Honestly my WoL is just me as a girl. The entire time i'm like "...ok so the Corrupted Light enters whoever killed the Lightwarden, turning them into a new Warden. like Dark Falz. so...why has nobody thought up _burning_ that Light Aether? Like, just get someone really good at manipulating Aether that knows their bodies in and out, and start pumping that Aether into _stuff._" And then when we ended up _burning all that Aether against something comparable yet opposite to us_ and ended up fine i'm like "WHY DID NOBODY THINK OF THIS BEFORE?!"
@@Xenmaru00 i think its more of a matter vs dark matter interaction than just releasing the light energy out of our body, Emet Selch's dark energy actively negates the aether thus destroying it
@@EatingPlayDough To me this all sounds like weird stupid made up bs, so my head canon is "ardbert fusing with us fixes our soul". It still works for me, because both ryne and Y'shtola are just offering speculations and nobody really knows what happened.
Honestly, yeah. It's weird, but I kinda care for my WoL as if she was a family member. Even to the point that I can't have her in a skimpy glamor because it just feels wrong 😅
Titania Normal Is part of the Trial Roulette and does NOT have a min ilvl requirement so you will see players with low level gear if they rushed SB and ShB. If they get in the stack marker, they will die no matter how many players are in it and the DPS they output is really really low. Titania Normal is cursed.
Wait so that's why people hate the normal trial? I got lucky and did it when the expansion dropped so I guess I escaped that nightmare cause I rarely do trials roulette.
Bah, I've never wiped on this trial. All I can say as advice on this is: If you have wiped on this trial at any time: you are a noob. You, personally, are a noob. It isn't anybody else's fault but yourself. You caused the wipe. It is all your fault. And you should, personally, feel bad. Now go out there and lose all confidence in your abilities so that you cause further wipes due to sheer uncertainty and self-doubt.
@@ubermaster1 even when the expansion dropped people were struggling with Titania normal. I beat it easy tge 1st time, but times post that is when the struggles started. I think the reason is unlike other story trials Titania actually has some mechs and an enrage timer in the dps check. There hasn't been a trial fight like Titania which wipes teams like her since Story Nidhogg in my experience.
it kinda makes sense that you can't accept the wine. remember what happened in ishgard, the last time you accepted alcohol from an unnamed, conspicuously voiced NPC?
The reason the equipment in the burn works the same as Azys Lla is because Azys Lla is a flying chunk of the burn and is the reason the area is a wasteland
I find the random details they put in the story amazing. For example the artisan you find is the first version of Gerolt, the smith who makes relics for you through the series. Since he continued making kettles instead of weapons, he never met Rowena or became an alcoholic and thus he has a long mane of hair. The story with the man who lost his wife leads to a battle with a light warden in the mines, the light warden is called Forgiven Storge, which is defined as the unconditional love of a parent or familial bounds, considering the way the wife died and the fact that the warden is a female face with wings around it, leads me to believe we killed the man's wife as a warden, specially since wardens move from one body to another as they are destroyed.
The Chais were some of my favorite characters from this expansion, I’m not 100% sure why but Dulia was relentlessly nice and Nuzz was surprisingly component and the scene where they say goodbye to Alphinaud made me sentimental. Also, the scene with Ardbert and Seto made me cry. Also, I managed to completely miss Emet Selch in the background during the Vauthry cutscene.
Haha the part about Y’stola cannot see the stars is actually explained in Endwalker. Because space is filled with Dynamis, other stars’ aether is masked and thus she cannot see them. I wonder if they saw this video and YoshiP decided to delay for two weeks.
If this is true, the Astrologians have a lot of explaining to do. Their magic works by drawing on the aether of nearby stars. So yes, she *should* be able to see them.
If only he could to that in his style, I skipped the stories because I wanted the raid but in retrospect I shoulda paid attention. You only get to experience it once.
emet never once lies to you now, does he tell you the whole truth, christ no, you're mortal, he doesn't have the time, but nothing he tells you is ever a flat out lie. it is a lot easier to lie to people when you never actually say anything untrue.
"Your light was spent by fighting with emet selch" thats y'shtola's assumption, i think Ryne is more correct as in by fusing with another piece of your soul (ardbert) you are now stronger to just absorb all that light,. Or maybe a combination of both. Either way this video is awesome man i love this story so much :')
100% with your statement. Patch 5.3 is what i was wanting so much from ShB. It was a power house of emotions. Seeing Lyha cry after G'raha ran off. It fucking killed me lol and alot of other parts. EW has some big shoes to fill that ShB filled just right. I really hope SE can pull it off cause ShB was the first time i cried in the game.
You didn’t actually spend all the Light aether against Hades. You and Ardbert had a Rejoining; him being the First’s reflection of you, the native of the Source. You were over aspected with Light aether and to the point of breaking, as what happens to the Source prior to a Calamity. And, as the Source does, you absorb your shard to repair the damage.
