Final Fantasy 14

[rough crescent]

is "movie & title versions" new or did i just always have tunnel vision

[elfin wave]

Tunnel vision

[rough crescent]

shame

[elfin wave]

It basically just let you temporaily swap expansion title screens

and watch the trailer in game

[rough crescent]

yeah, i was hoping that'd let us change the title screens

still need a plugin for that, huh

[plucky cairn]

Or permanently, if you have certain plugins

[rough crescent]

not that i mind this new title screen, i agree it's gorgeous - having older title screens is just great when replaying older parts of the game

[elfin wave]

I wish there was an option for you to "lock in" an expansion title screen so as you progress you get the appropriate title screen

[plucky cairn]

Well it's not in that menu, but yeah

[elfin wave]

kinda like NieR

[rough crescent]

i've only ever watched this preview muted, looking forward to hearing it for the first time on launch day

[elfin wave]

oh my god i want to do a Nitori cosplay with the imp outfit but I don't have the backpack accessory

KAPAPA KAPAPA NITORIIIIII

wow i didn't actually expect this fucking event to explain gold saucer lore

[elfin wave]

oh, it's MSQ locked

WELP

"Oh hey <Unnamed NPC> what's up"
"I need you to go to Old Sharlyan"
"... You called me here just to- I WAS JUST THERE GOD DAMMIT"

fuckin better get that aetheryte tax written off or i'm not saving your asses again

(6.55) ||NOBODY TOLD ME SHE WAS A WARRIOR TOO ||

(6.55, again.)||you know this sounds like the Azem Steppe...||

(6.55.... Again... I have a lot of things to say ) ||Well, you are very much right about me being a mighty Warrior, you have good taste! ||

[elfin wave]

(6.55... Yet again.) God dammit ||Zero.||

(6.- You get it.) ||G'raha, you act like this is the first time we've meddled in international affairs so brazenly. Or did you forget about your time in the First, Mr. Crystal Exarch?||

[plucky cairn]

lol, very true

[elfin wave]

I very much agree with the third choice, but I'm picking the first one because that's In-Character™️

[elfin jackal]

scion
not get involved in politics

[elfin wave]

||MOMMYCRYSTAL FLASHBACKS||

[elfin wave]

Finally. Nitori cosplay.

[broken grail]

where do you get the imp outfit?

[hasty kayak]

make it rain event, start from uldah near aetheryte

quevain is the npc name

[broken grail]

you know.... I've been playing for 2 or 3 years now and I never knew Make It Rain had a quest

[elfin wave]

I think the imp outfit is now

ah yes, each year has a different quest and thus a different item to get
This year is an imp outfit

[elfin jackal]

sometimes it's been emotes

or minions

[elfin wave]

i wish they wouldn't have to resell them in the store but at least you get a discount if you missed previous years?

and ehh, at least it's new events

[broken grail]

yeah, I like how they give a different take on the same events every year.

It's the same holiday but every time it's something a bit different. Usually with callbacks to past events which is great for people who did it other years.

Sure the quests are nothing REALLY special most of the time but they're still fun. I love how halloween lets you become NPC's.

[abstract ibex]

I just got to the gold saucer for the first time

[elfin wave]

welcome to the gambling hell

[hasty kayak]

the most important this is the weekly cacpot, the second is fashion report my adored, and third are triple triad cards

enjoy your addiction!

[abstract ibex]

This place is sensory overload

[elfin wave]

That's Vegas, baybee

[plucky cairn]

Doing some MSQ today by any chance? No pressure just want to know because there is some content I want to join in that you should unlock pretty early the next session

[abstract ibex]

Not today no

[plucky cairn]

i was more asking bringi since I know where they are at precisely, that said I am also hyped to play with you the next time you unlock stuff

[abstract ibex]

Oh ok

[plucky cairn]

If you are okay playing on Materia tho, since I think you are on primal DC if I recall correctly

[elfin wave]

i finished MSQ

[hasty kayak]

nay, tonight is anime before bed night. ill start msq tomorrow

[elfin wave]

Lemmie summerise my thoughts: (6.55 spoilers)
||Wuk Lamat is hilarious and i adore her already
the solo duty was a little meandering but I can't help but say that I do love any chance to return to The Aetherfont and hear that absolute chill beat and being able to explore more of it was fun too, really shows you a bit more of an area that you kinda just glossed over due to the whole "saving the 13th" thing (it doesn't help that it and Castrum Snow Place get mixed up due to how much Expert roulette I've played so I keep thinking the last boss is The Bitch rather than the big octomommy)

I MISS G'RAHA ALREADY MY BOY I WILL MISS YOU WHILE I'M IN TULNA I'LL SEND PICS AND EVERYTHING I PROMISSEEEEEE
oh and krile exists, i like her updated glam||

god they really got their milage out of ||flow|| in EW huh

[plucky cairn]

||Wuk Lamat is great I agree, especially her relationship with Erenville, she is probably going to be the main Point of View character in DT so it's great news that she is so endearing||

Also ||some fun competition with the other scions, that'll be interesting||

||Thancred seemed pretty hyped of going up against us||

[elfin wave]

||wonder how much Thancred x Urianger art we'll see when the expac launches||

||god imagine if we actually have to fight them in DT
how many people would just hard-focus Urianger for all the bullshit he's pulled with the Warrior of Darkness and deceiving you about The First||

[elfin jackal]

i freaked out the first time i went there and just hurried to unlock thigns so i could leave

[abstract ibex]

Yeah i really wouldnt want to be in a place like that irl

[elfin jackal]

it's easier once you understand it

but that first visit is such a fuckin overload

it's why i always just rush through on alts

[slim cairn]

What anime you watching?

[hasty kayak]

detective conan

[elfin jackal]

i've heard about that

[slim cairn]

Never heard about it

[elfin jackal]

i think i've heard that on the surface it's about a kid detective

except under the surface, the kid part gets complicated

[elfin wave]

Accidentally new drip

[hasty kayak]

fiery monks are always nice, given riddle of fire and stomblood's stormbloodness

[elfin wave]

feesh

[hasty kayak]

oh good, reaper levelling was worth it after all :>

though, why is reaper like the only job where the special dialogue is only obtainable if you're playin as that job in the moment? like, its not an endwalker thing, i got white mage dialogue even when i wasnt playin whm back in ||level 83ish msq pre-departure to garlemald||

is that a patch thing? will dawntrail move to this system instead or something?

[elfin jackal]

No it's an ability vs backstory

The other case was backstory, a character who knows you from the quests

I think there may have been some other ability ones, like ||the rhalgrs reach scene if you're a healer||

[plucky cairn]

I think that there are a few in HWs when they refer to you as an azure Dragoon but they don't if you aren't currently playing Dragoon

I think

Actually there are a bunch as healer as you mentioned

In ||vauthry room you stop healing Kai Shir with Alphi if you are an healer||

Kinda wish they had a few job specific action scenes but that's a big commitment

Like, it means they'd have to go back and add to the cutscene with every new class they add

I'm sure they considered it but the resource drain would be a bit much

[elfin jackal]

I think it would just be cool to have some jobs have specific actions in the scenes

But instead we have scholar meleeing people to death

All of them actually, but scholar is just funny

[plucky cairn]

Fell the weight of culture

[elfin jackal]

"Get mathed!"
"Argh!"

[hasty kayak]

<@&1128722919405650000> pspspsps!

