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Hello everyone, Violet here.
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And now on with the episode.
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I am Violet, and I'll be your host today.
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Sat upon my pile of mounts and minions.
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And joining me will be And I am Hoka, a voice out creature with a sweet, sweet taste of for the Ruby Red with the behind the scene info of all things Final Fantasy XIV.
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And uh away we go.
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It's been a while.
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I know it's been a while.
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It has.
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Well, we had FanFest last where we were both a little cracked out.
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Oh me more so than than most others.
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Way more because you actually went.
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I got to experience everything digitally from my very cozy home in the void.
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And then I made the mistake of like, hey, let's record as I'm jet lag and barely had any sleep whatsoever.
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So but you know what?
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The the hype for Evercold has stayed like hardcore.
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Like it is, you can tell that they are already onto something.
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Like we're already hitting a nail.
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There is a there is a verb, there's a vibe, there's a thing going down.
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It is it is really good right now.
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I have seen so many things online about Evercold.
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So the the funny thing about this whole hype with Evercold right now, and you can tell, because we're both in the Dynamas uh data center, right?
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Which is like the quote unquote the the dead data center, the ghost town.
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The queue just to log in is a lot longer than it used to be.
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I mean, it's not longer as you know, it's not as long as like going to Ether or Crystal or anything of that nature, but it's it's oh ether's been locked down.
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Oh, it's been stays locked down now.
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The great wall of Ether has forever been staying up.
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And it's been it's been incredible.
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So like it's a lot longer to get into a dynamic system as of late.
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And it's like the hype is real, you see a lot more sprouts running around.
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Uh the the just the incredible, the incredible feeling that we are uh on this train right now, heading towards Evercode, and I'm all for it.
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How do the how do the young creators say it?
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They're like, we are so back, chat.
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We're so back.
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I think I think I don't think we ever went away, personally, but uh I I think I may have said that quite a few times during the keynote.
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But we are so back.
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We are so um the excitement has definitely been top notch.
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Um I'm I've been feeling it.
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I've been feeling, but at some the same time, like I left off a lot of the grindier things to the last minute, right before patches these times around.
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And so I have been going through this whole like feast famine situation.
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I don't know if this happens with you, where you're just like, I do all the things that are exciting and fun, and then I like don't do the things that I'm I like, I want to do them, but I'm not, they're not like they're not top five, you know?
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And then you get around and you're just like, oh no, the next patch is coming.
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I should probably start on that.
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I want to get it just just like my PvP starting starting journey for this for this season.
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I'm like, oh wait, the new season just came out and uh I need to start going going.
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Um I got the emote for it.
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I'm just working my way up to to get the uh the new glam uh that they dropped and everything.
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So that's that's my goal for that.
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Uh I got to the emote too, and then I just pretty much went, okay, I'm gonna put this off to the side for a minute.
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Uh and I'm gonna go do everything else.
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And so I went and I did try the new uh crystal and conflict map, though.
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Uh the Archaea Harmonious big Google library vibes, if you know, you know.
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Um, but that map, because you have to stay on the crystals, like somebody has to stay on that crystal the whole time.
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Oh wow, it is so much more aggressive.
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Like, like it is um fighting in the library for the last novel on the shelf, aggressive.
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It is you can't like there's not a lot of like in other maps for crystalline conflict, there's a lot of you get the the the crystal locked and then you kind of back off for for mechanics, or you you kind of maneuver around it until the unlock comes through, yeah, and then you jump back on the crystal, and whoever has made it through that period of like trying to shove people into mechanics or trying to like survive jumps on the crystal and it's back to that, right?
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Yeah, um, this because you have to pretty much stay on the crystal the entire time, you don't get to get off of it because if you do, you've just completely like transferred at that point because the other team can jump in and um grab it.
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And it's it's just a constant, there's no break.
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Also, because there's much more aggressive with how much line of sight is broken in there, you don't get to throw fireballs through through walls anymore.
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Like you can literally duck behind stuff, and it's just like front lines where you can break line of sight constantly.
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Oh wow.
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So if you're looking for something like super aggressive and for for a map, and those maps go fast, then wait for that map to come up because that's the one for you.
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How fast does it go?
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About half the time of a normal map.
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Like, it is oh my god.
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I I literally have never been owned on a crystalline conflict map so hard in my entire gameplay existence in this game.
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Like, I like Crystalline Conflict for the fact that it's fast, but it's like there's some strategy to it.
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You're just kind of like you're trying to bop back and forth.
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This map has basically reformulated everything to the point where you will just if you're not really good at PvP, you will basically have your entire ass handed to you.
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Um with a little cherry on top.
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Uh which is probably why I have not gotten in there yet, which I probably will eventually, because I really want to experience it.
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But if it uh if it reminds me of how um I think there was like a a smaller PvP World of Warcraft map uh that they had.
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If it's anything similar to that, then oh, I am going to get my butt handed to me.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And and honestly, I'll be I'll be so down with you.
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One of the things I want uh well that I'm so down for that I want so badly to do is actually grab the HJP crew and see if we can do another PvP night because Crystal and Conflict is like the perfect place to like just grab 10 friends and do the 5v5, and then you get to kind of play through things with people who maybe aren't like pros, pros, but everybody's gonna get a little bit more of a chance to feel out the maps and kind of figure out how they work.
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That would be really fun.
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I think it'd be fun too, because I that way anyone that doesn't really PvP and whatnot, they can we can like you know guide them through and everything, yeah.
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You know, they can experience what PvP is.
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The biggest thing about PvP and in this game, especially, is just kind of realizing that it's not something that I don't know.
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One of the things that I I I have kind of learned about this game over time, and maybe it's just a me thing, um, but my personal growth through playing this game has been realizing that I don't have to take any of this too seriously.
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Like I don't have to get ego involved in whether or not I win a PvP match or not.
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Like, yes, over time it can become frustrating.
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And once it hits my wall of frustration, which I I pretty much I take a break, I go do something else for a while.
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And the game is big enough and has so many different game modes, I don't feel like I have to do the same thing over and over and over again.
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Um, so I can like expand into other areas and do other things.
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It's also less like directly grindy.
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One of the things that that's really fun is that that yeah, this map is difficult, and maybe I don't like this map, but if I wait like 30 minutes to an hour, the next map will come up and I can go do that one, you know?
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Yeah, exactly.
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Um, same thing with uh front lines.
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I really like the chaos of frontlines.
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I know a lot of people don't like it.
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Um, but it's very much group tactics.
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It's you try to hopefully you get on a team with enough alliances of people, which it's a huge map with huge groups of people, and you just straight clumped up with your team as best as you can.
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Yeah.
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Um, and just engage, disengage as quickly as possible.
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So this is me going into front lines, right?
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You so so think of the uh the the deformed uh elmo uh with the fire in the background with the arms in the air.
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That's me, that's me in front line, like chaos everywhere.
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And the great thing, and the thing is, is like I get how some people get very kind of like hyper ego involved with like I want to get all of my achievements and I want to get this that and the other.
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But if one of the things you can do is just kind of like take a deep breath and let that go, and just realize that it's more about you finding the rhythm within the game mode.
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Yes, then you can pretty much find the fun and all of it.
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And and at the end of the day, if it's not for you, you don't have to do it, it's completely freaking optional.
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It is it is optional, and you know the the rewards on there are pretty cool uh for the seat.
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Oh, yeah.
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Let me tell you about where the glam.
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The glam is the chef's kiss excellence.
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Yes.
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Especially if you're into like street style or that, yeah, there's there's a lot of that.
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So but there's a little excited to try to get it.
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Yeah, me too.
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I'll get there, but um, I have currently been totally in on cosmic exploration.
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I've put off cosmic for a long time.
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Like I did it at first, but I found the grind getting through the novice levels of the tools just was it was too much grind for me.
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I I I didn't really enjoy it all that much um because of how grindy it is.
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Like, I like crafting and gathering, I don't love crafting and gathering.
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I a hundred percent appreciate and worship at the feet and the altar of those who can get all of their melds right and can synthesize the the most excellent gear in the game.
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I will always be at least five steps behind those people.
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I will have some of the best gear, I will have some of the meld, some of them, not all of them.
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But mainly I'm just doing it so I can make the pretty clothes that come out of treasure mats.
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Well, if you're five steps behind, then I'm like 25 steps behind.
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Because I'm still trying to level up some of the crafting uh uh yeah, it's been um a slow burn on that front for me.
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Um okay, so I'm gonna give everybody who's listening my hints, tricks to if you are the sort of person who just wants it like if you're the sort of person who is cool with I'm going to spend X amount of time per day leveling my crafting and gathering, and then I want to go off and do other things, okay, then doing cosmic exploration for like an hour, and then maybe hitting up some love quests for like an hour, um, and then doing your grand company uh turn ins, that's the way to do it because you will get a huge amount of levels per day.
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You don't have to input more than at most an hour and a half to two hours into it, and you will get anywhere from one and a half whole levels to as much as like ten whole levels in a day.
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Okay.
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If you are the sort of person like myself who gets a little bit hyper focusy on stuff, then might I suggest that you um build up your love quests and then you search through your list of crafts for that one thing that you can just sit down and just mass create and just do that until your stuff breaks after you've done all your love quests and everything else, and then you will get your levels very quickly that way.
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I also suggest custom deliveries, um, those will get you a lot.
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Uh, do any kind of like job questing, like the the stuff once you get to Shadowbringer, they have like an entire storyline of stuff that's very good to get into.
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Um, they have a similar thing in Endwalker and Dawn Trail.
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Uh, before that, for Stormblood, the storyline stuff that they have for each job is actually very helpful and it gets you through your levels fairly quickly.
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Don't put off doing your job quests as a crafter and gatherer, especially if you are someone who is looking at the internet trying to find certain you know macros to do stuff, because you will find yourself without the ability to complete those macros because you don't have the abilities to do them.
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Yeah, because you didn't do the job quest.
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And I learned that like the learned at the uh at the very beginning of me playing this game where I went through and like, oh, what's this?
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Oh, a job quest.
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Oh, it has an ability.
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Oh, I want to stick with that.
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Yeah, do your job quest.
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I'm serious, I'm not kidding.
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Do your job quest.
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I know you don't want to.
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I know all of you out there in internet land are like, but I'm just never do your job quests.
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Uh I can I can think of one uh particular AJP uh member that still needs to do their Dragoon job quest.
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Uh-oh.
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You know who you are.
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You know who you are.
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We're not gonna call you out for the whole internet, but you know who you are.
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Yeah, do your job quests, y'all.
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Do it.
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All right.
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Now that we've harped on that enough.
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But yeah, crafting and gathering is probably like it's not really designed for you to just sit down and just go at it hard uh over the course of several days.
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So it's as far as I'm concerned, it's just the most ADHD unfriendly thing in the entire game.
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How dare! You know, zero out of ten, no notes, absolutely just do not.
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But if you are willing to say you can grind it out actually fairly quickly.
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I do recommend finding the LE quests.
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Uh ARR is probably the worst for LE quests, but it gets you through it so much faster.
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Like I introduced that to one of my friends who was trying to get their crafting and gathering up.
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They finally started tackling it.
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And she realized that uh I was actually correct, and she had been sitting there trying to just craft her way by just making stuff up to the correct level.
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And of course, that is the grindiest and the longest way to do it.
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Just go grab yourself some love quests, do like two or three of them, and you'll pretty much be maxed out.
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Do your grand company turn-ins, you'll get through that 10 to 20 levels that you need to get through to get over the ARR hump.
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Do your job quests, and then you're set up for Heavensword, and then it gets a lot better from there.
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And do your job quests, and do your job quests, anyway.
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Okay.
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So um, not going into any story stuff, but this time around when uh 7.5 uh dropped in uh right after fan fest, I got I went all in on MSQ.
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Uh I really enjoyed it.
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It was really well done.
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No spoilers, just reviews.
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It is I I had a good time with it.
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Um, I will say for all those people who have had to be subjected to my constant and incessant rants about how the story gets set up.
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It I one, I apologize.
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Two, um, no, I don't.
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Three, um it was I called it.
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I called it, I called it.
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Okay.
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Um anyway.
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That's that's a totally different podcast.
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Not this one.
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No, yeah, that's a that's a call completely different one.
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So uh, so what we're where how are you thinking about how well where the story is going?
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Getting excited for for how things are okay.
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So I'm gonna put proclaim this now.
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Uh I love Hamarut.
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I just love her.
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I know she's an Sienna and everything, but you know how people you know view Emmett Emmitself and whatnot.
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This is how I view Homerot.
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I adore her so much.
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And I can't tell you why, but I just do.
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I just adore her.
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Okay, all right.
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Well, let's leave it there before we get too far into it because I was gonna leave it with I know you know, if you know you know, but like you're out here dropping names and everything.
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Damn.
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Well, I mean then I mean the the the the the title uh of it is in the first execlopedia of that's that's very true.
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It it is, and so if you have any knowledge of the of of of the the external game or whatever uh the how this is something that's been mentioned, like I love how they do that where they they bring things back from like the very very beginning.
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Yeah, so if you were paying attention to the way that things were set up literally at the beginning of ARR with with the the ASIANs, then yeah, yeah.
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So anyway, but um but um so that's my first one.
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The second part of that is that I'm loving the direction that they're going with this.
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Um it really sets up Evercode really, really well.
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Uh oh yeah, lead leading up and leading up to that point.
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Uh you know, we can say what we want to say about Ontrail, based on trail and everything.
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You know, people will forever be split between based on trail.
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Um post on trail?
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The post all I've been loving it um just the setup and everything.
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Did it take us for almost forever to to get to this point?
00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:13.359
I guess sure, why not?
00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:27.519
You know what, and everything, but I I I for for the for the most part though I I loved the the past what two three patches for Dawn Trail, and it's been setting up really nicely to this.
00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:32.880
So I actually kind of like Dawn Trail as an epilogue.
00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:48.319
Now that it's been established as the as what it is, like now that we know that it is still technically part of that first story arc, uh, the way that it was described in the keynote, um it is the epilogue.
00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:50.880
It's the epilogue to our first story.
00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:59.759
It it's yeah, it's just our transition point into our next, you know, storyline that we're gonna be going into.
00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:13.759
And so just the thing about epilogues is that if you're not expecting them to come, they can get a little awkward because the and I enjoy an epilogue.
