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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down

Heartfyre

Member
Looking forward to those patch notes coming out to let me know those 375 gathering collectables I got will give me feck-all EXP.
 

Redx508

Member
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Pachimari

Member
Oh man, I still have to get through the Heavensward content. I plan on never to be late for another expansion when I get through Stormblood.
 

Deacan

9/10 NeoGAFfers don't understand statistics. The other 3/10 don't care.
I shall keep playing as a warrior, the paladin changes do look interesting but I love the feel and aesthetic of the warrior class.
 
Oooohhh yeah Baby. I'm exited for this add-on, play FFXIV for over 2 years now and have the digital deluxe edition pre ordered.

My girlfriend bought the collector's edition from the Square Enix store but it hasn't arrived yet. Anyone else here with the collector's edition?
 

Heartfyre

Member
Oooohhh yeah Baby. I'm exited for this add-on, play FFXIV for over 2 years now and have the digital deluxe edition pre ordered.

My girlfriend bought the collector's edition from the Square Enix store but it hasn't arrived yet. Anyone else here with the collector's edition?

Doesn't release until Tuesday. Should still get a code for early access, though.
 
Reminder, might want to turn off shout/yell on your main chat to avoid random spoilers until you're done with the story, if you care about it.
 

Sorian

Banned
They shipped my collectors edition this morning. Hopefully the statue isn't cheap shit like the heavensward one.
 

Foxxsoxx

Member
So I haven't been able to buy off PS store all night. It gives me an error every time. It will let me buy the collectors edition though, really weird.

Is the PS store the only way to get the pre-order theme?
 

Razmos

Member
How do I do that? And do people really do that on XIV?
These are the same people who all flaunted the
Papalymo's
Final Witness title straight away after the patch and idled in story important areas or places where people gather on purpose.

They will absolutely do that. Absolutely hated the community for that
 

iammeiam

Member
in addition to this here's my source which is based on the Media Tour and not the current E3 build; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...fjrUbKtj9Sez5SRfNAEx_ysng/edit#gid=2060417410

TL;DR

DRK: Total Potency 23346.0
WAR: Total Potency 20184.40
PLD: Total Potency 27068.73

Remember; everything is subject to change and should not be taken as face value.

The DRK number is kind of misleading there, looking at the potency/GCD:
DRK: 440.5
WAR: 458.74
PLD: 541.37

The DRK sheet is an extra 14-ish seconds of damage, so their total climbs higher despite lower potency/GCD.

Be curious to see what the end potencies are, and how often Holy Spirit gets interrupted; unless the trait blocks everything from interrupting (which it sounds like it might, but would be the most obvious first-wave nerf) they're probably set to suffer the most from having to actually tank, which will be a thing.
 
Doesn't release until Tuesday. Should still get a code for early access, though.

Yes, we've got that code. I just hope it comes in time in the course of the release week cause we're in Germany and I think it will be send from UK.
First time we pre ordered a game in that store and we have no idea how good they are with punctuality.
 

Sorian

Banned
How do I do that? And do people really do that on XIV?

These are the same people who all flaunted the
Papalymo's
Final Witness title straight away after the patch and idled in story important areas or places where people gather on purpose.

They will absolutely do that. Absolutely hated the community for that

I don't really recall anyone doing it to be honest. As for how to do it, click the little setting gear under the chat window, a whole new world of things to toggle on and off in there.
 

duckroll

Member
I don't really recall anyone doing it to be honest. As for how to do it, click the little setting gear under the chat window, a whole new world of things to toggle on and off in there.

Oh is it the same way I disabled the Novice Chat stuff after it got too annoying?
 
The DRK number is kind of misleading there, looking at the potency/GCD:
DRK: 440.5
WAR: 458.74
PLD: 541.37

The DRK sheet is an extra 14-ish seconds of damage, so their total climbs higher despite lower potency/GCD.

Be curious to see what the end potencies are, and how often Holy Spirit gets interrupted; unless the trait blocks almost everything from interrupting they're probably set to suffer the most from having to actually tank, which will be a thing.

