Eternal /FFXIV/ Thread *STORMBLOOD EXPANSION*

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Reminder: December 23 there will be new information regarding Stormblood and on Midnight for Christmas Eve they will have a new Live Letter for patch 3.5.


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So RDM was announced as one of the two new jobs and the other was teased with Yoshi-P wearing a Spiderman shirt.

>There are people right now that WANT BLU and act like they know 100% for sure that it IS BLU

Which is fucking retarded. If they add only two DPS jobs in the expansion they're really shooting themselves in the foot more than normal. Not only do you tease SAM for ages just to not have it appear again, but you add two new DPS jobs to fuck with the queues and nothing to balance it out. Then you have the idiots that say SAM needs to be a DPS. No, SAM NEEDS to be a tank. These people forget that SAM was SUPPOSED to be a tank in XI but the community turned it into a DPS.

Just to balance out the cheeky fucks: It WILL be SAM and it WILL be a tank.


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I'm going to get the 3.5 spoiler right out of the way:

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Paplymo sacrifices himself to stop Ilberd (The Griffin) from summoning Rahlger with Nidhogg's eyes.

r/ffxiv is crying bitch tears because I refuse to turn off the title in game I earned for completing 3.5 part 1's MSQ.

Spoiler
Paplymo's Final Witness

They call me an asshole for having the title on when others can turn off titles from THEIR settings. Then the mod came in and banned one of the idiots for calling me an asshole. REMINDER: Guilt tripping people with an unjustified sense of superiority does not give you the right to be the TRUE dick. And the mods agree with me.


 
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That had to be the stupidest title they put in a game. The translation team really dropped the ball on that one.


 
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who'd have thought a stupid tribe quest makes you look the most bad ass



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>Anything related to the two new beast tribes
>Badass

No. The Moogles are the only good ones out of the three.


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REMINDER: Preorders for Stormblood begin this Tuesday at 3pm. It does come with early access like Heavensward.


 
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>Anything related to the two new beast tribes
>Badass

No. The Moogles are the only good ones out of the three.
I'm talking about your character actually looking like what they are. You're just overlooking this squabble with your arms crossed like a bad ass.

And Moogles are obnoxious.


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How dare you, Moogles are cute and infinitely huggable.

And Moogles are obnoxious.


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So when Aether went down, I decided to visit the Primal Data Center, I guess the players from Balmung also decided to go as well....



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http://imgur.com/gallery/kOIU2

NA cover art looks cooler IMO. Less to it. But just look at it. He's so menacing there.


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Just kicked from PoTD over my title. They told me to remove my title immediately and after not responding my screen went black. Sent in a harassment report to a GM, I shouldn't have to hide my rewards for people who can hide my title from their view themselves. This was objectively unjustified, and I highly doubt in my mind that a mod would disagree with me.

EDIT: Just spoke with a GM, I explained everything including me having the title equipped and he did agree with me. Kicking a player over a "Spoilery" title is a waste of everyone's time and unjustly punishing a player for simply being further in the game, and counts as harassment.
Last Edit: January 23, 2017, 09:07:14 PM by Ian


 
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That does sound annoying, but for the sake of everyone, including yourself, change the title until they fix it. It IS a massive spoiler that they admit they messed up on.


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I already changed it back to Domitrix so I wouldn't get booted out of PoTD again. But God damn I really hate the mob mentality of this community sometimes.

That does sound annoying, but for the sake of everyone, including yourself, change the title until they fix it. It IS a massive spoiler that they admit they messed up on.


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In other news: Preorders have started for Stormblood in the UK. Here's a HQ image of what you get for the Physical CE:



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North American preorders are up. Got my copy preordered!

EDIT: It should be worth noting that according to the product page, it says:

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Please note that FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood is only an expansion pack and FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn is required to play the game.

It makes zero mention of Heavensward despite needing to complete the last Heavensward quest in 3.5 part 2 in order to unlock to main scenario for Stormblood. It appears that FFXIV will do what WoW does with their expansions and make Heavensward part of ARR.
Last Edit: January 24, 2017, 02:12:58 PM by Ian


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I'd like to but I'm not dropping that much money. I already bought too many other games. I'll probably just get it digitally. I have 24 more quests and I'm caught up. Right now I'm at the Peace Ceremony thing in Coerthas. Just dropped nearly 20M to get ilvl 250 gear too :( Anyone have glamour suggestion for WAR, cause the armor I have right now is ugly. So ugly.