[elfin jackal]

Ah fuck

[plucky cairn]

Hello

[elfin jackal]

I'm heading out to buy a toothbrush

Already put on my unmatching gay socks

[hasty kayak]

aww

[elfin jackal]

But just so you know

My hair is better than the boss's

[elfin wave]

sure i could use a break from slamming my head into obscure ds games

@steady saffron oi wanna beat up a ||tornado bitch||

draglade is fun untilk you die to the final boss and have to do the final stage AGAIN which takes like 20 minutes and has two OTHER BOSS FIGHTS in it and AGH

ah he said nah

[steady saffron]

Sorry, was busy till now

[elfin wave]

we just finished it

as in
we wiped because half the party died to the second set of aoes and i was left to tank a stack by myself

[elfin jackal]

I think the extreme of that fight is probably endwalkers hardest extreme

[elfin wave]

:D

striking dummy as described earlier

[hasty kayak]

hmmmmmmmmmm

i guess my gil isnt goin anywhere and i do have the advantage of ppl havin poor taste n not fillin goblet to the brim, so it shouldnt be too hard to afford it later if i want to

[elfin wave]

I believe a small house is "just" 3 mil

[rough crescent]

Also busy today

Amazing ex btw

[hasty kayak]

||nidhana b like:||

[elfin jackal]

||zero is a 2nd tier waifu tbh||

||zeros hat is 1st tier||

[hasty kayak]

"okay so just play quickly thru arr-shb, it should only take a few weeks if you speedrun it-"

[elfin jackal]

i forget who they were talking to there

[plucky cairn]

||Zero||

[elfin jackal]

fair

[hasty kayak]

hehee ||eden|| shoutout

[plucky cairn]

It's kind of fun, because ||it shounds absurd that they casually suggest that they might save the 13th over dinner, but also, the Scions are easly the most qualified group of people to actually try to do that, given all that happened in the 1st, and after that||

[hasty kayak]

"alphinaud would be disappointed in me if i said no, so...."

[elfin jackal]

lmao

[hasty kayak]

MEANWHILE, AT THE NEW ASSHOLE CENTRAL...

forward to 6.threeeeeeee

nevermind i see a side quest icon

[plucky cairn]

Shadowed past, these are pretty nice

[hasty kayak]

||twins twins twins||

[elfin jackal]

OH YEAH

those exist

i forgor

[hasty kayak]

[elfin jackal]

shputout

[hasty kayak]

okay okay i get it we stayin in the silly glam in this patch too

i missed the kids, they truly are such powerful player motivators

[hasty kayak]

this slightly awkward exchange between ||jullus and zero|| is brilliant

those two interacting wasnt on my bingo card but its surprisingly adorable

aaaaand there goes sense of tranquility. lets leave that for tomorrow before raid

[elfin jackal]

gummy ships it

[elfin wave]

"bringi ffs we need to kill ||depression bird|| already"
"i'm SORRY I'M IN CUTSCENE LAND"

[hasty kayak]

i mean, possibly -

i will try very very hard not to tho

[elfin wave]

meanwhile me: chilling in the VC with platinum disco at max volume

HADDOKKOI!

it helps get my mind ready for the suffering i swear

[slim cairn]

SHIP SHIP SHIP

[plucky cairn]

This is getting silly, still no dice for the piece I want

Back to the glamour mines

The good part is that I'm getting another step for a relic weapon after the next run

[compact ibex]

[hasty kayak]

pat pat

[elfin wave]

swag

[hasty kayak]

mustard

[elfin wave]

aaaa why do Sages keep hitting me with the Kardiaaaaa

[elfin wave]

fuck is this DRK weapon

[hasty kayak]

"i miss bein a drg main but i needed tank for role quests"

[elfin wave]

oooh it drops from O4S

ohhhh my god the PLD version i neeeeed

YEEEEEEEEEEE

[hasty kayak]

oooh

[elfin wave]

Eastern PLD, me likey

alternatively

[compact ibex]

Mmmm i do very much love unique ideas like these for job fashion

[hasty kayak]

(6.3) character development whoooooooo

<@&1128722919405650000> pspspsps, who wants a quick dungeon before ||birb|| tonight?

ah, right, im on zodiark should be mentioned

[elfin wave]

am i too late?

was busy with my brother

and preparing for suffering, but that's less important

[hasty kayak]

ur first!

[plucky cairn]

Oh just got here

Did you start or am I on time

[hasty kayak]

all good, hop on zodiark

[elfin wave]

@steady saffron stop fishing, we have a ||fiend to slay||

[hasty kayak]

ahh yes, the hot potato ||organs||

[elfin wave]

boarskin maps are 100k on the marketboard

fucking scalpers

[plucky cairn]

Get one and sell it

[elfin wave]

bruh i have 6 mil i don't need cash that badly

i just want my damn TOMESTONES

and i ddon't know whether to spend them on maps or MGP

[sterile condor]

you can just go gather one of the maps

[plucky cairn]

Oh right I should do the mogpendium

instead of wasting my life in the glam mines

[elfin jackal]

mogpendium task: glam mines

[elfin wave]

i missed the weekly task last week

still early in da week doe, i can do it this time

[hasty kayak]

pat pat

[elfin wave]

anyone else got the murder chicken/Hells Kier?

[hasty kayak]

im still at work so i can tell ya that in hour n some

id love to play it with u regardless if u have the time to wait, ||suzaku ddr my adored||

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

@elfin wave okay, im home and alas my weekly is ||alphascape 1.0||, do u still wanna play fire birb together?

if yes i travelled to zodiark for ur convenience

[elfin wave]

Sure, letsa go

[plucky cairn]

i am also around btw

But I need 2 minutes

[hasty kayak]

oh perfect, my spaghetti cooks in two minutes so that's ideal

[plucky cairn]

I'm home early so I was doing some PVP

Needless to say, playing other things is preferrable

[hasty kayak]

neato i meant to ask at 6 if ur around for ||rubicante|| but this means we can knock it out while we're in party now

[elfin wave]

wait you're already up to that? bloody hell

[plucky cairn]

This is my work in progress VPR look, need something to make it pop more, might be the hood from the artifact gear from the VPR set

The two swords will also add some more pop, assuming I find cool ones.

[elfin wave]

honestly for VPR i might just reuse the sky rat armor, lmao

which you know
i am too obsessed with

[plucky cairn]

It is really nice

The FFXVI collab armor is also pretty nice for VPR tbh

[hasty kayak]

aurum gear is so fun

[plucky cairn]

I was considering pieces of it

[hasty kayak]

hehee spiky shoes n arms go brrr

[plucky cairn]

Yeah I like those so much

Especially for that battle hardened sets, they add a lot

[elfin wave]

for some reason i really like the sorta "badlands" look to it
like bringi said about it when i frist showed it off, it has a very "Borderlands" vibe to it

and probably clashes with the axe but ehhhh

[plucky cairn]

Should keep the pizza cutter

Seems like it'd go well with that set

[elfin wave]

defo would have to redye it if i did

[plucky cairn]

You know what I hade from this

The red scarf around the neck it doesn't have a dye in the game of the same color

So it's pretty hard to find matching things for it

[hasty kayak]

ff14 color wheel when

[plucky cairn]

I love the rest of the set tho, so I'll survive this affront

It's also not dyable but it's okay, I expect a dyable set with the same model will be somewhere in DT

Usually they do that

[hasty kayak]

gg, thank ye as always

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

let's see if i get thru msq far enough today for another ping later

[elfin wave]

Really am curious about my tanking skills now though

Especially in Suzaku I was doing Provokes without being told to

I even Shrik'd!

