retired-patch-6-3-discussion

[faint dagger]

yeah but like

[worthy ginkgo]

thats what i assumed at least

[faint dagger]

when

I haven't seen it yet but I may as well know how

[eternal pulsar]

||how do you even have a LB3 up at that point, we barely got one bar||

[worthy ginkgo]

||the boss will lb with 4 lb bars, need to tank lb3 to survive||

[faint dagger]

so i'll see it coming, will i

[worthy ginkgo]

yeah its very big and flashy

and not sure syl but we did 3 times in a row

[eternal pulsar]

||nvm, it worked now without LB||

||I meant Ascendance||

[faint dagger]

i'm getting mixed messages

[eternal pulsar]

Nvm, my party sucks

So we wiped in ||pre-transition||

[worthy ginkgo]

oooh ok sorry didnt mean you meant earlier

[crimson pollen]

is it with lb3 or another way to overcome it?

[worthy ginkgo]

realize* im tired lol

[eternal pulsar]

||the button mash, seems like it fails if one person fails||

[worthy ginkgo]

oh really? damn

[eternal pulsar]

||we didn't know someone failed so we purposely failed it 2nd time around||

[faint dagger]

||so is there a tank lb3 in this or nah ||

[viscid monolith]

Yes

[eternal pulsar]

yes

[worthy ginkgo]

yes there is

but its after what syl's talking about

[faint dagger]

when precisely? the ||4 lb bars you mentioned? ||

[gaunt star]

Job ceystal job crystal

[worthy ginkgo]

||it's very obvious, its right after the transition, as soon as you regain control of your char||

[faint dagger]

gotcha

cheers

[drowsy pelican]

its super obvious

[faint dagger]

i'm all for going in blind but i may as well know that

[drowsy pelican]

it literally could not be more obvious

you'll see

[faint dagger]

are we talking 'prepare your body and soul for divine judgement' obvious

[drowsy pelican]

4th wall breaking obvious

[faint dagger]

*oo

[worthy ginkgo]

trust us you'll know it when you see it

[faint dagger]

god my keyboard is screwed

8min queue so

[zealous cosmos]

seat of sacrifice

is weird

[drowsy pelican]

super fun tho

[faint dagger]

unfortunately the only person in my FC on the same msq point as me we got confused about the zone names and thought each other were already in

[unreal wadi]

||A BOSS THAT HAS HALLOWED GROUND IS NOT OK||

[earnest sedge]

whats the uhhh

mechanic

[smoky temple]

||honestly not sure what happened at the last 20% my group somehow killed it so many explosions||

[earnest sedge]

for final boss

the LB

how do you uhh

get past it

Im finished w it but never really paid attention to how it worked

tank LB3?

[viscid monolith]

Yes

[empty lynx]

Yes

[craggy gale]

shame the boss only has 1 track

vs niddy and tsuyu

[empty lynx]

But the 1 soundtrack is sooo good

[smoky temple]

I’m both excited and scared to do the extreme

[worthy ginkgo]

same here

[eternal pulsar]

reminds me of tiramisu

[drowsy pelican]

delayed spells for days 😦

[eternal pulsar]

normal was hard enough for lots of peeps

[subtle pasture]

Ahhhh, there is special dialogue if you complete Eden's Verse, I'm so happy

[worthy ginkgo]

yeah normal felt tougher than usual for a normal mode but that's prob just cause it's new

[subtle pasture]

||Ryne mentioning she has Gaia and she'll be fine ||

[smoky temple]

||did you complete savage?||

[subtle pasture]

I would assume it's tagged to the extra quest after both Verse and 5.2, uhhhh

Worlds Apart, is the quest name

--not the MSQ one the dialogue takes place, but the extra Eden quest behind both Verse and Echoes of a Fallen Star

[smoky temple]

ah

[empty lynx]

Hands of Runar Yshtola is mine

[hallow pollen]

How do i get the new Soulsand?

[hollow vessel]

Anyone figured out how to get the Nier housing items yet?

[hallow pollen]

Levinstrike Aethersand

[eternal pulsar]

Christ, that trial fight

||combines elements from so many previous raid tiers||

[earnest sedge]

@empty lynx did you see mommy wink

owo

[onyx sundial]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA'

[teal geyser]

okay so

Not looking at chat too much

but leaked footage of what happens to the Exarch in this patch

||https://youtu.be/LAVUFKYdJNY?t=39||

[smoky temple]

that’s pretty accurate

[teal geyser]

Like

13 times!

[proud parrot]

so people already done the ex version?

[smoky temple]

not sure if it hasn’t been completed yet they might be figuring out mechs

[gentle mist]

I would like to bring your attention to the best thing of the patch: ||Tataru with a chef's hat||

[eternal pulsar]

geez, had to revive like a dozen time during normal

can't imagine what EX would be like

[gentle mist]

yeah, I can only wait how the EX will be :D

that's probably tomorrow's problem, now a food break and then the new 24-man

[proud parrot]

sometimes ex is actually easier like chaos was actually easier in sav compared to normal

[gentle mist]

yeah, and tbh Ruby Weapon wasn't that much harder EX

[eager fox]

I FEEL PERSONALLY ATTACKED

[proud parrot]

just hope ex is not going to be another hades

[eternal pulsar]

chances are it will be

my guess is that this another minstrel's ballad

[smoky temple]

how was hades ex? never got to it

[proud parrot]

LONG

[eternal pulsar]

we got a checkpoint in normal, this is gonna be long too

[proud parrot]

how many transitions 4 or so

[drowsy pelican]

imagine extreme button mashing

normal button mashing was no joke already

[smoky temple]

qte (savage)

[eternal pulsar]

i pity people that still do active time maneuvers with mouse

[faint hull]

living dead so bad they made it into a boss mechanic

[proud parrot]

just faceroll keyboard

[wind cedar]

-plays on gamepad- I should prepare myself apparently

[eternal pulsar]

yee

[smoky temple]

Yea wasn’t fun with controller

after third wipe my arm was begging mercy

[proud parrot]

is it not hitting random buttons on controller like with kb/m?

