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The MSQ in FF14 is fucking awful, I am level 30 and it's just fetch quests and running around, when is it getting good?

Also why are so many high level players approaching me, asking if I need help or a friend and that my character is cute? Is that because of my dark skin Viera or something?
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>>742283190
They do that because they’re mentally ill. Do not, ever, accept help from anyone. I tried this game out and thought it would be okay to interact with people and, every single time, they’ve been proven to be psychos.
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>>742283479
isn't the point of a MMO to be social though? granted I have not played any in more than a decade and never played that game. is the community of that game that "particular"?
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>>742283190
Man I thought Switch 2 players were able to play this game as soon as July 1 hit, I was wrong and now I'm sad.
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>>742283190
>it's just fetch quests and running around,
first mmo?
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>>742283190
If you aren't enjoying the MSQ by the end of ARR, you probably aren't ever going to enjoy the game. The endgame of XIV is not very good and the main draw of the game is the MSQ and housing/RP stuff.
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>>742283190
Honest answer from somebody that started this slop earlier this year:

Get to lv 60. The first 50 levels are garbage. The story is India curry shit until you see snow, and then its hot steaming shit from ~40-60. After that things get better. If you don't want to grind the first 60 levels just pay Square $10 to skip.
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>>742283190
I bounced off FF14 so fucking hard. Modern MMOS are not for me. Not saying classic ones are either, but this shit certainly was not it.
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I have bought 2 subscriptions many ages ago, first was on the PC as a Dragoon, then many many years later as again, a Dragoon but this time I started as a warrior then changed halfway. Now I will buy a new subscription for the Switch 2 to play 100% of the game as a male healer. In both cases I have completed the mqs that you end up defeating the Garland commander, no idea what expansion that was. And yes I will do it again.
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>>742283190
Skinny White guy here, she was made for me
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>>742283190
yeah it never really gets any better
it gets more "interesting" later on because it turns out god is a robot and you have to use a time machine (which is also a robot) to go back in time and find out everything bad in the universe exists because a depressed zookeeper had a woman moment and invented sentient spacetwitter (which is ALSO a robot) that decided to nuke all life by fucking off to the edge of the universe and crying really hard, which radiates sadness beams that causes multiple planets to all commit suicide by war crimes
and then literally none of that actually matters because Vegeta turns into a dragon and flies to the edge of space so he can call you a pussy one last time
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I just do ERP lol
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>>742288156
S0heeeen listem to meee
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>rpgs are just cancer, it's an outdated mechanic designed around system limitations, it's just there to waste your time with numbers and suck money from you
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>>742288238
sadly DT was so fucking boring I can't even exaggerate it into nonsense like I can EW
if Hitler and Hiroi were locked in a room and I had a gun with two bullets I would shoot Hiroi twice
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>>742283190
>why are so many high level players approaching me, asking if I need help or a friend
No one ever talked to me as a the male dragon guy, life is so unfair, I just don't want to be alone...
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Alphinaud owes me sex
while Alisaie watches with despair but also a femrection
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Video game generals belong on /vg/

Also, you're not level 30. Just making up bullshit.
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>>742288235
Let me guess, you RP as a sexy girl and you are RPing with men.
Am I correct?
Next question is: why?
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>>742283190
arr is pretty bad since they had to remake an entire mmo in like a year and a half, so it's not great. things get better after that though
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>>742283190
I don't believe you
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>>742283190

This is the guy's character, btw.
>>>/trash/83781902
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>>742291042
Loooool
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It is genuinely impossible not to have a XIV thread up on /v/ at all times
All under the thin veil of 'dude i am new to the game, whens the free trial?'
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>>742291493
Does that make you angry?
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>>742283190
>>742288235
>>742291042
hmmmm