About what Urianger explains about Dark and Light: basically what we thought about how aether and elements worked is kinda flipped: Light and fire is related to stasis and Darkness and ice is related to chaos and creation. That's why the Astral and Umbral phases work as they do. That's why the Word of Darkness is the way it is.
It is not that Fire and Ice are related to stasis and creation, because that makes no sense. It's more that the ideas of Light = Astral = Active and Darkness = Umbral = Stasis is flipped. For Black Mages, what it should be called is Umbral Fire and Astral Ice, because Umbral/Darkness is actually Active, and Astral/Light is Stasis.
Astral and Umbral have nothing to do with how the elements actually function. It is just the interpretation of how the people think they are aspected. That was the point of Unrianger's explaination. Its not that people on the first or source are right or wrong.
@@Aleggraa No, it's Astral Darkness and Umbral Light. So the naming convention for Astral Fire and Umbral Ice is still accurate. Astral is active (hence why MP regen is lowered; you're pouring more of your energy into the spells thus not allowing yourself the chance to recoup losses) and Umbral is passive (hence why MP regen is boosted; you're resting your reserves and letting them replenish). That's still accurate. What's flipped is the perspective of what that means for Light and Darkness. Whether you see color as light (all colors together make white, thus Light is all elements working together and Darkness is no elements) or as pigment (all colors together make black, thus Darkness is all elements working together and Light is no elements) depends on what you see Light and Darkness as. It's basic color theory.
Somehow none of these responses actually address what he said in the cutscene... Astral and Umbral refer to light and dark, and in the source they view them based on the effect, while in the first they view them based on the cause. They have umbral eras after a calamity, then things settle and the astral era begins. This is to say that things are dark after a calamity, then things recover and it becomes light. This leads the people of the source to attribute darkness with with stasis and death, and light with life and change. On the first they note that light causes stasis and death, and dark causes life and change. So it's looking at 2 sides of a coin and calling it what color you see. Essentially - and put overly simply for sake of brevity - When a calamity occurs, a lot of light is used up, leaving more darkness, then eventually the light returns or the darkness dissipates enough for the 2 to return to balance, before the cycle starts over again. so light used - calamity - less light - balance - light used - calamity, over and over.
The 1st time I did that fight people were calling him hot in chat prior to me seeing the transformation...I was questioning my idea of what "hot" meant.
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Thank you for giving G'raha such respect and love He's become my favourite character and I would have rioted if anything other than a happy ending had happened to him because he deserves nothing less
5.3 was the most emotional I've gotten with a game in over a decade. I must've cried at least 4 times throughout, and still get choked up when I think of Elidibus' final words. PS the Critikal meme got me good 👍
25:28 The fae in shadowbringers are modeled on the old pre-victorian descriptions of faeries. Before they toned down by the Grimm brothers, faerie tales were pretty grim.
They weren't toned by by the Grimm Brothers, the Grimm Brothers were toned down. I've own an accurate translation of the original stories, and they were, well, very Grim.
People hate the Zenos fights? Those are some of my favourite solo bosses. Honestly, all the genuinely somewhat though solo bosses bring me a lot of joy... it's refreshing to have a story-related confirmation that Warrior of Light is actually a badass that doesn't need the help of random adventurers to deal with everything. edit: Make more videos this long.
this was actually one of my favorite parts of going through the msq the first time. it feels important and you do have to do most of the mechanics. i thought they were cool!
The first time was fine but it gets repetitive and ends THE. SAME. EVERY. TIME. It's basically just filler at this point. Don't waste my time with any inconsequential fight in Endwalker please.
the one weak thing of shadowbringers for me was the frogging ranjit fights. too long, too drawn out, it just felt like chipping away at a pile of clay, he telegraphed enough that you werent going to die, but he had to just chug chug chug. i was happy that he was (initially) a martial artist, but i just didnt enjoy them.
So I recently finished the MSQ and all patches for SHB and this is a wonderful recap. Your vids are always excellent, keep up the good work! Personally, I felt very conflicted (in a good way) playing through this expansion and honestly was not prepared for the amount of character development that went into ES. Having him be a villain that players could empathize with was a wonderful decision on the writer's end. It added an odd, but good, dissonance as an undercurrent to the whole imminent apocalypse thing the MSQ had going on. The whole thing kept me on my toes expecting a betrayal the entire time - and when it finally came after the fight with fat bastard it honestly made it that much sweeter to watch. This entire expansion was wonderfully done, and I really hope that Endwalker can live up to the expectations that Shadowbringers has instilled in us players.
Thoroughly enjoyed this as someone that loves the game but struggles to keep up with the plot at times. Looking forward to your casual wrap up of Endwalker :)
No nod to how Elidibus' "Warrior of Light" form is the Warrior of Light from the first game? The series Icon as invented by Yoshitaka Amano? This was the hypest shit when I saw it and I feel like it deserves a shoutout
I really appreciate your elaborating and the this is the content Ive always looking for. I never look deep into the story, just because the slow ass cutscene is too horrible to endure, but I would like to know all the stories and your takes on them. Keep doing it, Id love to see more of them.
