Final Fantasy 14

[hasty kayak]

i would prefer playin some more, but alas the ✨ fulltime job responsibilities ✨ demand i go to bed at sensible time

sadness incarnate

[elfin wave]

sadness

[plucky cairn]

Assuming the pacing is as predictable as any other expansion, tonight I should be able to do the 5th dungeon and the 2nd trial before I go to bed, but then I'm going...

[elfin wave]

one thing about the first dungeon:
||worst cruise ever, would give 0 stars if i could||

[plucky cairn]

Yeah remind me to reply ||"yes I mind" the next time Erenville says something like "As long as we get to the destination, you don't mind how we get there right?||

Next time we'll go someplace in a baloon kept afloat by 600 pigeons or something

[hasty kayak]

i sense apollo's dodgeball in that statement

[plucky cairn]

It wouldn't be the weirdest thing that happened in this game

[hasty kayak]

it truly wouldnt

[elfin wave]

TIL what "apollo's dodgeball" means

aka "I WAS FUCKING JOKING, WHY IS THIS THE ANSWER?!?"

[minor sorrel]

I mean, it has been a couple months since I last played but I swear I'm not seeing the graphical upgrade. Could swear that my char looked different in the benchmark program. Wonder if there's some setting I need to change?

There can be no other answer

[plucky cairn]

Accurate

[elfin wave]

PISS. OFF. K U P O.

[minor sorrel]

Gear set is pretty cute

[elfin wave]

my attire is better

pretty similar drip, right?

[elfin jackal]

or ||the father, since Bakool Ja Ja is the one claimant to not be the Dawnservant's kid||

[minor sorrel]

Me: in a rustic charming little village.
my RNG mount roll:

Yes, this fits.

They made a whole UI thing for the trades?

[hasty kayak]

#1032731043041640488 message there is this thing from gen, can recommend

my fur n freckles got much sharper, pwetty :3

[minor sorrel]

Did that, didn't see much difference. I also have an nvidia so i can use dlss

[hasty kayak]

ah

[minor sorrel]

I might just be expecting a bigger difference than what's actually happening? Like I said, I feel like the benchmark was a bigger difference

These were my benchmark pics

[plucky cairn]

If you enable DLSS, it's part of the old tech and don't get part of the new lightning system sadly

To my knowledge at least

I have an Nvidia card as well but IMO the game looks better with the FSR imo

[minor sorrel]

That second shot is with fsr

[plucky cairn]

Looks good to me

[elfin wave]

(Pot town) ||this looks possible||

[elfin wave]

"Oh that's a nice card, I wonder what it-"

[elfin wave]

Heh I got a wee babby bard for Bismarck
Had to tell them to stand on his back because that fight's dumb, lmao

[elfin wave]

Back to MSQ and-
(Pots) ||Ayyyy, Thancred! Do you think I forgot what you did in that dungeon?
I fucking didn't. ||

||Koana really be on his own quest, every time we see him he's talking about a menial task or other
seriously i'm getting serious Hop vibes and i don't like it||

||But I kinda like it too, it shows that they're actually doing shit and not just being an obstacle in your way
Like, I don't even dislike any of of the rival Promised because their motives are clear and understandable. I am not counting Baka Jar Jar. He's his own damn problem.||

[minor sorrel]

Not saying it looks bad, but it doesn't look quite like what the benchmark looks like. Feels there was a bigger difference than what I'm seeing

[hasty kayak]

"sure, ill just quickly draw that idea i had for art challenge before i play, it cant take longer than hour"
🎶 3 hours later 🎶
"fuck"

oh well, im pretty happy with this one

[elfin wave]

i'm so close to 100 it burns

I WANT PRIMAL RUINATION

fucking death metal ass name I LOVE IT

oh no i just had an idea

very shitty tattoo idea
take Mystia's hat from Touhou, which has two little feather-like things at the very top, and replace that with tha WAR job icon
please use your imagination, I can't photoshop this shit to look appealing at all

[elfin wave]

(Pots) ||I feel bad for Wuk||

||MOSTLY, LMAO||

of all the scenes to not have VAing, this is the biggest crime

[elfin wave]

ROLE QUESTS GET

[elfin jackal]

Ive completed the tank ones

And honestly

Which part of this story necessitated me being a tank

[elfin wave]

big axe mode engage?

[elfin jackal]

I used a sword for it

[elfin wave]

:<

wait, does the role quest come with gear?
what's like, the dangling carrot

"Well hc, there's the lore-"
Shhhhhhut up I need some material GOODS
some ARMOR
maybe a COOL AXE that i'll probably just glam over

(DT Role quests) ||I... Okay, I'm hooked.||

Wait... ||There's six "villains", but isn't there only 5 roles?
Unless we have to do the other five first to take down Purple BNuuy Bitch||

||FUCKERS DIDN'T EVEN ORDER ANYTHING

:( NOW THEY'VE CROSSED THE LINE||

||Undermining the world? Fine, whatever.
DISRESPECTING LOCAL BUSINESS? UNACCEPTABLE!||

||THEY FUCKING KNEW HAHAHAHHAHAHA||

i love this questline already, it's so dumb

"You're going straight to Hell. Not jail, HELL. GOODBYE."

[elfin jackal]

There's no carrot

[elfin wave]

[elfin jackal]

I got 3 rank 11 materia for completing the tank one

There's an achievement but it has nothing

[elfin wave]

(Tank Role Quest) ||So... A bodyguard. Sure, whatever pays.||

||blue haired swordsman
ishgard
no no nO NO NO||

ah yes what does Primal Ruination do?
BIG. AXE. MODE. ENGAGE.

FUCKING DIE, AHAHAHHAHAHAHA

[hasty kayak]

(92, post-pots) ||uh oh, lion-snatchin||

hurray, decency!

[elfin wave]

oh my goodness i found someone wearing the WAR relic armor

it
looks
amazing

now i definitely have to do tank role quests, because I see locks on those dye slots

[plucky cairn]

I think it is like in EW

Completing the role quest should make the artifact gear dyable

[elfin wave]

artifact, that's what i meant, not relic

Now the question is do when i get to that, do i keep the ruibcante glam or go for full Dalamund Red, even on the axe?

future Hc's problem

oh no i just realised i'm going to get endgame Tails again
fuuuuck i'm going to get EW stuff again

(tank role quest) ||just casually cashing in saving your fucking lives from a deadly war||

[hasty kayak]

eugh, stalkin quests well, guess ill see those new ui graphics they talked about in patch

well not ui but, u know

noooo not two in a roooooow

[elfin wave]

unrelated: i like how you can just tilt the gabriel alpha mount like a plane, lol

fucking making nyoooom noises

[hasty kayak]

(92 post-pots still) what a good boi

[elfin wave]

oh maybe i should catch up to bringi

nahhh

[hasty kayak]

slight anger issues but still good boi

[elfin wave]

(Tank Role Quest) ||Look, after Endwalker, I can't trust a body anymore.||

I HAVE TRUST ISSUES

actually ||after Umineko i can't trust if someone's dead or not, nevermind endwalker, oh god||

existential dread.jpg

[hasty kayak]

revise that to moderate anger issues, but hey, understandable!

[elfin wave]

(tank role quest) ||fade to black, slapping sounds||
fucking

(TRQ) this game is so dumb

[elfin jackal]

you're really loving that phrase

[elfin wave]

it is 2000% applicable
DO YOU SEE THAT AXE
DO YOU NOT SEE HOW BIG IT IS

[elfin jackal]

yes

[elfin wave]

(TRQ) ||HE GOIN NON DESCRIPT SUPER MODE||

||my brother in christ you are an idiot
WHY DID YOU KEEP BLABBERING WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT THE ARTIFACT DOES
YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER||

[hasty kayak]

finallyyyyy, flyin for the first zone

[elfin jackal]

Yeeeee

[elfin wave]

(TRQ) ||Loz: Heyyyy so I didn't get any letters for a while from my brother(?), what happened?
Me: he's a fucking idiot who ran his mouth and got coma'd for it
Loz: that dumb motherFU-||

[elfin jackal]

||i don't think they're siblings||

[elfin wave]

i forget

like maybe they're best friends or something

[elfin jackal]

yeah

[elfin wave]

hmmmmm

lmao, one shot

is it me or do mounts "tilt" now?