rabbet
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>>742291042
choco bunnies...
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>>742287669
Adding to this, recommend me the easiest and fastest "edgiest" armor set to rock on as a male healer thanks
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a better thread died for this
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>>742283190
Please don't post my Viera.
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Generals belong on /vg/.
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>>742283190
That bun's ass is fucking massive
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This year, the Aether Hunts community will once again be raising money for the Transgender Law Center (TLC). TLC is a trans-led organization that champions the rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming people by challenging discriminatory laws and policies that unfairly target vulnerable members of our community in addition to implementing nationwide support networks with a focus on BIPOC, disabled, and HIV+ communities.
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>>742295764
Stop using shitcord bruh
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>>742295764
So I see hunt trains ending with brainrotted retards screaming "Trans Lives Matter!" did not get and better and in fact got significantly worse
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>Humiliation ritual: The character
What the fuck did SE have against her?
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>CSR
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>>742291042
i mean, she IS cute thoho
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>>742295764
cornball ass community
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>>742295456
Good thing Lalafell futas are hung as fuck.
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>>742293139
No one? Impossibru
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>>742296293
the pvp sets are edgy as fuck, accessible at level 30
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>>742296478
>PvP
Do I need to have an amazing coordinated team to get that level 30 set? Or can I single player it with randoms?
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ok but seriously, the MSQ would be so much better if we just removed 50% of the quests, make evercold just around 50 really damn solid quests and we're gold
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>>742296534
As long as you follow the crowd in frontline, you'll be fine
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>>742295456
Didn't ask!
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>>742283676
He's not lying, I had some guy try to help me out and I spent a couple of hours just doing quests and chatting with him thinking he was just a nice guy, and it turned out that he thought my character was hot and wanted to groom me to join his furry discord or some shit. I told him I don't use discord and he instantly blocked me
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>>742296771
I am expecting serious headaches...but I'll take your word for it. Last question ,can I transfigure/transmod/whatever the fuck is called now the set after leveling up more? As I said, last time I play was lile 12 years ago
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This is your game
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>>742297160
Cute!
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>>742297160
Rent free.
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>>742297160
Don't make me post the gay beach chair
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>>742297160
This is your snack now
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>>742296795
How's your day goin Anon?
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>>742297320
AAAAIIEEEEEE
COMPLEMENTARY COLORS
SAVE ME BLIZZARD MAN
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>>742296795
i'm asking.

What did you do in FFXIV today?
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>>742297636
the other anon that you stole this from was infinitely more interesting than you are
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>>742297636
Four rounds of PVP and an ally roulette, like God intended
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>>742283479
>Do dailies
>Get a support and a DPS erping in the fucking chat
>Purposely draw more waves of enemies to me so they spend less time ERPing
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>>742297839
did this actually happen
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>>742296967
You can glamour any piece of equipment regardless of level or class now. Glamouring is unlocked at level 15 in vesper bay. Pvp glamour is level 1 gear but that is redundant after the changes.
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>>742283190
Why do racists love black women features? Can you stay in your lane and fuck the fat ugly ones who will blow you to survive?
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>>742283190
>When is it getting good
Heavensward.
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If I were to get back into this game, I would wanna download mods that make female tits gigantic with large aerolas and very lewd attire to go with it. Only issue is I've no clue where to get those mods. I haven't played since Endwalker first came out as I got burnt out.
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>>742283190
CutesexyCHADbutts
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>>742297886
Love it, now I'm hyped for my healer playthrough
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>>742297913
Forbidden fruit
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>>742297729
alliance roulette eh? which one ya get?