[eternal pulsar]

the fact that one person's wipe results in everyone losing is bs

[wind cedar]

It is, just not as comfortable

[empty lynx]

@earnest sedge Oh yeah

[unreal wadi]

Theres a lot of coordination in that trial

My group wiped 5 times

[eternal pulsar]

we had 20 minutes left by the end

[unreal wadi]

[wind cedar]

Uh

[unreal wadi]

Like holy crap

[drowsy pelican]

my group wiped like 4 times to transition qte

[unreal wadi]

Normal mode is thay hard?

[autumn haven]

||any tank swaps needed or anything? those aren't common for normals but figure i ask||

[eternal pulsar]

yeah lmao

[drowsy pelican]

at some point we thought we were supposed to fail it on purpose

[eternal pulsar]

Nope, Az

[unreal wadi]

@autumn haven LB3

[eternal pulsar]

@drowsy pelican SAME

[smoky temple]

Normal throws unexpected curveballs

[unreal wadi]

Someone in our group used LB3 at the right moment holy fuck

[autumn haven]

||Does it automatically fill your bar in case someone who is totally blind decides to hit it earlier? ||

[eternal pulsar]

yes

[unreal wadi]

Yep

[autumn haven]

alright that's good at least

[eager hollow]

is there a trick to the button mash? We kept getting sent back to start after it finished?

[drowsy pelican]

dont fail

[eternal pulsar]

mash your keyboard

[eager hollow]

I am assuming somone was just failing

[eternal pulsar]

if one person fails, you all fail

[unreal wadi]

mash the keyboard

[eager hollow]

figured someone was messing it up

[unreal wadi]

that ones fucking tough

[drowsy pelican]

luckily there's a checkpoint after that

[sharp crescent]

Is there anywhere where all the new nier gear is posted?

[unreal wadi]

thats the hardest active trial ive done

& I thought Shinryu was bad

What the fuck man

[gaunt star]

if its not updated in patch notes then no Snow

[sharp crescent]

i mean like datamine etc

[gaunt star]

uhh datamines arent allowed here so

dunno

[eternal pulsar]

#archived-lore-spoilers has datamines

[sharp crescent]

odd, there used to be a seperate tab on here for datamines, that was the only reason i joined the discord

[eternal pulsar]

reddit too

[gaunt star]

oh yee they do post them there

the datamine specific channel was removed for reasons

damn why is the queue for the trial so long

ffs

[sharp crescent]

i guess ill scroll up in the liveletter, pretty sure they showed some pics of the gear in thre

[eternal pulsar]

because you're slow

[gaunt star]

they did snow

[unreal wadi]

Im just...

my group cleared that by luck

[gaunt star]

@sharp crescent https://discordapp.com/channels/100463940835762176/100463940835762176/742475849810313378

[unreal wadi]

by the 5th pull, the JP players were talking strats

& yeah, i understand fucking why

[gaunt star]

ok trial starting /gasm

bye

[eternal pulsar]

have fun dying

[unreal wadi]

good luck

wiping

[drowsy pelican]

doing it with jp was hilarious

[eternal pulsar]

i hope you have red mage or two

[drowsy pelican]

"try success"

"ok"

"try fail"

"ok"

[unreal wadi]

Meirl

NOPE

MY GROUP HAD

2 PLD

WHM & SCH

2 MCH

1 BLM

1 DRG

[smoky temple]

honestly saving grace was my group had 3 rdm

[unreal wadi]

BOTH HEALERS KEPT DYING

[eternal pulsar]

I'm a RDM myself

And we had another one

Same, Athrun

[gaunt star]

Ink mage
Thief
Necromancer
And chemist coming next expac

[eternal pulsar]

I was at less than 1k mana for big part of the fight

[unreal wadi]

Yeah necromancer

[eternal pulsar]

Wishful, goku

[shell isle]

HUGE SPOILER DON'T CLICK UNTIL AFTER TRIAL||graha looks like a gummy want to eat him ||

[unreal wadi]

[gaunt star]

Theyre leaked in heroes gauntlet smh

[balmy perch]

The trial... isn't hard though?

I think my group wiped once or twice before clearing

[drowsy pelican]

its mostly the transition

[eternal pulsar]

you wiped twice in a normal trial, if you don't think that's harder than normal content then i dunno mate

[drowsy pelican]

cause you can't tell who's doing it wrong

[unreal wadi]

||The fucking boss popped Hallowed & I got so fucking tilted||

[wary peak]

this man raising more death flags then a pirate fleet

[unreal wadi]

THAT'S NOT ALLOWED

[balmy perch]

@eternal pulsar I'd agree if it weren't for the fact that no one reals knows the mechs yet lol

[gaunt star]

just beat waifu boss

[unreal wadi]

Waifu boss was a pain

ngl

[eternal pulsar]

dunno mate, I don't normally wipe or struggle as much in other normal content

[balmy perch]

They're definitely tricky

[unreal wadi]

What Syl said

[eternal pulsar]

add in DF randomness and it's a recipe for failure

Just like Tiramisu in SB

[unreal wadi]

Yep...

[eternal pulsar]

I'll never forget the Bard coming in with NQ 320 bow and doing HW level damage

[unreal wadi]

I'm not looking forward to doing the ex trial

Actually scared

[wary peak]

also necromancer possible new job?

[eternal pulsar]

Wishful thinking

[unreal wadi]

Necromancer & Berserker

[drowsy pelican]

chemist healer more likely

[wary peak]

yeah im pretty sure its gonna be chemist geomancer

[smoky temple]

me still waiting for my nonexistent beasttamer

[eternal pulsar]

Ink Mage

[shell isle]

Necromancer + Beserker is such a bait

[wary peak]

with limited job beast tamer

[unreal wadi]

It was really cool seeing those guys appear btw

[wary peak]

what are they from

[eternal pulsar]

||Dungeon||

[unreal wadi]

ngl

Heroes Gauntlet was really cool

[eternal pulsar]

unless you mean which FF

[wary peak]

no I mean are they based of anyone

[eternal pulsar]

FF jobs in previous installements

[subtle pasture]

know what,

'm never

changing this name

[lilac crest]

as expected

[next quarry]

||I wanna hug Berserker||

[lilac crest]

new trial extreme is a fuck fest looool

[unreal wadi]

||https://youtu.be/Bj9JZ474E5E||

OH MY GOD YESS

[next quarry]