[plucky cairn]

After you start doing extremes and such, you do naturally get better at tanking in normal mode

Or at doing anything

It's just the fact that the mechanics are more complex and you have less time to react

That when you go back doing normal stuff, you are used to react faster to things

So stuff seem slower than before

[elfin wave]

part of me is worried that this might start making me toxic because I'm going from "Average" tanking to "Okay, I know generally what I'm doing, I just hope the others in the party can keep up"

[plucky cairn]

ultimately the correct mindset in any content is that a clear is a clear

if you are in normal mode and being lazy, it's fine, you don't need to be on point to clear in normal mode

[elfin wave]

I could just be overthinking it, yeah.

[plucky cairn]

The problem in being lazy in harder content, is that you can't clear without doing the mechanics correctly

[elfin wave]

Clear is a clear, ideally avoiding vulns and dying is good too

[plucky cairn]

(most of the time)

I am pretty sure you could clear any dungeon or normal mode trial if each character were allowed 5 skills from their moveset

[elfin wave]

Like I'm not going to expect people to remember every bit of content, even I forgot the last two trials we did for the most part and just reacted to stuff rather than planning for it

[plucky cairn]

And only hit those 5 buttons

[elfin wave]

I generally just kinda react to stuff rather than plan for it, which probably makes me a bad tank but eh

[plucky cairn]

In normal mode that's totally fine

[elfin wave]

remembering's for suckers, i'll take the L and the vuln if it's for a good time

[plucky cairn]

That content is designed to be cleared blind on first try

[elfin wave]

tell that to the reworked Ascian Prime

I'M SORRY BUT THOSE REACTION TIMES ARE BULLSHIT

[plucky cairn]

That's not to say that wipes can't happen, but it's doable on sight, unlike harder content

[elfin wave]

especially for level 60 MSQ content

[hasty kayak]

||"okay yall i know we did bait n switch with the moon in 6.0 but hear me out, what if we did it again in the patches but stuck to it"
"thats bloody brilliant, the players will love it"||

[elfin wave]

agh, can you tell that i've had Bad Times with that boss

[elfin wave]

kek

[plucky cairn]

I ||like rubicante, I kinda wish the patches were a full expansion, some of the archfiends I'd have like to explore more|| (EW post patch spoilers)

[hasty kayak]

this is a neat storyline, its fun that ||we're circlin back to desire for death n keepin the overall theme||

[plucky cairn]

At least they gave us the quests with their backstories

||(Fuck Cagnazzo tho, hate that guy)||

[elfin wave]

he's a bitch
literally

[hasty kayak]

i still really like how the ocean mount makes ur WOL kick up their feet, very "one thought, joyful whimsy"

[elfin wave]

[elfin jackal]

I got the 6.0 finale dungeon for my weekly

[hasty kayak]

oh man, gl with ur maps

[plucky cairn]

It's definitely a cute bit they did in that quest

[hasty kayak]

...well then. huh.

(6.4) didnt have ||"estinien fanservice" on my bingo card but given this is an anime game thats an oversight on my part||

[elfin jackal]

The best ||fanservice||

Fun how these patches end up being basically ||Shtola and Estinien|| content

[hasty kayak]

eeh. personally i prefer nanamo fanservice, that is any time i get to hang with nanamo (NANAMOOOOOOOO), but i blame that on "im too ace for this"

[elfin jackal]

Hey I'm ace too

[hasty kayak]

and well also the part where im not much of an estinien fan lmao

[elfin jackal]

Mostly if i enjoy fanservice it's cause i think it's funny

[hasty kayak]

alas the poor goth is too edgy for me

[elfin jackal]

Rip

||hat is still best waifu||

[hasty kayak]

it's charisma is thru the rooooooof

[plucky cairn]

That eye drop tho

6.4 spoilers: ||https://youtu.be/D1xZkfBe-38?t=771||
This exchange was so fucking funny

[hasty kayak]

||BUNNI GLEANER|| HIIIIIIIIIII

krile my beloved ill ||miss her cat hood||

||"homecoming" should i hope this is nod to dawntrail n we see more of erenville?||

~mysterious envelope ~

what is it, like 40 days left? holy moly

ooooooooooh, you´re that researcher

#1032731043041640488 message

good to see she got that sleep, at least

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

this is ||thancred||

<@&1128722919405650000> pspspspsps

[plucky cairn]

I didn't even go back to my server

Also great OST for this one

[hasty kayak]

gen theyre all great ost ...

[elfin wave]

Sorry, gonna have to pass. Just ran a bath and I don't want it getting cold

[plucky cairn]

True but this one is pretty unique

[hasty kayak]

"what music in ff14 do you like" "the stuff thats a banger" "do you have any idea how little that narrows it down"

[hasty kayak]

ah, i did tho had to throw stuff on marketboard

[plucky cairn]

Oh, gimme a minute to hop over then

[hasty kayak]

kindly come over boop

[plucky cairn]

I'm there

[hasty kayak]

are you?

it says lich

[plucky cairn]

Oh wait

I am dumb

What I did, is that I also wanted to boot ACT just because

So I went to the login screen, booted ACT, and went "mission accomplished, let's log in"

[hasty kayak]

oh, i can travel of thats better for u

[plucky cairn]

I'm already trasnfering

[hasty kayak]

oki

[rough crescent]

Ah shame, on the train home still

[plucky cairn]

I have trouble keeping 2 task straight in my head, which is why I keep running into AOEs after the rings in the EX

[elfin jackal]

So funny that we recognize her off one minor appearance

[plucky cairn]

That mechanic resolves and I go "thank god that's done" and get blasted by the next one before I can reboot my brain for the new thing

[hasty kayak]

endwalker is so fuckin dire any second of levity sears into ur brain

[elfin wave]

did you do the dungeon yet?

[plucky cairn]

we just finished it

[hasty kayak]

ff14 really can do pretty, the graphical upgrade is goin to go fuckin bonkers

[elfin wave]

Nice, what did bringi think of the music

||and the fucking shark mob pull||

Also that dungeon theme

No notes needed

[hasty kayak]

its okay

[elfin wave]

Absoluite favourite dungeon theme in EW-

[hasty kayak]

like most songs id need to listen to it again a few times to start appreciatin it

[elfin wave]

i always vibe with lofi versions of songs

[hasty kayak]

alas im deaf when focusin

CRAFTER QUEST MARK H I

[elfin wave]

ohhhh shit (NSFb) ||it's leading up to the stinger in 6.55!
i totally forgot this scene existed||

as it turns out having months between story drops means you forget shit easily

[hasty kayak]

[elfin wave]

and I spent most of the post-EW patches doing MSQ first for EXPERT ROULETTE BAYBEE IT'S ALL ABOUT DEM TOMESTONES SPOIDER MAN IT'S ALL ABOUT DA METS

[elfin wave]

||"i know we're supposed to confront the d00d who kidnapped Varja's dragon sister or whatever but that can wait like, 5 quest lines, right? at least i'm not in danger of becoming a Lightwarden this time!"||

||Zero: "Why are they like this?"
Y'shtola, Estinian and G'raha, simulatiously: "You get used to it."||

[hasty kayak]

"make labs more fun" PREACH LADY, PREACH

that is such a mood fuck the lab chairs

margrat i love you

ah yes im so ready for political reform the questline-

||if i was playin disco elysium right now im certain id get a communism dialogue option right here||

keep talking margrat actually, PREACH even

[elfin wave]

||"Lady I have killed the embodiment of crushing nihilism and even I'm questioning my will to live."||

[hasty kayak]

