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Endwalker is good, imo. I'm really curious about (MSQ end) where it goes from here, though. Like literally what even the first patch is gonna be. Maybe just touring around to see what each of the Scions are up to? But that would be weird since we just said goodbye. I can't wait to find out!
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IcePhoenix posted:Emet literally told you like the next decades worth of content after saving your friends with you Well yeah, but this is for the patches, I don't think we're going to Meracydia immediately. It would be cool if we got some new hard mode dungeons for the MSQ this time, stuff that never got it before.
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Dec 10, 2021 22:03
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drat Dirty Ape posted:So I haven't been doing the new stuff yet but in general the older stuff seems a bit easier after the squish. I'm seeing bosses die earlier than I ever used to last patch. I don't know if it's the squish, job changes, or reapers and sages being OP at lower levels. Weirdly, I've noticed that alliance raids are harder, while 4-man dungeons are easier. I ran Void Ark earlier, and saw phases of those bosses I've never seen before. I guess you could chalk that up to the high population of reapers who have no idea what they're doing, though 
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Dec 10, 2021 22:07
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Tabletops posted:Nioh 2 
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Dec 11, 2021 05:17
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Sakurazuka posted:As long as you don't look at any textures up close lol They look great as long as the camera is like ten feet off the ground, which it will be 99% of the time. Unfortunately, they love to do dramatic close-ups during cutscenes. I laughed out loud at the zoom in on extremely low-poly grapes in EW, they look so bad. And the hair always bugs me, the textures are just awful.
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Dec 11, 2021 18:34
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Wingnut Ninja posted:This loving game. I saw that coming, but the part where "That helpful kid who has been running around delivering messages is a golem body that the dragon controls by putting his eye in it" caught me by surprise. Seems very handy!
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Dec 11, 2021 19:19
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Chillgamesh posted:Just finished it today too. I think I liked Shadowbringers better as a narrative but Endwalker definitely delivered on everything it set out to do and then some. (6.0 Last Boss) Goddamn they do the "all your bros are praying for you" thing and then the mix of the Endwalker theme and Maker's Ruin kicks in, goddamn. GODDAMN. I loved that the boss fight felt so classically Final Fantasy despite being an original encounter too. Felt just like fighting Zeromus, Exdeath, Safer Sephiroth, etc. while still feeling perfectly fit to FF14. Truly stellar design. Yeah, the final boss is incredible. I love the absolute audacity of having the screen go completely black for five whole seconds. It really gives you that sinking "did we just wipe?" feeling right before they most triumphant part of the whole fight. Also, the planet collision mechanic was really cool, and satisfying to figure out.
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Dec 12, 2021 01:10
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Regalingualius posted:Finally managed to beat the MSQ. You can, (MSQ ending)saying "well I'm just going to kill you" is telling him to gently caress off. Even if you don't accept his description of the WoL, it still makes sense to get rid of him once and for all. You know he's not going to stop hurting people. There's even a difference in his dialog, he says "Acceptance, finally!" and looks genuinely happy if you say he might be right about you.
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Dec 12, 2021 06:00
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Onean posted:I haven't seen this brought up here yet, but I noticed that PLD guy new un/sheathing animations and appreciated it because the old one kind of bothered me. Oh wow, they finally fixed the samurai ones! It always bugged me how you just rip it out of the sheathe and put it back in with basically no animation at all, it was so weird.
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Dec 12, 2021 16:59
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Nodosaur posted:weird people fixated on precisely that one boss then Well, he's kind of the lynchpin of the whole raid series, weirdly. The backstory is that he's the one who decided to revive Xande, and perfected the cloning technology to do so. Plus he has a flair for the dramatic like Emet, using the same snap animation for some of his attacks.
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Dec 13, 2021 02:02
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55 MSQ minor spoilers, I've been enjoying Zucchini Loaf's Endwalker adventures, lots of fun sketches, but I was hoping he'd take a screenshot of this bit: Strong lad 
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Dec 13, 2021 02:33
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YoshiOfYellow posted:For those that have finished the MSQ I have a couple of questions I'd love to pose. Dungeon: The Aitiascope, I love the design of it, and I'm a sucker for characters coming back in different forms. Especially the fight with Rhitatyn, not only is it cool to see him finally get a proper fight, but it has really neat mechanics! Also the way Shiva comes in to save you with a pillar of ice in the final fight is just really fantastic, great way to send off these characters one final time. Area: Garlemald. They really nailed the design of this place, I love the decrepit train stations and buildings, though I kind of wish the city were a little less destroyed, as it was in the benchmark. It has a lot of nice little touches that I love, like the cute little cars and the way the buildings are all twisted together. Reminds me a lot of Da'at in SMTV.
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Dec 13, 2021 03:46
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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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Dec 13, 2021 20:16
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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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Dec 13, 2021 20:33
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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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Dec 13, 2021 21:31
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Insert name here posted:Hitting the final boss of Orbonne be like I've been lucky and got WoD the past few days, at least that goes okay once you get past Ahriman
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Dec 14, 2021 02:59
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I haven't gotten the Nier raids since the stat squish... Puppets Bunker is gonna be a shitshow....