How

[unreal wadi]

FINALLY

[wary peak]

also Heroes gauntlet is Hype as fuck teh last time a dungeon made me this hype excluding the music in twwinning was as a max rank Storm Lieutenant running through Hullbreaker Isle Hard

[next quarry]

How do you get that lol

[eternal pulsar]

boi

It literally says in the video mate

[next quarry]

I'm busy queuing for the trial

[gaunt star]

Berserker new class

[next quarry]

[gaunt star]

Holy fuck

Aza wait

[unreal wadi]

Guess im buying something from the saucer

[gaunt star]

I'm on berserker ill give you healer wueye

[next quarry]

Oh

[eternal pulsar]

that modded outfit at the start of the video tho

[gaunt star]

Unless you got in

[wary peak]

im 10k short cause I wasnt expecting anything in gold saucer

[eternal pulsar]

there's also a new parasol

[unreal wadi]

new parasols as well

[glossy terrace]

What do you get from the extreme version? Another dragon mount?

[eternal pulsar]

yeah and weapons

as usual

and mats to craft stuff

[prisma vine]

crafting mat for barding and housing item

[glossy terrace]

What color is this dragon?

Sounds good

[smoky temple]

one of the new minions is from the dungeon right?

[gaunt star]

Heroes gauntlet is fucking good

[onyx sundial]

get rekt

[balmy linden]

why we beat WoL

are we

the baddies?

||/s ||

[eternal pulsar]

I'm the bad guy

[smoky temple]

just a friendly match in dissidia

[eternal pulsar]

so how much questing is there after the trial?

[balmy linden]

i hope not in NT

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/739444844992135239.gif?v=1

[eternal pulsar]

trying to gauge if I should go do beast tribes first asap before the reset

[gaunt star]

wtf is that 2nd phrase

[unreal wadi]

ye having fun there? @gaunt star

[eternal pulsar]

HA

[smoky temple]

at most you finish beast tribe a day later

[eternal pulsar]

Yeah, no

[gaunt star]

@unreal wadi man we did everything perfectly fine but 2nd phrase is a huge ass shitfest

[unreal wadi]

IT IS

HAHAHA

[smoky temple]

boss had enough of the 1v8

[unreal wadi]

yeah imagine using

Ranged LB2

twice

[gaunt star]

1v8?

[unreal wadi]

[gaunt star]

the only reason elidibus is like this is cause hes fused with others

[unreal wadi]

fucking bastard

[gaunt star]

@next quarry you in teial yet

oh yea one of the tanks panicked on first pull and used LB much earlier

[unreal wadi]

||did you see him pop hallowed tho|| @gaunt star

[eternal pulsar]

when was that one

[unreal wadi]

the boss that is

[gaunt star]

@unreal wadi when was that? we wiped when an ugly roe pld was doing room aoe

[eternal pulsar]

I was so tunneled on reviving everyone

[pulsar yacht]

I'm getting the feeling something is missing in english . watching ardbert cutscene and german VA has way more detail than english dialog

[unreal wadi]

||Boss pops hallowed||

Triggered

[eternal pulsar]

There are people playing with German VA?

[foggy coyote]

-cries ugly tears at ||Seto/Ardbert||-

[earnest sedge]

||you can show graha your wind-up mystel||

||WUUUUUT||

||THATS SO CUTE||

[smoky temple]

||modeled after no one, really||

[earnest sedge]

thats right @smoky temple

[gaunt star]

No

Stop

Yiu can't do this to me

[subtle pasture]

need to find

RYNE

bc I assume she's somewhere in the Crystariun post-MSQ

or prob not bc eden

[slim egret]

I feel the new trial will get nerfed

[wet crown]

||MY CRYSTAL KITTEN IS SAFE!!!||

[slim egret]

its a fun trial but ima hate getting it with roulettes

[eternal pulsar]

fix the QTE and it'll be fine-ish

[slim egret]

qte was scarryyy

he has so many insta kill abilities and I dont think I trust a duty finder tank to lb lol

[wet crown]

Also. Wow.

[eternal pulsar]

I avoided Tsukuyomi in SB as well because it was hard for people on release

[craggy gale]

wasdwasdwasd

[eternal pulsar]

you mean

dsiqhgfmdslkjhfqmskldjfmqslkdjfqlk

[unreal wadi]

so ummm

you know how

[wet crown]

Now, I can go eat before I tackle Werlyt.

I'm famished.

[unreal wadi]

||https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/i7qq9f/spoiler_53_look_who_i_found_in_the_dungeon/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share||

||HI HILDIBRAND||

[slim egret]

yo also

while the cutscnee in the middle of the trial is cool

its gonna be so annoying in the future

[foggy coyote]

OH, POOR BABY

[pulsar yacht]

sounds about as lasting as baykko intermission

[wet crown]

Also, finally knowing who's inside Asahi's body. ||Fucking Fandaniel.||

[pulsar yacht]

only that had the benefit of being optional content

[wet crown]

||We also guessed the 14th's title wrong. ||
#archived-lore-spoilers detectives got rekt'd.

[gaunt star]

how do you not die against ||lb4||

i frogot

[wet crown]

tank LB

[gaunt star]

ok

we did it too early then

[wet crown]

And make sure to time it right

[gaunt star]

ye

[serene vortex]

this

was worth everything

just for this moment

[wet crown]

It fell off 1 sec after the tank used it, I had a heart attack

[subtle pasture]

[pulsar yacht]

so basically a12/s (or o11s)

[gaunt star]

LMFAO

[subtle pasture]

I did not expect it but,

[wet crown]

@subtle pasture YOu happy with the revelation at the end there?

[subtle pasture]

NO

[wet crown]

[subtle pasture]

BUT I'M KEEPING IT

[wet crown]

Fanboys. Really...

I. NEED. PIZZA.

[subtle pasture]

Honestly the only letdown would be uhhh,

[wet crown]

Oh, Alisaie at the end.