FINALLY I HAVE THEM AAAAAAAAAAALL

.... and i already did this weeks customs nOOOOOOO

the fucking 12 limit will be the end of me i swear

[elfin wave]

womp womp

[hasty kayak]

margrat i promise you ill be here the second im able on tuesday

twins twins

[hasty kayak]

||vrtra claimin that MVP here, love me some funky politicin||

ok, lord "i look like that one legend of korra villain" can enjoy some mortal peril till i get back to this tomorrow

[plucky cairn]

That's a very accurate description of that dude

[hasty kayak]

[elfin wave]

checkit, bitches

i make BLUJ red with envy with HOW BLU I AM

[hasty kayak]

speakin of blu i had an incident today. i spent 40 minutes tryin to make a blu glam because i wanted to pick the job up bc i didnt feel like doin msq today, and i failed utterly n miserably

i dont wanna be bri'ish but nothing i tried looked good to me

[plucky cairn]

Yeah it happens, half the time I try to mess with glam I just fail

[sterile condor]

i still really like my blu glam

also its v simple but the i also like the decor i did for the fc house

[hasty kayak]

umbrella, ella ella

[elfin wave]

jealous screaming

i really need to get that damn umbrella but goldor's traaaash

[sterile condor]

its honestly relatively easy once you get the "puzzle" parts of the fight

[elfin wave]

oh yeah bringi did you end up rolling for the tomfas?

[sterile condor]

it just takes a relatively long time

they didnt, i got em

[elfin wave]

Oof

ah well, i already have the second EX one

[elfin jackal]

i care so little about blue mage that i just wear the glam the game gives me

[elfin wave]

would have been a 595 weapon vs a 580 one

i mean
i could just do Manderville if i want ILVL that bad or you know... buy the 640 gear

[hasty kayak]

bold of u to assume im ever wearin anythin but my sphairai animus ever again

[elfin wave]

not like it'll be relevant after DT drops anyway

[hasty kayak]

oh, u meant for item lv?

yeaaah my mnk is 640 already

[elfin wave]

ye, but again, 15 ilvl when i can do manderville/tomestone gear is kinda irrelevant

[hasty kayak]

im hopin i can push it to 650 before dt drops? we'll see

so many plans so little time whooo

[median ridge]

My tanks and magic dps are above 650 but I've given up on gearing the rest at this point.

It will be easier to finish all the endwalker relics when they downgrade to the normal tomestones.

[plucky cairn]

I'm trying to do as many as I can now because poetics are already the limiting factor for my HWs relic farm

So that's just gonna pile on to that grind when it rolls over

[minor sorrel]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K7M8imwct3c

[elfin wave]

Man.

DT is going to be a rough transition for me, having my main job reworked

[hasty kayak]

angy mnk noises

probably angier ast noises

[plucky cairn]

wait WAR isn't getting reworked

[elfin wave]

but i have to learn new things

muh rotation!

[plucky cairn]

That's everyone really

Adding a few skills, plus some rotation adjustments

The tank that seems to be getting the biggest changes is DRK

And it's not much for it either IMO

wait maybe GNB, since it gets a whole new combo

[elfin wave]

NOT MORE COMBOS

[plucky cairn]

I am looking forward to new AST

It looks so much more enjoyable to play

[minor sorrel]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kw7OBWrWPVg

[elfin jackal]

Speaking as a drk player it doesn't seem like much change in terms of playing

[plucky cairn]

No Tank change much tho.
Combining blood weapon with delirium, plus no damage on the charge ability, plus removing the cost for Living shadow, it starts being quite a few changes on top of the new abilities.

Seemed like the tank that changes most to me until I remembered GNB which probably changes a bit more

[elfin jackal]

No cost on living shadow? Huh.

[plucky cairn]

Yep, it'll be only cooldown

But wont require black blood

[elfin jackal]

War seems like the most adjusting needed since it's more combo actions

[elfin wave]

wait do we have actual breakdowns of job actions?

and not just visuals?

[elfin jackal]

There were some slide shows during the live letter or something

[plucky cairn]

During the live letter they went through all classes and highlighted some of the changes

Not super detailed but enough to get a direction for the classes that changed the most, and a pretty good idea for those that changed the least

All tanks also will get updates to their 30% damage reduction actions

We don't know how exactly

if they will add extra effects or if it'll just be a bump in DR

Or in duration

And to Rampart

[elfin jackal]

Wonder how it's gonna work since rampart is a role action

[plucky cairn]

It'll probably be a trait that all tank gets I assume

it would be cool if each get a different ability to replace it tho

But I doubt that one

[elfin jackal]

Thing is role actions bypass level sync

Which is what I'm thinking

[plucky cairn]

I have higher hope for the 30% reduction ones to be more customised to the class

Yes, with a trait if you go into a lower level before the trait, you'd just get normal rampart

[elfin jackal]

That could work

[plucky cairn]

It'd be like one of those traits, that says "Upgrades rampart to rampart+" or whatever the new ability is called

[elfin jackal]

Could be called something like Unyielding

[plucky cairn]

This is where I'm at, 17 steps from doing all of them, I think that maybe I'll be able to knock 4 or 5 more before the expansion and the rest it'll have to be poetics at lvl 100

I don't want to aggressively farm tomes because that's a miserable state of existence

[elfin jackal]

that's why i haven't finished

and also cause of mental problems

[plucky cairn]

It's honestly a coin toss if finishing or not finishing is more of an indication of mental problems

[elfin jackal]

the mental problems are a fear of logging into my main

[plucky cairn]

How come?

If I may ask

Feel free to tell me to mind my own business btw, I'm just curious

[elfin jackal]

i had issues with one of the co-leaders of my fc

and i just can't handle dealing with that situation....

that's been the case for like a month now

[plucky cairn]

Yeah, makes a whole lot of sense

I had situation in which I didn't log into games to avoid people

[elfin jackal]

why do i keep getting people from this server trying to sell art to me

[plucky cairn]

Please pm them to me or bringi so we can ban them

We have a big scambot problem in the fandom

[elfin wave]

I would personally turn off DMs for here lol

[elfin jackal]

how are they even finding me

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

they arent really, it's at random

just that we get really, really large quantities of bots. we try to weed them out but, alas

[elfin jackal]

they don't seem like bots, but they're really annoyingly persistent

[elfin wave]

anyhow back to the topic of fantasy

i got fucked on cactpot!

8888 was not my lucky number

[plucky cairn]

It's either chat GPT scripts or Indian farm scammers.
Either way let us know and we will kill

[elfin wave]

YES!
KILLLLLLL!

[elfin jackal]

don't feel at all well, maybe later

[plucky cairn]

I queue up for a pvp match
My mouse software : This is a great time to update, hope you are fine with not having half your keybinds for 5 minutes or so.

[elfin wave]

What class do you play in PeeVeePee?

[plucky cairn]

SAM and I dabbled in WHM

Went back to SAM because the learning curve to become decent at WHM was a bit rough, and I was already familiar with SAM

[elfin wave]

I think i played GNB

I dabbled in a few of my mains
SMN, WAR, GNB, PLD once

also do you play crystal conflict or frontline?

[plucky cairn]

basically exclusively crystal conflict

I tried GNB but hated it with a passion

the classes work really well in a 5v5 enviorment, they kinda stop working when there are 15 people that can attack you at once

[elfin wave]

Fellow Crystal Conflict enjoyer 🤝

definitely feels like you contribute more than in Frontlines

[plucky cairn]

To be fair I also didn't give Frontlines a ton of time, I'm sure there is a lot you can do to prevent the "I'm in the horde and I don't matter" feel you get but crystal conflict just clicked a lot sooner for me

[rough crescent]

This is why I don’t use peripherals that require companion software

Nu-uh

[hasty kayak]

(ew tribes) oh nooooo the emotional destruction this will have on me

[hasty kayak]

fhsubszvatvzwnhq bnnuy.......