>>742297683
you should login. its tuesday, only day where people who are good at the game actually play it
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>>742297876
It actually did, I remember taking a camera shot with my old phone as I didn't know how to take in-game screenshots and the general for FF14 calling me a faggot for saying, "BACK OFF SLAANESH DAEMONS!"
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>>742297636
Bred three Lalas.
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>>742298030
Forbidden by whom? Your faggot granddaddy or some shit?
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>>742283190
Never. It actually devolves even more into fetch quests. The entire design of the game is running across opposite ends of the map to receive a few lines of dialogue that could have been included elsewhere to you can do a task that is either: find one thing in a big red circle, find 3 things each in a small red circle, kill 3 enemies in a blue circle, find the 3-5 right npcs out of a group of 8, or examine three things on the ground 1-2 of which spawn enemies. It’s literally the worst mmo on the market for questing and combat, which is why it is just a fetish roleplay second-life simulator and has been for a decade.
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>>742297636
I did my Trials+Normal Raids and then ran the 24 man once
I still need to get my weekly piece...
First Kefka reclears tonight, hopefully it's smooth
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>>742283676
>isn't the point of a MMO to be social though?
maybe 20 years ago
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I have been playing this game for close to 6 years now. Have over 2 months playtime. I have never dealt or had any drama, never conversed with a tranny (that I know of) never had some one try to groom me into a discord, never was invited to or even seen an erp'er ingame. Never been to one of those parties always yelled in limsa and yet all I hear is complaints about this shit. How have I been sheltered from it for so long, unless you fags seek it out then complain its there
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>>742283676
MMOs were only ever like that before everyone moved to social media
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>>742298323
You having a bad day bro?
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>>742298072
Rarely are generals based but in this case they were correct to shit on a goyhammer faggot
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>>742298678
same, and I've played off and on since 2.0 beta
Its exaggerated to hell and back here
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>>742283190
Swarthy
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>>742298836
>>742298678
Don’t they specifically target people with the green plant icon thing?
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>>742297976
Based
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>>742283190
>The MSQ in FF14 is fucking awful
enjoy the next 90 hours! :)
>Also why are so many high level players approaching me, asking if I need help or a friend and that my character is cute?
it's more of a tranny ERP room than a game.
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>>742299157
I had two transwoman roommates (Not on purpose it just happened around me) and both of them kept trying to get into FFXIV and they just couldn't

Meanwhile I was logging in every day and I'm still a chud. I just had to hide it
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>>742298179
only three?

>>742298428
good luck on kefka. though i dun get why there's a lockout on ultimates
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>>742297683
You always told me the Lalafells were more interesting than me though.
>>742297636
I haven't played in like two weeks outside of raid days. I've been other gaming.
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>>742300239
>the 'expac has been announced' blahs

i get it
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>>742298678
no need to lie on the internet, no one cares
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>>742300345
It's not that. I got interested in Xenoblade Genesis so I finally forced myself to get through Xenogears and I loved it so then I marathoned all of Xenosaga and now I'm on XCX.
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Xiv has always been boring garbage. Give us realm reborn + heavensward servers
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>>742283190
hahahahahahahahaha no
you've legitimately seen the whole game at this point, unless you count hitting level 80 and suddenly having to spin your party counter-clockwise instead of just clockwise as a """"""mechanic""""""
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fire kate fire hiroi
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>>742299157
It's pretty funny how Square Enix makes millions in profit because people jerk off a lot. Porn addiction is more serious than people think
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>>742297320
i cant believe cotton candy is freakin woke now
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>>742283190
Quests are whatever but if you play the game long enough you start to care for the story and characters. Also at some point your class might become actually fun to play so dungeons and trial will become way more enjoyable. For me, I was playing Dragoon, my class became fun somewhere in Stormblood.
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>>742297636
Roulettes, beast tribes, custom deliveries, 7.3 and most of 7.4's MSQ. I burst out laughing when they fucking played Smile again.
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>>742302479
Nobody knows wtf that is bruh
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>>742302479
whatcha think of 7.4 so far?
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>they're not gay just because they're holding hands in front of a rainbow
>it's not trans just because it has trans colors
>y-youre obsessed!
truly sad to see people refuse the truth that's right in front of them
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>>742283190
>nigger ass enjoyed doesn't have patience
many such cases
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>>742302690
The rainbow crystal is an allusion to Noah's Ark because it's the end of the Flood of Light.
The tranny spider is just a tranny spider though.
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>>742302690
Didn't Squaresoft deleted that for Evercold in August of this year?
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>>742302642
I got up to Hell on Rails and stopped because it's off-peak hours where I live and I didn't have confidence in the queue time, so I'll finish it off tomorrow.

