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- 7 de Jun, 2020
Yeah don't force yourself to catch up in less than 20 days time, I'm just going to stay off anything that could potentially spoil me if I don't make it. I'm on 5.4 though so I can probably catch up if I can dedicate a day towards just grinding the quests.
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- 30 de Dic, 2018
You won't get burnt out since Shadowbringers MSQ are really good.
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- 21 de Abr, 2019
Please remember that weekly lockouts don't come in until at least 2 weeks after Endwalker happens with the normal raids (pretty low importance tbh) and 4 weeks after Endwalker happens with the weekly tomes and Savage raid release. Meaning you don't really lose anything besides the initial hype from rushing the MSQ so you can do EW MSQ day one. If you can even attempt to push through Stormblood patch and all Shadowbringers in three weeks, you'll be fine being late a week or two for Endwalker's release.
I like to remind people about this because people forget/don't know that their isn't really much of an inherent advantage to doing a new expansion MSQ asap. The most you get is that you get to pug the new EX trials faster, which in my experience are always a total disaster in PF anyway.
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- 14 de Sep, 2021
For the curious, here's some nerd shit:
τέλος - end
φέρω - to bring
-οι - plural noun suffix
Τελοφέροι (Telopheroi) - bringers of the end
The last part could also be the verb φορώ (to put on/wear) making Τέλοφοροι something like "those who wear the end" which sounds like one of those made-up metaphorical terms the New Testament writers loved using.
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- 18 de Jul, 2019
Shadowbringers (and its patches) have impeccable pacing tbh. I was feeling the burn out pretty hard too after finishing Stormblood and leveling a Dark Knight to 70 to play as in Shadowbringers, and it somehow kept me logging 5-8 hour sessions multiple days in a row just because of how well the plot drives itself.
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- 30 de Dic, 2018
Eventually after a step or two you will unlock a vendor that will sell them.
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- 7 de Nov, 2019
I really wish that especially when Asmon is pretty much harmless to the XIV community and has been going through this that people just drop their arms and wish him the best. You got absolute shitheads who are happy that his mom died and I find that just fucking disgusting and inhumane. When Yoshi-P himself gives his respects to hoping his mom had a safe recovery (during their interview) I just viewed that as such a beautiful moment of two people, not even a game dev and a popular streamer. Legit no lead-in he straight up wished his mom better, that to me is an absolute chad move that goes beyond borders. I remember he did something for Mr.Happy when they had an interview pre-shadowbringers where he pretty much said about his dead father "I'm sure he's proud of you." after Happy went into a life story about his dad. Not a fan of Happy personally but I can still respect that conversation especially in Yoshi-P's case.
You can keep your opinions on some of these people split but when it comes to the issue of death in the family, way more in Asmon's current case you should just wish them the best. There's a fuckton of remorsing, talking with family, arranging for the funeral, and way more that Asmon has to do which you know is going to cut into his content on Endwalker. I never want to wish that shit on anyone, it's an emotional/financial burden that eats up so much time and just hope he's able to get his issues sorted on his own terms.
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- 1 de Jun, 2020
One part of me is saying, fuck it. Sleep through early access going live in the dead of the night/morning and just get up to patch the game and play it after a reasonable period of rest, like a normal person.
The other part of me is compelling me to get in right when everything goes live and try to push as far as I can before I need to go pass out. Mostly so I can avoid the inevitable service interruption roadblock that seems to plague every expac since Stormblood (or Heavensward, according to some people – I never noticed one myself back then and I was playing since the servers went back up that night), and then comfortably go at my own pace from there without having to drop the game for a week to wait for the devs to unfuck the progression issues due to server congestion.
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- 21 de Abr, 2019
As someone who's done everything you just said for all 3 expansions and have finished all the MSQs within 1 week (I think I went super hard with ShB and finished 5.0 in about 4-5 days even).
Outside of Stormblood, Raubahn/Pipin Savage was hell, the first 1-2 hours are the only ultra fucked time because every no life is trying to login at once and that'll probably be even worse due to the new WoW players coming in who are likely trained to do that during their own expansion launches. Stormblood was especially bad with that even before the Raubahn traffic jam even started, I think I got booted about 3 different times in an hour.
I think during my first hour of Shadowbringers, I struggled to login for about 10 minutes, got Gunbreaker, messed with a dummy, went to the first city of Shadowbringers and I think I got booted eventually, tried to login and then just went to bed after giving up. When I came back in around the afternoon/evening it was pretty functional, not perfect, but it functioned just fine at all times I was playing. So to me if you wait past the first 1-8 or so hours the game works unless we get another Raubahn "Cold Steel" Savage situation. Or Blizzard uses some WoW community copium powered bot net to DDOS the servers or something for a week straight.
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- 22 de Sep, 2019
In defense of the jackass legatus thing we have going, it is heavily implied that both Gabranth and Valens are acting on their own outside the normal command structure of Garlemald, especially when you consider that Zenos had practically enslaved the capital city and fucked the rest who opposed him, and true to his nature, ignored the rest of the Empire to focus on his personal projects.
