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That Little Demon posted:Oh yes. Churning Mist rules. I love Ysayle and Estinian and they are 1000x better characters than all the scions combined. The shame of the entire thing is having to lug Alphaiund around. Where is his sister? She is so much better than him and I’ve only seen her like twice. Once before Coils and in Coils. One of the big differences with how the writing is handled between ARR and everything after, is that you tend to travel with a party of people who actually do poo poo in the expansions, unlike when you occasionally had the Scions hanging around and then sitting on the sidelines in ARR while you did everything. Which makes it easier to actually care about the characters, unlike ARR where you have Yda and Papalymo standing around doing nothing and making excuses while you do all the work for the Sylphs. Veotax fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Sep 10, 2023 |
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Sep 10, 2023 22:33
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Don’t spoil anything for me but I’m happy and hoping they are all dead and I never see them again lol
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Sep 10, 2023 22:45
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i'll keep it nonspecific so its not really a spoiler, but you should try to do Coils. all the way through. I waited till 90 till i finished it and regret that
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Sep 10, 2023 22:58
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Sep 10, 2023 23:00
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Arist posted:Pretty sure the moogle quests they removed in Churning Mists were all optional. Also they didn't remove them, they just no longer gate the tribe behind doing all of them. If they did they didn't remove enough, you still have to do three entire quest chains to unlock them.
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Sep 10, 2023 23:01
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Hellioning posted:If they did they didn't remove enough, you still have to do three entire quest chains to unlock them. Yeah I did it a few months ago, 19 quests iirc, none marked that they're gating an entire tribe.
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Sep 10, 2023 23:04
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Veotax posted:One of the big differences with how the writing is handled between ARR and everything after, is that you tend to travel with a party of people who actually do poo poo in the expansions, unlike when you occasionally had the Scions hanging around and then sitting on the sidelines in ARR while you did everything. Which makes it easier to actually care about the characters, unlike ARR where you have Yda and Papalymo standing around doing nothing and making excuses while you do all the work for the Sylphs.
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Sep 10, 2023 23:07
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Where are the Coils? I did a lot of unlock quests in ARR and never encountered them.
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Sep 10, 2023 23:17
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Should start from a quest - Primal Awakening - from Urianger in the Waking Sands.
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Sep 10, 2023 23:18
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Zurtilik posted:Where are the Coils? I did a lot of unlock quests in ARR and never encountered them. The high-end 8-man raids of ARR. I think the quest line you unlock them from is given by Minfilia not long after you finish 2.0 The ARR 8-mans are the weird odd ones out, compared to the 8-mans in the expansions, since the expansions all have easier 'story mode' raids you need to do first before you unlock the real versions, while Coils only has the hard ones (and a few unlockable harder ones) and the story is locked behind those.
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Sep 10, 2023 23:20
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Hellioning posted:If they did they didn't remove enough, you still have to do three entire quest chains to unlock them. There are still many, yes
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Sep 10, 2023 23:46
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I enjoy Estinien's one-track mind in HW. "I know you're trying for peace and all, but I'm gonna tag along just in case you decide killing dragons is a good idea. You know, no pressure, just remember there's an easy answer to all this."
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Sep 11, 2023 00:18
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Bruceski posted:I enjoy Estinien's one-track mind in HW. "I know you're trying for peace and all, but I'm gonna tag along just in case you decide killing dragons is a good idea. You know, no pressure, just remember there's an easy answer to all this." More like 'This isn't going to work but I feel obligated to try so that when it inevitably fails I get to tell you I told you so.'
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Sep 11, 2023 00:34
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I think it's both. As the Azure Dragoon he's predisposed to dragon murder, and his personality delights in situations where he gets to say I told you so. He gets to say it rarely enough.
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Sep 11, 2023 00:45
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I especially appreciate how (major HW spoilers) even though it feels like a waste of time in the moment once Hraesvelgr tells her off for kinning Shiva, every part of what you did ends up mattering either for creating peace or for saving Estinien from himself. The HW writers basically looked directly at the camera and said "hey, ending a war is really loving hard, but even if you fail, no effort you make towards peace will ever be in vain."
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Sep 11, 2023 05:20
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The moogle quests were mandatory in HW in that if you were playing straight through to marathon to level cap, there wasn’t enough exp in MSQ so you had to clean out a bunch of sidequests. This was also still the era of the 46->50 msq lock fate spam in nthan
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Sep 11, 2023 07:26
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“You gift my people 1000 years of suffering, I gift you an eternity in darkness” is an all time badass line lmfao
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Sep 11, 2023 15:46
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The climbs in quality between expansions are pretty amazing. Going from ARR Primals to Ravana is quite a thing. The raid chains you unlock at 60 are 
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Doomykins posted:The climbs in quality between expansions are pretty amazing. Going from ARR Primals to Ravana is quite a thing. The raid chains you unlock at 60 are The music for the normal 60 raids are some of my favorites in the whole game. Just cranking that up every time I'm in there.
