Eternal /FFXIV/ Thread *STORMBLOOD EXPANSION*

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Well that's the thing. When we defeat Garlemald. That's it. They're done. Then we can move onto Zodiark. Maybe. Ivallice is the new 24 man. I doubt it's The New World though. Allag conquered everywhere except there. So I can't wait to see what that place is like. I can see us going there after Garlemald is gone. But there's still Othard. And I just don't see how we're going to go about going to Issalbard then Othard. It wouldn't make sense. Unless the Garleans stand down after Garlemald is taken by us.
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Well that's the thing, Eorzea and her people are not about conquering other nations. I doubt we'll "take" Garlemald and just liberate the other regions it conquered. I kind of believe that Yoshi actually doesn't know exactly where we're going because after Stormblood we're finally leaving Eorzea. We only have one actual picture of the world outside of Eorzea and that's just a Garlean gate:



We get small little notes about the different peoples and cultures of outside Eorzea (such as the Domans and their Eastern way of life) but other than that and Garlemald, we don't know what's out there. Everything Yoshi has done so far has been with established lore and settings that was created before he came into the picture. I'll be very much interested in where he plans to take us and what he plans to show us after Stormblood.


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We shall see. Can't wait for Garlemald. I'm ready to see their architecture. We're supposed to get a little bit of that in Stormblood though.


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Wouldn't Garlemald just be more of what we already have? Super metal like and akin to FFVI?


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Supposedly not. They said bases like the Castrum and Praetorium are just that. Bases. Their cities and stuff look much different.


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The title unlocked from the 3.5 MSQ is now The Finest Pupil's Ally.


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Oh yeah. I forgot. South of The Black Shroud and east of Thanalan there's a rather large area we've never been to either. In fact, if you cut it and slapped it on top of Gyr Abania... It's bigger. So not sure if we'll ever deal with that. But, I just wanted to point it out. Gyr Abania is nothing but mountains. And Ala Mhigo of course. So I'm not sure what other zones we'll be getting. But that area by Thanalan is bigger, so it'd be nice to explore.


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That's Pagl'than. Knowing Yoshi he'll just get lazy and turn all of it into a 20-minute dungeon like he did with Xelphatol.


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That's Pagl'than. Knowing Yoshi he'll just get lazy and turn all of it into a 20-minute dungeon like he did with Xelphatol.
We may still have the possibility of going to Xelphatol in Stormblood maybe. They have to use some surrounding areas like they did in Heavensward.


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I hope so but Yoshi has a habit of letting us down when it comes to explorable regions. We never got the rest of Coerthas back or the legitimate mountain region of Abalathia's Spine.


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Did you guys remember to celebrate the Year of The COCK in Eorzea?!

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NEW STORMBLOOD TRAILER:

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WE'RE GOING TO DOMA!
-A whole new continent Othard has opened up
-Garlamald teased unclouded in the trailer, it will be in the 5.0 Expansion

New areas outside Eorzea include:
-Kugane, a port town on the island chain of the nation of Hingashi, a country with a strict isolationist policy. Kugane is the only town open to trade with foreign nations. Violent acts are forbidden inside the walls of Kugane; Ironically then, Kugane is the town shown in the new Stormblood trailer where the SAM blows away a group of Garlean troops.

The continent of Othard:
-The Ruby Sea (similar to The Jade Sea outside Eorzea), lots of pirates here.
-Yanxia, the region home of Doma, controlled by Garlamald.
-The Azim Steppe, Will be the first "Expansive Plains" type area in FFXIV (Gee Yoshi, you're really trying to pretend 1.0 Coerthas didn't exist....), these are the plains where the Nomadic Au Ra tribes live, expect to interact with these tribes frequently.

Samurai is a DPS
-SAM will be available at level 50
-Can unlock it before 2.1 so right after completing The Ultimate Weapon quest presumably.
-Can glamour different Hilts and sheaths for your weapon.
-One handed melee weapon, will tentatively use Striking Gear.

Other stuff:
-We'll be liberating both Ala Mhigo and Doma.
-New Beast Tribe the Kojin, who are tortoise like with large protective shells; also a new primal for them Susano, Lord of The Revel.
-Fourth Residential Area: Shirogane, Far Eastern Housing District.
-Nobuo Uematsu invited at Fanfest; new updated theme for the trailer. New song with Susan Calloway is called "Revolutions".

Ans here is a VERY nice image of the updated world map:



Here's what Encyclopedia Eorzea has to say on Othard:



DDDDAAAALLLLMMMMAAAASSSSCCCCAAAA
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Oh my God...

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"Rebalance" takeaways

-They're going to tone down the button bloat

-They'd like to raise the skill floor ("During the course of the 3.X series and the introduction of more actions the action rotation that was necessary for high DPS became very complex so we started seeing a big gap form regarding the skilled and casual players and we wanted to bring up the bottom.")

-They'd like to add job specific UIs for managing your debuffs on targets.


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"Rebalance" takeaways

-They're going to tone down the button bloat

-They'd like to raise the skill floor ("During the course of the 3.X series and the introduction of more actions the action rotation that was necessary for high DPS became very complex so we started seeing a big gap form regarding the skilled and casual players and we wanted to bring up the bottom.")

-They'd like to add job specific UIs for managing your debuffs on targets.
All I heard was Othard, sorry.


 
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For the confused english speaking viewers: This is a japanese tv series based off the real story of a Japanese FFXIV user. He got his dad (in his 60s) to play FFXIV and met him on game without telling his dad that it was him & led him all the way to the binding coils of bahamut. The japanese user told his story on his blog and that got made into a book, which is what this tv series is based of.


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I heard about that, I think it's really cool. My brother actually got me into FFXIV and although he's one of those people that jumps on something every other week, I've been a continuous subscriber since April of 2014.


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FUCK YOU KHLOE! LET ME REROLL MY STICKERS WHEN I HAVE ALL NINE YOU FUCKING JEWCAT!


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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/18f5ec1117033baa6574e9428acd375129aa498e

>Only five points away from getting Trident of The Overlord
>Been farming Gubal Hard and Xelphatol for Lore Tomes for weeks now
>Fucking Gook Yoshi-P nerfs the amount of Lore needed to buy Umbrite

I'm going to fucking blow my brains out.


 
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Proto-Ultima was a huge disappointment.


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Diadem is dropping ilvl 280 weapons with secondary stats that can potentially overshadow anything the Relic or Savage Creator weapon has stat-wise.

Now speed killers and hardcore raiders on the official forums and r/ffxiv are losing their shit and claiming they're going to quit. I mean, it's not like all these weapons are going to become useless in three months or anything....


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Patch 3.56 next Tuesday, and ending the Heavensward Main Scenario.

Screenshots:



Yoshi-P also mentioned we'd be getting a walkthrough trailer of the new areas sometime in the near future, the only reason they didn't have it ready at PAX was because some of their assets weren't ready yet.


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I feel like I'm the only one who posts in here anymore.

Anyways, CHECK OUT WHAT I ACCOMPLISHED! I EVEN GOT THE MOUNT!

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STORMBLOOD BENCHMARK RELEASED

Last Live Letter before the expansion will be May 20th. The LL will go over details on job changes and the combat adjustments.

New Benchmark can be downloaded now and shows off parts of Gyr Abania, Doma, and Kugane. Also shows off Red Mage, Samurai, new job abilities and one of the new Primals Susanoo.

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You know, I'm thinking I'm liking my human a lot more than my elf. I'll do the benchmark and ask what you guys think, but recently idk.


 
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It can be done. Pants can be lighter though.


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>Cosplaying in-game