This was THE patch. They went all out with this patch after it was delayed for several months by the pandemic. There are so many things that came out with it that would make this post super-long, but here are a few highlights: 1. Flying in ARR zones. Would you believe that we still had to walk and ride mounts on the ground until this point in time? 2. Expanding the Free Trial to include all of Heavensward. Would you believe that the old free trial capped at MSQ Lv35 right after defeating Titan? 3. The first trimming of the ARR MSQ. They trimmed some of the fat off of the number of quests for both parts of ARR. 4. Unreal Trials. These are old trials that are synced up to the current level cap, which is 90, and is rotated after each major patch is released. The current Lv90 Unreal Trial is King Thordan as of Patch 6.5. These trials are synced from Item Level 560 to 565. Congratulations on completing this patch! You have taken your first steps on the Road to Endwalker!
The trimming was great, but It did cut one of Y'shtola's best burns leading up to the Ramuh trial. The Sylphs try (badly) to impersonate the Scions. When we finally come up to Thancred, we grill him with his most embarrassing memories. Eventually Y'shtola ends it with "Enough, if this is not Thancred then we have found a suitable replacement for him."
Elidibus' transformation is Final Fantasy 1 Warrior of Light. What a callback. To the first game in the series! So cool! And yeah, 5.3 is an emotional gut-punch. So many tear-inducing scenes...
The Heroes' Gauntlet is one of my favorite dungeons. You noticed the similarities to The Ghymlit Dark, and this dungeon is sometimes called "The Ghymlit Light." Firstly, the music. A beautiful remix of five zone themes: Kholusia, Amh Araeng, Il Mheg, Lakeland, and Raktika (in that order). All solidifying that theme of a world coming together, and rising up to protect. Then there's the amazing triple meaning of the name. 1. You are the hero, and you are running the gauntlet. 2. The enemies are heroes of their own world. 3. The people of Norvrant rising up to become the heroes. Which leads nicely into the set pieces, and characters. Everyone is coming to your aid. _Everyone._ You saved this world in their moment of peril. What do its people do when they see you in a moment of peril? Stand up and do anything they can to help. Without hesitation, they give you an airship. Talos come barreling to your aid. The entirety of the Faerie Kingdom, including fae who you actively fought against before, declares, "Oi! Not in my backyard!" Soldiers of the Crystarium, and the Virtue Hunters all pick up their weapons and aid the people of the world, and aid you. Elidibus tried to show you, with his little challenge in Amaurot, how death and destruction follows in your wake. How you are a monster. How you have the blood of thousands on your hands. The Heroes' Gauntlet shows you the truth: you're not just a hero, you're _these people's_ hero. You were willing to risk everything to save them, and in this moment, they return the favor. It is an excellent farewell tour for Norvrant.
Also, the Lakeland theme coming in all triumphant is such a rallying moment in the song. It is the moment for heroics. It gives me mental images of Talos planting themselves in front of the spectral heroes, while the miners of Twine urge you, "MOVE! GO! GO!" Of Granson stepping in front of you, calling out, "Warrior of Darkness coming through! Rally to me! We're clearing the road!" and Crystarium soldiers form up on him. Gods, I could geek out on this one dungeon for hours.
It’s never explicitly stated by a character(maybe by side lore) about the crystals, but basically each seat of the 14 had one made for storing their memories after they created the plan to create zodiark, azem wasn’t given one as he opposed the plan, emet made him one anyway, the voice that talks from the Crystal is emet basically recounting azems life to his future self
Here's something you might not have realized, your seat is the seat if Azem, if the name sounds familiar it should! after all you are the Khagan of a nation named after the seat. It's likely that both Azim, the auri sun god, and Azeyma, the sun god within the 12, were inspired by previous holders of the seat of Azem. So what does this mean? Most importantly it means not only did Magnai get his ass kicked, he got his ass kicked and then the guy who did it went on to become the new form of his god (who according to their belief makes you like his step great-great-great-great-great etc grandpa) You beat his ass, stole his god's throne, and then your hot catgirl bestie rejected him. Bro has it TOUGH.
