Speaking of Y'shtola being 'blind' it sure hasn't slowed her down one bit. It allegedly is dangerous to her health for her to use the magic sight she has but she was around in the First for years on her end without any major issues. Unsure if they actually intend to run with that story or its just some potential drama kept in the back pocket. She's 'died' repeatedly now so you'd think there'd be some sort've repercussion.
i've constantly seen people said the danger to her from using aether to see was a mistranslation for english but she does get death baited every expansion
Do you know what kind of autistic shitfit that could potentially bring? As much as I agree with you, I am almost certain for Square, doing something like this would be a unpopular choice for players, possibly giving people a reason to dislike the game. This applies to any of the main circle of characters really. The only one I can see dying in the upcoming expansion is Estinien, especially since he has only recently joined the group to help out after hiding off and on for awhile.
If that's the case it would at least make sense, she's clearly not slowed one bit by the loss of 'sight' and I don't think the idea is necessarily that bad. It's had more long term consequences to her character than getting a free rez from the goddamn antagonist of Shadowbringers. At least in the first case she's stuck with milky white eyes and a sort've half-sight.
There's a section of the player base that've been waiting for Estinien to join since you fight Elidibus-Zenos as him, if not 3.3/3.4 or starting as a Lancer. If not for that, then because it would make Alphinaud sad. Besides, he's busy being a Wyvern Knight with Tiamat now.
Is it really? Cause it's also brought up in a sidequest where you look back on everything that happened in heavensward and when your character learns about it you physically recoil in surprise, so then I wonder what it actually is.
The Ala Mhigo parts were boring as hell, started playing FF rather recently and i would argue ARR was better. I mashed the skip scene button like a maniac just to get it over with.
I like ARR more than SB (and I've played it twice, once in 2013-2015 and once again this year) as a narrative. ARR I felt properly built up to something, while Stormblood's unique plot elements (as in not 3.4-3.55) mostly amount of self contained things that I feel don't really amount to much in the grander scheme of things (As the Garlean empire is so much bigger then just Ala Mhigo and Doma). It feels like HW where yeah Ascians exist, yeah Garleans exist, but in the end the ultimate objective is "bring X nation into the alliance and help X nation with their Y problem(s)" while all those other big elements are put off to the side (especially the Ascians). Yes more things happen beyond that and I like those things sometimes, but unlike with HW, SB doesn't feel like its good outweighs its bad.
They were kinda jank pre HW where the meta was to just use what is now maiming gear (since both PLDs/WARs could also equip it) so they got focused into dealing their damage more than tanking
I personally think all the stuff with SB related to Garlemald will come more into play, focus, and more relevance in EW due to the antagonists. SB introduces a lot of stuff with Garlemald, but it hasn't truly fallen into place yet considering we've had seldom interactions with them since 4.0 (and especially after 4.3). Like how ARR introduced Ishgard, Ala Mhigo, Ascians, and Doma yet those didn't really go much of anywhere until the later expansions.
Every Tank stance was acquired at 30 ONLY if you were wearing your Job crystal, which means you (frequently) ran into the issue of people starting Brayflox without being their actual Job (i.e., Marauders and Gladiators), which means they couldn't actually tank the dungeon worth a shit.
Right, I also remember that gay ass shit with Raw Intuition and how even basic bitch dungeon tanking, with HW's changes, pretty much obligated you to have to CONTINUE levelling Paladin on the side in order to ALSO cross-class that other skill that negated all incoming crits, so during the BIG DICK pulls, you'd pop it alongside Raw in order to be the beefiest dungeon tank in the game, along with cycling your other cooldowns. And, god, thanks for also making me remember one of the biggest cancers of HW raiding when half the reason fights lasted so long was because there'd always be a mandatory minute long wait time between attempts because of that OPTIMAL opener.
Yeah, that was kind of the concession with getting Awareness. Still had to reposition in order to trigger the parries, but at least you weren't getting crit smacked. I never actually experienced that heal glitch somehow, though.
