Final Fantasy 14

[hasty kayak]

i played like. tutorial

[plucky cairn]

I don't remember if I played the tutorial

[hasty kayak]

daaarn, 141 for me

[plucky cairn]

If I did it was probably 6 years ago

Yeah but I'm also 2 expansions ahead, a bunch of cards are just easy to get by doing nothing and passively going through the game

141 is a respectable start

[hasty kayak]

||gosetsu ghost showin up was so cool||

[plucky cairn]

The whole ||internal conflict represented in gameplay is actually masterful||

[hasty kayak]

congratulations to acquirin white hair for your trauma

[plucky cairn]

First ||her parents, then the ghosts of the empire and the ghosts of the country, then asahi, then Zenos, all peole that wanted things from her, and Gosetsu the only specter at her side||

It's such a cool trial

[hasty kayak]

we get it, your face is punchable

[plucky cairn]

I'm almost mad they didn't let me pick "yes" at that point

No jury would have convincted me

[hasty kayak]

they rlly b ||killin|| each other over there n im like

"should i wait outside, ooooor"

[plucky cairn]

IDK but I was cheering at that point

It was a while that I was thinking that ||Asahi deserved a good stabbing||

[hasty kayak]

idk why my hair is doin that but its kinda funny

"of course u have glowy white hair n pronouns"

[plucky cairn]

[elfin wave]

"My one weakness... Pronouns."

[hasty kayak]

did he ||always sound like batman or is this thanks to slicin his throat||

i guess i should b askin how he's alive but like. i dunno ||ascian shenanigans probably||

[plucky cairn]

I'm not saying anything yet

[hasty kayak]

TWIN THEORY

i say twin theory

[plucky cairn]

Speaking of Twins

[hasty kayak]

i like maxima. join us

we have cid u look like ud b buddies

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

habwabwabwa W A T

?????

[plucky cairn]

I was waiting for that

Alphi was thinking the same thing, but in reverse

[hasty kayak]

i bet it's gummy's weird phone case character fault somehow, he has an air of douchebachery

its the hairstyle

he's either ||empire or ascian allegiance or maybe both thats what his design tells me||

[elfin wave]

Man I really do not remember post-SB story lmao

[plucky cairn]

I mean he is garlean, he has the third eye

That much you basically know just by the design

[hasty kayak]

alisaie: welp this is not how i was plannin to become a single child, but i guess have your fun
alphinaud: what do you mean plan-
alisaie: off you go now, whoosh

[elfin wave]

alphinaud villain arc starts now

[plucky cairn]

Finally one of the twins joins the Empire, took a while and it is the wrong Twin, but you ARR theory finally comes to fruition

[hasty kayak]

...

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

i cant believe i picked the wrong twin this entire time

[plucky cairn]

[elfin wave]

Yes, I am, lmao.

[hasty kayak]

yall couldve tormented me with a confusin answer of "u sure aliasie is the one" this entire time n you didnt

i applaud your restraint

[plucky cairn]

I mean he is sorta joining a faction of the empire, the popularis, as an ally, so it's not wrong

[elfin wave]

I think that reaction has finally cooled me off for the Rathalos thing

[hasty kayak]

auugh auugh auuugh this is wonderful

:´>

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

they're home

NOOOO STOOOOP THAT HURTS

grumble grumble stupid game with stupid feelings

[plucky cairn]

It's really nice that they gave a resolution to that refugee group, that stuff literally started in ARR

[hasty kayak]

l y s e

ok bye doma back to the better half of the expansion

oh hello

thats one new sidequest n one crafter quest- oooooh, maybe that opens mnaago´s deliveries?

[plucky cairn]

I'm pretty sure it does yeah

And it's also a really good delivery quest IMO

[hasty kayak]

n it's right next to my goldsmith schoooool

[rancid laurel]

Last night we did an Expert DR after not having played in about 2 weeks. Yet again I consistently out damage at least one DPS as a PLD

[hasty kayak]

oh, you're a pally too?

[plucky cairn]

DR?

Oh duty rulette

Derp

I'll go do one as well, I have yet to cap this week

[hasty kayak]

OH i forgot you're still here gen thank you for joinin me

[plucky cairn]

Yeah no worries, I was mostly afk and left the game open

I also forgot I was still there

[rancid laurel]

Yeah I'm a PLD main

The changes they made to the rotation a few months ago are super comfy

[hasty kayak]

im a learnin pally!

[plucky cairn]

Yeah I really like it, I have yet to look up the optimal rotation in detail tho

But it feels really good to play in casual content

Well apart from the fact that I consistently forget Goring blade exists

[hasty kayak]

i should look up how to get glam like ala mhigan resistance has. i dont rlly plan to wear it much i just wanna make a glam plate with it to stare at dreamily

[plucky cairn]

And it's a lot of DPS to forget about

[hasty kayak]

DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE ALERT

sidequests i love you

she's so onto lolorito's shit lmao we love character development in this house

[slim cairn]

Lyse is shit

[hasty kayak]

dunno if i get to actually play these but i may as well clean the savage omega quest mark n pick those up

i got sidetracked by triple triad, but yes!

[minor sorrel]

Backpfeiffengesicht

[minor sorrel]

I've forgotten all of this?

[hasty kayak]

oh, it's from baelsars wall. maybe i can solo farm that!

but, finish msq first bringi i swear

[plucky cairn]

Catching Tch up, spoilers ahead.

After ||the incident at Castrum Fulminis Alphi offers to go with Maxima back to Garlemald with the intention of halping his Garlean faction against the Ascian that is inhabiting Zenos body, but they get shot down over the Burn by the imperial guard and end up joining Shadowhunter|| is how the whole story goes.

He ||technically never makes it to Garlemald but he still sort of joined up||

[minor sorrel]

||Maxima... googles ah, vaguely remember this||

[hasty kayak]

this is thancred

hello than

[rancid laurel]

I sometime forget it during AoE rotations in dungeons. I'm actually not sure if it's meant to be used during trash but my lizard brain needs to keep it on cooldown with my other buffs or I'll BSOD during bosses lol

[plucky cairn]

No clicky
bringina is close ||to their first roleplay duty and I'm curious to see how they will react||

[hasty kayak]

the gang goes grave robbin™

[dapper meteor]

THIS IS THANCRED

[hasty kayak]

love how it immediately started stormin lmao

[hasty kayak]

where is this meme from anyway? is it a later content thing?

[plucky cairn]

Later

[dapper meteor]

Yes

Later

[plucky cairn]

Also it's very weird how that became a meme, it's really not a notable moment or even funny but the internet did its thing

[dapper meteor]

Oh, I hope all of y'all who played Endwalker appreciated the FFXIV fanfest merch this year

[plucky cairn]

Didn't look it up

[dapper meteor]

Also I hope you subsequently appreciated what they did in FFXVI

(related)

[plucky cairn]

Don't have a PS5 so I'll check it up in 2024

[dapper meteor]

Basically, grapes.

[plucky cairn]

lol

That's a good meme

I appreciate that one

[dapper meteor]

FFXVI has the most beautifully rendered grapes of any video game in history.

