Yep. If anyone's played Tales of the Abyss, it's basically...
Luke and Asch fusing at the end minus the physical bodies.
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Yep. If anyone's played Tales of the Abyss, it's basically...
Meh, I miss ARR Merlwyb, but after the VA change I'm glad we've only heard like two lines from her. She's the only original cast VA I really feel was a downgrade in quality.
Possible, on the Trust thing. Though they just did add in G'raha, and unless I didn't look at it right, he's already level 80, while the other NPC's are at whatever level you've gotten them to. That already puts G'raha in a separate category (he's not going to gain XP on any trust runs).
I could be wrong on this though, I only looked at the trust after getting the notification and it had him at level 80 while everyone else was level 71/72 (I haven't run Trusts alot)
I'd love to see this, if only to maybe somehow get Curious Gorge on screen with the main characters.
On one hand I want Merlwyb/Kan-E to get more focus cause they got done so dirty. On the other hand I started in Ul'dah and love it, so please SE by all means keep feeding me more of that- it really made it feel like the plot was tailored to my character lmao
It might be because the voice actor change coincided with her becoming the Oracle of Light, but she just never seemed to be the same person to me. I'll be honest tho I was confused about many things, and stopped looking things ups to get clarification because I would always find spoilers for things an expansion or two away.
Now that I've caught up, I can do some deep dives.
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Someone is going to die. I actually do think it's Y'shtola too. Her lifespan is shortening because she spends her aether to 'see'. It's her, Thancred, or Urianger, and Thancred stands the best chance of surviving because he's now a shonen protagonist.
Did Coils of Bahamut today and they should bring that into the MSQ somehow. That even had a CGI scene! Also checked Louisoix Wiki entry and found the following:
Hey Warrior of Light and Zenos (Might).
Hey Warrior of Light and Zenos (Might).
The best impact death for characterization food would be alphinaud or alisae, just feels like the pain would write itself but cutting down a bond like the twins.
But... but when you think about it wouldn't it be smart of writers to set up death flags for characters to mislead the community and let someone with no death flags die?
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There is also the possibility of both dying to call back to porom and palom.
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Don't. You. Dare.
The 5.3 MSQ insinuated they'll have a lot of focus next expansion. Scions die so rarely, this would be too cruel.
It's referenced a couple of times in the MSQ if you do complete it before certain events.
I think all of em are dead.Someone is going to die. I actually do think it's Y'shtola too. Her lifespan is shortening because she spends her aether to 'see'. It's her, Thancred, or Urianger, and Thancred stands the best chance of surviving because he's now a shonen protagonist.
The twins will live
I think you devalue the story if one of the twins die an y'stola doesn't. Strait up
We are in the same boat. My WoL currently has white hair. Though he is darker , tall, gothier and scalier than everyone else so he's visually distinct
I would've been sad but it was rather fitting. I'm glad he's alive though.
Alphinaud dying would destroy me more than Alisaie I think. We've been bros for too long.
Alph ALWAYS has a ton of focus though. He's basically the Robin to the WoL's Batman. So I don't know why the two of them were complaining.
Alisaie just got a new character class one expansion ago, too.
Thancred battle with Ranjit should have been 1/3 of the lenght too. went for sooooooooooo long. I was happy the fight with Elidibus didn't take forever. They learned.
While this is true I think some of the other Scions got way more development in Shadowbringers. Thancred was front and center with the Minfillia/Ryne plot, Urianger finally came out of his shell, so to speak, and joined the other Scions on an adventure(and was Exarch's co-conspirator), and Y'shtola lead an entire forest tribe and uncovered a ton of mysteries related to The First and the Ascians.
Alphie and Alisae were there through it all of course, and had their own arcs in Shadowbringers, but their arcs were pretty standard fare for the two. Alisae tried to help people and became quite emotionally attached to their causes and pain/loss. Alphinaud did a lot of politicking. And I'm not downplaying their contributions in Shadowbringers, just that they were probably the most static characters throughout the expansion.