[subtle pasture]

the ending-ending, the stinger for what's coming next?

basically expected, no shockers here

[next quarry]

@gaunt star yes

[subtle pasture]

the rest tho, fairly neat

[wet crown]

I mean. We kinda knew that would happen.

[wary peak]

where the healers at fro teh trial

[wet crown]

Just not ||the populace being completely dead.||

[subtle pasture]

I know, I know, prob just shot expectations a lil' high

[serene vortex]

i will say this

[subtle pasture]

also god, the

[wet crown]

oh well, food now

[subtle pasture]

detail, into these cutscenes

so, so well animated

[wet crown]

yeah amazing

[serene vortex]

i'm not expecting 5.4 and 5.5 to be as good as these patches in terms of story

[subtle pasture]

so well shot

[gentle mist]

And a proper running animation!

[gaunt star]

@next quarry im entering ut now

[serene vortex]

simply because we're back to him 😫

[gentle mist]

Don't know if it existed already, but it's been... sparingly used if so

[next quarry]

It's sooo fun

[gaunt star]

||im just happy he's alive and well||

[subtle pasture]

||And I now love one (1) catboy.||

[gaunt star]

the amount of ||bait in the goddamn trailer||

[serene vortex]

well i mean

it wasn't really bait

since it did happen

[gaunt star]

also has anyone cleared the new alliance raid?

[earnest sedge]

but

bait

is bait

[subtle pasture]

okay but

||the stab||

||did NOTHING||

[serene vortex]

he said so right after

that it's just to check the soul

lol

[subtle pasture]

"Oh you're fat."

"damn."

[gaunt star]

LOL

foreshadowing for the ||weird crystal transferring thing|| i guess?

[pulsar yacht]

yeah there's some unintuitive tells but most things are taught in fight. caster uptime sucks unless can shoot and scoot good

[foggy coyote]

I was saying this the day the trailer came out. Y'all need to stop letting SE bait y'all. They've been baiting in their promo material since HW, c'mon now. lmao

[gaunt star]

first patch since i started playing, did not think the bait would be this hard

[subtle pasture]

Also the real MVP this patch is,

Tartaru with the Archon loaf

[foggy coyote]

lmao

[serene vortex]

i will say this my only disappointment this patch

[gentle mist]

@subtle pasture YES

[serene vortex]

are the garbage extreme weapons

[gentle mist]

Truly a man of culture, I see

[serene vortex]

they look... really bad

imho of course

[gaunt star]

haven't seen them yet but i can't clear extremes anyway

[subtle pasture]

Yyeahhh I like their subtle glows at least?

[pulsar yacht]

||for the 3x boss that will eventually dash from the side blue blade is unsafe/hashmail dash area||

[crimson pollen]

Now with ShB fully done, start to finish - I expected to have way more doubts over Hydaelyn, but I felt after leaving this behind, the impression it gaves me is stornger now than before that she is indeed good and we are in a idealistic situation of traditional hero vs evil

[subtle pasture]

real neat golden sheen

but, else, yeeeeah....

[serene vortex]

they're very bland looking to say the least

it's a bit of a

"seen it before" kind of feeling

[gaunt star]

how do you unlock the ex btw

[foggy coyote]

This is the first batch of EX weps I've been able to tolerate the look of since HW, personally.

[subtle pasture]

Tbf the boss itself is ||one of the series' oldest designs||

[gaunt star]

So

How many of the Nier's collectables are there?

[subtle pasture]

that shoulda been behind a flag initially, whoop

[crimson pollen]

its funny that you can be insta spoiled if you look into the crafts

[serene vortex]

ok but

wen new outfit in mogstation

and new hair

gimme gimme now

those x pins? gimme now

[gaunt star]

"Mh, it can't be that ba-"

Full name

oh

[autumn haven]

||So wait White Robe guy is that dude all the way back from 1.0? Now I'm wondering what he wants exactly||

[foggy coyote]

no yaoi soyboi hairpins for you

[gaunt star]

So, just to be sure

[silk frost]

||so exarch is dead and g'raha tia is now a scion right?||

[gaunt star]

There's only 11 Nier Datalogs?

[gentle mist]

@autumn haven to me it seems at least on the surface level pretty obvious: ||power, pure and simple - he basically says that the limitations from the unsundered have chafed, and now that he's not bound to duty...||

[carmine basin]

Does the nier quest end with ||anogg being missing?||

I'm not sure if I'm missing more or that's it

[pulsar yacht]

||no||

||well there's one quest that ends with her||

[autumn haven]

||Yeah probably just that-he's seemingly rogue, I knew he was connected to the past somehow becuase he knew Emet(though I REALLy want to know what Emet did to Zenos from his 5.2 lines)-I guess he's just using Zenos to get the power||

[deep creek]

YO WHAT THE FUCK

[crimson pollen]

||tbf, it was better this way with the exarch/graha - his body was totally f'up and all. He was seemingly in pain all the time. It was the best course of action for the narrative this way.||

[deep creek]

||HE WAS THE WARRIOR OF LIGHT???||

[serene vortex]

||no i think he just fused all the powers of wols into one, the complete being, the first one.||

||the ones he summoned i mean.||

that's my theory at least

[carmine basin]

@pulsar yacht do you have to ||pick anogg's route|| for it?

[crimson pollen]

ppl will end up thinking ||that WOL is Elidibus||

[pulsar yacht]

||I think I did but i don't remember which one I did||

[blazing hearth]

||Now I'm wondering if the next expansion is the last one for FF14||

[serene vortex]

the tsukuyomi weapon effects have to be the prettiest in the game now

god DAMN

[drowsy belfry]

|| for the past few months I got called crazy for saying we were gonna kill Elidibus and focus on Zenos as our big bad, and we'd merge the Exarch with Source G'raha to keep him around. people SWORE that I was wrong and they wouldn't do it. Soo all I ask is ||

https://youtu.be/I-VawFj4GRM

[pulsar yacht]

either I also chose the same path or the choice is superficial

||Konogg: Oh, Anogg...
Konogg: Anogg isn't with you?
Konogg: ...What do I do? This is all because of us, and I...
Konogg: I don't know how to find her.
Konogg: I'm...not used to being alone...
Konogg: I'm no good on my own...||

[gaunt star]

goly fuck

In cutscene before trial

Horny

I keep thinking there's more than 11 Puppet's Datalogs

but i think thats it? Its the same as Copied...