[plucky cairn]

I would love to know how that happened

[hasty kayak]

new phone who dis

||incorrect weapon, but... estinien?||

[dapper meteor]

I'm not even kidding.

[hasty kayak]

where is that guy anyway

last time we saw him he jumoed into a hole

i figured he´d make more of an impact

oh, wait, cannon

okay, more than property damage, i mean

[plucky cairn]

He also popped the eyes

[hasty kayak]

like idk, maybe show up for a chat? join scions, i guess? he has white hair n trauma he would fit in

[plucky cairn]

Estinien isn't the chat type

[hasty kayak]

n we have like one open spot :c

lyyyyyyse i miss you

[dapper meteor]

Here's a little look at it if you want to take a gander (Endwalker zone spoilers here) https://primagames.com/featured/a-deep-investigation-into-the-grapes-of-ffxvi

[plucky cairn]

It's really cute, but I was mostly wondering how the Endwalker grapes happened

[dapper meteor]

Yeah, it's kinda intersting.

[hasty kayak]

oh, thats right, i forgot that was a thing in arr

[dapper meteor]

I'm curious too.

The camera focuses on them pretty hard at one point, even

[plucky cairn]

Like, someone made the grapes, then the cutscene artist must have gone "in this cutscene, we'll focus very closely to the grapes for whatever reason, I'm sure this shit asset is just place holder anyway and it'll look beautiful"
And it wasn't, and it did look beautiful but in the wrong way

[dapper meteor]

It was pretty amusing

[hasty kayak]

thats a wonderful sticker name

[plucky cairn]

It's not a spoiler because sadly they upgraded the asset later

So your grapes will sadly be in HD

[dapper meteor]

It's still not a great asset, but yeah it's better now

[plucky cairn]

Well, SD

[hasty kayak]

y'shtolaaaaaaaaaaa its been ages hi

[dapper meteor]

Anyway I just love that Square Enix just fully embraced the meme

YoshiP's team never disappoints with the memes.

[hasty kayak]

i forgot what you were up to in the meantime i was off to east

[plucky cairn]

Are they investigating some atherial bullshit already?

[dapper meteor]

[plucky cairn]

I don't remember if it's now or later

Anyway she is always doing something fo that sort

[hasty kayak]

we're probably still workin on better destroyin ascian souls or something im willin to pin it on "magic ooze research"

"i work only for salvation of this star" sure sounds like possession!

[minor sorrel]

Actually Bringi, screw your vacation. Start 4.4 and ShB right now. I cannot wait to see your reactions.

[plucky cairn]

Yeah Zenos seems more of a "fuck the star as long as I get my hobbie" type of guy

4.4 also has ||little sun||
It'll be a hard wait

[hasty kayak]

this is. probably not ||estinien|| right i dont think he enjoys random bystander murder

[magic burrow]

iirc that is ||Zenos||, right? (Don't read bringi)

[plucky cairn]

Probably not is my guess bringi

[hasty kayak]

have i angered any elezen lately.... hmmm

i bet its urianger again

maybe someone from ishgard what do i know

anyway, tea party time

oh gods i dread this warning message

ever since the blasted banquet i always expect everythin to go to shit when it shows up

he´s so tinyyyyyyy

[plucky cairn]

Especially next to a Garlean

Interesting thing, Elezen tend to have their grout spurt relatively late in life compared to other races

Usually around 20 or so

[hasty kayak]

please dont say that i dont want to imagine tol twins

they scare me

[plucky cairn]

I really want them to make a timeskip for the next expansion

I would love tol twins

[hasty kayak]

EXCUSE ME??????

[plucky cairn]

I was waiting for it

[hasty kayak]

????????????????????

hgghagfdagehfhafhgd cheeky bastards

"roleplaying"

[plucky cairn]

Welcome to roleplay duties, they are great, I wish they thought of it earlier

[hasty kayak]

first order of business then-

click. click. click

NOOOOOOO I CANT PET

[plucky cairn]

haha

People are wounded all over, whriting in pain
||Alphi: Ok first of all, let's pet the carbuncle||

[hasty kayak]

absolutely wheezing at this meelee damage

book smack

[plucky cairn]

I'm slighly worried by the fact that I only see the spells on your pet bar

They are supposed to swap your first bar too

It's the same spells but are less annoying to click

[hasty kayak]

alphi somethin tells me this trip may have been even dumber idea then full price buyin a katana

[plucky cairn]

It was a bold idea at least

And he ain't ||dead|| yet

Even tho a lot of determined people are trying

[hasty kayak]

i sense a shb edge

[minor sorrel]

Read nothing into my popcorning

I am simply enjoying the show

[dapper meteor]

[hasty kayak]

this is a delightful addition to the game i wont lie. but it also means they dont mind makin me play as. um. not me. which means ||WOL's chances of pseudo-dyin have just increased. i swear i do not trust this game and given how many attempts at my life have been made i feel like its a question of when rather than if||

mind u i have zero proof of these worries i just think this game is very mean to feelings and it feels like a trope they'd dip into

hopefully just a nonsense speculation but i live in fear anyway

lest you forget, im a trained ninja! its level 76! i know how to use hide!

ok, accordin to quest list this was last quest of 4.3. im done!

time to make my audience wait and build up hype

[plucky cairn]

Good show

[minor sorrel]

[hasty kayak]

i know rhalgr's reach isnt a proper town but man id love to have a house or apartment here

or ala mhigo, id b chill with ala mhigo livin

[elfin wave]

for fucks sake what is it with the magic-based scions and trying to melee shit to death

[hasty kayak]

incredible violence boiling just below the surface

bein a scion does that to you

[elfin wave]

you can be more effective

it's called Warrior

[hasty kayak]

there is somethin about book smack that is very therapeutic. an axe just doesnt have the same feel ya know

[elfin wave]

perhaps.

[minor sorrel]

so this is what you guys were talking about

[minor sorrel]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wy06rUJGAvQ

[plucky cairn]

Yeah ninja do be like that

[minor sorrel]

https://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-14s-new-minion-is-so-horrendously-underpowered-players-are-wondering-if-its-bugged/

[elfin wave]

imagine playing that side game?

[minor sorrel]

I didn't even know it existed

[dapper meteor]

Yeah, FFXIV has what’s basically Pokémon in it

[hasty kayak]

verminion does not play like pokemon, what are ya talkin about

if anythin, its like. closest linked to warcraft III or other moba games in gameplay

i mean sure there is a system of type dis-advantages, but in gameplay its not like. one vs one turn based game

[latent vapor]

WoW has what's basically a simplified version of Pokemon. FFXIV's minion minigame is a completely different beast.

[hasty kayak]

triple triad is a minigame. verminion is just. game game

[latent vapor]

I wouldn't even count the rock-paper-scissors triangle as a similarity to Pokemon, as that's a typical feature of many RTS games.

[plucky cairn]

@elfin wave are you still on the A9S farming step for your relic weapon?

[elfin wave]

Yup

Got time to knock it out?