And the only ones with no new job , so its time for my girl to be the new caster/whatever job.
Alphinaud is the only one with no new job. Alisiae changed to Red Mage in 3.4
I honestly don't see what's the big deal seeing as she's was ahead of the curb anyways in changing classes so I'm fine if only Alphinaud changes since she already changed her job.
She just got one an expansion ago. I don't know why she's whining about her job. Alphinaud has been an Arcanist for god knows how long. As far as I know he never even upgraded to Summoner.
She will get a new one 2 expansions after, she changed in heavensward. I always thought the devs intended for the twins to be your character "rank 1" party members. The parallel with them being inexperienced and having more room to grow alongside you while the others are already at a more matured development has been often clear to me. Also my prevision is for both of them to have the 2 new jobs, canonically only the WoL can be scholar I think, thats why Alphi doesn't have a faerie.
The Au'Ra from Return to Ivalice and the ShB Relic weapon duty quest.
Mine is a charcoal skinned Elezen drow with white hair, so she stands out too.
Yeah shes another character from Sharlayan who helps out in both of those questlines. I am not sure if she has specifically mentioned the Scions but she certainly would be familiar with them from back in the day. But I want her to join mostly because of the end of the Relic Trial Duty/Instance.
Hey, is this where we talk about the story ending?
So I just got back into the game and caught up with the 5.3 MSQ.
I loved the 5.0 ending, but I I don't think the 5.3 ending hit nearly as hard. It felt like the writers were trying to do a repeat performance of 5.0's ending and make us sympathize with Elidibus the way we did with Emet-Selch, but the whole thing feels a little forced and doesn't have as much impact. Emet-Selch's development was a bunch of huge revelations that turned around a lot of the things you felt about the Ascians, but Elidibus doesn't really tell you anything besides "you're a hero to the people on your side, but a villain to the people you fight", which is not a new idea to you.
Moreover, he has no reason to tell you any of that because in his introduction, he makes it very clear that unlike Emet-Selch, he doesn't see you as someone worth talking to anyway... and then the game spends the next few hours making him show you just how bad you are in his eyes.
I think the part leading up to the finale was fun, but didn't make much sense to me because Elidibus had no reason to raise an army and attack you so directly when Ascians were known to be immortal, patient schemers. The only explanation was that he had become desperate to save his people, but that seems like a fairly weak explanation for his actions when it's ultimately fairly stupid and reckless to attack the WoL so directly.
Unless you're Zenos, I guess.
I'm disappointed and wary about how they're clearly setting up the next expansion to be about Zenos and his new Ascian jester guy (I know it's not the same guy, but that guy with the sketchy haircut was one of my least liked villains in Stormblood). They're elevating the two most boring living villains in the game into the main antagonists of an entire expansion, so I hope they know what they're doing with that. Shadowbringers is good because they took comic book villains like the Ascians and turned them into good villains with believable and relatable motivations. Moving straight back to a pair of blatant comic book villains is going to be really rough. I understand if they're trying to go for contrast, since it would be equally bad if they tried to go for a third run of Emet-Selch's story beats, but damn, Zenos is such a boring villain through and through. I hope they have something good in store for his story.
So I just got back into the game and caught up with the 5.3 MSQ.
I loved the 5.0 ending, but I I don't think the 5.3 ending hit nearly as hard. It felt like the writers were trying to do a repeat performance of 5.0's ending and make us sympathize with Elidibus the way we did with Emet-Selch, but the whole thing feels a little forced and doesn't have as much impact. Emet-Selch's development was a bunch of huge revelations that turned around a lot of the things you felt about the Ascians, but Elidibus doesn't really tell you anything besides "you're a hero to the people on your side, but a villain to the people you fight", which is not a new idea to you.
Moreover, he has no reason to tell you any of that because in his introduction, he makes it very clear that unlike Emet-Selch, he doesn't see you as someone worth talking to anyway... and then the game spends the next few hours making him show you just how bad you are in his eyes.
