud is canon in ivalice kek
8 months ago
Anonymous
Just remember with Japanese writing, everything is canon with each other until they say otherwise. And even then, they change their minds.
they started a restaurant together
the broiled wyrm
and started participating in side quests where you collect him food from around the world, while ysayle uses her shiva powers to make desserts
their latest appearance was during tataru quest, where she asks you to deliver them some sharlayan salt in exchange for some dragon scales for new magitek armor, which is the core point of the patches in endwalker, tataru mech suilt to be an adventurer like you
SO ZASED SO BASED WE HERE AT THE ARMOR CORD SOMETIMES WE GO TOO MANLY AND WE DECIDE TO WEAR LESS CLOTHING WITH THE BROS
THAT'S RIGHT FRICK YOU WE'RE MANLY BREEDABLE WOLVES GIGA CHADS
U MAD? THAT'S RIGHT I GOT MAD IN MY NAME CUS YOU SEE ME AND YOU JELLY OF ME OF MY GIGACHADNESS
URGHHHH
MANMODEEEEEEEE
NO KIDS
NO FEMALE CHARACTERS
NO FEMALES OF ANY KIND WE ONLY ALLOW BROS
HYUR
ROE
MONK WARRIOR MAINS MOSTLY AND SOMETIMES ONE SISSY DANCER TO KEEP US BROS ENTERTAINED
WE ARE BREEDABLE AND MANMODE AND YOU SEEM KIDMODE SO WALK AWAY
remember how in that documentary that everyone uses to say 1.0 was absolute shit and yoship is a savior for salvaging 14 they mention that some items had a million polygons?
player models had that and then when it moved to arr they had to change it so that's why in certain lighting the shadows look terrible
so with the new graphics update it seems that they'll smoothen the player models which will closely resemble the 1.0 models but more optimized
Most of FF14 issues come from GODAWFUL lightning setup, like Minfilia's room in the Sands where a very bright lightsource is straight above WoL, and this fricks up a lot of cutscenes.
there was nothing about bones mentioned in the fanfest, neither about animation
following the thread i thought it was about the older models and how/why it looked better
Making the Alliance raid FFXI themed is a big mistake.
Maybe here and in other places is pure nostalgia but the majority of the player base didn't play XI and it's not like a 30 hours game like FFXII you can play before it.
That's why almost nobody has hype for the expansion
I'm curious about it as a former XI player but I feel it's either going to go one of a few ways. >People who didn't play won't truly be able to appreciate it. >People who do appreciate it will be pissed at how XIV treats its legacy (Making it a shard to uplift XIVs garbage story in comparison) >It will just make XI vets more annoying because we will be teased seeing what XI could of looked like if it got the same graphics treatment as XIV got.
We'll see how it goes but I couldn't care eitherway. Anything is better than the NieR shit we got.
it wont be a shard, never, iroha cross over already proves this as atomos can't succ her while shes in eorzea
besides, all ff games are already connected by the rift, so they are already covered in terms of lore for that, the real deal is: how disrespectful will it be considering the new writing team is shit at caring for lore.
I really love xi shit, for me that is a real fantasy world, with real building and lore
but shoving it in here is dumb
the nostalgia will worn off by the 2nd tier and the story will not be able to deliver a satisfying end, it cannot continue the 11 lore and this will piss both player bases as we will end up with 11 greatest hits and the same rhapsodies cliff hanger
with that said, MAYBE, BIG HUGE MAYBE IF
this is the way they are announcing that 11 sub will merge with 14 and use the raid to hype people and try 11
You know how it feel when you went to a company vacation with all your co-workers? Its shit and still feels like a job.
For frick sake, its suppose to be a fresh new start in a fresh new world.
Frick these writers/market researcher who is afraid to get rid of them.
Its work whenever Scions involved.
I actually want to recommend this expansion to my friends who dropped it after Stormblood/ShB, thinking that there wouldn't be much burden of lore and knowledge after being promised that it would be 'fresh new starts'.
I got into rhythm games instead of raiding in ffxiv
it’s more fun, more skillful, the music is better, i dont have to rely on 7 other mouthbreathers, no timegating
>search for new XIV videos >Desperius spam
God, I wish SE would claim his shitty reuploads and ban him already. He brings even less to the community than the other creator leeches.
>just uploaded a "one year later after I left XIV" video
Not gonna watch it, but I can tell from the thumbnail he uses his family for sympathy points again. I bet it's 98% lies, as usual with him.
Imagine your child grows up, looks at what his father did in life, and seems him being an obsessive manchild losing his mind and doomposting over a toddler video game, how embarrasing will it be
>why are ffxiv players like this
It's just him. He's a fricking autist who thinks his opinions are worth more than other's. He is a huge Xbox fanboy who constantly asked and "predicted" a XIV on Xbox announcement.
Remember that time when all xiv reddits started to mock him and his boyfriend and he went to several trying to debunk and dialogue with the redditors shitposting about him?
dude literally was replying to shitposts
kek, xbox xiv have been mentioned by yoshi ever since SB, and yoshi said he was in talks with Phil since then. It's easy to assume that Pony was likely the ones anchoring the deal, its easy to predict something that obvious and well known for so long.
>Any more to this tale?
yeah,plebbit trolled him good, ginger seems to be equally hated by everyone in the community, idk why since the community loves so many grifters.
is it really that hard to guess why someone who has openly criticized the game is mostly disliked by the rabid online fanbase?
8 months ago
Anonymous
arthas and xenos always did too since always, i dont get whats the breaking point, if they call yoshi a liar is ok, but if they say the game is bad its not?
8 months ago
Anonymous
arthars and xeno only criticize the game by the safe community approved criticisms
“grrr 2 minute meta bad!”
“dungeon? 2 pulls wall 2 pulls wall boss lol!”
8 months ago
Anonymous
ahh I see, thank you ginger prime unenjoyer
8 months ago
Anonymous
The difference is that Ginger blames the community on everything and has bad ideas that either have been tried before and not worked, or are objectively worse than what we've got in XIV.
He used to be a toxic positive XIV content creator who hid his grudge against the community (something happened to his wife in HW) and actively asked for more XIV content creators, including WoWgays. Then when the WoW exodus happened, SE made those WoWgay streamers and XIV content creators part of the Fat Black Chocobo campaign. Except Work2Game (Ginger Prime and his buddy KindaGaming). They were salty over this and even attacked their fellow creators. Over a short while most of those creators stopped interacting with W2G. Ginger began to say the entire community sucks and is holding XIV back. Then in 2022 Ginger tried to do what MisshapenChair did and started his "villain arc" with hot takes and bad ideas. People countered them with constructive criticism, but Ginger continued with making videos on the community, calling them toxic haters.
After that his channel(s) tanked and he tried to save face by leaving XIV. Claiming he wants to focus on family (he has like six kids), his stand-up career (good one!) and New World content. Made a big stink about it and why NW is superior. Of course he never really left XIV. He stopped playing, but continued making shitty videos on XIV.
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>Work2Game
Oh yeah. Before Shadowbringers they had so many "XIV in 2019" "Is XIV dead?" "Is XIV worth it" etc, etc. Frick off. The absolute dregs of clickbait attention whoring.
Remember that time when all xiv reddits started to mock him and his boyfriend and he went to several trying to debunk and dialogue with the redditors shitposting about him?
dude literally was replying to shitposts
I hope if we go to another shard, it isn't another pseudo medieval dimension, I assume one of the shards will be XIII themed because we are in a point people feel nostaglia for it.
after the whole sami israelites and twitter morons crying about that glam iam starting to understand why so much of the new world is ffx themed, and I doubt they will drop a cosmo canyon anywhere because they're too afraid from morons crying about muh native representashun
8.0 will be some tangent shit like shadowbringers or meracydia.
no one gives a frick about australia so they got that.
also I don't think north tural will ever be unclouded, it will be their Ilsabard, or DT final area at best, so they can claim they covered it with 1 zone.
if that's really what will happen then that's a shame, because there's a lot of cool NA geography i would love to see final fantasy-ified
imagine a Pacific Northwest zone...
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I can even hear the music by looking at that picture >twin peaks sidequests with Koji back on team
but there is hope, southern part of south america have some similar landscapes
I realized that Lalafells are too stocky. They look like potato's unironically when dressed down...an aspect masked when they're armored up
They're kinda like fat babies
they are super imposed pocked dimensions, they were all copies of the source at the time of the sundering but all took different routes with evolution and society, thats why norvrandt geography is so similar to eorzea but the cultures and people are different, like the amal jaa being furries in the 1st and scalies in the source.
this was explained in game heavily during shadowBlack folk
estinien appeared during the entire 6.x patches despite not really doing anything though
rather than drag him along they should've left him in Radz training the soldiers
When Selh'teus and Bahamut attacked Al'taeiu, the city's defenses activated. Al'taeiu contained the fifth Mothercrystal at its heart, and some genius decided that it would be a great idea to pull the entire city into the Mothercrystal beyond the reach of any attackers. However, the city that was pulled inside the Mothercrystal included the Mothercrystal itself. So the whole crystal was wrapped in on itself and a paradox was created with Al'taeiu being completely cut off from Vana'diel. The Zilart inside began to deteriorate physically and mentally over 10,000 years of isolation, and during this time they experimented with biomagitek to create artificial bodies for themselves. One of the types of bodies they created were the Aern. Absolute Virtue is an extremely powerful Aern that was sealed away for some reason and that's about the most explanation it gets unless there's some extremely obscure hidden lore somewhere that I haven't seen in almost 20 years of this game.
>what's a zilart
The original humans who existed before the true Mothercrystal was fragmented. When the world fell from grace they fell with it, and when they discovered the truth of their origins they went to work trying to reunite the Mothercrystals again. >and how do you beat it in game?
Nowadays you just hit it. But the trick was that Absolute Virtue had access to every job's ultimate ability (including WHM's Benediction which he'd pop after hours of whittling his HP). You had to have someone of the same job use the same ability at the same time as him to seal it away.