[plucky cairn]

I'm doing my WHM weapon and I'm at that step

I can solo it but it'd go a lot faster together

[elfin wave]

I'll login now, what server should I hop to?

[plucky cairn]

Any that's not on the bringina data center

[elfin wave]

Ah so stick to Light?

[plucky cairn]

Yes

[elfin wave]

Based, my home server is Zodiark

[elfin wave]

[plucky cairn]

Pretty painless

It's kind of an ordeal to do solo but even only with two people it goes by fast

The rest should go by very fast

[elfin wave]

oh right i forgot that was one last step

[plucky cairn]

Is this your first one you complete?

[elfin wave]

But it's super easy to solo

[elfin wave]

I did the WAR one ages ago

[plucky cairn]

Makes sense

[elfin wave]

Solo a few trials, wouldn't take long even solo

[plucky cairn]

Yeah it's all hardmode trials and 500 tomestones

[elfin wave]

ok phew i got 1,300

[plucky cairn]

You can even use another weapon and swap to the relic before exiting

[elfin wave]

oh yeah i forgot about that little trick, must have been a lot more useful back during ShB

[plucky cairn]

The weapon is a very large part of the damage calculation so it actually saves some time

[elfin wave]

I wonder if using the EW weapon would have given me the damage to solo A9S then

[plucky cairn]

You can't do that for that step

Since the light is awarded as soon as the boss dies

Not when you exit the instance

[elfin wave]

I was thinking you could swap after Faust Z, since he's what I got walled on, but I suspect that Recom would be even harder

[plucky cairn]

Faust Z does quite a bit of damage

More than the boss by a lot

Probably an efficent use of your 2 shields and addle

even tho it's porbably gonna be a bit close

[elfin wave]

... i queued into Extreme Thornmarch

oops

HAIL TO THE KING

(kupo)

[elfin wave]

it's perfect

Well I didn't dye it but you can't see the cover anyway but
GOD IT LOOKS SO GOOD

[plucky cairn]

Done as well, even tho the previous step is better so I'll probably use that one if anything

[elfin wave]

Like it's got arcane symbols exploding off of it and big-ass DRAGON WINGS
big ass PURPLE DRAGON WINGS at that

"hc was the whole reason why you did this because the weapon was purple"

*** Y E S***

[plucky cairn]

Now back to stockpiling materials until i have enough for another one

HWs are much easier than ARR weapons but man they require a lot of tomes

[elfin wave]

hahahaha

so the battle animation for summoner closes the book and the effects goes off with it

so you're mid battle pose and your badass magic tome stops being magic

[hasty kayak]

💁 🦋 is this limsa?

[plucky cairn]

songbirds?

Doesn't seem like it's them

Still cool

[elfin wave]

UM
WHAT'S WITH THE SHADOW NINJAS

[hasty kayak]

idk its like 20 dif ppl with same glam

[slim cairn]

already back to ffxiv?

wow

[dapper meteor]

FFXIV does not rest.

[hasty kayak]

before i start 4.4, i kinda want to bring up my scholar n pally to 70. juuuuust to b ready for shb's job quests

whatever those are

pally is 66 n book nerd is 60 so it shouldnt, take too long maybe?

[slim cairn]

let me guess

then after you got another vacation

then 4.4?

[dapper meteor]

I’m excited for you to reach Shadowbringers and Endwalker

You think the game was already turned up to 11? Dear reader, you don’t know what 11 is.

[plucky cairn]

Should be relatively fast to do a few levels

[hasty kayak]

27th to 30th....

[slim cairn]

why do you have so many vacations?

[hasty kayak]

its warm...

[slim cairn]

when are you gonna do the whole

"visit gummy for a vacation"

im still waiting for that one

its been like 10 years since we last saw each other irl

[plucky cairn]

[slim cairn]

it hasn't been a month yet, I know....but it feels like 10 years

[hasty kayak]

@plucky cairn @elfin wave who wants to do some leveling with meeee

[plucky cairn]

I was in x4 with a spreadhseet open, so this is a much more appealing proposition

[hasty kayak]

we can even fish or do some maps if the mood strikes us

i havent fished in ages that sounds like fun actually

[plucky cairn]

I'm up for whatever

[elfin wave]

Gimme a few, have to run to the store

[plucky cairn]

What do you want to level?

[hasty kayak]

pally n scholar

[plucky cairn]

Yeah I mean, which one first?

[hasty kayak]

ah. probably pally

[plucky cairn]

I'll be healer then

Logged in the wrong Data Center

1 sec

[hasty kayak]

oh gods the puzzle one

[plucky cairn]

It's not that bad since only one has to survive

[elfin wave]

i am in phantom now

[hasty kayak]

darn n we just queued msq

[plucky cairn]

We literally started MSQ rulette this instant

[elfin wave]

oof

I can wait

[hasty kayak]

why is livia simping over gaius again i forgot

[plucky cairn]

Not sure, I think it's him getting and raising orphans of war

Maybe

It's been a while

[elfin wave]

[minor sorrel]

[plucky cairn]

ty for party HC

[hasty kayak]

[elfin wave]

Happy to help

[plucky cairn]

I'm back btw

I'll minimise the game in the meantime, feel free to ping here whenever you are around

[hasty kayak]

@plucky cairn sorry, thing took longer than expected (my scooter i use to commute to work 🅱️roke so i was busy settin up a bike til its fixed) and now its kinda late, so i think ill call it for today

i also forgot my darn LAUNDRY again ack

[plucky cairn]

No problem, works well for me since I had tops half an hour to play left

[hasty kayak]

coolio thank you for help with pally

[plucky cairn]

No problem

[minor sorrel]

https://www.pcgamer.com/streamer-spends-months-training-to-beat-a-final-fantasy-14-speedrunning-world-record-only-for-his-rival-to-come-out-of-a-years-long-retirement-and-destroy-it-in-one-day/

[elfin wave]

HAHAHAH

I saw the original video, it's great

And now he's just like
"The FUCK"

[minor sorrel]

Watching that original video now, man, this guy's got mad production value

[elfin wave]

Makes one video per like 6 years but it's good, yeah

[minor sorrel]

Pint's reply to the new video:

[elfin wave]

Yeah, I can just imagine the speedrunner seeing the video pop up in recommended and them going.

"This. This WILL NOT. Stand."