I thought it was boring, but acceptable. Compared to 6.x/7.0 which were offensively bad, this is a step up. I like Treno and its three characters well enough even though I wish FF14's patch cycle wasn't so rigid as to disallow having an aetheryte there. It's obviously going to just be somewhere we visit once for the MSQ and then forget it exists. Also I found it a bit weird that Krile suddenly had an existential crisis over which shard she truly belongs in, which she never had any internal conflict over before, and it was resolved in the very next cutscene. I give it a 6/10, decent but not exceptional, though I'd be happy if the trial is good and improves that opinion.
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Why is this thread still up?
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>>742303061
There's no aetheryte there but luckily you can actually still go back to Treno.
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>>742288235
Faggot
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>>742303075
not enough gta6 threads for your taste, pedro?
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>>742283190
What's the deal with this game? Are there raids? Is there pvp? Everyone who plays it seems like a faggot.
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>>742303314
>Are there raids?
yes >
Is there pvp?
yes
>Everyone who plays it seems like a faggot.
yes
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Tall Viera lady taking care of a little sprout (sexually)
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bratty miera femboys will save Evercold
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>>742303125
Yeah, you can probably go back to the red moon in the Thirteenth from 6.x too. What I meant is that I would've liked it if it was an actual town area you'd have a reason to go back to now and again, maybe with its own field zone with gathering points and hunts and so on, but they'd never put something that substantial in a patch story. And Treno is so disconnected from the rest of the world (stuck in another dimension from the rest of the game, with the only way for them to interact with anyone else in the game being to trek across the fiend-infested mountains and somehow get an airship to Living Memory) that there's absolutely zero chance these characters or this location ever comes up in anything ever again. Feels like a waste.
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>>742303575
My hope for Evercold is that the open world zone expansions are just them putting field ops content into the open world, which means they can instead add full new zones in MSQ patches in place of field ops updates.
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OH SHIT HE CLEARED
MY MAN!!!!
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742303850
Thanks for showing me what server to not play in
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>>742297636
Nothing.
My sub ran out and I'm not renewing it until the new relic weapon step gets added.
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>>742303368
its canon that Fran got her ass groped by a shota
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>>742283190
It is not. I put 50 hours into that trash and only the very last cutscene was halfway interesting. They kill off the sick looking FF12 judges so there's nothing worth getting excited for. Skip every cutscene, your "team" is almost entirely irrelevant. I'm not exagerrating, skip everything and look for fun things to do later on.
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>>742283190
Anal
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>>742303368
This happened to me and the Viera "lady" ended up being a gay man.
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>>742304080
>losing your house
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>>742304305
Hahahaha, nigga you gay!
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>>742303314
its a story-driven mmo with a bad endgame. To be honest it really doesn't compete with WoW at all, they're both mmos but differ drastically with how the game plays. WoW is way more endgame focused, XIV is uber casual. The raids are difficult though but there's not much else to do, and raids are few and far between sometimes.
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>>742304757
yeah bro. Lets go all play World of Warcraft: Midnight: Epic Online Edition with bonus Hearthsteel Edition: Patch 12.0.5 and kill a snake? i dunno whats going on there
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>>742283190
MSQ is pure kino but it has a lot of pointless filler quests at early levels. End game MSQ in ARR is top tier, you have something to look forward to.
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>>742304757
>with a bad endgame
whats wrong with it?
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>>742305251
Didn't ask.
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>>742283190
Viera would get me to commit to the evil sins of bestiality and racemixing with zero hesitation.
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>>742304261
To be fair, If you're gonna skip everything you might as well just skip the whole game. Outside of the MSQ and playing dressup, there's not that much to the game, unless you can get into an active FC or group that do stuff together. The amount of side stuff in XIV is alright, but you can get better experiences elsewhere
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>>742304757
You've been turned retarded by WoW.
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>>742306092
anyone who played getting past max level in WoW was already retarded to begin with, Gary Gygax thought WoW and Everquest were cancer, "D&D 3.0 implemented diablo-like mechanics well and made it work..." (Gary singing praises to 3.0 and Diablo surprisingly rare he would ever praise video games especially those that took inspiration from D&D and only focused on the power gaming aspects of it.)
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>>742306247
Who the loving fuck is Gary, bruh
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>>742306448
he invented fantasy, but you're not allowed to like him else you're a grognard
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>>742283190
GOOD FUCKING GOD
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>>742306502
>he invented fantasy
Common man don't be this retarded, not even in jest...
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wait I thought Gary was that one girl from Persona, her family owned an onsen or whatever
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>>742306502
Bruuuuh
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>>742306448
>>742306765
he invented D&D/Tabletop RPG fantasy gaming, basically all your current shit is just memed to death and parody-slopped version of kool-aid colored and flavored D&D. Without Gary, Anderson, Moorcock, Howard, Tolkien, Elmore, Lovecraft, Brom, none of your favorite fantasy games would exist because even Final Fantasy was just ripping off D&D in the original games, same with Dragon Quest, Wizardry and all early CRPGs were based on the grand-daddy RPG.
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>>742306923
>lumping the guy who added dice to improv acting in with actual writers
anon.....
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>>742307015
nigger you don't even know shit all the RPG mechanics are just re-iterated AD&D mechanics, nigga.
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>>742307048
neat, DnD is still improv acting with dice
you're a fucking clown
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>>742306923
Fucking bruh mixing H.P and TOLKIEN there hahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAH wash your fucking hands
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>pointing to unc opinions for credibility
lmao
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>>742306923
You gonna mention Prackets there too, fruity?
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>>742307130
this first edition had all the Cthulhu Mythos in it before Chaosium stepped in and said "look man, we got the cthulhu license from Lovecraft estate, you can't touch it." and they removed it from further editions, OD&D had literal Hobbits and Balrogs before they were forced to change their names by Tolkien Estate for an unsettled sum in money. Go fuck yourself zoomer.
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>>742306923
He made a decent game system, not fantasy itself like you said, you dingus
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>>742307345
D&D-lite and Tolkien-lite are all subgenres of fantasy that can be defined as their own things. Wizard of Earthsea novels are 100% not D&D but fantasy, anything past 90s is basically D&D colored regarding fantasy.
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>>742307335
the point being that Gygax didn't create any of that
Gygax invented a game that takes place in those settings, he didn't invent the settings themselves
you might as well be trying to credit Elon Musk with inventing the internet because he owns twatter
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>>742307335
Bro you got BTFO just stop with your bullshit, who else are you going to mention, Philip K. Dick?
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>>742307481
nigger you didn't BTFO anything but your own mouth with how stupid you sound like after being schooled, zoomers like you are cringe, are you being paid zoomie? are you being paaaid?
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>>742283190
>when is it getting good
Never. FFXIV is a shit game for subhumans just like all other MMOs are.
MMOs are either for degenerate ERPs or ancient uncs who've never let go of their old "MMO glory days". Do yourself a favor and drop this shit now. Playing an MMO in 2026 is just torturing yourself.
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>>742307480
he literally established all the genre-features of modern fantasy and all the fucking game mechanics of RPGs and fantasy wargaming you are just mad its a protestant white man and not a Jew or communist chink that did it.
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>>742306448
>bruh who tf is gary gygax
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>>742307604
Literally and unironically btw Gary, touch grass
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>>742306448
excellent bait
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>>742307649
samefag
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>>742307479
He may have revolutionized the way we interact with fantasy, but in no way did he invent Fantasy. You can move the goalpost as much as you want but you said "he invented fantasy," and that is simply not true
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>>742307596
no, Tolkien and Vance did that
Gygax just stapled a bunch of shit together because he thought it was cool
which is fine, but it's not "inventing genre features"
just stop man, you're sperging over nothing here
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>>742305396
>>742306092
there isn't enough to do. Which again, is fine for the mmo player that doesn't want to be putting a lot of time into a game. But there's also a lot of mmo players that DO want a game where it feels like there's always some progression to make.
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>>742307742
what did the vice president have to do with dungeons and dragons?
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>>742307742
>reee I have to return to with... stuff that doesn't have anything to do with how Gary formulated and presented things.
most game devs did not touch the older shit I'm plenty sure they just ripped off Gary wholesale.
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>>742307828
Jack Vance (not connected to the VP), did the Dying Earth series, you'll enjoy reading it if you liked Dark Souls style of fantasy, its quite literally 1:1 except the soul fuckery.
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>>742307757
Again, you've been turned retarded by WoW. You're literally arguing that it's not skinner box enough. Being guaranteed to get full BiS in a month or two? Nah, what XIV needs is multiple layers of RNG to make BiS realistically impossible to obtain and infinite content grinding through repeating the same instance hundreds of times per weak as numbers very slowly go up.
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>>742307905
>doesn't have anything to do with how Gary formulated and presented things.
my man, the magic system is literally ripped straight from Dying Earth
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>>742308291
>XIV players don't want to want to play their own MMO and still don't play any other games
Does HRT make you guys like this?
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>no argument
>t-t-tranny!
Concession accepted. Feed yourself the (You).
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Gary really tryna be somebody, this aint xitter lil bro aint nobody know you!
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>>742308294
it wasn't even ripped only thing he took from vance was attached the "spells per day, amount increased by intelligence." otherwise it was just Gary being Gary. (rip shit, flip it and stitch it together with other things: namely mythology and religious miracles, resurrect, sticks to snakes, levitate, turn to stone etc...)
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>>742308493
Gary, you have to go back.
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>>742308291
I enjoy playing the game and getting upgrades, its fun. I also enjoy OSRS. I like having a game that I can always log in and make progress in, that's part of the fun to me.
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>>742308493
right, he didn't invent anything, he stapled a bunch of shit together because he thought it was cool
that's what I been saying this whole time
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>>742308646
and others just ripped straight off of Gary for their early CRPGs and JRPGs, they didn't try to do their own take, they just flipped some numbers, filed some shit off and called it a day. they were making D&D campaigns to be played at home mainly without a GM.
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>>742308710
what does that have to do with whether or not Gary Gygax invented fantasy
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>>742308710
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>>742308291
>Here's why having nothing to do in an MMO is actually a GOOD thing!!
Leave the genre tourist trash retard.
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>Put me in the maze, Yoshida-san
Leave my game
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>fallacy
Concession accepted. Feed yourself the (You).
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>>742283676
>sn't the point of a MMO to be social though?
LOL