Worst Scion. >ugly face >grandma hair >boring flanderized personality >embarrassing voice actor >does nothing but say “THEN LETS DO IT MY WAY” before being stopped, or complimenting you for your decisions.
Estinien is the Worf of FFXIV. Once he became a Scion they removed any and all cool-factor he had, although I understand that it was inevitable since the main gang kind of required some muscle. Though it was kind of cool to see his evolution initially if you started the game as Lancer.
>play SAM >the thing that sets the katana apart from other weapons is its aesthetics and simple elegance >every single SAM weapon after the first basic blades are ugly, fricked-up nonsense on fire
>no true samurai armor >there's LITERALLY a period-accurate set of Edo samurai armor you can display in your house but can't wear >if you don't want to look like an epic masterless ronin you're completely out of luck >the genji stuff is so fricking ugly and the SAM ones the worst of them all >the heavensturn set is "okay" but it's not job restricted >GOD help you if you're a fem SAM because NOTHING looks good on you. There are no sexy feminine samurai armor sets that also are not robes like this: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JlWaNa >Only good option as a female SAM is a fricking once-in-a-blue-moon event quest set from FF11 (Iroha's set) which isn't even a fricking samurai set, Iroha isn't even a fricking samurai she uses a fricking spear. Frick you if you missed the event tho.
mix and match between genji, heavensturn armor, iroha armor, artifacts, scorpion harness from eureka and the heavensturn annual helmets
the dragon and tiger ones look amazing
Yeah okay wake me when Yoshi Sanpo can design a better female samurai set than this. Until then I am never wearing a SAM artifact set. Frick off with the gay ass dresses. He may as well put my catgirl in a fricking burkka. I'm a legs appreciator so I need to see some thighs or I don't wear it.
>first basic blades are ugly, fricked-up nonsense on fire
my problem with 90% of all SAM katana's. Very few aren't just "blades on fire", like the Byakkos sword
i won't pretend green mage identity death is any kind of loss, green mage had absolutely dogshit theming and class identity in the ONE GAME it appears in
green mage with a different name
judge with a different name and armor class
gunblade with a different name and role(debatable)
is it just me or it does feel like Yoshi is too worried about subverting expectations and trying to be original to the point where this is negatively impacting job design?
iam a judge gay but viper honestly just sounds like two swords reaper atm, where a reverse rdm or a stance based melee/ranged hybrid would be at least more interesting
>a stance based melee/ranged hybrid would be at least more interesting
For all the clowns who thought corsair/judge (lmao) would be reverse rdm, explain to me why would you leave melee range for your "ranged phase". It makes zero sense
>Get 10 felicitous tokens >Purchase a island sanctuary lootbox because who knows >Get the 12m gil mount immediately
Well looks like I'm done with this content I suppose
Oh I didn’t even know it could come from the loot boxes. Wow.
Guess I’ll pivot to that. I have two characters with maxed out islands so I can do that i suppose. I was getting tokens lol.
I think there's two that come from the random chests; one can be purchased with the vegetal vouchers, but last I heard it would take you around 8 months of complete weeklies to obtain it that way. I guess it was meant to be a consolation thing, but it still seems better to just gamble for it instead. >I have two characters with maxed out islands
absolute madman
WoL straight mans Alphinaud, Alisaie, Estinien and rarely Y'shtola.
Alphinaud straight mans Alisaie.
Alisaie straight mans G'raha.
Y'shtola straight mans WoL, Thancred and Urianger.
Thancred straight mans WoL and Urianger.
Estinien straight mans Alphinaud and Y'shtola.
Urianger rarely straight mans Thancred.
G'raha doesn't straight man jackshit.
Tataru straight mans everyone.
Krile doesn't engage in straight man shenanigans.
What is everyone's thoughts on the new class Viper?
It seems interesting but it also feels like they're scrapping the bottom of the barrel but also like, not thinking through and giving us Reaper first and because of how flashy Reaper is, seeing Viper it feels far more bland than I think it would have been if we had seen Viper first?
Also they said it was going to be a technically difficult class but they said the same about Reaper and it's on par with maybe Summoner in difficulty? The only class remotely technical anymore is Ninja (Anons I don't care that you're super autistic and you find NIN super easy ok? For the rest of us I'd consider it moderate to difficult compared to the other classes in the game)
Viper is just a hunter in general, its now the game's canonical hunter job. Makes it perfect for races largely tied to poaching like the Moon Cats and Duskwight Elezen.
>Viper is just a hunter in general, its now the game's canonical hunter job.
Makes me wonder why they didn't just call it Hunter. It's not like that would be an unfitting name consider what we already know of their lore, and it sounds a lot better as a job name than Viper.
We've seen so little it's hard to decide anything about it.
The fact that the twinblade form seems to be an actual stance switch instead of just showing up for certain attacks is slightly interesting.
But the not!Inner Release window at the end with the same blue flame GCD being spammed three times does not fill me with hope.
>The fact that the twinblade form seems to be an actual stance switch instead of just showing up for certain attacks is slightly interesting.
these were exactly my thoughts, but it remains to be seen how they'll handle stance switching
What's the overall opinion from everyone for this class?
From what little I've seen from the JP community they're constantly posting SAO mp4s with the move set from the preview and I don't know if that means they like it or if they're making fun of it.
It looks like absolute crap imo
I think it looks okay but I could see it potentially being a bit of a flop largely due to how many melee dps there are starting to be in this game. The "stance switch" seems potentially interesting but I don't really see FFXIV combat doing anything unique with a stance that is more than just switching when you are supposed to on a timeline.
I'm actually surprised, not going to lie.
I haven't touched Endwalker since initial release, what's been the "secret bread crumb" hints for the next expansion and its story?
I know in Shadowbringers it was the Void/Darkness and we didn't learn about the Void World until after Endwalker was done so I'm curious if there's something like that for Endwalker now?
I haven't done any of the crafting quests for Endwalker.
I thought we solved Ultima story in Stormblood? Something new happen?
I admittedly am semi-casual to Final Fantasy, I never played the Ultima franchise, was that set in the FF Universe? I thought it was its own thing?
Or is it akin to FF7 and FFX being in the same planet and universe thing?
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Ultima was a huge influence on FF1
8 months ago
Anonymous
Ultima is just an old school RPG that has influenced pretty much every JRPG you've ever played, alongside Wizardry.
So I'm confused what was the one Anon implying with Ultima connections in Endwalker?
8 months ago
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lol
8 months ago
Anonymous
TUREEEMBBBULLLL
8 months ago
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They're using a plot point from Ultima VII repurposed for FF. With the Great Earth Serpent.
At least that's the theory.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Also
nobody is answering your question
too with Altima. Same writer for DT's MSQ.
8 months ago
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she awakens the great serpent with her thickness
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>Great Earth Serpent
So FFXIV now has a great Earth Seperant Big Bad?
8 months ago
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Look at the new Amano art
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>Azys Lla 2.0
whew
8 months ago
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I have no idea how you people see Azys Lla in this.
8 months ago
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>amano is fricking 71 now
man
8 months ago
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Ultima is just an old school RPG that has influenced pretty much every JRPG you've ever played, alongside Wizardry.
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it's akin to thick thighs and thicker calves, she is ultima
Lahabrea's wife invented the Heart of Sabik under the influence of an auracite bestowed by Ultima the High Seraph from the Ivalice raids.
During the savage fight where she activates the Heart of Sabik to give birth to a new world, there's a giant snake swimming in the background.
The word Viper means 'to bring forth life'.
I'm actually surprised, not going to lie.
I haven't touched Endwalker since initial release, what's been the "secret bread crumb" hints for the next expansion and its story?
I know in Shadowbringers it was the Void/Darkness and we didn't learn about the Void World until after Endwalker was done so I'm curious if there's something like that for Endwalker now?
You all don't realize that this is a cover for Lavos to rise from the ashes of the void after our absence
If they're gonna borderline copyright infringe on Assassin's Creed with Viper's fit, then I want a Castlevania Belmont job with whips and long flails and throwables
>primal summoning isnt dangerous because it was actually the ascians corrupting it >we can easily cure tempering anyway >the 12 don't exist anymore becuase they were just ascians >we have a fricking starship that can take us anywhere >we have found the ability to teleport to unattuned aethertyes
I cant wait for Dawn trail to have a frickton of plotholes because of this, especially when we (inevitably) hit some big mountain we cant fly over for plot purposes.
I can't wait for Dawntrail to have no plotholes whatsoever and have brainlets like you flood the threads with your seething while you continuously get made fun of.
Teleporting to unattuned aetherytes was always possible, it was described in 1.0 and early ARR lore as a popular tactic for Garlean surprise attacks. They'd force all the conscripts to try and teleport to an unattuned aetheryte, and even if most of them got lost in the Lifestream and never made it out, the few that did make the trip would be enough to frick up the target from inside.
now one group can do it with a prototype design that also causes acute aether sickness that can last for hours, and renders any first time travelers completely immobile for the duration
Wait, the 12 are gone now, I haven't done the rest of the quests with them.
Did they all die I thought we were gonna have some cool gods/goddesses or something now.
it is still an immense aether draw
the twelve haven't ever mattered
we do not have a starship, it's Sharlayan property
no we haven't, it's a prototype that needs an entrance and exit set up
you do not know what a plothole is. let us discuss the kate 2 minute meta and its demystifying of ff4 references
>lmao cope we can use that shit whenever we want we saved the planet.
We already did it to fuel the travel to Ultima Thule and Louisoix used it to stop bahamut. It's a plot device to solve doomsday scenarios, but it isn't like we can just press a buttom and it happens.