I think we can honestly infer that Garlemald, or at least the Empire, has been well and truly fucked ever since Varis died and what we're seeing now is the real-time disintegration of the empire as each warlord seized power to pursue their own agenda.
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- 21 de Abr, 2019
See I think this is more or less the point I think they're trying to go with the Empire, just told much earlier in time.
Let's imagine hypothetically Empire wins, rules all land, gets rid of beast tribes so those primals are gone, and somehow beats the Ascians. Literally everything works out in their favor thanks to our lord Emperor Varis. Now what? Who goes after him? Well by right it'd be Zenos, who is a mentally ill tard baby who is just REALLY strong and this war effort has given him more brain damage then if the Empire weren't on a war path to rule literally everyone. Zenos would lead Garlemald exactly where it is eventually right now. You can't rid of him because he's too strong, and even if you just picked a different successor Zenos would probably kill him. Ruling the empire for Zenos is the chance to produce the ultimate breeding ground for his hunts. So this fails top down as soon as Varis dies, just like it almost did when Emet/Solus "died".
Gabranth and Valens would be basically the same, Valens would lust for power regardless of what's going on, he'd try to usurp Gaius eventually and, succeed or fail, fucks everything because he'd try to make super weapons. This would devolve into a small civil skirmish at best or full blown war with super weapons costing who knows how many lives in actual combat. Even ignoring the gross experimentation and loss of life with that, it'd be a complete disaster. Gabranth would bide his time because he himself wants to run his own kingdom as he comes off as planning his own moves long before Zenos did anything (He mentions the downfall of Garlemald by 4.5 before Zenos was even relevant again). So Gabrath is just a snake in the grass regardless, perhaps he'd try to use Valens' super weapon powered envy tantrum to make his own moves, which would be backed by his flunkies and would involve nearly half of the far east.
So either this fails top down, or the middle managers (The Legatus) fuck everything up in a domino effect. Once one piece falls, everything goes tits up as everyone starts trying to grab whatever power they can. That's how large empires have failed in the actual past because having a centralized emperor with emperor chosen delegates run an entire continent is just so complicated and easy to go wrong with a singular error, bad communication, or lasp of judgement. In this hypothetical though Garlemald wants to run effectively the entire world, which makes the problems more prone to happen and more of a fuck up. So Zenos, Gabranth, and Valens are intended to show the different problems that would eventually grow within the Legatus ranks while Gaius is intended to show the most ideal legatus you can make. Gaius' journey through Sorrow of Werlyt feels like him understanding that his ideal doesn't work on this grand of a scale, because it just takes one fuck ass like Valen to create utter chaos. Like imagine if the WoL didn't exist and the weapons just went absolutely ape shit, it'd be an even worse shitshow then we have now probably.
Gaius is meant to represent the ideal Legatus for world run Garlemald. He rules firm but fair, he aims to create order but isn't a power tripping prick. He is what Emet-Selch tried to convey after we took over Eulmore, when he talked about how conquest is a pragmatic option to force reason upon those who refuse to see it. That whole "Conquest is easy, the hard part is the conquerer to show the conquered respect and the conquered let bygones be bygones" fits Gaius the best and Zenos/Valens the least. Regula is I think meant to be an extension of Varis' positive qualities as Regula functions as a loyal soldier who does all he can for his Emperor due to what he gave him similar to Gaius' subordinates like Cape Westwind guy and Livia. Regula did offer up his life believing that Unukalhai will one day serve Garlemald and his Empire with his gifts. It is a selfless act with a pragmatic twist.
What feels really off is just how lopsided this was written, as usually the "reasonable" antagonists tend show up around the mid point of the story to add some shades of grey to the antagonists while we see the real "bad guys" first, but Gaius shows up at the start and Regula follows right after him. Then it is just a gauntlet of Zenos, Gabranth, and Valens with some justification for Varis thrown in the middle. So it is like you get people thinking "Maybe Garlemald not too bad" for 4 years then we go "Garlemald very bad" for about 4 years straight. It feels very weird, but I think seeing Gabranth and Valens in full I see the post SB Garlemald as less lazy antagonist writing and more just really lopsided and janky writing.
Maybe EW will bring it all home, or at least it'll hopefully confirm what I think they've been trying to do. Just give me one other Legatus that isn't a colossal asshole.
Let's imagine hypothetically Empire wins, rules all land, gets rid of beast tribes so those primals are gone, and somehow beats the Ascians. Literally everything works out in their favor thanks to our lord Emperor Varis. Now what? Who goes after him? Well by right it'd be Zenos, who is a mentally ill tard baby who is just REALLY strong and this war effort has given him more brain damage then if the Empire weren't on a war path to rule literally everyone. Zenos would lead Garlemald exactly where it is eventually right now. You can't rid of him because he's too strong, and even if you just picked a different successor Zenos would probably kill him. Ruling the empire for Zenos is the chance to produce the ultimate breeding ground for his hunts. So this fails top down as soon as Varis dies, just like it almost did when Emet/Solus "died".