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Dec 14, 2021 05:08
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Azim Steppe is the only part of SB that felt properly paced, the rest was too rushed. It feels like you spend ten minutes in Ala Mhigo, despite it having three zones. I loved all the sidequests there, it has a lot of cool little nooks and crannies, the plot just doesn't give it time to breathe, imo.
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Dec 14, 2021 05:50
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SirPhoebos posted:To broach a more general topic: when making dialogue choices, how many here treat the WoL as a character in their own right instead of an extension of yourself? Because there have been points where I passed over what might have been a funnier or spicier dialogue option simply because I couldn't envision my WoL saying it for whatever reason Oh yeah, absolutely. My WoL is very earnest and only chooses jokey options when the stakes are low. But I did (MSQ ending) tell Zenos he was right, I do like having cool fights. I like the idea that the WoL is sincere, but still in a little over his head. He's along for the ride and just kind of likes fighting as much as helping people (I am not an omnicrafter).
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Dec 14, 2021 06:08
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AOCs Pink Pearl posted:So as someone who left off after playing from launch through hw and then trying stormblood, how do I go about getting back in? Do I just have to finish stormblood and shadowbringers to get to endwalker? Yep, just buy Endwalker and you get the other expansions, then you have a lot of game to get through before you get to EW.
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Dec 14, 2021 07:31
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Clarste posted:Okay, but why are people doing the 89 trial for the first time without using the Trust? Because I tried it with trusts and kept dying But then I had a great experience in the duty finder, like usual. We had a bunch of wipes, but we were all learning together and dodged almost every mechanic perfectly in the last run, it was great.
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Dec 14, 2021 07:39
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Filthy Haiku posted:I recently popped the last fantasia I had received as a christmas gift a few years ago, after completing the MSQs and I'm really really pleased with my viera Here's a list from a couple years ago, doesn't have EW stuff. The general rule of thumb is that anything pre-Shadowbringers won't be wearable unless it's more of a head accessory than a hat or helmet. So like glasses or a headband or whatever, those are fine, but literally anything that covers the head, even if it covers it completely, can't be worn by viera. Hrothgar can wear full helmets, so I guess it's a matter of the ears, they don't want to handwave folding them down for whatever reason. I was annoyed to see that my bunny boy couldn't wear the elemental armor helmet, even though my hrothgar could. Newer stuff is kind of a grab-bag. Some things you can wear that you wouldn't expect, like the reaper hat, they seem to be making more of an effort to make stuff that's compatible. YoshiP mentioned working on the issue in the latest live letter, IIRC, it's coming down the pipe along with hrothgals.
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Dec 14, 2021 17:03
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Eimi posted:I dunno, with as cool as the 83 solo duty was, it was also extremely horrifying. Maybe just because I am trans and the body you are put in, while fully covered, uses male animations, it made it extremely horrifying and such a violation that I kind of hated that it doesn't faction in how you can treat him later on. Probably the single most disturbing thing that happens to your character in this game, and I hate that it's just forgotten. Well, I think it was more Fandaniel's idea, Zenos doesn't even continue trying to attack using your body when he clearly could. I took it as him being kind of annoyed at the whole thing but going along with it because Fancy Dan was really into it. Part of why he just gives up on trying to make you hate him later on, that was the ultimate way to do it and it still didn't get him what he wanted. But really, it's just part and parcel with MMO storytelling. The WoL has to be stoic because they can't account for the wide variety of possible reactions, thus all the head nodding and palm punching.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Credits are rolling, what a ride. They are real now! The scions, and then Emet and Hythlo doing some ancient magic, bring them back to corporeal reality. That's why the whole zone still exists after the end of the MSQ. You hoped so hard you brought three civilizations back from extinction (well, dragons weren't extinct, but there are more of them now).
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Dec 14, 2021 22:02
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Harrow posted:Tank players, please tell me about your favorite tank job (that isn't Gunbreaker). Gunbreaker's my main and I absolutely love it but it's also the only tank I've played past like level 30 so I think it'd be fun to level another just for the hell of it. I like paladin. They're not very exciting mechanically, they pretty much have a set rotation and a couple of nice support skills, but they're really flashy. They get cool animations, especially confiteor and its new combo. They do have the best ability to heroically defeat bosses if the healer dies, since they straight-up have their own healing spell that is pretty powerful. It's easy to keep yourself and a couple DPS up, as long as they're not eating mechanics. Out of all the tanks, they most embody the idea of protecting the whole party at once, not just being a distraction, since they also have passage of arms for big raid-wides or stack markers.
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Dec 14, 2021 22:13
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Countblanc posted:Seeing Reaper in action makes me sorta bummed about how goofy Machinist looks during Overheat. Gauss Round and Ricochet should have gotten new animations in EW that flow more naturally from Heat Blast - when you watch a Reaper dumping their buttons during the 1.5s GCD phase it looks badass and flowing, but when MCH does it looks really janky and stilted as they snap between dabbing and basically standing rigid with their arm out. Yeah, I really wish they'd smooth out those animations, it looks so goofy. All three of them constantly get clipped by one another, so your character is just flailing around snapping to different positions, it's like I'm playing LotRO again. It's a shame because most of their animations are great! It's just the spam phase that looks bad.
