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Anyone have any idea how often they restock? The Book was already sold out before I ever had a chance to buy one.
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Alder posted:Anything about Au ra? I need to know more about my dragon princess Some. There is expanded lore on the Auri creation myth - "Dawn Father Azim" and "Dusk Mother Nhaama" created the Au Ra in order to fight a war over who should rule the world. The Au Ra waged a bitter struggle in the name of their creators until they eventually put aside their differences. On seeing this, Azim and Nhaama returned to the heavens, leaving the world below to their children. The Raen integrated into various nations of Othard, most notably Doma and a newly-mentioned place called "Hingashi" which is an island nation off the coast of mainland Othard (side note: Hingashi was Yugiri's first stop on the exile trip but they turned her away, not wanted to get flattened by Varis' new army) while the Xaela, as known, still live on the steppe - tho curiously it's called the "Azim Steppe", so they live in a place named for the other god of the Auri duality, not for their Dusk Mother Nhaama. The wider area of Othard the Raen assimilated into is known as Yanxia. And... well, there's one other thing that I feel compelled to put into spoiler tags. In several places in the book, most notably the detailing of Allagan history, the living Bahamut apparently had the title "The Dawn Wyrm" very prominently, and Tiamat had the title "Dusk Wyrm", and the titles crop up fairly often. So. Well. Either that's a red herring the size of a blue whale, or it prrrrretty much explains exactly where the Au Ra come from, and also puts to bed all this "demon" nonsense. 
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Oct 17, 2016 19:07
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Josuke Higashikata posted:RP'ing is fine, but drat if I don't cringe when I get a RP'er who uses quote macros. Especially if there are quotes where the player is flirty with the target. Honestly, the people who do that are rarely even RPers. Just obnoxious individuals.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:10
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Can't believe they sullied the Roe perfection with that cat and the hyur Seeing as how the cat is Storm Commander R'ashaht Rhiki and she swings around an axe quite sharpish, I'm inclined to forgive them. The Hyur though, idk. Saint Freak posted:Is Thancred really like 2+ feet taller than everyone? Fulm. The word you're looking for is fulm. edit: bleeping autocorrect SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Oct 17, 2016 |
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Oct 17, 2016 19:11
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Josuke Higashikata posted:RP'ing is fine, but drat if I don't cringe when I get a RP'er who uses quote macros. Especially if there are quotes where the player is flirty with the target. I'll have you know resurrection macros are the best thing
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Oct 17, 2016 19:14
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Thinking about trying to fiddle with a ressurection macro so it has a message like "Raising target....Not!" and then it raises a differant knocked out pc
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Oct 17, 2016 19:19
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Truga posted:I'll have you know resurrection macros are the best thing Agreed. And they're practical! You don't want both your healers trying to raise the same target, it's a huge waste of time, cooldowns, and/or MP.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:20
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Eopia posted:Anyone have any idea how often they restock? The Book was already sold out before I ever had a chance to buy one. Same  SpaceDrake posted:Some. There is expanded lore on the Auri creation myth - "Dawn Father Azim" and "Dusk Mother Nhaama" created the Au Ra in order to fight a war over who should rule the world. The Au Ra waged a bitter struggle in the name of their creators until they eventually put aside their differences. On seeing this, Azim and Nhaama returned to the heavens, leaving the world below to their children. Does the lore book shed any light on Midgardsormr's two remaining unaccounted for children? Hraesvelgr, Ratatoskr, Nidhogg, Bahamut, and Tiamat make five. There were seven.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:23
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Seeing as how the cat is Storm Commander R'ashaht Rhiki and she swings around and axe quite sharpish, I'm inclined to forgive them. Fun fact, in Hullbreaker hard, while fighting Rhiki as a tank, if you turn off your tank stance, and her fell cleave crits without you using a cooldown, you're probably gonna die. I got hit by one for like 18k once. Granted this will change with new gear, but it was funny early on in the patch cycle.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:31
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seiferguy posted:Fun fact, in Hullbreaker hard, while fighting Rhiki as a tank, if you turn off your tank stance, and her fell cleave crits without you using a cooldown, you're probably gonna die. I got hit by one for like 18k once. Not if you One Ilm Punch her Barbaric Surge off first! I'm sure the rest of the roes didn't really want Commodore Whatshisface of the Yellowjackets there but they probably felt bad that he doesn't have any friends so they gave him a pity invite.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:34
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Closed-Down Pizza Parlor posted:Yeah, those gosh darn roleplayers are a menace, what with their ... hurting ... anyone, ever ...? Not that I think RPers are worse than any other group of players, but the bad ones suck in their own unique ways.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:39
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SpaceDrake posted:
This suggests that Bahamut and Tiamat were doing things in places besides just Mercydia, which allows us to stumble across ancient workings tied to them in other places.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:42
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Truga posted:I'll have you know resurrection macros are the best thing Someone in my old static (or maybe just one of the goon FCs, i forget) had a very good one based on gil seller spam. 