00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:19.759
I like all of like the little snippets of story that are that are there.
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Like I want to know more about everything that's going on with these characters.
00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:28.880
So being or even meeting new characters in an epilogue, it's just it doesn't matter.
00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:34.240
Anything that's just kind of like a transition story, some people are gonna feel awkward about it.
00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:36.400
Uh, some people are not gonna enjoy it as much.
00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:42.319
There are a lot of people who have very strong feelings about hating epilogues, and that's fine.
00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:50.880
I think also the fact that I mean, if you have a video, if you're creating a video game, you never want to tell anyone, oh hey, this is an epilogue.
00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:54.799
Because it is such a controversial point.
00:22:54.880 --> 00:23:00.799
Like, and not a lot of people are gonna be excited, like some people just don't get into them as much.
00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:02.480
Personally, I love them.
00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:04.799
I I love getting those extra bits.
00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:09.839
I view Dawn Trail for all the uh anime watchers out there.
00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:13.440
I view Dawn Trail as our summer vacation episode.
00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:23.920
And and which is gonna lead to where we all know that the the summer break episode, of course, always leads into some dark heavy stuff, right?
00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:25.440
Exactly.
00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:38.559
That's how I view Dawn Trail, which is like Yeah, you know, it it was our it was our summer vacation, and then like the post-dawn trail, which is where it's gonna lead into Evercode, and it's that switch.
00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:44.319
And that's kind of the way that they've built a lot of this.
00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.480
So, anyway, uh let's talk about how they brought in some of this other story.
00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:50.640
This is the this is an interesting story.
00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:51.440
I like this.
00:23:51.680 --> 00:24:08.240
So the 24-person raid series for Dawn Trail is the Echoes of Anadeal, and the Echoes of Anadeal is literally pulling the you know fan favorites from Final Fantasy XI, which is the other MMO, right?
00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:10.240
It's the MMO that came first.
00:24:10.640 --> 00:25:01.119
Um, personally, I don't know if I'll ever play 11 because I can't get through the savage fight of getting the dang thing installed and playable, but um I hear a lot of people love it, and there are a lot of people in HJP and other groups and other people online, and in fact, one of the things that's very interesting is that the crossover that is in Dawn Trail has actually re-sparked and has even further sparked interest for players of 14 to either go back and play in Van A Deal or to create new characters in Vanadil, so much so that they're they were in plans to shut down the MMO or at least put it on maintenance only.
00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:03.759
No, no content updates.
00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:06.319
They're now planning content updates for it.
00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:09.200
Like that's that's how good this crossover was.
00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:45.359
I and and I'm glad for like you know, all the OG players that played 11 and you know, played 14 and all that stuff, and you know, I I myself am interested in going to actually play 11 for the first time because the last time I tried to play the beta for 11, I received a copy and tried to install it, and it took nearly all night to install it because it I believe it was like six discs just to install uh 11 at a time to uh to my PC.
00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:52.960
And by the time by the time I got it fully installed, my PC was not able to handle to play it.
00:25:53.119 --> 00:26:04.079
So I missed out on 11 uh mainly because my PC was uh a was not up to up to par during the time.
00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:12.400
I I'll fully admit that at the time what it came down to for me is that I was a I was a hardcore WoW player.
00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:18.799
I tend to be a sort of person who just sort of sticks to one game and I don't really play a lot of other things.
00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:24.640
Um, all of my community, all of my friends, I was never a person who got into Final Fantasy.
00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:51.440
My first real introduction to Final Fantasy, where I actually started playing it for myself, was I played like an hour and a half of seven back in the 90s, and then and then um in uh 2019, I was like, I'm tired of WoW, and I'm tired of Blizzard, and I I hate Activision Blizzards mess, so I need to find something else.
00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:58.000
And I found 14, and I really honestly did not believe that I was gonna get this attached to this game, but I have.
00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:19.839
So I'm the same way.
00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:24.319
I'm the same way because 14 is just incredible.
00:27:24.799 --> 00:27:27.839
So much to do, so little time to do it.
00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:31.359
Oh, I know, I know, especially as adults.
00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:50.400
Um the the the mentioning of the respect for players' time and the fact that they are trying to build it out so that people can really can kind of like mix and match the things that are their favorite game modes and still feel like they can make progression happen for their character.
00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:54.240
Hearing a dev say that is like I got tangles.
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:56.240
Like I was so happy.
00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:01.920
And and and the one thing I love is that they actually acknowledge it.
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:09.279
And they're like, you know, we we realize a lot of our uh player base are a lot older, like us.
00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:42.319
And yeah, you know, we don't have as much time, and like I I love how they're trying to be like, you know, here's the a possible new play style for you, and and so you know, have at it, and then all you know, the hardcore younger gen uh younger generation of players, you know, they can they'll they'll have their own playstyle, they'd be able to play a lot longer than than we are able to, and everything, but it's like at the same time, it's like I love how they acknowledge the older players.
00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:52.079
I I think the thing that does get a little frustrating after a while, though, is that um the way that this game does, and it I get it.
00:28:52.160 --> 00:29:00.799
I it's like I do understand why they're crab walking towards certain goals as opposed to just directly heading for them.
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:10.000
Um because you gotta you gotta help people transition, you gotta help people kind of over the hump to be okay with the changes.
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:48.160
Um but one of the things that would be really nice to see is a direct upgrade rather than just going back and adding things like truss and adding things like uh like AI sort of things to the game, those are nice and they're nice to have, but I really want to see true improvement of the game from sort of almost a ground up perspective, because right now the hardest part of getting people to come and play 14.
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:50.799
Like, let's take my kids, for example.
00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:56.400
My kids are hardcore game players, they play some of the most tedious games.
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:06.960
Like, it's not the reading, it's not, okay, because both of my care my my kids are huge Deltarune fans, um, massive amounts of reading in that game.
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.519
Um, they're both, you know, huge Minecraft games, uh gamers.
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:14.079
That that game is tedious AF.
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:25.599
Like, um, but one of the there's and so and they are also being into a lot of other aspects that you would find in 14.
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:47.200
But the fact that the story takes so long to pick up and move forward, the fact that the introduction to the gameplay is uh extremely separated, and it's something that a lot of creators have even talked about is that the game is good, obviously.
00:30:47.359 --> 00:31:00.720
It is very, very good, but getting new players involved, it feels almost sometimes like you're having to say, okay, look, you're in this is an investment game.
00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:11.680
You're gonna have to invest a certain number of hours before it's going to quote click and get good.
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:24.480
Um, for me, I started playing in early 2019, and it took me that entire year, by the way, for it to finally click.
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:35.759
And it was me just coming on, playing for like 10, 12 hours, and then putting another 10, 12 hours into it, and then going, okay, I'm not, it's not whatever, I don't care.
00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:38.720
And then I would go and try like I tried different jobs.
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:48.960
I thought, because I didn't know at first that you could have all the jobs, because I just jumped into the game and was just going off of what it was telling me, and I didn't understand half of it.
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:55.680
So I would literally just like restart a whole new character with a whole new class, and it's like this will be different.
00:31:55.920 --> 00:32:00.720
It wasn't, um, because you can have all the jobs.
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:19.119
So uh my main character is like the 20th iteration of me actually just trying, and it wasn't until I finally just got to the point where I was like, This is the only MMO I really want to play because all the others I've tried don't really, I don't like anything about them.
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:20.880
They're not that fun to play.
00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:24.799
This is the only one that at least is not frustrating, right?
00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:28.960
So I'm just I'm just gonna do this with my wife, and this is how we're gonna spend time.
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:37.440
And so we created joke characters that he evolved over time into where they are now, which is crazy.
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.960
For a while.
00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:52.079
Um so one of but going back to to the the echoes of Vanadiel, we finally got the finale, it came out in 7.5.
00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:56.799
Uh it's it's called Windhurst Walk.
00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:04.000
I refer to it as Windworst, because holy crap, the mechanics do not play, they do not play.
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:04.640
No.
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:06.960
No, not at all.
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:12.400
Um they're not hard to learn necessarily.
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.279
It's just a lot of everything all at once.
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:20.079
You just want to sit there and play that song, you know, a little bit of everything all of the time.
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.559
A little bit of everything all of the time.
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:24.400
The whole time you're playing.
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:29.039
Um, the the hardest thing to remember, I just like a a little.
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:33.519
I didn't tell you this, but I told you this.
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:37.680
Last boss of uh Windwurst.
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.680
Sorry, Windhurst, Windhurst.
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:41.119
Don't come for me, Shantoto.
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:49.680
Um uh just remember there is a constant auto attack that is hitting all of the tanks all of the time.
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:51.839
The entire time.
00:33:52.319 --> 00:34:04.079
So if the tank goes down, that auto attack is just gonna switch to the next person in the DPS list and it's gonna literally just annihilate every single person in that alliance all the way down.
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:18.239
So, what happens usually is that um the healer is somewhere around just under the tanks because of the enity that's generated not from their attacks, but also from um healing, right?
00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:23.599
Now, if you're a good healer, you can manage to keep your your enity fairly low.
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:27.360
Um, if you overheal, you'll be a little bit higher on that.
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:39.519
But once that auto attack has worked its way through one shot killing, because it is hard hit attack, every single one of the DPS on your team, the healers are next.
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:48.800
And if the healers have not snap just boom gotten that tank up and healed to be able to take the auto, it's it's over.
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:50.320
Your alliance is gone.
00:34:50.480 --> 00:35:18.320
Don't don't, because everybody else, just don't even try because everybody else is is already trained from every other fight in the game to let's raise a healer, and then the healer will raise the tank, and then we'll go on about our merry way, except what happens is you raise the healer, the healer then gets one-shotted by the uh the auto attack, even if they heal up to full, and then the tank never gets raised.
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:23.440
And then if the tank does get raised, they still can't heal themselves up to full.
00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:27.039
So then they get two-shotted by the auto attack.
00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:38.639
So, yeah, I think people are starting to kind of clue in now that if the tank goes down in the alliance, you gotta you gotta pick the tank up and then actually heal them and then pick up the healer.
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:51.840
But yeah, that was a frustration I've had a few times when I first went in there is that uh like our tank would go down, and then you just watch the entire alliance just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:55.920
And everybody else is what is wrong with you?
00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:58.480
Why are you so bad at this?
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.840
And the whole time we're just like auto attack.
00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:06.719
But he is attacking.
00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:09.679
Yeah, exactly.
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:10.800
Exactly.
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:14.639
Yeah, it was it was uh it's a little it's a little frustrating.
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.199
Um, how was have it been?
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:21.360
I know you've been in uh in Echoes Vanity all a few times.
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:30.719
I have, uh, and I've gotten in as melee, in which in which I go in there and be like, why did I pick melee again?
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:32.239
Right.
00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:35.360
All the moving around and whatnot.
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:43.440
Has it just been they or had the last past uh post patch uh like uh dungeons and things been a little unfriendly to melee?
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:45.760
Like I see the melee struggling.
00:36:46.079 --> 00:37:02.159
Um a little bit, mainly because like you know, I've been playing okay, so I've been playing Viper quite a bit lately, like a lot more than than any other class, because I'm I've been loving that class.
00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:04.639
Viper is so much fun.
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:09.920
Uh, and I I've been telling people that from like from the get-go, like Viper is fun to play.
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:24.880
And now and and now with the whole uh Evolve um system that's gonna be coming out, I feel I I I I tell people Viper and Picnomancer were the prototypes for the Evolve mode.
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:26.480
Yeah, they really are.
00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:36.719
But um, but yeah, I've been going to as melee, and like my frustration isn't so much like my damage output.
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:43.039
My frustration is like I am constantly moving everywhere.
00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:48.960
Uh and it's not it is not just the alliance raid or the dungeon.
00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:58.800
This is also like the new uh the new normal raids, uh the the raid series, that the the Arcadian raid series as well.
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:02.000
It's like I'm constantly moving.
00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:12.480
Like, if you watch me play, you probably get motion sickness just to see the where I'm pushing my putting my camera, where I'm moving to, and just dashing everywhere.
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:23.840
And so it's like uh it's uh it's fun, but at the same time, it's like I just want to be like a black mage and just staying in my circle and just cast spells.
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:35.440
And I've seen I've seen black mages, I know you don't move because you will still take the hit and you will just sit there in your circle, and I like I got that award, I don't need none of this.
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:47.119
And and I've sitting and I'm sitting there going, I'm so envious of you right now because I just want to stay still just like you and just still do damage and not have to move so much.
00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:58.079
Have you figured out the uh the sneaky um range that they put into uh Viper?
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.079
What do you mean?
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:05.119
Okay, so one of the things that I loved about Viper when I found this out, it's crazy.
00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:30.960
So they actually put in in the um, it looks like it's supposed to be AoE attacks to begin with, but if you actually look how it's set up, you can very quickly jump out of range of something, flip over, and use ranged AoE attacks, which are actually single-target drop-offs that will give you uh keep your uptime without having to be on the boss.
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:31.760
Oh yeah.
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:34.320
I've been oh god, what's that?
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:37.760
Uh oh god, it's been a while.
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:40.400
Uh, but no, I I know what you're talking about.
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:46.079
Um, yeah, I I've been using using though as well as much as I can.
00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:48.320
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:53.519
Yeah, um, the the whole vice pit into uh what is it?
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:56.800
Uh I can't remember.
00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:22.000
But um it's it's one of those things where it took me a while to have to try and explain to one of my FC mates because um it is kind of hidden because it's you have to go into I think it's either Vice Winder or Vice Pit, and then that gives you access to uh Hunter's Den, which then gives you um Twin Blood and Twin Fame.
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:24.159
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:31.840
And that's the and then you can uncoiled Fury, and that's the that's the one that gives you the big, you know, 680 to the first enemy.
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:51.599
Anything, by the way, for people who are interested, um, if something in the tooltip says here's the potency to the first enemy, and then it's you know 75% or 50% or whatever percentage less for each target after that, that is not really technically an AoE ability.
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:58.639
That is technically a single target with a you know percentage of hit to other targets.
00:40:58.800 --> 00:40:59.280
Yes.
00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:10.559
So while you it what it gives you is the flexibility of being able to use it in both your rotation for your single target as well as being able to put it in your rotation for your AoE.
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:19.760
Now it is a less powerful, usually, usually, not always, sometimes, uh target uh abil target ability.
