#retired-patch-6-3-discussion
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@barren karma speak for yourself I'm a legacy player I was important from the very start they just forgot
Also our goal is not to replicate the fricken primal exactly, but to produce something made of that element using the idea of the primal as a base. If we made it the same we a) would likely summon a tempering monster which would be BAD considering the umbral nature of the environment, and b) would likely fail because a true version would already be summoned.
We did pretty much what Azem did.
Summon our own Primal and then destroy it
But this time there were no grapes involved which makes me sad
what about the chest of E'sP?
Are they the tasty grapes That Grew near the volcano?
Look I'm a simple ancient
I see grapes I have to have them
If anything threatens my grapes they die
What if Minfillia or Ryne is Hythlo? <_<
Just a thought. Ryne helps WoL to summon primals in order to bring life back to the Empty.
Hythlo similarly helped Azem summon Ifrita to quell the volcano.
Oh on another topic.
If Taynor and Unukalhai are part of the same sundered soul then I wonder who their source counterpart is.
Anyone wanna hedge bets if the WOL looses their powers after Endwalker?
Maybe not their powers but most likely the blessing of light
^
They are still 8 times rejoined and just because the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc will end doesn't change it
also I have to wonder who the new threat will be after we beat up papa crystal
before i was thinking they might have the Sound be the next overarcing threat
but that'll probably be dealt with in 6.0
And it's clear after joining with Ardbert that rejoining doesn't require the Ardor or Calamities
i wouldn't be surprised if they had a bunch of smaller stories that don't have a big connecting factor like the Ascians for a while
well, Ardbert's a special case
since he was already 'dead'
kinda wish we also got Ardberts voice along with him.....gawwd he's one of the best voice actors they have
and we were undergoing basically a mini-calamity of our own
DERPLANDER IS ARDBERT CONFIRMED
in terms of plots that'll be happening going forward
i personally think we'll get Void Rejuvenation as a plotline that'll begin in 6.X
and it'll involve the Four Archfiends as the 6.X Trial Series
@severe brook but it's implied Unukalhai and Taynor are both parts of the same sundered soul.
yes, but that doesn't mean they'll just merge together anytime
it wouldn't necessarily need to be their Source counterpart
they could theoretically merge together
but it'd require basically a recreation of what happened with us and Ardbert
so one would need to be in that ghost-like state
and the other would have to be undergoing a catastrophic breakdown
be kinda nice if 6.1 was a bit of a break....a downtime with a fun little pirate adventure or somehting small....I'd like to go back to Doma personally
and i don't think either of them want that to happen
But I believe the source shard is the original essence. Which is why each rejoining returns to the source
less the original, more the center
nothing is really more or less original than anything else
but the Source happens to be the 'center'
still, the Source and Shards came into existence at the same time
so neither is more 'original' then the other
Know the source existed first
the Source is more central but it's not inherently closer to the Ancient world than any other
The Source would be the original Star before the sundering
Be kinda cool if the new evil is kinda Cthulhu based...as in it starts with a creeping madness and builds from there....a kinda mad god that not connected to us....a blind idiot god kinda deal
that sounds more like azathoth than cthulhu
When the Sundering happened, each world was split up evenly
oh ya I just forgot that guy yea that's it!
they are not fragments of the Source
but the Source and Shards are all fragments of a world that no longer exists
It's a world that does exist it's just been split. If that world cease to exist why did we find ruins of said world
Because each Calamity on the source further degraded evidence of those ruins
yes
there were ruins there once
when i say split
i don't mean that each world was a continent
it's the Sundering
each world is a percentage, essentially
the Source, being at the center, is the world the others rejoin to
thus it's now at a higher "percentage"
It was explained why we couldn't find evidence of Amaurot on the source
yes
i'm not disputing that
when i say that world ceased to exist
i mean that that form of existence and its people no longer exist
traces still do
or did, in the case of the Source
but the Source is not the "original" world from which the others flow
Only it is because everything returns to the source. By your logic every rejoining could randomly just flow into any other shard.
But they don't. Why? Because they flow into the source.
that wasn't the argument here
my argument was that the Source is not the original, but the center
it cannot be the original because all parts of this system originate at the same time
if it was the original, the source would be older
but the source is a 'fragment' just as much as the other shards are
It is literally called The Source
Being older has nothing to do with it it's the original copy of the world they lived in only divided in essence. Which is why each Shard flows back into it during a rejoining.
"Hydaelyn, also known as the Source (原初世界, Gensho Sekai?, lit. Original World), is the primary setting of Final Fantasy XIV. It shares its name with the Mothercrystal who guides the player character.
This world is the original star from which Hydaelyn's thirteen reflections were sundered. One of these reflections, the First, is the main setting of Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers."
@severe brook
lmao
among us lookin ass
Zenos' new Job is going to be Impostor
What he's saying is that the identity and character of each world has been altered into a completely different thing, wherein there is no sense of identity connect between the former and the latter.
The fact that the same 'stuff' makes up the shards doesn't change that they're different things now from what once was.
he's going to pretend to be a Scion the whole time
when the crown prince is SUS
I saw Zenos vent
a new kill animation for amongus but its just a 40 second long cutscene where zenos turns into shinryu and akh morns you, bricking your computer
he uses Protostar and it blazes a line across the whole map
killing all crewmates in the way
The argument became that the source was not the original world. Calling it the "center" but not being the ORIGINAL WORLD from which the 13 shards are reflections of.
