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StrixNebulosa posted:Hrmmmm.  Der Shovel posted:Does anyone have any pictures of Hrothgar Red Mages or cool Hrothgar Warrior glamours? I really want to race change but the lack of hats is bumming me out.  Straight-up Ronkan has a great "wall-of-iron" aesthetic.
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Cythereal posted:Merlwyb's not bullying the kobolds - she wants peace with them. Guess there's nothing they can do about repeated treaty violations, might as well keep murdering the understandably upset indigenous population 
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Aug 3, 2019 05:02
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Only got to it about six months after release, but I beat Azulmagia 
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Aug 3, 2019 05:12
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Well that banquet went worse than I thought.
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Aug 3, 2019 05:20
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Wrestlepig posted:Well that banquet went worse than I thought. Wine was good though
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Aug 3, 2019 05:21
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Ironslave posted:Zenos is Kefka but not funny. He's the powerful dude put in a position of authority he really shouldn't have and is just kind of one-dimensional, without making you laugh at his ineptitude. Whether you end up liking him is going to come down to if you enjoy unsympathetic villains with little characterization. Which, given one of the things that draws a lot of folks to the game is the degree to which characters do have personality, causes him to be a miss for a lot of folks. His VA can really chew the scenery at least.
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Aug 3, 2019 05:23
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Zenos is awesome
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Aug 3, 2019 05:23
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Zenos is good as a contrast to all the deep villains with complex motivations. His extreme power and murderboner for the WoL mean that he is going to be a sword-shaped spanner in everyone's plans until he is put down for good and that owns.
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SirSamVimes posted:Zenos is good as a contrast to all the deep villains with complex motivations. His extreme power and murderboner for the WoL mean that he is going to be a sword-shaped spanner in everyone's plans until he is put down for good and that owns. I mean, that would've been fine if he'd just stayed dead after we killed him he first time.
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Aug 3, 2019 05:28
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I thought Zenos was a fun villain, but I was more than ready to be done with him for good by the end of that story. He really didn't need to come back.
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Aug 3, 2019 05:32
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Zenos was completely right, the wol doesn't give a poo poo they just want to fight stuff
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Aug 3, 2019 05:38
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cheetah7071 posted:Zenos was completely right, the wol doesn't give a poo poo they just want to fight stuff He's absolutely not right that the WoL is like him since the WoL does not want to fight stuff at the cost of massive civilian casualties
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Aug 3, 2019 05:41
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Blockhouse posted:He's absolutely not right that the WoL is like him since the WoL does not want to fight stuff at the cost of massive civilian casualties Question about the cosmic situation as of the end of the SHB MSQ. So how many fuckin shards are left? There were 13 originally but I'm not clear on how many have been successfully rejoined, or whether the fuckup with the 13th counts. Did they squonch one in with Bahamut, or was that gonna be the First, and then that got hosed up -- then they were gonna do it with Thordan and we hosed THAT up -- then they were going to just try to get the WoDs to go ham, and we hosed THAT up... I begin to understand Emet-Selch and why he thought it would be a good idea to parley with us, even if he didn't expect to convince us, maybe at least he'd figure out how to avoid us
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Aug 3, 2019 05:51
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i'm late to voice line chat but i'm a huge fan of the new contender in the final shb trial "I AM STIFLED BY THIS VESSEL OF FLESH" hoping we still get to hear it in extreme
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Aug 3, 2019 05:52
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Nessus posted:Ah well you see that is true for my WOL, so it is true for all. Rofl. Lmao. There have been seven calamities throughout history, plus they ruined the 13th (it became the Void). So, five shards plus Source remaining.
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Nuebot posted:On that subject, I'm not far in Stormblood yet but so far the main villain(?) Zenos has been kind of lame. One guy I know really hypes the guy up but every single time he's been described to me he sounds just so incredibly generic and lame and I'm not looking forward to more interactions with him, especially after the really dull forced plot loss just to make him seem bigger and more awesome. Most of the antagonists so far seemed to have some degree of character to them, but everything about Zenos just seems to be anime as hell "I'm strong and evil and kill everything". It really depends on the person, I've found. I really, really like him as a "There but for the grace of God, go I" sort of villain. He's just a really strong dude who really likes fighting strong poo poo, kinda like a player character. He even picks up SAM as a job because katanas are sweet. Everything lame about him took a turn for me later in the story when you find out just how much he really, really wants to fight. Clarste posted:I mean, that would've been fine if he'd just stayed dead after we killed him he first time. On the other hand, an antagonist who wills himself out of death, solely for the sake of fighting more stuff, is super dope. It comes off a bit cliche because of genre conventions, but FFXIV as a game has had no trouble killing off built up antagonists, so having one that decides that, "nah, not done yet" is pretty neat. Doubly so because, as far as we know, there's no deeper motivation than fighting the WoL. He's willing to tell death to gently caress off and burn down an entire multi-generational empire for what's essentially a new raid tier.
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He's dumb and cliche but he works for me because he exists in a world that isn't dumb and cliche.
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Nessus posted:Ah well you see that is true for my WOL, so it is true for all. Rofl. Lmao.
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re; Fabio Kefka, I have a genuine hope that Zenos has pulled all the things he has - coming back from the dead, dismantling the empire - all in the name of fighting us but he has grossly miscalculated how much stronger we are via our time on the First. As a result he gets quickly curbstomped by us and the story heads in the direction of the Eorzan alliance taking advantage of the clusterfuck he's created in Garlemald and going on the offensive. This then leads into the next expansion. However, a thing happens and the WoL is called in to do WoL stuff. As far out as this likely is, I really hope for it to be a thing.