Don't quote me but I think it's two full rotations of self-buffs hence why one is longer than the other.
 

iammeiam

Member
The biggest HW MSQ spoiler I remember was the
Niddhogg Slayer
title; it was amazing because they dropped it on people who would then have to go back and rerun the dungeon for EXP thereby spoiling anyone they matched up with running it the first time.
A+ title choice.

Don't quote me but I think it's two full rotations of self-buffs hence why one is longer than the other.

Maybe, but that's largely why the potency/GCD is more relevant for Hypothetical Power Rankings than the total damage. PLD still rolls DRK and WAR, but the potency per GCD is what will drive the actual fight contribution.
 

scy

Member
obligatory potency etc. etc. I think? But yeah, it'll be an interesting thing to re-simulate when we get final values. There's some oddities in them all (how do Berserk break points function going forward, will Dark Passenger get tweaked to not be a loss, Delirium adjustments to be more exciting) but it's hard to argue PLD's potency lead when Spirit's Within / Circle of Scorn retained their damages.

How do I do that? And do people really do that on XIV?

The devs even did it for us with a major spoiler in a story title that people paraded around! A new area to worry over.
 

scy

Member
I mean, didn't we get his death flag like two seconds into the patch?

I still don't see the big deal.

I mostly enjoy the irony in their massive secrecy of all things plot, story, and other things at their whim combined with that slip up.
 

Sorian

Banned
I mostly enjoy the irony in their massive secrecy of all things plot, story, and other things at their whim combined with that slip up.

I blame Koji being a troll. He knew what he was doing and Yoship can't actually be bothered checking in on what things look like English side.
 

Razmos

Member
I mean, didn't we get his death flag like two seconds into the patch?

I still don't see the big deal.
I saw if before even starting the patch content. It was a shit spoiler made worse by idiots parading it around.

Yes it happens and yeah it's a pretty big deal for a story focused game.
 

duckroll

Member
I can't contain my excitement.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/12721870/blog/3358329/

I keep reading this and can't believe it's real. It just sounds SO CRAZY. Like, if you asked me what parts of the DRG rotation I felt uncomfortable with, and if I had no regards for balance how I would improve the DRG skills, this is probably close to what I would have come up with. Lol.

I blame Koji being a troll. He knew what he was doing and Yoship can't actually be bothered checking in on what things look like English side.

I don't get it, what's this about? I heard rumblings about this title spoiler but I don't see how it is obvious? What's the Japanese title?
 
in addition to this here's my source which is based on the Media Tour and not the current E3 build; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...fjrUbKtj9Sez5SRfNAEx_ysng/edit#gid=2060417410

TL;DR

DRK: Total Potency 23346.0
WAR: Total Potency 20184.40
PLD: Total Potency 27068.73

Remember; everything is subject to change and should not be taken as face value.

I'm already looking forward to fighting the other 177,375,773 Samurais for queues instead of peacefully playing WAR.

I'm also looking forward to the return of the PLD/PLD raid group meta, even with the limit break nerf. Not that I care much about that anymore but it will bring back nice memories of 2.0 era ARR.
 

Stuart444

Member
I don't get it, what's this about? I heard rumblings about this title spoiler but I don't see how it is obvious? What's the Japanese title?

The japanese title was "The Finest Pupil" or something similar.

English at release, it was
"Papalymo's final witness"
which almost everyone who played Coil and got the Final Witness title realized what it was implying.
Papalymo's death

They changed it eventually.


The walk was a lot of fun :D great way to end HW
 

Firebrand

Member
Aah... I told myself I shouldn't get back into the MMO, but the hype... I really want to see the story through. I don't particularly enjoy the crazy amount of players in the same spot you get in the first days of an expansion though, so might wait a little bit.

I stopped subbing around 3.3 and only came back on free gametime, so there's still quite a few things I never did in HW... I havent completed the Warring Triad stuff, haven't done the HW Hildibrands, and haven't seen the Palace of the Dead or Aquapolis.