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:29.280
Um, so you don't necessarily want to put it in your single target uh rotation as like a standard part of the rotation.
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:43.199
But in certain circumstances, you know, like when you have a giant AoE around the boss where you have to leap backwards to save your tail, then uh keep in mind those abilities so you can shove them in there.
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:44.480
Keep your uptime.
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:52.800
I've been yeah, I've been using that quite a bit, um, along with the the normal range, uh, which is uh withering snap.
00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:55.440
Um writing snap, yeah.
00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:59.440
Yeah, so uh I've been I've been using both whenever I'm out of range.
00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:05.360
I use if if if I have uncoiled fury, I will use that first, most definitely.
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:23.760
Uh and I've been you know been using my rotation just to get get uh enough points just to have it full, especially if I if I know in a fight that I'll be in a range somewhere, I'm I I'm trying to get as much points as I can just so I can use Uncoil Fury as much as I can.
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:25.679
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:31.920
Um, and I'm really I'm not bringing this up as I think that you're doing anything other than like hitting all your marks.
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:33.199
You're an excellent player.
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:39.039
It's more of a hey, as a tip to those people who might be listening, oh yeah, by the way.
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:42.559
If you think ability, right?
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:52.639
It's just like um reminding people on uh uh uh almost all of the melee, with the exception of Monk.
00:42:52.800 --> 00:43:04.159
Monk is monk has now got a couple of ranged abilities, but they're a little harder to get to, and you actually have to like build up to them, so you have to know the fight to really kind of like have them on deck.
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:04.639
Yeah.
00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:18.880
Uh whereas um almost all of the other melees now come with a a ranged attack or a ranged mode that will give you the or part of your rotation that will actually keep your uptime.
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:27.920
So um make sure you go through your actions and traits and like sort that out and make sure you've kind of got your rotation down for that for when those situations come up.
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:31.519
Just do it and do your job quests.
00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:33.119
And do your job quest.
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:45.199
But yeah, the the the honestly, the um I was even inspired from the Echas of Anadeal uh to want to try a living.
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:46.239
It looks really fun.
00:43:46.320 --> 00:44:03.440
I've watched some some uh walkthroughs and some some different things that people have done, and it looks cool, but I'll be honest with you, I looked at what it would take to install it and get it running on my system and all of Other things and I will stick with 14.
00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:05.039
14's good for me.
00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:05.599
Thanks.
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:28.079
So I hope that uh um on the other hand, if you are someone who has played, or if you are someone who maybe has a system that's not as complicated setup as mine, because I'm on a particular Linux setup, the for the way I like to do things, um if you are running Windows, it's a lot easier to set up.
00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:33.519
Uh I would I would go ahead and try it and see.
00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:35.199
You might enjoy it.
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:48.400
I think um I think that might be in the plans at the current time with HJP uh to do an event to uh you know get people set up and start the account.
00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:50.960
And uh there is a free trial.
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:52.480
There is a free trial.
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:54.960
So you don't have to pay a subscription.
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:55.920
There is a free trial.
00:44:56.400 --> 00:45:01.039
The free trial is complicated though, because it's a 14-day free trial.
00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:01.840
Yes.
00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:05.119
But only if you're a new person.
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:11.760
If on the other hand you were a returning player, you can access an unlimited free trial.
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.679
Yes, because you've played a game way before anyone else did.
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:23.840
So basically, they're giving returning players free, like free, unlimited access.
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:29.280
Like, but you have to buy the game to have access to the unlimited trial, from what I can gather.
00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:30.000
Yeah.
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:34.239
Which is weird, and I don't really fully understand it.
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:40.239
But um, yeah, we tried to get the family, we're all new players on it, and it was gonna be a 14-day trial.
00:45:40.320 --> 00:46:16.000
And I was like, don't get me wrong, 14-day trial sounds cool, and it's it's it's uh, you know, but when you're you come from 14 where it's like, hey, you have a no-time restriction free trial, it now goes all the way up through Shadowbringer, and now to be restricted to, well, you get 14 days, and then we need you to buy the game, and then we need you to pay for at least one month, uh, which is on a really weird pay scale, and then you can have one character that you can have on an unlimited trial.
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:19.599
And I'm like, um, okay.
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:23.599
Uh okay.
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:26.960
Uh no, no, no, thank you.
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:28.079
I'm alright.
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:38.079
I mean, and but again, it's one of those things where I think if I had more friends where I had more people to like, you know, walk me through it, maybe I might be more interested in it.
00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:43.920
But I was trying to find something I could play with my family, and that one just became a little bit more complicated than I wanted to deal with.
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:48.000
I'm a simple smooth-brained bunny.
00:46:48.079 --> 00:46:49.920
Wait, what can you expect from me?
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:57.840
I mean, so am I, but I'm I'm more actually I can't say Ellison anymore.
00:46:57.920 --> 00:46:58.719
Uh nope.
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:00.079
No, I can't say Ellison anymore.
00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:02.400
I went cat brain.
00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:06.000
And now it's everybody break out the laser.
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:09.440
Instead of howdy, I say Meowdy.
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:11.760
Meowdy! Yay!
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:14.480
Uh I love it.
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:20.719
Yeah, I I love your guys' reaction when you guys first saw my Makote character.
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:23.599
Like, oh no, what happened?
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:25.360
You shrunk.
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:30.000
You got all short and cute.
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:30.960
All right.
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:36.000
So um all the extreme mounts have come out now that we've gotten our last extreme trial.
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:45.519
So now, if you're one of those people who really likes to like on level like uh gopher mounts, um start doing those extreme trials.
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:55.360
I guess we need to start getting HJP events to go and do extreme trials so that maybe people can get uh get their wings.
00:47:56.400 --> 00:48:16.639
Um I know that uh one of my friends who who's big uh into doing the the on-level stuff is like one set of wings away from being able to go and get the last set, and the last set is like we're talking these gorgeous angel wings.
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:21.039
So if that's a thing you're into, go for it.
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:22.639
Like now's the time.
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:25.760
Um now's the time.
00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:28.079
Well, I mean, we've got we've got seven months.
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:29.119
Come on, y'all.
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:31.599
Uh the next thing I wanted to talk about.
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:35.360
Oh god, have you gotten your succubus hoodie yet?
00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:36.480
No.
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:38.079
No.
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:41.599
No, I thought for sure you'd have gotten your hoodie already.
00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:47.280
I I I know, but the pricing for it right at the moment, uh, yeah.
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:56.559
We got super lucky when we went and we did treasure maps um at the beginning of uh the the patch drop.
00:48:56.719 --> 00:48:57.119
Uh-huh.
00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:03.280
And we uh wound up getting, I think it was like five or six of them.
00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:03.840
I don't know.
00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:07.840
I've just been sitting here and making jeans and hoodies for everybody in my FC.
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:15.679
I had a little bit of cloth left over, so I made one for Adam 8 bit, who is in your FC.
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:16.559
Yes.
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:21.840
That's Tom, Heather's husband for uh Heather Display.
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:26.079
And he he was very excited about it, so I'm very happy.
00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:29.840
I I had a moment of like, I don't know, maybe he's already got it.
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:38.880
And then like I there very kind of like surreptitiously slid up and was like, hey Tom, Heather, did either one of you have this thing?
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:44.960
Come to find out he's been trying to get this this hoodie for like a month.
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:46.480
That's awesome.
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:49.039
There you go.
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:50.000
I just happened to have it.
00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:50.719
There you go.
00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:52.159
Hope you enjoy it.
00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:54.719
Oh, that's awesome.
00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:57.519
Yeah, I'm so glad that that worked out.
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:04.880
The the things that um oh god, did we talk about what happened with Chloe's Wondrous Tales?
00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:38.239
No, we haven't, and I've seen people with the particular amounts for it, and I'm like, oh okay, so to to give like a quick download of the changes to Chloe's uh Wondrous Tales, if you don't do your Chloe's Wondrous Tales, once you get to a certain point in Heavensword, they introduced a um level uh a leveling like mechanic, it's uh way to encourage people to do certain things, um, but also get extra XP for for jobs and so forth.
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:43.119
Um, and what it is is that you go to to Idol Shire.
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:54.880
Um if you know, you know, when you get to that point, once you get past uh or get into the M patches of Evansword, you go to Idleshire, you talk to the little cat girl.
00:50:55.039 --> 00:51:03.840
Um, it actually starts, if I remember correctly, with an Ellion or somebody who's in the field in Idol Shire.
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:07.360
You should talk to the the Blue Quest dude, I think.
00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:16.159
And um anyway, that opens up the ability to get a weekly quest log, what is essentially what it is.
00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:40.800
And it's uh you open it up and it gives you a series of duties that you can complete uh that will get you stickers that you put in your little sticker book, and you can go turn it into Chloe, and each one of those little stickers represents a story that you have done um and you have retold to her.
00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:47.360
And if you get one all in a line, then it is actually a cohesive story.
00:51:47.599 --> 00:52:01.840
Or if you're like me and you're determined to disappoint a little cat girl, all you hand her is a bunch of fragmented stories who that aren't even capitalized properly, which is stickers like all stuck in random places.
00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:04.400
Pretty much.
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:09.199
Uh, you get a series of standard rewards.
00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:33.360
Uh if you if you just get nine seals but no lines, you will at least have the option of either an Alleghen Platinum piece, which is 10,000 gill, uh 500 uh uh Alleghen Tom Stones of Poetics, or you can get whatever is the top level um time worn map that you can access.
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:44.079
Oh, yes, and you will also get anywhere from about half to a full level's worth of XP for each turn in.
00:52:44.159 --> 00:52:57.760
So weekly, if you've just got one job that you've been kind of like trying to get up, and some and if you're low enough, I think if you're below 60, you can get as as many as two levels, um, or a level and a half, something like that.
00:52:57.920 --> 00:52:58.400
Something like that.
00:52:58.559 --> 00:53:00.880
It's a lot of XP, it's a lot of XP.
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:08.320
Um, if you get a line of stickers, then you can get an MGP gold card for 30,000 MGP.
00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:20.239
It you can also get a bronze certificate, which is usually turned in for things like minions, um, a couple of glam items, a few other things.
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:25.039
Uh, you may need as many as two, which can be two weeks worth of a line.
00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:33.840
Um you get uh, and then you can get 50 tomstones of whatever your top level tomestones that you have access to are.
00:53:34.239 --> 00:53:41.599
It's completely adjusted based on your top job that you have on your character.
00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:48.400
Um, so if you are in the end game, then you have act then it's going to be giving you in-game uh tombstones.
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:53.440
If you are not in the end game, then it gives you just poetics.
00:53:53.679 --> 00:54:03.119
Um, you get one point or one sticker per like uh thing that that you have marked off.
00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:07.519
You can then get points, they're called second chance points.
00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:13.599
You get a second chance point for every single time you enter a duty with someone who hasn't done it before.
00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:19.039
You can then use those second chance points to redo something.
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:30.800
If you are particularly lazy, like myself, and you get close to the end of the week when it has to be turned in, it has a deadline at the top of the book when you open up the menu.
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:42.800
Uh you can just unsync or unrestrict any of the duties you want to do and just go handle them and then uh go turn it in and get your rewards.
00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:46.159
The certificates do actually go.
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:50.719
You can technically, technically, though I have only heard this about this in myth.
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:55.920
I think I've done it once in the six years that I have played this game.
00:54:56.079 --> 00:55:04.880
I have once gotten three lines, and that is a single gold and three silver certificates.
00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:22.880
The silver certificates now not just get you like one or two things, um, you now have access to a good number of the mounts that were once only available to gold certificate turn-ins have been moved down to silver certificate turn-ins.
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:24.159
Yes.
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:27.440
Which I've seen one and I want it.
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:36.079
I want all of them because, of course, my mighty mountain of of mounts and minions, I must maintain.
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:38.400
Um, that's a lot of alliteration.
00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:45.679
Anyway, my wife, who is the luckiest bunny, uh, wound up having a stash of silver certificates.
00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:52.639
So as soon as she found out about the the change, she went and cashed them all in and then had to show up on all of her new mounts.
00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:56.239
And I was just like, you lucky bunny.
00:55:56.480 --> 00:56:01.440
Um I love you, but you lucky bunny.
00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:02.719
Yep.
00:56:03.199 --> 00:56:12.000
I'm not jealous at all about the fact that you now have mounts that I don't have access to, so I'm over here furiously trying to get a line of stickers.
00:56:12.239 --> 00:56:15.920
Uh, it's uh two of them, and it's not working out so good for me.
00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:18.159
No, uh, which is frustrating.
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:20.480
Not at all.
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:22.320
Not at all, Chloe.
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:26.400
You tiny cat girl that I don't want to wring the neck of at all.
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:29.280
Probably.
00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:33.760
Uh anyway, so now there's a new thing that has been introduced.
00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:43.760
Um, occasionally you'll see in your book, depending on I think where what level or whatever you're at, you'll have like a little four-leaf clover and a two on there.
00:56:44.159 --> 00:56:58.960
And the way that it works is that if you complete that uh duty, which it's almost always from what I have seen, you get the two four-leaf clover on duties that um you cannot unsync.
00:56:59.119 --> 00:57:02.400
So you you have to do them like straight up.
00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:06.480
Uh, it will give you two stickers for the price of one.
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:17.119
So that could be a faster way to do it, or at least a more fun way to get more stickers, and hopefully be able to get uh more stickers in a line.
00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:18.239
I don't know.
00:57:18.480 --> 00:57:22.559
I haven't been able to do that part of it, but we'll see.
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:23.840
Yeah, we'll see.
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:24.960
Uh we'll see.
00:57:26.079 --> 00:57:41.760
I mean, at the time of the recording, I did pick up the new book, so I'm hoping to get some uh some silver certificate that the for the next one, but uh fingers, toes, paws, and claws all crossed for that one, let me tell you.
00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:42.960
I know, right?
00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:46.480
There was also a housing update.
00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:50.960
I don't know how much changes how many changes you've been making to your house or not.
00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:59.679
I I completely redid uh Luna's house, um, which I I'm kind of the de facto decorator for some of my friend group.
00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:08.320
Uh I know that that we have quite a few incredibly talented decorators in the HJP group.
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:16.079
Um, I recommend that if you have any questions on how to do some really cool housing stuff, go ask Atlas or go ask Maple.