I think the part leading up to the finale was fun, but didn't make much sense to me because Elidibus had no reason to raise an army and attack you so directly when Ascians were known to be immortal, patient schemers. The only explanation was that he had become desperate to save his people, but that seems like a fairly weak explanation for his actions when it's ultimately fairly stupid and reckless to attack the WoL so directly.
Unless you're Zenos, I guess.
I'm disappointed and wary about how they're clearly setting up the next expansion to be about Zenos and his new Ascian jester guy (I know it's not the same guy, but that guy with the sketchy haircut was one of my least liked villains in Stormblood). They're elevating the two most boring living villains in the game into the main antagonists of an entire expansion, so I hope they know what they're doing with that. Shadowbringers is good because they took comic book villains like the Ascians and turned them into good villains with believable and relatable motivations. Moving straight back to a pair of blatant comic book villains is going to be really rough. I understand if they're trying to go for contrast, since it would be equally bad if they tried to go for a third run of Emet-Selch's story beats, but damn, Zenos is such a boring villain through and through. I hope they have something good in store for his story.
One correction: Asahi is very dead. Very, very dead. This is just Fandaniel wearing his corpse like a skin suit the same way Elidibus was wearing Ardbert.
That said, Fandaniel seems to suck too. So hopefully he and Zenos both get swept off the board before we get to Garlemald, because yeah - an entire SECOND expansion with Zenos as the main bad guy would be hugely disappointing.
Yeah, I know it's Fandaniel and not Asahi. It's just that as soon as I saw Asahi's face I was like ughhhhhhhhh because I hated his mini-arc in Stormblood so much lol.
I agree that Fandaniel doesn't seem interesting so far either. He just seems like one of those deranged "I just wanna fuck around with everything because it's fun" types, like Kefka.
Did you realize that Elidibus was still a kid with a ton of responsibility on his shoulders? A kid was Zodiarks heart. A kid was sacrificid to summon him. Elidibus went mad because he couldn't even remember why he did the things he did unlike someone like Emet-Selch. Elidibus story is so tragic that it broke my heart when his Warrior of Light figure disappears and it shows us...that he is a kid. A manipulated kid who doesn't even know anymore why he does everything. Confused and now all alone without anyone he knew.
Having him be the Warrior of Light (hero in his eyes, the final hope as said by him, like him) fighting you the Warrior of Darkness (villain in his eyes) and him summoning people around him (loneliness) made a ton of sense for me.
I don't think they will ever kill any of the characters involved in major side content because it would be dumb to have an emotional y'shtola death then go run Alexander and have he be part of the story. Same thing with the twins because of Coils and Thancred because of the Eden raids.
Even Urianger has to stick around unless they're going to give all the ARR EX quests to someone else.
Such things don't matter, because he will also wear his old outfit and he was there for me before completing 5.3 too to accept the other primal quests.
The funny thing with urianger is that all throughout Shadowbringers while trapped on The First he could still be found in the Waking Sands handing out EX duty's.
Yeah.. when I finally did them and turned in the quests he was just standing there in his old clothes.
I'm just gonna assume that Urianger knew how to pass between The First and Source the whole time but never told anyone. Seems like something he would do.
Is it really a FFXIV expansion if Y'Shtola didn't get killed/nearly killed? 🤔
I feel if they were going to kill someone, it'd have been Thancred, but probably better that they didn't.
Reworking/Remaking Coils so it can go into the roulette is pretty overdue, honestly. It's kind of important, story-wise.
I feel if they were going to kill someone, it'd have been Thancred, but probably better that they didn't.
Reworking/Remaking Coils so it can go into the roulette is pretty overdue, honestly. It's kind of important, story-wise.
I don't think having Urianger 2.0 for Ex quest would be a problem to kill him.
Y'shtola is too popular to kill her.
Y'shtola is too popular to kill her.
Thancred is basically story arc complete now. So I can see him biting it.
I have a feeling that Zenos is a shard of Azem like Ardbert and WoL.
I have a feeling that Zenos is a shard of Azem like Ardbert and WoL.
I expect him to be a shard of one of the Convocation but not Azem.