Final Fantasy 14

[elfin wave]

babby tonk

[hasty kayak]

may hydaelyn have mercy on their soul

[elfin wave]

i need it

nvm

Drops in Raid Abyssos: The Eighth Circle (Savage).
Receive Abyssos weapon coffer (il 635) Abyssos Weapon Coffer (IL 635) Using this item transforms it into a weapon corresponding to the user's current job
Purchased from Mylenie in Labyrinthos (X:8.3 Y:27.6) or Djole in Radz-at-Han (X:10.3 Y:9.6) for 8 Abyssos mythos iv icon1.png Abyssos Mythos IV.

[plucky cairn]

Oh, that's really nice

[elfin wave]

i would have to do P8S tho

[minor sorrel]

Persona 8 Super?! man, i've lost track of those games~

[elfin wave]

(nsfb/post EW)damn, got ||Fell Court|| and there was a rare drop i missed that i could have made this with

only goes for 25k but you know it LOOKS COOL

[plucky cairn]

I should buy that

[elfin wave]

well the thing itself goes for 140k, I was just talking about the drop

dunno if it'd be worth crafting if you don 't have Master Blacksmith X

they clearly should make this sword a DRK weapon

[elfin wave]

[minor sorrel]

[hasty kayak]

love when i randomly leave the game in a pressing state

goin around my conjurin business ya know i wonder if im forgettin somethin.....

"... has that tower of doom always been there? eh its probably fine"

[plucky cairn]

I kinda love that they addded them to a lot of maps

For us it was literally months waiting for the expansion with these towers around

[elfin wave]

what's in those towers?

if i recall it is one of the darkest parts of the entire game so this hits on two levels

[hasty kayak]

worse than valens?

[elfin wave]

i ain't sayin' SHIT

[plucky cairn]

We can discuss the ethics when you get there, I'm too afraid I'll give hints

[hasty kayak]

fear

[elfin wave]

finish msq faster

[hasty kayak]

nu-uh

[elfin wave]

i don't want to do the next dungeon again to do the last pull

i mean, practice it

also Trust System is just like
entirely optional as a WAR

it's amazing the shit you can get away with

casually solos a level 80 dungeon

[plucky cairn]

Bringi knows they'll lose the sprout when they complete SHB last quests, it's a big step

[elfin wave]

ooooh ye ye

lot of new places to see too
like THE BEST HUB

[plucky cairn]

After when they get into dungeons people will expect for them to be competent, which I mean, they are but psychologically is a hurdle

[elfin wave]

True, true. and EW does step up content difficulty

(allegedly
war main don't care me pull beeg)

DT is going to nerf the shit out of WAR and i'll cry

[plucky cairn]

SB is still the most difficult expansion as for dungeons

[elfin wave]

that first EW dungeon tho...

[plucky cairn]

EW has some more complex mechanics but SB hits a lot harder as far as damage numbers

[elfin wave]

did i ever mention i got that
as a fucking SGE
when I was still levelling and learning the job
AND FORGOT THE ENTIRE DUNGEON

party was very understanding

FFXIV players are built different in the best way

you know in hindsight, i might be thinking of the trials getting a LOT harder in EW

THE FUCKING SPROUT IS STILL THERE HAHAHAHHAA

FOUR HOURS

SHE'S BEEN STOOD THERE FOR 4 HOURS

being a tank main has its benefits~

[hasty kayak]

now entering tree hugger P L U S

[elfin wave]

@plucky cairn so i've been looking into the pearls that drop from the (NSFb/Post EW) ||Archfiends|| and aside from the ||Drowned King Statue|| that just looks goofy, I WANT THESE SO BAD
unfortunately the ones that drop from the Trials come from the EX versions and they go for BONKERS on the market.

[plucky cairn]

Oh I want that sword for sure

[elfin wave]

the ||Blighted Earth Sword|| cost me about 130k so i went for that
i'll see if the others go down in time

WAIT WHAT

OH MY GOD

SO APPARETNTLY THE FUCKING THRONE FROM ||FELL COURT|| CAN JUST FUCKING DROP AFTER BEATING IT

HELL YE I LOVE THIS DAMN THRONE

i know what must be done.

i am a fucking king

[slim cairn]

hes cool

dunno why you don't like him

[hasty kayak]

this bozja stuff seems pretty promisin

n also this music, its absolutely delightful

[plucky cairn]

Bozja music is excellent

Feels very Witchery at times

[hasty kayak]

oooh, ye i can tell what u mean

well, from this first track that is

[plucky cairn]

Not sure which part you are doing, I did that unlock quest years ago

But I generally like the music there

[elfin wave]

hey i don't mind doing borzja with ya if i have the time at some point

i'm still fairly early in, like rank 7 or something

yknow what fuck it i'm not doing much

[plucky cairn]

Bozja I basically done all I wanted to do, that said I don't mind coming to help from time to time.

I think bringi is still doing the unlock quest tho, I might be wrong.

[hasty kayak]

oh ye i baeely started the quest

[plucky cairn]

If you are still doing Bozja coming DT, or if you pick it back up after, I'll definitely be happy to help since bozja is really good exp and I'll have 20+ classes to push from 90 to 100

[elfin wave]

holy shit this instance is STACKED

going to be ez to find critical engagements

oh hey this dood going to be fighting nier flight suit my new mount

[hasty kayak]

whhyyyyyyy is the several cutscenes will now play dialogue box in the SIDE CONTENT

pain and suffering on the planet earth

[elfin wave]

the DRK got rekt, lmao

buuut i'm a nice person so i switched to SGE and rezzed them

OH BOI
RED CHOCTOBER

Time to get fucking METEORED

[hasty kayak]

oh hello sudden answers

[elfin wave]

TO ALLL OF MY CHILDREN-

[hasty kayak]

me n the ptsd-giver chilliiiiiiiin togeeeether

[elfin wave]

[plucky cairn]

I rewatched the thing youtube, i love that quest

[hasty kayak]

W H E E Z E they rlly named that achievement "cidception"

incredible

also wow they went all out on the title card

after much deliberation i decided the weapon ill go for will be dancer btw

[plucky cairn]

Nice

[hasty kayak]

thats a rlly long term project, but still

i do fuckin love sam but it just doesnt jam with my glam i feel

who knows maybe in a few years i could come back to it

[plucky cairn]

I think the good thing of the SAM weapons is that they are all really cool, there isn't a step that is meh

[hasty kayak]

yep yep

its all cool as hell katanas

[plucky cairn]

I think I'm using the first step in my glam

But at one point or another I used all 3

DNC is a good pick tho, because currently DNC has only 2 expansions relics available total

So meaning if you get the EW relics for DNC, you'll have all the DNC relic weapons ever made

And the EW relics are a freebie

You just have to do Manderville quests and then spend some tomes

[hasty kayak]

i dont know if i rlly plan to collect relics tbh. i mainly picked dancer bc final step has red bits that compliment the red bits on my glam seein as im pretty set in stone with dartanyan n dont see it changin

n i haven't set my heart on any specific. uuuuh. xena-ass blade circles yet

[median ridge]

Endwalker relics happen by default.

[hasty kayak]

"oh and whats this questmark do-"
extreme
"aaaaaaand right into duty finder to never be touched again u go"

[elfin wave]

which EX?

[hasty kayak]

||brain varis||

[elfin wave]

fun!

[plucky cairn]

For that one, ||I really think the gameplay team had a fight with Varis ready for like, 2 expansions, and then the writing team went and killed him||

So they just reused it for this

I can't prove it, but I would bet on it

[elfin wave]

man i still want the mecha dragon

[plucky cairn]

Tomorrow the mogpendium resets! More tomes to spend on cool stuff

[hasty kayak]

oOooOOooh yeah these are flippin beautiful

[plucky cairn]

Really nice

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

this goes so perfectly with my hat fuck the last step actually

maybe i could still do sam instead then... a new weapon is only 1k poetics afterall

this solved nothing, back into rumination board

[elfin wave]

that's DNC, right?

it's not stripper-ey enough

[hasty kayak]

dartanyan....

i saw beeg hat n all hope to stay dancer-y was lost

[elfin wave]

smh hypocrites
you'll go full red for RDM but won't go full stripper for DNC

you played Octopath, you KNOW that's part of the job!