00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:24.480
Um there are two members of our our Discord group who are absolutely excellent at doing um housing.
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:33.360
The housing update so far that we got is we got one more interior design, which is the dark minimalist, which my little godheart loves so much.
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:40.239
And then uh the the other updates we got were of course to the storage.
00:58:40.639 --> 00:58:44.079
So now I have more places to put more things.
00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:49.199
That uh that absolutely won't become a problem for me at all at any point.
00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:51.840
No, no, not at all.
00:58:52.320 --> 00:59:11.119
More stuff, which is funny because uh okay, so at the time of this recording, I just saw something incredible for for the yard, and I may may do that, and because like my yard right now, I love my yard.
00:59:11.199 --> 00:59:16.480
I I absolutely adore my yard right now, especially because I have a Kugari house.
00:59:16.559 --> 00:59:25.679
Uh, it's got the OSAN uh on the side, which I have I have like for so I have blocked off the viewing of it, it's like covered with trees.
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:28.400
So even if you go into it, you're safe.
00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:30.320
No, you know, your privacy is safe.
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:33.599
You can just sit in there and you're you're good and whatnot.
00:59:34.079 --> 00:59:43.360
What I just saw, I am probably I'm most likely gonna do just to mess people up and try to get into my house.
00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:46.480
Okay, I'm not gonna say it.
00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:47.679
I'm not gonna say it here.
00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:50.159
You're just gonna let it be a surprise.
00:59:50.400 --> 01:00:00.159
Yes, and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna work on it, and I'm gonna be like, hey, come check out my house and see if you guys like it, and then that's that's gonna be the big review.
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:30.159
But I will say though, I will I will say though, in my house right now, in the basement, uh, I did rework it to where it was a movie theater, and now I have set it up where it is a stage uh area, so I have a walk, uh I have a runway, I have a run runway, and also I have a backstage area for people to get to prep and all that stuff, just in case we do some sort of indoor uh fashion glam event.
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:34.960
Um I just need to I need to uh spice up the decorating a little bit more.
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:44.159
But uh but yeah, uh overall it's 95% done uh in everything that's down there and everything.
01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:49.039
But the rest of my house, I you know, I I I love how it is laid out and everything right now.
01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:59.280
Um knowing me, I probably will just be like the hell with this and store everything and start all over from scratch with a new interior design.
01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:03.199
So that's just that's just how that's just how I work.
01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:12.079
So uh, but no, uh my front yard, I'm going to rework that, and I probably will uh make a big review of it whenever I'm like, hey, my front yard is done.
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:13.440
Come check it out.
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:14.880
Cool.
01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:19.280
I I we need to do a housing tour soon in HJP.
01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:20.559
We need to do that again.
01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:30.559
Um it's been a long time since the last one, so a lot of people have done make a lot of changes from uh from then to now.
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:36.159
So oh yeah, especially with the new spaces that have been opened.
01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:42.639
I know the the um the Kraken's Call FC house has had big changes to it.
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:50.719
I haven't done a lot of big changes to my FC, um, but like it's on the list of things uh to do.
01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:53.840
There's a lot there's a long list of things to do.
01:01:54.159 --> 01:02:10.239
Um the uh like right now I'm totally into I want to try and do a weekly treasure map thing because treasure map uh especially the Dawn Trail treasure map drops, the the glam drops have been excellent.
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:12.719
Have you seen the cloth of legend?
01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:20.719
Um the cloth of legend drops out of the new uh treasure maps, and it creates some of the prettiest glam.
01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:22.719
Holy crap.
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:34.400
That and the um if you haven't gotten a chance to try it out, the variant dungeon that came out in December, um, the new variant dungeon is amazing.
01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:45.599
Uh the if you're a level 90, it's actually a good way to to level characters because you actually get XP uh for leveling in the variant dungeons.
01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:53.599
I have tried kind of doing the advanced stuff, but I haven't really cleared anything yet because I've been able to prog it much.
01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:58.159
Um but I'm really super interested in going in and doing that.
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:03.519
Uh, you only need to have um a minimum of two people to prog the advanced.
01:03:03.599 --> 01:03:07.840
So if you've got a buddy and you want to do that, jump in.
01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:16.719
I've nearly gotten, I think I've just gotten almost all of the glam out of the variant dungeon.
01:03:16.880 --> 01:03:26.960
Uh and it is also very good, especially if you love like a thousand and one of Arabian Knights or you know, Aladdin, that sort of thing.
01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:27.199
Yeah.
01:03:27.360 --> 01:03:29.920
It's very, very bad.
01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:35.440
No, I I think I do need to do more of it.
01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:38.239
I think I've cleared maybe three spots of it.
01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:39.760
I need to go into it.
01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:42.320
And I like the rest of it.
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:45.199
But I've been like, We just got okay.
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:57.360
So my disappointment with it, I will say, is that for clearing all of the routes on the normal, uh, you don't get a mount anymore, which is a little frustrating.
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:01.440
Uh instead, you get uh a faceware item.
01:04:02.639 --> 01:04:11.199
Um, and the thing that I'm most frustrated by is that it's a faceware item that's technically already a headpiece in the game.
01:04:11.679 --> 01:04:21.119
It is uh the choke, I think it's like the pajama eye mask or whatever it was from the end of Endwalker.
01:04:21.199 --> 01:04:36.079
Yeah, it's that they turned that into a faceware item, which of course means that it can now be, you know, it has a better die scheme, I guess, and you can wear it with headpieces, which is, you know, is always nice.
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:44.800
But uh it's um I apologize for all that.
01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:50.880
But uh that's why I've been trying to be quiet around it.
01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:56.000
But anyway, uh the but yeah, no, it's it's the the glam I didn't it's it's okay.
01:04:56.079 --> 01:04:56.880
It's okay.
01:04:57.119 --> 01:05:00.960
But I yeah, I'm uh I'm gonna I'm gonna give a criticism there.
01:05:01.119 --> 01:05:02.400
I'm not happy about it.
01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:24.239
I was I was actually really upset to find out that the mounts are attached to having to do the advanced stuff, which you know, I would have I'm fine with them having mounts as as rewards for doing the advanced, but why can't we get a mount for for completing all 12?
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:26.800
Because at least it's a grind reward, right?
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:32.239
Yeah, and it at least follows the same expectation that we had from previous.
01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:49.679
But to to then not give us yeah, that's just that that's a little weird because like all the other ones, like you said, it's like they gave out mop rewards, and now you're gonna switch it up and you're gonna give us an an eye a facewear.
01:05:52.320 --> 01:06:14.159
And it's literally it's literally just it's like the sleeping mask thing, and don't get me wrong, people have gone to Directions with it, but it's still technically that's something that's available in the game, and it's an item from the previous expansion, so it feels lazy.
01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:16.159
It feels lazy.
01:06:16.719 --> 01:06:19.760
I don't like it because it feels lazy.
01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:23.679
Yeah, I don't like lazy rewards, they're frustrating to me.
01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:26.719
Yeah, I I don't know how to feel about that.
01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:30.320
Um yeah, that's that's disappointing.
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:31.199
That's disappointing.
01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:32.719
Yeah, yeah.
01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:39.760
But at the same time, doing going through and doing all 12 of the routes, and they are fun to do.
01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:54.480
So if you're someone who's just motivated by doing the routes themselves, and then being able to get enough of the uh the shards, the pot shards or whatever they are, uh to be able to turn in to get the the glam or the bot items, it's totally worth it.
01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:55.519
Totally worth it.
01:06:55.760 --> 01:07:04.719
So I'm not trying to convince people not to do the variant dungeon, but it's like if you feel like you have to be completionist on all 12, no, you don't.
01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:06.239
You absolutely don't.
01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:16.400
All you have to do is just meet and defeat the boss for each one of the main lines, and then you can go directly into the advanced.
01:07:16.639 --> 01:07:24.239
Which that makes a guess a nice change for that, but I still would have liked to mount reward.
01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:24.800
Dang it.
01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:29.920
I put all the effort into clearing all 12 lines, uh 13, technically, 13 lines.
01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:31.760
I want my mount.
01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:33.039
Yes.
01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:37.199
Uh yeah, do all that and your job quests.
01:07:37.519 --> 01:07:37.840
Right?
01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:38.960
Do your job quest.
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:39.760
Anyway.
01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:42.800
Uh you're in her ear.
01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:45.119
Anyway, way too many times at this point.
01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:46.639
Uh, they also made some.
01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:57.840
Oh, by the way, if you do uh go into to um PvP, those of you out there listening who do, um how do people feel about the changes to Battle High?
01:07:58.559 --> 01:07:59.920
How do you feel about that?
01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:04.159
Have you have you played a lot of front lines to be able to like get a hold on it?
01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:05.199
Because it's weird.
01:08:05.519 --> 01:08:06.320
Not really.
01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:13.519
Um, I think I only started frontline like as of this recording, like four days ago.
01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:19.920
Uh so I've only done like maybe three front lines.
01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:20.800
Okay.
01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:23.199
So let me give a quick breakdown.
01:08:23.520 --> 01:08:25.439
Let me give a quick breakdown of how it works.
01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:42.000
So previously, whenever you would die, if you had any bottle high, which battle high has gained from either um uh clapping cheeks real hard uh in in assistance to your buddies, or it is uh actually capping somebody.
01:08:42.079 --> 01:08:46.560
Like you, if you get a death, then you would get a fair amount of battle high.
01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:56.720
Um now the amount of battle high that you get for killing someone who has no battle high has been reduced.
01:08:56.960 --> 01:09:05.680
But if you come across somebody who has battle high, you get more points towards your battle high if you cap them.
01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:19.359
So if uh you happen to have no battle high and you come across somebody who has uh maximum battle high and you magically either assist or kill that person, then hey, your battle high goes up faster.
01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:20.000
Oh wow.
01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:26.399
Uh even better, when you die, your battle high does not get reduced or taken away.
01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:28.319
Oh, that's awesome anymore.
01:09:28.880 --> 01:09:29.439
Right.
01:09:29.920 --> 01:09:40.960
Unless uh you get killed, as far as I can tell, um, you get killed a second time without gaining any battle high, then it will get reduced.
01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:42.399
Ah, I see.
01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:47.359
So the first time you die, essentially, you don't have it reduced.
01:09:47.680 --> 01:10:00.079
But the second time, if you die without gaining any battle high or not gaining enough or whatever, then you you won't you do actually see a reduction in your battle high.
01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:03.119
So um that's an interesting change.
01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:12.720
I kind of like it, but at the same time, I don't I'm very confused on some of the matrices of it.
01:10:12.960 --> 01:10:19.600
No, how much you lose depending on who kills you or whatever or what it's related to.
01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:25.840
And that's just down to I haven't spent enough time doing it, so I'll I'll get a better handle on that later.
01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:28.319
No, I I I could say that on that.
01:10:28.560 --> 01:10:34.239
I I'm gonna have to I'm definitely gonna be playing a lot more front lines, so probably not our next podcast.
01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:40.560
Uh we will I'll I'll be able to understand it a lot more um than this time around.
01:10:41.039 --> 01:10:47.439
Uh for just keep in mind for anybody who is listening, like the next patch that's coming up is 7.51.
01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:51.840
Okay, 7.51 is our uh our odd patch.
01:10:52.159 --> 01:11:01.520
Odd patches are when we see custom deliveries, we see um the the in-between stuff.
01:11:01.680 --> 01:11:19.279
There's usually uh for this one, we're gonna have one big, huge drop, and then what are considered to be, I guess, smaller drops along with it, because we're getting custom deliveries, we're getting auntie tees, we're gonna get some tacos, we're gonna help make them tackles.
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:20.000
Yes.
01:11:20.159 --> 01:11:21.359
Uh, I'm looking forward to that.
01:11:21.439 --> 01:11:23.039
Those stories are usually fun.
01:11:23.279 --> 01:11:34.239
Um, and then we're gonna be getting uh uh the last location, our last planet for uh cosmic exploration.
01:11:34.640 --> 01:11:43.439
So if you want to build up your tools or you want to um just see how the last planet plays out, now's a good time to do it.
01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:52.880
Uh the big thing though is gonna be the ultimate rate is getting dropped.
01:11:53.039 --> 01:11:59.199
We're getting dancing mad ultimate.
01:11:59.359 --> 01:12:01.760
And people are already arguing over the name.
01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:04.159
Have you seen the arguments over the name?
01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:07.520
Why are they arguing over dancing mad?
01:12:08.239 --> 01:12:18.319
Okay, well, you know how uh the ultimate weapon or the what is it, what is it that everybody I know everybody calls it U.
01:12:19.279 --> 01:12:19.520
Right.
01:12:20.079 --> 01:12:21.600
That's not what it's called, though.
01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:23.119
That's not the actual name of it.
01:12:23.680 --> 01:12:25.279
It's like the ultimate weapon.
01:12:25.439 --> 01:12:28.640
Um, oh geez, what is it called?
01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:30.560
Oh my god.
01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:37.600
I have to look this up now because like I know it's under high-end duty and we have raids.
01:12:38.319 --> 01:12:43.920
Uh it's not the ultimate weapon refrain.
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:51.359
Okay, so they see ultimate weapon refrain, it's actually UWR, right?
01:12:52.880 --> 01:13:01.439
Uh but but um, or the weapons, it's the weapons refrain ultimate, is actually what it's called.
01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:03.279
The weapons refrain ultimate.
01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:08.000
So the weapons refrain ultimate got turned into uwoo.
01:13:09.119 --> 01:13:14.880
Because it's the ultima weapon ultimate is technically what it is.
01:13:15.039 --> 01:13:15.520
Yes.
01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:25.840
So it's like uh the unending coil of Bahamut Ultimate got turned into UCOB because it just very quickly shortens into that.
01:13:25.920 --> 01:13:33.600
Yes, and then you have the epic of Alexander became T because the Epic Alexander T.
01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:34.640
Yes, T.
01:13:35.119 --> 01:13:41.279
Alright, so then we have the Omega Protocol became top, so on and so forth.
01:13:41.359 --> 01:13:42.399
So very simple.
01:13:42.560 --> 01:13:44.800
We got uh, you know, what is it?
01:13:44.960 --> 01:14:04.399
Uh then you have fru for um, you know, girlfriend, and then and then but this last one, all of the casuals, all of the non-top raiders want to call it, oh god, it what is it, damn you.