[hasty kayak]

some

new thing

[elfin jackal]

yeah it's a DT thing

[hasty kayak]

||"lets try find the reason behind increased banditry here so we can adress root cause"|| ✨ wuk lamat character development ✨ (stairs its the fuckin stairs)

||the siblings are so cute, i call for joint ruling||

[elfin jackal]

tbh my perspective is ||some people turn to banditry out of desperation... others just are greedy shits who see profit in it and want to hurt people||

[elfin wave]

must not click

[elfin jackal]

tbh i think you would be fine to click mine

[hasty kayak]

FLYIIIIING

[elfin jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/weird-strange-plane-bird-harvard-dropouts-gif-18115806

[elfin wave]

YES IT DO THE GOOFY FLAP

man watching all this exp go out the window is so annoying, lmao

[hasty kayak]

almost like maybe rushin to 100 wasnt best of ideas

[elfin wave]

NO REGRET
ONLY BIG AXE MODE

[hasty kayak]

new area whoo-

lmao, 6 instances

(93) hmm, ||sensibleness or revenge.... i vote revenge!||

dangit alphi

[elfin jackal]

You sure have the look of a character who likes to choose violence tbh

[hasty kayak]

oooh this vendor has some nice armor pieces, i was thinkin of revampin my drk glam at some point. gotta grab that half level tomorrow then

[elfin jackal]

92 gear?

[hasty kayak]

mhmm

[elfin jackal]

it's the crafted gear, same as the stuff you get from the 92 gear coffers

[elfin wave]

(TRQ) ||I knew a mage like that once... Not a good path.||

(TRQ) God damn, ILVL680.

[plucky cairn]

That's the problem with rushing that while at lvl 92/93 MSQ

[elfin wave]

This is why despite my capped level, I'm saving my SoS Ex run until I at least I have artifact armor.

[elfin wave]

well i get synched up for once so

[plucky cairn]

I mean you can always go in, fail it and put it into very easy, it doesn't actually prevents you from going through

no that's not how that works

I'm pretty sure it's a cap

As in, you get synched down but not up

Unless they changed it, in SHB I'm positive it was that way

[elfin wave]

(TRQ) Damn, own title drop and everything.

[elfin jackal]

no i think that's the max ilvl you can go in at before it synchs you down

[elfin jackal]

weird

[plucky cairn]

if you open your inventory

Does the items have the sync symbol near them?

[elfin jackal]

i don't think they do unless it's level synched

[elfin wave]

weird, i thought it was clearly said that it's meant to be 680 and not any higher or lower

ILVL is a scam anyway

first try

(TRQ) ||COMA ATTACK!||

[elfin jackal]

||i still don't know why this had to be a tank job||

[signal sparrow]

finally officially entering dawntrail

[signal sparrow]

okay okay, I will no longer pick on Krile in this expansion..but I need to find a new Lyse to pick on

found my new Lyse to pick on

so I chose a path, I chose the ||Hanu path||

[elfin jackal]

Same

[elfin wave]

(92/Post-Pots) ||full battle regalia? are you sure?||

||If he insists, IG||

||My brother in Hydaelyn- wait she's dead.
My brother in Narwhal Christ, it's in the job title.||

||AYYYY THE MAIN THEME IS PLAYING||

||let's do this, fucko||

||I'VE CAUGHT A GOD'S BLADE BEFORE, DO YOU THINK THIS IS ANYTHING CLOSE?!?!||

[compact ibex]

||Such REVELRY||

[elfin wave]

either way i'm glad i got out the rathalos armor for this
the "battle attire" is going to stick around, I think

Hmm... But do I?
Because (92 quests still) ||i feel like using the battle attire is keeping my word to Gulool to keep his daughter safe, taking my role as her protector seriously and realising I that i need to be a mentor to her going forward... does that make sense?||

[compact ibex]

Makes sense to me

[elfin wave]

(92, still post-Solo Duty) ||HAHAHHAHAHAHA
GET FUCKING REKT YOU BIG IDIOT||

[hasty kayak]

my wifi apparently has some personal beef with me today

why yes, i love gettin disconnected every three minutes

augh. back to dragon age til it stabilizes it is

[elfin jackal]

weird, i've been having internet issues too

[elfin jackal]

last 98 quest: ||I have felled legends, demons, dragons, and gods! why is this overgrown dog causing me issues!||

[compact ibex]

this was funny

[elfin wave]

[abstract ibex]

How do i get the hard versions of The Bowels Of Embers, The Navel, and The Howling Eye?

[elfin wave]

Speak to the Scions in the Waking Sands once you beat the Ultima Weapon, they'll have sidequests for you to attune to a particular area and unlock their refights

[abstract ibex]

Ok

[elfin wave]

Why they decided to make this clearly side content MSQ recquired is a mystery

Ah, you have to beat one before moving to the next, so Minfillia will have the first one, then you can do the refights

and after you do the refights, you can refight them again in Extreme trials (please don't)

i say this as someone who actually did the Garuda Extreme fight through Duty Finder, just wait until you get to level 70 and go in with Unrestricted Party if you really want to do it.

[elfin jackal]

because ||you get the quests from Minfilia|| probably

[elfin wave]

Ah. Yeah, that's fair.

[abstract ibex]

I can now continue ARR

[signal sparrow]

yeahhh ||this guy needs his head chopped off||

[elfin jackal]

i thought that was an axe emote in the reactions tbh

[elfin wave]

bruh

[hasty kayak]

ast scares me

its the mnk of healers in amount of changes lmao

[elfin jackal]

You should see what happens when i switch to any job in wolves den

The entire hotbar is gray and crossed out

[elfin wave]

pvp doesn't count

[elfin jackal]

Even sprint is removed

[elfin wave]

hat

[elfin jackal]

hat

Btw i finished dt

And I'm so depressed now i need time away from the game

[plucky cairn]

I finished the 5th zone and then I was busy/needed some time to absorb before doing the last part

I'll probably do it today

[sterile condor]

meanwhile i'm on my 5th crafter just a couple of things to gather to go from 90-100

[hasty kayak]

ah, the joys of out of order content i finally finished the moogles (which yes means i completed all tribe society quests til the dt set!) and am now doin the allied stuff, and they want me to talk to tiamat.... but because endwalker there is. no tiamat in the overworld sorry to force that fate upon ye in da cutscene again madam

[elfin jackal]

Lmao

[signal sparrow]

alright step aside, I seen enough. ||I am replacing you for the contest, I would win every fight||

well im dying after seeing that performance

brings, I am getting angry

[plucky cairn]

Finishing the melee dps role quest, it's been very cute and I enjoyed it a lot.
Bunny archer is adorable.

[elfin jackal]

Not a fan of how ||I'toca was murdered|| in that questline tbh

[plucky cairn]

Made sense since ||the dude is a ninja||

Also ||never having met her, I don't really care much tbh, she was mostly a narrative device to set up Kuiyki as the underdog hunter instead of the best of the village||

[elfin jackal]

It kind of seems different fron ||all the other role quests since the villains there are basically team rocket but this one is already a murderer||

[plucky cairn]

First one I'm doing so I don't have a frame of reference

I was actually concerned that it ||skewing comedic I'd have lost interest but this was a pleasant surprise||

Well there were ||comedic elements, like her consistently almost hitting Namazus with her missed shots, but they deserve it||

[elfin jackal]

Casting ||death toll: 0||
Tank ||death toll: 0, maybe 1||
Healer ||death toll: 0, maybe 2||
Melee||death toll: 1||

I haven't done ranged

[hasty kayak]

new drk drip letsgo

looooooove this armor

[plucky cairn]

Yeah it's awesome

I used the variant from the dungeon of that one, that one has different accents and it's dyaable, i might switch to it maybe once I look at hglams

Large bringi looks scary in that

[elfin jackal]

Which set is that?