I want PASSION!
ROMANCE!

A DANCE PARTNER THAT LIVES! UP! TO! MY! STANDARDS!

[hasty kayak]

a minute of silence for proper dancer bringi, u were a sweet if fleeting dream

[elfin wave]

i like how i'm so hardline on DNC being "stripperriffic" when i don't even like exposing my character too much

add Bewildering Grace in DT you COWARDS

[hasty kayak]

that would be so hilarious actually i second that

who gives a shit about meta, rng go BRRRRRRRRR

[elfin wave]

i mean

[hasty kayak]

0.5% chance of wipin the party i think we should add that

[elfin wave]

you're saying that like DNC isn't already an RNG clusterfuck

[hasty kayak]

bewilderin dance would b all new level tho

[elfin wave]

see the chart

[hasty kayak]

"heal everyone plus giant shield" "all damage down" "knock off 40% of boss's hp bar" "just fuckin wipe cause why not"

in my book it should be a total wack, go big or go home

[elfin wave]

"we're about to clear the raid!"
i cast RNG skill

https://tenor.com/view/megumin-gif-22471891

the castle is the party

[elfin wave]

weird question

but what piece of content would best suit blasting Dragonforce to?

[latent vapor]

As it turns out, the weekly objective, despite being randomly selected for each player, doesn't care about what you have unlocked. I got a level 80 raid, so I'll miss out on the 20 tomestones this week.

[plucky cairn]

Sad to hear that

Definitely sounds like something that could be improved upon

[elfin wave]

the fuck is this

[hasty kayak]

(5.5) ah, thanks for that reminder ||(future DT tall alphinaud jumpscare)||

[elfin wave]

||tallphinaud

[hasty kayak]

NANAMOOOOOOOOOO CAMEO

hi :>

ah so this is how ||the fabled azure dragoon perishes||

entirely fair

[elfin wave]

Yuppp

[hasty kayak]

i see this is the comedy patch

[elfin wave]

I should do the rest of 6.55

[minor sorrel]

[elfin wave]

i like that alphi is so much of a femboy that he genuinely can't tell them apart

the best part of that scene is coming up

[hasty kayak]

he's channelin ember vibes

"darn elezen b all lookin the same"
"but estinien, arent y-"
"irrelevant"

[elfin wave]

it's not racism if you're that race yourself

[plucky cairn]

I really like how much of the Scion personalities the show SHB forward

There was some of that before, but it really becomes a larger part of the content at some point

[elfin wave]

||g'raha will forever be my boi||

[plucky cairn]

I love that he ||called her rugged, it's so fucking funny||

[elfin wave]

I DON'T EVEN LIKE MIQOTE THAT MUCH

[hasty kayak]

banned

yaaaaaaay ||beeg dragon||

the boi over here ||b like "uno reverse vampire" n givin out his blood in vials||

love playin into the "completely technologically illiterate member of scions" actually

bringi P U N C H

fuck your system updates n catch these paws instead 👊

[elfin wave]

MNK brain

[hasty kayak]

oh so same amount of time itll take me to download DT, got it

[elfin wave]

heh

[minor sorrel]

Monk brains think alike

Unless it's with Y'shtola, surprising her with super in-depth knowledge is always fun

[hasty kayak]

alisaie lets gooooooo

i adore her your honor

this is so fuckin unfair why does ||estinien get the cool dragon and im stuck with that little bitch midgardsormr||

oh this is delightful, when was the last time msq took me to ul'dah? entirely too long thats when

MORE N A N A M O LETS GOOOOO

bye nanamo i miss you already

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

<@&1128722919405650000> pspspspsppspsps

[plucky cairn]

I'm ready

[elfin wave]

Ten mina

mina i meant mins

logging in nowwww

[elfin wave]

was not joking about the peak tanking thing, this is my screen

scream and pray

[plucky cairn]

That one is scary because it's so many enemies, but as long as you don't die right away it's fine, ||since Tiamat is there chunking enemies with each hit, like, if you survive 20 seconds she probably kille 2 or 3 of them and a lot of the pressure is off||

[elfin wave]

Yeah.
Also the weird cross attack, the only reason why I remembered you had to move is because it almost killed me in my solo run and I was like

"I am taking too much damage for something you're meant to take damage from..."

mayybe should have said something about that instead of talking about being a jedi or whatever

[plucky cairn]

It's kind of a new-ish mechanic they do in EW

Stuff that hits you initially but you can move out of

I think they used it before one or two times but it happens in EW more than once

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

thank you for comin to my lecture, there will be a test later

oh no :c

my friends the ||tribal quest givers do not deserve this||

i see where that ||towers are fucked up|| sentiment came from

[elfin wave]

(nsfb) ||How do y'all think bringi will react to Vrtra in EW?||

[plucky cairn]

(nsfb)||I think they'll love him, Vrtra is very lovable, he's the most human of the dragons||

[elfin wave]

(nsfb) ||he literally has a human form, you can't just call him the "most human" like that ||

[hasty kayak]

this does not spark joy, only fear

tis never a good sign when CIA document

[plucky cairn]

nsfb||Even ignoring that, did you notice that among the first brood, he's the only dragon that speaks the the human tongue? All the others speak whatever dragon gibberish and telepathically translate for you||

[slim cairn]

be nice

[minor sorrel]

nsfb|| ...I never clocked onto that. 🤦‍♂️ ||

[elfin wave]

(nsfb) ||I mean, he kinda had to in order to run Radz-At-Han, even before his retainer assistant whatever bites it (literally)||

actually that reminds me, in the EW trailer (nsfb, i swear this will be over soon) ||do we see Vrtra or Tiamat with Estinian? I figure it was Vrtra and people not realising it's not Tiamat but now I'm not sure.||

[plucky cairn]

nsfb ||it's Vrtra, Estinian even says his name||

[minor sorrel]

Probably nsf me too at that point. Im still at nsfb||...I dont actually remember. I think I recently fought that wind based demon lady and a bit of content after that?||

[hasty kayak]

||fordola|| be cookin i didnt realize she still got cool plot potential

hope i get to see more of her

[elfin wave]

nsfb ||oh my god he does say Vrtra, isn't that kind of a big spoiler to put in your trailer, wtf?||

[plucky cairn]

nsfb ||I mean, the dude looks nothing like Tiamat with that horn, besides none knew much about him at the time except he is from the first brood||

[hasty kayak]

im so happy for nanamo content in this patch

yay yay yay

[elfin wave]

Oh yeah, fair enough, lol
nsfb ||with the little context we have, the twist of him being the Sartrap of Radz makes more sense now||

[slim cairn]

ew

[hasty kayak]

lemme puuuuuuunch nanamoooo

:c

i like punching primaaaals

[slim cairn]

punch nanamo

[hasty kayak]

banned

[slim cairn]

you can't do that

that would be mod abuse

[hasty kayak]

good thing that never stopped me before, then

[elfin wave]

when will this maddness end

[slim cairn]

this madness will never end!

[rough crescent]

our sprout friend and us will queue for [5.0] ||amaurot|| and the trial after (||hades||) in half an hour, and we'd love to do both on min ilvl. does someone wanna join?

[hasty kayak]

loud lore slurping noises

this has so much delightful potential actually

[plucky cairn]

I'll be there

[hasty kayak]

||so many of your friends are sharlayan that actually visiting their country of origin is soooo intriguing||

[elfin wave]

I'll pass, I'm not good enough at the game to do content at min ilvl

[rough crescent]

it's not actually that much harder, don't worry

it's just closer to what it was like when the trial was new

[plucky cairn]

ohhh, there is a chance

[elfin wave]

See the problem is that I like my overgeared brick of a WAR

i actually bothered with melding!
who the fuck melds!??

[plucky cairn]

rip, wrong sticker

[elfin wave]

yup, ya jinxed it

still, one line!