01:14:05.520 --> 01:14:07.279
They want to call it damn you.
01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:09.520
I thought I thought I read you mad.
01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:10.560
Isn't that what is it?
01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:13.199
And then oh, that's right, they want to call it you mad.
01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:21.199
All of the uh the the raiders want to just call it uh uh dancing mad and just want to leave it at that.
01:14:21.520 --> 01:14:26.000
Because of course, you know, they're very serious people, obviously.
01:14:26.319 --> 01:14:27.279
Obviously.
01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:34.560
Obviously, and all of the but yes, all the casuals, all the filthy casuals are like, you mad, you mad, you mad?
01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:36.800
Are you mad?
01:14:37.039 --> 01:14:53.520
And of course we have brought back the you mad face, the you mad bro face has become now the the the ultimate, and of course, all of the actual raid teams that are getting prepped for for doing the the ultimate the first race.
01:14:53.760 --> 01:14:56.560
Um uh what is it?
01:14:56.800 --> 01:14:58.399
My brain's starting to slow down.
01:14:58.479 --> 01:15:00.399
We have to wrap this up.
01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:01.119
Yeah, we do.
01:15:01.279 --> 01:15:02.720
But um, my brain is starting to slow down.
01:15:03.439 --> 01:15:04.880
World first, world first.
01:15:05.279 --> 01:15:09.119
So you have the world first, um, and that's a big thing.
01:15:09.199 --> 01:15:16.479
In fact, there's gonna be a huge um like uh raid stream that's gonna go on.
01:15:16.560 --> 01:15:18.000
Uh, usually, what is it?
01:15:18.159 --> 01:15:21.039
Uh you have Frosty from Mog Talk.
01:15:21.199 --> 01:15:27.840
Mog Talk is like the home of all World First for uh Final Fantasy XIV.
01:15:28.479 --> 01:15:33.680
And that is literally Mog Talk M-O-G-T-A-L-K dot com.
01:15:33.920 --> 01:15:35.199
Mogtalk.com.
01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:57.279
Have and they especially for ultimates, they have a charity stream where uh they take donations and um they they help a charity out based on uh the viewership and they watch uh for um the the first uh the person who does first clear on ultimate.
01:15:58.079 --> 01:16:04.479
So Dancing Mad, of course, is being set up right now, and it's going to drop June 2nd.
01:16:04.720 --> 01:16:07.680
That's when the excitement begins, y'all.
01:16:07.840 --> 01:16:11.359
Uh for world first for um Dancing Mad.
01:16:11.520 --> 01:16:14.960
I don't know even know how much we're gonna see of.
01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:33.840
I know that they they hinted when we got to see the the the bits and pieces uh from the uh keynote, we got to see uh the dancing mad, we got to see God Kefka, we got to see, we got to see bits and pieces.
01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:41.840
So I don't know how much how much translation from the savage fight we're actually gonna see.
01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:46.720
See, um my thing is though, like all we saw was Kevka, right?
01:16:47.119 --> 01:16:54.000
Kevka, which um which all the mechanics that I saw was pretty much uh stem from the savage fight.
01:16:54.720 --> 01:17:01.439
Now because it's an ultimate it there's gonna there's multiple layers to the fight to begin with.
01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:06.079
So what we did not see is the war and triad.
01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:18.800
And if you have not played which if you have not played six, uh the war and triad were like these three gods that was balancing the um the world, essentially.
01:17:18.960 --> 01:17:22.000
The world's well we we get that in heaven's work, right?
01:17:22.079 --> 01:17:25.119
We get like a version of the war and triad.
01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:35.279
But like, are we gonna are we gonna get the true war and triad of or are we just going to get extra phases of like god Kafka?
01:17:38.800 --> 01:17:51.520
I that would be interesting if they if they'd gone that route because there was only two phases of Kevka in six, which which we saw, which you only which you saw in in Savage.
01:17:51.840 --> 01:18:05.680
So right I um but isn't there also what something something something that somebody mentioned about like the pinnacle and uh Kevka Pinnacle and stuff like that, or am I thinking of something else?
01:18:06.000 --> 01:18:07.359
Might be something else at this point.
01:18:07.439 --> 01:18:09.039
Um fair enough.
01:18:09.279 --> 01:18:10.479
But you I don't know.
01:18:10.560 --> 01:18:16.399
I never played six, so I for me I'm just sitting here going, ooh, big fight.
01:18:19.199 --> 01:18:26.880
You know, and this this is come this is gonna be something where I I may tune in just to see what the fight's gonna be about.
01:18:27.119 --> 01:18:36.239
And normally I like to go in, you know, relatively blind, unless, you know, you know, some uh you know a raid leader is like, hey, I need you to watch this video.
01:18:36.319 --> 01:18:37.359
I'm like, okay.
01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:52.960
Well, I mean, there's gonna I I know that the that we've got um we we have the Sprout to Ultimate group in uh HJP, and there has been a huge push for Uwoo.
01:18:53.520 --> 01:19:03.680
Um I know that some people were uh trying to get uh at least to see the the end of that fight before fan fest.
01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:04.479
Yeah.
01:19:04.800 --> 01:19:10.399
But I know that y'all are still working towards that, so that's just an ongoing thing.
01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:11.119
Yes.
01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:23.199
Um I personally I like watching the ultimate fights, but I've tried, I've come in and I've like guest starred and I've helped out uh with some of the the early bits of the fight.
01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:34.960
I don't really have an interest in doing ultimates just because it's it's way too much sustained stuff over time, and I need more breaks for my hands, uh arthritis.
01:19:35.039 --> 01:19:39.760
It is in fact a beat, a giant, giant B-I-T-C-H.
01:19:40.079 --> 01:19:44.399
Um, I I'm not fond, we don't get along.
01:19:44.560 --> 01:19:46.560
Like we are not friends.
01:19:47.840 --> 01:20:02.640
So I play the game as best I can with what I got, and while I think I do a pretty dang good job of it, uh there are things I struggle with, and sustained play over long periods of time is one of those things.
01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:13.039
Um and so uh ultimates are kind of like outside of my range without being able to take breaks, and that's hard when you have what is it?
01:20:13.119 --> 01:20:20.960
Uh if you do everything perfectly, Uwoo is still a like 21-minute fight.
01:20:21.359 --> 01:20:29.920
Yeah, I and at this point, like we're where we are right now, uh, with the Buccaneers and Clan Nazi and everything.
01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:34.079
Uh, we are only up until uh Titan at this point.
01:20:34.239 --> 01:20:40.079
So it's like we're I we're like just about halfway, maybe I think.
01:20:40.640 --> 01:20:51.840
I don't know, halfway into the fight, but like even then, like getting to that point, my like at a certain point, my hand starts to cramp up and everything like yeah, well, it's pretty it's pretty common.
01:20:52.079 --> 01:20:53.439
Yeah, yeah, it does.
01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:56.079
Getting old does suck, it does suck.
01:20:56.239 --> 01:21:04.319
And there are some people who are just not even in tight like 100% on on doing it uh raids in general, and that's fine.
01:21:04.479 --> 01:21:07.680
The game includes all that, but that's the next thing we're looking at.
01:21:07.840 --> 01:21:34.960
So if if you're into the crafting and gathering, 7.51 is definitely gonna have stuff for you if you are down to at least watch, which I heard they're they're adding in a ton of like new sound, uh what is it, new voice acting, and we're getting more um more lines got added.
01:21:35.119 --> 01:21:37.840
Like, like it's a whole experience now.
01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:38.640
Yes, yeah.
01:21:40.479 --> 01:21:44.960
I would never want to UFC fight, but I'll be honest, I've watched some of it.
01:21:45.039 --> 01:21:46.800
It's kind of fun to watch.
01:21:48.399 --> 01:21:52.880
And yeah, WWE don't want to do it, but I will definitely watch it.
01:21:54.000 --> 01:21:57.279
But uh no, it it sounds like a good time.
01:21:57.439 --> 01:22:09.039
I've not done a a savage fight, and like I'm looking forward to watching someone else do a savage fight because I would rather let them experience it as well.
01:22:10.960 --> 01:22:21.119
I'm sorry, yeah, the the ultimate fights uh as opposed to uh being in it, but even though we are doing oowoo uh and everything, but it's it's for me, it is fun.
01:22:21.439 --> 01:22:27.600
Um, but for the uh for for uh I don't even know, you mad, I guess, for Kevka.
01:22:28.319 --> 01:22:29.600
You mad, you mad, bro.
01:22:31.439 --> 01:22:31.920
You mad.
01:22:32.479 --> 01:22:35.359
All right, so anyway, uh we've got a lot going forward.
01:22:35.520 --> 01:22:38.000
I think at this point we've kind of gone over it.
01:22:38.159 --> 01:22:58.880
I'm still kind of filling the doldrums a little bit though, because you know how there's always that dip that happens, like the new stuff that comes out, you get to experience all of it, um, the big changes that come through, and then there's that point where you kind of get that dip right before the next uh the next patch comes through, and then then the excitement builds again and again and again.
01:22:59.039 --> 01:23:01.199
Yeah, so I'm still feeling it right there.
01:23:01.279 --> 01:23:09.439
I'm I'm trapped in cosmic exploration because I do want to get because I'm so look, I'm a simple creature.
01:23:09.600 --> 01:23:17.199
I saw somebody making things with the new cosmic weapons, and it makes little planets go around your head while you're crafting stuff, and I have to have that.
01:23:17.279 --> 01:23:18.800
I'm sorry, that's important.
01:23:19.199 --> 01:23:20.000
Okay, yeah.
01:23:20.159 --> 01:23:24.800
I I'm gonna have to join you in uh cosmic aspiration just for that sounds ridiculous.
01:23:25.199 --> 01:23:33.680
You and me, we're getting on a plane, we're gonna we're we're getting on a space shuttle, we're going to the moon, playing out with bunnies, and we'll we'll make ourselves some cosmic stuff.
01:23:33.920 --> 01:23:41.680
So in the meantime, they've there's some really cool stuff coming down the line, and I am super excited for it.
01:23:41.920 --> 01:23:46.720
But right now, I've I think that uh we've talked out our reactions.
01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:49.199
I've been very excited about 7.5.
01:23:49.760 --> 01:23:53.680
I am stupid excited for the next fan fest.
01:23:53.760 --> 01:23:58.239
And in fact, I think we're gonna do something exciting for this new fan fest.
01:23:58.399 --> 01:23:58.960
What do you think?
01:23:59.199 --> 01:24:00.720
What's that gonna be?
01:24:01.119 --> 01:24:07.119
Ooh, I think that for the first time ever, let us do a live stream.
01:24:07.439 --> 01:24:09.600
So everybody mark your calendar.
01:24:09.680 --> 01:24:24.239
It's gonna be kind of early in the morning, but we are gonna be live streaming probably at least half the day on um July 25th, so that we can go over the uh the keynote and go over all the new things that are getting dropped.
01:24:24.479 --> 01:24:34.560
You're gonna get live reactions from me, live reactions from Hula uh Hookah, and we're gonna we're just gonna go over everything that's going on in real time this time.
01:24:34.800 --> 01:24:40.399
And then, you know, I'm probably gonna be drinking a lot of coffee because it's gonna be so early in the morning.
01:24:41.600 --> 01:24:43.920
So much coffee, so many things.
01:24:44.079 --> 01:24:44.800
Oh my goodness.
01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:45.039
Yes.
01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:51.439
I might have to I might have to bring in my coffee maker and just set it right next to me and just mute my mic.
01:24:56.960 --> 01:25:03.439
It's just it's gonna sit right here, and I'm gonna make my coffee, mute my mic so I can make my coffee and everything.
01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:05.600
Smell a little coffee friend.
01:25:05.680 --> 01:25:06.880
Yeah, absolutely.
01:25:07.119 --> 01:25:10.239
All right, so we've that's the plan right now.
01:25:10.399 --> 01:25:12.079
We're we're getting it set up.
01:25:12.239 --> 01:25:24.000
We're gonna have we're gonna have a live show for you, breaking down, talking about, showing our reactions to the latest uh fan fest, and then I think we're gonna be doing that one in October too.
01:25:24.159 --> 01:25:30.800
So uh if the if the live live um stream goes well, I'm excited for it.
01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:32.319
Come hang out with us.
01:25:32.560 --> 01:25:36.239
I'm excited to be excited with us, join us.
01:25:36.399 --> 01:25:36.800
Yeah.
01:25:37.039 --> 01:25:40.720
This is probably gonna be my first time doing something live like this.
01:25:41.039 --> 01:25:44.159
Uh and it's gonna be really fun with you.
01:25:44.319 --> 01:25:46.239
And I I it's gonna be a great time.
01:25:46.479 --> 01:25:47.359
It's gonna be a blast.
01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:48.159
Hell yeah.
01:25:48.239 --> 01:25:57.680
I'm I it I will admit I really missed y'all being at the the thing and me not being able to go because having our reactions live, I think, would have been a lot of fun.
01:25:57.920 --> 01:25:58.319
Yes.
01:25:58.640 --> 01:26:05.840
But I'm so glad you got to experience the the fan fest because it it looked like it was just the best time.
01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:08.000
I learned a lot during that trip.
01:26:08.159 --> 01:26:23.600
I learned uh what not to do, uh, and then what I need to do next time to try to live stream something, or at least not really try to live stream, but I'm probably just gonna just do a recording of my reactions.
01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:26.079
Yes.
01:26:26.640 --> 01:26:29.439
So that's that that's for the next time.
01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:30.720
In three years.
01:26:31.039 --> 01:26:34.479
Well that oh yeah, we'll see how it goes down.
01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:36.239
We've got time to plan, you know.
01:26:36.399 --> 01:26:38.800
You know, uh, we can do this.
01:26:39.039 --> 01:26:46.720
All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and um pack up and head off to the void because I have some some little voidlings I need to take care of.
01:26:46.960 --> 01:26:51.199
And uh, I think uh I will see you in the next one.
01:26:51.520 --> 01:26:55.199
And may all your etherite travels be free.
01:26:56.159 --> 01:26:56.720
See ya.
01:26:57.680 --> 01:26:58.239
Bye.
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Hello everyone, Violet here.
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I am Violet, and I'll be your host today.
