Kitfox88 posted:

So I finally got around to getting my last class to 50, that being WHM, and I gotta ask: Is it possible to get the coats that A-Ruhn and Ray-O wear? They're super cute.

Ciaphas posted:

To me it was just his walk. Seems at first like drama for drama's sake; could well be true, but to me it was the slow, tired shuffle of a person who is deeply and fundamentally Fed Up With This poo poo but trying to keep it in check because their struggle is too much more important than their existential exhaustion

I do wonder if I read too much into something as subtle as the way a character ambulates, though

StrixNebulosa posted:

hello I'd like to file a complaint with triple triad players not handing over their goddamned cards when they lose thank you

Veib posted:

Their gear, Raya-O-Senna's especially, is certainly meant to evoke a traditional FF white mage just like the artifact gear is, but both of them wear outfits that are unique to them.

AngusPodgorny posted:

Garland Tools lets you look up npc appearance settings and equipment (among all kinds of other things), like Raya-O-Senna is: https://www.garlandtools.org/db/#npc/1004628. Unfortunately the site confirms that it's a custom robe.

my buddy Superfly posted:

Drawing this actually made me more interested in trying black mage out again.

https://twitter.com/rainbowfission/status/1165319003683938305

StrixNebulosa posted:

I haven't cleaned up everything - there's still Of Siblings and Sidewhiskers, Odin and other primals (extreme, etc), Hildi's Immaculate Deception, Gae Bolg quest, Greatest Story Never Told, Melding Materia Muchly, Crystal Tower 3 and a billion levequests.

I just wanted to trim a few of the moogle mail quests off, and lo, I did! I'm not being as thorough this time about doing every extra thing before continuing the plot, as a bunch of it needs a party - or for me to be in the mood. And I am not in the mood for Hildi or haircut guy. Later though!

BisbyWorl posted:

Titan's leadup has the slight benefit of pulling the 'it was a secret test allllllllllll along' card.

Garuda's is just blatently loving with you. 'oh hey I can get you a corrupted crystal. yeah here's your corrupted water crystal lol wait what do you mean you wanted wind?'

Ciaphas posted:

To me it was just his walk. Seems at first like drama for drama's sake; could well be true, but to me it was the slow, tired shuffle of a person who is deeply and fundamentally Fed Up With This poo poo but trying to keep it in check because their struggle is too much more important than their existential exhaustion

I do wonder if I read too much into something as subtle as the way a character ambulates, though

Spuzzz posted:

I think it is worth it to do the Gae Bolg quest since you can knock it out in a few hours and unlock 2 new trials. You can then upgrade it at the forge to make it glow with just 3 Thavnarian Mists. The steps after that though get real grindy even if the dragoon relic is one of the best looking zeta weapons. CT3 is also good to knock out, the Alliance Raid duty roulette gives good XP.

cock hero flux posted:

Titus' leadup and specifically the part where you do a bunch of busywork for and then have a rock-breaking contest with a guy who turns out to have absolutely nothing to do with anything is worthwhile entirely for the scene it sets up way later on where you run into that guy again going "yeah, I killed Levibetus. its scales were huge, almost as big as MY DICK" and then, upon seeing you, he immediately shouts that his dick is tiny and runs away

BaDandy posted:

From what I've seen from Twitter friends, Emet looks like he's running off of 5 Hour Energy shots and pure spite, so this tracks, but I haven't gotten to ShB yet, to be fair.

Tainen posted:

A++

https://twitter.com/surfacage/status/1164990521187508224?s=21

Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:

People make fun of Minfilia's outfit a lot, but Alphinaud and Alisaie's original clothes are definitely the weirdest in the game. The thigh and ribcage gaps (why?), the combination leggings and wedges, it's all just very strange.

Algid posted:

ftfy

His character introduction was all about how he was taking a vacation via being dead, except Lahabrea hosed things up so much he had to pop back in a meat puppet from one of his clone forges.

It's also hilarious how the Ascians have been working together so long they pretty much hate each other and have settled on certain common consensus like "Lahabrea is total loving idiot."

HPanda posted:

We were talking about Minfilia’s outfit in FC chat last night. It was the first time I noticed that she’s wearing an assless dress. Fun fact: “assless” autocorrects to “assured” and I think that’s a pretty appropriate change.

Squidtentacle posted:

So I got to a point in Stormblood where the game just elaborated on the Garleans and its reasoning made something I already loved about this game even better.