@maiden lodge
The literal meaning of the Japanese name is "ORIGINAL WORLD."
It isn't, in a sense, the original world. It has different aetheric laws, and people, and flora, and fauna.
What if the original world is.....our world O_O
The Source is the same dimension, but the world is something different
It's literally called the original world oh my God are you people so obtuse but you can't look facts straight in the face and admit that your answer is wrong.... does Yoshida have to look you straight in the eye and tell you you are wrong for you to finally admit it or you going to argue with him too?
That's the whole shtick behind the Ascians isn't it? That the world -isn't- the old Source, and they're trying to bring it back into being
Biggs and wedge travel back in time to create the original world
In the metaphysics of identity, the ship of Theseus is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The concept is one of the oldest in Western philosophy, having been discussed by the likes of Heraclitus and Plato by c. 500–400 BC.
I'm not saying that, in one sense, the Source is not the core remnant of the old Source--it is. That's not disputed.
What I'm saying is that it's not the same thing, despite having been made from the original, in the same sense that you eating a steak--that steak ceases to be even as its proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, its component bits, are made into your flesh
Except the original doesn't exist.
Every world is the original, in that sense.
No it isn't
Hydaelyn doesn't copy. She divides. She makes one thing into two.
They're not copies--they're proper divisions
Hydaelyn, also known as the Source (原初世界, Gensho Sekai?, lit. Original World), is the primary setting of Final Fantasy XIV. It shares its name with the Mothercrystal who guides the player character.
This world is the original star from which Hydaelyn's thirteen reflections were sundered. One of these reflections, the First, is the main setting of Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers.
lit
yes yes you can quote a wiki good for you
Now instead of didacticly repeating a noncanonical source
Watch the cutscene where emet-selch explains what Hydaelyn does
The Japanese name means original world
Yes, yes, I understand how names work, yes yes.
What is Hydaelyns mode of attack according to Emet-selch?
Division.
You're trying to use a fictional characters interpretation of events to describe it. I'm doing actual research about the motivations of the creators of said story.
The wiki is not researching the creators of said story.
Actual research would actually involve the text.
The text says, explicitly, her power is division. Are you saying the text is wrong about the text?
The creators call it the original world they wrote it out to be the original world and the 13 shards are reflections
That is what the source means even pull out a dictionary for crying out loud and you will see what source means
So are you claiming that Emet-selch is wrong about the cosmology of the game?
That Hydaelyn doesn't divide, but photocopies?
And that the sundering is a bad name, and it's actually just the 'ctrl-c ctrl-v'?
That's part of making a good story is not having a fictional character provide the exposition but instead their own interpretation. You're taking his interpretation of what Hydaelyn does as the facts.
But hey, the 'name' of it is the 'Source' and all names are literal and must be taken literally without exceptions. Thus, Moenbryda must have actually married the moon at some point--you cracked the case on how we get there! We'll borrow her dowry!
I'm taking the in-game exposition as expository, yes.
Are you claiming the exposition is non-expository?
oh btw.
Zenos is like Kenpachi Zaraki.
both want strong enemies to fight and usually want them to get stronger.
though zaraki will run after you all the time.
Emet-selch was delivering exposition though. And while I appreciate the idea he's non-reliable, to show such, the onus is on you to prove that he is in this case.
Only he's a character that sees what he wants to see. He also deems that the sundered shards are not full ancients so therefore they do not actually exist. So I guess we are to believe that our characters do not actually exist in the game's world and we're just Phantoms.
Which, saying 'THE SOURCE MEANS' doesn't prove dick, because you're claiming a name is an aptonym without showing how it is apt
He also... was there.
He's not claiming we don't exist either.
He literally says he doesn't count as killing us as murder since we don't exist
Emet-selch is the most reliable character we have on the matter, because he's the only one who a) was there, and b) remembers. Even Hydaelyn isn't.
In his eyes we are not real that we are just fragments of what he perceives as real
Yes, Emet-selch NEEEEVER uses irony.
And notice: Nothing's contradicted what Emet-selch has explained either.
And an independant source (Ronka) fucking backs him up
He clearly doesn’t show that much remorse for the probably millions he killed through rejoinings.
That's a different matter, and yeah he doesn't. But his being a remorseless undying genocidal megawizard doesn't mean he's wrong or lying about why he is a remorseless undying genocidal megawizard.
You're literally arguing that Emet selch is wrong about Emet selch's own motivation. The world has changed in such a fundamental manner that he cannot live with it. If the world were the same, he'd not have that motivation. You're literally saying Emet-selch's lying to himself about the world that he's trying to change back to the thing it once was.
In this instance, you've had it explained to you that this is a 'Theseus' ship' argument, and you've ignored it, and you've been presented with the text, and you're ignoring the text. I am not the reason you're running into troubles here.
If 'The game says <blank>' is 'clearly nothing' as an argument to you, how can you even discuss the game? Your position is absurd.
I'm arguing that the literal meaning of the name given by the devs is "Original World" and you still refuse to listen
So clearly the devs are lying but the fictional character they created is correct
I did listen. I addressed it. It's not a salient point.
