Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

I played Eureka in ShB after the nerf, it was much better than Bozja except for the xp it gave. Pagos was the prettiest zone but the dragons and the zone layout were annoying as fuck. The shiny elemental armor was cool, but I only grinded 3 relics. I grinded all the relic weapons in ShB, DR was such a drag but it gave a shitload of gil, I didn't bother with the second zone of Bozja anymore after finishing what I needed for the relic weapons, the first zone was really great for levelling jobs in EW though.

Mister Uno said:
This was my biggest disappointment. All that buildup for Zodiark turns to a fart in the wind. Still enjoyed the fight, but...
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BUT WE HAD TO SPEND THE REST OF THE TIME ON THE ZONE WITH MOON BUNNIES :D
 
Mister Uno said:
Also, little surprised people here didn't care for HW. I personally loved it. Sure it's not perfect, but still fun all around. In terms of story I think EW and SB had the weakest. EW at least had good moments, while both had great trials.
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Most people here like HW I think, it just isn't 10/10 I cri evry teim tier like the average FFXIV person. I would consider HW a roughly 8/10 experience-ish (I presume 5 is an average unlike backwards game journalists), while ShB is a 9/10, and EW is somewhere between 7-8 depending on my mood as I lower it every other month I think about it, and SB is like a 6 maybe because it had some decent moments and I liked the different ideas for a JRPG it just adds up to fuck all 9 times out of 10, Zenos sucks, Hien isn't explained well enough until EW funnily enough, and Yotsuyu is badly explained to me.

Mister Uno said:
This was my biggest disappointment. All that buildup for Zodiark turns to a fart in the wind. Still enjoyed the fight, but...
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I didn't mind it tbh, I didn't find Zodiark interesting he was more the last trash can I had to take out. Emet and Elidibus are sort of parts of Zodiark to me due to what all three of these things represent for that whole story section, so I wasn't as disappointed as most people I think because to I already was indirectly dealing with Zodiark back in ShB.
 
Scheduled "How is this faggotry OK and why cant the blacklist be limitless"
in case you cant tell, those are 3 (three) pages of fucking RP/ERP bars in PF
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Alright, heres another QoL change YoshiP can add.
Don't let Wanderers use the shout chat, not content to shitting up Other tab in PF, other-world faggots have been spamming main cities lately.
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I've seen the notion before that Garlemald should've gotten its own expansion instead of having to be crammed into one because they wanted to finish the Hydaelyn vs Zodiark storyline in one go. On one hand I get it but I also wonder if the "We want to help them but they hate us due to years of propaganda" element would've dragged on too long if it was spread across an entire expansion.
 
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Vapewizard said:
I've seen the notion before that Garlemald should've gotten its own expansion instead of having to be crammed into one because they wanted to finish the Hydaelyn vs Zodiark storyline in one go. On one hand I get it but I also wonder if the "We want to help them but they hate us due to years of propaganda" element would've dragged on too long if it was spread across an entire expansion.
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Garlemald doesn't make sense as an expansion by itself due to the limitation of designing zones, their isn't enough there to make 6 zones out of Garlemald. Garlemald entire nation is effectively "We live in the fucking snow, we barely have anything, so we took from everyone else because fuck you all." So it having more then one zone doesn't work. If Garlemald needed more time within EW is more debateable and most would probably say yes because we don't really meet many new faces really and the Varis and Zenos stuff felt really glossed over for many reasons. So Garlemald needs more time, but it doesn't need a whole expansion. Aesthetically Garlemald is also not terribly interesting very long, half of it is snow when we already had a snow expansion in 2015. If anything nuking it into orbit made it more interesting just due to how different it felt compared to every other locale.

What is really left to do story wise besides raid Garlemald anyway in terms of zones? Dalmasca is pretty much finished, Bozja is a side quest, Doma and Ala mhigo were liberated two expansions ago, and Werlyt is barely a nation and that was done in another side quest. We had Thavnair left which wasn't occupied and only has any reason to get involved or be relevant due to the Hydaelyn vs Zodiark stuff. This isn't like Doma and Ala Mhigo where you can probably make a solid amount of zones for each nation because they actually have terrian to work with, but Garlemald is a fucking frozen armpit in the worst more hellish section of the world by its world building theme, you can't do much with that. Garlemald having only one zone is a feature, not a bug. At most you can make the capital city a zone maybe.
 
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Zeke Von Genbu said:
What is really left to do story wise besides raid Garlemald anyway in terms of zones?
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They've been hinting towards Corvos/Locus Amoenus quite a bit so that's the first thing that comes to mind for me. Of course I can't really say whether in practice it would've worked out well or whether it would just be a retread. It would probably have needed a different setup to begin with but I just thought it was interesting to think of a theoretical Garlemald expansion.
 
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Zeke Von Genbu said:
Garlemald doesn't make sense as an expansion by itself due to the limitation of designing zones, their isn't enough there to make 6 zones out of Garlemald. Garlemald entire nation is effectively "We live in the fucking snow, we barely have anything, so we took from everyone else because fuck you all." So it having more then one zone doesn't work. If Garlemald needed more time within EW is more debateable and most would probably say yes because we don't really meet many new faces really and the Varis and Zenos stuff felt really glossed over for many reasons. So Garlemald needs more time, but it doesn't need a whole expansion. Aesthetically Garlemald is also not terribly interesting very long, half of it is snow when we already had a snow expansion in 2015. If anything nuking it into orbit made it more interesting just due to how different it felt compared to every other locale.