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Dec 14, 2021 23:35
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sexpig by night posted:kinda general spoiler but mostly moon stuff Urianger's arc this expansion being 'I don't regret my choices, I feel I did the best I could, but being 'the shady guy who always kinda betrays his friends' loving sucks even if you guys forgive me and understand why I do it' was not what I expected but boy was it good. My favorite part of that is (moon spoilers) he specifically feels bad because the lopporits pegged him as the shady guy immediately. These adorable bunnies could tell that he was the one who could keep a secret and would be willing to conspire on tricking his friends, and they're the most naive people in the universe (besides the namazu).
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Dec 15, 2021 03:43
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Mordiceius posted: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. This matches my experience, I usually hop in the queue at about 7:30 or 8 PST, wait about an hour and get in without a single error. I had a lot the first week, couldn't play at all in the evening, only in the morning.
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Dec 15, 2021 05:16
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Bruceski posted:Level 90 MSQs feel like such a waste, I always cringe when I reach that part of an expansion. Clearly the answer is to not play them until the next expansion comes out and raises the level cap, then you can all that sweet XP!!
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Dec 16, 2021 02:49
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Bruceski posted:Why do Demi-Bahamut/Phoenix have increased emnity? They just do a shitload of damage. It's 1300 potency for Akh Morn/Revelation now, when it used to be 600, because you only get one cast each time you summon them instead of two. I have noticed that I peel off a lot more mobs from tanks if I summon Bahamut right away, it's kind of fun
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Dec 16, 2021 06:01
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Bruceski posted:Enters Dreadwyrm Trance and summons Demi-Bahamut to fight your target. Ohhhh, I didn't notice that. Kind of a weird change, I guess it's so they always have a target when they're summoned, since they just attack on their own now.
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Dec 16, 2021 06:49
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Vitamean posted:I like to imagine the whm and blm staves are just pipes you ripped off of the wall since why does the the big boy garlean base have magic casting weapons anyway For conscripts, obviously. There are plenty of non-Garleans among the ranks who can use magic, you see them all the time on the front lines. The only place where it's purebloods-only is the highest echelons of leadership, regular soldiers can be from wherever.
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Dec 16, 2021 20:20
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:have the 2002 errors been fixed or is it just there isnt too many people queueing at once anymore? Or have I just been lucky the past couple days Last night there was a weird glitch that kicked everyone off, so the queues weren't as bad. The error is still around, though they promised a fix next week!
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I know they've tried and failed multiple times, but I still want them to figure out how to make chemist work. If not as a healer, then it could be the new DoT class!
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thetoughestbean posted:They should have Trickster from FFTA2. Maybe call it Gambler. I want a job that throws cards at people. Jester from FFTA Job teachers are the jongleurs from Eulmore that somehow didn't turn into monsters.
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Dec 17, 2021 04:24
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Mordiceius posted:Both of the two post-MSQ dungeons are so loving insanely good. Holy poo poo. Yeah, there's really not a dud in the bunch, it's incredible. Great spectacle and aesthetics, interesting mechanics for every boss, cool-looking gear. I guess focusing on fewer but better dungeons is really paying off.
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Dec 17, 2021 20:58
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Staggy posted:I want to see them meet the namazu. I want to see Puddingway bully an awful fish. It's very possible! There's a Labyrinthos sidequest about a gleaner accidentally bringing one in, and a researcher is very excited about it     So we know they're in the same place at the same time.
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Dec 17, 2021 23:26
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Anybody who's fantasia'd into a man bun and liking it? I've messed around a bit in the character creator but I haven't found a design that really grabbed me, and I'm apprehensive about potential hat impairment. I wasn't sure if it would stick, since I was switching from a big beefy hrothgar, but I really like my bunny boy a lot. They have nice animations, and you can give them a good Amano-style face. Ended up sticking with it through the whole Endwalker MSQ, so I guess I'm gonna keep it! My only complaint is that they can't wear the elemental armor helmet. Just cut some holes for the ears, it'd be fine.
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Regalingualius posted:Also, for Summoner: should you be blowing Summon Bahamut on CD even if you still have charges left on your other summons, or try to use them all up first? I figured the former because it keeps your CDs consistently lined up Yes, summon on cooldown, same with Phoenix. Akh Morn and Revelation had their potency doubled, they do 1300 now, and since they just reset the lesser summons there's no reason not to. Energy drain and fester get weaved in, the timing on ruin IV is flexible, and precious brilliance isn't a big enough bump to worry about outside of savage content.
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Thundarr posted:I think most of the things on the 13th are well past the point where they want to be fixed. We can cure tempering now, clearly we just need to make a planetary-scale porxie and figure out how to transport it to another dimension.
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