1:47 PM] Kawaiian, Equinox Bane: I'm not saying that, in one sense, the Source is not the core remnant of the old Source--it is. That's not disputed.
[1:48 PM] Kawaiian, Equinox Bane: What I'm saying is that it's not the same thing, despite having been made from the original, in the same sense that you eating a steak--that steak ceases to be even as its proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, its component bits, are made into your flesh
I even linked the Ship of Theseus.
The problem here is I don't actually think you really understand what you're arguing against, exactly.
Im trying to comprehend what this argument is about, is someone arguing that Hydaelyn copies and doesnt divide?
Cause she divides. Her literal power is to split things.
From what I understand is the world we're on is the world that go divied or is it just another fragment from a even older world
The older world being the acients one
If I take a pile of cookie dough, and I split it into 14 even piles, with one in the middle where the original was--the one in the center isn't the original pile. The pile is gone.
Technically speaking the original world doesn't exist anymore in the sense of a complete product
THIS.
The remnant is there, and aetherically, the Shards pull towards the Source
It has special properties, no one is disputing that
Yeah that much can be argued absolutely
It is -special-
But you cant take it as "oh this is literally the same as it was in ancient times"
I suppose you could explain it as this:
The source is like the base lego block that all the other blocks get attached to
but the completed lego construction doesnt exist anymore
And also, yes I believe Emet-Selch was telling the truth when he says he doesn't lie
Or specifically that he wasnt lying to the scions and wol
he was actually pretty straight forward
Now, granted, just because he wasnt lying doesnt mean he was telling the WHOLE truth
cause thats a different story
he told us what we needed to know.
thats it
whether it was a lie or not is up to the individual
is it real?
both?
How many reflections of the source are there
great answer
"Across ten and three were we then divided. Reflections of the Source, each possessed of a shard."
8 already joined
You would be wrong
13
and then the source
And one went bye-bye
Across 10 and 3
I meant gone completely, not rejoined
currently 5 shards, the 13th being world of darkness, failed experiment
and one is the 1st
that leaves 3 that we don't know about
Not gone completely.
The thirteenth is still 'there' but it's fucked up and not in a rejoinable state.
But there is a possibility we can save the 13th
I mean....
but only if you level all your roles
Yep, one teased by the plan to rejoin it through the First, and one teased by the void quests.
Yes only if you level all your roles
Mhm
at that point would they even make it mandatory then
"please level all roles to lvl 80 before continuing and do these quests:"
like
it can't be that important otherwise they'd make people level jobs
to do msq
Or we just need to amass enough light to pour into the 13th
If only we had a vessel that could withhold a near Limitless amount of Aether
No, they won't make it mandatory
They took out crossclassing to avoid forcing that
what do you mean crossclassing
@forest magnet before role actions we had cross class
In ARR and HW, instead of role abilities, that stuff was class abilities, and you had to level enough in the class with it to be allowed to equip it on other jobs.
So, for example, to get swiftcast as a healer, swiftcast was a level 26 THM ability, so you had to level to level 26 THM in order to swiftcast-raise
Man I remember in 1.0 where you didn't play Black Mage in trials
Like crossclassing required specific jobs
Because if you just played thaumaturge you could cross class raise from Conjuring
this would be "as long as its X role just level it to unlock the quest"
which is less painful
'you need level 80 in four jobs' is more painful than 'you just need level 26 in this one job'
Put it this way, if we ever return to the 13th there's absolutely no way they would force you to do all of that
They'd just find another way
Couldnt tanks cross class protect? Think I remember that.
PLD could cross class raise
And there were like two stances for WAR I think
@maiden lodge soon-to-be five jobs
It's less painful for the older players though who already have most of their jobs levelled anyway
So then it's just ten levels per job
especially thighs
And for those who are confused, there are 14 worlds, 13 shards, and the Source.
Not 12 shards and the Source.
Paladins could crossclass CNJ and MRD, so they got Raise, Stoneskin, Cure, Protect, Mercy Stroke, Bloodbath, that terrible defensive cooldown that did nothing much, and Skull Sunder (ha)
Raise was out of combat only, though
I don't think the Void Quests would be mandatory to enter a Void Expac, moreso just, like, giving context and alternate dialogue when Unukahai hops out a portal in 7.55 or so 
Imagine if Paladin gets raise this time
it'd be the equivalent of the WoD arc being optional in HW, which, like, yeah why, but also, 
They don't have swiftcast, so it won't work in their ket.
kit
@maiden lodge unless it works differently
They're very reluctant to gave raise not take a million years to cast.
well, there is the Requiescat trait
And Paladins sitting there casting a long spell while getting punched in the gunt doesn't work well
Like spending oath gauge on it instead or allowing it to be instacast during Requiescat
...not saying it'd ever be worth it, but, it's there
There's that, but that... yeah
It would prevent people from abusing it
if PLD didn't already have 2 raid CD's one coulda be given as an aoe Clemency or its compliment to Confiteor
Red Mage already abuses the shit out of their raised
The issue with that though is that raise is also an oom risk on all jobs that have it. Paladins don't really have MP as a cost in the same way, like eating 2400 mp is nothing on them
RDM is balanced around that though.
well, bc their entire dps kit rotates around Requiescat burst windows and rebuilding your MP
...and FoF is there too I guess
@maiden lodge then oath gauge cost. The idea would be giving Paladin an emergency raise in case both healers are down
Oathguage is a minimal cost.