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Sat upon my pile of mounts and minions.
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And joining me will be And I am Hoka, a voice out creature with a sweet, sweet taste of for the Ruby Red with the behind the scene info of all things Final Fantasy XIV.
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And uh away we go.
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It's been a while.
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I know it's been a while.
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It has.
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Well, we had FanFest last where we were both a little cracked out.
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Oh me more so than than most others.
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Way more because you actually went.
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I got to experience everything digitally from my very cozy home in the void.
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And then I made the mistake of like, hey, let's record as I'm jet lag and barely had any sleep whatsoever.
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So but you know what?
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The the hype for Evercold has stayed like hardcore.
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Like it is, you can tell that they are already onto something.
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Like we're already hitting a nail.
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There is a there is a verb, there's a vibe, there's a thing going down.
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It is it is really good right now.
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I have seen so many things online about Evercold.
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So the the funny thing about this whole hype with Evercold right now, and you can tell, because we're both in the Dynamas uh data center, right?
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Which is like the quote unquote the the dead data center, the ghost town.
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The queue just to log in is a lot longer than it used to be.
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I mean, it's not longer as you know, it's not as long as like going to Ether or Crystal or anything of that nature, but it's it's oh ether's been locked down.
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Oh, it's been stays locked down now.
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The great wall of Ether has forever been staying up.
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And it's been it's been incredible.
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So like it's a lot longer to get into a dynamic system as of late.
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And it's like the hype is real, you see a lot more sprouts running around.
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Uh the the just the incredible, the incredible feeling that we are uh on this train right now, heading towards Evercode, and I'm all for it.
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How do the how do the young creators say it?
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They're like, we are so back, chat.
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We're so back.
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I think I think I don't think we ever went away, personally, but uh I I think I may have said that quite a few times during the keynote.
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But we are so back.
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We are so um the excitement has definitely been top notch.
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Um I'm I've been feeling it.
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I've been feeling, but at some the same time, like I left off a lot of the grindier things to the last minute, right before patches these times around.
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And so I have been going through this whole like feast famine situation.
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I don't know if this happens with you, where you're just like, I do all the things that are exciting and fun, and then I like don't do the things that I'm I like, I want to do them, but I'm not, they're not like they're not top five, you know?
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And then you get around and you're just like, oh no, the next patch is coming.
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I should probably start on that.
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I want to get it just just like my PvP starting starting journey for this for this season.
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I'm like, oh wait, the new season just came out and uh I need to start going going.
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Um I got the emote for it.
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I'm just working my way up to to get the uh the new glam uh that they dropped and everything.
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So that's that's my goal for that.
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Uh I got to the emote too, and then I just pretty much went, okay, I'm gonna put this off to the side for a minute.
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Uh and I'm gonna go do everything else.
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And so I went and I did try the new uh crystal and conflict map, though.
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Uh the Archaea Harmonious big Google library vibes, if you know, you know.
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Um, but that map, because you have to stay on the crystals, like somebody has to stay on that crystal the whole time.
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Oh wow, it is so much more aggressive.
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Like, like it is um fighting in the library for the last novel on the shelf, aggressive.
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It is you can't like there's not a lot of like in other maps for crystalline conflict, there's a lot of you get the the the crystal locked and then you kind of back off for for mechanics, or you you kind of maneuver around it until the unlock comes through, yeah, and then you jump back on the crystal, and whoever has made it through that period of like trying to shove people into mechanics or trying to like survive jumps on the crystal and it's back to that, right?
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Yeah, um, this because you have to pretty much stay on the crystal the entire time, you don't get to get off of it because if you do, you've just completely like transferred at that point because the other team can jump in and um grab it.
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And it's it's just a constant, there's no break.
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Also, because there's much more aggressive with how much line of sight is broken in there, you don't get to throw fireballs through through walls anymore.
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Like you can literally duck behind stuff, and it's just like front lines where you can break line of sight constantly.
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Oh wow.
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So if you're looking for something like super aggressive and for for a map, and those maps go fast, then wait for that map to come up because that's the one for you.
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How fast does it go?
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About half the time of a normal map.
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Like, it is oh my god.
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I I literally have never been owned on a crystalline conflict map so hard in my entire gameplay existence in this game.
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Like, I like Crystalline Conflict for the fact that it's fast, but it's like there's some strategy to it.
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You're just kind of like you're trying to bop back and forth.
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This map has basically reformulated everything to the point where you will just if you're not really good at PvP, you will basically have your entire ass handed to you.
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Um with a little cherry on top.
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Uh which is probably why I have not gotten in there yet, which I probably will eventually, because I really want to experience it.
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But if it uh if it reminds me of how um I think there was like a a smaller PvP World of Warcraft map uh that they had.
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If it's anything similar to that, then oh, I am going to get my butt handed to me.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And and honestly, I'll be I'll be so down with you.
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One of the things I want uh well that I'm so down for that I want so badly to do is actually grab the HJP crew and see if we can do another PvP night because Crystal and Conflict is like the perfect place to like just grab 10 friends and do the 5v5, and then you get to kind of play through things with people who maybe aren't like pros, pros, but everybody's gonna get a little bit more of a chance to feel out the maps and kind of figure out how they work.
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That would be really fun.
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I think it'd be fun too, because I that way anyone that doesn't really PvP and whatnot, they can we can like you know guide them through and everything, yeah.
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You know, they can experience what PvP is.
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The biggest thing about PvP and in this game, especially, is just kind of realizing that it's not something that I don't know.
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One of the things that I I I have kind of learned about this game over time, and maybe it's just a me thing, um, but my personal growth through playing this game has been realizing that I don't have to take any of this too seriously.
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Like I don't have to get ego involved in whether or not I win a PvP match or not.
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Like, yes, over time it can become frustrating.
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And once it hits my wall of frustration, which I I pretty much I take a break, I go do something else for a while.
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And the game is big enough and has so many different game modes, I don't feel like I have to do the same thing over and over and over again.
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Um, so I can like expand into other areas and do other things.
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It's also less like directly grindy.
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One of the things that that's really fun is that that yeah, this map is difficult, and maybe I don't like this map, but if I wait like 30 minutes to an hour, the next map will come up and I can go do that one, you know?
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Yeah, exactly.
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Um, same thing with uh front lines.
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I really like the chaos of frontlines.
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I know a lot of people don't like it.
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Um, but it's very much group tactics.
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It's you try to hopefully you get on a team with enough alliances of people, which it's a huge map with huge groups of people, and you just straight clumped up with your team as best as you can.
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Yeah.
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Um, and just engage, disengage as quickly as possible.
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So this is me going into front lines, right?
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You so so think of the uh the the deformed uh elmo uh with the fire in the background with the arms in the air.
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That's me, that's me in front line, like chaos everywhere.
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And the great thing, and the thing is, is like I get how some people get very kind of like hyper ego involved with like I want to get all of my achievements and I want to get this that and the other.
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But if one of the things you can do is just kind of like take a deep breath and let that go, and just realize that it's more about you finding the rhythm within the game mode.
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Yes, then you can pretty much find the fun and all of it.
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And and at the end of the day, if it's not for you, you don't have to do it, it's completely freaking optional.
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It is it is optional, and you know the the rewards on there are pretty cool uh for the seat.
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Oh, yeah.
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Let me tell you about where the glam.
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The glam is the chef's kiss excellence.
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Yes.
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Especially if you're into like street style or that, yeah, there's there's a lot of that.
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So but there's a little excited to try to get it.
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Yeah, me too.
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I'll get there, but um, I have currently been totally in on cosmic exploration.
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I've put off cosmic for a long time.
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Like I did it at first, but I found the grind getting through the novice levels of the tools just was it was too much grind for me.
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I I I didn't really enjoy it all that much um because of how grindy it is.
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Like, I like crafting and gathering, I don't love crafting and gathering.
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I a hundred percent appreciate and worship at the feet and the altar of those who can get all of their melds right and can synthesize the the most excellent gear in the game.
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I will always be at least five steps behind those people.
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I will have some of the best gear, I will have some of the meld, some of them, not all of them.
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But mainly I'm just doing it so I can make the pretty clothes that come out of treasure mats.
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Well, if you're five steps behind, then I'm like 25 steps behind.
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Because I'm still trying to level up some of the crafting uh uh yeah, it's been um a slow burn on that front for me.
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Um okay, so I'm gonna give everybody who's listening my hints, tricks to if you are the sort of person who just wants it like if you're the sort of person who is cool with I'm going to spend X amount of time per day leveling my crafting and gathering, and then I want to go off and do other things, okay, then doing cosmic exploration for like an hour, and then maybe hitting up some love quests for like an hour, um, and then doing your grand company uh turn ins, that's the way to do it because you will get a huge amount of levels per day.
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You don't have to input more than at most an hour and a half to two hours into it, and you will get anywhere from one and a half whole levels to as much as like ten whole levels in a day.
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Okay.
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If you are the sort of person like myself who gets a little bit hyper focusy on stuff, then might I suggest that you um build up your love quests and then you search through your list of crafts for that one thing that you can just sit down and just mass create and just do that until your stuff breaks after you've done all your love quests and everything else, and then you will get your levels very quickly that way.
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I also suggest custom deliveries, um, those will get you a lot.
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Uh, do any kind of like job questing, like the the stuff once you get to Shadowbringer, they have like an entire storyline of stuff that's very good to get into.
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Um, they have a similar thing in Endwalker and Dawn Trail.
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Uh, before that, for Stormblood, the storyline stuff that they have for each job is actually very helpful and it gets you through your levels fairly quickly.
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Don't put off doing your job quests as a crafter and gatherer, especially if you are someone who is looking at the internet trying to find certain you know macros to do stuff, because you will find yourself without the ability to complete those macros because you don't have the abilities to do them.
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Yeah, because you didn't do the job quest.
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And I learned that like the learned at the uh at the very beginning of me playing this game where I went through and like, oh, what's this?
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Oh, a job quest.
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Oh, it has an ability.
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Oh, I want to stick with that.
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Yeah, do your job quest.
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I'm serious, I'm not kidding.
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Do your job quest.
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I know you don't want to.
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I know all of you out there in internet land are like, but I'm just never do your job quests.
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Uh I can I can think of one uh particular AJP uh member that still needs to do their Dragoon job quest.
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Uh-oh.
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You know who you are.
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You know who you are.
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We're not gonna call you out for the whole internet, but you know who you are.
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Yeah, do your job quests, y'all.
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Do it.
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All right.
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Now that we've harped on that enough.
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But yeah, crafting and gathering is probably like it's not really designed for you to just sit down and just go at it hard uh over the course of several days.
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So it's as far as I'm concerned, it's just the most ADHD unfriendly thing in the entire game.
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How dare! You know, zero out of ten, no notes, absolutely just do not.
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But if you are willing to say you can grind it out actually fairly quickly.
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I do recommend finding the LE quests.
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Uh ARR is probably the worst for LE quests, but it gets you through it so much faster.
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Like I introduced that to one of my friends who was trying to get their crafting and gathering up.
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They finally started tackling it.
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And she realized that uh I was actually correct, and she had been sitting there trying to just craft her way by just making stuff up to the correct level.
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And of course, that is the grindiest and the longest way to do it.
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Just go grab yourself some love quests, do like two or three of them, and you'll pretty much be maxed out.
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Do your grand company turn-ins, you'll get through that 10 to 20 levels that you need to get through to get over the ARR hump.
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Do your job quests, and then you're set up for Heavensword, and then it gets a lot better from there.
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And do your job quests, and do your job quests, anyway.
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Okay.
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So um, not going into any story stuff, but this time around when uh 7.5 uh dropped in uh right after fan fest, I got I went all in on MSQ.
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Uh I really enjoyed it.
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It was really well done.
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No spoilers, just reviews.
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It is I I had a good time with it.
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Um, I will say for all those people who have had to be subjected to my constant and incessant rants about how the story gets set up.
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It I one, I apologize.
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Two, um, no, I don't.
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Three, um it was I called it.
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I called it, I called it.
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Okay.
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Um anyway.
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That's that's a totally different podcast.
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Not this one.
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No, yeah, that's a that's a call completely different one.
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So uh, so what we're where how are you thinking about how well where the story is going?
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Getting excited for for how things are okay.
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So I'm gonna put proclaim this now.
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Uh I love Hamarut.
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I just love her.
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I know she's an Sienna and everything, but you know how people you know view Emmett Emmitself and whatnot.
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This is how I view Homerot.
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I adore her so much.
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And I can't tell you why, but I just do.
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I just adore her.
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Okay, all right.
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Well, let's leave it there before we get too far into it because I was gonna leave it with I know you know, if you know you know, but like you're out here dropping names and everything.
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Damn.
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Well, I mean then I mean the the the the the title uh of it is in the first execlopedia of that's that's very true.
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It it is, and so if you have any knowledge of the of of of the the external game or whatever uh the how this is something that's been mentioned, like I love how they do that where they they bring things back from like the very very beginning.
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Yeah, so if you were paying attention to the way that things were set up literally at the beginning of ARR with with the the ASIANs, then yeah, yeah.
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So anyway, but um but um so that's my first one.
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The second part of that is that I'm loving the direction that they're going with this.
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Um it really sets up Evercode really, really well.
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Uh oh yeah, lead leading up and leading up to that point.
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Uh you know, we can say what we want to say about Ontrail, based on trail and everything.
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You know, people will forever be split between based on trail.
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Um post on trail?
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The post all I've been loving it um just the setup and everything.
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Did it take us for almost forever to to get to this point?
00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:13.359
I guess sure, why not?
00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:27.519
You know what, and everything, but I I I for for the for the most part though I I loved the the past what two three patches for Dawn Trail, and it's been setting up really nicely to this.
00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:32.880
So I actually kind of like Dawn Trail as an epilogue.
00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:48.319
Now that it's been established as the as what it is, like now that we know that it is still technically part of that first story arc, uh, the way that it was described in the keynote, um it is the epilogue.
00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:50.880
It's the epilogue to our first story.
00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:59.759
It it's yeah, it's just our transition point into our next, you know, storyline that we're gonna be going into.
00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:13.759
And so just the thing about epilogues is that if you're not expecting them to come, they can get a little awkward because the and I enjoy an epilogue.
00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:19.759
I like all of like the little snippets of story that are that are there.