Anyone can do anything in Eorzea with sufficient training and assistance. A Roegadyn can be as good of a ninja as Yugiri; a Lalafell can be a better marauder than an entire ship of pirates. Different races might have biases toward certain professions, sure, like seafaring Roegadyn basically perfecting the art of murdering people with a giant axe, but there's nothing stopping them from taking up other roles or professions. It's exemplified in the way that your starting city is determined not by race, but by profession; naturally, certain regions will be better locations to learn certain arts than others, whether by cultural influence or the surrounding resources. And again, the races in those regions might have biases, like Ishgard being almost entirely Elezen, but they aren't the only people in those regions.

Even within each race, everyone isn't the same. Despite how integrated they are and how probably distant they are from their original tribes by this point, the Miqo'te still maintain their original tribal prefixes, but you still have the range of demeanors and approaches to the world from Y'shtola to Nashu. Nashu isn't an airhead because she's a Miqo'te; she's an airhead because...that's who she is, as a person.

It's a very refreshing change from something like WoW, where each culture has a hard line between one another, and your race will ALWAYS determine who you are and what you can do. Even by this point in time, when feasibly some draenei could choose to learn the art of being a rogue or something, that's not represented by gameplay, despite there not really being any mechanical reason for that to be the case. The cities, too, are solidly separated; even the capitals of each faction are very much "this is where the humans live" and "this is where the orcs live". Even within these sweeping national alliances, the integration of races is surface-level at best.

So you finally get to the Magic Fascists in FF14, who've spent all this time gushing about how they're the superior race physically and mentally and they have this magic third eye and whatever, who cares. It's obviously not true because even their best soldiers, who are probably magitek-enhanced anyway, can be beaten by a force of Eorzeans, but rather than just have that superiority be called out by gameplay, the story itself admits that it's not even true. Garleans just can't use magic due to their physical makeup, and the way it's described is that they were essentially laughed out to Siberia, and their only saving grace was that they found a lot of fantasy cobalt and made magitek.

What's great is that the way this is described and at the point where this is revealed, you've spent multiple plotlines negotiating with reluctant or outright hostile nations and forming valuable alliances without the use of force, and the implication in this revelation is that some Garlean leader decided that, instead of using this wealth of cobalt and repurposed Allagan technology in trade and as a negotiating strength to build alliances with other nations, instead they should act like the scared bullies they've become and go to war with them. Instead of admitting their weakness and building strength from it, they instead decided to build the internal narrative of "no, we're the best, actually." By now, that sentiment has become so ingrained into Garlean culture that even a scientist studying the inherent and generally accepted weakness of the Garleans gets laughed out of the room for studying how to overcome that weakness, and the only people who ever find places of power are nationalists, racists, and psychopaths whose opinions on the world have been fostered in an echo chamber of hate. Even when the Garleans accept other races into their ranks, it's only through conditioning and a disavowing of any of their previous beliefs, unlike the melting pot of Eorzea.

It's not even shown as something sympathetic; by this point, with all your experiences and accumulated knowledge of the setting, you get to come to the conclusion yourself that the Garleans made the conscious choice to be Fantasy Nazis, and you've seen multiple former members of Garlean society realize upon exposure to other cultures and races that the Empire's fascism is actually really, really stupid. So many other settings make the Fantasy Nazi archetype out to be way too appealing, and 14 has managed to make a realistic, unappealing situation with their dumb fantasy fascism.

This game is good, I like it.

Squidtentacle posted:

So I got to a point in Stormblood where the game just elaborated on the Garleans and its reasoning made something I already loved about this game even better.

...

This game is good, I like it.

MadFriarAvelyn posted:

pumpinglemma posted:

Yeah, I very much appreciate the way this game just... doesn’t gently caress up in the way that so many other fantasy worlds do. I’d like to see a bit more openly LGBT stuff, but the way it handles race and gender and fascism is a breath of fresh air.

BaDandy posted:

That's such a huge mood.

Bobfly posted:

I'm sorry, I know this doesn't relate to the thread topic, but... What does this mean? I see people talking about things being a mood all the time, and I feel so old.

Bobfly posted:

I feel so old.

somepartsareme posted:

im still mad about no male viera/female hrothgar after the sexual dimorphism in au ra but otherwise yes, ffxiv is pretty good about clearing the extremely low bar wow presents

Captain Oblivious posted:

To FF14s credit, it at least doesn’t try to justify the lack of female hrothgar or male viera with BIOTRUTHS and is pretty open about it being a budget thing.

Bobfly posted:

I'm sorry, I know this doesn't relate to the thread topic, but... What does this mean? I see people talking about things being a mood all the time, and I feel so old.