But you still have to be choosy with how you spend your oath gauge
Always keeping at least 50 in reserve for emergencies
prob a new gauge builder spendor for 80+
And spending it before you go over cap
shield swipe seems like easy territory for gauge building
or, the new burning swipe Derp throws in the trailer
🔍
Cover II, absorbs a killing blow, perhaps
--well, not a Cover lmao
but a Guardian Spirit-esque ability
...that's easy cheesing territory though
There would be worse decisions than giving Paladin its own personal res
imagine 80+ being they give tanks a 2nd invuln 
perfect block? 3 seconds, next attack does zero damage
Yeah but it has no resource room for it.
or give PLD for having the worst invuln atm
Can also give it a cool down
living dead is still the worst invuln
Again the idea is to give Paladin the option in case both healers wipe and there's no Red Mage or Summoner
Yeah it’s really idk...? Pointless? Like it helps you survive at a moment where your healer is completely incapacitated but for 10 seconds only
What’s the use of that?
RIP in piece origianl Shade Shift and Manawall
Or just eat the wipe
Yeah but why eat the wipe if you could spare your team the trouble
because efficiency 
It does have a usecase that makes it shine--it's the longest invuln for sustained tankbusters.
The game should promote more adaptability. Why does losing both your healers have to mean a death sentence
Doesn’t TBN kind of out do it?
--in a perfect world aka what even pugs will demand happen regardless of skill or comp differences, rez isn't needed
If you have 150k hp, and you're about to take 400k hits, TBN doesn't do the job.
Ah okay yeah fair
TBN's also the best like, "filler" defensive CD
I don't know TBN seems to absorb quite a lot
okay Nascent Flash is
Isn't it a percentage of your max health
but TBN at least feeds back into DRK's DPS rotation
TBN also doesn't help when it's consecutive hits that place a damage vuln stack, so you can take one but not two.
LD would probably be a lot better if it wasnt so...convoluted
TBN, Raw Int/Nascent, Sheltron, and Heart of Stone
as like, the short cd defensives
Like one specific case where LD's strength shows is Titania's tethers. DRK's the only tank that can eat all six tethers without a swap
but tbh i feel like both DRK and GNB invulns are just kinda stupid in design, for no reason than they tried to differentiate them from the existing tank invulns
TBN the first, eat the second, LD the third and 'die', invuln four five and six, get bene'd
GNB's is actually good as well
GNB is just HG but you need to get healed after
Usually tank busters apply vulnstacks if they do damage, so you're swapping right after anyways
I love Paladin
DRK is just extended HG
GNB does actually mean you don't need a swap
Not taking the damage is really a legitimate aspect to GNB that lets it do things Holm doesn't. On E10S, for example, you can have a GNB or a PLD eat all the orbs and take no damage down stacks as a cheese, but War and Drk can't without eating a ton of damage down.
you get dmg down if you do that
And if GNB isn't tanking the boss at the time, that's an uptime strat, and they don't need to be healed right after by direct heals
they don't check for dmg, they check how many ppl they hit
though bolide/hallow do allow other cheesing in the tier
Right, Im thinking the shadowbreath
Still
it's cheesing there cause the uptime
also one thing ppl don't usually appreciate is that a major benefit of invulns is that the tank doesn't need to be topped beforehand
bolide reducing you to 1 hp isn't actually much of a downside
if you hallow something at full hp then your healers are probably doing something wrong
Case in point, E3S and E7S's double laser busters, requiring no swap on GNB, because the first hit knocked them low anyways
Why does monk feel like it's slightly easier to play on a controller than keyboard
Weird way to say Shelltron
Literally FREE CD
Doesn't waste DPS-based resources
Helps against busters and raidwides and chip damage
true, and I guess TBN is at best dps neutral
TBN is a use it and hope the enemy breaks it... otherwise it's a DPS loss
Shelltron is oh. My oath gauge has been at full for the last 50 seconds, guess I'll press it

one of my new action recommendations has been a way to manually pop your TBN
in fact I was thinking the following
a strike that costs HP or pops your TBN
that way we get OG DRK flavor AND a means to control TBN
I mean if the enemy doesn't break TBN then your healer just pew pewed for absolutely free because you took zero damage
And if it does, your healer got some free pew pew
Sheltron is also weaker than TBN
Just use tbn on tank buster for free shield
TBN does 25% of your hp. So, if you have, for example, 200k hp, that's 50k damage prevented.
In order to prevent 50k of damage, Sheltron requires you to take a hit that does 250k damage without it.
That'd still kill you.
It's a dps lost now that pld loss the shield swipe
Well, no, it doesn't cost you a dps resource.
Actually it gets you back a dps resource, mp
drk doesn't need even fewer ways to make unforced errors
Smart tbn usage including gaining uptime while still popping it is a big part of being great at the job vs simply good
So how does one actually use perfect balance
Remember when everyone thought chemist was going to be a job
I wish it had been...