[hasty kayak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HxWaQhb7zc

[elfin wave]

does materia even affect stats in min ILVL?

i need my CRIT HEALS

[hasty kayak]

||estinien joined the party! for real this time!||

[plucky cairn]

||That little speech he does is really cute||

[hasty kayak]

||... estinien follows at a distance such that noone can tell he´s associated!||

real susie behavior tbh

[elfin wave]

||With that, you've replaced Lyse and Papalymo! Yay!||

[hasty kayak]

.... we can no longer be friends

why must you wound me so

[elfin wave]

I AIN'T WRONG

[hasty kayak]

YEAH YOU ARE THO

[rough crescent]

i have no idea

[hasty kayak]

||LYSE|| BEST SCION

[elfin wave]

||nah that's G'raha||

[hasty kayak]

if i could associate emotes with ppl this one would be yours

[elfin wave]

GEN HAS MY BACK

I am VALIDATED

[hasty kayak]

sudden but inevitable betrayal, i see how it is

[elfin wave]

oh yeah now that you've finished ShB (nearly) you can read the FFXIV manga that's a high school AU

[plucky cairn]

Maybe I could also accept a Krile, but ||Graha is up there||

[hasty kayak]

the ff14 fandom either must be fightin over best scion placement constantly, or my takes would simply be highly unpopular

[slim cairn]

Lyse and Papalymo both were bad characters

[hasty kayak]

murderous urge rising...

[minor sorrel]

What would be mine?

[hasty kayak]

that one WIP im workin on

[elfin wave]

prolly B.
afaik ||G'raha|| is universally adored as a Scion

[minor sorrel]

[slim cairn]

at least im not banned yet

[elfin wave]

which
COME ON
YOU SAW HIM MEET ESTINIAN
HOW COULD YOU NOT

[plucky cairn]

Lyse was almost great but imo her arc was botched in her own expansion, it really sucks.
Papalymo I am actually fucking devastated we didn't really spend more time with post ARR, he was not especially interesting in ARR but the few bits we get with the stronger character writing of HWs were really promising

[elfin wave]

Such devastation...

[slim cairn]

nooo gen, you aren't suppose to encourage that!!

[hasty kayak]

well ||zenos|| its simple, i see not a single ||monk weapon||

[elfin wave]

I still think he's his own fucking skill issue, HE WAS TRYING TO KILL A TREANT BY BONKING IT WITH HIS STAFF

MY BROTHER IN HYDAELYN USE YOUR FUCKING MAGIC

[plucky cairn]

As a sidenote, for Papalymo fans in here (I know there are many) EW spoilers ||there is a quest in Old Sharleyan in which you meet his dad and it's adorable||

[elfin wave]

(i am still mad about that)

[hasty kayak]

sometimes you just need to punch people

allow me to demonstrate, gums come over here-

[elfin wave]

oooh is this The Bit where (nsfb) ||Zenos finally reveals himself as a RPR main?||

[slim cairn]

im holding a light saber

[minor sorrel]

[plucky cairn]

It's next patch 5.55

[elfin wave]

DaMMIT

at least i nsfb'd it in case, lol

one of these days i'll be able to show them the Spooky Slice video

[plucky cairn]

IDK if bringi will do that one today, it's also the one where (nsfb) ||Fourchenault disowns the twins and I adopt them...no wait the 2nd part was headcanon||

[elfin wave]

... and now i'm sad again about JoCat

[hasty kayak]

melinda has the right idea

i vote in favor

[elfin wave]

new headcanon

[hasty kayak]

WHEEEEEEEZE

[plucky cairn]

I loved that bit

[hasty kayak]

"o damn okay mmmkay this is fine"

[plucky cairn]

Made me wish we made ||peace with the tribes|| earlier, they are hilarious

[minor sorrel]

||https://c.tenor.com/MUxPw8oToMAAAAAC/tenor.gif|| I see no difference

[hasty kayak]

SO TRUE THO

[minor sorrel]

Already forgotten, what part was this?

[hasty kayak]

||sagahin chief: S C R E A M
the table: 👀
sagahin chief: ... what, yall dont know how to be excited? guess its hard with no gills||

[minor sorrel]

[elfin wave]

racism bad

• ffxiv, 20something

[hasty kayak]

this is just like when u steal the smart kid´s answers from their test

well at least he doesnt mind

[elfin wave]

btw i know i'm like 45 mins late but I'd be up for Seat of Sacrifice when they get there!

I will take ANY excuse to beat up Elidisus again

legit my favourite trial in the game

https://youtu.be/Qf6m2sJd4Gg man, Husky does the best fucking covers i swear

[hasty kayak]

lets gooooooooooooo

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

||his little hair thingy is red, therefore ali is the favored sibling||

i dont make the rules this is simply the truth

[plucky cairn]

Can't even counter that

[hasty kayak]

welp no surprise there

||time to sneak into the egghead country||

[rough crescent]

we're still looking for someone for that full party if you wanna reconsider

[elfin wave]

is bringi going to get to 6.0 today?

[plucky cairn]

Possibly

[elfin wave]

but my gacha just did daily resetttt

[plucky cairn]

@elfin wave come to do Hades, the other person is a tank and they will probably want to Main Tank anyway, you can offtank and none will notice if everything explodes.

[rough crescent]

we've got a flex as well if you want zero responsibilities as dps or something

[elfin wave]

alright, what server

i'm doing it

[plucky cairn]

I can also play whatever, but I feel like offtank is the least responsibility possible since you are DPS with more HP and mitigation, so you don't die to mechanics

[hasty kayak]

.... O h. yikes

[rough crescent]

any on light, we're on phoenix

[rough crescent]

very true

[hasty kayak]

[plucky cairn]

YES, that's when I went ||my twins now, we can sign the papers literally minutes from now||

[elfin wave]

oh good, my home server is zodiark

[hasty kayak]

im ready to kill a man actually

[elfin wave]

just logging in now, if you need me to be anywhere physically other than Lag Central/Limsa, I can teleport there

[rough crescent]

ah wanna meet in limsa on phoenix? then i'll invite you once i get party lead from our sprout

he's watching the cutscenes between the dungeon and trial right now

[elfin wave]

sounds good.

oh my god THAT SPROUT IS STILL THERE

[hasty kayak]

i am halfway convinced thats a RTMer by now

[elfin wave]

[plucky cairn]

You would have seen the shouts by now

[hasty kayak]

hm, i suppose

[minor sorrel]

Maybe not an RMT but some kind of bot

[elfin wave]

we got a whole crew

inb4 this is an ult party

[plucky cairn]

you gotta have all 8 if you want to go min ilvl

[elfin wave]

oh yeah, you need a custom party, makes sense.

[minor sorrel]

He looks vaguely familiar...

[slim cairn]

wait has bringy made it to endwalker yet?

cause waiting for them to see who the narrator of endwalker is

they narrate the trailer

[hasty kayak]

fordola spittin out FACTS

[plucky cairn]

Fordola is an excellent character

[hasty kayak]

oh good lord they put checkpoints in this

uh oh

[elfin wave]

THAT FUCKING HADES FIGHT JFC

[plucky cairn]

not that bad

[elfin wave]

I thought we were going to wipe at the end tho

[rough crescent]

thank you so much for joining, you two, that was so much fun

[slim cairn]

wait what patch are you on brings?

[elfin wave]

THIS IS NOT FINE.

[plucky cairn]

I really like how they have an easier part at the beginning when you can make mistakes and recover pretty easly, before ||he transforms and it becomes harder.||

They became so good at designing encountes that you can just play and not look up a guide, and be largely fine.