[plucky cairn]

I want to say lvl 92 crafted set

[elfin jackal]

Also large bringi just looks scary in general, the fangs and face paint give the vibe "kill or be killed"

[plucky cairn]

Which is a recolor and dyable from the Fell Court of Troia set

[elfin jackal]

Makes sense

[hasty kayak]

scary is the ideal vibe >:3 no longer hunted by horrors, tis i who now haunts the narrative

[signal sparrow]

You still look short to me

My Gummy Belle is taller

[elfin jackal]

Factually incorrect

[signal sparrow]

Shhh

[plucky cairn]

Went into a leveling rulette in which I filled in as healer, and they were 37 minutes into the run

They were stuck at the last boss of the lvl 95 dungeon because the tank kept diying to the ||knockback||

That was a fun one

Took 2 or 3 attempts

that is legit a relatively difficult one the first time you do it

I wonder if they'll adjust it

[elfin jackal]

It has savage mechanics, i found that hilarious the first time i did it

[elfin wave]

P12 spoilers/meme warning ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRAaG4g-OgQ||

[plucky cairn]

I wouldn't go that far, even only ||reducing a lil bit the knockback distance|| would make it much easier but it's definitely a challenge

[elfin jackal]

I mean they're literally from savage

Not difficultywise

For example ||the fists are from e4s, and the stack tower i think is something we've never seen ij casual content||

[elfin wave]

also i didn't realise until today that P12's theme samples from P4

i may be stupid

[plucky cairn]

makes sense

[elfin wave]

too many sessions of listening to P11

amd y'know what
I'MMA DO IT AGAIN

[plucky cairn]

Ohh, the 6th zone ||is pretty dark so far, it's gonna be compelling||

Wait a fucking second
LVL 99 quest

||If Krile comes from here, is she an Endless? Or perhaps she comes from before the 12th floor was turned into Living Memory. I swear if we delete Krile.exe I'm gonna be VERY MAD||

She does ||grow up so my guess is that she is just a normal lala but you never know||

[elfin wave]

MUST. NOT. CLICK.

[plucky cairn]

Lvl 99 MSQ spoilers
So. Fucking. Grim.

Will this place ||really end up as a dead fucking city, one that we killed?||
||This feels like a direct inversion of Ultima Thule||

Wonderful, time to ||delete the children|| (lvl 99)

[plucky cairn]

Ok I really have to go to bed now, tomorrow I'll definitely finish this

[elfin jackal]

Remember to do the yellow quest in this area, it's basically the tldr on ||why i hate this expansion||

[plucky cairn]

Oh I'm doing them as they pop up

And they are pretty lethal

I kinda love this shit tho

[sterile condor]

another one down, i may have got distracted by making soup, then by making like 4 million gil, then by clearing an EX but eventually another one down

unfortunatly alchemist sucks ass this expansion and needs a minimum of 800 bilcolour gems if my calculations are correct

i should just spend that big pile of gil that i got for no reason on bicolour gem ingrediants, easy come easy go

[plucky cairn]

This headline is gonna be confusing so many people

[minor sorrel]

dt story spoiler (For those not on it yet - level 91 stuff though so for the rest of you is fine). Either he's gotten a lighting/shading problem here or this is just something visible on the screen i'm using >.>

[elfin jackal]

Damn, that seems glitched

[hasty kayak]

ryne wanted to see him n is tryin to teleport him, thats all

[plucky cairn]

Tecnnically lvl 100 spoilers but you can probably click it

[elfin jackal]

I don't remember that guy

[plucky cairn]

He is one of the dudes that ||suggests ice cream in the volcano area|| (lvl 100)

[plucky cairn]

I can't fucking believe the MSQ ties to ||the fucking Aloalo island lore|| Lvl 100

Like, in a pretty direct way too

[elfin jackal]

Yeah

[plucky cairn]

The ||3rd terminal hurt||

[elfin jackal]

||4th was worse||

[plucky cairn]

Fuck, you were right

[hasty kayak]

<@&1128722919405650000> pspspsps, anyone interested in level 93 dungeon?

this would probably happen in australia

[elfin jackal]

Am taking a mental health break from the game, sorry

[elfin wave]

not caught up

[hasty kayak]

all goodio

[plucky cairn]

I am available but on the wrong DC

Do I hop over?

I did just unlock the last quest but I have yet to accept it, so this is the best moment to stop

[hasty kayak]

go to australia, lets meet there

[plucky cairn]

Wait

Let me see if I can hop over

If I can't we go australia

[hasty kayak]

i cant go to light, so i dont think u can come over either

[plucky cairn]

Yea I confirm that

To australia we go

[hasty kayak]

team rocket blasts off agaaaaaaaain

[plucky cairn]

I can healer for this one so the queue should be pretty fast

WHM is lvl 99

[hasty kayak]

(93, post-dungeon) ||the bunni in flashbacks was of his village, i presume||

greaaaat, the storm obliterated my wifi

[signal sparrow]

[hasty kayak]

hopefully itll come back up once it calms down slightly. tis a proper terror this one

[hasty kayak]

okay, we are back

"dude, what the fuck"

even more staggeringly, y'all just let him walk out????

||surely thats a disqualification, right?||

[plucky cairn]

I might not be able to help you with the ||trial|| since my dog is being..what's the technical term..."a lil' shit"

[hasty kayak]

all good, placate the beast (affectionate)

[elfin jackal]

||this hurts||

[sterile condor]

someone wants to give me ungodly amounts of wind crystals right

[hasty kayak]

alas that's utterly unreadable

[sterile condor]

[hasty kayak]

well, i have 4000. it could help? unfortunately if memory serves ur on light, aint u?

oh wait can one trade in australia

[sterile condor]

dont worry, its mainly just a generic joke, thats a lot of gil worth of crystals

i'll just gather/buy them

[hasty kayak]

if u say so, I wouldn't mind

[signal sparrow]

Noooo

I keep clicking on spoilers by accident

😭

[elfin jackal]

Which one did you click this time?

[sterile condor]

wait thats cheaper than i thought it would be, go go gadget huge pile of money

[signal sparrow]

Earlier i accidentally clicked this one

[signal sparrow]

This one

Good news, I don’t remember the name

But im now aware something happens

[signal sparrow]

Then I clicked on this

[elfin jackal]

Well good news on that, youre never gonna do that questline

[signal sparrow]

Thank god

[hasty kayak]

@plucky cairn still dog busy?

[plucky cairn]

I'm waiting for food now

Once they deliver it I might be able to make it

[hasty kayak]

oki doki, ill ask in the raid server if anyone else is interested and wait for u

[elfin wave]

whatchu get

[plucky cairn]

A sort of burger

Ok I deplyed a decoy, I hid the food someplace high

Or the dog would try to get to it

And i am available

[hasty kayak]

queue failed us oh well

ill b busy durin weekend and hikin in austria next work-week, so maybe we could try again on friday, we'll see

[elfin wave]

Hopefully by then I would have caught up

[safe finch]

when u done with MSQ j||ust start any New Game+ (doesnt matter which expansion)
and Zone 6 will be restored||

[plucky cairn]

Thanks for the tip, don't get me wrong tho, ||mine wasn't a complaint, I kinda love how dark this shit is||

Good thing we can still easly access ||the cool theme park version tho, that is also cool to hang around in||

[safe finch]

nah, just something i found out (thanks youtube recommendations XD) and wanted to share XD

[elfin jackal]

I feel the opposite

[plucky cairn]

Ok so, I finished it
My current ranking for the MSQ is
SHB > EW > HWs > DT > SB > ARR

Slighly under HWs
||It had some pacing problems and could have benefitted with a slighly shoter first half to give more space to Alexandria and the other stuff to breathe, since it's what has to land to make the climax work||
||Also for how endearing it was, maybe they could have made early expansion Wuk Lamat slighly less naive and ignorant of her own country, I do think it does some undermining of her character||

I really liked the last couple of zones and the last dungeon, even tho the last trial could have been a lot more inspired

Worth mentioning that it's under HWs but I'm comparing fully released expansions with a .0 release, so I might end up revising if they pull som good shit in the .3 climax.

[compact ibex]

You liked ARR most?