@acoustic sail you mean it isn't? looks at Alchemist
Chemist would be the healer version of Alchemist
What Alchemists can already heal people
They make potions people drink potions and people are healed
@gaunt star do you use tbn on targetted mechs? Like for example a whm gets targetted for lightning tether on e11s
Oh right
Bad example since you use tbn on yourself for the tb
yea
yeah
that sort of thing is a potential use case
I think of the prey from o7s but that was... a while ago lol
E12s prog parties have been a pain
The Blackest Night is best used on yourself when main tankking or on the main tank when you're off tanking
pphands
and sometimes if I really need to pop one I just put it on a squishy for a raidwide
I'd try to give it to our brd in prog because he's the most prone to just falling over dead but now it doesn't really matter
if there's raidwide+auto it usually pops on whoever's tanking but that's not always the case 
Yah currently it takes 3 autos to get a tbn off me in prog
But I suspect it just expires before enough autos go off on you now?
Im going to call it
the ascians didnt summon the monsters in the final days
they were summoned or sent by someone or something else
im going purely based on the fact the monsters share the teleport animation of ascians
and that theyre suddenly reappearing even though denizens of eorzea lack creation magic potential
considering the rather distinct design of the towers, it's possible that Fanny is using some Mhachi tech to forcibly create/summon monsters.
Final days had creation magic go out of control afaik - so not necessarily created by ascians ancients
I think current speculation is that architecture is just void/umbral aesthetic
Btw
Just cause you PLDs got an awesome trailer doesn't make you hot stuff
GNBs will still be the coolest xD
I hate that they put some random sigil on the back of the 6.0 cape
I don't think it's that mhachi
My pld glam will remain my glowly eureka gear
I get where you come from with like, the lights but....frankly that also kinda already existed before Mhach
Making the cape and armor look all badass, GNBs will look even more badass
Someone who zoomed into the towers said they look garlean up close
Yeah
They got really obvious garlean uh, "piping" at the bottom
and if you go "that light looks like something from Mhach" well....
Tower of babil had weird pipes all over the place and lights shooting up to the moon too...
My arachnoid instincts are telling me to expect nothing before November
Did we ever obtain an excalibur sword or crystal sword in ffxiv?
Excalibur is the Paladin's Zodiac Weapon, I believe
Sure we've been given swords which I'd class as crystal swords
like the uh, ShB bluespirit stuff
Is it Excalibur the completed Relic for Paladin in A Realm Reborn?
Damn
@untold gull people have wanted something like Nero as a job since ARR
I was hoping we didn't since we got a badass sword in the moon in ff4
The new weapon is going to literally be a bag
it's definitely unique. and imagine: giant ass rocket hammer as a weapon 
New weapons have to be badass looking for this expansion
there are still some mystical swords they could use as a new weapon
is Dyrnwyn in the public domain yet?
fleshy towers
Reading more into the Templar I'd actually welcome it now
Because it's supposed to be very similar to the rune fencer
But I still don't know what kind of weapon it would use given that Paladin's have swords and dragoons have Lance's
So the dev team would have to be creative
Templars use swords
Sage > the rest
templar is closer to a tank type job though
since it shares a lot in common with pld
@woven escarp have you actually look at the Templar job in previous games
TG cid's job is definitely a maiming job but there's no way they'd add him as a playable job 
sage looks so cool that so many dps players are actually considering playing healer
so many dead bodies in 6.0
Dont blame them
@woven escarp Templar is a spellblade it's not a tank
i'm one of those people tbh
Gunbreaker was fun at launch too
And it most certainly is not close to Paladin
already warned my FC that i'll end up killing some of em 
You're only associating it by name and even that's wrong
Templar Channel magic into their blades that provide status effects
There are a lot more related to the Rune fencer in Final Fantasy XI then they are the Paladin
it's more just the implication of the name than the actual functionality of the job itself
that said, who knows, we might actually get templar then somehow have a spear and a shield 
dancer is sooo chill
Gunbreaker and Dancer were damn near perfect at launch compared to the older jobs
you have like just under a minute of uptime then for two minutes, you just chill there 
I'm expecting similar quality to the new jobs
Dancer made me love physical range more
honestly, i haven't tried gnb on lower level content. dnc is so great for just a normal run through of something like CT raids because of that god like aoe but gnb is so much like a dps too -- you know what, i should try it later 
Just remember, you might hate the other tanks after you try it xD
honestly, i'm only at 50 at drk and while i like the class, i hate how squishy i feel on it compared to war
and war started to get stale though i'm only at 56 on that
ngl, i miss dark arts - it was still there when i first played drk but stuff happened 
well, early dark arts anyway
So what's your guy's first job to 90 going to be
Pld then sge
Funny how we don't have a melee dps with a normal sword
Isn't that interesting?
We have a katana
But we don't have a one handed sword
melee dps
sam/mnk. not even a choice just so i can delete armour/weapons
"In modern fantasy fiction and games, Templars have become associated with champions of religious authority who may be over ruthless in combating anyone seen as an enemy of the religion, or who are possibly dabbling in darker magics themselves. Whereas a Paladin will almost always be genuinely good, a Templar can easily become a villain."
For me it's going to be ninja dancer than mysterious DPS
Just for the people who think Paladin and Templar are one in the same
The implication of the name: "A knight of a temple" also has sweet bugger all to do with Paladin "A knight of a palace" or its specific lore in 14 "A knight of the Sultana's Palace/a free adventurer adjunct to the knights of the Sultana's Palace."
and here i'm asking for more armour on female 
Lol
less armour is more armour what do you mean?
we've gone through that phase already tho
hm
male and female. remember the odd bdsm gear phase early on?
