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I love the Ilsabard contingent. What a great cast of characters to bring back. Also Emmanellain is there.
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OddObserver posted:I feel like I should macro dragoon's scary buff line, since switching targets for it and back is really clumsy for me.... I did this, and organize my party list so that my priority buff targets are auto sorted to the top of the party list whenever I'm playing dps. The way dragoon buffs roll out it works perfectly.
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Extremely minor early Thavnair spoilers https://twitter.com/PrognosisFFXIV/status/1470423881781596163?s=20
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Nodosaur posted:I love the Ilsabard contingent. What a great cast of characters to bring back. Someone needs to hook him up with a dancer job stone, he'd be unstoppable!
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The level 89 quest "Friends Gathered" is enough to make Endwalker probably my favorite expansion. I just like hanging out with my friends. This expansion loving nails the quiet character moments.
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Ninja really needs to step up their game and acquire Hellfrog Large
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Zomborgon posted:Ninja really needs to step up their game and acquire Hellfrog Large Transformation phase where you just become the ninja frog boss from Nioh.
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I can't imagine using focus target for anything other than the boss, I need 100% castbar uptimePollyanna posted:The macro is mostly cause I'm sick of shaking my mouse to find my cursor so I can click Swiftcast -> Thin Air -> Raise, costing precious time. It'd be amazing if there was better chording or hotkeying options, but... Just in case you didn't know, there's an option to make the cursor big which might skip the "shaking the mouse" phase.
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Begemot posted:Someone needs to hook him up with a dancer job stone, he'd be unstoppable! Sure that would be hilarious. Anyway, am I now shipping Cirina and Sadu based on Sadu saying they’ve gotten closer and become hunting partners? The answer is yes.
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TheWorldsaStage posted:https://twitter.com/Larryzaur/status/1470409631159795713?t=edXnxBAIdFZZ2MgQH65lTA&s=19 Doesn't affect Carbuncle or the Egis. Voted 1
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Just a warning for people on the midst of Relic Weapon Quests: you may have to reallocate points to advance since they squished stats. Thankfully the anima one was free, not sure when it changed or if it's a one time only, having to farm more sand would have killed me.
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I won't be posting this expac's Those Screenshots until I've taken them with all of my alts. But I definitely don't think EW would have worked as well as it does if either the first or the second halves were expanded into their own expansions. Runa fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Dec 13, 2021 |
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hazardousmouse posted:What? Who's suggesting that? Multiple people in this very thread.
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Endwalker feels like 130% of an expansion (which make sense, they said it was 30% longer). I would much rather that be squished into 1 expansion, then expanded out into two expansion and five content patches.
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I mean, I could imagine the MSQ landing a bit better if they broke up each zone into a mini-patch, with a new one every two or three weeks. It would be a bit experimental, though, so I can see why they didn't.
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I can see where the idea comes from because there are points and places midway through that have the HOLY poo poo impact of what would otherwise be a patch climax... but I think that's a quality that makes Endwalker what it is. Stretching any part of it out would be to dilute that part, or to linger way too long on the dark parts to the overall detriment of the whole.
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Mordiceius posted:Endwalker feels like 130% of an expansion (which make sense, they said it was 30% longer). I would much rather that be squished into 1 expansion, then expanded out into two expansion and five content patches.  Bit similar how Stormblood suffered from splitting between east and west half.
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I unlocked the dyable job gear, but I had to make a slight adjustment because we don't cover our gams in this family
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I do feel like Endwalker is two expansions squeezed together, and that’s not necessarily a detriment (in fact I really like Endwalker, even if I think Shadowbringers was the better story). But I can see how those two separate expansions would have worked out and I don’t hate them. Expansion 1 (spoilers for the first half of Endwalker basically, up to level 85). The Garlemald Campaign, a more focused expansion about pushing our way into Garlemald and ending the tower threat. You’d start at Radz-at-Han and head north through Ilsabard, getting a zone in the Viera homeland and Bozja and so on until you reach Garlemald which goes pretty much the way it does in Endwalker. Expansion 2 (spoilers for the rest of the story). Dealing with the actual End of Days, Sharlayan gets the main city focus here and you expand the Elpis and Labyrinthos stuff to more meaningfully be about finding a solution to the Endsinger. Lots of call backs, visiting new parts of old zones on our global quest for an answer which would also let you expand out the apocalypse weather stuff, but not necessarily aiming for misery porn.
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adhuin posted:
Of course, if they split that into two expansions I suspect the response to the second would be "why are we doing the same thing again only in a different spot?"
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On other news. I love the official Paladin outfit: Finally a proper armour piece.
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For me, the power in Endwalker hasn't necessarily been (full game spoilers) the cosmic battle vs nihilism (though that is v. good), but it has instead been the little character moments. There is so much in this expansion but we've still had plenty of time to just sit with characters and just have moments. Seeing all my friends from the last 8 years reach the culmination of their personal arcs is incredibly powerful and inspiring.