AUGAAHUGHUAUIGHAUHEARIGHUIEGRHHH

[minor sorrel]

[hasty kayak]

thats two outta three ew tribes maxed, just gatherer now

which leaves namazu and the grumble moogles

[plucky cairn]

I am done with the yokai watch weapons and my PvP goals, so now I will probably try to knock out a few more relics while I wait for DT

Or some PF cat farms, of the ones we learned already at least

[minor sorrel]

I think I got all the yokai weapons last year (or two?) when they were last up. I think you get the mount if you have them all, right?

[elfin wave]

yesh

[plucky cairn]

There are 3 mounts to get

One is if you get all the minions I think, one is to get 13/17 of the weapons

Last one to get 17/17 of the weapons

[hasty kayak]

(6.4) fifty gil ||on the armored one in the corner bein golbez||

wipes away a tear baby´s first internal crisis solved....

[elfin jackal]

Nsfb: ||how tf do we settle that bet||

[hasty kayak]

mmmmm forbidden snacc

[elfin jackal]

BRINGY NO

[hasty kayak]

[plucky cairn]

NSFb ||I say that they are correct, it's just that Golbez isn't Golbez||

[elfin wave]

NSFb: ||golbezn't ||

[hasty kayak]

huh, ngl yshtola thats really smart

bunni :3

please just take my wallet and everythin i own

pet the bunni cherish the bunni forfeit all mortal posession to the bunni

[elfin jackal]

What is?

[minor sorrel]

||A TEST OF YOUR R- 🥕 ||

[hasty kayak]

usin ||the moon´s already there brands to keep voidsent at bay||

very visually spectacle-y too!

[hasty kayak]

ooh. ooooOOOOoooOOOOOH ooooh yeah they really saved ||vrtra usin dragon tongue for somethin special|| and damn this lands so well

[elfin jackal]

I mean ||he has been around non dragons so much he almost went native||

[elfin wave]

hmmmmm do i have time to get PLD to 80...

Maybe if I do the shorter duties...

[hasty kayak]

[minor sorrel]

nsfb || ||

[hasty kayak]

oh no ||fluffy dragon!||

"okay buddy can you chill like uuuuuuuh 15 or sum hours, i already booked an evenin with one of your minions in the extra spicy suffering alternate reality so, yeah, toodles"

[elfin wave]

average duty finder moment

[elfin wave]

Well, best get it visited

[elfin jackal]

yeah.....

but i'm scared to log in on that character

[elfin wave]

Why?

[elfin jackal]

people issues

drama

that kind of thing

[plucky cairn]

Man HWs relic weapons are so fast when you have all the materials ready and lined up, too bad it takes me like, a month to get them without focus farming them

[rough crescent]

Imma leave this place, ping me on the other server if you want me to join for dungeons and trials

[elfin wave]

unintentionally fitting

[hasty kayak]

@plucky cairn when do you get home today by the way, 6?

[plucky cairn]

I am home already today

I can play in maybe 15 minutes

[hasty kayak]

oh! in which case <@&1128722919405650000> pspspsps come help me beat ||golbez|| into pulp if you´re freeee

[elfin wave]

phantom or zodiark?

[hasty kayak]

phantom kindly :>

[elfin wave]

[hasty kayak]

no rush since gen will take a bit and ill knock out custom deliveries in meantime

beloved margrat here i comeeee

[elfin wave]

frens :D

[plucky cairn]

Ok I'm around

I just got the mount for that one after an insanely lucky 3 rows

In Tails

[elfin wave]

big grazzie

[hasty kayak]

(most recent custom delivery) i am moving to sharlayan. ||where the fuck are the cats in my laboratory???||

[plucky cairn]

I also got the O4S mount after I learned how to solo it because I needed the weapon for a glam

Very eventful couple of days

[hasty kayak]

this is already the best custom delivery by far, yes im even willing to forsake ||ehll tou||

[plucky cairn]

It's a very fun one

[hasty kayak]

margrat GETS IT, the struggles of a poor lab rat

[hasty kayak]

thank youuuu :3

this fight is fun

[elfin wave]

pretty fun once you stop getting bodied

[hasty kayak]

(6.4) friendship light beaaaaaaaaaaam

awwww the devs even ||figured out how to sprinkle in first for the shb enjoyers|| thats sweet

[elfin jackal]

Correct

[hasty kayak]

ooooooooooooh a switcheroooooo

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

oh man this is it, the last set of msq quests so far

i might be done tomorrow this is wild

[elfin jackal]

||so the question of if you won that bet remains unsettled||

[minor sorrel]

[hasty kayak]

(6.5) hmmmm, these might have some impact further down the line i imagine

(6.5) its really cool ||that they have ""secret"" dialogue stashed for you if you check in with cyella n ukulele||

[elfin jackal]

More than you think

Make a few more checkins there

[hasty kayak]

(6.5) oh i see whatcha did there

RETURN OF ||THE CHAIS|| LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

best shb npcs

ah yes, and the second bestest shb npc, ||runar||

[hasty kayak]

||runar|| my adored :3

[hasty kayak]

"ah, the power of antidepressants!"

[slim cairn]

I did the thing

I'll probably pay for the full version at some point because I want the wascally wabbit, but for now, I'm going to check things out with the Arcanist.

[hasty kayak]

welcome to the cult!

my condolences for limsa the city of 4 frames per second bein ur startin town tho

[compact ibex]

Im back to being a summonerd, warrior is fun and all but i cannot stay away from the god controller

[hasty kayak]

and i am still keepin my promise to not touch summoner until my very last job so i can annoy gummy

"most people play smn to get sch as the package deal, i played sch while cursin its paired with smn every step of the way"

well, arcanist in my case bc as i said smn will be the very last job for me for the silly

[plucky cairn]

I used the knowledge you guys bequeathed me for evil, PF is really nice for that one, it's basically the exact same strat we used. ||Endsinger||

Really easy to adapt

Except it's easier because it's not minilvl

[plucky cairn]

Oh welcome to the party

Wait after the expansion release before buying the full game, chances are servers will be a bit rocky for a bit if EW launch is any indication

And it's a lot less aggravating when you aren't paying monthly

Also after the release they will update the item to change your race so you can make adjustment for 1 hour after you use it, so that's also a nice perk since you want to switch to Viera

[abstract ibex]

I still need to finish up ARR

[elfin wave]

one of us
ONE OF US
ONE OF US

if you ever need help with something hmu
or anyone else in the thread really

[slim cairn]

I remade the character after realizing the Arcanist is just a pokemon trainer. I made a black mage

[hasty kayak]

ah, there wasnt really a need for that given you can pick up any job provided you meet the conditions for it (with thaumaturge n arcanist theyre available as soon as you unlock their city thru main scenario quest) but hey, that means you´re from uldah now and as the number one uldah fan that makes me happy

[sterile condor]

that isnt the home till the sea swallows all

[slim cairn]

oic

[elfin wave]

if you need any advice we're always happy to help

[hasty kayak]

furious nodding any activity you'd like to do with buddies, we're available

(so long as australia says migration rights that is)

(6.5) man i ship ||yshtola and runar|| so much. second best otp, right after WOL x A Fucking Nap

[elfin jackal]

Yeah

||graha|| ships the secone

[hasty kayak]

<@&1128722919405650000> pspspspsps

[elfin wave]

gimmie like, ten mins

[plucky cairn]

Will be on in 5

[elfin wave]

phantom, right?

[hasty kayak]

aye!