I feel Y'shtola being unable to see the stars is less that they don't give off aether, and more that they are so damn far away she couldn't hope to even perceive them
The one detail I loved in patch content was that elidibus-mwde Zenos broke control and basically disintegrated of its own volition, because not even an unsundered Ascian understands this maniac. I love Zenos man.
I hadn't heard about you till a few weeks ago(watched your Mahjong video)...but damn you have a way of wording things for smooth brained people like myself. Thank you for this amazing 1hr and 20m video recap before EW releases. P.s. I also can't stop playing mahjong. So thanks for that too :)
At 20:00, if you're a Healer you'll also be healing him alongside Alphinaud. I think that's the only time Healers are relevant (outside of job quests related shenanigans) in MSQ tho.
I like the no bullshit approach between this and the more lore based videos im getting caught up on all the skipping ive done. Ill watch my cutscenes from now on. I just always feel bad making the party wait
Now that you've done all the MSQ, Chair. Any plans to do similar videos about side content, beast tribes, notable side stories, the primals/kami, class stories, etc?
Mine apologies gamer but I won't get out there and stop you from your long videos. Instead I'm going to get out there and ENCOURAGE you to make even longer videos
Mist Dragon "Impossible content" Laughable unless you were pugging when it first came out.. my god people would make sure to run from heals and stand in all the bad.
legit did this fight last month. legit wiped 3 times to it cause we were three newbs (to the fight) and one returning player that hadnt done the fight in forever.
@@Xenmaru00 If you're talking about the story innocence trial, people seem to have a lot of trouble focusing one mob at a time during the add phase, I've seen it said the add phase is harder to do with pugs on story mode than the extreme version lol. Also people don't know right away how to avoid Hades hand swipes, or the doom part.
@@Xenmaru00 i will never like mist dragon, i've done it a total of like 4 times and i will never enjoy doing it enough to fully get it. i'll stick with fun dungeons like twinning or Ghymlit
You are incorrect in that we are equal to the Ancients. While we have figured out things they did not, like Spacetime travel, we were not their equals. They were, individually, stronger, smarter, and more moral than what the Sharded people are. As Emet-Selch said, half of their population WILLINGLY gave their lives so the other half could live, and would the current people of the Source do the same? No. They wouldn't. Not even people in real world Earth would do such a thing. And on top of that, they had the full power of Creation at their fingertips, yet they used it instead to create an equal and altruistic society for all, rather than use it for their own ends. They had effectively a perfect society, free of war and famine, until the Final Days. Also, please don't think I am trying to paint the Ascians as right. They still murdered billions, if not trillions, and planned on doing more. Even if these sharded lives are not as grand as the Ancients, they're still living, thinking beings, who deserve as much a shot at the life they have been given as anyone or anything else. Also, despite claiming to view the Sharded lives as lesser and therefore not truly murder, the Ascians still fucked with the Dragons, who are alien life forms who came after the Sundering, and should not have been targeted due to their overall separation from the conflict at the heart of our world, and them doing so anyway speaks to some of the callousness and villainy they were gradually stooping towards. The Ascians are sympathetic, but they are NOT good people. Had they succeeded in their quest and brought back their people, it would not be a happy reunion. I believe the resurrected Ancients would instead largely be appalled and aghast at what had been done by their brethren overall, and even if they were brought back, their once altruistic civilization would be forever tainted and divided by the acts of the Ascians. I believe, deep down, Emet-Selch knew that, and wanted to be stopped, but at the same time, couldn't just let all the work they had done go to waste and let the lives they had already extinguished be for nothing in the end. This is why he leaves help for us against Elidibus, and the true meaning of To The Edge's lyrics referring to them as fallen angels and to stop their descent to madness before they lose all the goodness they had from before the Sundering.
I think the plan behind leaving the succession open was to make Varis bloodthirsty and ruthless so that he'd do anything to hold on to power. We kinda get inklings that before he rose to the throne, he was a pragmatist who wanted to rule the conquered peoples and not just genocide them (like Gaius). That or he just thought it'd be funny.
Likely also so that the other nations would be so strong that it would force Garlemald to be desperate enough to use something like Black Rose in the first place.
“The writers don’t know what Y’shtola can and can’t see” SPOILERS for Endwalker But if all the stars are dead and lifeless, than they wouldn’t give off much perceivable Aether, right?
@@aedrix4778 I would imagine that is still the case, or rather in all likelihood ambient aether, like say the Celestial Aether discussed briefly in Endwalker, would basically make it impossible to see the stars beyond it if all you perceive is aether. Like a mist blocking far of view. But the above might also be true.
Didn't finish the whole video yet, but there *was* a little confusion on what the Meol reveal meant. The Meol isn't what turns people into sin eaters, Vauthry, The Lightwarden does. Having the Meol in their bodies makes Vauthry's control much more effective since it's like a benign infection with light. It wasn't a "you'll live, but probably as a sin eater." It was more of a "We just so happen coincidentally feed people sin eater after turning people into sin eaters, in an effort to make them controllable by Vauthry." Basically, the painter getting thrown into the ocean to die isn't the usual way Eulmore gets rid of people who have outlived their usefulness. Usually they get "ascended" and then killed and fed to the others to ensure their compliance with Vauthry's sin eater mind control.