Ultra rare ARR enjoyer

[elfin jackal]

I think he had the order in reverse

Since he says dt is under hw

[compact ibex]

Huh

[elfin jackal]

So endgame thought about some plot points
||where tf did gulool ja come from, I've not seen any mamool ja in the alexandrian areas, who was zoraal jas mate||

[plucky cairn]

Oh yeah I reversed the order for some reason

Fixed

[plucky cairn]

Well the whole area ||in the dome got cut off for 30 years with inhabitants from Tural, it's not that unlikely that there would be a few.||
I wonder if we'll get that answered more clearly in the post patches tho

[minor sorrel]

||I could use a nap....||
||erenville: what WoL meant to say is-||
||BITCH I SAID WHAT I SAID||

[minor sorrel]

Jeezus

[signal sparrow]

I still say you should have put SB behind ARR and the bee movie

[plucky cairn]

SB mildly botched a character arc and also had great post patches.
ARR barely even bothered having character arcs

[minor sorrel]

I can't remember if there's a motorbike mount

[plucky cairn]

There are a few

Some are store only tho

[signal sparrow]

I know, I was trying to make another ew Lyse joke

[sterile condor]

apparently they either changed how quick synth works or its bugged, this is meant to be 280 ingots

[elfin wave]

maybe you failed

[sterile condor]

(they popped up as failures during the craft)

[elfin wave]

[sterile condor]

if you meet the craftmanship suggested its meant to succeed, which it doesnt always currently

[elfin jackal]

used to make sense that some would fail because. Most actions had sub 100% accuracy.

[sterile condor]

i mean, you've been able to 100% garuntee every craft succeeds since stormblood, and i dont recall heavensward but i believe there too

[elfin jackal]

nah there were still risks in stormblood

careful synthesis used to be desired because it was the only synthesis action with 100% accuracy

and you had to level weaver to get it

[sterile condor]

cross class abilities were removed like 1/3 of the way through stormblood and everyone had every crafter leveled anyway though?

[elfin jackal]

i clearly remember them being there

and i didn't start until Stormblood

[sterile condor]

it was removed 5.1

(i looked it up i got the names flipped wrong)

[elfin jackal]

yeah 5.1 was shadowbringers

[minor sorrel]

https://vxtwitter.com/ezemduulsen/status/1811070123375218915

[signal sparrow]

im dumb

[elfin wave]

🌮

[minor sorrel]

I keep reading Fonjentaine as Jean Fontaine... (french actor, or further in history, jean de la fontaine, french poet)

[sterile condor]

all my remaining ingrediants gathered time for the (kinda) rapidfire

[sterile condor]

1 down

[sterile condor]

i may have got distracted for 30 minutes

2

[sterile condor]

[sterile condor]

mount from ex 2 got

[elfin wave]

ayo what the fu-

meanwhile me with one ShB Ex mount from tomes

Did EW Ex 4 even drop the mount when you cleared?

[sterile condor]

i have no mounts from last expacs ex's

[elfin wave]

Ah so it didn't drop when our static cleared barbie

expected, but still

[plucky cairn]

LVL 100 MSQ spoilers
For those that finished it, I have a question
||Which reflection do you think Alexandria is in? My guess was a surviving part of the 12th reflection somehow, since that was the reflction that precipitated the 2nd umbral calamity (the lightning one), but that can't be because the Milala immigrated there before their lightning catastrophe happened ad we know that happened during the 6th Umbral calamity (when the Aloalo islands froze over)||

||My current theory is the 11th since it's the one surviving reflection that is close to the 12th, and maybe proximity meant that eventually the lightning imbalance affected them as well, it would have had to happen much later after the 12th rejoined tho, a sort of elemental shockwave that echoed through the rift and hit the 11th||

[elfin jackal]

my guess is the same as yours

tho since you looked at the timeline and found it made no sense you know more about it than me, so, yeah, i can only agree

[plucky cairn]

I assume we'll learn pretty soon ||which one is it||

I expect we'll go straight up into ||dimensional travel in 7.1||

The theory at the very least, if not the pratice

[elfin jackal]

didn't we ||already kinda do that for the final zone||

||the place still physically existing, even having clear skies after the msq is complete, indicates that the shard is still present, probably?||

[plucky cairn]

Yeah but it was more of a ||necessity thing, I expect we'll get Yshtola to get back to her ambition to actually learn to dimension travel at will||

Also means ||i'll cry once we get a Ryne Thancred reunion||

Also || I really, really want to see Gunbreaker Ryne, he left her a Chekhov's Gunblade and it has to happen||

The other ||big mistery is the key||

The oldest we know of it, ||is during the 6th Umbral calamity when the Milala used it to flee the Aloalo islands, but it's hinted that it's much older and they used it to travel through reflections on more than one occasions.||
I say this because ||one of the sidequests in the last zones explicitly says that one of their traidtion is to greet people saying "lali ho" hinting at a shared cultural root between this tribe and the Dwarves in the 1st||

[elfin jackal]

oh yeah

tbh i assumed that bit was a coincidence, a sort of convergent evolution

[plucky cairn]

Could be but I'm gonna assume it's on purpose

[minor sorrel]

[minor sorrel]

|| "tasketenyaaa!" - Bakool ja ja the mighty||

I am loving the sprinkling of anime animation-sounds. Like the blink blink sound or the vehement headnods

[sterile condor]

https://x.com/VicCyberWorld/status/1812156716001132952 today on things that are going to get nerfed into the ground: immaculate mend

Vic Cyber (@VicCyberWorld) on X

currently making the worst crafting macro ever

Twitter · Jul 13, 2024, 4:06 PM

crafters got some kinda extremely busted things this expac to do with durability, theres a free (1 use) ability that makes the next action just not take durability, there's immaculate mend that for 112 cp it just fully repairs an item, with good rng you can chain that in some funny ways using tricks of the trade refined touch is probably gonna be used everywhere because it massively improves craft times, and quick innovation is also pretty crazy for expery crafts

like, they got 4 things, and they all slap

[plucky cairn]

Maaan, the 2nd optional dungeon I played was pretty rough

I am not looking forward to rolling that one on rulette

[elfin jackal]

Which one? Valley or the other?

[plucky cairn]

The other

The ||1st boss|| is actually hell

[elfin jackal]

Yeah i had some trouble with that one but no trouble with the valley

[sterile condor]

new normal mode raids fun

[elfin wave]

well then, back to work

[minor sorrel]

Ah, fighting with a pictomancer in a group (npc but still). Normal fight sounds: BAM BOOM CRASH EXPLOOOOSION SLICE DICE

And then WOB WOB WOB WOB

[elfin wave]

WOB WOB WOB

[plucky cairn]

[elfin wave]

(92, post solo duty) ||THIS IS THANCRED||

(92) hehehe

[elfin wave]

(93 🎉) ||weird fuckin dog||

DUNGEON
DUNGEON
DUNGEON

(93 dungeon) MUTUHAR LAUGH.gif

[elfin jackal]

||green alphinaud||

[elfin wave]

can't do it tonight, said i'd do it with a friend and i just got SGE to 93

"but hc you play WAR"
yeah well when your friend's also a tank main you gotta comprimise

also
SGE is fucking fun

[plucky cairn]

When you do it, if you want company I can cover DPS Tank or Healer

[sterile condor]

presuming i'm free at the time i will also happily join on whatever archetype is required

[compact ibex]

been playing through the MSQ, got to level 100 as SMN

spoilers ||so did we just have to form X-COM because of an interdimensional invasion?||

[elfin wave]

(93 dungeon) ||me fighting the final boss and it casually drops a mechanic from E4:
"THAT'S FUCKIN' TITAN"||

[sterile condor]

||yeyeyeyeyeye, i love that the dungeon bosses are actually content||

[elfin wave]

(93, post-dungeon) |||best npc||

(93) Trial unlocked

[elfin jackal]

Just wait, there's more of that

[minor sorrel]

Rood

[minor sorrel]

Fat lips in german

[elfin wave]

oh yeah i did the first DT trial today

(DT Trial 1) ||1. What the fuck is that theme.
2. WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FIGHT.||

[minor sorrel]