LMAO, even. Anon, you can beat everything up to the Award Winning Shadowbringers™ solo, with only stupid raids and boss raids being the required multiplayer and even THOSE are probably "Trust"/soloable.
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>>742283848
>switch 2 users
What? How is Nintendo going to deal with all the troons ERPin?
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I played xiv on and off for 4 months and I'm still not at shadowbringers, there's SO MUCH goddamn story I wouldn't be surprised if the script is longer than the bible
I don't hate it but there's little chance I'll be playing any dawntrail content before evercold is out
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>>742309602
Lean in closer my child and I will tell you
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Nintendo doesn't care, they just host the game files
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>>742309602
I want to see what the game is like now that we finally have a system that doesn't allow cheats or mods to make the game cookie clicker tier.
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>>742309921
bro thinks switch 2 is the only console this game runs on
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>>742310019
Switch 2 is the only console that doesn't allow mods or hacks.
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>>742310086
Yeah I know, I cheat on the ps4 version.
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>>742283190
It unironically doesn't start getting good until the final questline just before Heavensward. Which is psychotic since that's 30-40 hours in. People bitch about Dawntrail, and rightfully so, but ARR being a boring ass-slog is a huge barrier to new player entry and they need to condense the fuck out of it. Literally 80% of ARR could be cut from the game and absolutely nothing of value would be lost.
>Oh, but they're worldbuilding and establishing the setting
You barely spend any time in Eorzea for the rest of the story. The only "worldbuilding" is that there's something called the Eorzean Alliance, you didn't need 50 fucking levels over 30+ hours of gameplay to establish that. And to make matters worse, no job has its full kit until level 50, so whenever the dull visual novel takes a pause to let you click buttons, you're spamming 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3 again and again.
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>>742310828
every player that can't get over the barrier can suck my fucking ass and stay filtered
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>>742311363
You don't even know what tf you are posting about
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>>742311214
XIV can not thrive without immigration.
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>>742311472
I thought brown people were all about the reincarnation cycle religions but that guy's laughing his ass off because he thinks it's about transgender stuff
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>>742311214
You kind of need new players in an MMO, otherwise you just die a slow death the way LOTRO and SWTOR did
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>>742309286
>Leave my game
Everyone already did leave, this isn't a dunk.
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>>742287158
50-60 is the peak of the story, though...
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>>742311604
it's clearly not a barrier of any importance, else people wouldn't have rode the COVID and WoW death spikes until the point where they finished up MSQ or otherwise got bored
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>>742311610
good
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>>742283190
>when is it getting good?
never. it's the same quest format from start to finish.
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>>742311691
plap plap plap plap plap plap plap
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>>742311709
What other games are you playing to fill in all the free time you have from not playing xiv because it has no good grinds?
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>>742311812
FFXI
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>>742311643
There was enough hype around Shadowbringers and Endwalker to get people to push through the slog, unless Evercold has a god-tier MSQ *and* WoW utterly shits the bed *and* everyone is forced to stay inside all day that's not happening again