[elfin wave]

EXACTLY

Man's just doing it not out of pride or fame but just to make a point of how gigachad based he is

Plus I can imagine RPR really does help with the run

(Even if I never can quite time my teleport dashes perfectly so I always get hit by AoE while trying to greed)

[hasty kayak]

who´s ready tp be sad over silly crafting

unable to comprehend. proceeded to punch some more

(the quest was nice indeed)

enclave is also comin along nicely

ive also made small adjustments to pally, we´ll see if i stick to it

[plucky cairn]

Very nice weapon

[hasty kayak]

it works nicely sheathed too, bit the bits of red

[plucky cairn]

You can also read it in a way that makes sense for the character

[hasty kayak]

might need different shoes n gloves eventually but i wanna keep mostly grey with bits of red/gold color scheme

[plucky cairn]

Uldah symbol is a flame and a jewel, the sword with a red and blue thingies oribiting it if you want you can read it as uldah symbolism

[hasty kayak]

headcannon accepted

BLINK N MISS IT NANAMO HIIIIIIIIIIII

auuugh very cool

i want roadtrip number 2

roadtrip the electric boogaloo, if you will

i just wanna hang how are u this cool

grumble grumble fine givin aldis back his honor it is

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

scholar levelin it is then

[elfin wave]

The Zurvan weapon is v nice

please tell me you bought it

[hasty kayak]

nay, it wasnt on sale so i crafted

bought some materials tho. namely that one rock u can only get thru that gatherin myths tome

idk how to do that

[plucky cairn]

BTW if you want to, you can probably do the leveling and MSQ, and start 4.4
If you do that every day I'm pretty positive you'll be 70 passively with the SCH way before it becomes a big limit as to what you can do.

[hasty kayak]

you just want me to stop draggin my feet arent ya

i wanna do the sch story missions before i move on tho

[plucky cairn]

It's also that class quests aren't there in shadowbringers so you don't necessarily have to have the classes pre leveld

Makes sense

I'm joining btw

[hasty kayak]

o! :>

happy to have ya

just lemme murder ultima real quick

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

gonna grab water while they SUCH DEVASTATION THIS WAS NOT MY INTENTION the cutscene

[dapper meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/ff14-ffxiv-final-fantasy14-final-fantasy-xiv-such-devastation-gif-23884595

[plucky cairn]

Sadly I don't think any of the dungeons we are doing in the future have a wall to wall pull quite as insane as Shisui

So you can probably rest easy

[hasty kayak]

i think u mean thankfully

im surprised noone died today

[plucky cairn]

Yeah, it was good

As I said, I don't do that pull unless I know the healer, it's not something you pull on someone you don't know if they are good enough to handle it.

Well maybe if they aren't a sprout I would and apologise if we all die

Also War at that level is pretty strong so it's fasible, IDK if i would with any other tank class

PLD is easier in some ways since the invuln is stronger, but less self healing would have me second guessing

I was also especially chill on that last group since we had 2 ninja, and at least one who was clearly very very good at it

And NIN have insane AOE damage

So the big pull was likely to go well

[hasty kayak]

<@&1128722919405650000> pspspspspsps, last levelling day before i start 4.4?

(ill delete the role shortly i just couldn't resist the silly)

[plucky cairn]

What's with that role?

That's amazing

I'll join in a couple of minutes

I am making a big factory in X4, after an hour of planning and a lot of spreadsheeting and I kinda have to finish putting down the plan or there is no way I'll actually be able to do it

[hasty kayak]

[elfin wave]

i want to keep it

also sure, i'll hop on

can do some more sp00ky slash

[hasty kayak]

it was meant to say "bringi's ff14 sidek- i mean friends" but alas the character limit said nope

[elfin wave]

tbh we're all Hildibrand's sidekicks

[hasty kayak]

tis what we deserve

everyone needs some hildy in their lives after msq puts u through horrors

like alphi's terrible spendin habits

[elfin wave]

Oh, I'm still in Phantom after last session

That's handy

[plucky cairn]

I'm in

[hasty kayak]

oh no my apartment is too small to put down my rod rack! what am i meant to do? my totally integral to my character fishin habits!

goodbye moogle couch i suppose

[elfin wave]

Oh right my house doesn't exist in this dimension

[hasty kayak]

there, fishim rods under hauchefant's face

[elfin wave]

me spamming rpr's dash to activate the cutscene 0.0005 seconds earlier

[hasty kayak]

thank you for your service

[elfin wave]

i mean it recharges during the cutscene anyway, might as well

[hasty kayak]

i wonder if there's little weight scale earrings i could use to make my glam more lawyery

[elfin wave]

[plucky cairn]

The uldah earrings include a scale right?

[elfin wave]

Cid: "And don't think about dying."
Me: No.
switches to BLU
activates Self-Destruct

[hasty kayak]

"tell me, for who do you f- wait what are you doing"
WOL flipping through a magazine
"i need new earrings so im lookin at the market options"
"im trying to end the world here, can you take this seriously-"
"no no no, go on gaius, im definitely payin attention"

[plucky cairn]

At least I'll have a good portion of my kit now

[hasty kayak]

mmm delicious fairy lore

[hasty kayak]

im sure if i was lvl synced n had proper gear we could've survived that pull alas

[plucky cairn]

I mean we are gonna try it again

[hasty kayak]

[plucky cairn]

I like to try once to not waste people time too much in case we die, but once is fine

[plucky cairn]

Now that you got used to healing, you understand what I meant back then with this?

The big pulls are super fun as a healer

[hasty kayak]

it makes my blood pressure rise, but i suppose this is an explanation as to why some ppl like rollercoasters

the last party was funny. there are two types of namin conventions among ff14 players: "i heard the story is good so im gonna pick a name that works respectably" and "this is alt/i just love chaos"

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

i am also now facin a dilemma™️ i got immortal flames achievevent that came with a shield. now, hauchefant is hauchefant.......... but uldahn bias............

id have to tweak my color scheme but oh man i am on crossroads about this

[plucky cairn]

Hmm, not a fan of the blue hue and it doesn't seem like it's dyable

[hasty kayak]

i wish it was larger, it doesnt look like a proper shield (though it does make more sense when u consider shield lob is a move. i mean, how do u throw the hauchefant shield, u squash it into boomerang shape?)

ill keep my current shield for now i think but, man am i tempted

sucks it isnt dyeable like u said id love it in steel gray

also found out the scale earrings are a thing. for 500 provision missions that'll take a while

lets consider it a long term goal

[plucky cairn]

Yeah I did some 70 of them because they were really good gatherer/crafter exp

But never got to 500

[hasty kayak]

mhmm, i did that before bein able to unlock custom deliveries

[elfin wave]

And where does the legendary name Harqujin Chorchi fit

[hasty kayak]

you found it, the fabled missing link

[elfin wave]

That reaction when you realised I purposefully made my character's initials H.C. sent me

[hasty kayak]

i swear i dont know why it took me that long

it was "wobniar is rainbow backwards" all over again

[elfin wave]

[magic burrow]

Oh, I didn't know that they are raising the level cap of BLU

Gah should play the game

[elfin wave]

UNLIMITED POWAAAAAAAAAR

RPR is an excuse to go blind at this point

[elfin wave]

got my WAR up to ILVL 627 (up from 619)
i was going to get SMN gear but it's like
"Wait, why aren't I spending my funny tomestones on my main"

tho now my SMN and MCH are the same ILVL (600) so all gucchi

oh no
oh no
that looks rad as hell

[hasty kayak]

oooooooh

[elfin wave]

yeah it's the EW raid gear
previously used on my WAR
guess i found a new timesink until my ex catches up with MSQ

Thankfully I've done them plenty so I know the mechanics like the back of my hand- ooh that's new

I only need one chest piece for the-
well chest but it's all in RNGesus' hands, since you need to roll on individual bits of tack to trade in for said gear

Got no gear but 3 commendations for main tanking
feelsgood

oh nice, got one for my Tails

be me
rusty at P7
doesn't see an AoE coming
gets hit with vuln and stun
another two aoes are rapidly approaching
tries to dodge both but gets hit by one
vuln 2
boss starts charging tankbuster immediately afterward

fuck.jpg

main tanking is stressful sometimes

Still not as bad as ShB Alliances
not by a long shot

[elfin wave]

dumbest death in ffxiv history
getting my pants pocket caught on my plugged in controller, causing me to walk slowly backawards into the INSTANT DEATH SPIKES

[hasty kayak]

pat pat

[elfin wave]

i even tried flipping 180 degrees while i figured out what the fuck was happeniong but lol

STILL GOT A COMMENDATION THO

(thank god I wasn't main tank)

oh well i only have
seven pieces of gear to get yet
if i get lucky it might not even take 7 runs!

