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Good game. The best Scion, as proven by Endwalker, is Urianger.
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Im enjoying the hell out of the MSQ, but I’m also excited to finish so I can focus on DoH/L
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Dec 11, 2021 04:58
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Oh my goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood. The "Release List" ability absolutely changes Fishing in incredible ways. I didn't realize this got added in 5.5. Goddamn.
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Dec 11, 2021 10:54
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The biggest failings of Endwalker are( general story, not really spoilers) Nero has no lines and we don’t get the Cid/Nero on-screen kiss.
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Dec 12, 2021 01:53
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wizardofloneliness posted:He doesn't have any voiced lines but you can talk to him a couple times during certain quests. Honestly, I was quite shocked how both of them have practically zero presence in the MSQ.
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Dec 12, 2021 04:18
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I feel so lucky that my current job has me working 2pm-midnight Tuesday-Sunday. I get mornings and Mondays off. Couldn’t ask for anything better with the state of queues. I feel bad for everyone getting screwed over by them. My wife works more traditional hours and has barely been able to play since launch due to the queues. It loving sucks. 
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Dec 13, 2021 01:12
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vhweltall posted:I dunno, I say things about my significant other that aren’t true when I’m pissed off. It’s still a valid exercise. Maybe don’t do that?
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Dec 13, 2021 02:30
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vhweltall posted:I’ll stop being emotional when internet people stop being strident and self-righteous. Deal? There is a difference between emotional and verbally abusive.
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Dec 13, 2021 03:04
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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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Dec 13, 2021 20:24
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Dec 13, 2021 20:37
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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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Dec 13, 2021 21:16
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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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Dec 13, 2021 21:28
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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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Dec 13, 2021 21:30
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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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Dec 13, 2021 21:47
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Lord_Magmar posted: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. I could certainly see this working, if some of the events would require significant reshuffling. I think Zodiark as the x.3 boss would make sense. I wouldn't want 5 patches of "final days" as that would be depressing and would make all other activities feel extra ridiculous to be doing during the apocalypse. (It's funny if you pause the MSQ before the final zone to work on crafting/gathering. Just hanging out in Thavnair/Garlemald during the apocalypse, gathering some wood.) With this, you'd need to introduce the moon prior to the end of the expansion, since they don't add zones in patches like WoW does. Which would make for the Garlemald through moon portion to be a bit funky. If the final boss of Expansion 1 isn't Zodiark, who is it? Anima? Fandaniel/Zenos? We would need to go to the moon for some reason before the end of the Expansion 1 if we're going to return in the x.3 patch to kill Zodiark. And I do think Zodiark being the x.3 boss makes far more sense than the Expansion 1 boss. I think Expansion 2 is a lot easier to conceptualize. You could easily add another zone to the World Unsundered, then greatly expand the scope of the Final Days zones. Add Corvos as a zone too. Reflecting on this thought experiment - What I've come to realize is that everything from level 84-90 feels like an entire full expansion in and of itself. Which means the 80-83 feels like the "extra 30%." If we were to split this into two expansions, I think the second of the two expansions would be universally thought of as "the best thing they've ever done" and then the first of the two expansions would be like "a big step back from Shadowbringers and at the level of Stormblood." The first of the two expansions would suffer the most from the split. I love speculative thought experiments like this.
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Blueberry Pancakes posted:On the topic of other Level 83 things (pre-dungeon), imagine being so rear end-blasted at the idea of needing to compromise with another nation that you would genuinely rather kill yourself, even though your people are freezing to a slow death in the middle of a wasteland. It's probably one of the strongest moments in the game. They pull no punches. Facism and imperialism are a helluva drug. In all seriousness though I'm glad they didn't back down from showing what this kind of imperialist, nationalistic brain poisoning can do to someone. The leaders have all got Qanon level brain poisoning. The average citizens are just brainwashed by a lifetime of fascist propaganda.