"what do you think she puts in her special tea" makes me wonder if there's a liquid equivalent to archon loaf that *also* has fish powder or whatever in it
So to quickly help a bit with understanding the fire and ice attacks during the trial, the part you missed was that sometimes they weren't just "Blizzard/Fire III", but *Imbued* Blizzard/Fire III. On the normal version, you just don't move during pyretic's entire length (even moving slightly before the effect fades means damage) and you move the moment blizzard goes off (to not get frozen and take constant damage during it) but stopping immediately after is fine. In the imbued versions, he imbues his blade with the respective element and will activate untelegraphed the next time he uses his coruscant attack (named "Imbued Coruscant" when he does) and his sword has the appearance of the element it's imbued with. So the imbued versions are essentially a warning that "soon" the effect will go off, and during Imbued Coruscant you can look at its colour to see the incoming effect. I probably could have made this shorter, but hope it still helps if you see it!
The seat of Elidibus has always gone to a youth, a kid really... Because with their younger age they are supposed to be without prejudices and can arbitrate when two adults can not agree. There is a sidequest in Amaurot that has you do this sinc they think you are kids. So imagine this 'teenager', so full of sense of duty, so committed to being a proper Elidibus that even after becoming Zodiark he manages to untangle himself from the will of his primal form and return to physical shape... Weakening Zodiark just a fraction, but enough for Hydaelyn to gain the upper hand...
2:27:18 I’m very curious to know what happens if you pick “…” and not “Graha, Really.” I have yet to see a single person choose it and I can’t bring myself to go back and pick it either.
I love how the WoL was already powerful before Ardbert rejoined with them because the WoL was already 7 times rejoined, with Ardbert though they are 8 times rejoined and officially the strongest person alive from the source along with G'raha now even though only 7 worlds rejoined. This fact also means all the Scions are far stronger than anyone in the First or any other shard. Though G'raha is a paradox because even though he's 8 times rejoined as the Exarch, him fusing his soul with G'raha of the source makes him also 8 times rejoined.. so does his shard from the First not exist anymore? It's such a weird thing to think about
@56:00 ish. Apparently Elidibus missed the memo that you never, EVER ask the WoL "What are you?" because anybody who does, ends up getting their butt kicked shortly thereafter.
The evolution of the Scions from ARR through to the end of Shadowbringers is so impressive. From a bunch of NPC's you maybe remember the names of, to a group you deeply care about and connect with.
You’re on the trolly into Endwalker, now! Also… You might consider a haircut before 5.55 patch ;) You’ll… You’ll see why lol Just take my word for it, you’re going to want a new hairstyle. As for the story, it just becomes a massive snowball and the momentum just builds and builds. Endwalker does have its slow parts, but it’s all for important reasons. Anytime the story in Endwalker seems to crawl a little, there’s usually a really important tidbit connected to it that you should take note of, much like Stormblood. Definitely excited to see your reactions going forward!
It's been years and I've only just realized that they reveal the Seat of Azem, then you unlock the Seat of Sacrifice. As though that was Elidibus' seat, since he sacrificed everything 😢
5:55 Makes me wonder if my own first black-masked ascian back in the Black Shroud was sent to test possible new heroes. 6:39 "What does all this lead to?" Ask and ye shall receive. 17:25 "Everybody kill the bard." "Not me." lol 33:28 If you recall this is almost the exact spot you arrived on the First, back when it was flooded in light. 39:27 I read somewhere that at this part in the original dub she called him Grandpa as she cried. Wish they'd kept that in. 1:06:00 No. Soaking the twin crossbows applies it so if you try to help soak a second time right away you die. 1:20:27 A smile better suits a hero.
Remember that elzen man's reaction and what he said on the balcony during the star shower because it's foreshadowing. you will know it when you see it in endwalker.
Also, during that necromancer fight, the crawling zombies do indeed jump and "auto grab" you. The whole thing with that is you are supposed to get hit with THAT necroburst, but no other necrobursts. This means you need to spread out, AND you need to stay away from the running zombies both. That way when the crawling zombie grabs you, you're not near any other zombies, just that one. IIRC, back in the day, 3 necrobursts would kill you. 2, if you had any vuln.
Berserker probably won’t ever be a class. Historically (in FF6), it functioned like this: It has one passive, called Auto-Berserk, which casts Berserk on you when combat starts, ‘causing you to walk up to enemies and hit them for massive-damage basic attacks. That’s it.