[plucky cairn]

Why no tank invuln it?

[elfin wave]

Pretty sure those spikes would bypass invuln

[plucky cairn]

Maybe some TB do a lot don't

[elfin wave]

[plucky cairn]

In savage there are some strats that just rely on tank invuln the busters so you can save the other mitigation for other stuff

[elfin wave]

200% based

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

was anyone gonna tell me ninja has two extremely stronk ninjutsu exclusive to when usin kassatsu, or was i supposed to randomly find that out while dummy training before roulette queue?

[plucky cairn]

Ninja is complicated

[hasty kayak]

it truly is

[plucky cairn]

Have fun with the big fire and op shuriken

Ninja and BLM are the two classes with the higher skill ceiling IMO

And it's not close

It's by a lot

[elfin wave]

okay so i apparently already had the boots so i only needed 6

and the only thing i got from that last run was boots, fuck this is going to take forever

[magic burrow]

idk I think SAM and DRG have high skill ceilings, if not why do I see them sweeping floors /j

[elfin wave]

bruh i think this scholar rq (EW P5, pls no click if you haven't beaten EW)

I got quite the haul tho, the helm, chest AND arm armor!
just need the greaves

looks good!

two kinds of FFXIV player...

[hasty kayak]

"okay just sliver of exp left for sch 70 ill just do one lvl roulette easy peasy"
-crazy ass layout arr dungeon
-very overeager tank
-who is low level
-and with low gear
-black mage first time runner
-who has lower dps output than me
-second dps who cant dodge aoe's to save their life
-apparently all of them forgot the dungeon mechanic
-"guys pls pick those morbol fruits i cant outheal this status condition"
-didnt even get a single commendation for my troubles

it was not in fact easy peasy

whatever that is fine

look how pretty this is instead

level 70 in each cathegory!!

now i just do 70 sch quest n then its t i m e

[elfin wave]

average Aurum Vale moment

also time for what
4.4?

[hasty kayak]

mhmm!

[elfin wave]

also why didn't you stick with DRK?

[hasty kayak]

oh im not abandonin it, itll just be the slow in-the-meantime lvling. (also the 35-50 arr dungeon batch is like the ones i fear the most n i have to find courage to go tank those....)

its just pally was already 66 so i was like "may as well get that to 70"

since the goal was at least one 70 class in each group

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

snek quests done. scholar done. here we go

[elfin wave]

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

hell yea, been a while since we ||had an alliance meet up. mot since the ala mhigo assault. gonna be wacky to see pipin there instead of raubahn||

thats where the ||croc pals are from, right?||

tis what nanamo deserves, truly

[plucky cairn]

There is a great Nanamo scene in 4.5 that I can't wait to get your thoughts on

[hasty kayak]

i missed my friends its so nice to see them

[elfin wave]

Now the question is which one dies next

[hasty kayak]

HC NO

uh oh

[elfin wave]

HEHEHHEHEHEEHHE

[hasty kayak]

this bird haunts me and i grow scared of it with each usage of the sticker

[magic burrow]

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

oh! a dungeon

<@&1128722919405650000> wanna join?

[plucky cairn]

I can't play right now

Good luck

[elfin wave]

I'm waiting on a friend

GL

[hasty kayak]

[elfin wave]

you got this

dammit sweetie

[plucky cairn]

Be wary of the last boss, it's famously tricky

[elfin wave]

bitchin'

the TRUE Yojimbo trial

[hasty kayak]

LYSE HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[plucky cairn]

I assume this is in ||Orthard, after not having found Alphi in The Burn, I remember this is a lot of back and forth helping Hien with stuff in this bit||

[hasty kayak]

raubahn gonna be around still then nice nice nice

.... i swear to hydaelyn in this alliance meeting doesnt go well i will never trust this game ever again

its ALWAYS the fuckin meetings

[elfin wave]

you know the whole floor tank thing with Dragoon

i did that as reaper

[hasty kayak]

fnshsgzszs lyyyyyse you're so good i adore youuuuu

[elfin wave]

teleported to get at an ADD and went a little too far and oop over the edge i go

[hasty kayak]

character development chef kiss

[hasty kayak]

pat pat

i was runnin away n instead of sprint i thunderclapped riiiight back into aoe

i also managed to die like two seconds before end of the boss bc my limit break cancelled

it honestly went fine but i just. accidentally moved or something i dunno

n limit break went nope

[plucky cairn]

Sometimes what happens

is if you start the LB right when you have like 1 bar and 95% of the 2nd bar, the bar ticks up while you are doing the LB1

And it stops because you can have the LB2 and no the LB1

[hasty kayak]

oh! ye that mustve been it

awwww ||bein worried about friends :c that chat with lyse about alisaie was very nice im glad they included that scene||

[hasty kayak]

UH OH

put that bird away it makes me stressed

[hasty kayak]

oh gods what is that

i wonder if this is a dark knight reference

[plucky cairn]

It might, I'm not sure

[hasty kayak]

could also be a shadowbringer..... foreshadowing i guess

because you. bring shadow i assume

||finally my turn into an ascian shall be complete||

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

it would be incredibly funny if we ||renamed ourselves from scions of the seventh dawn into like. scions of the dark or something bc then it would be like. "we criticized the warriors of darkness for their naming convention n then we did the same exact bullshit"||

[dapper meteor]

Are you done with Stormblood yet?

[hasty kayak]

no, 4.4

[dapper meteor]

Ahh

[hasty kayak]

doin that currently

oh, its this weird location, i remember stumblin upon it before

[plucky cairn]

It is a weird thingy for sure

[hasty kayak]

..... oh no, i really hope we wont ||accidentally set it off like a bomb instead||

the fact there is no music playin in the bg is fillin me with dread

is this gonna be like ||dalamud on earth or something. wait, didn't bahamut coils story have something about weird aether levels also? is there a monster feeding off the planet under these crystals???||

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

if we cause another ||calamity i am goin to be very cross with hien||

[plucky cairn]

Eh, he's ||hot enough to get away with some genocide I feel, Nero was party to an unjustified invasion because he was too attracted to Cid to stay home instead, and he got away with it||

[hasty kayak]

whehehe murder battle with moon dragon au ra time

am i allowed to click that gen

[plucky cairn]

Yes

[hasty kayak]

WHEEEEEEZE

peace is borin yshtola im here to punch

[plucky cairn]

Imagine if before using any machine at work you had to go a round or two in the ring with a coworker to get the right to use it, she is there to do science and this is massive waste of time for her, I love it

[slim cairn]

Did I mention I hate you?