🍌

[elfin wave]

the 92 armor looks rad

[hasty kayak]

big agree, i used other pieces for hands and such since i rarely use full sets, but this body gear? mwah, chef kiss

harq looks good in dat red edition

[elfin wave]

i honestly completely forgot about the armor

[hasty kayak]

i am returnin home from the scary place known as the outdoors (it was a hikin trip, it was nice, my legs hurt but austrian alps are very pretty), lookin forward to playin again

[elfin wave]

because it's just barely better than my current armor anyway

and even then it's not all better

[hasty kayak]

"bringi it was like six days" six! days! that is six too many without ff14

[elfin wave]

1 ILVL isn't going to kill me

[hasty kayak]

yall better b ready to try another attempt to sit for an hour in a queue with me for that trial

not til tomorrow tho

[sterile condor]

we could honestly try shadow again, i can probably harvest some of my friends to join the swarm

[elfin wave]

me nearly queuing into Byakko EX as a SMN

also how far is bringi in msq, i've been busy irl

[sterile condor]

if i remember right, the 93 trial

[elfin wave]

oh i did that the other day, no need to catch up

[sterile condor]

i might be wrong, we never got in, and i cant recall where i was summoned from

[elfin jackal]

I'll be there

Ive gotten umbra to the right zone for it

[elfin wave]

(No idea where this is from but spoiling it anyway) ||HE RETURNETH||

[sterile condor]

quest in second city, though you can meet the little guy in first

[elfin wave]

swag

[signal sparrow]

You definitely still have an addiction

Fun fact, when I visited brings for a week, they wouldn’t stop mentioning ffxiv

[sterile condor]

good ol hyper fixations

[elfin jackal]

Addendum: family shenanigans, i may not be available at the time

[signal sparrow]

Rippp

[signal sparrow]

I wanna do more Lyse slander

[hasty kayak]

"hm, i have few hours before i go to bed but i already decided to do the trial tomorrow, and im caught up on sidequests. maybe i could pick up a new job or somet-" house decoratin, i spent like three hours decoratin some more it is slowly shapin up to what i want it to look like, ignorin how its chewin thru my gil

still need way more clutter tho

empty spaces 🅱️egone

[elfin wave]

bringiiiiiii look at my new throne

[hasty kayak]

should move the tearjerker picture more to the left

empty spaces are eviiiiil

[elfin jackal]

It's got the eye of the tiger

[plucky cairn]

If you want to go to the next level, look for housing glitches on YouTube

You can do some wild shit

(with the patch some of the lighting ones don't work anymore, but most positioning glitches should still be valid)

[sterile condor]

gotta do all the floats

[hasty kayak]

i like doin grounded decoratin leanin into that rp vibe

really hard to find a sensible fuckin table

theyre all SMALL

[sterile condor]

https://en.ff14housing.com/

if you dont know it exists

[hasty kayak]

oh! i did not

[sterile condor]

it sometimes takes a few weeks to update with new patch items, i've never used it near expansion drop so i dont know for that

[elfin wave]

I want thaaaaaat

[elfin jackal]

There's apparently one gong cha place in europe

In london

[elfin wave]

[elfin jackal]

Thatd be more than 1800km for me

[elfin wave]

i mean suppose it's not too bad for me but
i have no moneeeey

[minor sorrel]

I just looked at a reddit thread commenting about it - one place in sacramento had people ordering tons of drinks to get all the codes (printed on 'business cards' and they had only 27 available

As for me, the closest is permanently closed, the other

[elfin jackal]

i got to the 93 trial with umbra

only have drk to 93 but am working on reaper if we need dps for it

[minor sorrel]

I can never tell in the game when there's an attack that spawns a pillar but with a circle around it too, if I should stay inside or avoid it

[sterile condor]

its always a marker you have to take

[plucky cairn]

Yeah pillars generally are: "Either one player absorbs this, or the whole party gets some deleterious effect"

Usually it's significant damage, occasionally it's also a debuff

[elfin jackal]

yeah it's always a "soak this"

i think only bahamut has had different, and that one was without the pole in the middle

[minor sorrel]

It was in the solo MSQ fight around level 95, so I wasn't sure

(said fight was pretty cool)

[elfin jackal]

||that fight is basically a harder version of the 92 one||

[minor sorrel]

DT msq 95: ||game, y u making me feel sorry for bakool ja ja?!||

[minor sorrel]

level 95 dungeon final boss can fuck right off

[elfin jackal]

When i saw that boss have mechanics pulled out of savage i laughed

[elfin wave]

oh good

[elfin wave]

this screams "peace"

[elfin jackal]

Lmaoooo

[elfin wave]

(94) ||Thancred giving me a lil' wave is nice.
I think I forgive him for the dungeon incident||

||i would watch the fireworks||

(94) ||LESGOOOO CATBOI ALLY||

[elfin wave]

i hate it here

my sge has better gear than my fucking main

[sterile condor]

you can pick up class gear from the first city that will massively up your ilvl, though you need to be lvl 99 for it

i can drop a location when i get home in like 2 hours or just go there and ask where it is in shout chat

[plucky cairn]

You also need to get there with the story before it's offered

[sterile condor]

oh, fair, my gear kept up with my lvl since i just mainlined the story

and i dont think ive ever used that gear on my main before this expac

[elfin jackal]

Yeah thw job gear is just before the final zone

Just like in EW

[elfin wave]

fast as fuck boi

also redectorated a tad

[elfin jackal]

Omg the whoopee cushion

It being branded is so fuckin funny tbh

[elfin wave]

fucking gremlin

(affectionate)

[elfin jackal]

we stan our gremlin

[hasty kayak]

@sterile condor <@&1128722919405650000> okay, hello again, are yall free for that run of 93 trial?

[sterile condor]

surio

[plucky cairn]

Yes but I need a few mins

[hasty kayak]

im not sure whether to call for australia or shadow though...

[sterile condor]

its 1:30 am in australia

[elfin wave]

summoning @steady saffron

wait, what server are we going on

because uhhhh i didn't knooooow this was a thiiiing

[elfin jackal]

i knew you'd call for it while i was in the shower lmao

[hasty kayak]

yeah, thats why its either shadow (eu but prettyyyy deserted) or australia (may have night owls to help but also has ping)

i dunno where our chances are higher :/

[sterile condor]

its near daily resets so there may be people the eu server

[hasty kayak]

i guess shadow n we'll rely on power of friday?

[sterile condor]

i shall transfer to innocence

[elfin wave]

i went to Tycoon, lol

i can just hop in world

[elfin jackal]

picked innocence

[hasty kayak]

innocence it is

[elfin jackal]

no login queue

[hasty kayak]

by the way i managed to get side tracked on a side activity... again. i was gettin stuff to craft some housin decorations, and ended up runnin around my island sanctuary upgradin a granary. somehow.

[elfin wave]

somehow

[sterile condor]

@hasty kayak gimme party lead a sec :3

[hasty kayak]

(i wanted chocobo essentials box to go with my stable but theyre pricyyy on marketboard, and its exchanged for cowries but i forgot which cowries, so i went to check (i dont have them ill get them some other time) but well since im on the island i should feed my animals, and oh look my crops are done, and hey i shouldnt have empty workshop, and while im collectin the few things i need to fulfill material deficit i should check if i can upgrade any buildings aaaaaand ive been on the island for forty minutes when it was supposed to be in and out. oops

[sterile condor]

[hasty kayak]

its so nice to have minions friends

[elfin wave]

ok exaggerating aside, that went well

there is a reason i stopped playing AST

[hasty kayak]

i am so intimidated by ast

also i installed the patch without readin the notes first and my MONK BARS ARE CHANGED AGAIN augh-

[elfin jackal]

got the aether current, grabbed the blue quests, logged off to move back to my world and am then gonna log back to Sahja to catch some fish

[plucky cairn]

Spoilers for MSQ maybe 98 IDK

For the Eureka style content ||it would be fun if we ended up getting a regulator and the separate progression system consisted in animal souls that we consume to boost our strenght||

[elfin jackal]

I have moral objections to that

[elfin wave]

time to drop fake spoilers

GIRL PLEASE FIX YOUR UI THERE ARE TOO MANY NAMES

[plucky cairn]

I mean, it's pretty normal for a streamer to keep all the names active

Like, most of the people hanging around you are gonna be your viewers, you probably want to be able to read the nametags

