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We are canceling the apocalypse! (Final Fantasy XIV)

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  • IanatorIanator Gaze upon my works, ye mighty and facepalm.Registered User regular
    Wish my auth app wasn't stuck on my old phone that doesn't want to turn on anymore. Kept me from redeeming that free Stormblood a couple months ago, probably gonna keep me from jumping into this Free Play period too.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    the free trial's going up to 70 with both heavensward and stormblood content soon so no where near the end of it at level 20 in the main story requirements

    that's gonna be so insane bc it's gonna include Eureka which is like...

    You could legit play the trial for fucking ever and it would take you a very long ass time to run out of Content.

    realistically it's the maximum Gil limit and social limitations that are going to drive most people off of the free trial long before they ever reach the story end of it

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    anecdotally I don't know a single new player who made it to the end of the previous free trial in heavensward without subscribing just to be able to lift the social limitations, let alone all the way to the end of stormblood

  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    Choosing your Grand Company will have made the quest to get your mount available. If you look at the reward for going back to the Rising Sands you should see some currency for whichever GC you chose. It should be enough that you can then go back to your GC and buy the license for the mount instead of spending a bunch of time farming fates.

    After you have finished your level 30 class quest and a particular level 20 MSQ quest you will be able to take a quest that unlocks Black Mage. That gives you a stone that goes into the right side of your character sheet. You will have to redo your skill buttons, but it will be worth it.

    Have fun and take some time to check out the other Classes/Jobs.

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    Ianator wrote: »
    Wish my auth app wasn't stuck on my old phone that doesn't want to turn on anymore. Kept me from redeeming that free Stormblood a couple months ago, probably gonna keep me from jumping into this Free Play period too.

    You might be able to verify your information with Square support to have it removed from the account.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    anecdotally I don't know a single new player who made it to the end of the previous free trial in heavensward without subscribing just to be able to lift the social limitations, let alone all the way to the end of stormblood

    I've seen a few people around in heavensward patch stuff who are on a quest to do all the content in the free trial without subbing, no one I personally know though

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  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    The game went on sale before I reached Heavensward, that was why I bought it when I did. I had one Job at 60 and another deep into the 50s and that was just because I was doing MSQ roulette every day. I hadn't even unlocked Crystal Tower yet.

    Being able to hold more than 300k gil, being able to use the Marketboard and random "Join my FC" requests was certainly a change. (Retainers and the Mail with glamour pieces was also a nice change.)

  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    I guess not having a retainer doesn't matter all that much if you're still leveling, but I legit can't imagine playing endgame without a retainer.

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    Also, did the Euphrosyne raid last night and Menphina's theme definitely shot up to top 5 favorite songs in the game.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guDguPQvRCQ

    Really might be my favorite Alliance Raid in the game. All of the bosses were really cool, the setting is dope, the music is great, there were lots of interesting mechanics but none of them were overly punishing or overwhelming or tedious. Nophica, Halone, and Menphina all had great designs, too.

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    some of the English VAs (Estinien, Thancred, and the Levilluers) try to bake a fancy cake
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgBcmMt6EJ8

    EW spoilers

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  • McMoogleMcMoogle Registered User regular
    I guess not having a retainer doesn't matter all that much if you're still leveling, but I legit can't imagine playing endgame without a retainer.

    Amusingly I was the opposite. I feel like I used mine much more as I was leveling. Though a good part of that is that didn't bother with gathering/crafting this last expac, so they're all still at 80.

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    McMoogle wrote: »
    I guess not having a retainer doesn't matter all that much if you're still leveling, but I legit can't imagine playing endgame without a retainer.

    Amusingly I was the opposite. I feel like I used mine much more as I was leveling. Though a good part of that is that didn't bother with gathering/crafting this last expac, so they're all still at 80.

    My retainers are mostly full of time limited consumable emotes, dyes, misc relic weapon / zone stuff like bozja coins and eureka crystals, current level materia and materia trade-ins, furniture, misc mats for whatever I'm marketboard crafting, misc stuff like grand company squad training manuals, misc stuff like gatherer XP boost manuals, etc. Just lots of junk that's too useful to throw away but I don't really wanna sell/re-earn.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    Also, did the Euphrosyne raid last night and Menphina's theme definitely shot up to top 5 favorite songs in the game.
    Dedicated to moonlight immediately shot up to be probably my personal favorite song in the game

    (Scream is my current close second)

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    I get the Pandaemonium leitmotif (if I'm even using that term correct) popping up in my head on a regular basis.

  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 29
    heenato wrote: »
    Also, did the Euphrosyne raid last night and Menphina's theme definitely shot up to top 5 favorite songs in the game.
    Dedicated to moonlight immediately shot up to be probably my personal favorite song in the game

    (Scream is my current close second)
    It's hard cause there's too much good music in the game.

    Pa-Paya (Holiday stuff)
    Under the Weight (Titan)
    A Light in the Storm (Pharos Sirius)
    Oblivion (Shiva)
    Ink Long Dry (Great Gubal Library)
    Wing and a Prayer (Stormblood fun lil' song that was surprisingly hard to track down)
    Rencounter (Shadowbringers main battle theme)
    What Angel Wakes (Titania)
    To The Edge (Warrior of Light)
    Endwalker (main Endwalker theme but not the extended trailer version)
    Close in the Distance (Ultima Thule)
    With Hearts Aligned (Endsinger)
    Hic Svnt Leones (Hesperos)
    Dedicated to Moonlight (Menphina)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQO9DwVek4c

    Also a bunch of previous FF songs that got reworked into FF14
    Now I Know The Truth (Doga and Unei's theme from FF3)
    Eternal Wind (from FF3)
    Vamo' alla Flamenco (from FF9)
    The Empty (Blue Fields from FF8)
    etc

    Probably a ton more I'm forgetting

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    I get the Pandaemonium leitmotif (if I'm even using that term correct) popping up in my head on a regular basis.