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Oct 17, 2016 19:42
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Eopia posted:Anyone have any idea how often they restock? The Book was already sold out before I ever had a chance to buy one. Yeeeeeeeep, same, here. I hope they get more stock, because godamn, I need this book.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:42
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troofs posted:See also: ice mages. It may be slower but it's lore-friendly because you can't burn the books!
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Oct 17, 2016 19:43
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https://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN/status/788088366109630464?s=09 Maybe this time. 
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Oct 17, 2016 19:47
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Captain Oblivious posted:Does the lore book shed any light on Midgardsormr's two remaining unaccounted for children? Vrtra and Azdaja are the remaining two. No Shinryu, surprisingly enough. Gearhead posted:This suggests that Bahamut and Tiamat were doing things in places besides just Mercydia, which allows us to stumble across ancient workings tied to them in other places. An alternate scenario is that the Au Ra were created during the Allag-Meracydia conflict, and either escaped or were compelled to leave by creators who did not want them to perish when it became obvious the Meracydian Alliance was going to lose. But either way, yeah, it's possible the story of Bahamut and Tiamat isn't quite done yet, though it might also just be a backstory factoid.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:48
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SpaceDrake posted:An alternate scenario is that the Au Ra were created during the Allag-Meracydia conflict, and either escaped or were compelled to leave by creators who did not want them to perish when it became obvious the Meracydian Alliance was going to lose. But either way, yeah, it's possible the story of Bahamut and Tiamat isn't quite done yet, though it might also just be a backstory factoid. I would love to see Tiamat sufficiently motivated as to get down off her cross. I'm still somewhat confused as to how they're going to handle the Garlean problem, really. It's not like Eorzea can take them on directly. They're an industrial power the size of Russia or China with a LOT of experience in loving people. You aren't going to persuade them to go away either, because for them it's a systematic war on religion itself to save the world from superstition literally eating the world for lunch. The only alternative I can see is them accidentally activating some ancient Allagan failsafe that blasts the heart of their empire to kingdom come. (And Omega is in the wrong place for that.) Perhaps the lore bit that the Allag left a LOT of ancient horrors chained up all over the world is a nod to that possibility.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:51
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As a BLM, once in a while I like to throw in a Freeze once or twice during a Roulette dungeon to see if anyone's paying attention. Usually if anybody notices they get a chuckle out of it, but once I had a WHM notice and go off for a minute explaining very condescendingly why I shouldn't use Freeze, and how using it makes the run take longer and lower DPS etc. I'll let you guys guess if that WHM used a single dps spell the entire dungeon.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:51
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Gearhead posted:I would love to see Tiamat sufficiently motivated as to get down off her cross. It's simple really. The Garleans are powerful but as the succession war just showed, they are not the Borg. Defeating them will almost certainly require provoking them to implode in on themselves. They are, after all, in no small part powered by conscripted labor from the conquered.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:52
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Gearhead posted:I would love to see Tiamat sufficiently motivated as to get down off her cross. We've already stumbled across more leftover Allagan doomsday weapons than Professor Farnsworth has built. When the time comes to take on the Garleans directly a way will be found to do it.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:59
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Captain Oblivious posted:It's simple really. The Garleans are powerful but as the succession war just showed, they are not the Borg. Defeating them will almost certainly require provoking them to implode in on themselves. They are, after all, in no small part powered by conscripted labor from the conquered. Ah, one little tidbit on that front: both Biggs and Wedge are indeed defectors from the wider Garlean Empire, and are both from southern Ilsabard. They were both "Aan", the lowest possible rung on the imperial totem pole and not even citizens. They didn't have a lot of ways to advance that didn't involve backbreaking labor that would mostly benefit their "betters", so when they saw the chance to bail with Cid, they took it. Garlemald is definitely not a unified front, and as Yoshida noted, exploring the effects of occupation both ways is going to be a theme for Stormblood. Some folks have grown up knowing only Garlean rule, yeah - but the Garlean social system is also perhaps not the best in the world and there are definitely people empire-wide who wouldn't mind helping something better come to the fore. Also, if it wasn't obvious, Biggs and Wedge are aliases - if the Garleans got wind of who they really were, their families would be at risk of retaliation. Cid doesn't have that problem because his family blew up at Bozja, and apparently Jessie's family is sufficiently highly-ranked that the Garlean government won't just tear them down to try and get at her (and she's pretty distant from said family anyway).