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Like I want to know more about everything that's going on with these characters.
00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:28.880
So being or even meeting new characters in an epilogue, it's just it doesn't matter.
00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:34.240
Anything that's just kind of like a transition story, some people are gonna feel awkward about it.
00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:36.400
Uh, some people are not gonna enjoy it as much.
00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:42.319
There are a lot of people who have very strong feelings about hating epilogues, and that's fine.
00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:50.880
I think also the fact that I mean, if you have a video, if you're creating a video game, you never want to tell anyone, oh hey, this is an epilogue.
00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:54.799
Because it is such a controversial point.
00:22:54.880 --> 00:23:00.799
Like, and not a lot of people are gonna be excited, like some people just don't get into them as much.
00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:02.480
Personally, I love them.
00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:04.799
I I love getting those extra bits.
00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:09.839
I view Dawn Trail for all the uh anime watchers out there.
00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:13.440
I view Dawn Trail as our summer vacation episode.
00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:23.920
And and which is gonna lead to where we all know that the the summer break episode, of course, always leads into some dark heavy stuff, right?
00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:25.440
Exactly.
00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:38.559
That's how I view Dawn Trail, which is like Yeah, you know, it it was our it was our summer vacation, and then like the post-dawn trail, which is where it's gonna lead into Evercode, and it's that switch.
00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:44.319
And that's kind of the way that they've built a lot of this.
00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.480
So, anyway, uh let's talk about how they brought in some of this other story.
00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:50.640
This is the this is an interesting story.
00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:51.440
I like this.
00:23:51.680 --> 00:24:08.240
So the 24-person raid series for Dawn Trail is the Echoes of Anadeal, and the Echoes of Anadeal is literally pulling the you know fan favorites from Final Fantasy XI, which is the other MMO, right?
00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:10.240
It's the MMO that came first.
00:24:10.640 --> 00:25:01.119
Um, personally, I don't know if I'll ever play 11 because I can't get through the savage fight of getting the dang thing installed and playable, but um I hear a lot of people love it, and there are a lot of people in HJP and other groups and other people online, and in fact, one of the things that's very interesting is that the crossover that is in Dawn Trail has actually re-sparked and has even further sparked interest for players of 14 to either go back and play in Van A Deal or to create new characters in Vanadil, so much so that they're they were in plans to shut down the MMO or at least put it on maintenance only.
00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:03.759
No, no content updates.
00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:06.319
They're now planning content updates for it.
00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:09.200
Like that's that's how good this crossover was.
00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:45.359
I and and I'm glad for like you know, all the OG players that played 11 and you know, played 14 and all that stuff, and you know, I I myself am interested in going to actually play 11 for the first time because the last time I tried to play the beta for 11, I received a copy and tried to install it, and it took nearly all night to install it because it I believe it was like six discs just to install uh 11 at a time to uh to my PC.
00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:52.960
And by the time by the time I got it fully installed, my PC was not able to handle to play it.
00:25:53.119 --> 00:26:04.079
So I missed out on 11 uh mainly because my PC was uh a was not up to up to par during the time.
00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:12.400
I I'll fully admit that at the time what it came down to for me is that I was a I was a hardcore WoW player.
00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:18.799
I tend to be a sort of person who just sort of sticks to one game and I don't really play a lot of other things.
00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:24.640
Um, all of my community, all of my friends, I was never a person who got into Final Fantasy.
00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:51.440
My first real introduction to Final Fantasy, where I actually started playing it for myself, was I played like an hour and a half of seven back in the 90s, and then and then um in uh 2019, I was like, I'm tired of WoW, and I'm tired of Blizzard, and I I hate Activision Blizzards mess, so I need to find something else.
00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:58.000
And I found 14, and I really honestly did not believe that I was gonna get this attached to this game, but I have.
00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:19.839
So I'm the same way.
00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:24.319
I'm the same way because 14 is just incredible.
00:27:24.799 --> 00:27:27.839
So much to do, so little time to do it.
00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:31.359
Oh, I know, I know, especially as adults.
00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:50.400
Um the the the mentioning of the respect for players' time and the fact that they are trying to build it out so that people can really can kind of like mix and match the things that are their favorite game modes and still feel like they can make progression happen for their character.
00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:54.240
Hearing a dev say that is like I got tangles.
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:56.240
Like I was so happy.
00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:01.920
And and and the one thing I love is that they actually acknowledge it.
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:09.279
And they're like, you know, we we realize a lot of our uh player base are a lot older, like us.
00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:42.319
And yeah, you know, we don't have as much time, and like I I love how they're trying to be like, you know, here's the a possible new play style for you, and and so you know, have at it, and then all you know, the hardcore younger gen uh younger generation of players, you know, they can they'll they'll have their own playstyle, they'd be able to play a lot longer than than we are able to, and everything, but it's like at the same time, it's like I love how they acknowledge the older players.
00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:52.079
I I think the thing that does get a little frustrating after a while, though, is that um the way that this game does, and it I get it.
00:28:52.160 --> 00:29:00.799
I it's like I do understand why they're crab walking towards certain goals as opposed to just directly heading for them.
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:10.000
Um because you gotta you gotta help people transition, you gotta help people kind of over the hump to be okay with the changes.
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:48.160
Um but one of the things that would be really nice to see is a direct upgrade rather than just going back and adding things like truss and adding things like uh like AI sort of things to the game, those are nice and they're nice to have, but I really want to see true improvement of the game from sort of almost a ground up perspective, because right now the hardest part of getting people to come and play 14.
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:50.799
Like, let's take my kids, for example.
00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:56.400
My kids are hardcore game players, they play some of the most tedious games.
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:06.960
Like, it's not the reading, it's not, okay, because both of my care my my kids are huge Deltarune fans, um, massive amounts of reading in that game.
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.519
Um, they're both, you know, huge Minecraft games, uh gamers.
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:14.079
That that game is tedious AF.
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:25.599
Like, um, but one of the there's and so and they are also being into a lot of other aspects that you would find in 14.
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:47.200
But the fact that the story takes so long to pick up and move forward, the fact that the introduction to the gameplay is uh extremely separated, and it's something that a lot of creators have even talked about is that the game is good, obviously.
00:30:47.359 --> 00:31:00.720
It is very, very good, but getting new players involved, it feels almost sometimes like you're having to say, okay, look, you're in this is an investment game.
00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:11.680
You're gonna have to invest a certain number of hours before it's going to quote click and get good.
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:24.480
Um, for me, I started playing in early 2019, and it took me that entire year, by the way, for it to finally click.
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:35.759
And it was me just coming on, playing for like 10, 12 hours, and then putting another 10, 12 hours into it, and then going, okay, I'm not, it's not whatever, I don't care.
00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:38.720
And then I would go and try like I tried different jobs.
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:48.960
I thought, because I didn't know at first that you could have all the jobs, because I just jumped into the game and was just going off of what it was telling me, and I didn't understand half of it.
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:55.680
So I would literally just like restart a whole new character with a whole new class, and it's like this will be different.
00:31:55.920 --> 00:32:00.720
It wasn't, um, because you can have all the jobs.
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:19.119
So uh my main character is like the 20th iteration of me actually just trying, and it wasn't until I finally just got to the point where I was like, This is the only MMO I really want to play because all the others I've tried don't really, I don't like anything about them.
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:20.880
They're not that fun to play.
00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:24.799
This is the only one that at least is not frustrating, right?
00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:28.960
So I'm just I'm just gonna do this with my wife, and this is how we're gonna spend time.
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:37.440
And so we created joke characters that he evolved over time into where they are now, which is crazy.
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.960
For a while.
00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:52.079
Um so one of but going back to to the the echoes of Vanadiel, we finally got the finale, it came out in 7.5.
00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:56.799
Uh it's it's called Windhurst Walk.
00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:04.000
I refer to it as Windworst, because holy crap, the mechanics do not play, they do not play.
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:04.640
No.
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:06.960
No, not at all.
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:12.400
Um they're not hard to learn necessarily.
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.279
It's just a lot of everything all at once.
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:20.079
You just want to sit there and play that song, you know, a little bit of everything all of the time.
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.559
A little bit of everything all of the time.
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:24.400
The whole time you're playing.
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:29.039
Um, the the hardest thing to remember, I just like a a little.
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:33.519
I didn't tell you this, but I told you this.
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:37.680
Last boss of uh Windwurst.
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.680
Sorry, Windhurst, Windhurst.
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:41.119
Don't come for me, Shantoto.
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:49.680
Um uh just remember there is a constant auto attack that is hitting all of the tanks all of the time.
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:51.839
The entire time.
00:33:52.319 --> 00:34:04.079
So if the tank goes down, that auto attack is just gonna switch to the next person in the DPS list and it's gonna literally just annihilate every single person in that alliance all the way down.
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:18.239
So, what happens usually is that um the healer is somewhere around just under the tanks because of the enity that's generated not from their attacks, but also from um healing, right?
00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:23.599
Now, if you're a good healer, you can manage to keep your your enity fairly low.
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:27.360
Um, if you overheal, you'll be a little bit higher on that.
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:39.519
But once that auto attack has worked its way through one shot killing, because it is hard hit attack, every single one of the DPS on your team, the healers are next.
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:48.800
And if the healers have not snap just boom gotten that tank up and healed to be able to take the auto, it's it's over.
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:50.320
Your alliance is gone.
00:34:50.480 --> 00:35:18.320
Don't don't, because everybody else, just don't even try because everybody else is is already trained from every other fight in the game to let's raise a healer, and then the healer will raise the tank, and then we'll go on about our merry way, except what happens is you raise the healer, the healer then gets one-shotted by the uh the auto attack, even if they heal up to full, and then the tank never gets raised.
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:23.440
And then if the tank does get raised, they still can't heal themselves up to full.
00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:27.039
So then they get two-shotted by the auto attack.
00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:38.639
So, yeah, I think people are starting to kind of clue in now that if the tank goes down in the alliance, you gotta you gotta pick the tank up and then actually heal them and then pick up the healer.
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:51.840
But yeah, that was a frustration I've had a few times when I first went in there is that uh like our tank would go down, and then you just watch the entire alliance just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:55.920
And everybody else is what is wrong with you?
00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:58.480
Why are you so bad at this?
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.840
And the whole time we're just like auto attack.
00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:06.719
But he is attacking.
00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:09.679
Yeah, exactly.
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:10.800
Exactly.
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:14.639
Yeah, it was it was uh it's a little it's a little frustrating.
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.199
Um, how was have it been?
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:21.360
I know you've been in uh in Echoes Vanity all a few times.
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:30.719
I have, uh, and I've gotten in as melee, in which in which I go in there and be like, why did I pick melee again?
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:32.239
Right.
00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:35.360
All the moving around and whatnot.
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:43.440
Has it just been they or had the last past uh post patch uh like uh dungeons and things been a little unfriendly to melee?
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:45.760
Like I see the melee struggling.
00:36:46.079 --> 00:37:02.159
Um a little bit, mainly because like you know, I've been playing okay, so I've been playing Viper quite a bit lately, like a lot more than than any other class, because I'm I've been loving that class.
00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:04.639
Viper is so much fun.
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:09.920
Uh, and I I've been telling people that from like from the get-go, like Viper is fun to play.
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:24.880
And now and and now with the whole uh Evolve um system that's gonna be coming out, I feel I I I I tell people Viper and Picnomancer were the prototypes for the Evolve mode.
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:26.480
Yeah, they really are.
00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:36.719
But um, but yeah, I've been going to as melee, and like my frustration isn't so much like my damage output.
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:43.039
My frustration is like I am constantly moving everywhere.
00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:48.960
Uh and it's not it is not just the alliance raid or the dungeon.
00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:58.800
This is also like the new uh the new normal raids, uh the the raid series, that the the Arcadian raid series as well.
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:02.000
It's like I'm constantly moving.
00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:12.480
Like, if you watch me play, you probably get motion sickness just to see the where I'm pushing my putting my camera, where I'm moving to, and just dashing everywhere.
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:23.840
And so it's like uh it's uh it's fun, but at the same time, it's like I just want to be like a black mage and just staying in my circle and just cast spells.
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:35.440
And I've seen I've seen black mages, I know you don't move because you will still take the hit and you will just sit there in your circle, and I like I got that award, I don't need none of this.
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:47.119
And and I've sitting and I'm sitting there going, I'm so envious of you right now because I just want to stay still just like you and just still do damage and not have to move so much.
00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:58.079
Have you figured out the uh the sneaky um range that they put into uh Viper?
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.079
What do you mean?
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:05.119
Okay, so one of the things that I loved about Viper when I found this out, it's crazy.
00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:30.960
So they actually put in in the um, it looks like it's supposed to be AoE attacks to begin with, but if you actually look how it's set up, you can very quickly jump out of range of something, flip over, and use ranged AoE attacks, which are actually single-target drop-offs that will give you uh keep your uptime without having to be on the boss.
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:31.760
Oh yeah.
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:34.320
I've been oh god, what's that?
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:37.760
Uh oh god, it's been a while.
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:40.400
Uh, but no, I I know what you're talking about.
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:46.079
Um, yeah, I I've been using using though as well as much as I can.
00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:48.320
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:53.519
Yeah, um, the the whole vice pit into uh what is it?
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:56.800
Uh I can't remember.
00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:22.000
But um it's it's one of those things where it took me a while to have to try and explain to one of my FC mates because um it is kind of hidden because it's you have to go into I think it's either Vice Winder or Vice Pit, and then that gives you access to uh Hunter's Den, which then gives you um Twin Blood and Twin Fame.
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:24.159
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:31.840
And that's the and then you can uncoiled Fury, and that's the that's the one that gives you the big, you know, 680 to the first enemy.
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:51.599
Anything, by the way, for people who are interested, um, if something in the tooltip says here's the potency to the first enemy, and then it's you know 75% or 50% or whatever percentage less for each target after that, that is not really technically an AoE ability.
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:58.639
That is technically a single target with a you know percentage of hit to other targets.
00:40:58.800 --> 00:40:59.280
Yes.
00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:10.559
So while you it what it gives you is the flexibility of being able to use it in both your rotation for your single target as well as being able to put it in your rotation for your AoE.
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:19.760
Now it is a less powerful, usually, usually, not always, sometimes, uh target uh abil target ability.
