I still don’t really get how Elidibus was able to use Ardbert’s body. The crew killed themselves to travel to the Source in spirit form. And then 100-odd years passed in Norvrandt between then and the events of Shadowbringers. Unless someone thought to preserve the bodies in some stable location for all that time, you’d think Ardbert’s body would be dust and/or bones by now.
Maybe the Ascians set something up with them as a plan B, even though they were planning an immediate Rejoining at the time.
presumably elidibus kept his body in storage from when he first made the deal with them to send their souls to the source, not sure why the other warriors' bodies were out and about as sin eaters though, maybe he didn't bother keeping theirs. Remember they were just souls, like the Scions other than the WoL are on the First, both on the Source and once they came back.
All of them were buried in Kholusia a hundred years ago, IIRC.
As for why they're preserved, I have to assume that it's a Sin Eater/Ascian thing.
Also I might be misremembering, but I think in the scene where Emet-Selch goads Varis into shooting him he mentions that the Ascians can mold the bodies they take? He was just using the clones because they were convenient. Like a takeout meal instead of making dinner yourself!
So I guess Elidibus could have snatched a random body and molded it to look like Ardbert.
The Ascians can just mold the bodies into whatever, yes. Lahabrea didn't care for it, hence why Thancred's still Thancred, but Emet Selch just bodyhorror'd some random civilian on the First into looking like a young Solus zos Galvus.
In this case they're pretty clear that Elidibus exhumed Ardbert and possessed his corpse, though. Maybe he used magic to fix up the body a bit or something, I guess, or maybe it's just the world being aspected towards light and thus decay is slowed or whatever.
I still don’t really get how Elidibus was able to use Ardbert’s body. The crew killed themselves to travel to the Source in spirit form. And then 100-odd years passed in Norvrandt between then and the events of Shadowbringers. Unless someone thought to preserve the bodies in some stable location for all that time, you’d think Ardbert’s body would be dust and/or bones by now.
Maybe the Ascians set something up with them as a plan B, even though they were planning an immediate Rejoining at the time.
presumably elidibus kept his body in storage from when he first made the deal with them to send their souls to the source, not sure why the other warriors' bodies were out and about as sin eaters though, maybe he didn't bother keeping theirs. Remember they were just souls, like the Scions other than the WoL are on the First, both on the Source and once they came back.
All of them were buried in Kholusia a hundred years ago, IIRC.
As for why they're preserved, I have to assume that it's a Sin Eater/Ascian thing.
Also I might be misremembering, but I think in the scene where Emet-Selch goads Varis into shooting him he mentions that the Ascians can mold the bodies they take? He was just using the clones because they were convenient. Like a takeout meal instead of making dinner yourself!
So I guess Elidibus could have snatched a random body and molded it to look like Ardbert.
The Ascians can just mold the bodies into whatever, yes. Lahabrea didn't care for it, hence why Thancred's still Thancred, but Emet Selch just bodyhorror'd some random civilian on the First into looking like a young Solus zos Galvus.
In this case they're pretty clear that Elidibus exhumed Ardbert and possessed his corpse, though. Maybe he used magic to fix up the body a bit or something, I guess, or maybe it's just the world being aspected towards light and thus decay is slowed or whatever.
Actually, Emet-Selch went the Palpy route and had a secret Garlean project to supply him with vessels. Which isn't really better.
And we know that Elidibus can fix up corpses to serve as vessels, as he did this with Zenos (before getting evicted by the original occupant.)
I still don’t really get how Elidibus was able to use Ardbert’s body. The crew killed themselves to travel to the Source in spirit form. And then 100-odd years passed in Norvrandt between then and the events of Shadowbringers. Unless someone thought to preserve the bodies in some stable location for all that time, you’d think Ardbert’s body would be dust and/or bones by now.
Maybe the Ascians set something up with them as a plan B, even though they were planning an immediate Rejoining at the time.
presumably elidibus kept his body in storage from when he first made the deal with them to send their souls to the source, not sure why the other warriors' bodies were out and about as sin eaters though, maybe he didn't bother keeping theirs. Remember they were just souls, like the Scions other than the WoL are on the First, both on the Source and once they came back.
All of them were buried in Kholusia a hundred years ago, IIRC.
As for why they're preserved, I have to assume that it's a Sin Eater/Ascian thing.
Also I might be misremembering, but I think in the scene where Emet-Selch goads Varis into shooting him he mentions that the Ascians can mold the bodies they take? He was just using the clones because they were convenient. Like a takeout meal instead of making dinner yourself!
So I guess Elidibus could have snatched a random body and molded it to look like Ardbert.
The Ascians can just mold the bodies into whatever, yes. Lahabrea didn't care for it, hence why Thancred's still Thancred, but Emet Selch just bodyhorror'd some random civilian on the First into looking like a young Solus zos Galvus.