I always love when Alisaie is being a total mood. lol Also, regarding the bag of whatever that Y'shtola tosses to Thancred (2:29:02), I always assumed they had some kind of wager going. Perhaps regarding which of the twins would be the first to get bored and go running off on another adventure. But I suppose it could be ammo since, if I recall correctly, it was revealed that Ryne was making the ammo for him on The First. Personally, I like the idea of a friendly wager more though. haha
51:25 --- I still find it funny that we get "accused" of having killed Lahabrea the whole time but in truth we didnt. We just beat his a** but he could've escaped to the rift - if Thordan hadnt stepped in... 59:35 --- Fire is stop moving and stop attacking. Ice is moving around, or jump - both does the trick. 1:02:40 --- Seriously? You didnt notice the iconic handwave? XD 1:47:42 --- By leveling all jobs (except Reaper and Sage) to lvl80 :) Seto was my reason to max out all jobs. The moment I saw that mount in a feature video from Meoni, shortly after I started playing FF14, that became my goal ^.^ Took me six months or so :D Its my most favorite mount to this day ^.^ 1:58:33 --- Did you truely think, the Exarch was the last heartbreak this patch? Oh my sweet summer child XD 2:30:03 --- Matoya 2.0. To be honest, I dont like the direction Y'shtola's character took in ShB... I liked her much better in ARR, HW and SB. Matoya is a cool character but I dont need a second version of her... and it seems Y'shtola is becoming just that :( 2:36:53 --- Oh, dont you worry, not another tired old Calamity. They are old news. Zenos and his buddy have been... cooking up something else ^^° Also, last but not least: congrats to your Ultimate kil :)
This was THE patch. They went all out with this patch after it was delayed for several months by the pandemic. There are so many things that came out with it that would make this post super-long, but here are a few highlights:
1. Flying in ARR zones.
Would you believe that we still had to walk and ride mounts on the ground until this point in time?
2. Expanding the Free Trial to include all of Heavensward.
Would you believe that the old free trial capped at MSQ Lv35 right after defeating Titan?
3. The first trimming of the ARR MSQ.
They trimmed some of the fat off of the number of quests for both parts of ARR.
4. Unreal Trials.
These are old trials that are synced up to the current level cap, which is 90, and is rotated after each major patch is released. The current Lv90 Unreal Trial is King Thordan as of Patch 6.5. These trials are synced from Item Level 560 to 565.
Congratulations on completing this patch! You have taken your first steps on the Road to Endwalker!
The trimming was great, but It did cut one of Y'shtola's best burns leading up to the Ramuh trial. The Sylphs try (badly) to impersonate the Scions. When we finally come up to Thancred, we grill him with his most embarrassing memories. Eventually Y'shtola ends it with "Enough, if this is not Thancred then we have found a suitable replacement for him."
Elidibus' transformation is Final Fantasy 1 Warrior of Light. What a callback. To the first game in the series! So cool! And yeah, 5.3 is an emotional gut-punch. So many tear-inducing scenes...
The Heroes' Gauntlet is one of my favorite dungeons. You noticed the similarities to The Ghymlit Dark, and this dungeon is sometimes called "The Ghymlit Light."
Firstly, the music. A beautiful remix of five zone themes: Kholusia, Amh Araeng, Il Mheg, Lakeland, and Raktika (in that order). All solidifying that theme of a world coming together, and rising up to protect.
Then there's the amazing triple meaning of the name.
1. You are the hero, and you are running the gauntlet.
2. The enemies are heroes of their own world.
3. The people of Norvrant rising up to become the heroes.
Which leads nicely into the set pieces, and characters. Everyone is coming to your aid. _Everyone._ You saved this world in their moment of peril. What do its people do when they see you in a moment of peril? Stand up and do anything they can to help. Without hesitation, they give you an airship. Talos come barreling to your aid. The entirety of the Faerie Kingdom, including fae who you actively fought against before, declares, "Oi! Not in my backyard!" Soldiers of the Crystarium, and the Virtue Hunters all pick up their weapons and aid the people of the world, and aid you.
Elidibus tried to show you, with his little challenge in Amaurot, how death and destruction follows in your wake. How you are a monster. How you have the blood of thousands on your hands.
The Heroes' Gauntlet shows you the truth: you're not just a hero, you're _these people's_ hero. You were willing to risk everything to save them, and in this moment, they return the favor.
It is an excellent farewell tour for Norvrant.
Also, the Lakeland theme coming in all triumphant is such a rallying moment in the song. It is the moment for heroics. It gives me mental images of Talos planting themselves in front of the spectral heroes, while the miners of Twine urge you, "MOVE! GO! GO!" Of Granson stepping in front of you, calling out, "Warrior of Darkness coming through! Rally to me! We're clearing the road!" and Crystarium soldiers form up on him.
Gods, I could geek out on this one dungeon for hours.
@@ericbright1742 Also the occasional random Hildebrandt Manderville cameo among the spectral Heroes of Light.