Sorry women in armor is breaking my immersion the only equipment set allowed for women should be the spring dress
LOL
See, this is why I'm glad im a Lala Mario xD
now that i think about it, i should hunt those down for a glamour 
Lalas don't have this issue
I was one once

lol
I went back to au ra after some time
its like 8 months or so till 6.0
I just baisclly started it
Given the way the levels are more I don't know level-based rather than exploration I don't see how that's a thing if it is
Idk I don't care for galaxy much
Galaxy has 120 stars and at least a coin per level iirc
Ill get that to later
I'm sure the moon will be basically this expack's Tempest, like the story takes a wild turn and it's randomly sprung on us that welp we have to go to the moon
Its called oddessy
You know that PLD shot in the trailer, I want my character in that shot xD
Man and it would be the best image in ffxiv
hopefully we get that moment in front of zodiark
actually, i'd like to see that - mario in front of zodiark
Have to look epic after that Sephiroth trailer lol
If the moon was going to be the Tempest equivalent I can't imagine they would've told us right away that we were going there
I mean
We knew we would be going to the moon since forever
Yeah, that's true
Yeah inside the moon is where the final fight will be
It was expected that we went to moon at some point with Yoshi p teasing it so much
If its like ff4
Only one thing about Templar that would disappoint me is it should have been a job in heavensward
I guess it depends on what the full trailer shows
This week we fight against the many forms of 'The Creator'. In the Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Steam port. I had to level up a bit after losing the first time, but this is not an optimised playthrough and was my first time fighting the final boss properly.
I rate this game very highly, and believe it to be one of the better sequels that S...
Since there's something obscured in the shot of the dark side of the moon
there's also the hole on the moon...
Templar would have made a lot more sense in Ishgard, a nation full of zealotry and religeous fervor.
We didn't even get Final Fantasy 3 in North America until the DS version
We got a Final Fantasy 3 but not THE Final Fantasy 3. North America's Final Fantasy 3 was actually Final Fantasy 6
The end of ew will be a twist as will its location im sure
I'm not sure that's a hole or just giant lake on the moon logo
Its def a hole
The Moon is an eye
Its reall noticeable when watching the animation of the logo
what are the chances it's gonna be another ancient architecture. also, i'm still holding on that hope that we're going underground - not moon but the planet's
Final boss will be unexpected to i like to think
Zodiarks true form has to look all messed up
i'd be the radical that says there's a chance it's a boss like orphan in 13 where the two opposites combined to be one entity
Watch it look like a giant Elemental
if there's crystal palace in 14 then we definitely gonna see allagans then
I bet you Promathia looked way cooler than Zodiark
okay so I'm all for the WoL being incredibly powerful and all that, but fighting the entire Zodiark? Eeeeeeeh. Fighting a single reflection of Him sounds way more believable.
@languid breach no match for Azem
Zodiark’s final form
in regards to that, i think people are likely to pray for our wol
and y'all know what prayers do
just hoping they don't use that as a plot point, that's gonna be...uh, weird and interesting at the same time
The warrior of light has become a primal
I will temper them all
Anima is a trial, unlikely to be the final boss
The final boss will be Zorc
They don’t reveal that till the expansion drops
Will the broken chains Anima better be a 2nd phase
XD
New players: She doesn't look so tough
Anima breaks her chains
New players: What the F#@$
I want that reaction
Zodiark will be innocence type "final" boss i think
Anima!
i'd like to think that fandaniel is the innocence type final boss
just let me have an epic battlefield where i can drag that little shite's face on the ground
First Trial - some Magitek weapon maybe
Second Trial - Anima
Final Trial - Zodiark
"Did somebody say innocence?"
To be honest I think we will get some story instance trials
I dont think the first trial is just magitek
3 doesn't feel like enough
I'm guessing on the first one, I just know Anima isn't first
how so
First trial- Anima
Because she's too nadass ti be the first
Second Trial- Lunar Bahamut (if not boss next patch)
XD
Third Trial- Zenos stealing Zodiark's power while we fight him stealing Hydaleyns
Lmao be funny if we fight one of Midgarsormr's children on the moon as a nod to fighting Bahamut on the moon in the old ff game
what if we just fight lunar bahamut on the moon
And then during the final fight with Zenos we get into an epic sword fight and clash blades.
Then he looks to us and Whispers "Seven seconds until the end."
I'm cool with fighting some kind of Bahamut or one of the children on the moon
Maybe we have to fight Melbu Frahma.
My only for wish for 6.0 is for DRK to get the old 3.0/4.0 version of Blood Weapon back, and for Delirium to get completely changed (like it always does)
Seriously, Delirium has been different in every expansion so far
I'd love if it increased the duration of Blood Weapon by 8s, while also reducing the costs of our MP spenders by half
If the dps numbers don't meet the current iteration, they could buff the potency of Edge and Flood while Delirium is active.
More than anything, I want DRK's CD to have interactivity beyond copying a WAR skill =/
you mean being a worse WAR skill 😏
That too
What are the odds that whatever got Alphinaud his new job is also gonna be the thing that gets us to the moon?