34:15 ok, but if you are going to ask ANYONE to paint you a picture with words, Urianger got all the fancy paint and tools to do it with. That man describing the night sky was fine af.
You're absolutely right about the writers being confused about y'shtola can actually see, because an endwalker crafter quest line straight up confirms and revolves around stars giving off Aether.
I don't usually like to double comment, but it's incredible how even through all the snark Misshapen Chair injects, you can still feel how incredible the story of Shadowbringers really is. 11/10 would develop a yandere fairy fetish again.
After watching all of these MSQ videos, all I can say is that while I disagree without about the impact of both Haurchefant's sacrifice and Seto & Ardbert's final conversation, I do at least understand the sentiment because the way you feel about Seto & Ardbert is the way I feel about Haurchefant and the way you feel about Haurchefant is the way I feel about Seto & Ardbert. I guess things hit different for different people. That said, I totally choked up a little bit right before Amaurot when the Warrior of Light/Darkness has a chat with Ryne and one of the dialogue options was basically "a smile better befits a hero."
I can't believe you made a praetorium joke. How very glib.
I am conflicted by your name + pf
@@psclly :)
but do you believe in eorzea? it is naught but a cobweb of lies.
IN THIS LAND OF CREEPING MENDACITY
@@haziqtheunique When Mendacity became a tomestone, that line from Gaius was too real in retrospect.
Tataru: "Don't fight not-Zenos alone ever again!"
WOL: "You don't pay my sub" xD
When you've grown attached to your WoL, it genuinely hurts seeing them struggle with the Lightwardens' aether.
Honestly my WoL is just me as a girl. The entire time i'm like "...ok so the Corrupted Light enters whoever killed the Lightwarden, turning them into a new Warden. like Dark Falz. so...why has nobody thought up _burning_ that Light Aether? Like, just get someone really good at manipulating Aether that knows their bodies in and out, and start pumping that Aether into _stuff._"
And then when we ended up _burning all that Aether against something comparable yet opposite to us_ and ended up fine i'm like "WHY DID NOBODY THINK OF THIS BEFORE?!"
"It's aether, baby. I ain't gonna explain shit"
@@Xenmaru00 i think its more of a matter vs dark matter interaction than just releasing the light energy out of our body, Emet Selch's dark energy actively negates the aether thus destroying it
@@EatingPlayDough To me this all sounds like weird stupid made up bs, so my head canon is "ardbert fusing with us fixes our soul". It still works for me, because both ryne and Y'shtola are just offering speculations and nobody really knows what happened.
Honestly, yeah. It's weird, but I kinda care for my WoL as if she was a family member. Even to the point that I can't have her in a skimpy glamor because it just feels wrong 😅
Titania Normal
Is part of the Trial Roulette and does NOT have a min ilvl requirement so you will see players with low level gear if they rushed SB and ShB.
If they get in the stack marker, they will die no matter how many players are in it and the DPS they output is really really low.
Titania Normal is cursed.
Wait so that's why people hate the normal trial? I got lucky and did it when the expansion dropped so I guess I escaped that nightmare cause I rarely do trials roulette.
Bah, I've never wiped on this trial. All I can say as advice on this is: If you have wiped on this trial at any time: you are a noob. You, personally, are a noob. It isn't anybody else's fault but yourself. You caused the wipe. It is all your fault. And you should, personally, feel bad. Now go out there and lose all confidence in your abilities so that you cause further wipes due to sheer uncertainty and self-doubt.
Oh, so that's why that happened. I'd like to formally apologize to the group I did that with.
This honestly explains a lot, considering that Tatiana was the first, and so far, only, story-required trial in the entire game that I wiped on.
@@ubermaster1 even when the expansion dropped people were struggling with Titania normal. I beat it easy tge 1st time, but times post that is when the struggles started. I think the reason is unlike other story trials Titania actually has some mechs and an enrage timer in the dps check. There hasn't been a trial fight like Titania which wipes teams like her since Story Nidhogg in my experience.
this recap is wild i always forget just how much of stormblood stopped cold so wol could go smooch the exarch
Ohh, that's your head cannon too? Lol
i mean, who WOULDNT wanna smooch G'raha
@@DiaAutomata THIS GUY GETS IT!!!!!
Why would I smooch my son?
@@haziqtheunique if youve son'd this boy that ur prerogative i've wife'd him a century ago
"Who is this man? Who does he fight for? It's Gaius"
I laughed a lot.
it kinda makes sense that you can't accept the wine. remember what happened in ishgard, the last time you accepted alcohol from an unnamed, conspicuously voiced NPC?
Or, like, the end of A Realm Reborn
Twice, it happened twice.