In this case they're pretty clear that Elidibus exhumed Ardbert and possessed his corpse, though. Maybe he used magic to fix up the body a bit or something, I guess, or maybe it's just the world being aspected towards light and thus decay is slowed or whatever.
Actually, Emet-Selch went the Palpy route and had a secret Garlean project to supply him with vessels. Which isn't really better.
And we know that Elidibus can fix up corpses to serve as vessels, as he did this with Zenos (before getting evicted by the original occupant.)
The Solus clones were actually a Varis project, but the one on the First wasn't a clone. (The Ascians seem to leave their bodies to travel between worlds.)
From the optional dialogue when entering Rak'tika:
>> Choice 1: Why choose this form here in the first?
Emet-Selch: Well, well, what a curious question.
Emet-Selch: Mortal flesh is but the vessel into which we Ascians pour the elixir of our souls, molding it as fits the occasion. Or not, if we so choose.
Emet-Selch: Be it for a year or a millennium, I prefer to retain the same form until my duty is done. So, after arriving here in the First, I fashioned some hapless body into the man you see before you.
Emet-Selch: Though as your friend over there can attest, there are those of us who forgo such alterations.
Emet-Selch: He was ever the rash one, Lahabrea. Jumping from vessel to vessel. Never heeding the toll it took on him.
I still don’t really get how Elidibus was able to use Ardbert’s body. The crew killed themselves to travel to the Source in spirit form. And then 100-odd years passed in Norvrandt between then and the events of Shadowbringers. Unless someone thought to preserve the bodies in some stable location for all that time, you’d think Ardbert’s body would be dust and/or bones by now.
Maybe the Ascians set something up with them as a plan B, even though they were planning an immediate Rejoining at the time.
presumably elidibus kept his body in storage from when he first made the deal with them to send their souls to the source, not sure why the other warriors' bodies were out and about as sin eaters though, maybe he didn't bother keeping theirs. Remember they were just souls, like the Scions other than the WoL are on the First, both on the Source and once they came back.
All of them were buried in Kholusia a hundred years ago, IIRC.
As for why they're preserved, I have to assume that it's a Sin Eater/Ascian thing.
Also I might be misremembering, but I think in the scene where Emet-Selch goads Varis into shooting him he mentions that the Ascians can mold the bodies they take? He was just using the clones because they were convenient. Like a takeout meal instead of making dinner yourself!
So I guess Elidibus could have snatched a random body and molded it to look like Ardbert.
The Ascians can just mold the bodies into whatever, yes. Lahabrea didn't care for it, hence why Thancred's still Thancred, but Emet Selch just bodyhorror'd some random civilian on the First into looking like a young Solus zos Galvus.
In this case they're pretty clear that Elidibus exhumed Ardbert and possessed his corpse, though. Maybe he used magic to fix up the body a bit or something, I guess, or maybe it's just the world being aspected towards light and thus decay is slowed or whatever.
Actually, Emet-Selch went the Palpy route and had a secret Garlean project to supply him with vessels. Which isn't really better.
And we know that Elidibus can fix up corpses to serve as vessels, as he did this with Zenos (before getting evicted by the original occupant.)
The Solus clones were actually a Varis project, but the one on the First wasn't a clone. (The Ascians seem to leave their bodies to travel between worlds.)
From the optional dialogue when entering Rak'tika:
>> Choice 1: Why choose this form here in the first?
Emet-Selch: Well, well, what a curious question.
Emet-Selch: Mortal flesh is but the vessel into which we Ascians pour the elixir of our souls, molding it as fits the occasion. Or not, if we so choose.
Emet-Selch: Be it for a year or a millennium, I prefer to retain the same form until my duty is done. So, after arriving here in the First, I fashioned some hapless body into the man you see before you.
Emet-Selch: Though as your friend over there can attest, there are those of us who forgo such alterations.
Emet-Selch: He was ever the rash one, Lahabrea. Jumping from vessel to vessel. Never heeding the toll it took on him.
Oh I hadn't seen that dialogue on my playthrough, that's really interesting! And horrifying!
Crafting grind continues. In order to not clutter up my already overflowing armoury chest with several gear sets, I'm leveling everything up at once. Current goal is level 53, then it's time for a new crafter gear set.
Hahaha and I see you also couldn't help yourself from filling those desynth bars. You would have hated the old system, where you had like ~600 points to dispense between different DoHs and you could never fill all the bars on one character.
I have desynthed tens of thousands of poetics worth of shields and I'm still at like 430
Honestly, it’s better to just power level them with simple crafted items. You can then use the desynthed items to make more items. Be sure to use Tinker’s Calm and Bacon Broth. You can get most of your skills to 450 pretty quickly this way.
Generally speaking you get desynth levels until you're... thirty levels above the item's ilvl? Sixty? Recommendations tend to be twenty levels IIRC, since that's still a noticeable amount at that point rather than +0.03.
I was like, oh man, if I just get this one chest piece I could have a pretty cool glamour for sage heading into endwalker. How hard can it be it's just one piece of blue armor??