NGL I don't want more power in delirium cuz playing around 90s is cursed
Ffiv did have a “Sage” on the moon but he wasn’t exactly called that
DRK rn is a 1/2-minute job that also happens to have a 90
watch power shift is gonna be in TBN to make it curse
TBN is absolutely fine as it is right now, yeah
But DRK is no longer the MP tank, at least in spirit
right now tbn is dps-neutral once every other minute, dps-positive once every other minute, and dps-negative at all other times
Our MP bar is sorta there just to be there; MP regens so slowly compared to SB
you need to bank a DA proc to get 5 edges under buffs
I see
DRK's MP bar is honestly just there so you cant spam TBN
and on odd minutes you ideally are only using 3 edges so whether you tbn or not doesn't affect your ability to do that
like on paper DRK have everything I want in a tank, just I don't like playing it a lot of the times
eden verse DRK was fun
promise is eh rn
Back in HW, managing MP was key to playing DRK. If you expended all your MP, you dropped Darkside
Plus, Dark Arts affected so much of our skills, it made DRK pretty unique
IMO PLD feels more like the MP tank now
PLD mp management is dumping mp under magic buff
PLD's MP seems more mechanically sound, even if it is rigid. Outside of pooling a single DA for raid buffs, DRK's MP is more or less non-existent, requiring very little thought to execute.
Like, PLD's MP phase fits its skillset so much nicer, and has a stronger core theme in PLD's kit. DRK's MP feels tacked on now that Dark Arts and Darkside are gone.
Plus, its next to impossible to drop Darkside in 5.0. You have to consciously not be executing your rotation to lose it.
DRK probably gonna go through another gameplay change probably?
They should just remove MP from all jobs and give them their own resource
lol
Just for....theme
lol
yeah that ain't happening
Why
Cause FFXIV's engine is held up by sticks and miracles
They removed TP because it freed up server space
And because it just wasn't fun
i thought tp was removed cause tp was dumb
PLD still needed MP for Flash
Oh yeah shit
Old PLD aoe was so bad
PLD mains deserve a medal for enduring through those dark times
didnt PLD pretty much got shit on since HW
PLD also had no gap closer until literally 5.0

How are they going to add new spells to the jobs? Alot of the rotations are right as AF
and everyone got so hype for said gap closer
Tight
I think they will make most of the core combos single-button presses like in PvP
Hah
nah
Nah they said they'll never do that
They'll just colisadate and remove some of the lesser needed skills
you think war gonna get a new combo finisher
FOr example, DRK could get Scourge back as a finisher
MCH and BLM feels so tight right now. I can't see how they would add morr
If they put pvp type stuff in PvE alot of high end people would quit as every job just becomes dpsing like a healer
Press one to win
all they've said is they want to make cool skills like Passage of Arms
monk getting Booya 
True
Or an aoe turret again
New keyboard came in today ^^
Like a drone or something dropping bombs
Monk's changes in 5.4 may just be holdover for 6.0
I think they said that
Or the very least its opened the floor for Monk to actually get good stuff
RDM could do with more oGCDs. It's not busy enough
Instead of more flavours of QoL GL upkeep
good thing we are getting the new melee dps right?
monks fists are going away calling it
new Melee will be Maiming
Samurais and monks on watch
they said that
since they said "Dragoon has been the only Maiming so we're slotting it in there"
they are just gonna do what they did before for the healers
Pls be a scythe user....
Is it an actual new job, or a limited job?
upgrade some of the moves
Actual
real job
Oh snap, I've been gone so long
yes
if the new job is a scythe user i would've expected it to be a dex class
dark souls n shit
anyone else wanna come hang out in Wisconsin with me
We need hammers to bonk the Limsa people
too similar to WAR unfortunatly
WAR have 1 hammer
But it's already confirmed Maiming
i know
thats true WAR does actually have a hammer
I dunno, a giant hammer can be pretty unique
What about a Berzerker or something. Dual wielding axes
come chill here in idaho
WAR does have a skill call berserk
I know, but I like the dual wielding berzerker aesthetic
-24 is colder than -13
issue with jobs like Berserker is that many of the jobs in XIV are fusions of multiple jobs
Kinda? It's now Inner Release.
Once you hit level 60
like RDM has a lot of Rune Fencer shit
its berserk till 70
But also we have Jobs that are not what they were normally. Look at DRK for instance.
Hasn't Beastmaster been strongly hinted at?
They can just name something Berserker but it have nothing to do with the Job in other games.
What do you mean nope, Yoshi-P used it as a direct reference to additional Limited Jobs
they stated themselves if they add beastmaster it will be a limited job
And we have them in game now
SE considers BLU a real Job sadly
They'll likely have a hand axe as a weapon then
FIt with the huntsmen theme and all
I still want Nero's hammer tbh
Since EW is the end of the story arc I think people are thinking to surface level
why would you want Nero's hammer when Grynewaht's exists
Its probably not a scythe job
Nero's hammer cooler
Could be a mech-based class to fit with the Garlean theme
If we think weapons, what hasn't been seen yet?
from Spiderman
nah I saw the weapon gotta look heavy a bit
if its maiming they are gonna be using something heavy yea
Well Sam Raimi and Samurai are close. People used the director meme to try and draw Templar from the shirts.