[elfin wave]

dps skill issue

[plucky cairn]

That part is just looks spoky, we still had plenty of time

The DPS checks are all very lenient, we broke the bubbles when he traps 2 player in it when we were like, still halfway of the castbar, we had way more than enough DPS for the encounter

[dark jacinth]

||Good to see him again! ||

[elfin wave]

why didn't i spoiler it

[plucky cairn]

Is this ||the Alexander quests?||
Don't remember when it happens

[elfin wave]

dumbas hc

[elfin wave]

i think the pressure of min ILVL made me panic a bit

should have mitigated more as well

[plucky cairn]

Listen don't worry, none is gonna pick out anything story relevant from that picture, it looks like every MMO screenshot ever taken

[dark jacinth]

That’s what I thought

[elfin wave]

stillll just in case

i shouldn't be willy nilly because it's sfb

[hasty kayak]

.... well, ||my miniature of me is better than game's||

[dark jacinth]

||it’s from a serious of unfortunate events||

[plucky cairn]

Sorry I didn't notice this earlier, bringi is doing the 5.55 patch quests, I assume the ||solo duty||

The big fight where you ||hop from scion to scion to kill the various lunar primals and all that stuff||

[elfin wave]

||lunar primals were such a wasted concept ngl||

||had them for like what, one patch?||

[slim cairn]

ahhhh

i shall dm them endwalker trailer

[hasty kayak]

gummy for the love of god STAPH PINGIN ME IT MINIMALIZES MAH GAME

i am tryin to murder here

[slim cairn]

I WILL PING YOU MORE

[hasty kayak]

it didn't do this before so i assume discord did some update bullshit again n ill have to find that setting later

[elfin wave]

heart of ember, autumntide
coolin' swiftly, bleedin' light...

[plucky cairn]

Well we had more ||tower related primals in the expansion; Anima, the Magus Sisters...||
||Better new primals than recolors if you ask me|| nsfb (all of it)

[elfin wave]

tru tru, ||we had eden for primal refights anyway|| (nsfb)

fuck, footfalls is such a good song

[plucky cairn]

Today maybe Endwalker trailer?

[hasty kayak]

im gonna hate my decisions tomorrow, but yes

[plucky cairn]

[slim cairn]

YOU BETTER WATCH IT

[plucky cairn]

After the solo duty there is relatively little left to go in cutscene time, so at least there is that

[slim cairn]

OR I WON'T STOP PINGING YOU

im so gonna get banned aren't I?

[hasty kayak]

GUMMY GO AWAY IM TRYING TO DEAL WITH URANGERS BULLSHIT

[elfin wave]

yes

if not you, me for my bad takes

[slim cairn]

NOOOO

[hasty kayak]

I DONT KNOW HOW ASTOLOGIAN WORKS ITS ALL BULLSHIT

[elfin wave]

bringi if you don't rate EW theme at least a 6/10 i will remove you from my friendlist

... wdym we're not friends on discord

[slim cairn]

endwalker theme is 10/10

[elfin wave]

you have earned my friend invite

a rare honor

[hasty kayak]

ysthola you are such a shitass dps fuck

[elfin wave]

because i forgot that feature existed

[hasty kayak]

ugh thus was not worth the stress

[elfin wave]

i mean she was a conjurer first

i think

[hasty kayak]

well i seem to recall someone insulting papalymo in my presence, so what gave you the idea we are on friendly terms?

[slim cairn]

papalymo sucks, yet you and me are besties soooo

[elfin wave]

DID YOU NOT
SEE
THE TIME HE TRIED TO BEAT A TREE TO DEATH WITH A STICK

finest pupil my ass

arr is fun

[dark jacinth]

This is where I am now

[plucky cairn]

Ohh, makes sense

So quests around lvl 40-something?

[dark jacinth]

50 but I’m 64

[elfin wave]

levelling be like that

expect to be ahead of the curve for a while

[plucky cairn]

Oh you are doing the ARR patch quests

[elfin wave]

fuck it took you a year to get to EW

[plucky cairn]

That goes on for a while, but stay strong, HWs is just around the corner

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

oh no

uh oh

[elfin wave]

well, more than a year, this was probably HW

[hasty kayak]

so we finally come back to this. welp. ||moon's haunted||

oh thats credits

[plucky cairn]

it was always about that

[hasty kayak]

STOP PINGIN ME I BEG YOUUUU

i swear ill fix it afterwards but p l e a s e

[elfin wave]

sowwy, it was an accident

[hasty kayak]

it keeps throwin my game off the Fullscreen and i NEED my pretty screenshots

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

im gonna miss my friends ||the chais :c my beloveds||

[elfin wave]

i checked my screenshot folder

5 months, 2 days

from starting ARR to finishing EW

i truly had no life in 2022

[slim cairn]

Bringy watch the trailer

[hasty kayak]

okay while credits roll i finally have time to adress this slander; you do not understand the genius at play here. see, unlike you, ||papalymo is smart so he knows that relyin on shitass magic is not enough. when trouble comes, the best way to deal with it is to beat it into pulp. and thicc sticks serve that purpose nicely||

[slim cairn]

Or i will ping you

Papalymo dumb!

[hasty kayak]

trailer after i click complete on the quest

as i always do

[slim cairn]

Smh

You better get the narrator right on first try

Or I am never speaking to you again

[hasty kayak]

honestly all of these are perfect

i am sorely tempted by the third but will go with second

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

though i would swap "words" for "talkin with my fists"

but alas

MEANWHILE, AT THE ASSHOLE CENTRAL

[elfin wave]

ok bringi i wanted to surprise you by conveniently being in Old Sharlyan when you first arrived there, it's been on my mind for weeks

like i'm just hanging out there for no goddamn reason, lmao

[hasty kayak]

oh. ur a ||rpr main||

[slim cairn]

Let the fun begin

[elfin wave]

i need to steal this

[elfin wave]

THERE IT ISSSSSS

[hasty kayak]

nooooo

[elfin wave]

oop ping

[plucky cairn]

I mean if he has to ||bring the apocalypse, he had to swap to Reaper||

[elfin wave]

i can FINALLY post this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH2wDdYIMQU

[plucky cairn]

Also, ||Reapers originate in Garlemald so it makes a whole lot of sense||

[hasty kayak]

it's lowkey annoyin that rpr keeps insertin itself tho

||first they take my mnk main ranjit from me n now this||

i think they shouldve allowed ||me n zenos to have a good ol fashioned boxer match ya know||

[elfin wave]

rpr is a fun class

(it requires as many brain cells as WAR)

[minor sorrel]

nsfb: || he's not at said boxing match yet, right? THat's at the end of this patch? ||

[hasty kayak]

shadowbringers: im the edgy expansion!
endwalker: hold my ||moon||

[slim cairn]

Wooooo

[hasty kayak]

they are delightful but why must thou pingeth me so

[minor sorrel]

because i forgot not to

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

M O M ??????

[slim cairn]

?

[hasty kayak]

||crystal mom is talkin to us agaaaaaaain||

[slim cairn]

Disgusting

[hasty kayak]

there, phew! thats shadowbringers!

[plucky cairn]

Congrats!

[hasty kayak]

and now i mourn this terrible tragedy

sprout icon i shall miss you terribly....

[steady saffron]

Not really, you just don't know how to play it, lol

[hasty kayak]

ok, trailer time

WOL your shoes suck

[elfin wave]

you're good at the game now

[hasty kayak]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO ||ALIASIE IS FINALLY PROPELY RED MAGE||

ive been waitin for 84 years but at long last

[plucky cairn]

Because the ||red clothes|| I assume

[slim cairn]

NARRATOR?!

[hasty kayak]

of course

now, ||sge alphi|| i unfortunately did know already, but still a banger pick

[plucky cairn]

Agreed, it fits him so well

[hasty kayak]

man they are ||so extra baby|| in the trailer

"nearly threw hands with the 10 year old"

aww they gave ||estinien teeny wittle ponytail||

thats adorable

[elfin wave]

what do you think of the song

i mean, so far

[hasty kayak]

STORMBLOOD REFERENCE

immediately at least 8/10

[elfin wave]

see bringi if you listen carefully, you would have heard the HW theme during Estinians section

it's thematic

[plucky cairn]

The ||Estinian ponytail allegedly is because since he is now in the main team, the fact that his hair clipped all over his armor was annoying the team way too much||

[hasty kayak]

man, everyone looks so baby in this trailer

[slim cairn]

DID YOU FIGURE OUT WHO’S NARRATING YET?!