>>742311691
It's sort of funny, but also a good thing, that SE has finally realized how unpopular this character was and virtually written her out of the game. Have we even talked to her since 7.4?
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>>742310828
pso2 (rip) had an omnibus of everything before the endwalker equivalent, all the solo fights and a couple of the important cutscenes with cuts to the present genki ghost narrator in between
That and most of the story was optional, I don't remember how much content was story gated other than the solo superbosses and there was always level 20,40,50,70 scaled versions of the current thing
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>>742311837
Damn, ok, I /kneel if you're playing an actual MMO that's good.
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>>742311859
media and fanbase hype is not going to help an individual player over a slog, don't be silly and argue hypebeasting the game will negate its boring parts for new players
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>>742311859
>that SE has finally realized how unpopular this character was and virtually written her out of the game. Have we even talked to her since 7.4?
Anon you'd better not sit down because you're just gonna stand up when I tell you every single expansion benches their deuteragonists like this and Wuk Lamat is not unique in getting benched.
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>>742311984
That's not the win you think it is.
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>>742312102
"Win"?
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>>742295972
What's wrong with csr
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>>742312118
Yeah, are you standing up?
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>>742311984
>when I tell you every single expansion benches their deuteragonists like this and Wuk Lamat is not unique in getting benched.
Not exactly. With Heavensward we had Alphinaud/Estinien, both stayed relevant for the rest of the MSQ, with Stormblood Lyse was there up until Ghimlyt Dark which is like the very end of the MSQ, with SHB we had the Exarch/Graha who joined the main cast...I get that there's a "faction leader jail" where they toss characters (Aymeric, Lyse, Hien, the dragon guy from Radz-At-Han) but except for Lyse none of those characters were deuteragonists
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Progging blackhole and im starting to get ultimate fatigue
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>>742312290
>with Stormblood Lyse was there up until Ghimlyt Dark which is like the very end of the MSQ
*Very end of the Stormblood MSQ
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>>742311984
They literally write you to go back to the 1st reflection 5 gazillion times and again for Evercold
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>>742312382
I think he's still standing up
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>>742312290
>Alphinaud/Estinien
*Estinien/Aymeric both of whom ceased to exist after 3.3
Lyse vanishes after letting tempered ananta into the throne room (4.1 or 4.2?) and only shows up in Ghimlyt as a demo reel for the upcoming Trust system
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>>742297973
Someone answer me?
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>>742312435
Unironically try going to /vg/ and ask there, you will get instant replies (in their ff14 thread)
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>>742312435
I don't use mods
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>>742312102
get to the point andrew
>>742297973
>>742312435
https://www.xivmodarchive.com/
unironically the FFXIV general on /vg/ is also a good place to ask
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>>742311691
Remember when G'raha gaslit you into signing on with her by saying "well, if you don't like the way things are going over there, you can just drop her like a bad habit and enjoy a nice holiday and/or adventure over there!"?
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>>742312435
we don't need more modders
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>>742312521
Ayo this nigga thought he could drop out of the upcoming expansion
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>>742312521
in character, my WoL decided around the time of Gulool Ja Ja's challenged that both Koana and Wuk Lamat were the wrong choice but Zoraal Ja couldn't be trusted and as such justified her continued involvement as getting in a position where yet another national leader owed her favors was worth the effort
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Leave thread
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>>742312290
>but except for Lyse none of those characters were deuteragonists
I'd argue Aymeric was, he tagged along for multiple adventures, had a much more active participation than Hien for example and had a more comprehensive character arc where he assumed his legacy and managed to pull Ishgard from the shit state it had been in for centuries.