>primal summoning isnt dangerous because it was actually the ascians corrupting it
It is dangerous because they drain the land out of aether to sustain thenselves. Only the tempering was the ascians doing. >the 12 don't exist anymore becuase they were just ascians
No they aren't. they are magic constructs made by hydalin with the purpose of restoring the balance of the world after the calamities. >we have a fricking starship that can take us anywhere
That thing takes a lot of fuel to work. We need to use the mother crystal to reach Ultima Thule. >we have found the ability to teleport to unattuned aethertyes
That is still a work in proguess. Someone needs to get there and set up the system first. >I cant wait for Dawn trail to have a frickton of plotholes because of this, especially when we (inevitably) hit some big mountain we cant fly over for plot purposes.
If you pay more attention to the story there will be less plotholes.
I've considered it and marriage is my conclusion, she radiates with a tenderness that invokes the hand holding urge, a loving snuggle after insemination
7.0: New World
8.0: Ilsabard
9.0: Meracydia+Dragonstar Remade. Dragons and robots live in peace again.
10: One zone for each remaining inhabited shard and a big sendoff for the XIV series as a whole in preparation for the next MMO.
I don't think we're ever getting the rest of Islabard other than individual zones.
We're only getting South America in this expansion it looks like. Might get North America at some point. And I bet they do a whole expansion dedicated to another single shard like ShB, rather than a big multiverse thing.
>I miss Estinien bros
What the frick do you mean? He appears non-stop for the entirety of the 6.x patches and is set to appear in DT too.
And how long ago were the 6.x patches moron?
Today is the 4th week of 6.5.
like 20 days ago
6.5 came out like 3 weeks ago you dumb frick
yeeesh moron BTFO live
You absolute ape.
We're LITERALLY in patch 6.5, waiting for patch 6.51.
Who the frick are you and what are you doing here.
Did you miss when he always gets a fricking main part in the CG trailers now?
>dwarves
Is this an ai shitpost
Tataru hasn't been important since ARR
Aren't there also literal dwarves in FFXIV?
They are just lalafells wearing masks, and they were only involved in shb's story for like 15 minutes
She should be the main character.
Tataru is the only reason the Scions had the funding to do jack shit for most of the game.
>it began
>It's going
>It's over
>It's so over
>We're coming back
>We're back
>We're so back
wtf happened to his nose in the recent one?
Different angle/lighting
Everything is a game to the WoL after the cosmic shit that went down in EW.
fernando dawntrail should be younger. in 5 more games he'll be an old man
>XIV becomes a bildungsroman that follows the protagonist from youth till death
would be kino
>Bradley Cooper IS...
>American Warrior of Light
Estinien is based and I'm glad they can have at least one chad in the main cast. Now if only we could get a proper waifu that would be great, but sadly the game is plagued by androgynous women and fuqbois.
Estinien and Y'shtola need to be rescued from the shitheap XIV has become and be transported to some other fantasy world where they can truly shine again
>Y'shtola wants to travel the shards
>Estinien just wants to adventure
This is a perfect setup for these two and really it was fun having characters who didn't interact much before as a focus, nevermind Y'shtola being something of a background character. But no, gotta get the two attention prostitute kids more attention as well as a new draw for women and trannies.
Y'shtola is the dullest character in the game. You only like her because she's moderately attractive.
I liked her more back in ARR/HW when she was a curious magician sticking her neck out a little too far, and always displaying that intellectual curiosity. They tried to mature her too much with the Matoya stuff, and now she's just a haughty old Scholar. They even reference this in the MSQ showing that she used to have a girlish cute side with her water summon chant, but has now changed the incantation to be boring and methodical. She lost all her charm. Curiosity killed the Cat('s personality).
She didn't have a "girlish cute side" in ARR though. She is the same boring character now as she always has been.
I disagree, but I'll admit it's more pulling from my memory of events, rather than looking at specific dialogue to prove you wrong. I just think of things like her showing up in her mining outfit and her enthusiasm was the character trait that shined through the most there. Also I seem to remember her having some flirty dialogue, but I 100% acknowledge that could be me projecting what I wanted to read out of the dialogue.
homie what. In ARR and HW Y'shtola's role was always to stand away from whatever was happening, arms crossed, being the straight man to whatever silly thing the others were doing. Now in EW she's straight up been the comic relief character with Estinien as the straight man, and her sassiness has gotten more playful and less about shaming people for doing something wrong. How the frick did you even come to the conclusion that she's gotten more serious and less girlish.
nta but estinien has his fair share of being silly in ew too. the only straight man in the scions is thancred
True, but the straight man dynamic is always relative. You might say Y'shtola is the straight man to WoL, Estinien is the straight man to Y'shtola and WoL is the straight man to Estinien and it'd be (loosely) accurate most of the time. Same as how sometimes Thancred and Urianger can even be each other's straight man.
Estinien's the straight man put into comedic situations by virtue of being out of his depth in anything scholarly
why does koji smile upside down
Are these some ecelebs I should know
the two on the right are, koji actually works on the game
Is he actually named Koji? He looks like a bald Brit.
His parents were weebs and named him Michael Koji Fox, goes by Koji. He was a big FFXI player who got a job at SE translating FFXIV 1.0 to English. After ARR he is much more highly involved in writing the game, he's a good dude (the fact I used to play FFXI with him has no bearing on this opinion).
It's hard to dislike Koji when he's living every weeb's teenage dreams whilst putting in the enthusia.
He was off-key terribly in the first two Primals songs at Fanfest but he just makes it work.
>He was off-key terribly
anon thinks the primals are fully live, anon, sorry to break it to you but anything outside amanda, the raubahn guy and the lead guitar lines or the gimmicks like soken playing a trumpet is overdubbed, heavily, specially koji lines.
the thing is, the in game versions are heavily processed mixes, talk about flangers on top of chorus, delays on top of fuzzes and this sort of shit, so the sound manipulation makes em sound acceptable in a proper EQ mix, playing live the raw tracks and going thru the event sound tables which rarely are set 100% properly to make up for the stage size, they always show the flaws at it.
there was an old anniversary stream maybe like 2 years ago where soken showed the unedited tracks for rise and unbending steel vs the edits and you can hear it.
no disrespect for koji, i love the dude, but the band is a product.
It was pretty clear that on those first songs Koji was singing live, the other songs all had him go tthrough an autotuned vocoder.
which songs he sang? the first 2
>there was an old anniversary stream maybe like 2 years ago where soken showed the unedited tracks for rise and unbending steel vs the edits and you can hear it.
post eet
i dont have this shit saved, if the xiv youtube channel doesn't delete streams i bet you can find it, just skim thru the thumbails until you see Soken with a laptop
All i remember is that it was their music segment talk and I think they had him composing some 8 bits while some other dudes were doing the ifrit jacket challenge.
not sure thou.
>there was an old anniversary stream maybe like 2 years ago where soken showed the unedited tracks for rise and unbending steel vs the edits and you can hear it.
https://www.twitch.tv/finalfantasyxiv/clip/DoubtfulPoorDillTriHard-fmd43EXl_sgMjgGa?featured=false&filter=clips&range=all&sort=time
kek
Sounds like me.
He is american.
His father went to Japan and loved the place so he named his kid Koji.
So it's pretty much like Kobe.
i have no idea who the frick they are but they let the two of them perform on guitar and bass for one of the primal songs at London
I would too if I had to take a picture with those dogshit yo*tubers
He knows the game is shit even in lore
Why does every girls pussy gush like niagra falls for this character?
That's not Emet-Selch.
He's helpful, nice and pretty.
Japanese women love cute things and being women are vain by nature, so they always go for hyper-feminine males over masculine males. And that sentiment has rubbed off on the West as it's a perfect compliment towards the Western push for women to be hyper-masculine.
He's bunny and cute and has an exotic (for Americans) accent.
Because women love men who don't simp over them. The less you like a woman, the more she likes you.
true for real life, where she needs the strongest bloke to protect and provide, but in idealized scenarios, where they can play dress up in their heads and fantasize about pegging the dude in a maid's uniform, contemporary women love feminine morons, which is why korean dramas are so popular right now
no clue why, but who cares, its femoid thinking
Hard to break it for you, but hetero, non-fujo, women rarely fantasize about pegging someone.
unfortunately for you, the majority of femoids that simp for these characters, and that play this game, are fujos.
real women are likely doing somethign more important irl like working out or being hot
You don't know a single thing about women lmao
>You don't know a single thing about women lmao
YWNBAW
>Anon hears "women" and the first thing he thinks about is trannies
You really don't know anything about women
ohhh, who hurt you sweetie? 🙂
>girl
Only homosexuals and fujos (they dont count as woman) like male viera
who is this? I don't know because I skip the story.
Who's the guy on the shadowbringers cover art is it Odin?
the warrior of darkness
Making VPR glams is going to be tough, Scouting are generally the weakest of variants across gearsets.
I feel like everyone's going to be using Uraeus Coat, Crystarium, Cryptlurker, or Rinascita.
I will only use the AF gear, like with every other job I play.
Scouting Judge and the seasonal pvp armors aren't bad if you got em.
Bro all of those look like dogshit. The current pvp armor is the 1st one that isn't totally hideous. Have you even seen the shoulders on that judge armor?
>Bro all of those look like dogshit.
die in a fire homossexual limsa catgirl, go dress like a bawd then
Just play tank if you want shoulder pads then.
Most of the player base is already only using level 1 modern glam pieces for every job so that's not a problem.
>Most of the player base
I don't give a shit I want appropriate thematic glams.
There are decent options out there, but not a lot
Most of the scouting gear was only designed with NIN in mind
I'm quite fond of Heirloom.
That's a good set
>NIN gets that bulky shit
>Maim/Fending looks10x better and is sleeker
I’m just going to use the field commander’s coat anyways, saving this season’s crystals for the hellhound weapons to the instant it comes out
I’m using Deepshadow for an assassins creed style.
https://arch-img.b4k.co/vg/1697904824950.jpg
(I’m on mobile at work and uploading is banned lol)
What's the overall opinion from everyone for this class?