Gabranth and Valens would be basically the same, Valens would lust for power regardless of what's going on, he'd try to usurp Gaius eventually and, succeed or fail, fucks everything because he'd try to make super weapons. This would devolve into a small civil skirmish at best or full blown war with super weapons costing who knows how many lives in actual combat. Even ignoring the gross experimentation and loss of life with that, it'd be a complete disaster. Gabranth would bide his time because he himself wants to run his own kingdom as he comes off as planning his own moves long before Zenos did anything (He mentions the downfall of Garlemald by 4.5 before Zenos was even relevant again). So Gabrath is just a snake in the grass regardless, perhaps he'd try to use Valens' super weapon powered envy tantrum to make his own moves, which would be backed by his flunkies and would involve nearly half of the far east.
So either this fails top down, or the middle managers (The Legatus) fuck everything up in a domino effect. Once one piece falls, everything goes tits up as everyone starts trying to grab whatever power they can. That's how large empires have failed in the actual past because having a centralized emperor with emperor chosen delegates run an entire continent is just so complicated and easy to go wrong with a singular error, bad communication, or lasp of judgement. In this hypothetical though Garlemald wants to run effectively the entire world, which makes the problems more prone to happen and more of a fuck up. So Zenos, Gabranth, and Valens are intended to show the different problems that would eventually grow within the Legatus ranks while Gaius is intended to show the most ideal legatus you can make. Gaius' journey through Sorrow of Werlyt feels like him understanding that his ideal doesn't work on this grand of a scale, because it just takes one fuck ass like Valen to create utter chaos. Like imagine if the WoL didn't exist and the weapons just went absolutely ape shit, it'd be an even worse shitshow then we have now probably.
Gaius is meant to represent the ideal Legatus for world run Garlemald. He rules firm but fair, he aims to create order but isn't a power tripping prick. He is what Emet-Selch tried to convey after we took over Eulmore, when he talked about how conquest is a pragmatic option to force reason upon those who refuse to see it. That whole "Conquest is easy, the hard part is the conquerer to show the conquered respect and the conquered let bygones be bygones" fits Gaius the best and Zenos/Valens the least. Regula is I think meant to be an extension of Varis' positive qualities as Regula functions as a loyal soldier who does all he can for his Emperor due to what he gave him similar to Gaius' subordinates like Cape Westwind guy and Livia. Regula did offer up his life believing that Unukalhai will one day serve Garlemald and his Empire with his gifts. It is a selfless act with a pragmatic twist.
What feels really off is just how lopsided this was written, as usually the "reasonable" antagonists tend show up around the mid point of the story to add some shades of grey to the antagonists while we see the real "bad guys" first, but Gaius shows up at the start and Regula follows right after him. Then it is just a gauntlet of Zenos, Gabranth, and Valens with some justification for Varis thrown in the middle. So it is like you get people thinking "Maybe Garlemald not too bad" for 4 years then we go "Garlemald very bad" for about 4 years straight. It feels very weird, but I think seeing Gabranth and Valens in full I see the post SB Garlemald as less lazy antagonist writing and more just really lopsided and janky writing.
Maybe EW will bring it all home, or at least it'll hopefully confirm what I think they've been trying to do. Just give me one other Legatus that isn't a colossal asshole.
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The Empire is basically in their second civil war now, and I'm guessing the plot is going to involve aiding the Garleans who are not loyal to Zenos or to some of the more power hungry warlords. Perhaps with the Ascians gone Gaius might consider leading what remains of Garlemald once Zenos is defeated
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- 27 de Ene, 2021
You guys just don't understand Zenos. He's just a sigma male on his grindset. 
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- 3 de Ago, 2021
Zenos in SB = "dude DBZ is the best thing mankind has ever created, except actually let's remove all the camp"
Zenos in SHB = "hey, this fortinbras guy seems pretty cool"
Zenos in SHB = "hey, this fortinbras guy seems pretty cool"
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- 14 de Sep, 2021
why am I not surprised the anime girl av guy is a soyjak irl
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- 28 de Dic, 2019
This dude is the biggest faggot out of all the FFXIV "content creators." His acting is something you'd see on SNL and he's always caught insulting people or being little bitch because someone dare do a call out instead of him. He gets close to psychotic levels when people speak in the "incorrect" tone to him, even though it's a normal voices tone and no one is being rude or passive aggressive. I never seen a grown adult get so mad he says he might sabotage a DR Savage run over fuck all.
The video someone posted where he has Square Enix dick down his throat about how they've gotten better at communication with the community is full of shit. The community teams outside of JP might as well not even exist because they don't talk at all outside of the once a month streams they're forced to do and you can they hate doing what their job is supposed to be, interacting with players.
To further point out the disconnect, nothing was ever done about the PF sales until someone asked Yoshida about it at the media tour. Yoshida has no idea what goes on beyond the JP servers because they're not told about the shit going on. There is zero transparency with FFXIV and shit like the Twitch collaboration or the media tour don't count. Don't get me started on how dogshit the media tour is and square enix should release all the information themselves instead.
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