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Dec 13, 2021 22:31
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multijoe posted:Commiting suicide in your bunker, it was certainly the 'downfall' of Garlemald alright 
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Dec 13, 2021 22:36
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So I think you’re more likely to see a 2002 error during the “max” part of a rush far more than during the ramp up and far far more than during the ramp down at the end of the night. The most recent stuff from Reddit said the queue “rebuilds” every 15 minutes. And if there are more than max people trying to hit the login servers, then it can dump people in queue by mistake. During the ramps up and down at the start and end of the night, you’re not going to see max people hitting login servers, hence less likely to see a 2002 error. This is my theory.
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Dec 15, 2021 04:58
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derra posted:The existence of the bicolor mount means I have resigned to leveling all my alts in FATEs. I'm devastated because two of the 6.0 Triple Triad cards are locked behind rank 3 shared fate status (in zones 5 and 6). 
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Dec 15, 2021 20:19
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theironjef posted:The Tank role quest series was aggressively boring, but I didn't have high hopes since it was working with Kan-E-Sanna and the Padjal. The most interesting that's ever happened with those dorks is wondering if A-Ruhn-Senna has weird eyes under his stupid bangs. Sometimes she smashes kneecaps.
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Dec 15, 2021 20:26
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I got four chocobo rankups grinding those out! Yeah, Kholusia. In my quest to get all the TT cards, that one was one of the most boring. Guess there is no better time to be fate grinding. I think I just wish they would have spread it out more. Instead of the two highest level zones, put one in one of the lower level zones, that way I can just jump on one of my level 80 classes.
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Dec 15, 2021 20:29
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Kyrosiris posted:I mean the Chondrite ones are right there. 
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Dec 16, 2021 20:26
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Really sucks that you can't loving enter houses anymore.
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Dec 16, 2021 22:10
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I still need to write up my thoughts on things but I can’t stop thinking about the Endwalker story. I loved Shadowbringers, but when it comes to story and theme, Endwalker is by far my favorite.
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Both of the two post-MSQ dungeons are so loving insanely good. Holy poo poo. I feel like the dungeons in EW are all incredible. Really knocking it out of the park.
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isk posted:I gotta say, I like the current spread of Expert dungeons. Just engaging enough without straying into cheapness. 2nd boss of the final story dungeon can get gnarly, but that's about it Visually, they’re some of the best dungeons they’ve ever made as well.
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adhuin posted:Oh, you're the Pizza-delivery guy! Here’s your pizza, ma’am.
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Dragongem posted:Speaking of crafting, what's a good way to level crafters at like the low/mid 30s? Pick recipes and just buy mats? Head to the Firmament.
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I've been watching my wife go through the story and it's been interesting seeing some of the stuff in the 80-83 content a second time. (General Endwalker spoilers) After the 83 trial, when Zodiark/Amon-Fandaniel die, Amon says something along the lines of "The me I was would hate the me I became" or something like that. Which has a different vibe after playing through the later zones. There are quite a few moments like that. I've had some thoughts on some of this stuff and I realized a solution to some of the issues people have with EW (more general spoilers) Many have said that Dynamis should have been seeded earlier. And I agree I wish it was. I don't necessarily even think you have to do it as far back as even the Shadowbringers 5.0 MSQ. Some people say that Endwalker feels like "two expansions in one" aka the Stormblood problem. I think one thing that could have alleviated that more would be to seed more of that in patch 5.4/5.5. People were already complaining that 5.4/5.5 were a bit lean on the story and expansion ramp-up. One hook they could have done would be to have the lady scientist elephant come over to Eorzea when she hears about our tempering cure, she drops some general Thavnair lore, talks about the Akasa, then fucks off and basically says "If you're ever in Thavnair, come check on how my research is going." I think this would do a lot of work to smooth out that lore ramp. If anything, Endwalker is made weaker due to 5.4/5.5 not doing enough. Just some random stoned thoughts.
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Dec 19, 2021 11:54
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Ibblebibble posted:We need to get to lvl 99 first for the classic FF level cap. You get to level 99 but then you need to level up one last time and roll it all the way back to level 1 because the final zone is Ipsen Castle.