The reason the equipment in the burn works the same as Azys Lla is because Azys Lla is a flying chunk of the burn and is the reason the area is a wasteland
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I find the random details they put in the story amazing. For example the artisan you find is the first version of Gerolt, the smith who makes relics for you through the series. Since he continued making kettles instead of weapons, he never met Rowena or became an alcoholic and thus he has a long mane of hair.
The story with the man who lost his wife leads to a battle with a light warden in the mines, the light warden is called Forgiven Storge, which is defined as the unconditional love of a parent or familial bounds, considering the way the wife died and the fact that the warden is a female face with wings around it, leads me to believe we killed the man's wife as a warden, specially since wardens move from one body to another as they are destroyed.
The best movie I've seen in months.
The Chais were some of my favorite characters from this expansion, I’m not 100% sure why but Dulia was relentlessly nice and Nuzz was surprisingly component and the scene where they say goodbye to Alphinaud made me sentimental. Also, the scene with Ardbert and Seto made me cry.
Also, I managed to completely miss Emet Selch in the background during the Vauthry cutscene.
Seto is a very good birb and i cried when ardbert got to hear how much Seto loved him :' )
omg there's two ardbert and seto scenes fuuuuuccckkk
If that scene didn't make you cry you probably never had a dog.
@@Gunplabro hell yeah dude emphasis on “had.”
Haha the part about Y’stola cannot see the stars is actually explained in Endwalker. Because space is filled with Dynamis, other stars’ aether is masked and thus she cannot see them. I wonder if they saw this video and YoshiP decided to delay for two weeks.
I always assumed the stars were simply too far away.
If this is true, the Astrologians have a lot of explaining to do. Their magic works by drawing on the aether of nearby stars. So yes, she *should* be able to see them.
I can’t wait to see the Endwalker one in 3 years.
Now time to summarize the endgame raid stories. Eden, Alexander, the other two, let's go!
I mean, at least Eden. It's the most tied into the MSQ as far as the 8-mans go.
If only he could to that in his style, I skipped the stories because I wanted the raid but in retrospect I shoulda paid attention. You only get to experience it once.
@@Creedlane The Eden raid story is in New Game +. :)
yes please
@@The_TylrG Eh. I don't think it's more story relevant then Crystal Tower. But that's Alliance.
"If we have to fight not-Zenos even once in Endwalker, it will be too many!"
How do we tell him lads?
I mean it’s actually Zenos and it’s too epic to be mad at
@@GbrBy NGL i picked the option in the dialogue that made my char smiel basically like "yes finally a challenge"
29:57
Emet: You can trust me
Wol: Okay I believe you
emet never once lies to you
now, does he tell you the whole truth, christ no, you're mortal, he doesn't have the time, but nothing he tells you is ever a flat out lie. it is a lot easier to lie to people when you never actually say anything untrue.
@@xalrath its a just a pancake reference
"Zenos figuring out immortality off screen" It sounds so dumb when you say it like that...
elidibus strongly implies that its because the fake echo he got was strong to allow his soul to persevere after death
This should be an Audible book. 10/10 would buy again.
would be good audible book if there wasnt a lip smack after every single fucking sentence
The Praetorium and Free Trial jokes were the highlights of this video for me. Good job, Mr. Chair..
"Your light was spent by fighting with emet selch" thats y'shtola's assumption, i think Ryne is more correct as in by fusing with another piece of your soul (ardbert) you are now stronger to just absorb all that light,. Or maybe a combination of both. Either way this video is awesome man i love this story so much :')
100% with your statement.
Patch 5.3 is what i was wanting so much from ShB. It was a power house of emotions. Seeing Lyha cry after G'raha ran off. It fucking killed me lol and alot of other parts.
EW has some big shoes to fill that ShB filled just right. I really hope SE can pull it off cause ShB was the first time i cried in the game.
What you think of endwalker?
You didn’t actually spend all the Light aether against Hades. You and Ardbert had a Rejoining; him being the First’s reflection of you, the native of the Source.
You were over aspected with Light aether and to the point of breaking, as what happens to the Source prior to a Calamity. And, as the Source does, you absorb your shard to repair the damage.
WAIT HOLY SHIT
About what Urianger explains about Dark and Light: basically what we thought about how aether and elements worked is kinda flipped: Light and fire is related to stasis and Darkness and ice is related to chaos and creation. That's why the Astral and Umbral phases work as they do. That's why the Word of Darkness is the way it is.
It is not that Fire and Ice are related to stasis and creation, because that makes no sense. It's more that the ideas of Light = Astral = Active and Darkness = Umbral = Stasis is flipped. For Black Mages, what it should be called is Umbral Fire and Astral Ice, because Umbral/Darkness is actually Active, and Astral/Light is Stasis.
Astral and Umbral have nothing to do with how the elements actually function. It is just the interpretation of how the people think they are aspected. That was the point of Unrianger's explaination. Its not that people on the first or source are right or wrong.