    You are, the melody that gets reused in different arrangements throughout pandaemonium's various pieces of music.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Echo wrote: »
    I get the Pandaemonium leitmotif (if I'm even using that term correct) popping up in my head on a regular basis.

    You are, the melody that gets reused in different arrangements throughout pandaemonium's various pieces of music.

    It's so damn catchy!

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  • LD50LD50 Registered User regular
    I really like And Love You Shal Find.

  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    I've been hearing this stripped down version of Answers playing a lot outside certain areas, it's really nice.

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  • FrozenzenFrozenzen Registered User regular
    It always plays during the rising event, and every time I gotta stand around and listen for a bit.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    That is the spooky version of answers that played everywhere in the final few days of 1.0 as dalamud got real big in the sky.

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  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    I get the Pandaemonium leitmotif (if I'm even using that term correct) popping up in my head on a regular basis.

    "Here be lions*"

    *Pandaemonium may not actually contain lions.

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  • Lucid_SeraphLucid_Seraph TealDeer MarylandRegistered User regular
    Zython wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    I get the Pandaemonium leitmotif (if I'm even using that term correct) popping up in my head on a regular basis.

    "Here be lions*"

    *Pandaemonium may not actually contain lions.

    there's a real fucked up horse tho

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    Someone made a cheeky video of the drone show in Osaka.

    https://youtu.be/N2Cy_5pQXIc?si=Z1PmcupNi1aDC0oJ

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    damn that's awesome

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited August 30
    Oh, is that how they pulled that off? I'd seen another video but wasn't sure what they'd used for the effects.

    The attempted seal is especially impressive.

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  • CormacCormac Registered User regular
    Here's the whole hour+ show

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8AiQ_bsQjk

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 31
    Made some more FF14 Post-EW MSQ progress. Zero is the coolest.

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    If I'm understanding this correctly, we'll have the whole of September and beyond to farm irregular tomestones and pvp rank?

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    Should be. Expect 6.5 in early October, with UK fanfest in late October likely carrying the release date for 6.55 and the last of the story content/lead-up to Dawntrail

  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    Man, the Manderville relic weapon is wayyyyy easier than like, literally any other relic weapon. Kinda into it. Pretty much just do the Manderville quests as they come, which I was gonna do anyway, and turn in 1500 tomes per stage, which you already get tons of from doing roulettes and whatnot (and even more now that the Moogle tomestone grind is on).

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  • Lucid_SeraphLucid_Seraph TealDeer MarylandRegistered User regular
    Man, the Manderville relic weapon is wayyyyy easier than like, literally any other relic weapon. Kinda into it. Pretty much just do the Manderville quests as they come, which I was gonna do anyway, and turn in 1500 tomes per stage, which you already get tons of from doing roulettes and whatnot (and even more now that the Moogle tomestone grind is on).

    It's a *little* gnarlier on my alt, starting from the very first level 50 quest when I'm already level 90, so... I deffo feel for people who skipped the Hildibrand quests. My advice to sprouts *now* would be "just do them, even if you think they're cringe."

    (I did them all on-level with my main, so, on my main it was just like "oh neat more SHENANIGAEIN and then I just dump tomestones at this)

    But basically they just front-loaded the grind into something that most people will have done anyway.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    1500 tomestones is still a decent amount, though I'm really looking forward to how quickly I'll be able to collect them all in Dawntrail. Anima weapons take far more than 6000 poetics.

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    Answers being on the irregular tomestone list finally motivated me to finish Binding Coils so I could craft it myself instead. I had stopped at Nael before this, and it unfortunately looks like I'll need to go back and farm that one for a bit until I can get two faded rolls to drop. It is funny just how quickly Twintania dies now, though, especially since when I first fought it I had to wait out the stun.

  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    There's a special survey up for the 10th anniversary, interesting questions: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/6b16d69fcbc27be1e4fc18bd884ba63654853c07
    It asks questions about your feelings on various places, enemies, characters, and jobs, and a new side story will be written based on responses to the survey featuring the character people want the most.

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  • DelzhandDelzhand Hard to miss. Registered User regular
    "Choose ONE character whom you would like to be featured in a side story" had me really thinking. My first thought was Sadu, but ultimately I went with Gaia. It's a tragedy she's locked behind raid content.

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  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    It's a little murkier for capstone quests but I think I'd be fine with making more of the normal raids "required reading" in order to bring some characters into the proper fold so we stop with this mysteriously missing character issue we keep hitting.

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  • Lucid_SeraphLucid_Seraph TealDeer MarylandRegistered User regular
    edited September 9
    I went for Sappho. I had to write her in. But dammit, she's there! In Elpis!

    *edit* I should have picked Moenbryda tho.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    I also went with gaia. I want more gaia content. I also asked them to rescue her from the side story memory hole but not holding my breath.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    Yeah, honestly the MSQ really could use a Eden-shaped blocker IMO.

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