[hasty kayak]

alright, ill go call others in the raid server, sit tight :>

[elfin wave]

raid: server legends

holy shit

I think i might need to start running Agalea again

[hasty kayak]

(6.5) ah, ||"i am ride or die for you and you alone specifically", very emet-selch of you||

[elfin jackal]

||i personally thihnk he's a shard of Gaius because of his "such devastation" lines in the dungeon||

[plucky cairn]

My running theory is that ||Golbez was an Azem shard, and Durante is a Zenos Shard||

[hasty kayak]

ah, i meant in demeanor, but thats a fun idea

well not demeanor whats the word i want here

[elfin wave]

oh my god i just realised something

[elfin jackal]

everyone says that

i like my idea more

[plucky cairn]

He is very ||Zenos coded and their friendship that was a tiny bit obsessive on his part fits really well||

[elfin wave]

||zeromus is an anagram for zero sum
and he wants to return stuff to the void
like, a zero sum game||

[elfin jackal]

i'm on phantom

[hasty kayak]

im in cutscene land

i shall add to party when i get the option

[elfin jackal]

o7

in the meantime i am gonna get pestered by pixies

[elfin wave]

i think the last time i did this was as Dancer

"Hc why would you queue into the hardest Trial in the game (MSQ wise) as a job you don't know how to play"

[hasty kayak]

to be fair dancer is very friendly to bad memory

[elfin wave]

it wasn't intentional
i think i was just running dailies and wanted to fuck around with DNC

[hasty kayak]

"press the shiny button, use your dances and pop on dance partner" and you're mostly there

i like dancer it is a fun job

[elfin wave]

i did it For The Glam

[hasty kayak]

glam endgame

[elfin wave]

not my fault the Yokai weapon is so good

1. It's purple
2. it glows
3. IT'S FUCKING PURPLE

[hasty kayak]

"god fucking dammit"

i almost forgot they´re the cause of 99 outta 100 of my problems

[elfin wave]

as always
voidsent
garleans
or ascians

[plucky cairn]

And ||voisent and garleans are all ascians anyway||

As in, as to where thew problem comes from

Also Allag

[elfin wave]

||It's all Ascians?
Always has been.||

[plucky cairn]

Literally true

That's not even a joke

It's just the plot of the damn game

[hasty kayak]

which is why dawntrail should be quite exciting, yes?

[plucky cairn]

Yep

[hasty kayak]

granted ||maybe a few of them is still lurkin somewhere for all i know, but im happy to begin the new age with new antagonists||

[elfin jackal]

except ||there's probably problems there caused by ascians||

[plucky cairn]

I think we'll get some ||problems that were originated for them, and we might still get some ascian left, but my bet is that they wont be trying to trigger re-joinings anymore and have other aims...||
||it would actually be fun if we got a friendly one (well, other than Gaia) that decided to make a life for themselves after Emet and Elidibus croaked||

[elfin jackal]

yeah agreed

i always dreamed of that

[hasty kayak]

Y E E T

[plucky cairn]

||"Dear, can you go get groceries?"||
||"Sure dear" omnious dark portal and this dude in shorts and an hawayan style shirt disappears into it||

[elfin wave]

||'Sup, name's Chad. Used to be Dark Lord Igylan but my friends call me Chad.||

[plucky cairn]

lol

[hasty kayak]

good thing fall damage doesnt exist in the void

[elfin jackal]

||there's no Igylan in the ascians, but there is a...||

[elfin wave]

yeah i just made up a name for the joke, loll

[elfin jackal]

||Halmarut, Deudelaphon, Altima||

[plucky cairn]

Well ||there isn't one in the convocation, there are the generic rank and file ascians IIRC||

[hasty kayak]

oh hey, i know these, you´re one of those "metroid" thingies

[elfin jackal]

casts Blizzard 3

[hasty kayak]

i love you ||plot device crystal||

[elfin jackal]

that's our cue

[hasty kayak]

it is indeed!

[elfin wave]

I LOVE YOU KITCHEN GUN

[elfin jackal]

it's a very "lots going on" fight

[hasty kayak]

thank yall for party! :3

[elfin wave]

np

[hasty kayak]

(6.5) she truly ||speedran her character development we love zero in this house||

[plucky cairn]

Agreed, also one of the few times in which ||extending a hand to the bad guy fucking works||

[hasty kayak]

congrats on your ||starlightification||

(6.5) oh i did not expect that

||zero over here livin up to the "endwalker is the pally expansion" more than me lmao||

[elfin wave]

||makes it even funnier when you realise Shiro's WoL looks exactly like Zero||

[hasty kayak]

oop okay it is time

[elfin jackal]

||NO NOT THE HAT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO||

[hasty kayak]

auguuuuughhhhh

AIHWEGDUWGUHUH ZGTGUHDJECJEIHEUDGGHHHGG

[elfin jackal]

||BUT WHAT ABOUT THE HAT||

WHYYYYYYYYYY

[hasty kayak]

emotional devastatioooooooooon

[elfin jackal]

||"I can't be mad at any story that says it's never too late to stop digging."||

[hasty kayak]

you really couldve brought THAT up earlier you know-

man they really should make all role quests mandatory lmao

[plucky cairn]

The only way they can do that is if they remove the role requirement

And I am pretty sure that would require changing some of the lines in the quest

[elfin jackal]

And the solo duties themselves

[hasty kayak]

nah lets just ask all players to level up at minimum, what, five or six jobs?

it'll be fine n not at all problematic im sure

...... wait. ||if we were to help restore thirteenth in some future expansion... how exactly would that affect reaper???||

[plucky cairn]

I am sure that they can ||handwave with there still be voidsents in that world in some places||

Like we saved ||the first but most of it is still a wasteland and it will take decades of not centuries to fix||

They could end up in a similar status quo

[elfin jackal]

||or the avatar becomes just like, a guy, or something||

[plucky cairn]

Lol

You press the button and dave runs up and deck the guy in the face with a baseball bat

[hasty kayak]

RETURN OF THE GIRLFRIEND HIIIIIIIII

gods ||the gay crystal raids are so good||

he´s not wrong

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

im so glad ||the siblings are together auuuugh||

dawntrail hiiiiiiiii

given they chose to conceal ||whoever erenville brought with him.... a hrothgal?||

oh, but before that SOME QUEST finally chose to unlock

cmoon tataru i come bearing emotional damage for youuuuu

[plucky cairn]

Oh, the conclusion of that, it's really good

[hasty kayak]

fuck yes old ladies in media

[plucky cairn]

Oh wait, btw the trailer released between this part of the quest and the next

so you could watch it now

[hasty kayak]

naaaah that feels wrong lmao

after credits

[plucky cairn]

It's actually better

trust me

[hasty kayak]

hmm

oh we doin ||all studium faculties||, sweet!

[plucky cairn]

You already know about Kryle ||job change IIRC||

[hasty kayak]

ye

[plucky cairn]

Then actually it doesn't matter, nevermind

They ||show it off in the trailer and in the quest, but in the trailer it has a bigger impact||

[elfin wave]

You're so close to finishing MSQ bringi!

[hasty kayak]

im trying!!!

but tataru!!!!!!

[elfin wave]

One last push! You can do it!