@@Aleggraa No, it's Astral Darkness and Umbral Light. So the naming convention for Astral Fire and Umbral Ice is still accurate. Astral is active (hence why MP regen is lowered; you're pouring more of your energy into the spells thus not allowing yourself the chance to recoup losses) and Umbral is passive (hence why MP regen is boosted; you're resting your reserves and letting them replenish). That's still accurate. What's flipped is the perspective of what that means for Light and Darkness. Whether you see color as light (all colors together make white, thus Light is all elements working together and Darkness is no elements) or as pigment (all colors together make black, thus Darkness is all elements working together and Light is no elements) depends on what you see Light and Darkness as.
It's basic color theory.
Somehow none of these responses actually address what he said in the cutscene... Astral and Umbral refer to light and dark, and in the source they view them based on the effect, while in the first they view them based on the cause. They have umbral eras after a calamity, then things settle and the astral era begins. This is to say that things are dark after a calamity, then things recover and it becomes light. This leads the people of the source to attribute darkness with with stasis and death, and light with life and change. On the first they note that light causes stasis and death, and dark causes life and change. So it's looking at 2 sides of a coin and calling it what color you see. Essentially - and put overly simply for sake of brevity - When a calamity occurs, a lot of light is used up, leaving more darkness, then eventually the light returns or the darkness dissipates enough for the 2 to return to balance, before the cycle starts over again.
so light used - calamity - less light - balance - light used - calamity, over and over.
This long-form content is some of the best that Chair makes - I wish it got as much traction as his job guides!
"Oh no he's hot!" is exactly what I said when I first fought Vauthry during that transformation sequence.
The 1st time I did that fight people were calling him hot in chat prior to me seeing the transformation...I was questioning my idea of what "hot" meant.
"She mined so hard that she died" got me 🤣
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Thank you for giving G'raha such respect and love
He's become my favourite character and I would have rioted if anything other than a happy ending had happened to him because he deserves nothing less
I'd love to see the attribute "astronomical spoilers" for an endwalker mfsq.
father chair really said i bless u today my child
5.3 was the most emotional I've gotten with a game in over a decade. I must've cried at least 4 times throughout, and still get choked up when I think of Elidibus' final words.
PS the Critikal meme got me good 👍
25:28 The fae in shadowbringers are modeled on the old pre-victorian descriptions of faeries. Before they toned down by the Grimm brothers, faerie tales were pretty grim.
Berserk's fairies MonkaS
They weren't toned by by the Grimm Brothers, the Grimm Brothers were toned down. I've own an accurate translation of the original stories, and they were, well, very Grim.
Faeries are truly scary in the original stories.
You mean they toned down the Grimm Brothers because im pretty sure the Grimm versions still have all the R*pe and torture and mindfucking.
@@keiichimorisato98 They were very Grimm? Ehh? Ehh?
Over 1 hour, we've been blessed \o/
"Magnus's wife [A miner] BURIED HERSELF in her work..."
0_0 word choice is chop notch
People hate the Zenos fights? Those are some of my favourite solo bosses.
Honestly, all the genuinely somewhat though solo bosses bring me a lot of joy... it's refreshing to have a story-related confirmation that Warrior of Light is actually a badass that doesn't need the help of random adventurers to deal with everything.
edit: Make more videos this long.
This is why I love Bozja duels
this was actually one of my favorite parts of going through the msq the first time. it feels important and you do have to do most of the mechanics. i thought they were cool!
The first time was fine but it gets repetitive and ends THE. SAME. EVERY. TIME. It's basically just filler at this point. Don't waste my time with any inconsequential fight in Endwalker please.
@@EX7Sonic at least now that zenos is a reaper any fights with him we have in endwalker hopefully will be at least a little different
the one weak thing of shadowbringers for me was the frogging ranjit fights. too long, too drawn out, it just felt like chipping away at a pile of clay, he telegraphed enough that you werent going to die, but he had to just chug chug chug. i was happy that he was (initially) a martial artist, but i just didnt enjoy them.
So I recently finished the MSQ and all patches for SHB and this is a wonderful recap. Your vids are always excellent, keep up the good work!
Personally, I felt very conflicted (in a good way) playing through this expansion and honestly was not prepared for the amount of character development that went into ES. Having him be a villain that players could empathize with was a wonderful decision on the writer's end. It added an odd, but good, dissonance as an undercurrent to the whole imminent apocalypse thing the MSQ had going on. The whole thing kept me on my toes expecting a betrayal the entire time - and when it finally came after the fight with fat bastard it honestly made it that much sweeter to watch. This entire expansion was wonderfully done, and I really hope that Endwalker can live up to the expectations that Shadowbringers has instilled in us players.
Stormblood solidified me as a raider. Shadowbringers solidified me a cutscene enjoyer.
Man, love getting your opinions. Reading between the lines and understanding the meaning.
I love these somewhat serious summaries because you actually tell the nuances and the important bits of everything that happens. Keep it up!
Thoroughly enjoyed this as someone that loves the game but struggles to keep up with the plot at times. Looking forward to your casual wrap up of Endwalker :)
Oh man I can't wait to fight Ranjit as a Reaper in 6.0
Me talking Titania: DPS focus on the same tree.