From what little I've seen from the JP community they're constantly posting SAO mp4s with the move set from the preview and I don't know if that means they like it or if they're making fun of it.
It looks like absolute crap imo
>posting SAO mp4s
I thought it looked cool… what have I become?
Let's make fun of him everyone!
Stop it…
STOP IIIIIIIT!!!
i like dual wielding
i'm not a fan of twinblades
i like ninja
i hope this one has 2 dots or 1 and a lot of positionals
>Perfect excuse for the bat armor from PvP
>Lol no NIN only
I am upset.
>bat armor
>not the Snake armor for DRG
It's literally in the name, Viper. What a waste
im going to be using the set from the current battlepass
How do I get this?
Play PVP
fuk
Just do your daily and you can easily get it
Which class is the least frustrating with the least effort required in PvP?
just play your favorite
Alright, thanks
Don't be a pussy b***h, anon.
Just play
I’d rather staple my foreskin shut than play the pvp, but I tried a game with Bard and it was okay.
Legit just play what ever you like but go into the wolf den to set up your bar, read your skills and hit some dummies
take up the glowy stick and the healing panties and fire your doom laser once and get instakilled on sight
I'm going to farm Shiva Savage unsync for Edenchoir.
that looks ass
How do we fix male glams?
Trancers been quiet since this dropped
They'll literally never recover from that shit, it's a complete killshot.
What do you guys prefer?
The current DDR/piano recital dodging raids
Or
Sponge bosses whose time to kill is determined by how much you know your job and how kitted out it is?
First for FFXIV
Second for MMORPGs
I'd like a tasteful blend of both where knowledge of dungeon mechanics and your own skill dictate the raid. But if I can only choose between the binary, the former. I may miss a debuff or a DoT and I don't want my run to be ruined.
Current fight design makes healers pointless. They're literally only there to press 1 button after a raidwide and occasionally rez when someone fricks up a mechanic that doesn't instantly wipe the group.
Idk, say that to Pandaemonium
Hard pass on the latter, but I do think the dance fights have become too piano recital, it needs more random order elements, or other ways to shake it up.
Maybe use the temporary action system more.
The former is actually more fun and can also exist while having job kits change each expansion (assuming the devs want to create more depth)
1st one, CEs being a literal dance of death in bozja and zadnor was fun as frick
You can easily tell when people started playing based on their answer to this question
first because i'm not autistic
Elves are tight. Elezen are disgusting giraffes. Also we just got a region with Old Shar that had a focus on Elezen professors. So it's not like we've been without them for a while.
I'm not a furry, but I hope there's more Miqo society over in Tural. We see Thancred talking to one in the trailer.
Miqote don't have societies, they're literal nomad hunter gatherer tier. The only one of the main races to never actually make anything of themselves.
>Miqote don't have societies,
based lore ignorer
moon cats are nomads, sun cats form tribes and own territories
its the whole point betwwen a Tia vs a Nunh
>our tribes built huts out in the wilderness we're totally civilized
Kek frick off
>Miqo society
Toxoplasmosis and hairballs aren't a society. The only races to have a society in FFXIV are Hyurs, Elezen and Lalas.
Not true. Roes have an established homeland and had a major hand in founding both Limsa and Sharlayan, and the lion dudes have Bozja.
The Hrothgar also are confirmed to be in Tural, so we're guaranteed to see more of them. Including the women.
We're 100% going to Graha's hometown Corvos at some point. Probably as part of the next Eureka.
Anon it's been 5 minutes since the last time you saw him in canon.
Still funny. Would have also been a hell of alot better than Viper™.
8.0 Ranged DPS
>yes I'm coping
It's over...
it's sofrickingover...
we're done for... kuso...
qrd?
how did you find it so quickly?
Did you finish her questline, Ganker? You aren't a slacker, right?
no because I haven't played today. but yeah I should be able to complete it today
does it give you a mount? glams? or is just the regular dress up bawd?
It gives you feels and a gleaner outfit I suppose
I will now collect yourmaterial my chocolady
gleaner outfit as far as I know. Not sure if it gives any thing else. Maybe someone that already completed it can confirm
Just the outfit. Also the chest comes pre-dyed for some reason, maybe a bug.
It's not a bug, it's a part of the story, you'll see.
I haven't played since the disaster that is 6.0
will you try to milk the new xpac again and complain that you didn't get why zenos did what he did?
Who?
one of the big wow influencers, he tried branching his channel to cover xiv too but got whiny because the game didnt allow you to walk away from zenos challenge at the end, then people stopped caring for what he says.
Kek what a gay
I remember he put up a poll and then got mad when like 90%+ chose "that I can't deny"
Sometimes ff14 community is alright
>the game didnt allow you to walk away from zenos challenge at the end
Jesus H fricking christ what an utter wienersucker
>xivies when you suggest an rpg should allow you to roleplay
Cope
>roleplaying a pussy at the end of the universe
Sorry, I don't self-insert
oi lad, you're still butt hurt about it innit? better put those rpg choices in your game m8
why is it that whenever anyone has anything to say about ffxiv that isn’t purely positive you always assume it’s one guy rather than 2/7888000000 people on earth agreeing
only one guy is unfunny enough to have "xivies" as an insult
it’s not really an insult, unless you think military/government people referring to normal people as “civies” is an insult
talk about video games on Ganker? I guess you’ve got a point
Probably because normal people don’t do what you do.
your boyfriend's complaint were dumb dave, you know it, i know it, he knows it, his arguments are moot because it was never important thruout all his playthru before, but only at the ltieral final moment of the game, suddenly he gets annoyed.
besides, the wol was never a self insert like classic rpgs, JRPGs never worked like that.
you may customize your catgirl and pretend she is your girlfriend, but the story was always about alberto fantasia and HIS motivations, regardless of how few they always were. and roberto fantajy is a combatsexual like zenos and would never ignore that challenge.
now go sell your rogue lite
the fact that you think self inserting is the default other option to playing a preset character you have no control over says alot
>the fact that you think the only other option is another option says a lot
ok timmy, think a little, what other option is there to choose in that fight? you either fight or flee, eduardo imaginario's choice is to fight, epistomologically, any other choice is a self insert choice by (YOU) who disagrees with what the protag wants.
besides, your whole point of contempt is moot when there is literally zero choice thruout the whole game.
you knew what you were getting from the get go, or do you buy Forza and suddenly complains that you can't pick an airplane and roleplay a pilot like in MS F simulator?
>eduardo imaginario's choice is to fight, epistomologically, any other choice is a self insert choice by (YOU) who disagrees with what the protag wants
PLEASE be trolling
letting Zenos live after the events of Ultima Thule would be a bad idea. If he wasn't able to get his fight then, and having witnessed the power of dynamis, his fight autism would elevate him to the power of the endsinger but without the AI mentality that Meteion had
plus, well, he did kill off his own people and all. Their are two correct answers to his challange, 'That I can't deny' and 'I'm sick of your shit and I'm putting you down'
The first is obvious, the latter I feel works too because Zenos already offered to accept you as his friend at Ala Mhigo, and if you accept, he then denies you. Any platitudes beyond that are just him trying to rectify that mistake and the teleporter reappearing is his final gift to you, either way
Turbo grifter. Went to FF get some free cheap views by riding the Shadowbringers/Endwalker hype.
His boyfriend (the one that actually pushed him to cover XIV) unironically lurks these threads, or used to.
>hes still doing it for free
No stopped caring about this steaming pile of horse shit since 6.0
Answering any XI question on lore/gameplay/whatever
post your longest webm
Uhh..
Of course, it's just an investment
You can do the story together and there's very little reason to ever split party. But as with any game, it's more fun with friends.
Nuker, used to be broken af but is still great.
>Nuker
that's my favorite kind of class in dnd so based, might play xi one of these days though having to pay another sub is annoying
Is it worth it to play xi in current year
I asked this in another thread, but just to see if I get a similar answer, would XI be a fun time playing through WITH one or two friends? Like will we actually travel and experience the story together? Or is it like XIV where we just do MSQ separately and meet up for instanced content. I guess I'm asking if there like a quest sync or meaningful moment to moment overworld content that's not just running from dialogue box to dialogue box.
You can spend every step of the journey together. There's no point at which you have to disband and do some shit like a solo instance. You can level sync down to the lowest level party member and quests aren't level locked. You'll spend 90% of your time trekking through the overworld together because dungeons aren't instanced content.
Damn that sounds fun. I might try to actually get a couple friends to play with me in prep for the alliance raids so we have that context, and because it's the one game mainline FF game I haven't played through before.
I love scholar aesthetics but hate XIV scholar, how is scholar in XI?
I've played XI since high school and 1.0 since beta. Wtf happened between XI and XIVs animations? XI was always so much more detailed. I even remember 1.0s cutscenes being around the same level of detail as XIs but after ARR it's like the characters can only nod or do the most bare bones of movements. Was there ever an explanation for this?
different engine and budget, you have to remember what is most cost effective when remaking an MMO. It was their fiduciary duty to do what they did.
the fact that 7.0 will be adding back 1.0 bone structure & animations is a good thing.
>the fact that 7.0 will be adding back 1.0 bone structure & animations is a good thing.
what? how? when did they say this?
>the fact that 7.0 will be adding back 1.0 bone structure & animations is a good thing.
Did they really say this? I knew we were getting a graphic update but I thought it was just shader shit? Big if true.
>the fact that 7.0 will be adding back 1.0 bone structure & animations is a good thing.
Huh what?
technically they'll be adding the bone structure but animations hasn't been confirmed yet
XIV has way, way more cutscenes and models and rigs are more complex.
Wtf are you talking about? They were even more complex in 1.0 and they had way more animation. They downgraded in ARR and most of 1.0 and XIVs models are direct asset rips from XI???
I'm sorry I read 1.0 as XI.
For MSQ it should all be new animations made by hand. I expect them to use the shitty default emotes for side quest but holy frick. I thought MSQ was the selling point for this shitty game and it's mid at most.
