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Mr. Neutron posted:Speaking of ex, is there a rhyme or reason behind some having the Minstrel's Ballad moniker while others are simply called <name> (Extreme)? as a general trend MSQ trials get the Minstrel's Ballad treatment while optional trials get the (Extreme) treatment, but even that is inconsistent at best
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I'm sure it's been done to death but you can do old EXs just use party finder not duty finder. No one queues for those and people are gonna dodge if they somehow accidentally mentor into it. That doesn't mean you need to get carried by a 90 either, there's people who'd be happy to do it synced but you need to advertise it and get people who actually want to do it
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If it's lost on anyone, the wandering minstrel, et. al., are Yoship self insert characters.
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Which is obvious because he's the only character in the entire game world who wears more than two rings.
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they made him the game's producer because he was the guy at the office who looked the most like a Final Fantasy character
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Apr 23, 2024 16:33
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Considering the state he inherited the game in it was as good reason as any to hire him on to the job.
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That's not really what happened, of course. What really happened was an executive ran into the room and screamed "Does anyone here play WoW????" and the whole office turned to point at Yoshida
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FuturePastNow posted:That's not really what happened, of course. What really happened was an executive ran into the room and screamed "Does anyone here play WoW????" and the whole office turned to point at Yoshida And drat if it didn't pay off also do not speak ill of WoW in front of Yoshi-P he is actually a huge WoW fanboy and you will hurt his feelings
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Well he's driven to make a WoW killer and for the most part he's succeeded as well as can be expected. He didn't kill WoW but he successfully carved out a profitable niche in the MMO landscape by taking parts of what WoW did correctly and combining them with his own design to make a unique fun game. To this day he still sanity checks the final build of each version of the game by playing it solo, if he can't beat it then it's back to the drawing board for tweaking and he does it on BLM. (I assume he's got some duty actions like variant or criterion dungeons)
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yoship is also a master at actually managing the team to get things out the door which is his true talent. He had a vision for the game and the leadership skills to actually pull it off.
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Apr 24, 2024 15:59
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Watching Tataru attempt the level 1 Archanist quest was very cute. I'm pretty sure the quest also recognizes if you've done it yourself and the text is changed accordingly too. That's a nice touch.
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Apr 25, 2024 23:24
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Nitrousoxide posted:Watching Tataru attempt the level 1 Archanist quest was very cute. Not just that, the quest even has alternate dialogue for if you have started that quest to do it yourself but not completed it, for the .001% of players that would ever happen to.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Watching Tataru attempt the level 1 Archanist quest was very cute. That whole episode then gets referenced later in one or my favorite moments (STB trial series spoilers) when you’re in that one trial and Tataru tries to summon her carbuncle but can’t control it. Suddenly she’s running around panicking and chasing you with AOE markers like a total sprout
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reversefungi posted:That whole episode then gets referenced later in one or my favorite moments (STB trial series spoilers) when you’re in that one trial and Tataru tries to summon her carbuncle but can’t control it. Suddenly she’s running around panicking and chasing you with AOE markers like a total sprout Then there's the final payoff in EW where a Studium researcher references a weird alone Carbuncle in the wild in LaNoscea that seems to have been summoned for a very long time, but only a summoner with giganormous reserves of aether would be able to pull off such a feat https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/rpmpl2/what_actually_happened_to_tatarus_carbuncle/
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Apr 26, 2024 12:48
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Tataru and carbuncles like wizards and shotguns
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just more proof that tataru is the most powerful scion
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Finished ARR. There’s some real goofy Gary’s Mod faces at the end there where I don’t know if they were intending those to be serious scenes but I just busted out laughing. RIP the sultana, you were a real one. Kinda dumb though since you didn’t even tell your right hand you were planning to blow up the whole government of your city that evening and had zero practical plans to transition to a republic other than hopes and dreams. Honestly probably better that you got assassinated than you got a chance to go through with that dumb plan which would have just had your city dissolving into a civil war. When they pop up a confirmation box saying “hey yo, you better be ready to set aside some time here. You sure bro?” They mean it. That had to be like a 40 minute cutscene. Real jarring to go from that to the new VA’s in the next quest since I was used to them.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Finished ARR. There’s some real goofy Gary’s Mod faces at the end there where I don’t know if they were intending those to be serious scenes but I just busted out laughing.  Welcome to Heavensward!