[gaunt star]

@drowsy belfry i mean it was one of the more popular assumptions lol

[drowsy belfry]

Oh yeah no that's fair

But plenty of people told me neither of the things I said would happen

that it 'Wouldn't make sense for the story"

Sooooo

https://tenor.com/view/jet-set-radio-future-dance-gif-7701274

[gaunt star]

I shouldn't be here

but nyeh

[stiff charm]

just finished it

i love him

if you are done you will know who he is

[foggy coyote]

Couldn't agree more.

[wary peak]

sooo that QTE

[stiff charm]

also (final cutscene spoilers) ||new ascian is giving me heavy emet vibes but completely off the wall, i am genuinely scared||

[wary peak]

how do you clear

[stiff charm]

mash your keyboard

[foggy coyote]

mash the fuck outta your keys

[stiff charm]

all of them

[pulsar yacht]

if it's like SB ones any button that does something will advance it

[foggy coyote]

like, no joke

button mash like hell

[drowsy pelican]

reach over to your party member's keyboard and mash that as well

cause if any of you fail, you all fail

[foggy coyote]

that's the most ridiculous QTE they've made us do, lmao

[pulsar yacht]

can't be worse than shinryu ex

[gaunt star]

does anyone have a ss of the new female nier sets?

[craggy gale]

kill jester

[silk frost]

||I feel the new Ascian was mentioned before early in the story||

||name sounds familiar and all||

[pulsar yacht]

(the solo instance)

[gaunt star]

This trial is great

I just cried so fucking bad

[serene vortex]

||The highlight of the patch is emet selch in the trial and no one can tell me otherwise ||

[stiff charm]

same @gaunt star

[gaunt star]

@silk frost || Fandaniel was already known but never interacted with or given major role b4 tho he is an Overlord aka red mask||

I did not expect to be sobbing this badly

same

@serene vortex TRUE

try not to cry and then rip 😔

I TRIED

i redid it with newbies

just to watch it again

then tears running down my whole face

[stiff charm]

personally i think the highlight is this @serene vortex but you do you (END END END OF 5.3 SPOILERS!!! DO NOT CLICK UNLESS YOU HAVE NO MORE MSQ TO DO)

[gaunt star]

god i fucking love him

[serene vortex]

||Ngl i didn’t really feel emotional since this is a happy ending bu all means||

[slim egret]

Trial is cool but gonna be a pain to reclear

[gaunt star]

im at the goodbyes section and the Seto part ended me

[serene vortex]

Well, i agree it is a highlight

[gaunt star]

😔

[serene vortex]

But the SNAP

[gaunt star]

TRUE

[serene vortex]

THE HAND WAVE

UNCONTESTED

[gaunt star]

THE HANDWAVE

FUCK!!!

[slim egret]

I cried on the ||chocobo talking to ardbert||

THE SNAP WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME

[gaunt star]

||when i saw ardberts feet i nearly cried again||

[serene vortex]

Feet

[gaunt star]

yes

his legs

[stiff charm]

i was like "oh is that our ||unsundered form||?" hand wave "nevermind i know who that is"

[gaunt star]

finished MSQ, that was like the best MSQ patch we've ever had

so good

SAME

I THOUGHT IT ||WAS US||

AND IW AS LIKE

[stiff charm]

i think that was my favorite piece of msq content in the whole game

fight me

[slim egret]

Idk man but I feel S.E is getting so much better at designing trials and fights

[gaunt star]

"word we gonna ||control the same character?||"

then the handwave

[slim egret]

I don't remember trials being as cools as tjis

Ol

[serene vortex]

||I thought it was hythlodaeus at first ||

[slim egret]

This

[gaunt star]

i love ||hythlo||

[serene vortex]

||But it being emet made it 700000000 times better||

[gaunt star]

I thought it was that too yeah

the bit with ||elidibus reverting and getting emotional over the stars|| fucking got me again

[serene vortex]

Mb

[stiff charm]

||i visibly mouthed "OH ITS EMET" even though i was playing this alone with no one around||

[slim egret]

If someone fails the qte btw

Is it a wipe

[gaunt star]

no

well

yes

it resets

but no special cutscene or anthing

it just goes back to the beginning

[rare sinew]

I swear the QTE is harder than usual

[gaunt star]

i got confused at first cause i have 'repeat cutscenes off'

[stiff charm]

wayyyy harder

[gaunt star]

its different

[stiff charm]

this one is insane

[gaunt star]

the others was "click to get to the point"

man this was so worth the wait oof

this was "click to not"

TRUE

i saw some datamined stuff of nier and i am Scared

but msq got me feeling cozy

[rare sinew]

The pay offf has been ACE

[blazing hearth]

Ok all of that is cool

[gaunt star]

I had to use both hands for the QTE lmao

[slim egret]

I heard nier was really really good

[gaunt star]

even the trial boss got me, i really didnt expect that lmao

I was clicking my mouse with one and spamming they spacebar with the other

||awkward graha tia at the ending made my heart so fucking full||

[rare sinew]

I had one hand on mouse, one slamming spacebar

[gaunt star]

yoshi wasnt wrong at all oof

ok but

[rare sinew]

Same

[gaunt star]

the instance

SCUFFED

[rare sinew]

Oh man

[slim egret]

The qte I think makes it look hard but not that hard

[blazing hearth]

But can I fkn get that ||damn chest piece G'raha Tia has in the end ?||

[slim egret]

It goes to the end of the bar

And it makes u panic

Lool

[stiff charm]

@gaunt star

friendship ended with alisaie

[gaunt star]

||the minion is so fucking cute btw, they were like "we're gonna make you a toy" he said "please dont"||

||"ok we're gonna make you a toy that's you... but we're gonna call it mystal"||

BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rare sinew]

||the fucking emet guest appearance. Oh be still my beating heart||

[stiff charm]

||graha|| is my new best friend

[slim egret]

We wiped a lot on the trial where the tank ||had to the lb||

Cause he kept on doing it the early

[gaunt star]

when elidibus ||summoned papylamo and haurchefant it was on fucking SIGHT||

[stiff charm]

i am so glad im a catboy as well

OH GOD THE SOLO DUTY

[gaunt star]

suhun did we just do the same trial 🤨

[stiff charm]

that solo instance is also the best in the game

fuck the naadam

[gaunt star]

we failed ||lb4|| twice or third

[rare sinew]

||i should note that in the trial, only our tanks were alive. After the QTE, we all revived||

[slim egret]

Nahh I did mine an hour ago but I feel it'll be a common occurrence :(

[gaunt star]

ohh

true

[stiff charm]

ok im kidding i love naadam but that was another level

[rare sinew]

I am not sure if thay was intentional

[rain wigeon]

does anyone have pictures/videos of the new craftable ext trial weapons?