[elfin wave]

also you finally heard the TALES OF LOSS
AND FIREEEE
AND FAIIIIIIIITH

that you've heard like 10 billion times logging in

[hasty kayak]

thancred ur ||the designazed old man u have no business lookin 20||

[elfin wave]

papalymo

[slim cairn]

Oh god pls no

[elfin wave]

[slim cairn]

Bringy is definitely ignoring my question

[elfin wave]

man why am i bullying him so much

[slim cairn]

Which means they know who it is

[hasty kayak]

||my man zenos deserves this expansion so much||

gods im honestly lookin forward to that fight as much as he does

squeenix dont fail me on this

[elfin wave]

EVERY STEP WE TAAAAAAAAKE
ECHOES IN OUR WAAAAAAAAAAKE

footfalls goes so fucking hard

[plucky cairn]

The reason it has to be ||Zenos||, is that he is your foil.
The ||WOL is in many way the ultimate altruist, and Zenos is defined by his egoism and selfish, almost animalistic desires.||

[hasty kayak]

fall 2021, now im only 3ish years behind!

[elfin wave]

four words
(NSFb)
||That, I can't deny.||

[minor sorrel]

nsfb || A TEST OF YOUR REFL- 🥕 ||

[hasty kayak]

i suppose it is the bitch himself, otherwise u wouldnt b nearly as excited

[elfin wave]

i mean it's not much of a spoiler on its own but when the context hits it will HIT

[slim cairn]

Yayyyy you will learn to love him as narrator

[hasty kayak]

X

[elfin wave]

(nsfb) ||who's betting bringi won't pick that option when it comes down to it?
i feel like they're going to despise Zenos so much they they fundamentally disagree with him||

[plucky cairn]

But yeah both of you have almost undefinable strenght, the difference is to what you put that strenght in service of.
Some people don't like ||Zenos because unlike Emet he is a simple antagonist, he doesn't have deep motivations, but he is good because you don't have deep motivations except doing what's right and helping others, he is perfect this way to be an opposite to you||

[elfin wave]

Meanwhile ||i kick ass and kill gods for the fucking FUN of it, while i hate his guts, he has a fucking point|| (nsfb)

[hasty kayak]

to your certain delight, while i need to listen to it again it is most definitely my second favorite trailer music. first, if we were to discount answers for whatever reason (we shall not, i love that trailer/cutscene)

[slim cairn]

Whats your favourite trailer music?….

[elfin wave]

Good.

[hasty kayak]

try readin comprehension gums, u might find out

[elfin wave]

you have earned my favour

[slim cairn]

Ohhh

I only read half of that

It’s funny that old habits stick

[hasty kayak]

as you often do

[minor sorrel]

nsfb ||just rewatched it and even when I'm expecting it, the absolute perfect timing of it still gets me ||

[plucky cairn]

Did you pick up that it has reprises of HWs, SB and SHB themes in it?

It's such the perfect trailer for an end of chapter

[elfin wave]

i must be off but i will drop this before i go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o30Zikadb4o

[hasty kayak]

i picked up stormblood but was distracted in everythin else by. well. everythin happening

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

it is very late for a workday, i may have more luck tomorrow

man tomorrow is gonna suck, ugh

[plucky cairn]

HWs is during the ||Dragon bit (unsurprisingly)|| and SHB is during the ||Yshtola bit||

[elfin wave]

worth it worth it worth it

worth it

you did a lot of progress today, i am very proud

good slep based enby ponker

[plucky cairn]

Next MSQ session will be starting the last Expansion, finally current-ish content happening!!

[hasty kayak]

as currentish as i can get

rest assured i will make you proud and swerve into the nearest side quest

[plucky cairn]

I am sure of it, EW is so packed too, it'll be horrible, can't wait

[hasty kayak]

wheeeeeeeze

ok i rlly gotta go now, see u tomorrow

[plucky cairn]

bye

[hasty kayak]

[elfin wave]

laters

[elfin wave]

i let the intrusive thoughts win

[elfin wave]

Managed to do Deltascape 1 2 and 4 on Savage

(With help from one person)

then the bastard outrolled me on the mount

[hasty kayak]

so i guess in hindsight i shouldve expected this, but unfortunately stayin awake did prove a bad idea. it took me ages to fall asleep n i guess i stressed myself out over it too much bc sometime around 5am i woke up with a monstrous migraine, so that was fun. i called sickday into work so at least i could suffer thru it at home

feelin better now, but bleh

its been a while since i had one of these, i was hopin my streak would hold. oh well

[elfin wave]

i love encouraging bad habits

[plucky cairn]

The things we do for ||Graha||

[rancid laurel]

Weird way to spell Tataru and also Krile

[slim cairn]

Imagine you calling in sick as a teacher

You would still have to write out a lesson, send it to the office. And let’s say you had a lesson that won’t work if you aren’t there…you gotta make a brand new lesson for the substitute teacher at 5 am

[hasty kayak]

delightful namin convention there

[elfin wave]

tiny smol

[hasty kayak]

pain.jpeg

"white mage is easy" my ass this is s o much suffering. scholar is a cakewalk in comparison

i dont even know what i could be possibly doing wrong but its so fuckin hard to keep the tank from dying let alone occasional dps mistakes. and not havin sprout means tanks do larger pulls n then whoops lmao here goes a wipe

and it does NOT help if the dragoon is doing minimal damage MY CATGIRL YOU ARE A MELEE NOT A PHYS RANGED WHY ARE YOU ONLY THROWING SPEARS AS IF DZEMAEL WASNT HARD ENOUGH ON ITS OWN

[elfin wave]

You could ask the tank to slow down

[hasty kayak]

i cant type im too busy screaming and trying to heal

[elfin wave]

True, true

[hasty kayak]

i dont think i realized just how powerful passive fairy heals are doin this by all by myself is horrible

[rancid laurel]

WHM is kinda odd until you get more of your kit

Remember that Holy stuns so treat it as mitigation as well as damage

[plucky cairn]

I think we are around lvl 40 at most

[hasty kayak]

im currently doin the lvl 45 quest, so now is when i get holy

u better be right about holy being the savior skill bc this is so much bullshit otherwise

gen has once again grown respect in my eyes because i can not imagine playing this on high level

[plucky cairn]

Holy helps, for big pulls running in and swiftcast holy is a great way to prevent a lot of damage right away and give some time to you and you party members time to AOE down a few enemies

[hasty kayak]

this is horseshit

[plucky cairn]

It's so much easier than SCH in my opinion

[hasty kayak]

absolutely untrue

[plucky cairn]

Early it's weird but as PK mentioned, you don't have a lot of your healing abilities at the start

[hasty kayak]

never did i struggle with scholar like i do currently

[plucky cairn]

It might also very well be that the tank you met in the dungeon sucks, have you considered that possibility?

[rancid laurel]

I cannot play 90 SCH. Too many buttons to keep track of

WHM90 is super smooth

[hasty kayak]

well given ive been struggling all day i really doubt its on tanks

[rancid laurel]

Also remember that tanks also don't have a full kit yet, so anything sub 50 will suck

[plucky cairn]

Oh one trick, regen and medica 2 stack

[hasty kayak]

i dont have medica 2

[plucky cairn]

So if you are having trouble, try casting both to give the tank a lot of regen overtime

I think that's lvl 50

So not too far

Oh are you using cure I?

waiting to proc cure 2 for the free heal?
If so please don't.
You don't really need to be mana efficent

[hasty kayak]

im not

im castin one cure II after another n then usin the mp regen skill and castin more cure II and makin sure i have regen always on and its STILL not enough at times

i admit i was excited to try n reach 50 today but this powerleveling looks like it was a mistake bc im currently really soured on this job

[plucky cairn]

My diagnosis is bad tanks that don't know their limits in pre 50 content

You already have the one OCD heal or that's later?

[hasty kayak]

i feel like id b able to do it with sch >:c

[plucky cairn]

Ok no that's the lvl 60 ability

Lvl 50 gets you benediction and medica 2 which might improve your experience.