It was sooo good when 5.3 dropped after being delayed for so long. Loved it
It’s never explicitly stated by a character(maybe by side lore) about the crystals, but basically each seat of the 14 had one made for storing their memories after they created the plan to create zodiark, azem wasn’t given one as he opposed the plan, emet made him one anyway, the voice that talks from the Crystal is emet basically recounting azems life to his future self
There’s an official lore website with short stories from emet wich are aluded to being messages he was reading out for the crystals recording
Here's something you might not have realized, your seat is the seat if Azem, if the name sounds familiar it should! after all you are the Khagan of a nation named after the seat. It's likely that both Azim, the auri sun god, and Azeyma, the sun god within the 12, were inspired by previous holders of the seat of Azem.
So what does this mean?
Most importantly it means not only did Magnai get his ass kicked, he got his ass kicked and then the guy who did it went on to become the new form of his god (who according to their belief makes you like his step great-great-great-great-great etc grandpa)
You beat his ass, stole his god's throne, and then your hot catgirl bestie rejected him. Bro has it TOUGH.
"what do you think she puts in her special tea" makes me wonder if there's a liquid equivalent to archon loaf that *also* has fish powder or whatever in it
Bonito Broth? XD
or it's just booze
She seems to be pretty passionate her mulled wine, so probably warm that up and a few tea leaves kekw
amaro's the shadowbringers-era "level all jobs to cap" mount, I would assume they didn't add sage/reaper to that since then
That's correct. All of the jobs that were current to Shadowbringers to level 80.
No they didn't. They added them to the all 90 list. The reward for all 90 is complete shit
It should be the level checker
@@victorvicg Should've been the dog.
So to quickly help a bit with understanding the fire and ice attacks during the trial, the part you missed was that sometimes they weren't just "Blizzard/Fire III", but *Imbued* Blizzard/Fire III.
On the normal version, you just don't move during pyretic's entire length (even moving slightly before the effect fades means damage) and you move the moment blizzard goes off (to not get frozen and take constant damage during it) but stopping immediately after is fine.
In the imbued versions, he imbues his blade with the respective element and will activate untelegraphed the next time he uses his coruscant attack (named "Imbued Coruscant" when he does) and his sword has the appearance of the element it's imbued with. So the imbued versions are essentially a warning that "soon" the effect will go off, and during Imbued Coruscant you can look at its colour to see the incoming effect.
I probably could have made this shorter, but hope it still helps if you see it!
I'm a little surprised nobody has commented on exactly who made the crystal of Azem. It makes the words attached to it even more poignant.
The seat of Elidibus has always gone to a youth, a kid really... Because with their younger age they are supposed to be without prejudices and can arbitrate when two adults can not agree. There is a sidequest in Amaurot that has you do this sinc they think you are kids.
So imagine this 'teenager', so full of sense of duty, so committed to being a proper Elidibus that even after becoming Zodiark he manages to untangle himself from the will of his primal form and return to physical shape...
Weakening Zodiark just a fraction, but enough for Hydaelyn to gain the upper hand...
2:27:18 I’m very curious to know what happens if you pick “…” and not “Graha, Really.” I have yet to see a single person choose it and I can’t bring myself to go back and pick it either.
You just kinda stare at him to get across the "really?", and instead of his ears perking up, he gets sad cat ears.
We need to find a permanent bridge to the First so we can get Lyna into the Scions.
I love how the WoL was already powerful before Ardbert rejoined with them because the WoL was already 7 times rejoined, with Ardbert though they are 8 times rejoined and officially the strongest person alive from the source along with G'raha now even though only 7 worlds rejoined.
This fact also means all the Scions are far stronger than anyone in the First or any other shard. Though G'raha is a paradox because even though he's 8 times rejoined as the Exarch, him fusing his soul with G'raha of the source makes him also 8 times rejoined.. so does his shard from the First not exist anymore? It's such a weird thing to think about
55:25 Say hello to your now-canonized Duty Finder...and the true beginning of asking about the canon backstory to your character.
Great watch Two! Sorry I haven't been able to catch you live lately, but I'm so happy for these vids!
@56:00 ish. Apparently Elidibus missed the memo that you never, EVER ask the WoL "What are you?" because anybody who does, ends up getting their butt kicked shortly thereafter.
The evolution of the Scions from ARR through to the end of Shadowbringers is so impressive. From a bunch of NPC's you maybe remember the names of, to a group you deeply care about and connect with.