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Standard preorders will still come with early-access, I only got the physical CE because I'm a sucker for art books and I already got the Heavensward one so....

As for WAR, you could've just gotten dungeon drop gear and then work on getting Alexandrian gear since I think that's 250. For glamour I use replica High Allagan sets, they're kind of pricey depending on your server but it went down when they become drops in the 100+ floors in PoTD.

I'd like to but I'm not dropping that much money. I already bought too many other games. I'll probably just get it digitally. I have 24 more quests and I'm caught up. Right now I'm at the Peace Ceremony thing in Coerthas. Just dropped nearly 20M to get ilvl 250 gear too :( Anyone have glamour suggestion for WAR, cause the armor I have right now is ugly. So ugly.


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North American preorders are up. Got my copy preordered!

EDIT: It should be worth noting that according to the product page, it says:

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Please note that FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood is only an expansion pack and FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn is required to play the game.

It makes zero mention of Heavensward despite needing to complete the last Heavensward quest in 3.5 part 2 in order to unlock to main scenario for Stormblood. It appears that FFXIV will do what WoW does with their expansions and make Heavensward part of ARR.
Was mentioned in the stream that Stormblood comes with Heavensward


They also announced ARR will be renamed and marketed as the online starter edition
Spoiler


There will also be a new complete edition, like the package FFXIV Online
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So ARR will stay as just ARR, but now renamed. Stormblood will be the only upgrade a player needs to buy.


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That's pretty silly marketing as it essentially means we're buying Heavensward twice.


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That's pretty silly marketing as it essentially means we're buying Heavensward twice.
It's just for people who don't have it. When 5.0 comes out, you'll get it, Stormblood, and Heavensward.


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It's still silly because players are technically purchasing the expansions they already have. Why not just do what WoW does and add the expansions in with ARR?

It's just for people who don't have it. When 5.0 comes out, you'll get it, Stormblood, and Heacensward.


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Luci, do you have WHM to 60?


 
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Luci, do you have WHM to 60?
I don't heal


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And this is why I'm going to wait till Stormblood to do the 3.X EX primals.



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Let's have some fun speculating. So Yoshi says the Garlean conflict could go up to 6.0. We know Garlemald is on Isslbard or however it's spelled. Which is right next to us. Connected and bordering Gry Abania. But there's also the continent to the east of that. Othard. Several cities at least were completely destroyed. But there should be some left. Anyways. Now. When we go to Isslbard. Will we go to Garlemald first? If we destroy their city. What about Othard? Would the Garleans there stand up after us destroying their actual home? Or would they stand down? Doesn't make much sense to go around To Othard first. Or we we not even deal with the Gatleans in 5.0?

There's other continents too of course. Sharlyan. Mercydia. And the one to the west we don't really know about. Also there's other worlds. Like where The Warriors of Darkness are from. Not sure if it's different planets. Or just a different version of Eorzea. And I doubt we will end the Ascians anytime soon. I think the Zodiark conflict is something that will last till the end. In fact. Us defeating him for good would probably be best for a last expansion. It's the thing with the biggest stake. The ultimate battle. Wouldn't make sense to do it early on unless they come
Up with something even bigger.

Watcha guys think?


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MY THEORY: The west continent is actually Ivalice. Since Auracite has been a confirmed element in the universe of XIV and we're "returning" to Ivalice for the new 24 man raid in 4.X, the continent looks eerily similar to the map of Ivalice in XII, but it's hard to tell since clouds cover most of the region.



As for Garlemald, I sincerely hope they're the primary antagonists in both 5.X and 6.X since they've been milking the Primals/Beast Tribes problems for a bit too long now, I just don't know how if we finish a conflict with Garlemald in those expansions how they'll continue to be a force against us for the remainder of the story.

Since we don't have a full fledged map without clouds we can't get an idea of whether or not there's other continents at the north/south pole or if there's other continents past The New World. If Yoshi does eventually go the "Different Dimensions" path I hope we fully explore the planet first before doing so.