DPS;: We all focus on Titania
Wipe and repeat.
What an amazing recap. Your style and humor are always a great listen. Now if only you could just stop killing your static.
No nod to how Elidibus' "Warrior of Light" form is the Warrior of Light from the first game? The series Icon as invented by Yoshitaka Amano?
This was the hypest shit when I saw it and I feel like it deserves a shoutout
this video is actually super important, thanks so much bro. didn't think i'd get my lore recap from this channel lol
"which means Lyse is irreverent"
Thank fucking god
41:56 it’s the best part
In other words, Lyse is irrelevant. YES GOD YES.
maybe they can relyse the old and we get a good lyse in endwalker?
"The stars do not give off aether..."
...OH MY GOD...IT WAS IN FRONT OF US ALL THIS TIME!
oh for fucks sake
I really appreciate your elaborating and the this is the content Ive always looking for. I never look deep into the story, just because the slow ass cutscene is too horrible to endure, but I would like to know all the stories and your takes on them. Keep doing it, Id love to see more of them.
I feel Y'shtola being unable to see the stars is less that they don't give off aether, and more that they are so damn far away she couldn't hope to even perceive them
12:09 Man this comment aged well in Endwalker
The one detail I loved in patch content was that elidibus-mwde Zenos broke control and basically disintegrated of its own volition, because not even an unsundered Ascian understands this maniac.
I love Zenos man.
I hadn't heard about you till a few weeks ago(watched your Mahjong video)...but damn you have a way of wording things for smooth brained people like myself. Thank you for this amazing 1hr and 20m video recap before EW releases. P.s. I also can't stop playing mahjong. So thanks for that too :)
'Zenos figuring out immortality off screen' FUCKING DEAD
20:21 This is my first time seeing him back there!!
when ardbert reunites with seto I"M NOT CRYING YOU"RE CRYING
At 20:00, if you're a Healer you'll also be healing him alongside Alphinaud. I think that's the only time Healers are relevant (outside of job quests related shenanigans) in MSQ tho.
I can imagine how long it took to make this video. Thanks for the hard work. This video was awesome.
Holy crud it was a long vid. I had it playing while fate grinding. Didn't notice the length till the end. Great summary of the story!
holy fuck
Multiple, so many, many nice details in your script
Y'shtola can see the stars, but the very atmosphere is also suffused with aether, so she probably cant see very far out.
12:50 Real upset that we didn't get to see Estinien saving our butts and princess carrying us to Aymeric
i love you for this. ive played the whole game i know the store but i am very entertained with your way of telling it.
I like the no bullshit approach between this and the more lore based videos im getting caught up on all the skipping ive done. Ill watch my cutscenes from now on. I just always feel bad making the party wait
I love this summary, I watched most of the story but you definitely hit some points that I missed!
12:13
I wonder if he still holds true to this statement
That Titania comment really hits home. Who would have thought a simple normal trial to bring so much pain.
I recently just found your channel and I absolutely love all the videos that you made about ff14. Keep it up!
rewatching this vid; you did a damn good job chair
I'm here for a refresher because my memory is terrible.
(You should re-post this video!)
Hooo been waitin for this 🔥🔥🔥
Okay I lost it at "More Donuts". That was clever as hell.
Now that you've done all the MSQ, Chair. Any plans to do similar videos about side content, beast tribes, notable side stories, the primals/kami, class stories, etc?
Such summerization! this was not my intention!
44:37 I think I remember one of the twins saying that we're not killing them. Only weakening them
Mine apologies gamer but I won't get out there and stop you from your long videos. Instead I'm going to get out there and ENCOURAGE you to make even longer videos
Mist Dragon "Impossible content" Laughable unless you were pugging when it first came out.. my god people would make sure to run from heals and stand in all the bad.
legit did this fight last month. legit wiped 3 times to it cause we were three newbs (to the fight) and one returning player that hadnt done the fight in forever.
@@Xenmaru00 If you're talking about the story innocence trial, people seem to have a lot of trouble focusing one mob at a time during the add phase, I've seen it said the add phase is harder to do with pugs on story mode than the extreme version lol. Also people don't know right away how to avoid Hades hand swipes, or the doom part.
@@zeehero7280 Nah i meant Mist Dragon. None of us knew what we were doing and it was actually kinda fun figuring out how the fight worked.
@@Xenmaru00 i will never like mist dragon, i've done it a total of like 4 times and i will never enjoy doing it enough to fully get it. i'll stick with fun dungeons like twinning or Ghymlit
endwalker spoilers
12:03
that aged really really well
I came back here *just* to say this.