You’re on the trolly into Endwalker, now! Also… You might consider a haircut before 5.55 patch ;) You’ll… You’ll see why lol Just take my word for it, you’re going to want a new hairstyle. As for the story, it just becomes a massive snowball and the momentum just builds and builds. Endwalker does have its slow parts, but it’s all for important reasons. Anytime the story in Endwalker seems to crawl a little, there’s usually a really important tidbit connected to it that you should take note of, much like Stormblood. Definitely excited to see your reactions going forward!
Yeah when I saw the hairstyle. I was oh, he's gonna want to change that very soon.
Obligatory "Watch the Soken Speech at Fanfest" comment, watch it whenever you have time.
Shadowbringers finale get that popcorn
I guarantee Tataru's Special Tea recipe involves narcotics.
It's been years and I've only just realized that they reveal the Seat of Azem, then you unlock the Seat of Sacrifice. As though that was Elidibus' seat, since he sacrificed everything 😢
5:55 Makes me wonder if my own first black-masked ascian back in the Black Shroud was sent to test possible new heroes.
6:39 "What does all this lead to?" Ask and ye shall receive.
17:25 "Everybody kill the bard." "Not me." lol
33:28 If you recall this is almost the exact spot you arrived on the First, back when it was flooded in light.
39:27 I read somewhere that at this part in the original dub she called him Grandpa as she cried. Wish they'd kept that in.
1:06:00 No. Soaking the twin crossbows applies it so if you try to help soak a second time right away you die.
1:20:27 A smile better suits a hero.
Remember that elzen man's reaction and what he said on the balcony during the star shower because it's foreshadowing. you will know it when you see it in endwalker.
Please never stop MSQ (until youa re actually done with MSQ) your playtrought ahs been amazing all the way.
Also, during that necromancer fight, the crawling zombies do indeed jump and "auto grab" you. The whole thing with that is you are supposed to get hit with THAT necroburst, but no other necrobursts. This means you need to spread out, AND you need to stay away from the running zombies both. That way when the crawling zombie grabs you, you're not near any other zombies, just that one. IIRC, back in the day, 3 necrobursts would kill you. 2, if you had any vuln.
alisae's RDM opener includes an LB3
my favorite girl. lmao
Berserker probably won’t ever be a class. Historically (in FF6), it functioned like this: It has one passive, called Auto-Berserk, which casts Berserk on you when combat starts, ‘causing you to walk up to enemies and hit them for massive-damage basic attacks. That’s it.
Before you continue the MSQ, you should select the option to ask Raha how he fares. You get a bit lore about his soul density.
Shadowbringers was on another fucking level man....
I always love when Alisaie is being a total mood. lol
Also, regarding the bag of whatever that Y'shtola tosses to Thancred (2:29:02), I always assumed they had some kind of wager going. Perhaps regarding which of the twins would be the first to get bored and go running off on another adventure. But I suppose it could be ammo since, if I recall correctly, it was revealed that Ryne was making the ammo for him on The First. Personally, I like the idea of a friendly wager more though. haha
2:03:26 Got em!!! Don't worry, happened to all of us
Berserker is just Warrior but with a sword, though.
Get all the classes to level 80 and you will get a Mount like Seto
Yay, we got the tears boyyyyys ! :D
such a great patch
I know I’m late to this but congratulations for the Ultimate Legend!
51:25 --- I still find it funny that we get "accused" of having killed Lahabrea the whole time but in truth we didnt. We just beat his a** but he could've escaped to the rift - if Thordan hadnt stepped in...
59:35 --- Fire is stop moving and stop attacking. Ice is moving around, or jump - both does the trick.
1:02:40 --- Seriously? You didnt notice the iconic handwave? XD
1:47:42 --- By leveling all jobs (except Reaper and Sage) to lvl80 :) Seto was my reason to max out all jobs. The moment I saw that mount in a feature video from Meoni, shortly after I started playing FF14, that became my goal ^.^ Took me six months or so :D Its my most favorite mount to this day ^.^
1:58:33 --- Did you truely think, the Exarch was the last heartbreak this patch? Oh my sweet summer child XD
2:30:03 --- Matoya 2.0. To be honest, I dont like the direction Y'shtola's character took in ShB... I liked her much better in ARR, HW and SB. Matoya is a cool character but I dont need a second version of her... and it seems Y'shtola is becoming just that :(
2:36:53 --- Oh, dont you worry, not another tired old Calamity. They are old news. Zenos and his buddy have been... cooking up something else ^^°
Also, last but not least: congrats to your Ultimate kil :)
Giott is the best
Damn man its written all over your face at 1:21:13
"f'lhaminn's not here" they'd have to pay a new voice actor!