[elfin wave]

ykw, fair. And props for going Simple Mode on the MNK bars too

(oh god i just noticed she never turned in the Halatali quest AAAAAAAAAAA)

NOOO SHE DIDN'T CLICK ON THE BIRD

[plucky cairn]

Arcadion raid spoilers: ||Tch will actually die when he gets here||

[median ridge]

||You can get a minion of her||

[plucky cairn]

The 2nd fight ||is the most insane thing in the game so far||

||It felt like a feverdream||

[elfin wave]

https://fxtwitter.com/rubiconsflame/status/1814359078132691379

[hasty kayak]

okay, feelin comfortable to share progress on my house. outside first! i like acknowledgin the billion side activities wol does in their spare time so obviously ya need a garden patch n place to repair armor in addition to things like trainin dummy

first floor i like thinkin of as "official business floor", as an omnicrafter ud get commissions, a flame captain has paperwork, an adventurer got end of the world scion meetings

[plucky cairn]

That is really good

[hasty kayak]

and finally bottom floor is really just my apartment 2.0, ie where all the fun collectin thingamajings and hobbies are. and even bed, if WOL ever actually fuckin slept but yaknow

there are still a few issues, i need more wall decorations n the shelves are kinda empty n i need c l u t t e r in my life, but im happy with how its lookin

[signal sparrow]

BRINGY

HOW DARE YOY AREN’T SHOCKED AT MY CAR INSURANCE

[hasty kayak]

sorry i was in decoratin la-la land

look how good i am at fantasy decorations :3

[signal sparrow]

Fancy

[elfin jackal]

||Beetuber||

[plucky cairn]

I've been relistening ||to the song with lyrics, completely unhinged||

I have te last encounter to do, I'll do it this evening

[plucky cairn]

Man this raid tier is actually 10/10 on the fun factor

I was thinking about it

The ||dynamic announcer is great, the mechanics are fun, the crowds fucking cheer when someone LBs, the fighters all have animal themes to them and a bunch of stage presence.||

I was skeptical because eh, ||Tournamet arc feels like a bit low on stakes, and it is, but it makes up for it with all the rest||

[sour lake]

Hi. I'm in Japan. My sister is there too. She's at Gong cha, a tea shop of some kind, for a final fantasy 14 promotion

We've been in line for like an hour. Is it anything good?

[plucky cairn]

This is the collab: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/e20327bc17f64798392a9fe9786dd58829c271c1

Seems like that there are 3 FFXIV inspired drinks, 3 keychains, and an ingame mount

[sour lake]

I see

[sour lake]

Well I'm gonna drink two of them

[plucky cairn]

Good luck

[sour lake]

God this tastes like shit. The things I do for family

[plucky cairn]

lol

which one you got? The fat cat one is the one that looks better from the pic but who knows

Like, hard to fuck up milk tea

[sour lake]

We got five cups total

I have the brown sugar one too

[plucky cairn]

I am not familiar with how matcha tea is supposed to taste

[sour lake]

Green

[sterile condor]

i like macha but its a very specific flavour

[elfin wave]

you can always pretend by /doze ing over a bed!

[sour lake]

Cup two

This sucks less

[sour lake]

The tapioca balls are too chewy but I like the thing as a whole

[elfin jackal]

I'd have to travel 1800 km to go to a gong cha

[sour lake]

I have traveled six thousand to get to it

[plucky cairn]

lol

[elfin jackal]

Yeah but London is a shithole so i ain't going there just for some tea

[signal sparrow]

I always hated gong cha anyways

[elfin wave]

WAR needs a pickaxe weapon

[minor sorrel]

There's a pizza cutter axe, right? Does it spin?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ohaMDYGk0-Y (basically you need to do this)

[elfin wave]

yeah but i want a proper pick axe

[plucky cairn]

Done with the 4th encounter

Man they have been killing it this raid

I don't think it'll ever beat Eden for me but this is a strong contender for 2nd place

[median ridge]

Crafters max, now for the materia grind.

[rancid laurel]

Got my crafters to 94-95 and fully geared up, so now I can make 96 battle gear

We just got to 96 MSQ

[minor sorrel]

Ah yes. Going from high fantasy to ||cowboys||.

||If I wasn't still leveling mnk, and my mch was far behind, I feel like I should go through this area as mch ||

[rancid laurel]

holy shit i got a dodo horn from one of the grand company gacha boxes

3m gil

[hasty kayak]

o sweet

im still at 93, my life is bein busy >:c definitely that and not because i have a billion distractions in-game as well, totally not

im just very bad at beelining main questlines in general

[elfin wave]

mood

[minor sorrel]

There's gacha boxes?

[plucky cairn]

Kinda

It's one of the way you can spend you grand company tokens

[minor sorrel]

Ah, a lala's final form

[elfin wave]

biblically accurate lalafel

[hasty kayak]

oh tiny

[elfin jackal]

lawyer and three babies

[hasty kayak]

a schooltrip

[minor sorrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVNz_CfhSuY Okay, so I know this theme is apparently the Terra theme from FFVI. But I've not played that, and I am positive I have heard that specific tune at the start (the clarinet?) in a classical piece

I just have no idea which

[minor sorrel]

MSQ: ...well, this is a tonal shift. ||returning from that brief cowboy stint to ||

[minor sorrel]

Oh gods, a ||lala reflection?!||

[elfin jackal]

||LALAS ARE ALIENS????????||

[elfin wave]

grindania
CONNOR NO

https://youtu.be/0WalLe_AhYo

and ironmouse got gifted a million gil
even in FFXIV, simping exists

[minor sorrel]

Is he a dragoon

He is

[elfin wave]

Yup
Dragon God

Which, I'm not judging

lmao someone gave mouse a monke mount and she gave it to connor

99 baked eggplants

[sterile condor]

to be fair, i think i've gifted 1 million gil to like 15 sprouts and 5 fc members starting

my go to random gifts are spriggan chocolate and pastry fish though

[elfin wave]

isn't that like, 200k?
at least, before DT dropped? (recorded before DT)

why am i asking that like I don't fucking know myself

cries in lost investment

[sterile condor]

the 99 baked eggplants? a lot of players probably just had stuff like in their inventory if anywhere near dawntrail dropped, just spare

since noone would buy them they'd not really be worth much (and also 200k really isnt that much to people who have been level cap a while)

[elfin jackal]

When i was a sprout someone gave me a santa outfit

[minor sorrel]

I love cutscenes with large crowds... you always see the cut and pastes, made worse by how they all cheer in the exact same way at the exact same time

[hasty kayak]

(93 msq, thats right we are so back) ||i cant believe it, an actually restful sleep for WOL just this once. oh, the horrors that are sure to come later to contrast this...fear.jpeg||

[hasty kayak]

(94) HOLY SHIT THATS PRETTY

also ||wuk lamat is so me. anythin that isnt a train is absolutely cursed vehicle. im so sorry they didnt invent kinedryl yet sweetie, hang in there||

[hasty kayak]

auuuugh im not immune to|| blue n black color scheme this is delectable||

[plucky cairn]

This is one of my favourite areas of the game

Also I love how you can transition between ||the up and down of that zone simply by ascending once you can fly||

[hasty kayak]

(94) hell yea, count me in

murder murder murd-

me! me me me, i happen to culinarian on sid-

[plucky cairn]

SInce I know where you are, might as well link my thoughts at the time: #1032731043041640488 message

[hasty kayak]

i need fanart. stat.