I'm pretty sure all the 1.0 animations were motion captured which is why there's such a difference after ARR. Since 1.0 didn't live up to expectations, they dialed back on the graphical quality and cut whatever budget they had for motion capture to zero I assume.
That said, anyone got a straight link on bringing back 1.0 bones?
How big of a difference is there between ATK and STR? Like, how does 2 STR compare to 3 ATK?
STR increases the potential max damage, and Attack increases how closely/often you'll hit said max damage or close to it.
I usually only play during Free Logins myself (they run for about 2 weeks or more). Historically they run Free Logins about twice or more a year. Pay once and you're golden.
Addressed in the panel after the EU keynote. You should see the freakout about mods since it's going to break every mod.
No reason why they couldn't
>Addressed in the panel after the EU keynote. You should see the freakout about mods since it's going to break every mod.
I'll check it out. thanks
>since it's going to break every mod.
It absolutely isn't, since mods are just clientside lua based overlays that come with their own bones and their own meshes. And painting new bones to move the new ones won't exactly be difficult either.
Will they remake some skill effects as well? Some skills are fricking ugly compared to the new classes.
What does corsair play like?
RNG laden, build up TP and shoot from afar. They were perfect for EXP Parties because one of Corsair's abilities gave a boost to EXP.
In lore they are the Pirate class, and one of the main characters in ToAU is a Corsair that makes a deal with the devil.
Play blackjack with party buffs and shoot gun.
Amazing class in the game as of right now.
They can melee, ranged and do the best magic damage in the game, also have the best buffs in the game.
Exblain the real creation myth and what the fck prishe did to promathia.
>Exblain the real creation myth
Altana, goddess of Dawn, and Promathia, god of Twilight, gave birth to a perfect world together. Promathia being the god of Twilight was always fated to suffer a 'perfect death'. And he eventually did. To bring him back to life, Altana fragmented the original Mothercrystal and placed his essence in its five pieces. This act destroyed the perfect world and gave birth to Vana'diel. The 'perfect death' of Promathia was thus fragmented into the concept of mortality, and the essence of his element of Darkness lived on in the five new races born of the fragmented Mothercrystals.
>and what the fck prishe did to promathia.
She used the Star of Tavnazia to crystallize his darkness into magicite so Altana could scatter it back into the lifestream.
tl;dr for pretty much everything: Altana & Promathia created the five races after the Zilartans did their business, Altana gave them life while Promathia cursed them (which is what the Ark Angels represent).
Because of a Zilartan, Mildaurion, Prishe's emptiness (the curse Promathia gave) was crystalized, which was then weaponized against Promathia to weaken him enough for WoC & crew to fight them off.
There's a lot more details that I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's pretty cool.
There's also the added layer of stuff RoV & TVR did too like what they did to WoC.
>WoC & crew to fight them off.
WoC? Warrior of crystal?
yup
>Altana & Promathia created the five races after the Zilartans did their business, Altana gave them life while Promathia cursed them (which is what the Ark Angels represent).
This isn't quite right. The Five Races were born out of the Mothercrystals from Promathia's darkness. The Zilart were original lifeforms from Paradise, but they lost their divinity when the the Mothercrystal was sundered. Even though the Five Races had yet to be born, Promathia's darkness was still permeating through the world, and it began to gather in the once-perfect hearts of the Zilart and robbed them of their Whisper of the Soul. Zilart without the Whisper were called Kuluu and exiled. But as the phenomenon became more widespread they created the Chamber of Eventide to suck the darkness out of themselves. Eald'narche then made contact with the Al'taeiu Mothercrystal and received a vision of the original world. And all Zilart with the Whisper received that vision as a broadcast from his soul. After seeing that world, they began their work to rejoin the Mothercrystals. Arks were constructed around each of the Mothercrystals with lines all leading together to Tu'lia. Five Zilart warriors joined themselves to each of the crystals, and in doing so they became the perfect archetypes of what would later be the Five Races, and the particular pieces of Promathia's darkness that shapes those races. Those are the Crystal Warriors, the Ark Angels. The rejoining process was then stopped by the Kuluu. Selh'teus and Bahamut attacked Al'taeiu while another group sabotaged the Ark around the Vazhl crystal and triggered the Meltdown which wiped the Zilart off the map.
Fun part is when you explore the implications of Promathia's lore because he created The Void as seen here
Meaning it's because of Promathia that Cloud of Darkness is a thing, why Xande in III was able to gain as much power as he did, why Exdeath in V became obsessed with nothingness, and more.
I wholesale reject that FFXI is responsible for the overarching majority of FF's multiverse and light-dark balance
Nah that would be Chaos and Cosmos from dissidia, all the rest are offbrands spawns or people pursuing their powers
If it helps, Chaos & Cosmos are a higher tier than Altana & Promathia
No, pay attention to what Balamor is saying. Promathia's darkness is called Emptiness, it's the idea of death, longing, the idea that you are imperfect which causes you to reach for the light. He says flat out that the Void is not the Emptiness. The Void is non-existence. The joining of Promathia and Altana is what banished some part of the Void to create Vana'diel. When two divinities join either through love or conflict, their astral winds clash and blow away the Cloud.
Forgot to add that this almost happened a second time when Odin and Alexander fought around 900 years before and the resulting astral storm created a supernova which caused daylight in Vana'diel for an entire year.
The Void despite being non-existance is still a tangible thing in FF lore. And it's (the tangible Void's) creation was because of Promathia's darkness. We've seen how powerful Altana & Promathia are considering they made WoC a demi-god, they joined the darkness & light which is a counterbalance to The Void. We've seen what happens with too much Darkness in FF games before not just in XIV but III as well, it creates another part of The Void.
Promathia has nothing to do with the Void except that he and Altana banished part of it to create Vana'diel. Balamor says it to you in the previous image, pretty flat out. Emptiness (Promathia's darkness) is not Void.
>We've seen what happens with too much Darkness in FF games before not just in XIV but III as well, it creates another part of The Void.
Neither World of Darkness is part of the Void, you're confused. FFIII World of Darkness is a parallel dimension to its World of Light, they both normally exist in harmony. The Cloud of Darkness simply invades one or the other when they tilt out of harmony as a means of further disrupting the harmony so that the entire thing will collapse back into Void. The Darkness itself is not Void, it's just that an imbalance will lead to collapse. She tried to do the same from the World of Light thousands of years beforehand too.
As for FFXIV, the name Void is a misnomer. The Thirteenth is entirely aspected to darkness. It earned the name 'Void' because taxonomists kept finding certain completely alien creatures and declared that they must be traveling to Hydaelyn through the Void (the actual FF Void), and called them voidsent. When it later turned out that these voidsent were all coming from the Thirteenth, that world was then called the Void because they were already calling the natives voidsent. Darkness =/= Void, Void is absence of anything. Darkness is a necessary part of life and balance in the FF cosmos.
lorelets really have to stop beign autists who think the void and/or CoD are one big entity accross all games
Ex dad also had dealings with the void, but in his scenario it was just the power to destroy reality.
In FFV Void was the name of the magic that let him pull things into the Interdimensional Rift, which is absolutely a joining factor between all the FFs. We have more than enough games confirming that. Void is just the concept of nonexistence that's common to the multiverse. The Cloud of Darkness is just one way the Void is personified. It's not necessarily the same entity, in FFIII she's an active interloper trying to collapse things on purpose. In FFXI it's an unthinking, unfeeling force of nature that simply just consumes things. But it's the same metaphysical idea across all these FF dimensions.
>he same metaphysical idea across all these FF dimensions.
key point there, concept
its tiresome that people try to connect all games by the terminologies and come up with dumb shit like "each shard is a ff game universe" when there is a tangible connection in the rift already.
I think that the only true tangible singular object between multiple games is Greg.
First Japanese storytelling trope?
> Umi wa mite iru sekai no hajimari mo
>Umi wa shitte iru sekai no owari mo.
I appreciate the candor, but I respectfully disagree on the interpretation. I took Balmor's dialogue as him clarifying what the Emptiness was in the big picture, not trying to separate the Emptiness from the Void.
And if you wanna see more of my interpretation, check out FF Dimensions 1 which involves what happens when you put too much light/darkness individually, take away too much light/darkness and when you combine too much light/darkness.
Well I'd just encourage you to read through his dialogue again. He draws a direct opposition between darkness and Void. Dimensions is on my list but I can assume it's similar to the FFIII situation.
>I think that the only true tangible singular object between multiple games is Greg.
Shantotto, Noctis, and Lightning too. Plus Dissidia in general.
Ultros & Typhon as well
oh yeah, i always forget the cross overs, thanks for reminding me that cloud is canon in ivalice kek
Just remember with Japanese writing, everything is canon with each other until they say otherwise. And even then, they change their minds.
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QRD on playing RNG? Hitting 30 soon on Horizon, can’t wait to unlock the job
be prepared to miss a lot until you don't miss anymore.
horizon, but retail is good too.
horizon or catseye which one is better?
what happend to him? did he get to frick the ice b***h? I stopped playing after heavensward
uhh you clearly stopped playing before heavensward LMAO
maybe, I don't remember. so what happened?
they started a restaurant together
the broiled wyrm
and started participating in side quests where you collect him food from around the world, while ysayle uses her shiva powers to make desserts
their latest appearance was during tataru quest, where she asks you to deliver them some sharlayan salt in exchange for some dragon scales for new magitek armor, which is the core point of the patches in endwalker, tataru mech suilt to be an adventurer like you
anon, the ice b***h died IN heavensward
damn, so he didn't get to frick her then. What a waste
She only wanted BDC
His current armor is named Iceheart after her though, so he at least got to be inside her in some manner
SO ZASED SO BASED WE HERE AT THE ARMOR CORD SOMETIMES WE GO TOO MANLY AND WE DECIDE TO WEAR LESS CLOTHING WITH THE BROS
THAT'S RIGHT FRICK YOU WE'RE MANLY BREEDABLE WOLVES GIGA CHADS
U MAD? THAT'S RIGHT I GOT MAD IN MY NAME CUS YOU SEE ME AND YOU JELLY OF ME OF MY GIGACHADNESS
URGHHHH
MANMODEEEEEEEE
did you get rejected sis?