[hasty kayak]

... i did get praised in that one dungeon for my healing a few hours ago, so maybe its not all hopeless

maybe i just need to learn how to better time presence of mind to shorten the cast time

[rancid laurel]

It really does get way easier as your kit expands

Early WHM is a bit rough

[plucky cairn]

Presence of mind helps for sure, also not having seen the runs I can't tell, but maybe a mistake that is less dangerous in SCH but it more present with WHM is letting your tank run very far ahead of you so you have to catch up and lose some time you could be stunnin/healing

With SCH it's a bit less impactful because the fairy can throw some heals while moving, plus they might have a shield up meaning they take a bit to actually start takind damage.

[hasty kayak]

"a bit" is understatement of the century

perhaps my brain just prefers the way barrier healer works

[plucky cairn]

Next time if you have holy try the swiftcast holy when they stop running and start killing, it really helps a LOT

In later content I can cast it like 3 or 4 times before I actually have to stop doing damage and have to start healing

In earlier stuff maybe 2 since tanks tend to die faster

[rancid laurel]

Afflatus Solace will put in tons of work as you learn

It's an instant with 800 potency. It costs one lily stack. You gain one stack on your lily gauge every 30s in combat, up to a max of 3.

[plucky cairn]

Yeah it's also pretty soon, lvl 52

[rancid laurel]

50-60 is huge for WHM

[plucky cairn]

Evn tho you don't actually get the damage part of the combo until 74

[rancid laurel]

Regen -> Divine Benison is a very common play of mine

[plucky cairn]

Yeah I have them on the same button with a ctrl to modify which I cast, both very useful at the start of a dungeon pull

[hasty kayak]

just to be clear then, i cant spam holy the same way i would do art of war, i have to wait til tank stops n then start spamming?

so i dont stun the mobs mid pull?

[plucky cairn]

Correct

[rancid laurel]

Correct

[plucky cairn]

Also it has a cast time

[hasty kayak]

ugh

[plucky cairn]

Which is why the play is swiftcast into holy, at least for me

If I'm feeling spiciy swiftcast into holy into presence of mind

[rancid laurel]

While running, I tend to tag things

[plucky cairn]

into more holy

[hasty kayak]

i miss my scholar i miss them a lot

[rancid laurel]

Hit mobs with Aero, or the tank with regen

[plucky cairn]

Yeah applying dots is not a bad idea, generally you don't have a ton of things you can cast while running until later on

[hasty kayak]

as if i wasnt already doing that

[rancid laurel]

I've been playing WHM since 2.1 or so

It's rough in early content. It really is

It very well may not be the job for you, but it gets better. To me, it's the easiest healer to play

[plucky cairn]

WHM was the first healer I maxed so I don't remember too much of process of leveling it.

Yeah it's the healer I feel more comfortable in because I find it the easiest to play.

You can pretty easily heal the whole group with two buttons if needs arise, if things are very fucked you can always benediction, and you don't need much setup to do anything really

[elfin wave]

i'll stick to SGE

[plucky cairn]

Plus the holy+blood lily damage is pretty fun in dungeons

[hasty kayak]

i. must admit that holy makes mob pulls much, much more bearable

why the fuck did they wait until level 4 5 to give you this

[plucky cairn]

Oh I see you didn't level DRG yet

[hasty kayak]

wat

[plucky cairn]

Who gets its first aoe skill at lvl 40

[hasty kayak]

ah

for a second i was extremely worried they somehow kept those cross-job skill levels like i heard of in ye olde version but on for whm

[plucky cairn]

Oh luckily they didn't

[elfin wave]

stoneskin

i just upset a lot of ARR/HW players with that

[hasty kayak]

i think thats enough for today. brought whm from 31 to 46, so hurray for that

[plucky cairn]

gg

[elfin wave]

ggs

[hasty kayak]

before i log off for today, i need yalls opinion on best rdm pants

[elfin wave]

I like the second

[hasty kayak]

i did drop them today, hence my pants pondering

but it does make me feel not red enough

i do wish they had more white on them, since lore wise black/white/red is the only acceptable rdm colorscheme n my current (left) lacks balance of white i feel. i semi-justify it by bein "of course you have white hair n trauma" character, my tail is doin a lotta work here even if u cant see it rn

oh thats right, i forgot i wanted a celebratory nickname change

there we go

[elfin wave]

wooo
did you get to Old Sharlyan yet

[hasty kayak]

no i didnt start the first expansion quest yet

but it still counts!

[plucky cairn]

I like 1 more, but 2 is pretty good also
I am for simple pants usually

[hasty kayak]

if it makes u happy hc, given the whm overdose today ill probably shelve the job til next week, so ill probably begin msq proper tomorrow

oh wait thats right im goin out for dinner

[elfin wave]

fuck

[hasty kayak]

well, it wont be a long session but still

hmmm. with dual dye on the horizon, maybe the pants on the left will gain ability to dye the black stripe to white, that would go a long way

im so excited for that honestly. my most anticipated feature n im not even exaggeratin

[plucky cairn]

Same

Well maybe not the most anticipated, but it's close

[elfin wave]

Tournament Usher: In the absence of an opponent, the winner of the Ul Cup final is Harqujin Chorchi by default!

we take those baybee

i do have a hankering for gladitorial trials to the death so you have me there, lass.

PFFT

i'mma just post this without any context

Namano about to witness a murder

This is not a Paladin
this is a sociopath

[steady saffron]

Personally, WHM is indeed very rough at first, the one I enjoyed leveling the least

However now having maxxed out WHM, SGE, SCH and now doing AST...WHM is actually the one I enjoy the most playing, lmao

[elfin wave]

i like how everyone i've talked to about WHM agrees that it's the best healer, lmao

or the most fun, at least

two people is still everyone

[plucky cairn]

Well not necessarily best, easiest to use tho for sure

[steady saffron]

Hmm, I would say SGE is easier

Like, it's hard to learn

But once you know how to play, it's harder to use WHM for late-game content than SGE

[plucky cairn]

Maybe, I don't have any endgame healing experience so I can't speak to that.

[steady saffron]

Then again, if I were to do Savages and Experts, SGE would be harder to use cuz I feel like the max healing/shielding output is lower than WHM

[plucky cairn]

That said, I'd go in with any healer before AST
I can play AST only if I also don't have to play the rest of the game.

If you remove every other mechanic the bosses might throw at you, maybe I can deal with it

[elfin wave]

oh wow that armor is crisp

then again
it has a cape

i am a sucker for capes

[steady saffron]

That's fair

The issue with AST is most of its healing is regen

Which is VERY painful in Healer checks

I'm still in SB level range as AST, and it's fine so far, but I am in fear of ShB and EW dungeons

[plucky cairn]

That said the star is such a fucking awesome ability

My main problem wiht it is the constant fiddling with the card buffs

[steady saffron]

My issue is that my RNG is attrocious so I can't use the level 50 abilities virtually at all

[elfin wave]

can confirm

both as someone who used AST to 90 and played with him while he ran AST

[steady saffron]

Astually is it me or is level 50 skill not that important?

I haven't really reached hard content with AST yet, so maybe I haven't seen the real necessity of skills, but so far it's been pretty pointless

[elfin wave]

OH THAT'S THE THINGY

[hasty kayak]

comgrats on your higher pally hc

pally is fun

[elfin wave]

i thought DoW 2 was like for the ranged DPS, not the next tier up, gfdi i am dense

[plucky cairn]

Lol, it happens

Ffxiv is needlessly confusing about that stuff

They should just have "tier III" or the ilvl written in the choice menu

[elfin wave]

ah yes nothing like getting A12 while trying to learn PLD

at least my portrait is nice

[hasty kayak]

nighttime lochs has such delightful music i love you stormblood locations

[elfin wave]

most night time music is noice

Mmm I see people are grifting

Yupppp
from 14k

[hasty kayak]

oh, that was fast

o hey, me ||semi-completin eureka means we aint even lyin||

oh right ill have to get used to a new quest jingle

[slim cairn]

Did you do bozja yet?