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Sunday Morning posted:The music for the normal 60 raids are some of my favorites in the whole game. Just cranking that up every time I'm in there. Heavensward really did feel like the point where Soken stopped trying to emulate Uematsu's work on 1.0 as much, and do his own thing instead. ARR absolutely has some excellent tracks, especially post-2.0 (I think Oblivion is one of the most-streamed FF14 tracks on Spotify), but HW onward just keeps getting better and better. Bloody Pom fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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Sep 11, 2023 22:00
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I love Metal and the language the lyrics are in.
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Sep 11, 2023 22:40
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On the OST for the Heavensward patches, there's a track that is one of the raid boss themes, but a muffled recording of it made from outside the studio 
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Sep 11, 2023 22:45
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Bloody Pom posted:On the OST for the Heavensward patches, there's a track that is one of the raid boss themes, but a muffled recording of it made from outside the studio I'm sorry, which track is that? I have been playing for nearly a decade, how did I miss this
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Sep 12, 2023 20:51
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Reoxygenation posted:I'm sorry, which track is that? I have been playing for nearly a decade, how did I miss this Out of Time on the Far Edge of Fate Soundtrack.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Out of Time on the Far Edge of Fate Soundtrack. oh holy gently caress i thought it was just a neat effect, that's insane
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I love this e:this video contains spoilers for the HW raids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1AnPqhd574 God Hole fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 12, 2023 22:59
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Note that the above video contains scenes from Alexander raids do not watch if you care about seeing it completely fresh.
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Note that the last dozen pages or so have ranged from vaguely spoilery to outright spoilery to anyone still in ARR.
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Sep 13, 2023 00:16
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I'm nearing the end of shadowbringers and am about to step in to endwalker. Are there any must do side quests before I jump in? I've done all the raids and trials from previous expansions and plan to finish the SB raids before I move on.
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Sep 13, 2023 02:55
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i'm about to start EW and my take is that the only can't-miss stuff is coils all the way through. and ideally it should be done before shb. but i'm in a good spot having done all the alliances, coils, alexanders and half the edens
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Sep 13, 2023 03:35
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I'd say the Omega raids are pretty important to do. You won't know why until you do, but you'll get more out of them than coils. But if you've got all the raids out of the way you're probably good.
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Vord posted:I'm nearing the end of shadowbringers and am about to step in to endwalker. Are there any must do side quests before I jump in? I've done all the raids and trials from previous expansions and plan to finish the SB raids before I move on. Other than that, F’lhaminn has a quest in Mor Dhona that ties up some ShB and ARR stuff. It’s not marked with a blue marker or anything so it can be easy to miss it.
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Sep 13, 2023 04:00
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i thought ivalice was more fun and just...theater nerd stuff, but man those mhach raids were really loving good. i truly enjoyed those and didn't skip a single cutscene on the glue quests, which is more than i can say for the niers. i will never again as long as i live console a distraught dwarf again
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iPodschun posted:If you mean you haven’t finished the SB (SB typically means Stormblood, while ShB is Shadowbringers) Alliance Raid series yet, after you do finish that you can start the Bozja quest line. You don’t need to finish all of the Bozja stuff because that’s another 40+ hours of gameplay, but the first quest is neat and addresses some lore stuff. That’s unlocked in Kugane’s market after finishing the Ivalice raids. Sorry I meant Shadowbringers. I've started Bozja but only got so far as Cid's Nightmare in Dreamland. I'll take a look at the F'lhaminn quest. Orcs and Ostriches posted:I'd say the Omega raids are pretty important to do. You won't know why until you do, but you'll get more out of them than coils. I did those as well. Only fight I liked was ghost train because gently caress YEAH GHOST TRAIN \/ 100% agree Vord fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 04:21
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devs are cowards who wouldn't even let us suplex it
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Sep 13, 2023 04:28
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Omega should've let us fight more FF big bads. I want to repeatedly hit Sephiroth and Kuja with a big axe.
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Sep 13, 2023 04:48
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Without spoiling details, Endwalker has a payoff for each of (most of) the old Raid, Alliance Raid, and Trial series that you complete, but none of it is story critical; just a cool addition to a cool scene.
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Thanks everyone. It looks like I just have to finish Eden and the Nier raids then I'll be good. Special thanks to iPodschun for pointing out that F'lhaminn quest. It was sweet. Everything past ARR has been amazing and I'm glad I forced myself to push past that slog that was post ARR patch content. I finished the weapon trials earlier today and as a gundam fan I absolutely loved them. If at the start of ARR someone had told me I'd be fighting a not Neue Ziel that turns in to a xenomorph from on top of a not GP03 I would of thought they were loving with me. \/ I'm not that dedicated. Vord fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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IIRC, aren’t there also brief call-backs for completing each of the relic quests from ARR-ShB?
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