[gaunt star]

healer is great but its also suffering cause i dont know any of the tank or dps mechanics HAHA

[slim egret]

S.E is getting better at design with every patch

I'm so hyped for the future

[rare sinew]

Like ||all but tanks died then we did the QTE and were back||

[slim egret]

And I'm kinda hyped for relic now

[gentle mist]

blah, the worst enemy in the solo trial is ||the camera||

[slim egret]

They're blowing expectations

[stiff charm]

when the heavensward theme came in i visibly pogged

[gaunt star]

what's really impressive in 5.3 is their animations on characters honestly

they seem so much better than before

the only thing i hate so far is the Stormblood craftable weapons arent for new classes

[rare sinew]

I hope the solo trial didnt change anything thete

[gaunt star]

the solo instance was good but also ||DO NOT MAKE ME KILL MY FRIENDS but i got to see haurchefant again so im soft..... BUT EVERYONE HAD DYING VOICE LINES AAAAA||

[stiff charm]

yeah since 5.1 things have felt so much more fluid

[molten vine]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[gaunt star]

there was so much screenshot potential

like cmon theres no excuse not to add them 😔

[rare sinew]

||THAT ALISAE ANIMATION AT THE END||

[stiff charm]

remember the little interaction with everyone in the ocular at the start of 5.1? that scene gives me life

[slim egret]

@gaunt star he also belittled you for ||killing your friends||

[rare sinew]

||FUCKING BREAD EATING ANIMATION||

[ivory jungle]

Does anyone have

the song

[gaunt star]

sometimes u gotta do what u gotta do

[stiff charm]

@rare sinew

[ivory jungle]

Or the song's name

[craggy gale]

she died

rip in peace elf child

[rare sinew]

||when she head desked||

[gaunt star]

the bit where you ||go back to where you found everyone and talk to them again (just like you did in 5.0) was very good||

ALSO ||RUNAR AND YSHTOLA!!!!!||

[rare sinew]

||runar can suck it. Shtola is mine||

[stiff charm]

||yeah i am already unhealthily in love with ali but those animations at the end just made it worse||

||before anyone asks im a kid too its ok i promise||

[rare sinew]

But it DID break my heart

[gaunt star]

||graha for the soul||

[pulsar yacht]

i checked recipies and i dont' see any new ones from the duplicate SB ex trial weapons

[gaunt star]

also god lalfells are TINY

~that last sentence hurts so much tho

[slim egret]

guys guys guys omg

[rare sinew]

||when he transferred his soul, does that mean all that was left was just a husk? Also, fucking hell SE cutting onions. Legit tear up whan sating goodbye||

[slim egret]

||they tie the eden verse plot to the msq||

I thought that was really cool

[gaunt star]

yeah

[rare sinew]

Aye

[stiff charm]

some more nice screens

[gaunt star]

my ||double staff|| one didnt come out as clear

[stiff charm]

||uri with the full on jojo pose||

[gaunt star]

ok but tataru

[rare sinew]

I did everythin in hempen camise 2b. Me so sexy

[stiff charm]

i got really hype when she made bread

[rare sinew]

Bless her

[stiff charm]

as a bread enthusiast myself

[stiff charm]

also ||show graha the mystel minion immediately||

[rare sinew]

Yep

[gaunt star]

does he react?

[rare sinew]

||couldnt care less about Zenos||

[gaunt star]

Can i get a

Thank you emet selch in chat

[stiff charm]

yes @gaunt star

in the exact way youd expect

thank you emet selch

[gaunt star]

FUCK

now i need to log back in

thank you emet selch

[rare sinew]

Thank you rat bastard

[gaunt star]

HONESTLY

[rare sinew]

I swear trusts cant dps for shit

[stiff charm]

im just sad ysayle barely even gets a mention ever

[gaunt star]

yep

[stiff charm]

||she was shown once here and thats it||

||no dialogue :(||

[chrome edge]

bro for the active time, i mashed like my entire keyboard but the bar kept going down

[gaunt star]

its supposed to

you want to stop it from going full

[chrome edge]

i have friends who keep it up to max

[gaunt star]

[rare sinew]

Those fuckin trial mechanics.

[gaunt star]

this one is different

[chrome edge]

wait

[serene vortex]

I’ma hit you guyys with s controversial opinion

[gaunt star]

LMFAO

other ones are max yeah

[chrome edge]

wait so
we drop it to 0?

[gaunt star]

but this one, you want to stop it from fillingup

yes

[serene vortex]

Ardbert > haurchefaunt in terms of best boy

[gaunt star]

because its a bad thing

[stiff charm]

100%

[gaunt star]

No

What

[late trail]

I finished 5.3, holy shit it was a wild ride

[stiff charm]

haurchefant isnt that interesting to me

[chrome edge]

[stiff charm]

he is a good boy that didnt have to die

thats it

[serene vortex]

Same

[gaunt star]

@gaunt star

he's just so excited

[serene vortex]

He wants her so bad

Simp king

[gaunt star]

esgfdnjgok

[rare sinew]

||Seto||

[gaunt star]

i was still lowkey crying at that part

then i see this shit

simp activity detected

[dawn wave]

nier raid was insane

[serene vortex]

If she was a streamer he’d be a 1k donator per month

10000%

[rare sinew]

Are the mechanics as nuts as the first

[stiff charm]

i would donate my life savings to ||graha||

[dawn wave]

i learnt my lesson about not repairing gear 😔

please, laugh at my pain

[rare sinew]

Comment on Nier mechanics pls

[gaunt star]

oh my god

[dawn wave]

way more nuts

[gaunt star]

im scared of the nier raid

[rare sinew]

Oh lord

[dawn wave]

some mechs try to bait you into a fake safe area

[gaunt star]

i would do it now but im hot and hungry

[rare sinew]

I was shitting myself to death for the trial as is...