[elfin jackal]

[hasty kayak]

(94) they are gettin so much mileage from this guy

[minor sorrel]

[hasty kayak]

(94) oh no, not the 🅱️ word

[hasty kayak]

(softly) fuck

one of these days craftin WOLs shall be acknowledged by ambivent msq dialogue. one of these days

ACTUALLY HOLD ON

someone hit me, i may be hallucinatin

shakes the game ||okay, on one hand im delighted, 12/10 my day brightened my crops watered, on the other why have we not mentioned goldsmithin back in goblin town, devs???||

[plucky cairn]

Because you can't ||stay in the village of the mobiln to craft for them for the next 10 years||

I know you like diversions in MSQ but that one is bit much

They were looking for a ||full time artisan to move in with them||

[hasty kayak]

maybe so

its okay we can delay msq for a few years

[elfin jackal]

WHO TOLD YOU

[hasty kayak]

(94 post-feat) man, ||krile is way more understandin of this guy´s silence than i would be in her situation||

[elfin jackal]

i don't remember to what you're referring

[hasty kayak]

just that ||the village head refuses to elaborate on galuf, bound by this or that secrecy. i get the mechanical reasonin of course, story needs a story, but were that a life occurence i would be piiiiissed||

anyway time for some ||w u k l o r e||

[elfin jackal]

actual reason is ||telling her anything would let us know more about the golden city than contestants are supposed to know||

[hasty kayak]

well that particular secret lasted all of five minutes, huh

"okay, here's your ||rp duty||. btw, did u know ||WAR is a healer||-"

[elfin jackal]

did you beat it first try?

[signal sparrow]

ugh

I wanna click on spoilers so badly

[hasty kayak]

... no

i am bad at these in general lmao

[hasty kayak]

oh this ||campfire cutscene is so good for the nerd trio. sweet delicious koana development||

stoppin point for today

[signal sparrow]

..must...not..click

[minor sorrel]

[elfin jackal]

was hoping you did so i could make fun of the people who complain about it being too hard

[hasty kayak]

alas im. bad at least it ||wasnt urianger´s bit from endwalker, i had to redo that one three times||

or gods forbid, the mecha fight

[hasty kayak]

i- steam, i appreciate it, but boi have i got some news for you

[hasty kayak]

(94) wohooo, the horrors caught up...

yay!

[plucky cairn]

Loved that bit

[minor sorrel]

[hasty kayak]

so today i finally got fed up with how i never ever remember where the fuckin ferryman is , and edited my "time for therapy island" macro

finally, no more hoppin around noscea four times

"surely its aleport" "fuck" "oh, maybe wineport" "fuck" "uuuuh, did i try aleport yet?" "fuck" "okay, maaaaybe its drydocks??" "godfucking dammit it was drydocks"

[elfin jackal]

oof

[minor sorrel]

msq 98 ||Sphene is a cutie||

MY SKILLS ARE BEING RECOGNIZED

(said to the person whose job and solution to all problems is to punch things 👊 )

[minor sorrel]

98 msq

[hasty kayak]

hey @elfin wave outta curiosity what point are u at, just to know if i still have a buddy in 94 range or if im deadass last

stuff's been busy

[hasty kayak]

guess who´s not feelin like doin msq n wants some funky new diversion thats right its meeeeeeeee. at long last, the og edgy job of the bunch

[plucky cairn]

That and Thaumaturge must be the last 2 starting jobs you have to pick up right?

[hasty kayak]

ya

well, and summomer technically

[elfin wave]

Sorry for uber late reply but yeah, I'm in the 94 range. With the move and all I'll prolly be deadass last

hardly can progress MSQ when my wifi relies on my new neighbour not going out, lmao

[hasty kayak]

pat pat fair fair, hopefully the adjustment period goes well

[elfin jackal]

someone has to be last

that's just how it is

[hasty kayak]

heh, this team was so baby

not a single job

[sterile condor]

me when my unemployed friends ping me to play at 3 am

[sterile condor]

its v important to immediatly go and make glams the second you reach max level for a class

[hasty kayak]

ah yes, time to repeat ad nauseum to myself "we are still in arr, just pretend u dont remember past four expansions, its still pre banquet world-"

alas tis the price i pay for puttin this off for so long

[hasty kayak]

embracin my new floor tank role

[minor sorrel]

https://www.siliconera.com/final-fantasy-xiv-glass-and-glowing-led-coaster-sets-appear/

[elfin jackal]

jealous

[hasty kayak]

(95) oh wow okay bud

ngl thats as the kids say, pretty based

[elfin jackal]

||Koana is a legend tbh||

[plucky cairn]

I wonder if they made him a machinist specifically for this scene

It's a really cool bit

[hasty kayak]

his outfit is keeps remindin me of healer gen so i always go "right. not a whm"

[sterile condor]

wow thats a rude thing to say about my parse

[compact ibex]

i've done it, folks

i am the Dawntrail

||final boss was completely wild, not a moment was spent anywhere but the edge of my seat||

[median ridge]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/3a247a30e096e56b701157cd9fb903299a244c2f

Everyone who can't paint gets buffs.

[sterile condor]

the biggest buff is just the first thing listed on the page

huge paladin and dancer(ish) buffs

white mage also got essentialy a 55 potency buff on dia which is a nice buff but nothing crazy crazy

they also fixed paladin shields being bad so they're not squishier than the other tanks this expac anymore

[sterile condor]

||finally, i can live my dream of being in yugioh 5ds in ffxiv||

[plucky cairn]

I assume that's the savage mount

[sterile condor]

yup

[plucky cairn]

It's a good one

[sterile condor]

time to annoy my fc and try and pf clear as much as possible without them

[sterile condor]

https://x.com/DariusUlt/status/1818084611148104015

Darius @ FFXIV is a video game (@DariusUlt) on X

Man, what's up with Red Mage strats lately?

Twitter · Jul 30, 2024, 12:42 AM

[sterile condor]

yeag!

savage 1 down

3 more to go

[elfin jackal]

Damn

[sterile condor]

pf having a normal one

in savage2

[median ridge]

Is that the ||bee || boss?

[compact ibex]

this is gonna be my new summoner glam for a bit

[signal sparrow]

I made it to my first dawntrail dungeon!

[sterile condor]

ye, they were getting mad that the fight seemed to easy

[elfin wave]

using the HW relic

[minor sorrel]

All I can say about my present state of MSQ:

[signal sparrow]

I wanted to see these two fight

HOLY SHIT

[sterile condor]

2 down 2 to go

||honey b lovely more like honey b dead||

[compact ibex]

gpose is fun

[rancid laurel]

i got all my crafters and gatherers to 100 except fisher

[rancid laurel]

Also man wtf is everyone complaining about wuk lamats voice, I think it's fine

[compact ibex]

i love her voice ngl

its cute, but expressing intense emotions gets a little weird

[compact ibex]

god i wanna rub her cheeks and her ears

[minor sorrel]

[plucky cairn]

Through the story she has a couple of rough lines but overall her VA is more than fine

[median ridge]

It's kind of on the voice director, VAs don't have context of their lines unless it is given.

[plucky cairn]

I think she isn't great when she has to give speeches, she comes off as a bit too rigid, that's really the worst of it tho

She has a couple of amazing line reads that are up there among my favourite bits of this game.

[sterile condor]

5% chance to succesfully meld btw

thats almost 1 million gil worth of materia

[rancid laurel]

I learned my lesson about overmelding

Too much investment lol

[sterile condor]

it usually is, apart from very specific crafting cases

like this

i could go for budget melds but i'd have to meld tools more

also i've had a full pentamelded crafter set since stormblood and i aint stopping now

[rancid laurel]

I'm too lazy and cheap

I'm content just meeting stat requirements so I can make things for glamour

It appears we are on the final MSQ now, but now is lunch time and then errands

[sterile condor]

yeah and we play the game in very different ways, im one of the people making gear and consumables and shit for people/selling

[minor sorrel]

MSQ 98-99+ ||Solution is taking 'living in the year 3000' to a new height ||

🦌

[minor sorrel]

JP audio: "...Chotto matte."

(and then more i can't translate)

[minor sorrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEQhxK7em74 Oh hey, I was hoping he'd do one

[elfin wave]

pings bringi

[compact ibex]

oh god i need to collect a ton of acorns for a chestpiece i REALLY want

augmented radiant's mail of casting

[sterile condor]

theyre real easy yo get in bulk

just shout in limsa asking for an inv to a hunt linkshell/discord

[compact ibex]

hope it is that easy

[compact ibex]

got to enrage in M1S

we were short 3 percent

then FF14 decided to hit me with error 90002

[hasty kayak]

yayyy, level 50!