Can I join the Armor Cord now?
I made an outfit
NO KIDS
NO FEMALE CHARACTERS
NO FEMALES OF ANY KIND WE ONLY ALLOW BROS
HYUR
ROE
MONK WARRIOR MAINS MOSTLY AND SOMETIMES ONE SISSY DANCER TO KEEP US BROS ENTERTAINED
WE ARE BREEDABLE AND MANMODE AND YOU SEEM KIDMODE SO WALK AWAY
>t. got turned down by the based department face control
We had a whole day without this spam bullshit yesterday and it was nice. Can you homosexuals go do whatever you were doing yesterday?
Tell me more about 1.0 bones structure
>Cloying stench of shadow lingers still.
What is he referring to?
It's so over for Hildi
Holy frick the downgrade is real
remember how in that documentary that everyone uses to say 1.0 was absolute shit and yoship is a savior for salvaging 14 they mention that some items had a million polygons?
player models had that and then when it moved to arr they had to change it so that's why in certain lighting the shadows look terrible
so with the new graphics update it seems that they'll smoothen the player models which will closely resemble the 1.0 models but more optimized
maybe a better pic of some random cat i found
Most of FF14 issues come from GODAWFUL lightning setup, like Minfilia's room in the Sands where a very bright lightsource is straight above WoL, and this fricks up a lot of cutscenes.
What are you talking about
Bones have nothing to do with polygon count
there was nothing about bones mentioned in the fanfest, neither about animation
following the thread i thought it was about the older models and how/why it looked better
What are the lore implications of this scene
Will she disrobe golbez
armorchads don't take the armor off
The helmet stays on
ZERO SEXO
Dressing up for WoL.
I miss her already
Dwarves? Since when does FFXIV have Dwarves? Anon please don't tell me you're referring to the little pedo-bait gnome children as "dwarves"
YYYEEEAAAAAAHHHH ARMOR CHADS DONT DO KIDDIE RACES
REAL MANLY MEN FIST THEIR DWARF ARMOR AND THEN THEIR DWARF BROS
hold the frick up
>their beards aren't an option for Lalafell
>the beards aren't even real in their own setting
Why are japs so cowardly?
You will NEVER be a dwarf
>You have no beard, you have no clan
>You're a crude mockery of the stone you wish you were born from
beards aint real for the whole setting
all beard options are SHIT
imagine having godbert face being the best and fullest beard in the whole game.
how do we bearded ladies handle this? i thought this game was inclusive!
So is crafting their "beard" like a rite of passage for babby dwarves?
i really don’t see why we can’t have the polygon count of the 1.0 era
did all of you forget that hardware has improved by leaps and bounds over the decade, a 4090 would eat a hundred of those flowerpots for breakfast
C*nsole players is why
Making the Alliance raid FFXI themed is a big mistake.
Maybe here and in other places is pure nostalgia but the majority of the player base didn't play XI and it's not like a 30 hours game like FFXII you can play before it.
That's why almost nobody has hype for the expansion
You already played 10k hours of a shit game and complain for 100 hours of a good one? What a Black person.
I don't know anything about XI other than the nutty bosses they had but I'm looking forward to it.
>xi themed alliance raid
>get to the first mechanic
>it’s in/out
>Enter 1st Alliance Raid
>This starts playing
ITS TOO POWERFUL
>half the raid dies to it
I'm curious about it as a former XI player but I feel it's either going to go one of a few ways. >People who didn't play won't truly be able to appreciate it.
>People who do appreciate it will be pissed at how XIV treats its legacy (Making it a shard to uplift XIVs garbage story in comparison)
>It will just make XI vets more annoying because we will be teased seeing what XI could of looked like if it got the same graphics treatment as XIV got.
We'll see how it goes but I couldn't care eitherway. Anything is better than the NieR shit we got.
I want the cool down to earth armor, that's enough for me
it wont be a shard, never, iroha cross over already proves this as atomos can't succ her while shes in eorzea
besides, all ff games are already connected by the rift, so they are already covered in terms of lore for that, the real deal is: how disrespectful will it be considering the new writing team is shit at caring for lore.
I really love xi shit, for me that is a real fantasy world, with real building and lore
but shoving it in here is dumb
the nostalgia will worn off by the 2nd tier and the story will not be able to deliver a satisfying end, it cannot continue the 11 lore and this will piss both player bases as we will end up with 11 greatest hits and the same rhapsodies cliff hanger
with that said, MAYBE, BIG HUGE MAYBE IF
this is the way they are announcing that 11 sub will merge with 14 and use the raid to hype people and try 11
ahh who are we kidding, they will never do this
You know how it feel when you went to a company vacation with all your co-workers? Its shit and still feels like a job.
For frick sake, its suppose to be a fresh new start in a fresh new world.
Frick these writers/market researcher who is afraid to get rid of them.
>he sees the Scions as annoying co-workers instead of dear friends
soulless
Its work whenever Scions involved.
I actually want to recommend this expansion to my friends who dropped it after Stormblood/ShB, thinking that there wouldn't be much burden of lore and knowledge after being promised that it would be 'fresh new starts'.
>Catch Aquamaton on my first try
Well, there goes all my luck for the rest of the month
>fight bismarck
>WAR lalafell screams WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL and spams Berserk Fell Cleave on Bismarck
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The fights playing out the same everytime needs to go. I feel like i'm playing against AI driven robots, not monsters.
I got into rhythm games instead of raiding in ffxiv
it’s more fun, more skillful, the music is better, i dont have to rely on 7 other mouthbreathers, no timegating
>search for new XIV videos
>Desperius spam
God, I wish SE would claim his shitty reuploads and ban him already. He brings even less to the community than the other creator leeches.
here's your original youtube content, bro
>not posting the full near two hour cut
what is wrong with trancers?
for me it's
While San d'Oria has the most nostalgia, I like the music of Windurst best.
BUT Ronfaure is the best starting zone imo
... Lalafells!
How's his NW channel going?
I'd guess about as well as his comedy career
>just uploaded a "one year later after I left XIV" video
Not gonna watch it, but I can tell from the thumbnail he uses his family for sympathy points again. I bet it's 98% lies, as usual with him.
Imagine your child grows up, looks at what his father did in life, and seems him being an obsessive manchild losing his mind and doomposting over a toddler video game, how embarrasing will it be
his child*
even without the superimposed lalas this is easily one of the most embarrassing things ive seen on in the internet
why are ffxiv players like this
>why are ffxiv players like this
It's just him. He's a fricking autist who thinks his opinions are worth more than other's. He is a huge Xbox fanboy who constantly asked and "predicted" a XIV on Xbox announcement.
I don't. Any more to this tale?
kek, xbox xiv have been mentioned by yoshi ever since SB, and yoshi said he was in talks with Phil since then. It's easy to assume that Pony was likely the ones anchoring the deal, its easy to predict something that obvious and well known for so long.
>Any more to this tale?
yeah,plebbit trolled him good, ginger seems to be equally hated by everyone in the community, idk why since the community loves so many grifters.
is it really that hard to guess why someone who has openly criticized the game is mostly disliked by the rabid online fanbase?
arthas and xenos always did too since always, i dont get whats the breaking point, if they call yoshi a liar is ok, but if they say the game is bad its not?
arthars and xeno only criticize the game by the safe community approved criticisms
“grrr 2 minute meta bad!”
“dungeon? 2 pulls wall 2 pulls wall boss lol!”
ahh I see, thank you ginger prime unenjoyer
The difference is that Ginger blames the community on everything and has bad ideas that either have been tried before and not worked, or are objectively worse than what we've got in XIV.
He used to be a toxic positive XIV content creator who hid his grudge against the community (something happened to his wife in HW) and actively asked for more XIV content creators, including WoWgays. Then when the WoW exodus happened, SE made those WoWgay streamers and XIV content creators part of the Fat Black Chocobo campaign. Except Work2Game (Ginger Prime and his buddy KindaGaming). They were salty over this and even attacked their fellow creators. Over a short while most of those creators stopped interacting with W2G. Ginger began to say the entire community sucks and is holding XIV back. Then in 2022 Ginger tried to do what MisshapenChair did and started his "villain arc" with hot takes and bad ideas. People countered them with constructive criticism, but Ginger continued with making videos on the community, calling them toxic haters.
After that his channel(s) tanked and he tried to save face by leaving XIV. Claiming he wants to focus on family (he has like six kids), his stand-up career (good one!) and New World content. Made a big stink about it and why NW is superior. Of course he never really left XIV. He stopped playing, but continued making shitty videos on XIV.
>Work2Game
Oh yeah. Before Shadowbringers they had so many "XIV in 2019" "Is XIV dead?" "Is XIV worth it" etc, etc. Frick off. The absolute dregs of clickbait attention whoring.
Remember that time when all xiv reddits started to mock him and his boyfriend and he went to several trying to debunk and dialogue with the redditors shitposting about him?
dude literally was replying to shitposts
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitpostXIV/comments/yeic46/a_tribute_to_gingerprime_brian_a_loss_to_the/
>linking to reddit
>Brian has played the game for 13 years straight and has achieved a whooping total hour of 120K gaming time.
>120K in13 years = 9231 hours per year = 25.3 hours per day
this can't be real...
Imagine quitting XIV and hitching your wagon to fricking New World of all things holy shit
I hope if we go to another shard, it isn't another pseudo medieval dimension, I assume one of the shards will be XIII themed because we are in a point people feel nostaglia for it.
