wizardofloneliness posted:

How can you say that when Hythlodaeus exists? His dreaminess exceeds all measurements.

cheetah7071 posted:

Now that there is an endwalker thread, we can rename the shadowbringers thread to "remember that we once posted"

Edmond Dantes posted:

Back in Shadowbringers there was a meme going around that was the "2 wolves laughing at another wolf" meme but with (not a spoiler by now but eh) Hythlo, Emet and Azem's masks drawn on. Does anybody have that saved by any chance? Haven't been able to find it since.

hazardousmouse posted:

huh. post thavnair post second trial
I wonder if it was the destruction of zodiark that is kicking off the emptiness or the return of the ancient souls to the sea

Phenotype posted:

Finished this on Friday, loved it to death, and am still trying to collect some of my thoughts about it. It was a fantastic end to the epic, but in the end I don't think it was quite as strong as Shadowbringers, which was a much more focused plot.

The emotional climax, to me, seemed to be the journey to Elpis and getting to meet Venat as a person and seeing how she was driven to sunder the world -- that particular cutscene had me a weepy mess, along with some of the conversations there ("Has it been good? Has it been worthwhile?"). And to a lesser extent, traveling to meet Crystalmom in the present day and showing her how humanity is strong enough to find its own way, which was a great triumphant yet bittersweet moment.

Everything after that was a little bit rote -- we knew from that point that the game would end by traveling to Meteion's world and stopping the Final Days, and they did the Final Fantasy thing where the Final Boss is a character we were literally just introduced to, and it's actually a sweet, lost little girl who I imagine most of us wanted to save rather than fight. It's not the sort of thing that gives you that ultimate determined showdown like we had with Emet-Selch in Shadowbringers. And at no point did I think any of the Scions were actually going to remain dead, which made a lot of the final zone ring a little false for me (although G'raha Tia's turn to sacrifice himself did get to me a little bit.) I did love the final battle and the slow walk to the final scene, along with everything that came after it, though. I play as White Mage but my character is a big Highlander male, and it was super satisfying to see him get to beat Zenos down with his own hands.

Harrow posted:

During some of the more action-packed Endwalker scenes I was thinking about how my WoL has come a long way from the nerdy bookworm Arcanist he started as, so I want to ask: what has been your progression of main job since you started FFXIV, and do you think about that as an in-story element at all or not?

For me, I started as an Arcanist because at the time I thought I only really liked playing casters and healers in MMOs, and hey, this class let me get a two-for-one deal! I focused on Scholar at max level. I then took a long break from the game for pretty much the whole duration of Heavensward (no reflection on Heavensward, I just wasn't really playing MMOs at the time) and I when I came back for the Stormblood release I picked up Red Mage and did the whole HW/StB MSQ as that. Then I tried Gunbreaker when Shadowbringers released and that's been my main ever since. It's kind of fun to think of my WoL moving further and further away from casting and more towards swording over time, yet never losing his taste for explosions.

Regalingualius posted:

For 80-90 after completing the MSQ, does the usual “do your roulettes, then spam whatever the highest level dungeon is while loving around on the overworld” advice still apply, or is there something I’m missing?

Offkorn posted:

So, anyone else suddenly getting "Version Check could not be completed" and red "An Error has occurred" errors when trying to use the launcher?

Rarity posted:

hazardousmouse posted:

I would expect a DPS to share ninja gear before another healer

MechanicalTomPetty posted:

Are any of the Thavnarian relic guys npc's in RAH? I haven't really combed over the place much yet outside of what's required for the MSQ but I didn't recognize anyone off the top of my head.

On a tangently related note, I just love that like a quarter of the population of Thavnair consists of giant swole elephant dudes and everyone considers this completely normal and not worth commenting on. Its a great way of showing how accepted and integrated they are in this society without smashing the point over your head like some other games might do.

Hogama posted:

Flavahbeast posted:

I'm thinking psycho future Lahabrea hitched a ride with you somehow and possessed his past self during your initial visit

Wild speculation: the fourth boss and the lyrics to the fourth boss's music makes me think future bosses in the raid will also be refs to popular non-Square PS1 games

Kazy posted:

The Ivalice story was awful and boring and honestly makes me hate the raids.

Cythereal posted:

I'd stop manipulating my ilevel (though I'm not as extreme as some people, I just block off the Nier raids) if they increased the rewards for doing longer and harder content. Same reason I don't trial roulette anymore. The rewards, in my eyes, are not equal to the difficulty and effort for many of the things the roulette might put me into.

Harrow posted:

I mean I’m generally in favor of increasing roulette rewards so sure

Although honestly I’d rather do the Nier raids than the Ivalice ones, mechanics-wise. Maybe it’s just my brain but the last Ivalice raid is trickier for me than any of the Nier ones.

Badger of Basra posted:

cythereal I remain baffled as to why you keep playing this game considering that you don't seem to like any of the gameplay or most of the story

??????????

Draxion posted:

Enochian doesn't have a timer

Kyrosiris posted:

You were also "fighting" Astral Fire at 50 in ARR so I don't understand this complaint.

Valentin posted:

tbh i thought that link was going to relate to the "shipping your WoL with emet-selch is a tradwife pipeline" discourse I saw alluded to on twitter the last few days, very disappointed it wasn't.

Captain Oblivious posted:

Reaper is a lot like Stormblood era Samurai where it's just much much slicker than it's direct competition.

Job good.

Chillgamesh posted:

Bunshin should turn into Phantom Kamaitachi. Also High Jump should turn into Mirage Dive. Hypercharge should turn into Heat Blast and Spread Shot/Scattergun should turn into Auto Crossbow while overheating. Minor Arcana should transform into Crown Play.