[hasty kayak]

as an actual scientist, i think this is a wonderful idea

blood rings for labs!

[plucky cairn]

For sure you'd think twice if you really need it before booking something

Be really efficent with your lab usage

[hasty kayak]

lmaoooooo yshtola is soooo tired of the au ra bullshit

"mom told me stay in sharlayan, become a librarian or arcane researcher, itll be a cozy life, but nooooooo i had to have ambitions, i wanted to travel the realm. and now im surrounded by idiocy. serves me right"

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

lmao, matoya mention in best way possible

o h hi rolepay

[slim cairn]

Think bringy will be able to finish 4.4 today?

[plucky cairn]

Looking at the time probably

[slim cairn]

It’s quite long

But at the same time, I really want brings to finish

[hasty kayak]

yeah yeah ok yshtola that was kinda cool i admit

my punchin is cooler tho

[plucky cairn]

She is a conjurer, which is nice

[hasty kayak]

THE ABSOLUTE DEADPAN TONE OISAGIUHZGtaftzAEGAS

she is not interested in simping

bonk him with ur staff

do it

[plucky cairn]

I love the whole scene

[hasty kayak]

F A T A L I T Y

[plucky cairn]

They were okay at comedy, but something changed in this, they somehow ascended

The timings, the animations, the fucking bird

[hasty kayak]

SHE JUST WALKS AWAY

[plucky cairn]

People jokingly refer to that cutscene as The Burn (Savage)
Being in the same patch that released the dungeon

[hasty kayak]

KFBAGXTAFXHDB LMAO OKAY

i hope that ||makin aether flow into the burn doesnt wake any primals again given thats how it first came to be... has anyone checked for leftover powerful artifacts. oh gods the TWINS ARE THERE-||

ysthola if you ||murdered the twins i swear ill level summoner just to call for grandpa phoenix to give you a stern talk||

oh thank fuck ali is fine

well, physically, the jury is out on emotional stability

pleaaaase let this meeting go well

i hate this particular line so much i do not trust it

NANAMO HIIIIIIII

everything is good again

aymeric, ever our personal hype man

no wonder ppl ship themselves with him

[plucky cairn]

He's very good

[hasty kayak]

[slim cairn]

Ooo pls do

[hasty kayak]

im gonna tell him you said that

your burns will never work quite as well ever again

cutscene: important plotting shaping future expansions
me: oooooh pretty architecture

oh no

hiiiiiii problems ive waited for you

[cinder bolt]

Huzzah! Finally got a full clear of the new deep dungeon!

[hasty kayak]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

||this is thancred, he's our designated death for this patch||

at least its just pseudo one

[elfin wave]

and then i'll summon Bahamut to put them back in the ground

[elfin wave]

||not quite the moment for that line||

[plucky cairn]

Have you considered ||throwing wide the gates tho||

[hasty kayak]

... man this next expansion is gonna have so much Magic Bullshit, wont it

mmmm. more a fan of grounded approach myself but okay

lest we forget ||the ew meni screen is a spaceship...||

[elfin wave]

||no it's a pizza||

[plucky cairn]

Flying towardsa a donut

[elfin wave]

i don't get this

[plucky cairn]

It's what ||The voice during the call says, throw wide the gates||

[elfin wave]

way too long since i played that patch

[hasty kayak]

urianger. hi. so... good... to see you. sighs as i pull out my Urianger Speech Pattern Dictionary

[plucky cairn]

you can click it btw, it's jus about what just happened

[hasty kayak]

oh no alphi is probably experiencin this too

that is probably not good given his circumstances

oh

oh no

oh no no no

oh no

dont jusz stand there, use the /hug emote!

[plucky cairn]

Do you get what I meant with this patch having a sense of urgency?

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

the fact i JUST played the scholar quest today

where you literally have ||a character not bein able to wake up|| is just. sending me

granted that one was ||a fairy summon mishap||, but STILL

this is just like that shitty banquet all over again except the twin that managed to stick with me is the other one......

[plucky cairn]

Imagine playing this on release
||Literally all your friends are having their souls sucked out of their bodies, see you in 4 months||

[hasty kayak]

i hate this game (affectionate)

[elfin wave]

this game makes me depressed (affectionate)

[plucky cairn]

It does feel wrong to go on a triple triad collection binge after these events

[hasty kayak]

and ill do it anyway

i let krile be stuck in the freezer for three weeks, gen

[plucky cairn]

lol

[hasty kayak]

BABY RATBOI HI

[elfin wave]

The Kobold, right?

[hasty kayak]

mhmm

[elfin wave]

he a lil' skrunkly

[hasty kayak]

:c

[plucky cairn]

Yeah they are really smart

You being not voiced can only headcanon how you react to the events

[hasty kayak]

it would be so funny if ||my soul got stolen just now||

and by funny i mean devastating

[plucky cairn]

But if ||they have Alisaie along with you to react to them, they can offload the emotional resonance to her||

[hasty kayak]

MEANWHILE, AT THE ASSHOLE CENTAL

[plucky cairn]

@slim cairn this might interest you

[hasty kayak]

ITS THE ASSHOLE

its the asshole the asshole the asshole!

bitch!

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

he immediately exhudes drama queen vibes

of course this is gummy's favorite

who else

||GRANDSON||?????????????? HELLO??????

[plucky cairn]

He is one, like, massively

I mean you kinda knew right? the minion told you who he is

[hasty kayak]

like i said, I read the description once like two days into the game n then never again

i remember zero zilch nada

except the half black half white hair

bc thats prime anime hair shenanigans

[minor sorrel]

This was worth the wait

[hasty kayak]

????????????????????????????

[minor sorrel]

Aaaaaaand so was this

[hasty kayak]

such a drama queen

[plucky cairn]

he's so fun

[hasty kayak]

i cant care about his monologue im so sorry my friends are DEAD

[minor sorrel]

Bringi forbidden: ||by now how many scions have fainted?||

[plucky cairn]

3

[minor sorrel]

Ah, righto. And ||the ghimlit dark|| is soon, isn't it?

[hasty kayak]

||i love the completely wasted murder||. i imagine that happens at the palace four times a week

[plucky cairn]

Next patch

This is the end of 4.4

[minor sorrel]

Damn, i keep confusing what is where

[hasty kayak]

pow
"what was that???? a gunshot??? is the alliance attacking?! we're guards we have to raise an alarm-"
"oh, that's right, you're new here. nah thats just the ||emperor shooting his grandpa||"
"what-"
"dont worry the ||grandpa is immortal|| he's fine"
"????"