Though if we're going by SB, them not being directly faction leaders doesn't mean that Yugiri and Gosetsu didn't fulfill the role of deuteragonist that then stays behind far better than Hien did.
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Actually they gave Wuk Lamat the most lines in the game and named her Seventh Dawn because she was never meant to be important.
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>>742313917
I think Alphinaud was the clear deuteragonist of HW. Aymeric was an important side character but still a side character. Granted, I think a lot of that is that the devs are terrified of giving the WoL any significant amount of dialogue, so a solid half the convos in HW are
>Alphinaud yapping
>WoL: *Nod*. *Point at self*. *Punch fist into palm*
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aymeric was such a faggot.
>help me run my city
>ahhhh i got stabbed.
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>>742314493
>aiieee WoL save me i somehow got stabbed through my breastplate by a peasant because maehiro forgot there was supposed to be a class war brewing
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>>742314595
>class war
It was mostly a religious thing. Aymeric's reforms benefited the people at the expense of the aristocracy, the peasants were just mad at him because he destroyed the power of the Holy See and told them their 1000 year old religion was a lie. Kind of like how the most fierce opponents of the French Revolution were the countryside peasants who just wanted the Catholic Church back.
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I really want to play Final Fantasy 14 but I can't because I don't have a credit card or a debit card!
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>>742315184
On the Switch 2?
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>>742314620
>>742283190
I made a femlala on an alt account (for F2P purposes when I don't want to pay for my main) but I haven't run into a single groomer and I'm up to HW already. What am I doing wrong?
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>>742315297
No, on PC!