2 days of running the same dungeon later and still no armor piece...
The glam hunting life is pitiless
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
It is nice that at least with leveling dungeons if you just keep all the pieces for your job/role you will eventually collect every item that class/role can use because of the end of dungeon gear drop. Too bad the level 50/60/70/80 dungeons don't also do that.
3 days of The Burn later and I finally got my outfit mostly done.
Tacticool healers amuse me
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
So it turns out that upcoming Platinum/Square Enix GaaS venture Babylon's Fall uses armor and emotes pulled from XIV, mainly in the early game, to save on development time/costs.
The game's producer, Yosuke Saito, and Yoshi-P put out statements about it: https://hanging-garden.babylonsfall.com/news/pages/619b1a8026e03507589623
yeah sharing common assets between projects is NBD
there are a bunch of monster models they reused from FF12 or FF13 in 14 I think
TONS from ff11
Oh sure. Then you can spend your time on making another completely different Shiva design instead. (I swear, no other summon gets a totally new look each game)
I think there's a difference in how that feels to a consumer though. Reusing assets within a series can feel like an homage. Oh! I remember this enemy from FFXI! Neat! Using them for a separate project gives the impression that the game is having a problem finding it's own identity.
All it makes me think of is that there are always a ton of assets that need to be made, especially for big games, so do whatever you need to tackle that mountain of work.
Reading the statements by Saito and Yoshi-P I'm just left thinking "hell yeah why not, this is just working smart and I love seeing devs helping each other out like this"
I'm running Skalla 15 times for the last leg of my relic weapon and trying to grab all the armor sets to use on my squadron. I think I will maybe only unlock half the visible items if I'm lucky. Probably need to run it unsynced solo when I'm level 90.
getting full sets, let alone all the full sets, from any of the 50/60/70/80 dungeons is a terrible pain in the ass since it doesn't give you a free piece for your current job that you don't already own at the end, unlike the leveling dungeons
getting full sets, let alone all the full sets, from any of the 50/60/70/80 dungeons is a terrible pain in the ass since it doesn't give you a free piece for your current job that you don't already own at the end, unlike the leveling dungeons
Still hoping they'll change that soon. Otherwise it's just a grind with more bragging rights at the end I guess.
I ended up spending most of thanksgiving playing Hildy quests. I keep intending to wrap up the post-SB content and then getting distracted by glamour and side quests and trials and raids... So friggin much to do in this game!
At this rate im gonna end up having to last minute cram to make it to endwalker when it launches.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Shadowbringers, about to do Qitana Ravel (Rak'tika Greatwood)
Does Ran'jit ever get interesting or is he just boring the whole time. He's like a somehow less interesting version of Zenos
Also, why would I literally ever trust Emet-Selch, just let me kill him every time he enters a scene
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In this case they're pretty clear that Elidibus exhumed Ardbert and possessed his corpse, though. Maybe he used magic to fix up the body a bit or something, I guess, or maybe it's just the world being aspected towards light and thus decay is slowed or whatever.
And we know that Elidibus can fix up corpses to serve as vessels, as he did this with Zenos (before getting evicted by the original occupant.)
From the optional dialogue when entering Rak'tika:
Honestly, it’s better to just power level them with simple crafted items. You can then use the desynthed items to make more items. Be sure to use Tinker’s Calm and Bacon Broth. You can get most of your skills to 450 pretty quickly this way.
Steam: pazython
2 days of running the same dungeon later and still no armor piece...
The glam hunting life is pitiless
server downtime for patching in endwalker is planned for 24 hours, which is honestly shorter than I was expecting
Tacticool healers amuse me
So it turns out that upcoming Platinum/Square Enix GaaS venture Babylon's Fall uses armor and emotes pulled from XIV, mainly in the early game, to save on development time/costs.
The game's producer, Yosuke Saito, and Yoshi-P put out statements about it: https://hanging-garden.babylonsfall.com/news/pages/619b1a8026e03507589623
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
24 hours is the normal amount of time. Even if it doesn’t take as long, they likely won’t bring up the servers early either
Especially for early and mid game stuff you'll end up replacing.
That's just working smart imo.
there are a bunch of monster models they reused from FF12 or FF13 in 14 I think
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
Oh sure. Then you can spend your time on making another completely different Shiva design instead. (I swear, no other summon gets a totally new look each game)
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
so yeah seems fine to me
obnoxious post in case you didn't notice
Still hoping they'll change that soon. Otherwise it's just a grind with more bragging rights at the end I guess.
At this rate im gonna end up having to last minute cram to make it to endwalker when it launches.
I ran it enough times to get every piece of equipment as the guaranteed "leveling" drop. Only to realize that weapons are excluded from that feature.
I never got the weapon. I eventually got a reskin of it from Dohn Mheg.
Also, why would I literally ever trust Emet-Selch, just let me kill him every time he enters a scene