It's a SIN of how much drip Vauhtry has 💧💧💧
this is genuinely one of the best videos on youtube
I just watched all the others like 2 days ago this is clutch
“Fandangley ballsack” 🤣 perfect
shadowbringer the biggerst side quest
You are incorrect in that we are equal to the Ancients. While we have figured out things they did not, like Spacetime travel, we were not their equals. They were, individually, stronger, smarter, and more moral than what the Sharded people are. As Emet-Selch said, half of their population WILLINGLY gave their lives so the other half could live, and would the current people of the Source do the same? No. They wouldn't. Not even people in real world Earth would do such a thing. And on top of that, they had the full power of Creation at their fingertips, yet they used it instead to create an equal and altruistic society for all, rather than use it for their own ends. They had effectively a perfect society, free of war and famine, until the Final Days.
Also, please don't think I am trying to paint the Ascians as right. They still murdered billions, if not trillions, and planned on doing more. Even if these sharded lives are not as grand as the Ancients, they're still living, thinking beings, who deserve as much a shot at the life they have been given as anyone or anything else. Also, despite claiming to view the Sharded lives as lesser and therefore not truly murder, the Ascians still fucked with the Dragons, who are alien life forms who came after the Sundering, and should not have been targeted due to their overall separation from the conflict at the heart of our world, and them doing so anyway speaks to some of the callousness and villainy they were gradually stooping towards.
The Ascians are sympathetic, but they are NOT good people. Had they succeeded in their quest and brought back their people, it would not be a happy reunion. I believe the resurrected Ancients would instead largely be appalled and aghast at what had been done by their brethren overall, and even if they were brought back, their once altruistic civilization would be forever tainted and divided by the acts of the Ascians. I believe, deep down, Emet-Selch knew that, and wanted to be stopped, but at the same time, couldn't just let all the work they had done go to waste and let the lives they had already extinguished be for nothing in the end. This is why he leaves help for us against Elidibus, and the true meaning of To The Edge's lyrics referring to them as fallen angels and to stop their descent to madness before they lose all the goodness they had from before the Sundering.
This was thoroughly entertaining. If you make a video this long again, I will watch it!
I think the plan behind leaving the succession open was to make Varis bloodthirsty and ruthless so that he'd do anything to hold on to power. We kinda get inklings that before he rose to the throne, he was a pragmatist who wanted to rule the conquered peoples and not just genocide them (like Gaius). That or he just thought it'd be funny.
Likely also so that the other nations would be so strong that it would force Garlemald to be desperate enough to use something like Black Rose in the first place.
“The writers don’t know what Y’shtola can and can’t see”
SPOILERS for Endwalker
But if all the stars are dead and lifeless, than they wouldn’t give off much perceivable Aether, right?
How had I not noticed that, I just thought when she couldn't see the night sky in the First it was because they were too far away
@@aedrix4778 I would imagine that is still the case, or rather in all likelihood ambient aether, like say the Celestial Aether discussed briefly in Endwalker, would basically make it impossible to see the stars beyond it if all you perceive is aether. Like a mist blocking far of view. But the above might also be true.
Didn't finish the whole video yet, but there *was* a little confusion on what the Meol reveal meant. The Meol isn't what turns people into sin eaters, Vauthry, The Lightwarden does. Having the Meol in their bodies makes Vauthry's control much more effective since it's like a benign infection with light.
It wasn't a "you'll live, but probably as a sin eater."
It was more of a "We just so happen coincidentally feed people sin eater after turning people into sin eaters, in an effort to make them controllable by Vauthry."
Basically, the painter getting thrown into the ocean to die isn't the usual way Eulmore gets rid of people who have outlived their usefulness. Usually they get "ascended" and then killed and fed to the others to ensure their compliance with Vauthry's sin eater mind control.
34:15 ok, but if you are going to ask ANYONE to paint you a picture with words, Urianger got all the fancy paint and tools to do it with. That man describing the night sky was fine af.
You're absolutely right about the writers being confused about y'shtola can actually see, because an endwalker crafter quest line straight up confirms and revolves around stars giving off Aether.
> as you decide to buy some food that would probably only be appealing to Haachama.
Dude. DUuuude. I was not ready for that at 4 am.
I thought I was original and funny coming up with "More Donuts" and "More Soup".
ahhh "Little Sun"
Dont we love Y'shtola
"Food that would probably only be appealing too Haachama" is a description I did not see coming but it's amazing.
Legit yesterday I was wondering when he was gonna upload the shadowbringers part.
This synopsis belongs in a FFXIV museum.
I don't usually like to double comment, but it's incredible how even through all the snark Misshapen Chair injects, you can still feel how incredible the story of Shadowbringers really is. 11/10 would develop a yandere fairy fetish again.
If that prince dude did get with Yshtola then every man and some women would hunt him down.
After watching all of these MSQ videos, all I can say is that while I disagree without about the impact of both Haurchefant's sacrifice and Seto & Ardbert's final conversation, I do at least understand the sentiment because the way you feel about Seto & Ardbert is the way I feel about Haurchefant and the way you feel about Haurchefant is the way I feel about Seto & Ardbert. I guess things hit different for different people. That said, I totally choked up a little bit right before Amaurot when the Warrior of Light/Darkness has a chat with Ryne and one of the dialogue options was basically "a smile better befits a hero."