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Nitrousoxide posted:Finished ARR. There’s some real goofy Gary’s Mod faces at the end there where I don’t know if they were intending those to be serious scenes but I just busted out laughing. The whole "I'll establish a Democracy to take the power out of the wealthy assholes" had me cynically chuckling over her naivety. Yeah no way the ultra wealthy could exploit that.
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Apr 27, 2024 12:00
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Or just start murdering.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Real jarring to go from that to the new VA’s in the next quest since I was used to them.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Finished ARR. Regarding the faces, it's something they've been playing with over the course of the game. If you do the Hildibrand quests they're kinda a testing ground for that thing, playing with facial rigging in a setting where it's okay to look weird. The ones you noticed were definitely at the limits of what they could manage at the time, and there's a reason they don't stick around onscreen for long.
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Nitrousoxide posted:When they pop up a confirmation box saying “hey yo, you better be ready to set aside some time here. You sure bro?” They mean it. That had to be like a 40 minute cutscene. Those pop up confirmation boxes will soon become a source of excitement, anxiety, and drat near any other emotion you can think of 
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I'm liking the Dark Knight's mechanics, but boy did they get a middle schooler to write this questline??? Pretty sure the class is inspired by FFT's Dark Knight, and it wasn't a chuuni edgelord there.
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Nitrousoxide posted:I'm liking the Dark Knight's mechanics, but boy did they get a middle schooler to write this questline??? lmao oh no
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Nitrousoxide posted:I'm liking the Dark Knight's mechanics, but boy did they get a middle schooler to write this questline??? embrace the edge and let it in!
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DRK is half Cecil half Cloud the Edge runs deep in its blood, drink deep.
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No class wears armor that looks like that and has a self-damaging move without being at least a little bit of an edgelord, sorry.
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Nitrousoxide posted:I'm liking the Dark Knight's mechanics, but boy did they get a middle schooler to write this questline??? It's funny, most people's favorite job questline is DRK Personally I think MCH is my favorite and vastly underrated 
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reversefungi posted:It's funny, most people's favorite job questline is DRK MCH is good, but it's no AST. I could read an entire game of Leveva, Jannequinard, and Quimperain, that trio bounces off eachother so well I wish they just became a recurring trio beyond the AST quests.
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Nitrousoxide posted:I'm liking the Dark Knight's mechanics, but boy did they get a middle schooler to write this questline??? How far along are you? also, lol
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Nitrousoxide posted:I'm liking the Dark Knight's mechanics, but boy did they get a middle schooler to write this questline??? The writer for that questline also wrote Shadowbringers and Endwalker, so unfortunately it's all downhill from here lmao
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I made a tier list of my favorite job quests a few weeks ago and all three of the Ishgard jobs landed in my top tier, along with Ninja. Warrior 60-70 would also be in my top tier on its own.Nitrousoxide posted:When they pop up a confirmation box saying “hey yo, you better be ready to set aside some time here. You sure bro?” They mean it. That had to be like a 40 minute cutscene.
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Runa posted:How far along are you? Level 45. It's been just cringy "oh I'm so dark and brooding *holds hand over right eye* oh I can hear the dark voices within me struggling to get out!"
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Nitrousoxide posted:Level 45. That's weird, my ARR Dark Knight quests were just about going around helping people.
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Aren't you tired of going apeshit? Don't you just wanna be nice?
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Nitrousoxide posted:Level 45. Personally, I was on-board as soon as Fray walked up to me and said "hey, wanna go kill some corrupt cops?"
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Don't unspoil until you complete the ARR DRK story (please stick with it until the resolution), but my understanding of the 30-50 story is "voice of temptation tells the WoL to fight for themselves, not for others, and the WoL rejects this, but in the process comes to terms with the destructive, impulsive part of themselves, and learns how to temper their desire for violence into a tool in their ultimate quest to make the world better". Other emotions and plot threads are explored in expansion story lines, so it's not all edge forever.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Level 45. please be sure to read the quest log after every step in the DRK quests like a lot of quests have some fun info in the journal updates so read them when the fancy strikes, but DRK quests really make them Part Of It
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Nitrousoxide posted:Level 45. whoosh
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