Gran Pulse or Cocoon?
they are saving the xiii theme for final fantasy xvii
after the whole sami israelites and twitter morons crying about that glam iam starting to understand why so much of the new world is ffx themed, and I doubt they will drop a cosmo canyon anywhere because they're too afraid from morons crying about muh native representashun
I really wonder how they're gonna do the 8.0 NA equivalent expansion because its even more of a landmine
Hopefully by not giving a single frick
8.0 will be some tangent shit like shadowbringers or meracydia.
no one gives a frick about australia so they got that.
also I don't think north tural will ever be unclouded, it will be their Ilsabard, or DT final area at best, so they can claim they covered it with 1 zone.
if that's really what will happen then that's a shame, because there's a lot of cool NA geography i would love to see final fantasy-ified
imagine a Pacific Northwest zone...
I can even hear the music by looking at that picture
>twin peaks sidequests with Koji back on team
but there is hope, southern part of south america have some similar landscapes
I realized that Lalafells are too stocky. They look like potato's unironically when dressed down...an aspect masked when they're armored up
They're kinda like fat babies
Are shards other worlds or other realities? I'm not even entirely sure if this was actually explained in-game
They're parallel dimensions that occupy the same physical space.
They are layers
That's the FF multiverse at large, not XIV's shards.
>FF multiverse
Dissidia my dude.
That’s not what a multiverse is lol.
Dissidia is just some whacky crossover anniversary setting.
they are super imposed pocked dimensions, they were all copies of the source at the time of the sundering but all took different routes with evolution and society, thats why norvrandt geography is so similar to eorzea but the cultures and people are different, like the amal jaa being furries in the 1st and scalies in the source.
this was explained in game heavily during shadowBlack folk
estinien appeared during the entire 6.x patches despite not really doing anything though
rather than drag him along they should've left him in Radz training the soldiers
explain absolute virtue
ffxi: an aern dragoon
ffxiv: a weapon primal made by eureka, similar to odin
When Selh'teus and Bahamut attacked Al'taeiu, the city's defenses activated. Al'taeiu contained the fifth Mothercrystal at its heart, and some genius decided that it would be a great idea to pull the entire city into the Mothercrystal beyond the reach of any attackers. However, the city that was pulled inside the Mothercrystal included the Mothercrystal itself. So the whole crystal was wrapped in on itself and a paradox was created with Al'taeiu being completely cut off from Vana'diel. The Zilart inside began to deteriorate physically and mentally over 10,000 years of isolation, and during this time they experimented with biomagitek to create artificial bodies for themselves. One of the types of bodies they created were the Aern. Absolute Virtue is an extremely powerful Aern that was sealed away for some reason and that's about the most explanation it gets unless there's some extremely obscure hidden lore somewhere that I haven't seen in almost 20 years of this game.
what's a zilart
and how do you beat it in game?
>what's a zilart
The original humans who existed before the true Mothercrystal was fragmented. When the world fell from grace they fell with it, and when they discovered the truth of their origins they went to work trying to reunite the Mothercrystals again.
>and how do you beat it in game?
Nowadays you just hit it. But the trick was that Absolute Virtue had access to every job's ultimate ability (including WHM's Benediction which he'd pop after hours of whittling his HP). You had to have someone of the same job use the same ability at the same time as him to seal it away.
that is so cool
Worst Scion.
>ugly face
>grandma hair
>boring flanderized personality
>embarrassing voice actor
>does nothing but say “THEN LETS DO IT MY WAY” before being stopped, or complimenting you for your decisions.
Estinien is the Worf of FFXIV. Once he became a Scion they removed any and all cool-factor he had, although I understand that it was inevitable since the main gang kind of required some muscle. Though it was kind of cool to see his evolution initially if you started the game as Lancer.
They really killed his character when they removed the helmet.
You didn't beat Absolute Virtue.
What's the most time someone has lost after having their account terminated?
CORgays are the new CHMgays, when are they leaving the game?
>play SAM
>the thing that sets the katana apart from other weapons is its aesthetics and simple elegance
>every single SAM weapon after the first basic blades are ugly, fricked-up nonsense on fire
>no true samurai armor
>there's LITERALLY a period-accurate set of Edo samurai armor you can display in your house but can't wear
>if you don't want to look like an epic masterless ronin you're completely out of luck
>the genji stuff is so fricking ugly and the SAM ones the worst of them all
>the heavensturn set is "okay" but it's not job restricted
>GOD help you if you're a fem SAM because NOTHING looks good on you. There are no sexy feminine samurai armor sets that also are not robes like this: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JlWaNa
>Only good option as a female SAM is a fricking once-in-a-blue-moon event quest set from FF11 (Iroha's set) which isn't even a fricking samurai set, Iroha isn't even a fricking samurai she uses a fricking spear. Frick you if you missed the event tho.
No job has it worse.
NONE.
like the other anon said the first time, bro your rising armor?
mix and match between genji, heavensturn armor, iroha armor, artifacts, scorpion harness from eureka and the heavensturn annual helmets
the dragon and tiger ones look amazing
This gonna be the ebin new pasta for the next few threads?
>Iroha's set
Yeah okay wake me when Yoshi Sanpo can design a better female samurai set than this. Until then I am never wearing a SAM artifact set. Frick off with the gay ass dresses. He may as well put my catgirl in a fricking burkka. I'm a legs appreciator so I need to see some thighs or I don't wear it.
>I'm a legs appreciator
>first basic blades are ugly, fricked-up nonsense on fire
my problem with 90% of all SAM katana's. Very few aren't just "blades on fire", like the Byakkos sword
New Job might be "Green Mage" but it's basically gonna be another original job like XIV's version of Sage.
>all we get from here on out is original slop
>original slop
Do you fricking morons even read the dumb shit you post?
newbie
i won't pretend green mage identity death is any kind of loss, green mage had absolutely dogshit theming and class identity in the ONE GAME it appears in
green mage with a different name
judge with a different name and armor class
gunblade with a different name and role(debatable)
is it just me or it does feel like Yoshi is too worried about subverting expectations and trying to be original to the point where this is negatively impacting job design?
iam a judge gay but viper honestly just sounds like two swords reaper atm, where a reverse rdm or a stance based melee/ranged hybrid would be at least more interesting
>a stance based melee/ranged hybrid would be at least more interesting
For all the clowns who thought corsair/judge (lmao) would be reverse rdm, explain to me why would you leave melee range for your "ranged phase". It makes zero sense
because devs are moronic?
because devs got no creativity?
because devs could just use a template that worked and people would accept it?
You need to be 18+ to use this website
great comeback, yasss slay queen
>the devs are moronic for npt including my moronic idea of a reverse rdm
yeah alright
well, I mean in this case that's fine because it's not like Green Mage has any identity to begin with
Well yeah. I mean, the few buff and debuff spells it had in FFTA2 won't make a job.
>Get 10 felicitous tokens
>Purchase a island sanctuary lootbox because who knows
>Get the 12m gil mount immediately
Well looks like I'm done with this content I suppose
Which mount was that?
https://ffxivcollect.com/mounts/339
It looks alright, but because there's a lot of Mandragora mounts already, its fairly inconspicuous for its rarity
Oh I didn’t even know it could come from the loot boxes. Wow.
Guess I’ll pivot to that. I have two characters with maxed out islands so I can do that i suppose. I was getting tokens lol.
I think there's two that come from the random chests; one can be purchased with the vegetal vouchers, but last I heard it would take you around 8 months of complete weeklies to obtain it that way. I guess it was meant to be a consolation thing, but it still seems better to just gamble for it instead.
>I have two characters with maxed out islands
absolute madman
game died in a sea of rainbows and trannies
lil bro sees bright colors and thinks about transsexuals, it's so fricking over
ok, template A
oh no sis is having a meltie
breathe and dilate sis.
>best headpiece for this glam is RDM exclusive
damn
WoL straight mans Alphinaud, Alisaie, Estinien and rarely Y'shtola.
Alphinaud straight mans Alisaie.
Alisaie straight mans G'raha.
Y'shtola straight mans WoL, Thancred and Urianger.
Thancred straight mans WoL and Urianger.
Estinien straight mans Alphinaud and Y'shtola.
Urianger rarely straight mans Thancred.
G'raha doesn't straight man jackshit.
Tataru straight mans everyone.
Krile doesn't engage in straight man shenanigans.
all this talk of FFXI had me inspired
true and real
My wife Krile eats bread
As she waits
To be bred
I hope Green Mage doesn't use another Wand/Rod/Cane, I hope they can do something original like they did with Red Mage
Also I really hate Summoner uses a fricking a book, the majority of my glamours doesn't fit with that thing
>Also I really hate Summoner uses a fricking a book, the majority of my glamours doesn't fit with that thing
The Emperor's New Book never ever
There's one that's close, look up Ktiseos Index
I got bored with BE after like, the second year.
>Ktiseos Index
That's even worse, I mean the concept is original but you look dumb holding an empty book
why do so many people that don't play the game come and post in these threads?
I play a lot of games, not just 1.
What a playa.
Good fricking question.
Then they get offended as hell when people point out they obviously have no idea what they're talking about.
there are no real final fantasy threads in the catalog so we squat here until one of the real games gets a thread
TBD
Mobilizing the lala division to initiate "TBD" protocol!
TBD INTO CBT
How much of a cancer will Viper be in PvP?
Maybe GNB 2 if they emphasize it being a fast attacker, or somewhere between RPR and SCH if it emphasizes poison
What is everyone's thoughts on the new class Viper?
It seems interesting but it also feels like they're scrapping the bottom of the barrel but also like, not thinking through and giving us Reaper first and because of how flashy Reaper is, seeing Viper it feels far more bland than I think it would have been if we had seen Viper first?
Also they said it was going to be a technically difficult class but they said the same about Reaper and it's on par with maybe Summoner in difficulty? The only class remotely technical anymore is Ninja (Anons I don't care that you're super autistic and you find NIN super easy ok? For the rest of us I'd consider it moderate to difficult compared to the other classes in the game)
Reaper sucked horsewiener.