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Oct 17, 2016 20:00
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SpaceDrake posted:Ah, one little tidbit on that front: both Biggs and Wedge are indeed defectors from the wider Garlean Empire, and are both from southern Ilsabard. They were both "Aan", the lowest possible rung on the imperial totem pole and not even citizens. They didn't have a lot of ways to advance that didn't involve backbreaking labor that would mostly benefit their "betters", so when they saw the chance to bail with Cid, they took it. Real talk, why the hell isn't Jessie around helping the idiot squad with stuff?
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Oct 17, 2016 20:02
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Since housing's come up a couple times, (and since I'm gonna be waiting listed for the cool Encyclopedia, rip) decided to take some pictures of my Lily Hills apartment. The apartments are really nice in that your teleport drops you right on top of a Summoning Bell and Market board (where if you teleport to a town crystal you usually have to walk a bit to get to those.) So it's pretty convenient for that alone. Housing dress-up makes me happy.  I went to La Noscea and caught that fish myself. 
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Oct 17, 2016 20:03
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Real talk, why the hell isn't Jessie around helping the idiot squad with stuff? She's basically singlehandedly running the Ironworks while the idiot squad are out adventuring.
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Oct 17, 2016 20:03
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Captain Oblivious posted:It's simple really. The Garleans are powerful but as the succession war just showed, they are not the Borg. Defeating them will almost certainly require provoking them to implode in on themselves. They are, after all, in no small part powered by conscripted labor from the conquered. That and we don't need to actually take down the Garleans on a wider scale. I mean, it'd be satisfying if we did at some point, but strictly on the point of Ala Mhigo we're looking at a specific region and what's probably a relatively minor portion of the Empire as well. I imagine the theoretical might of the Empire is scary but all those legions are off in a far-flung empire doing their own things, each legion effectively an entity on its own.
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Oct 17, 2016 20:04
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SpaceDrake posted:Ah, one little tidbit on that front: both Biggs and Wedge are indeed defectors from the wider Garlean Empire, and are both from southern Ilsabard. They were both "Aan", the lowest possible rung on the imperial totem pole and not even citizens. They didn't have a lot of ways to advance that didn't involve backbreaking labor that would mostly benefit their "betters", so when they saw the chance to bail with Cid, they took it. Exploring the themes of colonialism/imperialism and their effects on both the colonized and the colonizer? I love you FF14 
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Conskill posted:That and we don't need to actually take down the Garleans on a wider scale. I mean, it'd be satisfying if we did at some point, but strictly on the point of Ala Mhigo we're looking at a specific region and what's probably a relatively minor portion of the Empire as well. So, essentially, how The Warrior Of Light is about to take an extremely enthusiastic walk through Ala Mhigo is, in small form, probably going to show us what needs to happen on a wider scale to beat the Empire. Barring a Random Act Of Xenocidal Clown.
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Oct 17, 2016 20:09
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Eopia posted:She's basically singlehandedly running the Ironworks while the idiot squad are out adventuring. This exactly. Jessie was running the actual business of the Ironworks while Cid was missing in between the end of Legacy and mid-ARR 2.0, and Cid's been happy to leave the day-to-day to her while he takes on specialized consulting cases and the like (such as helping the Ishgardians with their airship, as well as helping us with Crystal Tower and Alexander).