[sterile condor]

there is something entertaining about how sidetracked you are from the msq, perfectly 50% of the way through dawntrail

[hasty kayak]

one of my many qualities

[sterile condor]

i get it, theres a reason i've completed 99% of sidequests pre-dawntrail

[hasty kayak]

okay, had a few things to do like groceries, but i suppoooose i could get back on track. <@&1128722919405650000> pspsps, anyone free for 95 dungeon? also gonna ping @sterile condor since i dont think hc has stable enough internet at the new place yet n u might b interested too

chaos-light travel is also back on (hurray!) so we no longer have to visit the shadowlands or australia

[sterile condor]

sure

what world are you on again?

[hasty kayak]

hmmmm, i suppose lets just meet at phantom-chaos

[elfin wave]

still no internet

gl tho

[hasty kayak]

thank u pat pat lets play together next time then :3

[sterile condor]

i am online

[plucky cairn]

Sorry I'm about to go out and wont be home until tomorrow

good luck, don't drink the water

[elfin jackal]

yeah it's full of ||dead babies||

[sterile condor]

and now to hop home to do leveling

[hasty kayak]

thanks again

(95 post dungeon) lmao, fair reaction

oOoOOh this atmosphere b so spoooky

mmm the vibes are off the charts

music doin some heavy liftin as usual

oh. u just. just hangin around ||gulool ja ja||? okay then

"what a questline, huh? all good vibes, kinda reminiscent of sb which is much up my alley, ||wuk lamat did it-||"
"bringi, its MSQ level 95"
"aw fuck"

[hasty kayak]

yayyyyyy

YAAAYYYY!

"hm, cant shake the feeling we're all forgetting something..."
||first promise seething in the corner||
"eh im sure its nothing"

rlly tho ||how did dawndad do this well with his other two kids but absolutely dropped the ball with his lizard son. sir that guy has warpath aspirations and probably anxiety||

ah.

[elfin jackal]

Sadge

[neat plaza]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/895371843723206747/1271984914975424618/image.png?ex=66b953c4&is=66b80244&hm=67f11bb2e7286f6223e08b1511ae1444e9b9e85e4a6a178859a914ea1a086db5&

have been up to a lil bit of drg gaming

[elfin wave]

floor tank gaming

[hasty kayak]

(95) alrighty here we go again

new map helloooo

[hasty kayak]

(95 side) i swear ||if the cornservant turns secretly evil i will be so sad||

[elfin jackal]

i fully expected that the entire time

[compact ibex]

got kicked out of my static

they had me switch from tank to DPS a bit ago, but then decided my DPS wasnt good enough so im out

[hasty kayak]

:c pat pat that sucks

[compact ibex]

i liked them

[minor sorrel]

Switch to nin and stab them in the back like they deserve

[hasty kayak]

brain feels like mush from the dentist appointment i had earlier, so i think ill leave msq for tomorrow n just do some bits of crafters and dragoon leveling (im almost 60!)

[minor sorrel]

"Surely we're dealing with an inebriated weaver"

Cactistopher

[elfin jackal]

What a dick move tbh

[hasty kayak]

ye the event is fun this year

i too wish for seven pet cacti

[hasty kayak]

also my drg hit 60, but i only played a little bit today bc my stomach was bein kinda queasy (i blame post vacation) or i was really tired (i blame post dentist), so here's the hopin i get to do more tomorrow

[hasty kayak]

(back to 95) heh, nice

[elfin jackal]

lol yeah

[hasty kayak]

(96) it truly is a testament ||to the prevailing terrorizing power of the banquet that, after gettin the usual "several cutscenes" box and seein this train, my first thought is "oh man i hope this train doesnt explode"||

oh good! it's just the regularly scheduled horrors

oh its happening now now okay

||right, where's my "okay Scions, retirement is cancelled" button||

ring, ring
"Good day, this is Tataru, Scions Incorporated, how can I help you?"
"Hi Tataru."
"Oh, hey WOL! What do you need? Did the merchants guild send hitmans after you again? I keep trying to explain to them to just use the fill out form like everyone else, but wow are they stubborn."
"Nah, not today. It happened again."
"It- what, really??? I thought this was the vacation expansion!"
"Yeah, so did I. Alas. Can you do the thing before you find a ship to ferry everyone´s ass over here?"
"sigh Very well, just for you WOL."
"Thanks." click
"Hydaelyn fucking dammit"

oh hello ||weird lady||

(96) im sorry buddy but that looks. dumb

(96) i appretiate your optimism but hhhhhh some things may have changed from previous status quo there-

ah fuck, ||they gave him rez powers. kudos to the sound effect usage, cheeky but i like it||

[elfin jackal]

||Zoraal Ja managing to be a significant villain counter: 0||

[hasty kayak]

i love the juxtaposition of "terror happens" cheery quest accepted tune

thank you weather, as usual

knew i should've worked on my crafters more, now its gonna b awkward auugh

[elfin jackal]

a lot of the crafter quests are locked behind msq progress

[hasty kayak]

...ah, you're right. i may have forgotten

its not the first time theyve done this, ||but im always a sucker for usually cheery music change into somber when shit hits the fan||

right then, ||with vow of fratricide done|| ill resume tomorrow

i was promised palms and colorful jungles and lil cocktails AUGH

[plucky cairn]

I really loved the whole shift of tone

[signal sparrow]

Im not there yet so idk whats going on 😭

Imma just assume Lyse died and everyone is celebrating

[plucky cairn]

I did appreciate ||that Zooral Ja was mindful enough to leave the big carriers around for scenic shots tho||
#1032731043041640488 message

[hasty kayak]

its very "so, that lil shadowbringers throwback is done, what's next? ah. i see. brakes screeching"

the contrast is lowkey hilarious

||i wonder if the train survived :c i liked the old lady||

[signal sparrow]

..must not click on spoilers....ughhh

[elfin jackal]

i felt betrayed by that tbh

[hasty kayak]

i guess i expected it. ppl would call it boring if shit didn't hit the fan at some point. alas, the simpler times of arr are lost to us i think

@plucky cairn just to ask cause ive been curious about it this entire time, did #1032731043041640488 message refer to ||the western cliche portion?||

like, yeah it was kinda weak but i think i find it mildly annoyin at most personally

mostly i just scooted thru enjoyin the aesthetics

[plucky cairn]

Yes, I elaborate on it at some point, lemme look for it

Or maybe I didn't, I can't find it

My problem with it is that it felt incredibly inauthentic

Oh nevermind here it is: #1032731043041640488 message

I don't mind it being clichè, but I mind that them adhering to the clichè prevented them from writing something passable

||I was so on board with Westinian too.||

[elfin wave]

I'M BACK, BITCHES!

[elfin jackal]

Hi I'm bitches

[elfin wave]

Ayyyyy, Alpha! Omega!

[hasty kayak]

hell yeeee, wb

[hasty kayak]

(96) cats! 🎉

||now just a feeew more n then its proper world ending scenario||

(96) oh hey, ||gen was correct||

.... oh okay

(96) congratulations on ||alien status krile that is gobsmacking to me||

||of all the npcs to have zero dialogue....||

welcome back "what the fuck", we missed you

||KRILE MAYBE YOU COULD'VE SHARED THIS WITH THE CLASS EARLIER, THO?????||

[elfin jackal]

||"lalas are from space"||

[hasty kayak]

ngl ||krile is taking this absurdly well||

uh, i disagree ||krile||, that is pretty pressing to me! wah huh??

level 1: register at the adventuring guild!
level 96: ||so in this installment of plucky space force squad-||

[plucky cairn]

That is my assumption BTW

I wonder if they measure it in the future, I am curious

[elfin jackal]

This is answered

Even if the answer makes no sense when you think about it for a minute

Just like a lot of DT

[minor sorrel]

Going back to an earlier comment I made when I saw this, ||oh no, a lala reflection?! ||

[hasty kayak]

on a quick jump (hah) to dragoon 63, ERIK THE MONK NPC?????????

sobbing i miss the dedicated job questlines, erik hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[elfin jackal]

Same

That cameo was so weird when i never touched mnk

[hasty kayak]

(96) rucksack. krile that is high efficiency high quality knapsack. tsk, ruck, can you believe this lala

whispers ||space lala....||

[minor sorrel]

||I mean, she is a foreigner....||