Viper looks like a suave bounty hunter.
Viper is just a hunter in general, its now the game's canonical hunter job. Makes it perfect for races largely tied to poaching like the Moon Cats and Duskwight Elezen.
>Viper is just a hunter in general, its now the game's canonical hunter job.
Makes me wonder why they didn't just call it Hunter. It's not like that would be an unfitting name consider what we already know of their lore, and it sounds a lot better as a job name than Viper.
The French translation kind of did. They called it "Rôdeur Vipère", which translates to Viper Ranger.
because it will be tied to the world serpent in some way
that cleavage got me...
We've seen so little it's hard to decide anything about it.
The fact that the twinblade form seems to be an actual stance switch instead of just showing up for certain attacks is slightly interesting.
But the not!Inner Release window at the end with the same blue flame GCD being spammed three times does not fill me with hope.
>The fact that the twinblade form seems to be an actual stance switch instead of just showing up for certain attacks is slightly interesting.
these were exactly my thoughts, but it remains to be seen how they'll handle stance switching
i like it because scouting gear already has 5 million sets that fit viper more than ninja
I think it looks okay but I could see it potentially being a bit of a flop largely due to how many melee dps there are starting to be in this game. The "stance switch" seems potentially interesting but I don't really see FFXIV combat doing anything unique with a stance that is more than just switching when you are supposed to on a timeline.
Yeah it’s probably just going to be like when you go into melee as RDM, with potentially a bit more tech to it.
boring as frick
complete shit
The tummy that saved ffxiv
I prefer blue alphinaud to red alphinaud.
Cringe!
Remember when diabolos and ivalice gays thought they would be relevant in the post EW Msq. They have been really quiet for some time now.
>Introduced Dynamis
>XI Alliance Raid coming
Copium tanks ain't out yet
I'm actually surprised, not going to lie.
I haven't touched Endwalker since initial release, what's been the "secret bread crumb" hints for the next expansion and its story?
I know in Shadowbringers it was the Void/Darkness and we didn't learn about the Void World until after Endwalker was done so I'm curious if there's something like that for Endwalker now?
Anon? Your crafting MSQ? Your references to Ultima?
I haven't done any of the crafting quests for Endwalker.
I thought we solved Ultima story in Stormblood? Something new happen?
Ultima as in the franchise Ultima, but also Altima too from Ivalice.
I admittedly am semi-casual to Final Fantasy, I never played the Ultima franchise, was that set in the FF Universe? I thought it was its own thing?
Or is it akin to FF7 and FFX being in the same planet and universe thing?
Ultima was a huge influence on FF1
So I'm confused what was the one Anon implying with Ultima connections in Endwalker?
lol
TUREEEMBBBULLLL
They're using a plot point from Ultima VII repurposed for FF. With the Great Earth Serpent.
At least that's the theory.
Also
too with Altima. Same writer for DT's MSQ.
she awakens the great serpent with her thickness
>Great Earth Serpent
So FFXIV now has a great Earth Seperant Big Bad?
Look at the new Amano art
>Azys Lla 2.0
whew
I have no idea how you people see Azys Lla in this.
>amano is fricking 71 now
man
Ultima is just an old school RPG that has influenced pretty much every JRPG you've ever played, alongside Wizardry.
it's akin to thick thighs and thicker calves, she is ultima
And as far as the reference, the crafting MSQ in EW talks about a World Snake. Very similar to Ultima's which the picture in
is from.
nobody is answering your question
Lahabrea's wife invented the Heart of Sabik under the influence of an auracite bestowed by Ultima the High Seraph from the Ivalice raids.
During the savage fight where she activates the Heart of Sabik to give birth to a new world, there's a giant snake swimming in the background.
The word Viper means 'to bring forth life'.
How fricked are we?
How do you like Order & Chaos?
Fricking awesome because Order and Chaos isn't just a black and white good vs evil because both can be evil and both can be good.
We dissidia now?
So we Eternal Champion now? Good.
You all don't realize that this is a cover for Lavos to rise from the ashes of the void after our absence
iam both happy and sad that SE doesn't do shit with CT outside remasters
>CT
cute tummy lala?
aw jeez estein bros I miss my bros, bros. how will rabbit bros and cat bros and dwarve bros ever recover, bros?
If they're gonna borderline copyright infringe on Assassin's Creed with Viper's fit, then I want a Castlevania Belmont job with whips and long flails and throwables
Beastmaster coming late 7.X
Not even close
Die, monster
>Dysfunctional and buggy pet AI.
Thanks.
JP fanfest cosplay walk will be a blessing on our eyes
https://x.com/pipimoepi0w0/status/1716733950146793721?s=46&t=umn5zeppOTfIIv4eUAMYSA
I want to put my pipi into moepi
thinking of thick thighs and even thicker calves
thinking of spreading those thighs, myself
now thinking of thick thighs spread across a large beast mount, imagine the heat
you're losing me
thick thighs spread eagle across some purple beasts back, I assume this beast is transport, I should've saved that sublime image
here
thank you king
The beast mount is me
we need to show this to asmongold, this will reinvigorate his love for XIV
Stop thinking right this instant.
exquisite complexion
nice discussion gamers
i am going to bust into a lalafell's pubes. please stand back to avoid the backsplash
I am going to bust into a lalafells panties, she will then put those panties back on for the rest of the day
I am going to pull out only at the very last second with a lalafell girl to raise a false sense of alarm on getting her pregnant
her cheeks will flush red with fear and excitement
Anyone else just randomly start being able to read eorzean text.
it's goofy looking english
It's just alphabets swapped.
femhroth status?
Japanese fanfest
alright lads i busted a fat nut to that proper thick lala and am now ready to continue discussing XIV. (you)s are at the ready
>primal summoning isnt dangerous because it was actually the ascians corrupting it
>we can easily cure tempering anyway
>the 12 don't exist anymore becuase they were just ascians
>we have a fricking starship that can take us anywhere
>we have found the ability to teleport to unattuned aethertyes
I cant wait for Dawn trail to have a frickton of plotholes because of this, especially when we (inevitably) hit some big mountain we cant fly over for plot purposes.
I can't wait for Dawntrail to have no plotholes whatsoever and have brainlets like you flood the threads with your seething while you continuously get made fun of.
Teleporting to unattuned aetherytes was always possible, it was described in 1.0 and early ARR lore as a popular tactic for Garlean surprise attacks. They'd force all the conscripts to try and teleport to an unattuned aetheryte, and even if most of them got lost in the Lifestream and never made it out, the few that did make the trip would be enough to frick up the target from inside.
well now we can do it easily so...
now one group can do it with a prototype design that also causes acute aether sickness that can last for hours, and renders any first time travelers completely immobile for the duration
Wait, the 12 are gone now, I haven't done the rest of the quests with them.
Did they all die I thought we were gonna have some cool gods/goddesses or something now.
All except for Oschon who is copying alpha and omega.
speaking of, can you see him out in the wilds as well?
Dunno I haven't looked.
it is still an immense aether draw
the twelve haven't ever mattered
we do not have a starship, it's Sharlayan property
no we haven't, it's a prototype that needs an entrance and exit set up
you do not know what a plothole is. let us discuss the kate 2 minute meta and its demystifying of ff4 references
lmao cope we can use that shit whenever we want we saved the planet.
>lmao cope we can use that shit whenever we want we saved the planet.
We already did it to fuel the travel to Ultima Thule and Louisoix used it to stop bahamut. It's a plot device to solve doomsday scenarios, but it isn't like we can just press a buttom and it happens.
this mofo is still seething that people found minwalker shit, hopy cope batman
Why would their be plotholes?
>primal summoning isnt dangerous because it was actually the ascians corrupting it
It is dangerous because they drain the land out of aether to sustain thenselves. Only the tempering was the ascians doing.
>the 12 don't exist anymore becuase they were just ascians
No they aren't. they are magic constructs made by hydalin with the purpose of restoring the balance of the world after the calamities.
>we have a fricking starship that can take us anywhere
That thing takes a lot of fuel to work. We need to use the mother crystal to reach Ultima Thule.
>we have found the ability to teleport to unattuned aethertyes
That is still a work in proguess. Someone needs to get there and set up the system first.
>I cant wait for Dawn trail to have a frickton of plotholes because of this, especially when we (inevitably) hit some big mountain we cant fly over for plot purposes.
If you pay more attention to the story there will be less plotholes.
>Howard Moon
With the different hat/glasses slots, I hope they add another mustache and make it work as glasses. I want to hear helmets and have facial hair.
this but I want them to separate the clown hat from the nose from the halloween clown set
if she thinks a disguise can hide here from me she's wrong, no lala can escape my goon sesh
Consider the following
Counterpoint:
That is obviously Elidibussy
he's doing it in a comedic fashion like they used to do in kabuki theaters
trancesissies stay losing
I've considered it and marriage is my conclusion, she radiates with a tenderness that invokes the hand holding urge, a loving snuggle after insemination
Anyone else having strange hopium for 7.0? I didnt have it for 6.0.
I don't know why is it but I was playing through the middle of EW (main patch) and I was already just excited af to see what was gonna be next expac.
7.0: New World
8.0: Ilsabard
9.0: Meracydia+Dragonstar Remade. Dragons and robots live in peace again.
10: One zone for each remaining inhabited shard and a big sendoff for the XIV series as a whole in preparation for the next MMO.
I don't think we're ever getting the rest of Islabard other than individual zones.
We're only getting South America in this expansion it looks like. Might get North America at some point. And I bet they do a whole expansion dedicated to another single shard like ShB, rather than a big multiverse thing.
I liked this custom delivery questline was kind of heartwarming
I hated it except for this last cutscene.
I like the reactions to people finding out we are THE wol and just helping them with their stuff
Powerful
is the server shitting itself? 2 dcs in a row