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Dec 19, 2021 12:08
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Cythereal posted:I have Walked the End, and never have I seen a story that has so many good moments yet is so relentlessly determined to piss it away. What a loving mess of an expansion, and I can't believe this is the same team that did Shadowbringers. lol
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Dec 20, 2021 05:45
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Gobbeldygook posted:this is why I don't really craft anymore. with the exception of a few giant gil sinks (the golden namazu mount, etc), having lots of gil doesn't get you anything unless you have some self-assigned goal like "collect all the minions". you make number go up so...what? you can continue to watch number go up? it would take a lot of crafting and market playing to make back the expense of putting together a pentamelded set, so I'm just not going to do it. For me, having gil is nice because I'm able to funnel that back into my FC. Since it's a smaller FC, I've been fronting a lot of costs for stuff like getting our submarines/airships up and running. I covered the cost of our FC house and stuff like that. Currently working on saving up so that our FC can aim for a larger house in 6.1. Also, since my wife is a casual player, I like to be able to make sure she always has enough money to buy any glams or anything like that she wants.
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Cythereal posted:Personally, no, I don't enjoy a good boss fight and the Endsinger was a drag. I'm here for the story, the setting, and the characters, I actively dislike how difficult many story-mandated fights have become. I think that whole thing falls so completely flat for me because no, I don't enjoy the boss fights. I enjoy the feeling of helping people and making the world a better place. Maybe you should be playing The Sims or perhaps a visual novel.
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Dec 20, 2021 20:22
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Christ. The last four pages are 90% black bars. The spoiler thread exists for a reason.
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Dec 20, 2021 20:34
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Ibram Gaunt posted:random 90ks are going to be the death of many savage groups this time around I feel. Hit my first 90k today. Thrown into a 1100 person queue. In 30 minutes, it's only moved 500 people.
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Dec 20, 2021 23:43
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The real question about tomorrow is... will we have anything that tops Titan Car?
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Dec 21, 2021 01:12
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Captain Oblivious posted:I have a pretty good idea what’s going to go down in the relic quest this go around. Given that the past two relics have been based off of the Eureka model of content, and how popular both Eureka and Bozja have been, we can reasonably guess that we are getting more of that and that relic will be attached once more. That makes complete loving sense. I kept feeling like they brought it up a gently caress ton this expansion.
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Dec 21, 2021 09:31
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Cythereal posted:I enjoy the gameplay! I don't enjoy hard content. I play games to relax and turn my brain off. There's vanishingly few games I play to be challenged. I enjoy ADR because I can set it to be something easy and low-effort at present, for my two cents on the current conversation. It’s not that you “don’t enjoy hard content.” It’s that you “don’t want to have to do any content that requires any thought at all.” The only “hard” content in the game is ex trials and savage raids, for the most part. To act like the Ivalice raids or Nier raids are “hard content” is insane.
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Dec 22, 2021 17:28
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Harrow posted:Everyone stop arguing about whether raids are too hard and instead figure out a way to do that thing from the Matrix where they download kung fu into Neo's brain except it's my brain and instead of kung fu it's how to play Black Mage How to play black mage: 1 - Find a spot where you want to stand. 2 - Refuse to move. 3 - Make things explode.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:As much as I disagree with almost everything Cythereal says, hard content is a very subjective term. Any number of things can be at play here, ranging from motor control, reflexes, attention, concentration, memory, multitasking, timing, anxiety, or even lazyness or apathy. I know plenty of people who struggle with story-level content at min ilevel, and I know they're trying. I'm not going to begrudge anyone for that. For me, it is the sense of entitlement. "I want the rewards, but I find this content hard/I don't like it, so I'm going to abuse the system to still get the rewards. I don't care if this makes the experience worse for other people." The 24man raids aren't hard. Or even if someone does find them hard, they don't require you to actually be good at them. You can die at all the bosses 20 times each and your raid will still make it through. This game is a multiplayer game. A lot of the systems require you to engage with other people. I have a hardline stance - If you're manipulating the queues, you're an rear end in a top hat. Either queue regularly or don't queue at all.
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