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Oct 17, 2016 20:14
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Fanfest was a blast. My voice is still recovering from the Primals concert. In the meantime I thought I'd share my thoughts on the event, since I know how highly this thread values my opinions. About Fanfest Itself Throughout the event, I was making mental notes of lessons to be learned for the 2018 fanfest. Dos and don'ts, things I wish people had told me beforehand. Among them:
Keynote and Stormblood Announcement
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Pictures           Thanks for the memories!
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Oct 17, 2016 20:24
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Fister Roboto posted:Lore Panel I don't think the Goddess made that command just because the father died, but because the father died and the mother had become abusive. The suicide then becomes a twisted sort of mercy. The daughter has done what is "necessary" but cannot possibly have a heart of harmony after doing what she did.
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Oct 17, 2016 20:27
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Nice condoms
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Oct 17, 2016 20:27
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Fister Roboto posted:Lore Panel Given how somehow 90% of the questions came from Hyperion and they all seemed to be on the level of "Can we have this one specific mount or outfit?" I would just like to take this opportunity to apologise to everyone for my server making GBS threads up a potentially good Q&A session. I was burying my head in my hands after not very long into it. ActionZero fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Oct 17, 2016 |
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Oct 17, 2016 20:28
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I didn't go to the piano concert, but the Primals concert sound mix was really poor. It didn't sound like the drums were miced at all, the bass overwhelmed both the lead and rhythm guitar, and vocals were really low in the mix (except for stuff that was being lip-synced to).
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Oct 17, 2016 20:29
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of course the localization team is full of undertale fans, there's a whole stat called Determination!
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Oct 17, 2016 20:42
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seiferguy posted:Fun fact, in Hullbreaker hard, while fighting Rhiki as a tank, if you turn off your tank stance, and her fell cleave crits without you using a cooldown, you're probably gonna die. I got hit by one for like 18k once. Yeah, I was completely destroyed by her fell cleave taking aggro briefly as Bard way back when. Rhiki is no joke.
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I'll just concur with Fister's impressions of fanfest, other than to add: gently caress you to whoever set up the merch booth the way it was. There were definitely sound issues, especially if you weren't in the seating area in the center. If you happened to be in line for the events off to the side, it was basically impossible to understand anything being said by the speakers. There was an amazingly well made Ramuh cosplay that I felt was a shoe-in to win the contest. Unfortunately it sounds like they denied him entry for having a "dangerous" costume, since he was wearing stilts under the robe to make him taller. The winner with the dragoon esoterics armor definitely earned it though. The proto Ultima fight was really fun, if kind of easy. Maybe they'll find a way to add it to the main game somehow. My friends grabbed a room just two blocks away, east of Hilton Grand Vacations (the hotel that looks like a tryhard gamer PC tower). Walking back and forth was definitely not good for my back. Also, walking behind hotels subjects you to random clouds of sewer smell. That's a lot of buffet dinners and lots of old people eating them, after all. It being Vegas, everyone is already used to having people in weird outfits walking around. Nevertheless it was pretty cool to be walking down the street with friends in cosplay when not only did nobody hassle them, but several asked what they were dressed as or asked for photos with them. Guy Fieri's restaurant was really mediocre for the price, and also I am pretty sure I have coronary heart disease now. On the other hand, 800 Degree Pizza was fantastic, and the PBR outdoor bar a bit south of the Paris had probably the best waitress I've ever run into. She knew exactly how to deal with half-drunken nerds and it was fantastic. The burgers were solid too.
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Oct 17, 2016 20:52
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The choices for the questions in the Q+A were abysmal. There's no reason to answer so many housing questions, glamour, dye or other superficial stuff. Just discuss mechanics or content, what went right about 3.4 what you've learned from it going forward, talk about one or two new features and if it means it's 20 minutes instead of 60 so be it.
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Actually, on second thought, the woman in the teaser could still be Yda. If it was her, they probably wouldn't show her tattoo because it would be a dead giveaway. Maybe it will be there in the full trailer.
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It looked like YoshiP got a bit annoyed with the housing questions, although I don't know if that was just a joke because he figured people wouldn't like the answers.
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