[plucky cairn]

Hahaha

That family is beyond dysfunctional

[hasty kayak]

ALPHI HI

[plucky cairn]

No wonder ||Zenos|| grew up like that

Alphi still has ||a soul|| confirmed

[hasty kayak]

oh no

YSHTOLAAAAAAAAAAAA

oh okay not ysthola

i remember the ||black rose|| sidequest

... i thought we destroyed it

:c

will the ||shadowhunter become new emperor||

askin for me but dont actually answer i just get the vibes

[plucky cairn]

He is pretty commanding

[hasty kayak]

okay, that's 4.4! everything is doomed

[elfin wave]

ah so Shadowhunter is still going by Shadowhunter

[hasty kayak]

#1032731043041640488 message i cant believe gen lied so boldly into my face

[dapper meteor]

THIS GUY IS AMAZING

[hasty kayak]

"i remember that quest vaguely" sure you do

[plucky cairn]

[dapper meteor]

I forgot how long it took

[elfin wave]

I think Bringi just learned

[hasty kayak]

lies n deception from my friends this is painful

[dapper meteor]

[elfin wave]

i guess you could say
you're devestated

[minor sorrel]

[elfin wave]

[dapper meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/ff14-ffxiv-final-fantasy14-final-fantasy-xiv-such-devastation-gif-23884595

[elfin wave]

we ran prae the other day Bringi did the gunblade really not tip you off

heh
blade
tip

[plucky cairn]

to be fair I did ||remember it only vaguely and I didn't know which info about black rose I knew from the sidequest and which from MSQ, so it was a very polite answer||

[elfin wave]

tho to be fair

||who the fuck expects a Garlean to be black||

[minor sorrel]

[elfin wave]

I can't tell if they did that to throw off people of if they realised all their Garlean characters so far have been white, lmao

(as far as I know anyway)

[plucky cairn]

I don't understand the confusion, ||Shadowhunter is very obviously garlean no matter what else because of the 3rd eye||

[elfin wave]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that
I was just poking fun at the idea

Unlike Cid he doesn't bother hiding it

[slim cairn]

Ah yes

So dramatic, just like me

[hasty kayak]

[elfin wave]

wow you sort your decks better than i do

[slim cairn]

But you must meet the former emperor

[hasty kayak]

given ill have a busy weekend like usual i dont wanna start 4.5 til monday. i should use tonight to level dark knight.... but im scared of 30-50 dungeons

they are so confusing to tank i am bad at map navigation

healer n dps? no prob, but tankin.... oof

[latent vapor]

They aren't so bad after the changes in 6.1 (I think). Although it's true that you can't always easily wall-to-wall them.

[magic burrow]

"Hmm where was I"
"I think it's about 2.4"
Sees the name ||'Ilberd'||
"Oh for fucks sake"

[elfin wave]

[elfin wave]

[minor sorrel]

Man the names these days

[magic burrow]

At least healer is experienced

[elfin wave]

That was their first time playing AST

since it starts at 30

[magic burrow]

Yeah that was one scenario

It's fun when dps has more hp than tank

[elfin wave]

gear scaling be like

[hasty kayak]

i almost want a player named "viewing cutscene" i think it would be very funny

[minor sorrel]

Probably taken or filtered

[hasty kayak]

i have delightful news

some are slight variations but there are in fact plenty absolute gremlin players

[plucky cairn]

Goddammit

[minor sorrel]

As expected

[elfin wave]

nobody will beat Bean Juice

[minor sorrel]

🫘

[hasty kayak]

i wonder...

[elfin wave]

BRINGI

NO.

[hasty kayak]

okay good its like i hoped

there is more than a thousand potatoes

[elfin wave]

lalafels trying to find their new name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI1ZN2H-gzA

[plucky cairn]

I've seen quite a few cat puns over the year

Because miqote

Not many potato puns

[hasty kayak]

get ready for lala bringi alt, Potato Tato. comin 2036

[dapper meteor]

Major Endwalker spoilers included in the video: https://youtu.be/jmI462437r4

[elfin wave]

6.45 tomorrow

[elfin wave]

(6.4 raid) OH NO IT'S GAY

[plucky cairn]

Are we getting bringina commentaru on 4.5 today? And maybe trailer reaction?

[elfin wave]

holy fuck HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK P12 YOSHI P CALM TF DOWN

[steady saffron]

He was horrible at it

I carried him

HARD

[elfin wave]

honestly?

tru

[hasty kayak]

alas, no, thing came up

gotta move start of 4.5 to tomorrow

gonna b playin some board games with a few friends

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

it was gonna b on a different day originally

[elfin wave]

i spent more time finishing the story for the EW raids than doing P9-12

just six more P12 clears and i can get the pizza cutter

[plucky cairn]

Have fun with board gaming

[elfin wave]

Eorzea can wait a day

[elfin wave]

Is this racism?

"This is fine."

[elfin wave]

"Oh I'll just do Levelling Roulette to up my RPR a bit"
gets an Endwalker dungeon
it's a dungeon i haven't played in forever
i have no idea how half of my post 80 skills work

[hasty kayak]

board games were fun

well, card games rlly, but point stands

[hasty kayak]

ya know i almost feel bad for the emperor. not quite much, but when ||ur grandpa is hijacked by ascians, ur son is hijacked by ascians (any other hijacked garleans i should know about. cid come here real quick-)|| ... since ||ascian grandpa is the bitch™ from gums' phone case||, does that mean ||zenos is occupied by elidibus? we haven't seen that guy in ages and || we dont rlly know other ||ascians i think. we know they have the organization xiii's wannabee chair room from end of heavensward so there should be more of them, but i dont think we interacted with more of them||

[slim cairn]

||if grandpa was never hijacked by ascians, then grandpa would have never been an emperor, since it was the ascian through the grandpa body, made the empire||

||therefore, the emperor wouldn't be emperor||

[hasty kayak]

that is true given ||his line over here #1032731043041640488 message || so i guess by that logic ||all garleans are low key ascians|| but i dont think lumpin them together is fair

i dont think ||an average garlean knows who ascians are||

[slim cairn]

||nah none of the garleans are ascians besides the grandpa||

[plucky cairn]

||And Zenos||

[magic burrow]

Typical ffxiv chat becoming a CIA document moment

[hasty kayak]

i mean i guess noone here is as far behind as i am but i just dunno how to act about big story stuff

better cia documents then someone else playin the game in this thread later decidin to read about past stuff n gettin spoiled (though why would you risk stuff like that?)

[magic burrow]

Honestly I can probably catch up with you before you finish shb but I don't feel rushing it(I am redoing the msq with my jp server character)

I havent even reached hw yet but if I rush I can probably clear all the way until sb pretty fast

[hasty kayak]

eh, no need to rush, i play slow

[slim cairn]

play faster

[elfin wave]

i just realised that RPR's Enshroud turns FFXIV into DMC

time for
The Shenanigans Update

Man, it's been so long since the last Hildibrand update that I totally forgot what the fuck was going on so I'm just trying to remember what happened Last Time on Harq Ball Z™️

||BREAKING: MASS TURTLE GENOCIDE CAUSED BY DUMBASS INSPECTOR
"WE JUST NEEDED ONE LIVER" says local catgirl detective||

I mean... I literally have that in my pocket.
Hell, have you seen the housing market? 1 million is a steal!