[plucky cairn]

Join the To Be Continued club

[elfin wave]

I turned that off, lol

Bcomes a pain when I forget where my next job quest is but eh

[hasty kayak]

im a goldsmith lemme goldsmith grrrrrrr

:c

[hasty kayak]

this questline is so nice

ooh boy this will be another hard hitter i can just tell-

ooof ouch, yep

but also i completely forgot ||tataru´s hat used to be a different sort of adorably goofy||

[plucky cairn]

Yep, that one hits pretty hard

[hasty kayak]

oooohohoohohoooooo y e s

oh it is delightful indeed

[plucky cairn]

Yeah, it's a good understated traveler barding

Tasteful and realistic

[hasty kayak]

phew, well, unfortunately my inclination to side questing struck again. it is late and im both tired as fuck and will have to stay at work slightly longer, so the final-final stretch n trailer will be tomorrow

i do like that this barding doesnt cover the chocobo´s wings. much as i love slapping uldah symbol on everythin, that always felt weird in a lot of bardings

also ive been havin a real crisis of faith, ||if fantasia lets me change deities do i pick rhalgr or naldthal. i like both lores||

[plucky cairn]

I think it does let you change it

like 90% sure

I can check tho

Google says yes

[elfin jackal]

Which one did you pick again?

[elfin wave]

I picked Menphina

[elfin jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/bestie-masie-bestmasie-gif-25168545

[plucky cairn]

Mine is Llymlaen because I matched the day of birth, but also, I am quite fond of her now and the lore is pretty cool

[hasty kayak]

i also went with month so its currently nymeia

[elfin jackal]

I hired an artist to draw llymlaen dual wielding swordfish and they ghosted me

Sahja is a Menphina kitty, Umbra is an Azeyma fan

[elfin wave]

:c

[elfin jackal]

You know the lore of the navigators brand, yes?

[plucky cairn]

I don't think so

[compact ibex]

Id want my god to be Byregot, i like the idea of a god of building tbh

[elfin jackal]

So there's this fish that's called the navigators brand because it's said Llymlaen threw it at Oschon when he peeped at her bathing

And ||in her battle, if you blow her a kiss, she throws it at you too||

[plucky cairn]

That's hilarious

[elfin wave]

... i have to see this

[plucky cairn]

I will try that next time

[elfin jackal]

The fish can be caught in western la noscea iirc

[elfin wave]

so i found a video on it

i won't post it because you need to see it for yourself but LMAO I FUCKING LOVE THIS GAME

[plucky cairn]

I can't believe I did two 3 rows back to back

That's an unfathomable amount of luck

[elfin jackal]

that's the equivalent of getting struck by lightning while being eaten by a shark

[signal sparrow]

I am back

[hasty kayak]

hi again you can read all my cryin above

[signal sparrow]

This will be fun

I read it

[slim cairn]

Welcome back, Gummy

[dark jacinth]

https://fxtwitter.com/ff_xiv_en/status/1796104446893842908?

[elfin wave]

The fire is appropriate to represent the seething jealousy

[plucky cairn]

I was aiming for 2 lines because I am strill trying to do as many weapons as possible

And the 1k tomes of causality is a big prize

it's 2/3 of a step

[hasty kayak]

(6.55) ||THE BENCHMARK WAR THAT SAVES YOUR ASS?????||

[elfin jackal]

I've heard her VA is trans, so that's cool

[signal sparrow]

Huh

I haven’t done that yet

[hasty kayak]

oh so its like the, uh, fuck ||whats that title i got for fuckin up everyone in the steppe again||

man im so fuckin jealous ||i want my ears n tail to do stuff constantly too, fuck clipping worries lemme go off game||

[plucky cairn]

The safe assumption is that ||the contest will be the main line through the expansion||

[hasty kayak]

i cant wait to be furry plus im gonna look so fuckin good

[elfin jackal]

furry squared

[hasty kayak]

oh you know know each other, delightful!

[plucky cairn]

||I ship them really hard||

[elfin jackal]

i still think wol x a fuckin nap is the better ship

[plucky cairn]

||"Tiny bunny is obsessed with his huge cat girlfriend" youtube video incoming||

[hasty kayak]

well there is the ||whatever mysterious world threatening bullshit is in krile´s letter||

[plucky cairn]

Joking aside, I am always happy when we get ||additions to the party that aren't scholars, we need less braincells in the main group, and this WAR main is the perfect energy to add to the mix||

[hasty kayak]

then again i dont think guessing the plot is a particularly fruitful idea given endwalker

[elfin jackal]

||graha has two braincells, one for infodumping about allag and the other to fanboy over the WoL||

[hasty kayak]

they rlly know how to make characters immediately endearing (or immediately punchable if your name happens to be|| asahi||), ||wuk lamat|| please take everythin i own

[plucky cairn]

She is ||really nice||

[hasty kayak]

o!

there's the ||pictomancer|| :3

man im so glad about that, ||krile desperately needed to get off the side lines||

eureka was a nice start but im so fuckin ready ||for krile fuckin shit up msq style||

[plucky cairn]

Strong agree

Especially since her VA is exceptional, and you can only get it in MSQ

[elfin wave]

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/498857

7.0 patch nooootes

Using Fell Cleave or Decimate three times during Inner Release will allow for the execution of a new action, which can be seen in the job action trailer.

Other changes include another new action which will unleash an even bigger burst of damage after Primal Rend, and an upgraded version of Inner Chaos with a new animation and graphical effect.

tl;dr
MORE FUCKING DAMAGE BAYBEEEEEEE

"Hey how do we buff WAR"
"idfk give them more damage lmao"

[plucky cairn]

For tanks this is the bit I'm more intrigued about:

Each tank job will gain different additional effects on their 30% damage reduction abilities.

I am very curious to see how they will differentiate them

[hasty kayak]

(monk, obviously) "The new HUD elements may seem complicated at first, but we hope they’ll help you spend less time staring at your buffs and debuffs once you get the hang of them." well hey now, how did you know my buff n debuff bars are enlarged by 130% and shuffled right in front of my eyeballs

[plucky cairn]

Now the next big date for news is the 14th

With the other live letter, and the launch trailer, which is usually at least a little bit spoilery

But it's also very nice to hype you up, and it's edited to trick you which is kind of fun

In the EW launch trailer they tried really hard to suggest that ||Alphi was gonna die||

[hasty kayak]

yes gaaame i will pick that job up dont u worry

[elfin jackal]

the questline where a guy walks through the wilderness in his underwear right after saying "At least I still have my dignity"

[hasty kayak]

(6.55) lmaOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ngl im laughin so hard rn

imagine that bein ur first impression for someone

oh i didnt expect the game to say the exact same thing lol

oh this expansion will be so fucking exciting

AND THERE GO THE CREDIIIIIIIIITS

[elfin jackal]

Welcome to the waiting room!

[elfin wave]

time to change the role name to "Dawntrail Waiting Room Guest"

[signal sparrow]

Check dms

[hasty kayak]

i assume this is trailer, as is customary

i shall be there once i press the complete quest button, you know the procedure

[signal sparrow]

Yep

Wow Bringy actually finished the story before me

Im just being lazy

Im also on 6.55 i think

Im so proud, I taught bringy well

And somehow they better than me at the game

[hasty kayak]

and us :3

i never get tired of seein that

"just in case ||urianger-speak is as incomprehensible as ever, we added thancred repeatin it||"

[plucky cairn]

[hasty kayak]

YEE

FUCKING

HAW

BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[plucky cairn]

Congratulations!