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Endwalker is good because it goes hard on the Awesome Per Second. Splitting Endwalker up would ruin it. More is not better. Mordiceius posted:For me, the power in Endwalker hasn't necessarily been (full game spoilers) the cosmic battle vs nihilism (though that is v. good), but it has instead been the little character moments. There is so much in this expansion but we've still had plenty of time to just sit with characters and just have moments. Seeing all my friends from the last 8 years reach the culmination of their personal arcs is incredibly powerful and inspiring. The nihilism vs. humanism angle exists in service of the player and the characters, not the other way around. Which is why it works so well.
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Lord_Magmar posted:I do feel like Endwalker is two expansions squeezed together, and that’s not necessarily a detriment (in fact I really like Endwalker, even if I think Shadowbringers was the better story). But I can see how those two separate expansions would have worked out and I don’t hate them. So the question is - Would the death of Zodiark happen at the end of expansion 1? The start of expansion 2? The patches? And what would the patches cover in this idea? Not trying to be dismissive or argumentative (hope it didn't come across that way), generally curious in expanding this idea. It's a good thought exercise.
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Lord_Magmar posted:I do feel like Endwalker is two expansions squeezed together, and that’s not necessarily a detriment (in fact I really like Endwalker, even if I think Shadowbringers was the better story). But I can see how those two separate expansions would have worked out and I don’t hate them. Yeah, I think it's easy to see how it could be split, but the problem is that you'd have to add in a lot of filler, especially in the patches between expansions. It's much better to just get this whole story in one go, imo. I hope the next expansion is more similar to HW and ShB, where it's more about traveling through a new location and really digging deep into it, but it was really fun to have one that was almost entirely crazy big concepts and callbacks.
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Lord_Magmar posted:I do feel like Endwalker is two expansions squeezed together, and that’s not necessarily a detriment (in fact I really like Endwalker, even if I think Shadowbringers was the better story). But I can see how those two separate expansions would have worked out and I don’t hate them. I think for me the problem is Garlemald is dead. Zenos delivered the killshot when he dropped Varis, and Fandaniel helped build the tombstone. We've had two content patches, a trial series, and a whole area basically dealing with their shambling corpse of an empire and its warring remnants. I think at this point they made the right call in not having some grand final march, but instead us rolling up on a ruined city with a rotting fascism primal at its heart. edit: I just struggle to imagine what there really is left to say about the Garleans that they didn't.
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Mordiceius posted:For me, the power in Endwalker hasn't necessarily been (full game spoilers) the cosmic battle vs nihilism (though that is v. good), but it has instead been the little character moments. There is so much in this expansion but we've still had plenty of time to just sit with characters and just have moments. Seeing all my friends from the last 8 years reach the culmination of their personal arcs is incredibly powerful and inspiring. I absolutely loved the part where all your friends come into your room with a bunch of food and your WoL and all their friends are talking and eating. I loved the little bit with Graha and Alisae with their burgers
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It's not out of the question that they did discuss this, that there was enough material to spread through two expansions to bring things to their end... but also, FFXIV is getting long in the tooth. Maybe they wondered how much longer the game honestly could go at the subscriber level and engagement level that it was at, especially if they didn't follow up Shadowbringers with something just as powerful and and emotional. Maybe they made the choice to just jam it all together and go for the biggest drat finish possible while the fire was still there, either creatively on their end or engagement-wise from the player base.
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For me, the pro-dialogue choice wasn't admitting to Zenos that you were Gamer Trash, it was asking if everyone was alright after you nearly died.
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Mordiceius posted:So the question is - Would the death of Zodiark happen at the end of expansion 1? The start of expansion 2? The patches? And what would the patches cover in this idea? To answer the question Probably either as the final trial of expansion 1, or the .3 patch trial. The former gives more time to build up towards the poo poo the end is coming stuff. Maybe the first blasphemy becomes the .3 trial, the latter would be more close to how the expansion stories normally work where .3 is the last of an expansion and .4 is the build up towards the next. You could also plausibly put it in .5 so that in universe you get the immediacy of the End of Days Endwalker gives. But the patches would cover rebuilding Garlemald and preparing for the oncoming End of Days, reaffirming allies and making sure we’re ready for whatever the true nature of the calamity is. Honestly I think Endwalker is better than my idea, I just think the outline I gave is reasonable for an origin point for what Endwalker became, in terms of two expansions being turned into one bigger than average expansion.
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I beat Endwalker.   My character is intensely cool.
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SirPhoebos posted:For me, the pro-dialogue choice wasn't admitting to Zenos that you were Gamer Trash, it was asking if everyone was alright after you nearly died. Haha yes. I got the reaction I was hoping it would from the character I was hoping it would too.
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so the think Cirina calls Sadu? "Khatun"? Here's what it translates to: quote:A lady or wife in certain Central Asian communities, sometimes used as a title. It's almost certainly being used as a title, but the double meaning is fitting I think. :P
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FeatherFloat posted:It's not out of the question that they did discuss this, that there was enough material to spread through two expansions to bring things to their end... but also, FFXIV is getting long in the tooth. Maybe they wondered how much longer the game honestly could go at the subscriber level and engagement level that it was at, especially if they didn't follow up Shadowbringers with something just as powerful and and emotional. Maybe they made the choice to just jam it all together and go for the biggest drat finish possible while the fire was still there, either creatively on their end or engagement-wise from the player base. Honestly, the biggest shame about not splitting this up over 2 expansion is - not having the "end" of the story happening at level 99.
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