Wait, did we get a weapon silhouette preview?
maiming is the tankier DPS glam
nah
no
no previwe
Maiming means it'll be a 2h weapon for sure.
Unless they will give us some wild fantasy weapon like what the Sage got
return to caveman
oh the gundam funnels
I don't think a Maiming job would use a magiteck weapon
I mean I guess a laser sword or something would count but eh
nope
looks at the lvl 50 allagan stuff
A magiteck class would fit the tankier melee theme pretty well though
watch it is Templar that uses a flail 
double bladed?
damn just finished Eden storyline and they drop Balamb Garden theme on me im tearing up
Dual Swords would be Judge which we know we arent getting
I'd actually love to see Templar. PLD doesn't smite enough heretics, they are too nice
Oh, it's already in the game? Didn't know
judge armor is now in game
I don't think they'll release a Job that is too similar to an existing Job.
Judge Armor is the current relic armor
That's why the Maiming Job makes sense cause it will be completely different to DRG. But also it shouldn't have anything close to other melee Jobs, especially Tank Jobs.
So Scythe to me seems like not the play cause it will have theme overlaps with DRK.
Templar would overlap with PLD. And something like Berserker would overlap with WAR.
So it'll probably be either FF14 exclusive or just use a name but be nothing like that class is traditionally.
My vote is still a magiteck class
could pull another gunbreaker
well we got 3 months til we know lol
make a unique job based FF characters
could be a job like tidus
Haha
really liked the change to mch to edgar
one hand a sword thats not a great sword or a long sword
YES
Maybe Onion Knight will be the Blue Mage we wanted
actually what type of sword tidus have if it can be one handed ?
I would rather Wakka
tidus uses a sword and shield
Tidus is just a Freelancer/Soldier
Tidus is pld
he never used a shield
He did
bucklers
His Accessory is Buckler
yup
It's more akin to Fordola
tiny shields
Than like PLD
I just need blizball glam for dnc
Fordola used a buckl;er
bitch shields in dark souls
Wakka use a Ball, that's more interesting and Soldier is more of Cloud Strife/ Zack Fair
I cant wait for both Gaius and Fordola to be fighting side by side with us this xpac
Drk is just solider
And both will die because someone has to die to get an emotional response and Tweet reactions every expansion
Im 100% sure Gaius will die
Why dont we have a solider uniform glam yet
gaius will die
Fordola not so much
He will one day
Were's Climb Hazard or Beam Blade?
actually gaius cant die
Fordola will die to do some weird shit like "oh if I explode next to Zenos we cancel the Resonant out"
Gaius will die because his voice actor is to costly
he gives quests that is not msq
And Zenos loses the Resonant so he can die for real
Bruh they've changed VAs like 3 times now
VAs don't matter at all in this game
I mean Ardberts VA was one of the leads in Game of Thrones
7.0 cuz ff7
Cid changed VAs this expansion lol
Nah
money isnt an issue in that department
he can still talk to us
Ardbert made me feel existential dread in ShB
he did directly in 5.3
Just don't invite Gaius to your weddings
I missed his Obi-wan vibe VA
"we did everything right and we still fail"
You're too bloody useful
something like that
Gaius is too hot to die though
Oh dont you dare think of dying
Did Cid change? Didn't even notice
Ansem Gaius was nice
"We did everything right....Everything that was asked of us and still...STILL it came to this."
bro when ardbert lending you his strength at the end of ShB
good acting right there
Ardbert has the best VA so far change my mind
Balthier Urianger wa sgood. but its fine
I've had enough of Cid. He shows up everywhere. They should just kill him off
cant change ur mind ur right
How can that be true when the subtle Scandinavian Viis VAs exist
Viera and viis voices
i'll admit i didnt like her va till thats moment
*that
honestly who ever have a sidequest is probably immune to dying in 6.0
It's true cause you're wrong 
That Hrothgar guy also. In Ratiki
Russian cats
unless they make the weapons story require
they off him in 6 and 12 and 13
I don't really like Runar's voice tbh, Lyna was alright tho
Im almost 100% sure the Werlyt storyline will become MSQ to start 6.0
Scandinavian voice acting must have been on sale
Subtle Scandinavian accents be hot
i liked lyna
Nothing will sound as good as Fran's Bjork voice from XII
yeyeyee
then Feo Ul's VA need to reign in her scottish a little lol
No, they just wanted the two main lead Viis in ShB to match Fran's accent
the XIV Scandinavian accents pale in comparison
The viis sisters
Just the main one has it. The other two have a very not-Scandinavian accent lol
go all out Scottish
thats what REAL scottish people sound like
want to feel threaten
its crazy
Untrue because not enough cursing or making fun of my mam
ye i know a scottish person.
they gave a demonstraition of the insanity
I was ipressed
Not enough "shites" to be true Scottish
yo is Ryne's arm okay?

They should make all the Lunarians have US accents for a laugh

Nah that's the new world cowboy people
Make them have Aussie accents so they talk upside down.
tbh hate minfillia at the start of ShB then when she turned into ryne she became likable to me
Edea is French in 8
Alright save the American accents for the new world. Stralians on the moon then
Ishgardians have French names but they don't have the French accent so it's still free real estate
I won't even be mad lol
I wonder if SE will do me a solid and have Gaia in 6.0 as well.