I didn't even know that it was available on the Switch 2 until now!
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>>742315405
Ah, shame, I'm going to play in the Switch 2 day one. It should had been available tomorrow but now it wont and I guess until August..
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>>742315457
even google says it's on july (nothing on the officinal site though)
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>>742315753
official*
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I...I did it...
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>>742315376
>>742315376
99.9% of people can differentiate between polygons and people. It's just /vg/ that has dissociated enough to meld with their online avatars.
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>>742316009
grats anon
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>>742316009
Based!
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>>742311984
"Every single expansion benches their deuteragonist except the one that didn't bench the deuteragonist and made him a scion instead".

At best you can argue that Vritra shows that they weren't making it a new trend as they reversed it next expansion but that's weak ground. Stronger ground is that a character can show up in the trailer and not become a scion (Aymeric didn't show up, Goesetsu I don't think did). But it's very clear with the inordinate focus on Wuk (3rd most dialogue in game), the mentorship, the name being seventh dawn or venus/venat related in Mayan, the Dawn Servant Throne convieniently being held by a two headed king with a near perfect symmetry of vow of reason and Koana and vow of Resolve Wuk, that Wuk was being set up by someone with an intention of a Graha T'ia repeat.

It's all moo though because it's in the rearview mirror short of some hilarious reveal this July. It'll only come up when silly apologists for DT start claiming "DT crawled so EC could walk" and claiming every success of EC when at best it's just going to need the sippy cup. Or maybe I am wrong and we'll have some real emotional pull that has roots in teaching Mamoolja not to racemix or in teaching fat fuck birds how to dance for the crops. Oh, or maybe we'll remember wuk's nursemaid and her bracelet when we fight the big bad in 8.0.
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>>742316213
>But it's very clear with the inordinate focus on Wuk
Amusingly Wuk only shows up for like, six seconds in the DT trailer despite dominating 80% of screentime within the actual expansion. She completely blindsided us.
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>>742316213
>name being seventh dawn or venus/venat related in Mayan
They totally had big plans for her. Thank god she bombed everywhere
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I thought Switch 2 players could play FF14 from today onwards? What happened?
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>>742316213
>except the one that didn't bench the deuteragonist and made him a scion instead".
The one that rose Estinien to Scion status years after his introductory expansion after which he shows up a small handful of times because he is functionally a Kain pastiche, and didn't have a really good reason for uplifting him beyond trusts needing a melee DPS for Endwalker, in short supply after Lyse left for Ala Mhigo
>an intention of a Graha T'ia repeat.
You're the only guy on the internet I've ever read that thought Wuk Lamat was in any way echoing G'raha Tia or the Crystal Exarch
Chiefly because her following us would be insanely retarded for a long list of reasons, some of which she spells out herself and who was already signaling she's not going anywhere in 7.0's ending/7.1's beginning
You're looking way too hard into her name scheme and making connections that aren't there in my opinion
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>>742316213
>It'll only come up when silly apologists for DT start claiming "DT crawled so EC could walk" and claiming every success of EC when at best it's just going to need the sippy cup.



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