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Jimbot posted:2.0 can drag in the middle but I'd never recommend to anyone to get a skip pot. The game does a really good job of easing you into all the mechanics as you level up for the game itself and your jobs, despite me thinking some classes get certain abilities later than they should. I wouldn't recommend buying a skip pot for 2.0, but I bought one for the 2.x quests after 2.0 to get to heavensward and no regrets. Watched the cutscenes on YouTube to get caught up.
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Cephas posted:I was dreading the 2.x patches when I first heard about them, but by the time the Rising Stones stuff settles in, the story and writing become way more engaging. 2.0 is "hey, this is the world and this is you, the warrior of light". 2.x is the dev team finding their footing, and to slot this into a pro/con thing... Pro: the story is real good Con: it's delivered via 5 step quests of "talk to this guy to get the mcguffin" teleporting over the entire realm It's a slog, and you can get burnt out just mainlining MSQ after MSQ; however, I wouldn't call it punishing or anything of the sort.
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Just do what I did: Skip every cutscene in the game because its a Final Fantasy game and they have never had good stories.
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Jandipoo posted:Just do what I did: Skip every cutscene in the game because its a Final Fantasy game and they have never had good stories. No fiction has ever had a good story tho. The bar is low.
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90% of my enjoyment of this game's cutscenes comes from watching my character act it out in the most ridiculous outfit I can wear.
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Jandipoo posted:Just do what I did: Skip every cutscene in the game because its a Final Fantasy game and they have never had good stories. Why even bother with this franchise, then...?
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Jan 12, 2018 18:04
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Sade posted:Why even bother with this franchise, then...? The actual...game..part..of the video game?
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Sade posted:Why even bother with this franchise, then...? Because it also has good raiding and you can make your numbers bigger and the fashion is pretty good at times. Weird people enjoy different things. And Saint Freak posted:The actual...game..part..of the video game?
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Damnit, Brainamp! Getting my hopes up. Jokes on you if you think square would ever use a roegadame for promotional stuff.   I also really want mannequins. 
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Roe ladies are best ladies, so it's obvious they would never appear in any promotional material. Not waif enough.
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Brainamp posted:Jokes on you if you think square would ever use a roegadame for promotional stuff. I gotta say, holy hell, that's one of the coolest looking Roegadames I've ever seen.
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Jan 12, 2018 19:02
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I finished the HW main story Midgarsormyr was a good Egg after all
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Phone posted:2.0 is "hey, this is the world and this is you, the warrior of light". The lovely pacing makes more sense if you tackle it in the manner in which it was delivered, with three-month breaks in between each increment of .x
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Jan 12, 2018 19:35
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Have a second monitor/tablet/laptop/phone on nearby with Netflix/Hulu/whatever weird anime you're into so that you can distract yourself as you wait for Mor Dhona to load for the zillionth time then pause for the actual story bits and then it's fine honestly.
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This game is my primary vehicle for listening to podcasts. It got me through the entirety of the adventure zone I’m taking a break to play other stuff during the patch lull, I’m falling way behind on my podcast backlog
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We wiped, like, 15 times on this. And the worst part is that there's a harder version of Nael than this.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:We wiped, like, 15 times on this. T9 is no joke, unsynched gets you past all the numbers checks but the mechanics are still rough. The real mechanical hell is unsynched T 7.
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Jan 12, 2018 20:24
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Ainsley McTree posted:This game is my primary vehicle for listening to podcasts. It got me through the entirety of the adventure zone Taking breaks to do Hildy, Postmoogle, and alllll the new level 50 dungeons does wonders to break up the slog, too.
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Jan 12, 2018 20:37
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TFRazorsaw posted:I finished the HW main story Congratulations on finding the Heaven Sward. Now to delve into the remaining bits of plot that aren't resolved yet! You'll notice pretty fast that the HW expansion patches are paced way better than ARR's. And be sure to unlock the ex version of the trial fight you just beat. It's still cool af and actually on the harder side when level synched.
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Jan 12, 2018 20:38
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Thordan’s Reign is honestly still one of my favorite extreme trials.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Thordan’s Reign is honestly still one of my favorite extreme trials. 
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Phone posted:2.0 is "hey, this is the world and this is you, the warrior of light". yeah the 2.x story is real good and needs to be 90-ish quests shorter
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Thordan EX is definitely one of the best trials in the game. I'm partial to fights where executing mechanics well and planning and communication are more important than pumping out raw numbers. It has its DPS checks, but I never struggled with those as much as having a toe in the wrong place for whirly-tackle or someone out of place for SPEAR. Plus it's actually pretty forgiving if someone dies. It's got beautiful visuals in a game full of fights with beautiful visuals. The music is great. It's probably easily top 5 material. Slides in right under T13.
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The post Heavsenward stuff was pretty good, shame about the WOD though.
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:WOD though. So much potential
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:The post Heavsenward stuff was pretty good, shame about the WOD though. Note: The Warriors of Darkness died (again) on the way back to their home planet. Also, does anyone have suggestions on healing Black Hole phase in O4S? I can have people at full health, with Roused Whispering Dawn, Fey Covenant, and a Succor shield prior to the Black Hole cast going off, even throw Excog on the tank, and people are still dying left and right. Obviously Indom when everyone's gathering up for Holy isn't enough healing, but I'm not sure what else there is to give besides maybe a Swiftcasted Succor or trying to switch the initial Succor out for a deployed Adlo. I guess I can ponder it while waiting for absurdly long Doma Castle DF queues. And take cute /gpose screenshots with AFK friends. 
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dmboogie posted:Taking breaks to do Hildy, Postmoogle, and alllll the new level 50 dungeons does wonders to break up the slog, too. Even the poop quest was better than WoW's! And contextually appropriate, too.
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TFRazorsaw posted:I finished the HW main story Done the dungeon and trial yet? Don't mouse over if you haven't. 
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Jan 12, 2018 23:44
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This game genuinely has some loving amazing lines.
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I did all of it, yeah.
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Turns out I copy-pasted the wrong image link. Have what I was ACTUALLY trying to copy-paste.   Gee, what could possibly happen if a god should choose to fight a god-killer? An angry, vengeful, wrathful god-killer at that. Hmmm...
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Now do the fat chocobo mask.
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I don't have that screenshot handy.
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Two of my sprouts are gonna get married, so if anybody wants to attend just send a Tell to Lilith Vrinn or Merwin Vyraxian. The wedding is January 19th (next Friday) at 8 pm EST. It's gon be cute.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Turns out I copy-pasted the wrong image link. Have what I was ACTUALLY trying to copy-paste. who? what are you?
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pupuru posted:oh I meant just the base game, I know there's at least as much story content in the expacs Making stew is an unironically good quest because it helps 'ground' the warrior of light and show that even though they're a terrifying godkiller they still care about the common person. Like, imagine that you're fighting in WW2 and Patton himself decides to show up and cook you dinner.
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Mr. Nice! posted:who? what are you? Dwesa fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Jan 13, 2018 |
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vOv posted:Making stew is an unironically good quest because it helps 'ground' the warrior of light and show that even though they're a terrifying godkiller they still care about the common person. Like, imagine that you're fighting in WW2 and Patton himself decides to show up and cook you dinner. Yeah, I loved it 
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Primals are like Old Testament Gods full of wrath and fire and commands while the WoL is like Jesus, God in a human body, and stuff like making stew is like how Jesus would wash people's feet which they would have added during 2.X but they try not to give the foot fetishists much to latch onto.
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