[gaunt star]

snuhgjioagoisjnab gkjoskgmlnas

OMG

THE MINION

[rare sinew]

SMN bottom dps

[dawn wave]

our group cleared it with 10 mins to spare

[gaunt star]

OH K GOD

same

same group....?

Ryne class change confirmed /s

[bitter cloud]

THEY MADE HIM SAY THE FUNNY LINE: "SLOPPEH"

[rare sinew]

I wanna go rest

[gaunt star]

the world needs you

[dawn wave]

not sure. our group had a dude calling out mechs which was nice

[midnight glen]

AAAAAA, they made him even cuter

[gaunt star]

sugaga?

[gaunt star]

wholesome thumbs up

[broken canopy]

so that ending narration

[dawn wave]

oop guess its time for me to get out of spoilers

[broken canopy]

like final?

[quartz canopy]

Does anyone know how many leaves you get per.. clear for Faux?

[sick moon]

I just hit the ||Hythlodaeus|| scene and that's a real big monkaS. Like, I know how heavily it was implied in 5.2, and yet... It still shocked me really bad.

[gentle mist]

Damn ||Terncliff|| looks nice

[gaunt star]

yeah

its something to think about

we've been talking about stuff past that point in here tho so beware

spoiler tags are tempting...

[sick moon]

Nah dw I'm just popping in quick

[serene vortex]

I really just have one issue with all of this

[gaunt star]

enjoy the msq 😊

[rare sinew]

I like how
||even as an ancient, we were the adventurer||

[gaunt star]

oh yeah

[rare sinew]

Like ||we were still out there||

[serene vortex]

||i didn't really expect elidibus to actually be over, cause now it genuinely just makes him the antagonist||

and you know who "him" is

[rare sinew]

Ugh

[gaunt star]

||did everyone get the same pattern on the stone?|| cause i feel like it ||depends on your deity but maybe that's just me||

yup

[rare sinew]

||round circle with dot for me||

[serene vortex]

||I don't want "him" to be the main antagonist again.||

[gaunt star]

oh it was the same then

[gentle mist]

||I guess? It was very prominently displayed when Elidibus succ'd the souls in too||

[rare sinew]

I think it has to be

That end cutscene for the trial tho

[gaunt star]

Pain idnall I feel

[rare sinew]

My heart

[gaunt star]

||fandaniel is probably gonna be big bad and zenos is just the big inconcenient villain||

Goodbye my lover

Wait i have an emote for this

[rare sinew]

||that emet wave||

[serene vortex]

||fandaniel feels irrelevant to me still, guess i'll have to wait and see it in a bigger spectrum.||

[gaunt star]

|| ||

[serene vortex]

||especially because he took over fucking asahi's body||

[teal geyser]

FUCK YEAH

[gaunt star]

||the wave made the whole thing so fucking good||

[teal geyser]

||Y'SHTOLA WANTS THE D||

[serene vortex]

no she doesn't

[gaunt star]

Pain

I'm in pain

[serene vortex]

she's embracing his simping that's all

[teal geyser]

no no no

[gentle mist]

Ah, finally, there it is! The ||MEANWHILE...|| of this patch 😄

[gaunt star]

me when ||we disappear : haha telelports behind u nothing personal kiddo||
then ||emet did the handwave and i broke down||

[gentle mist]

(after ||Sapphire Weapon||)

[gaunt star]

I'm in pain

[rare sinew]

How good is nier story

Yoko level?

[pulsar yacht]

you have to be a nier fan to like it

[rare sinew]

Ah

MSQ tho

💯

[gaunt star]

[rare sinew]

Nearly cried so many times

[pulsar yacht]

it doesn't feel like it gets as much out of me as msq so far (and not just because of the different lore behind bunker)

[gaunt star]

I'm pain

when they said it was a mix of emotions they weren't lying

[rare sinew]

||when the songs started in the solo instance||

[gaunt star]

also was it just me or did heroes gauntlet hit different

[rare sinew]

I swear to god

[gaunt star]

felt harder than the other dgns

||big fat tacos?||

[rare sinew]

I swear it hit hard

[marsh stratus]

Did they add The Bozjan Southern Front?

[gaunt star]

right??

like

it was small pulls but even then

[gentle mist]

@gaunt star the MSQ solo instance, I think 😄

[gaunt star]

but ||everyone coming to help was very wholesome||

[rare sinew]

Aye

I cant tell if its cuz trusts are trash

[gaunt star]

southern front is 5.31 or 5.35 i think

[gentle mist]

had no problems with a random squad in Heroes' Gauntlet, so it was probably trusts being trusts

[gaunt star]

yeah nah it hit hard on normal

like not crazy hard

but compared to wall to wall pulls on other dgns

felt like if we tried it here it would not go well

[marsh stratus]

:(

[serene vortex]

idk the gauntlet was one of the easier dungeons to me

but it was the most fun looking one at least

i very much enjoy interactive dungeons

[rare sinew]

||when titania showed up||

[unique verge]

Eh, i did it with trust on my first go. Its pretty useful just because they do mechanics right blind, so you can pretty much figure out what to do based on them

[minor girder]

Hey guys! Is 2P friend or foe?