The japanese title was "The Finest Pupil" or something similar.

English at release, it was
"Papalymo's final witness"
which almost everyone who played Coil and got the Final Witness title realized what it was implying.
Papalymo's death

They changed it eventually.

I can't believe I managed to dodge that one, I disabled chats but didn't think of titles.

3.0 had a pretty dumb one too with
The End of Ascalon
, but that one was signalled pretty heavily early in the story so no big deal.

Reminder, might want to turn off shout/yell on your main chat to avoid random spoilers until you're done with the story, if you care about it.

I do this for every major patch, and did this for HW... only to have a FC mate blurt out some big spoilers in FC chat lol. :(
 

kaze343

Member
So I haven't been able to buy off PS store all night. It gives me an error every time. It will let me buy the collectors edition though, really weird.

Is the PS store the only way to get the pre-order theme?

small chance that it gets added as a normal theme to buy, but as it stands, yes. preordering is the only way to get the theme.
 

duckroll

Member
The japanese title was "The Finest Pupil" or something similar.

English at release, it was
"Papalymo's final witness"
which almost everyone who played Coil and got the Final Witness title realized what it was implying.
Papalymo's death

They changed it eventually.

Wait, is this the title which is now "Fatewalker" or something? Holy shit roflmao.
 

Reknoc

Member
As we look forward to Stormblood let us look back and remember what we lost and the sacrifices made getting to this point:

R.I.P Hauchenfant, you were a true bro
R.I.P Ysale, you really liked them dragons
R.I.P Papalymo, you were the second best lalafell scion
R.I.P good Urianger design, I wish you hadn't gone back to that gross level 10 looking gear
R.I.P my date with Aymeric, ended prematurely because some idiot got their dumb ass poisoned.

Also I never did get AST to 60. Ah well, at least I like the look of the WHM AF gear.
 

Razmos

Member
As we look forward to Stormblood let us look back and remember what we lost and the sacrifices made getting to this point:

R.I.P Hauchenfant, you were a true bro
R.I.P Ysale, you really liked them dragons
R.I.P Papalymo, you were the second best lalafell scion
R.I.P good Urianger design, I wish you hadn't gone back to that gross level 10 looking gear
R.I.P my date with Aymeric, ended prematurely because some idiot got their dumb ass poisoned.

Also I never did get AST to 60. Ah well, at least I like the look of the WHM AF gear.
A special shout out to the original voice actors who were replaced by trash.

And an actual serious RIP to Yugiri's voice actress who was murdered.
 

duckroll

Member
Okay I googled the 3.5 Title controversy in more detail and....

Please allow me to deeply apologize for the lack of discretion used in the localization of the player title received upon completing the 3.5 main scenario quest. The decision to proceed with what is (as of Jan 18 JST) in the game was my decision and my decision alone. While the title was meant to be a reflection of the Warrior of Light's role in the story, there is no excuse for my inability to realize that the particular choice of words would affect those players who had yet to complete the quest. As a result, my lack of foresight has marred the gaming experience of countless fans.

The current plan is to hotfix a new title in as soon as possible, with full awareness that this cannot undo the damage that is already done. I have spoken with Yoshida-san on the issue and have promised to personally work to ensure similar missteps do not happen in the future. We greatly appreciate the efforts being made by players who have already completed the quest to help ensure those who have not from being affected, and humbly ask that that everyone continues to do so until the issue can be addressed.

I once again sincerely apologize for this inexcusable error in judgment.

Koji Fox

Gotta give him credit for taking full responsibility and apologizing. But yeah... yikes. Lol.

No, I believe it was changed to the same as the Japanese title which is "The Finest Pupil" or something.

Ah okay. That matches the quest title too. I just don't remember seeing any bad titles when I scrolled through. And the "worst" was probably
Nidhogg Slayer
which is a whogivesafuck.gif "spoiler".
 
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