[hasty kayak]

no. i did cids quest for it but i didnt set a foot in yet

gasp SAM QUEST LALA SPOTTED IN THE BACKGROUND

there he is! there he is!!!

||"i promise ill make sure everyone comes back alive tataru" a more ominous promise has never been made, WOL||

[plucky cairn]

There are so many random NPCs from job quests in EW, it's great

[elfin wave]

this isn't stalking idk what you're on about

[hasty kayak]

if ||ANYONE in this group makes tataru cry i will have stern words. and a sparring match||

[hasty kayak]

[elfin wave]

I was going to find you in Old Sharlayan but this was funnier to me

[hasty kayak]

WAVE BACK WOL YOU LIL ASSHOLE

this is a tragedy how dare u just stare

[elfin wave]

dw dw i'm back at Light
for now

[hasty kayak]

ugh even from beyond grave he is gonna be so fucking annoying

hurray i love ominous speeches that make little sense

children please just lay down

oh ||crystal mom is here soon soon|| okay okay

i just realized ew will probably have a bunch of answers renditions oh this is so delightful

i love that song it is dear to me

[plucky cairn]

Agreed, there are so many versions

[hasty kayak]

do you suppose its intentional that ||hydaelyn is cast in light while you´re in the shadows, or am i overthinkin here||

i dont even wanna tap the dialogue boxes i just wanna sit here listenin to the piano piece

[plucky cairn]

Definitely intentional, I also love that you can tell her that ||you lost trust in her after she left for like 3 expansions and went through a world where light destroyed everything||

Since it's perfectly reasonable

[hasty kayak]

i didnt pick that, it sounds like a gummy answer

[plucky cairn]

They were reading the community hard with that line

[slim cairn]

BE NICE

He watches you beyond the grave to narrate!

[slim cairn]

How did you know….

[hasty kayak]

oh good, the dread of ||probably high possibility of me definitely dying this expansion has returned from shb.|| didnt miss you in particular buddy but shit here we go again

my mnk brain is too smol for cryptid dialogue oh nooo this is gonna bother me so much

love ya ||hydaelyn but i always have to pull out a fuckin dictionary for you||

[plucky cairn]

||Crystal mommy sure loves being cryptic ||

[minor sorrel]

🤜🐱🤛

[hasty kayak]

i didnt even know surmount is a word!

[minor sorrel]

Surely you've seen insurmountable

[hasty kayak]

is that like a movie or

[minor sorrel]

It's a word :X

I'm pretty sure the game has used it often

[hasty kayak]

ah. no i havent. or maybe i have but it certainly isnt lodged in my commonly used or encountered vocabulary

[minor sorrel]

Fair 'nuff

[hasty kayak]

i wonder ||who hydaelyn made a promise to, whatever it is. mainfilia? goin further, grandpa phoenix? even further, hythlopal? or azem? i can only assume hydaelyn standin before me currently is borrowin azem's look||

[plucky cairn]

I cheat because it's very similar to the Italian equivalent of "insormontabile"

But if your native language doesn't have that direct line I can see missing it

[hasty kayak]

"nepřekonatelný" isnt exactly matching

[plucky cairn]

Oh right, one thing I can spoil you in case you didn't pick that up

||Azem gender changes with the character gender||

[hasty kayak]

oooh

thats neat

love that the game is makin 100% sure to cram in the word "answer(s)" as much as it can

ARE YOU GETTING WHAT IM PUTTING DOWN PLAYER PLEASE TELL ME YOU GET THE INTENT

[plucky cairn]

That's not to say it necessarily determine ||the pieces of his soul gender, since Ardbert was also an Azem shard but he is male regardless||

But it tracks the player character

[hasty kayak]

theeeeere we are

[plucky cairn]

Welcome to ||nerd land||

[hasty kayak]

i can feel the pain as the party's token jock. at least ||estinien is here to keep me company in this sad little corner. ... regardless of the fact that he's kinda a shit company||

[plucky cairn]

Home of the delicacy known ||as Archon Loaf and where Alphinaud learned to draw to score with older chicks at the academy.||

[hasty kayak]

idk if u can tell but i personally never rlly fell into emo boy's charms

but it could be worse

he could be urianger

[plucky cairn]

Nowadays ||Estinien is pretty positive at least||

The whole part with ||Tiamat|| was wholesome

[hasty kayak]

||not dying|| does that to a person i suppose

[plucky cairn]

He even gave a huge ||appreciation speech when he joined the party, he is a loner but pretty cheerful compared to his past Batman persona||

[hasty kayak]

oh right! i almost forgot, lemme take care of this before i proceed too far in

[plucky cairn]

I will drive home now, will catch up when I get there

[elfin wave]

T h i s?

[hasty kayak]

OH NO YOU GAVE ||ESTINIEN|| EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

also its cool they acknowledge ||if u dipped into DoL n DoH||

the thrilling long awaited continuation of bringi scion favorites scale™, shadowbringers edition, keep your pitchforks until after readin in its entirety please and thank you, spoilered just in case:
||1. lyse - fuck you gums she is forever a scion of my heart and theres nothin you can do about it
2. alisaie - shb did her so good (and by good i mean gave her more trauma, then she said "bitch watch me" and chose healing alphi take notes)
3. tataru - tataruuuuuuuuuuu i love you i wish game let me see you more often i wanna join your omnicrafter adventures so badly
4. alphinaud - the boy. his speeches got really good
5. papalymo - i still feel so angry, we were so robbed. i miss his arr banter with lyse so much
6. ryne - babygirl i hope you´re havin wonderful dates with gaia
7. krile - krile has so much potential but just like with alisaie in pre-sb the game is so fuckin stingy with her screentime. im rlly glad to have done eureka n to check that alt route on youtube because she could go PLACES if squeenix just let her. it is my hope she´s allowed to participate more in endwalker (or dawntrail)
8. g´raha tia - the boi. this is probably the opinion thats gonna get me crucified. yes he´s cute. yes he is trying. but his truck-kun crimes will take me a while to get over
9. thancred - he got his dad license, good for him good for him. its not his fault the cast is jam packed with awesome characters.
10. y´sthola - i find thee confusin at the best of times, but your totally-boyfriend runar is my adored so congrats on that
11. minfilia - i wish we got to know you more. pat pat
12. estinien - goth. we do not vibe with each other. but hey you got a whole expansion for funni quip bonus points. and at least you arent urianger
13. urianger - ughrianger.||

i pray with all my heart i havent forgotten anyone

okay whoops that intro was very long i have a dinner out planned, we'll see if time permits for more later

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

fair

[elfin wave]

fair takes tho

[dark jacinth]

||We meet again||

Why does it not spoiler pictures

[plucky cairn]

Oh you are there!! Awesome character IMO

[plucky cairn]

Ok so..fair but you must allow me to make "the case for ||Urianger||" because I was with you until SB about him, but I think you are missing out now

||Urianger got, at the end of SB, yeeted into the first and spent 3 years with the fae, when you meet him, this is his introduction: https://youtu.be/-_VOUZ3dyGo?t=23||
||My argument is not that he isn't a weird, just that he got more weird after his time with the fae, and that is very good; He shows up with a skimpy fucking outfit, bringing his theater kid vibes at full force.||
||He came out of the closet and not necessarily in a sexuality way, but in a "I don't actually care anymore, I am just gonna be weird and you are gonna have to deal with it" and that is excellent on every level.||

||Remember when we had to go underwater and his solution was "Listen, I know this flying whale" or when he did this?!? https://youtu.be/7qjPmUszyqE?t=8451 He is a massive fucking dork and that is very entertaining.||
This is peak character and you can't convince me otherwise.