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Aug 3, 2019 06:42
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Stormblood OMG they put Tataru in a kimono. Thats loving adorable!
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I like Zenos mostly because his solo duties involved an integration of story and gameplay and that is a precious thing that needs to happen more in games. When I saw he was level 70 instead of ??? in the first duty I cackled with glee at it being an unwinnable fight.
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I was pretty thoroughly disenchanted with Gridania when I saw the little speech bubble conversation outside the conjurer's guild where the family is begging a conjurer to heal their sick child and the guy's like 'we can't go above quota or the elementals get mad.' Add in the one leatherworker quest chain where it's shown there's also speakers who abuse their position to push their own views even if the elementals are totally silent on a matter and it's just as poo poo as other city states, it's just poo poo in a pretty forest instead of a desert or island. EponymousMrYar posted:I like Zenos mostly because his solo duties involved an integration of story and gameplay and that is a precious thing that needs to happen more in games. I was wearing him down just fine until he did his big stupid 'fight over now' move in every solo duty so I'm still cheesed. 
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Kitfox88 posted:I was wearing him down just fine until he did his big stupid 'fight over now' move in every solo duty so I'm still cheesed.
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I like Zenos because he's the first villain that comes off like he has a personal emnity with the Warrior of Light and that's neat. I'm not sure he needed to come back from the dead though, but well he's cooler than his dad.
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post-SHB, I still haven't seen any evidence to the contrary that the WoL wasn't Emet's ex in a previous life.
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Zenos is a ridiculous wrecking ball of a character in both the narrative and the meta narrative sense. He's having a grand old time and he's definitely not my friend but I dearly love him anyway. And I will bust a gut if he shows up in a post ShB solo duty and he's still level 70. Thundarr fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Aug 3, 2019 |
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I think Zenos is allowed to try and murder us under the condition that he first do the Buscarron bucket quest from level 20-whatever.
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The paths of good and evil are determined not by the nature of your heart nor the circumstances of your birth, but by the fetch quests that one *hits ESC*
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Honestly I wasn't really a fan of Zenos and I'm kind of torn on him but I appreciate that he's still somewhat working for the plot as a whole simply because they've taken his one-note shtick and just kept pressing it and turning it up to 11, to the point that he's basically burning down the empire and ruining both his father's and the ascians' plans solely because he's got such a murderboner. Just the sheer amount of chaos that's resulting has been hilarious to watch so far.
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Draxion posted:Have you not done Stormblood somehow? How did you get to 70? Dunno about SB but I ran into this problem in HW right now. You need to finish HW (or get close to) to unlock poetics vendors for 60+ and I think by the time I finish that stuff I’ll be around 67-68. Edit: going really slowly and doing daily roulettes is how mainly, and only leveling the one job. THE AWESOME GHOST fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Aug 3, 2019 |
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Aug 3, 2019 08:58
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lmao @ the 80 WHM quest, where Sylphie doesn't have enough energy to heal because she spent too much casting DPS spells. Everything comes full circle
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RE;antag chat: Basically I just want them to bullshit Hydrus back to life and have him be my cool buddy. I liked him, and I want his swordgun.
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super sweet best pal posted:Snakeliege. Hmmm, it's not quite round enough. Maybe it'll work on Lalafell?
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I appreciate that crafting 80** recipes is practical without blowing a fortune on melds and stuff. My level 80 crafted crafter gear, with a mix of VI and VIII materia in the main slots and only a few +CP materia overmelded, was enough to make crafted weapons and such comfortably with only a little bit of starting quality. I managed to upgrade the last two i340 slots on my Scholar, and replace my remaining i330 gear on SMN and RDM (plus upgraded weapons), so it's all good, though I wish the leather wasn't so dizzyingly expensive. Speaking of SMN, it's starting to click for me. I still don't have a real flow to it, it mostly feels like a lot of plates to spin, but hey, it still does better damage than my other level 80 DPS and rips through trash in dungeons. I do wish pets/egi assaults could just go on autopilot though, they're...not the most satisfying things to have to weave in.  obligatory elfpost, featuring some tweaks to my very, very long-running SCH glamour set 
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Nuebot posted:RE;antag chat: Hydrus is just another fascist like Gaius or Varis. If he ever returns they only thing waiting for him would suicide via WoL as opposed to suicide via Primal.
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Aug 3, 2019 10:15
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This Cat Dad TANKS.
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Der Shovel posted:This Cat Dad TANKS. Take me now, cat daddy.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:post-SHB, I still haven't seen any evidence to the contrary that the WoL wasn't Emet's ex in a previous life.
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How to best use flourish on bosses? Only single target procs or all?
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Varance posted:Pretty safe bet. Your player character is definitely being put forward as someone who lived in Amaurot before the sundering. The player is also heavily suggested to have a strong connection to the Amaurot Council (Ascians), and might actually be Venat, the Amaurot council member who went rogue and summoned Hydaelyn in a bid to stop the mass sacrifices required to sustain Zodiark. In the latter circumstance, it makes absolute sense for Hydaelyn to choose the player as her champion of light - who else would support Her in keeping Zodiark from coming back more than the person who basically created Her to banish Zodiark in the first place? Have we ever confirmed that the rogue council member was called Venat, or is it conjecture from XII lore and how that ties in with the Ascians?
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