What is really left to do story wise besides raid Garlemald anyway in terms of zones? Dalmasca is pretty much finished, Bozja is a side quest, Doma and Ala mhigo were liberated two expansions ago, and Werlyt is barely a nation and that was done in another side quest. We had Thavnair left which wasn't occupied and only has any reason to get involved or be relevant due to the Hydaelyn vs Zodiark stuff. This isn't like Doma and Ala Mhigo where you can probably make a solid amount of zones for each nation because they actually have terrian to work with, but Garlemald is a fucking frozen armpit in the worst more hellish section of the world by its world building theme, you can't do much with that. Garlemald having only one zone is a feature, not a bug. At most you can make the capital city a zone maybe.
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How I imagined it was that you have to dismantle its remaining territories to get closer to the capital and deal with Garlean remnants. But you're right in that making a whole Garlemald expac is tricky.
 
John Titor said:
How I imagined it was that you have to dismantle its remaining territories to get closer to the capital and deal with Garlean remnants. But you're right in that making a whole Garlemald expac is tricky.
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My question to you is "what remaining territories?" We've effectively taken everything that isn't Ilsabard proper by this point in the story if we count side quests. Corvos is like a border state so I count it as part of Ilsabard, and iirc Thavnair is considered Southern Ilsabard, aka the none shit side unlike Northern Ilsabard

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So using this map as reference (Edit: KF hates FFXIV's weeb geography for some reason), the issue to a full Garlemald expansion (zone construction wise that is) is all that white cloud stuff in the Ilsabard area is effectively meant to be a brutal snow and ice wasteland, which makes for a very repetitive zone design as Garlemald's entire zone theme is a bitter land where only the strongest could survive as a bunch of poor cursed fucks who had to crawl into some semblance of power and stability by making their own merits without cheating with magic. The coldness further implies their sheer grit due to being able to survive in such a climate up to this point, which can explain why Garleans are tough ass bastards who can survive without full blown magic. Plus we already got Coerthas for the snow wasteland zone.

Bozja is iirc either just above or below Dalmasca and the Othard is already liberated so the eastern foothold (and half the reason the Popularis wanted to make peace with Doma is because Doma is critically close to Garlemald) is cleared, Ala Mhigo is liberated so that western front is already done. Corvos is near Thavnair which maybe you could push for about 2 zones with those areas + Garlemald proper, but you'd need some really weird excuse for why we can't just go through Othard or Ala Mhigo to justify going through Corvos because air ships are a thing.

This also presents the eventual question of how we introduce the Sharlayan isle later? This isn't the same as say Othard/"The East" which still has the entire Higashi isle to explore or even going through the great scar itself if you want to go that far. This isn't even touching Dalmasca or Bozja proper. Ala Mhigo is a bit harder to flesh into six zones, but you could probably have put Werlyt or some kind of border base that hints what the harsh difference between Aldernard and Northern Ilsabard to then hint at Garlemald later.

The six zones requirement quota I feel cucks a lot of potential ideas for expansions because you know, and I know, that everyone (including some of us probably) would at least somewhat complain about them skimping out on zone content if they said Garlemald expansion only had say 3-4 zones instead of 6, even if it does make sense for the story. People to this day still whine and complain that we don't get more dungeons, when dungeons fucking suck and do nothing, at least zones are fine locales to explore as back drops for the plot while dungeons suck literally after you do it for the first time in 20 minutes.
 

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Day or so ago he sperged out in hatred of the gold saucer event and spent the next day streaming shadow legends. Streaming more and more each day to less and less viewers.
 

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Bastet said:
Day or so ago he sperged out in hatred of the gold saucer event and spent the next day streaming shadow legends. Streaming more and more each day to less and less viewers.
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when posting about a lolcow of any kind sperging out please post any archives if possible or atleast a link to it, one cant always keep an eye out on who spergs out and when lmao
 
Bastet said:
Day or so ago he sperged out in hatred of the gold saucer event and spent the next day streaming shadow legends. Streaming more and more each day to less and less viewers.
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It's just a simple bonus MGP event with a tiny questline. The only major impact it has is on the saucer and unless you're hard grinding through achievements its not going to change much of anything. It will at most mean you're gonna face more players in Chocobo races but that also means increased MGP and chocobo experience payouts.

Don't see what there is to be assmad about so count me in as being curious what an archive will show.
 
Agarathium1066 said:
It's just a simple bonus MGP event with a tiny questline. The only major impact it has is on the saucer and unless you're hard grinding through achievements its not going to change much of anything. It will at most mean you're gonna face more players in Chocobo races but that also means increased MGP and chocobo experience payouts.

Don't see what there is to be assmad about so count me in as being curious what an archive will show.
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Agreed. What the fuck caused him to sperg out? It can't possibly be the damn Make It Rain event cus its a pure side event thing made purely for fun and to get some decent items and an emote.

Something else must have happened surely?
 
Klokateer636 said:
Agreed. What the fuck caused him to sperg out? It can't possibly be the damn Make It Rain event cus its a pure side event thing made purely for fun and to get some decent items and an emote.

Something else must have happened surely?
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Maybe he's uber angry that too many people are trying to do Slice Is Right at the same time? I don't know what else you could possibly be mad about.
 
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Can someone tldw what he is actually mad about? I can't watch the video.
 
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