[elfin wave]

goddamn theater kids

should bully him more

(i say this endearingly)

semi-related to that second cutscene
||it never clicked that fae could visit dreams like that until i did the tribe quests, kinda wooshed me, lol||

[dark jacinth]

[elfin wave]

we need to do PoTD at some point

[plucky cairn]

We should definitely try to make a push to lvl 200

We might need a few runs to farm aetherpool gear tho

I don't think bringi maxed it yet

[slim cairn]

Oh screw you, Lyse is worthless

[elfin wave]

I am genuinely shocked i didn't get the party wiped

I'm guessing it was either a 3 stack group or they genuinely were impressed by my tanking ability (doubt)

[hasty kayak]

dinner was delightful, back to like one more hour of game

also i listened to footfalls without the other trailer distractions and, yep, banger

they were sooooo proud of this new feature they had to give you ten page tutorial

[plucky cairn]

This on launch was used by so many people to ||take screenshots with graha||

They don't give you ||him right away by chance, this was a very claculated decision that within one hour from launch you are having a stroll with the catboy across the streets of Old Sharleyan||

People were renacting fanfics they had in their head

[hasty kayak]

"okay, we didnt even visit the main plaza, please just follow the nicely marked path and-"

"WOL why"

craftin go brrrrrrrrrr

the culinarian questline better absolutely slap

dont worry nerds i will bring you true joy in life

[elfin wave]

i'm just posting this in response because it's 200% true ||https://youtu.be/Vpaee00_6pw||

[hasty kayak]

as a ||krile enjoyer that is so rood||

[plucky cairn]

It's also very funny

[hasty kayak]

oh, huh, u just need ||some dumb bangs n ud b ejika 2.0||

.... oH

cool!

mmm delicious eureka-dependent dialogue

[plucky cairn]

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

oooh when are we gettin a map like this for a furniture?

i like this room theres so much wall decorations

[elfin wave]

What do you think of the inn music?

[hasty kayak]

sweet delicious concept-art-ish posters

well the entire ||sharlayan|| music so far gives me lofi girl vibes

so its neat

||no worries i still like uldah over this greece knockoff||

[elfin wave]

the inn music is a reference to The Day Will Come from FFV

"That seems rather odd!"
no, lol

[hasty kayak]

o neat!

[elfin wave]

also explains why the inn plays that song
it's kind of her theme, in a sense

idk i haven't played enough FFV, i just know that much

[hasty kayak]

ooo so we pullin ||stormblood n exlorin two nations||?

aaah so thats the EW split

makes sense

chat (so just. gen n hc lol), which one flows more naturally story-wise?

[plucky cairn]

nsfb ||I'm so disarmed by the fact that this expansion pacing is so absurd that I can't even offer a frame of reference...two nations my ass, they have no idea where the hell this goes and none could have||

Safe for bringi
I personally would start with the ||shaleian side if you have some patience, it's more egg-heading.||

If you want a change of scenery and are curious to see how ||Tavnarian|| look you should go there first

[hasty kayak]

that is no help at all, delightful

[plucky cairn]

As far as better flowing, I'd say ||Tavnarian second||

[hasty kayak]

[elfin wave]

||Sharly|| has the funnier scenes, if I recall

[plucky cairn]

I wonder if other people disagree with that assessment, my reasoning is that (nsfb) ||tavnarian closes with the elephant lady getting kidnapped, and it feels weird to do some fun Sharlayan exploring while that is looming over, plus at the end of the Sharlayan you get pretty much kicked out and told to stop doing weird shit, so it flows naturally to going to Thavnair||

[minor sorrel]

Agreed

[plucky cairn]

Selfishly also (nsfb) ||I want bringi to meet Ameliance because she is delightful, and happens in the Old Sharlayan side||

[minor sorrel]

[hasty kayak]

"yeah, i can do one whm leveling duty before bed, ill breeze thru it"

game: quarn with three sprouts and the tank is first timer, khavefunbyeeee

so i dutifully chaperoned n explained the "pull rocks on glowy platform" mechanic

ill decide on the route tomorrow

oh, i should ask, knowin my internet is trash at my parent´s, does one of those have dungeon where the other doesnt? bc ill do whichever doesnt first so i can progress more story over weekend if i have time

[elfin wave]

Qarn is on the docket for Mogpendium so expact to get it a l o t t t

[hasty kayak]

a lot of the 30-50 range dungeons are, thats partially why i decided to whm grind yesterday

"it lowkey sucks but at least im gettin tomes"

i kinda already have a lot of stuff i wanted from that list, so im hopin to milk as much mgp as i can from this event

[elfin wave]

Hmm, I should take this chance to level NIN

[hasty kayak]

without goin overly into grindiness, perhaps

i do have this shiny new expansion after all

[elfin wave]

good exp without having to use up levelling roulette for more Important Things™️ (PLD/MNK)

[hasty kayak]

i saw some side quests pop up on the map-

[elfin wave]

I SWEAR I WILL GET BACK TO MNK

it's just
queues are a lot faster with PLD

[hasty kayak]

yeah if u aint scrared of tankin thats certainly a perk

[elfin wave]

even if it means getting alex

[hasty kayak]

n tbf pally rlly is very fun

perhaps not as mindless fun as war, but i enjoy it

... even if i havent played pally in ages

[plucky cairn]

The fist dungeon is conveniently positioned after both routes are completed

You should recognise this setup, it's the exact same thing they did in SHB

[hasty kayak]

we´ll have to do a lvl roulette with me as pld sometimes

[plucky cairn]

Pick ||Ali or Alphi, meet them, come back to the crystarium, Helminster Switch then||

[hasty kayak]

good, that simplifies things

[plucky cairn]

I expect they'll reuse this structure during DT, it's very convenient to split the playerbase in two different zones and not make servers explode

Also each will do the story at their own pace and they'll arrive a bit staggered to the dungeon

[elfin wave]

(nsfb) ||OF COURSE THE TOWER OF ZOT IS IN FFIV.
THE FUCKING FFIV REFERENCES START EARLY.||

i just wanted to refamiliarize myself with that dungeon because i do not want a repeat of my first run.

yup, watching a guide
so
many
fucking aoes, good god...

less depressingly

[hasty kayak]

HELL YEEEEEEEEE

[minor sorrel]

chief mourner... less depressing?

[elfin wave]

less depressing than the first EW dungeon existing in my brain rent free

[plucky cairn]

You said you wanted to do POTD, do we want to agree to a day to do some of that?

[hasty kayak]

that sounds fun!

[plucky cairn]

This should content @dark jacinth would also be able to partecipate in

Assuming they unlock it

[elfin wave]

that'd make 4

and i'm pretty sure PoTD unlocks after Ultima

[plucky cairn]

It unlosk at lvl 17 I think

But it has various steps

[elfin wave]

oh gOD

[hasty kayak]

i mean hey its all fun stuff

this is peak arr neatness

[elfin wave]

ah okay, basically just do a few sidequests and clear Tam-Tara (Hard)

just tam-tara hard
no bad memories of that dungeon

[plucky cairn]

That quest is to go past lvl 50
And I think you need to be level 60 to unlock the one to go up to 200

Blade if you are interested let me know and I'll point you to the quests to do to unlock it before we meet to do it

[hasty kayak]

well, at least its not lost city of ampador

i hate ||diabolos n his dumb door mechanic||

[dark jacinth]

Unlock what?

[plucky cairn]

Palace of the dead

The first deep dungeon if you want to play it with us

[dark jacinth]

Oh right.

[hasty kayak]

so i read this n forgot to respond, and you aint wrong, he ||definitely gets some delightful shb moments, my favorite is absolutely when he almost drowns. i guess there's just a few key points where i dont vibe with him much. mainly a) his speech pattern, while i do overplay it a little bit he is slightly incomprehensible just bc im not a native speaker and b) much like y'sthola he keeps things from you on purpose all shadowy mirrors incarnate, which annoys me to no end. i think he promised on like no less than three separate occasions to stop doin this n yet the character flaw persists. which i mean, yay for flawed characters! this is good writing! but it does knock him ysthola down a whole lot in my favoritism scale. u could say im heavily biased bc like, lyse lies to you, but i feel like thats different? lyse is blunt as fuck and i love that about her, her kinda takin over her sisters shadow is|| spoilers for persona 5 royal ||incredibly sumire|| end of p5r spoilers ||of her n i find that so cool n tragic in one fell swoop, and shes again a very wears heart on her sleeve character which cant be said of urianger||

[hasty kayak]

that was supposed to link to this gen's ||urianger|| message thanks for nothing discord

[elfin wave]

After completing Raid Deltascape V4.0 (Savage), speak with the Wandering Minstrel in Kugane (X:11.6 Y:12.6) as a level 70 Disciple of War or Magic.
oh no i just realised i unlocked two ultimates

[plucky cairn]

Fair, fair