You even have a month to spare for various stuff

[hasty kayak]

at long long long last, msq is done (for now). and it only took

uuuuuuh etoooooooo ..... bwehhhh hours

i can finally delete the new player part from my adventurer plate blip lmao

now then, let us commence dat trailer

who let ||the lala steer they cant even see the sea before given WOL is blockin their view-||

man im so hyped for ||erenville joinin us also||

[plucky cairn]

Agreed

[hasty kayak]

YEET

lol i love ||how their hidin viper at first, makin u think its a mere teeny sword||

[plucky cairn]

That's because the 2nd part ||of the trailer where he uses the 2nd released months after||

They are cheeky fuckers

[hasty kayak]

gasp T H E R A T - R E L A T I V E

why are we fightin ||the current dawnwhatever tho, did u not listen to wuk lamat's speech about her dad||

[plucky cairn]

My best guess is that it's the ||WoL idea of relaxation||
||Everyone is having cocktails, eating tacos, etc, we are just having a fight to the death with the highest authority we could find||

[hasty kayak]

||krile|| my adored, you waited four expansions for this but finally, oh finally

[plucky cairn]

Also they kept the ||cat hood||

They know what's iconic in her design, very good

[hasty kayak]

well of course, she's got lore for that

oops that wasnt meant to be replied

gimme ||that sweet delicious krile angst lmao im ready to suffer||

right then, whats on the list. try to get leveling done as much as i can, grab blu, finish bozja, do the other two variant dungeons, do the story portion of deep dungeon, dont forget the tribes, margrat my adored

thats. doable, right

oh and the birb, you know the one

and our ex raids, of course

[plucky cairn]

The birb is pain for sure

[hasty kayak]

its not that high on the list of priorities, but it would be nice

[plucky cairn]

I mean on paper it could drop in one run

But also it could take dozens

[signal sparrow]

I heard Lyse finally dies in Dawntrail

Whoops spoilers, sorry brings

[hasty kayak]

guess who's getting banned again-

[signal sparrow]

You can’t do that again!

Oh yeah, brings finally got to ban my account!

[hasty kayak]

okay lets get started on that to do liiiiist

[plucky cairn]

Welcome to cultural appropriation

if you want help powerleveling BLU let me know

The real progression isn't the level anyway, it's the number of spells you know

[hasty kayak]

i read that in a guide ye, ill take u on that offer sometime next week

mostly just wanted to pick it up today

[plucky cairn]

Now I mostly want to grab 2 pieces of gear for DRG so I have nothing under ilvl 640, then I will purge everything that's not in a set in my armory chest and I will be ready for the expansion

Cleansing my armory chest and my inventory is an important step for preserving my mental health at the beginning of the expansion, with all the new shit

So much stuff

[signal sparrow]

Someone still has to finish bozja…

[plucky cairn]

@elfin wave Do your bozja quests so we can do Castrum sometimes this week

Since we don't have raid until the next anyway

[elfin wave]

oke

[elfin wave]

i love limsa

they all share the same last name, as well as the clothing

So of course instead of doing the thing i logged on to do, I decided to join them

[elfin jackal]

gotta say i love Krile's VA, manages so much sass

[compact ibex]

Ayyy Bringi is fully caught up

How long ago was it since they started the MSQ journey?

[compact ibex]

have i shown this fashion before

[hasty kayak]

1 year and 8 months

[compact ibex]

yowza

[plucky cairn]

bozja gear is super nice

[safe finch]

How did I not know this channel existed here?!?!

Lali-ho fellow warriors if light ^^

[hasty kayak]

[elfin wave]

LALI HOOOO

you in Light/Chaos?

[hasty kayak]

we always hype for eu players

[safe finch]

well my Main character is on NA, but i recently started pulling up an EU alt XD

[elfin wave]

One of us, ONE OF US ONE OF US

[safe finch]

my currrent main https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/949208163880689734/1246420124496564245/profile.png?ex=665c52b3&is=665b0133&hm=4f02c2ad573545248e442387d2e635dba2538151563cc085861b73d4fc68d43b&

[elfin wave]

AU RA AU RA AU RA

[safe finch]

I guess everyone esle here is EU?

[hasty kayak]

not everyone-everyone, @signal sparrow for example is NA, but the most of the "active" chat group is eu

[hasty kayak]

i do like that body piece

[safe finch]

thx ^^ its the augmented deepshadow chest piece.

[hasty kayak]

as gen would say and which i agree on, asymmetrical is always fun

[plucky cairn]

Hopefully they will finalise the DC hopping not long after DT releases

[hasty kayak]

shoulder armor my adored

[plucky cairn]

Also yeah, very nice glam

[safe finch]

glam is the true endgame XD

[elfin wave]

glam is endgame

[safe finch]

btw do we have kupo-bot in this server?

[plucky cairn]

This is a MLP server, our mod abuse doesn't go as far to inviting dedicated FFXIV bots

[elfin wave]

what about the other server

[safe finch]

other server?

[plucky cairn]

We have sorta of a static we are using to run EW extremes until DT comes out, I don't think it's quite needed there for the little we use the server for

[sterile condor]

what does kupo-bot even do?

[safe finch]

basically this #1032731043041640488 message

[plucky cairn]

I think it ties to lodestone

IIRC

[elfin wave]

ah fair

[hasty kayak]

yeah other mods would chew us out for ff14 bot

[elfin wave]

this thread is already chaotic enough

[elfin jackal]

Kupo bot sample

[safe finch]

also my EU alt character nearly ready for dawntrail
(i may have just bought a skip and two boosts from the on sale XD)

[plucky cairn]

Makes sense, MSQ is so long even skipping cutscenes

[elfin jackal]

Doing more msq is half the fun of having alts

It's why I have 11

[elfin wave]

MNK and DRK, eh

[safe finch]

yeah, theyre two of my least played jobs on my main XD

[safe finch]

hah i use that weapon too XD

[hasty kayak]

it is the drk sword afterall

[safe finch]

dropping from the dragoon extreme trial of all things XD

[safe finch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UeJ1oQ4yXI

gosh i love these parodies XD

[compact ibex]

joined a static

looking forward to cutting down the deadliest FF14 has to offer

[safe finch]

i still need to find a static ><
but i think with my incoherent working schedule finding one might get hard

[hasty kayak]

"yeah sure lemme tank that as a mch no prob"

that aside mch 90 whoooo

[plucky cairn]

congrats

You going in DT as MNK I assume or you considered other options?

[hasty kayak]

mnk

[plucky cairn]

I'm curious, what is everyone else playing in the new expansion if you are gonna play it?

[compact ibex]

Either WAR or SMN

Probably WAR though since im a tank in my static

[plucky cairn]

I'm going in as VPR for the MSQ but I definitely have to keep up with a healer or tank because DPS queues are gonna be hell this expansion

With the two new classes released being both DPS

If I'm feeling brave I might try to do that with AST, since I like the look of the new card system

[elfin wave]

WAR.

It's my MSQ baby and my "canon" class

[hasty kayak]

nod nod

[compact ibex]

SMN is mine but like i mentioned, static needs their tank...

[elfin wave]

Good thing my role in my static is main tank

[plucky cairn]

Also we will have to see if we can raid after the expansion since Alyx and Halvar will be busy with their main group from their FC

And I assume some people will also be in a similar situation

[elfin wave]

I don't think any of us will be rushing to DT endgame regardless, I estimate like, maybe two weeks at minimum until any of us hit post 7.0

'Cus like, there won't be any post-MSQ content on launch, right?

[hasty kayak]

id like to point out i am me

u aint gettin me for post dt content until i actually finish dt which will be weeks

[elfin jackal]

I'll probably reach endgame kinda fast since i have no life

[elfin wave]

i have no life either

just you know
adhd

like at minimum i'll probably get flight in all zones as i progress them to avoid another... INCIDENT

aka running around for a goddamn hour because i didn't do it for a year and i have mining to do in that area and it would be a lot easier because i wouldn't have to walk like 200 GODDAMN MILES