[gaunt star]

All of the above

https://gyazo.com/f5b95d118d3c470fc59f0f5356661309

[wary peak]

yes

[rare sinew]

I gotta sleep

But just thinkin back

[minor girder]

Please no wague answers

[rare sinew]

FUCK

SO

[gaunt star]

https://gyazo.com/452435ad5953ae801e2104994c0ce441

[rare sinew]

FUCKING

[unique verge]

By the way, regarding the "extras" who show up : ||Does everyone show up regardless of if you've completed all role quests or not?||

[gaunt star]

I like you

[rare sinew]

GOOD END TO THIS EXPAC

||they all did for me. Only did tank and caster||

[serene vortex]

no @unique verge

everyone shows up regardless

[rare sinew]

SUCH A GOOD END TO AN AMAZING EXPAC

[dapper lantern]

||That last line, does that mean there is only one expansion left with story in it?||

[rare sinew]

Goodnight peeps

[serene vortex]

doubt it

think we're gonna have at least 2 more @dapper lantern

[dapper lantern]

||That still hurts though||

[serene vortex]

||if they actually dedicate an entire expansion to zenos again i'm gonna scream.||

[prisma vine]

my friend will too but of happiness not anger lol

[unique verge]

Realistically i cant see any scenario where ||FF14 just flat out ends, regardless of that final line, unless people just lose interest and quit. Its pretty much SE's most lucrative cashflow||

[serene vortex]

||I see it ending for a sequel with a better engine, or a complete rework of the game. working as a sequel||

[dapper lantern]

||Unless they're hinting at that after this chapter we're gonna somewhere else that isn't on our planet...||

[unique verge]

||Right. But that would be a continuation, not an ending.||

[gaunt star]

||giott and the other role quest people showing up was fucking sick||

Also

||i feel like the kids are gonna be future ardbert & co even tho they didnt show roe tank and dwarf healer||

Fuck man i cant believe shadowbringers is over

[vivid aurora]

lol dungeon spoiler ||real happy to find out that hildibrand is alive and in the 5.3 dungeon||

[eternal pulsar]

I wanna click on these spoilers so badly

[gaunt star]

||wait is he actually||

Dont do it

[vivid aurora]

dont

[gaunt star]

Its so good going in blind

[vivid aurora]

||but yea||

[gaunt star]

The best part wouldve sucked if i didnt go in blind

[sterile galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/candy-candy-trail-piece-of-candy-gif-5016759

[eternal pulsar]

How much more questing after the ||scene with Seto||

[stiff lynx]

i did wall to wall pulls on gauntlet fine

[gentle mist]

@eternal pulsar not much, maybe ten minutes (?) of active playing and a lot of cutscenes

[unique verge]

Speaking of going in blind.... ||That trial on EX is gonna be sick||

[eternal pulsar]

damn

[gaunt star]

I just saw the ||hildibrand screenshot on reddit, i havent finished his storyline so im not sure about the implications but god||

[stiff lynx]

||I liked that dps lb doesnt work and u need tank lb to survive.||

[gaunt star]

@eternal pulsar everything wraps up after that

[autumn haven]

i think the ||Fandaniel thing is awesome-it shows that for one, the sundered weren't necessarily on the same page-he I guess didn't want the rejoining or else he'd have been trying to help the unsundered. Two, what does he need a fortune from a noble house and Zenos for? The latter I suspect because he's related TO Hades, and the latter clearly did something to him to give him the dreams, but yeah it seems like he's trying some Big Plan that even the unsundered didn't know about||

[gaunt star]

So not too much

the new ascian is insane worry

||tank lb3 getting some love is good||

Me wondering if i should tell my friends the trial mechanics or let them die cause they tease me whenever i die

let them die

Fuckin bet

[stiff lynx]

||It was a very fun fight i didnt like the QTE though||

[gaunt star]

Understandable

[gentle mist]

damn, ||Kholusia's proper f00ked, isn't it?||

[stiff lynx]

||if someone fails the QTE it fails the fight||

[gaunt star]

Tbf ||first phase is fairly quick and easy when you know the mechanics so its not too bad||

But yeah that sucks if its repeated

[stiff lynx]

i literally hurt my finger doing it though lol

[gaunt star]

I liked the qte

[leaden wind]

A#IGHT

a'ight

how dare they throw that meny feeling at us?

[gaunt star]

ikr

I was tearing up for like an hour straight

good stuff

[leaden wind]

whoever wrote this deserves a riase

[stiff lynx]

||so was elidibus a kid? he wasnt huge like the others||

[gentle mist]

@stiff lynx ||he was kneeling||

[leaden wind]

||Yes, it seems he was chosen as a kid to do the duty, as the younger ones are untainted, and have no predesposition, making him a perfect emesary and neutral heart||

[tender fog]

Untranslated text with starshower btw

[leaden wind]

||my theory at least||

[gentle mist]

(at least that's how I interpreted it, ymmv)

@stiff lynx fair enough

[tender fog]

according to g'translate "I'm sorry. The weather forecast for Norvrandt is currently suspended."

[stiff lynx]

guess i cant type before i do spoiler tag?

[drowsy quartz]

Hey guys, has anyone found where to get weathered agent from?

[gentle mist]

@stiff lynx double | bars around text also ||spoilers it||

[stiff lynx]

oh ok ty

[gentle mist]

so ||spoiler||

wish me luck, going into Puppets' Bunker blind

[stiff lynx]

im still in queue :l

[spiral bridge]

Finished just recently

[drowsy quartz]

@hollow vessel crafted under armourer the walls and floor

[gentle mist]

...or not, because Duty Finder did me a surprise, apparently I'm doing the new trial first...

...again...

[spiral bridge]

Lotta feelings, I'm only sad that they continue to ||Shive zenos down our throats||

Shove*

[gentle mist]

well, I don't really mind, it's pretty fun

[rigid shard]

I feel so

[spiral bridge]

Everything else I loved including that trial which was just really well done

[rigid shard]

.........

Complicated

[leaden wind]

||Also how Runar confessed to Shtola was adorable...||

[spiral bridge]

That extreme is gonna be a treat

[gaunt star]

the way this is going i see Fandaniel simply using Zenos, zenos dies and boop back to ascian biz again

[spiral bridge]

Highly unlikely

Imo

With how much they hype up zenos strenght

[rigid shard]

I was just happy to see my pretty boys face again.

[craggy gale]

6.0 class wol uses the crystal to transform into ultraman

[rigid shard]

Im talking about asahi.

[spiral bridge]

To the point where elidibus didn't even fight back

Also that emet selch wave during the trial

Made my party lose their shit

What a treat

[stiff lynx]

||theyre pretty much gonna go with ff6 themed stuff prob. With fandel reminding me of kefka.||