Okay to be fair ||Return to Oblivion|| is a banger.

(also love the callback of lying about spending all your gil on random shite)

[elfin wave]

well i didn't expect what the fuck I'm reading right now
"Fun times with Hildibrand, yay!"
The quest:

[hasty kayak]

monky?

[elfin wave]

sucker punched
so hard

oh right i almost forgot about the damn weapon

Gerolt: "man fuck this project, I paid of my booze debt i dun wanna work"
||Godbert||: "How about I pay for your booze?"
Gerolt:

honestly this just looks like the typical pub debate here in England

ah, another 1500 tomestones of causality- OH MY GOODNESS

[hasty kayak]

fire axe number 38.4

i guess ur easy to please

then again a classic is a classic

[plucky cairn]

I came down with a cold on patch day, fuck.
Really don't feel like playing today, maybe this evening when it's less 10.000 degrees

[elfin wave]

yes

[elfin wave]

patpat

[elfin wave]

SUCH DEVASTATION!
THIS WAS NOT MY INTENTION!

WEAPON
GETTU!

god it even suits the little flame thing on the rathalos helm

fuck the pizza cutter, this is my endgame until the final step comes out

[hasty kayak]

are u busy with the new patch hc, or would ya b willin to run one or two dungeons with me for drk levels?

[elfin wave]

I actually just got done for now, I wish u luck tho

[hasty kayak]

but im scared o k a y

nevermind game took longer than 5 minutes to connect me i dont deserve such treatment as a tank

drk for another time then

and i even planned out route for quarn in unsynced darn u game

[elfin wave]

pat pat

[hasty kayak]

lets just do mnaago, sneks n 4.5 then, i suppose

[elfin wave]

4.5

[minor sorrel]

Is that time?

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

... breathin exercises?

or we can go punch somethin that always helps me

KRILE HIIIII

i uuuuuuh defininetly didnt stop at like the first step of gettin to lighthouse

what are u talkin about

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

MATOYA'S BANGER TIME

that is a goooood song

oh triple triad-

[elfin wave]

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

augh raubahn is so cool

OH NO NOT AGAIN

welp that's ||krile|| possibly out

[plucky cairn]

Here is your problem, your gates are definitely not thrown open.
Have you tried doing that?

[hasty kayak]

THERE'S AN ARMY OUTSIDE THOSE GATES

im not openin anything anywhere

we just liberated this place

[plucky cairn]

I'll escalate your problem to our gates techician, please don't hang up

[hasty kayak]

oh my! uve been busy hien

[elfin wave]

"These people have been eating my food and messing my home up for the last WEEK, what do you MEAN BUSY."

[hasty kayak]

OH NO

guess it wasnt krile...

[elfin wave]

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

WHAT

WHAT. NO. NOOOOOOO

ur joking

[plucky cairn]

Which part?

[hasty kayak]

no. no no no this is ridiculous

[plucky cairn]

Hahaha

[hasty kayak]

no. what? no!

excuse me?

[plucky cairn]

I mean he has a reason to dislike ||Ascians, first of all that devastation was not his intention, and also, they maipulated him.||

[hasty kayak]

HE DOES NOT SUCH DEVASTATION HIS INTENTION WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR THROAT

[plucky cairn]

Changed for a better VA

[hasty kayak]

i mean i guess we had new voice actors but NO

thats completely different!

[elfin wave]

||i mean my headcanon is that the armor masked his voice||

[hasty kayak]

how am i supposed to guess that!

[plucky cairn]

Last time you heard him ||was every day for the past 6 months in ARR||

[magic burrow]

(Casual JP voice enjoyer walking by)

[elfin wave]

||did the gunblade really not tip you off||

[plucky cairn]

Also the hint was ||that one of the masks he has, is the one he wears with his armor||

[hasty kayak]

i changed my mind i dont want him as new emperor

[plucky cairn]

Also the weapon is identical

[hasty kayak]

do you pay attention to his cutscenes????

i was busy scrollin glams and stuff

[plucky cairn]

That said it's a pretty generic weapon

[elfin wave]

you ever think about how SMN is just a human-sized Ultima Weapon

[magic burrow]

bringi's dramatic reactions make me feel that they are not prepared for ShB at all

[elfin wave]

because like

[magic burrow]

[elfin wave]

that revalation destroyed me

[hasty kayak]

i remember more fire and death and screaming but, sure something like that

[elfin wave]

I WAS SUPPOSED TO STOP THE ULTIMA WEAPON
NOT BECOME IT

[hasty kayak]

my one prediction is ||minfillia makes a return||

[elfin wave]

[magic burrow]

You are more than just ultima weapon shit

[hasty kayak]

we are gettin soul snatched may as well ||have a reunion with one who gave up her soul||

[magic burrow]

God I love this sticker

It is the core of ffxiv experience

[elfin wave]

i mean i guess bahamut and grandpa phoenix are cool too but like
the animation for summoning the 3 Eikons is e x a c t l y like Ultima

[magic burrow]

||and also a mild ew spoiler ||

[elfin wave]

i have become too powerful
the devastation was not my intention

[elfin wave]

||pretty sure bringi's seen a billion of that minion, i did not help with that||

[hasty kayak]

so now is the perfect time to mention i never thought it was a mask. i just thought that was his face with sunken eyes because evil

[elfin wave]

RACIST AGAINST GARLICS?!?!?!?!?

[plucky cairn]

[elfin wave]

#CancelShadowbringi

[hasty kayak]

IM SORRY

[magic burrow]

||Actually it is not even a mild spoiler, the blue bird saying you don't want to know is the whole plot||

[elfin wave]

anyway bringi get through 4.5 already

[hasty kayak]

somethin somethin ||"for those ive lost, for those i can yet save"|| parallels

[elfin wave]

i mean
||pretty badass of him to drag himself from implied oofening and then straight up kill serveral lesser Ascians off-screen||

shiiiiiiit
am i liking the ||former genocidal maniac?||

[hasty kayak]

hmmmmmmmmmm. i guess that means somethin like. ||ascians originally from our star are more powerful than ascians that come from other planets? ascians are already immortal cause they can travel thru aether sea without gettin sucked in or somethin like that if i remember moenbryda´s exposition so it would make sense why they can come from doomed planets. or maybe it just means some of them have connection to zodiark while others lost it..... somehow. when their planet falls into light/dark completely maybe?||

[plucky cairn]

Interesting theory

[hasty kayak]

well "Paragons of the Source" is capitalized so lemme add that to my vocabulary i guess. which probably means somethin like ||the chosen ones of zodiark ie the opposite of us chosen by hydaelyn?||

i like bein a chess piece soooooo much

sorry ||hydaelyn i still miss you we never chat anymore||