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:29.280
Um, so you don't necessarily want to put it in your single target uh rotation as like a standard part of the rotation.
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:43.199
But in certain circumstances, you know, like when you have a giant AoE around the boss where you have to leap backwards to save your tail, then uh keep in mind those abilities so you can shove them in there.
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:44.480
Keep your uptime.
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:52.800
I've been yeah, I've been using that quite a bit, um, along with the the normal range, uh, which is uh withering snap.
00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:55.440
Um writing snap, yeah.
00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:59.440
Yeah, so uh I've been I've been using both whenever I'm out of range.
00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:05.360
I use if if if I have uncoiled fury, I will use that first, most definitely.
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:23.760
Uh and I've been you know been using my rotation just to get get uh enough points just to have it full, especially if I if I know in a fight that I'll be in a range somewhere, I'm I I'm trying to get as much points as I can just so I can use Uncoil Fury as much as I can.
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:25.679
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:31.920
Um, and I'm really I'm not bringing this up as I think that you're doing anything other than like hitting all your marks.
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:33.199
You're an excellent player.
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:39.039
It's more of a hey, as a tip to those people who might be listening, oh yeah, by the way.
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:42.559
If you think ability, right?
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:52.639
It's just like um reminding people on uh uh uh almost all of the melee, with the exception of Monk.
00:42:52.800 --> 00:43:04.159
Monk is monk has now got a couple of ranged abilities, but they're a little harder to get to, and you actually have to like build up to them, so you have to know the fight to really kind of like have them on deck.
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:04.639
Yeah.
00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:18.880
Uh whereas um almost all of the other melees now come with a a ranged attack or a ranged mode that will give you the or part of your rotation that will actually keep your uptime.
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:27.920
So um make sure you go through your actions and traits and like sort that out and make sure you've kind of got your rotation down for that for when those situations come up.
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:31.519
Just do it and do your job quests.
00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:33.119
And do your job quest.
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:45.199
But yeah, the the the honestly, the um I was even inspired from the Echas of Anadeal uh to want to try a living.
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:46.239
It looks really fun.
00:43:46.320 --> 00:44:03.440
I've watched some some uh walkthroughs and some some different things that people have done, and it looks cool, but I'll be honest with you, I looked at what it would take to install it and get it running on my system and all of Other things and I will stick with 14.
00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:05.039
14's good for me.
00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:05.599
Thanks.
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:28.079
So I hope that uh um on the other hand, if you are someone who has played, or if you are someone who maybe has a system that's not as complicated setup as mine, because I'm on a particular Linux setup, the for the way I like to do things, um if you are running Windows, it's a lot easier to set up.
00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:33.519
Uh I would I would go ahead and try it and see.
00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:35.199
You might enjoy it.
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:48.400
I think um I think that might be in the plans at the current time with HJP uh to do an event to uh you know get people set up and start the account.
00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:50.960
And uh there is a free trial.
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:52.480
There is a free trial.
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:54.960
So you don't have to pay a subscription.
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:55.920
There is a free trial.
00:44:56.400 --> 00:45:01.039
The free trial is complicated though, because it's a 14-day free trial.
00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:01.840
Yes.
00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:05.119
But only if you're a new person.
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:11.760
If on the other hand you were a returning player, you can access an unlimited free trial.
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.679
Yes, because you've played a game way before anyone else did.
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:23.840
So basically, they're giving returning players free, like free, unlimited access.
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:29.280
Like, but you have to buy the game to have access to the unlimited trial, from what I can gather.
00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:30.000
Yeah.
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:34.239
Which is weird, and I don't really fully understand it.
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:40.239
But um, yeah, we tried to get the family, we're all new players on it, and it was gonna be a 14-day trial.
00:45:40.320 --> 00:46:16.000
And I was like, don't get me wrong, 14-day trial sounds cool, and it's it's it's uh, you know, but when you're you come from 14 where it's like, hey, you have a no-time restriction free trial, it now goes all the way up through Shadowbringer, and now to be restricted to, well, you get 14 days, and then we need you to buy the game, and then we need you to pay for at least one month, uh, which is on a really weird pay scale, and then you can have one character that you can have on an unlimited trial.
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:19.599
And I'm like, um, okay.
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:23.599
Uh okay.
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:26.960
Uh no, no, no, thank you.
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:28.079
I'm alright.
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:38.079
I mean, and but again, it's one of those things where I think if I had more friends where I had more people to like, you know, walk me through it, maybe I might be more interested in it.
00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:43.920
But I was trying to find something I could play with my family, and that one just became a little bit more complicated than I wanted to deal with.
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:48.000
I'm a simple smooth-brained bunny.
00:46:48.079 --> 00:46:49.920
Wait, what can you expect from me?
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:57.840
I mean, so am I, but I'm I'm more actually I can't say Ellison anymore.
00:46:57.920 --> 00:46:58.719
Uh nope.
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:00.079
No, I can't say Ellison anymore.
00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:02.400
I went cat brain.
00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:06.000
And now it's everybody break out the laser.
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:09.440
Instead of howdy, I say Meowdy.
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:11.760
Meowdy! Yay!
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:14.480
Uh I love it.
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:20.719
Yeah, I I love your guys' reaction when you guys first saw my Makote character.
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:23.599
Like, oh no, what happened?
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:25.360
You shrunk.
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:30.000
You got all short and cute.
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:30.960
All right.
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:36.000
So um all the extreme mounts have come out now that we've gotten our last extreme trial.
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:45.519
So now, if you're one of those people who really likes to like on level like uh gopher mounts, um start doing those extreme trials.
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:55.360
I guess we need to start getting HJP events to go and do extreme trials so that maybe people can get uh get their wings.
00:47:56.400 --> 00:48:16.639
Um I know that uh one of my friends who who's big uh into doing the the on-level stuff is like one set of wings away from being able to go and get the last set, and the last set is like we're talking these gorgeous angel wings.
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:21.039
So if that's a thing you're into, go for it.
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:22.639
Like now's the time.
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:25.760
Um now's the time.
00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:28.079
Well, I mean, we've got we've got seven months.
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:29.119
Come on, y'all.
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:31.599
Uh the next thing I wanted to talk about.
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:35.360
Oh god, have you gotten your succubus hoodie yet?
00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:36.480
No.
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:38.079
No.
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:41.599
No, I thought for sure you'd have gotten your hoodie already.
00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:47.280
I I I know, but the pricing for it right at the moment, uh, yeah.
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:56.559
We got super lucky when we went and we did treasure maps um at the beginning of uh the the patch drop.
00:48:56.719 --> 00:48:57.119
Uh-huh.
00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:03.280
And we uh wound up getting, I think it was like five or six of them.
00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:03.840
I don't know.
00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:07.840
I've just been sitting here and making jeans and hoodies for everybody in my FC.
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:15.679
I had a little bit of cloth left over, so I made one for Adam 8 bit, who is in your FC.
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:16.559
Yes.
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:21.840
That's Tom, Heather's husband for uh Heather Display.
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:26.079
And he he was very excited about it, so I'm very happy.
00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:29.840
I I had a moment of like, I don't know, maybe he's already got it.
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:38.880
And then like I there very kind of like surreptitiously slid up and was like, hey Tom, Heather, did either one of you have this thing?
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:44.960
Come to find out he's been trying to get this this hoodie for like a month.
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:46.480
That's awesome.
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:49.039
There you go.
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:50.000
I just happened to have it.
00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:50.719
There you go.
00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:52.159
Hope you enjoy it.
00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:54.719
Oh, that's awesome.
00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:57.519
Yeah, I'm so glad that that worked out.
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:04.880
The the things that um oh god, did we talk about what happened with Chloe's Wondrous Tales?
00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:38.239
No, we haven't, and I've seen people with the particular amounts for it, and I'm like, oh okay, so to to give like a quick download of the changes to Chloe's uh Wondrous Tales, if you don't do your Chloe's Wondrous Tales, once you get to a certain point in Heavensword, they introduced a um level uh a leveling like mechanic, it's uh way to encourage people to do certain things, um, but also get extra XP for for jobs and so forth.
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:43.119
Um, and what it is is that you go to to Idol Shire.
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:54.880
Um if you know, you know, when you get to that point, once you get past uh or get into the M patches of Evansword, you go to Idleshire, you talk to the little cat girl.
00:50:55.039 --> 00:51:03.840
Um, it actually starts, if I remember correctly, with an Ellion or somebody who's in the field in Idol Shire.
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:07.360
You should talk to the the Blue Quest dude, I think.
00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:16.159
And um anyway, that opens up the ability to get a weekly quest log, what is essentially what it is.
00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:40.800
And it's uh you open it up and it gives you a series of duties that you can complete uh that will get you stickers that you put in your little sticker book, and you can go turn it into Chloe, and each one of those little stickers represents a story that you have done um and you have retold to her.
00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:47.360
And if you get one all in a line, then it is actually a cohesive story.
00:51:47.599 --> 00:52:01.840
Or if you're like me and you're determined to disappoint a little cat girl, all you hand her is a bunch of fragmented stories who that aren't even capitalized properly, which is stickers like all stuck in random places.
00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:04.400
Pretty much.
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:09.199
Uh, you get a series of standard rewards.
00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:33.360
Uh if you if you just get nine seals but no lines, you will at least have the option of either an Alleghen Platinum piece, which is 10,000 gill, uh 500 uh uh Alleghen Tom Stones of Poetics, or you can get whatever is the top level um time worn map that you can access.
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:44.079
Oh, yes, and you will also get anywhere from about half to a full level's worth of XP for each turn in.
00:52:44.159 --> 00:52:57.760
So weekly, if you've just got one job that you've been kind of like trying to get up, and some and if you're low enough, I think if you're below 60, you can get as as many as two levels, um, or a level and a half, something like that.
00:52:57.920 --> 00:52:58.400
Something like that.
00:52:58.559 --> 00:53:00.880
It's a lot of XP, it's a lot of XP.
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:08.320
Um, if you get a line of stickers, then you can get an MGP gold card for 30,000 MGP.
00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:20.239
It you can also get a bronze certificate, which is usually turned in for things like minions, um, a couple of glam items, a few other things.
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:25.039
Uh, you may need as many as two, which can be two weeks worth of a line.
00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:33.840
Um you get uh, and then you can get 50 tomstones of whatever your top level tomestones that you have access to are.
00:53:34.239 --> 00:53:41.599
It's completely adjusted based on your top job that you have on your character.
00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:48.400
Um, so if you are in the end game, then you have act then it's going to be giving you in-game uh tombstones.
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:53.440
If you are not in the end game, then it gives you just poetics.
00:53:53.679 --> 00:54:03.119
Um, you get one point or one sticker per like uh thing that that you have marked off.
00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:07.519
You can then get points, they're called second chance points.
00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:13.599
You get a second chance point for every single time you enter a duty with someone who hasn't done it before.
00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:19.039
You can then use those second chance points to redo something.
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:30.800
If you are particularly lazy, like myself, and you get close to the end of the week when it has to be turned in, it has a deadline at the top of the book when you open up the menu.
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:42.800
Uh you can just unsync or unrestrict any of the duties you want to do and just go handle them and then uh go turn it in and get your rewards.
00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:46.159
The certificates do actually go.
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:50.719
You can technically, technically, though I have only heard this about this in myth.
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:55.920
I think I've done it once in the six years that I have played this game.
00:54:56.079 --> 00:55:04.880
I have once gotten three lines, and that is a single gold and three silver certificates.
00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:22.880
The silver certificates now not just get you like one or two things, um, you now have access to a good number of the mounts that were once only available to gold certificate turn-ins have been moved down to silver certificate turn-ins.
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:24.159
Yes.
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:27.440
Which I've seen one and I want it.
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:36.079
I want all of them because, of course, my mighty mountain of of mounts and minions, I must maintain.
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:38.400
Um, that's a lot of alliteration.
00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:45.679
Anyway, my wife, who is the luckiest bunny, uh, wound up having a stash of silver certificates.
00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:52.639
So as soon as she found out about the the change, she went and cashed them all in and then had to show up on all of her new mounts.
00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:56.239
And I was just like, you lucky bunny.
00:55:56.480 --> 00:56:01.440
Um I love you, but you lucky bunny.
00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:02.719
Yep.
00:56:03.199 --> 00:56:12.000
I'm not jealous at all about the fact that you now have mounts that I don't have access to, so I'm over here furiously trying to get a line of stickers.
00:56:12.239 --> 00:56:15.920
Uh, it's uh two of them, and it's not working out so good for me.
00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:18.159
No, uh, which is frustrating.
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:20.480
Not at all.
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:22.320
Not at all, Chloe.
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:26.400
You tiny cat girl that I don't want to wring the neck of at all.
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:29.280
Probably.
00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:33.760
Uh anyway, so now there's a new thing that has been introduced.
00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:43.760
Um, occasionally you'll see in your book, depending on I think where what level or whatever you're at, you'll have like a little four-leaf clover and a two on there.
00:56:44.159 --> 00:56:58.960
And the way that it works is that if you complete that uh duty, which it's almost always from what I have seen, you get the two four-leaf clover on duties that um you cannot unsync.
00:56:59.119 --> 00:57:02.400
So you you have to do them like straight up.
00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:06.480
Uh, it will give you two stickers for the price of one.
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:17.119
So that could be a faster way to do it, or at least a more fun way to get more stickers, and hopefully be able to get uh more stickers in a line.
00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:18.239
I don't know.
00:57:18.480 --> 00:57:22.559
I haven't been able to do that part of it, but we'll see.
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:23.840
Yeah, we'll see.
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:24.960
Uh we'll see.
00:57:26.079 --> 00:57:41.760
I mean, at the time of the recording, I did pick up the new book, so I'm hoping to get some uh some silver certificate that the for the next one, but uh fingers, toes, paws, and claws all crossed for that one, let me tell you.
00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:42.960
I know, right?
00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:46.480
There was also a housing update.
00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:50.960
I don't know how much changes how many changes you've been making to your house or not.
00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:59.679
I I completely redid uh Luna's house, um, which I I'm kind of the de facto decorator for some of my friend group.
00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:08.320
Uh I know that that we have quite a few incredibly talented decorators in the HJP group.
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:16.079
Um, I recommend that if you have any questions on how to do some really cool housing stuff, go ask Atlas or go ask Maple.
00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:24.480
Um there are two members of our our Discord group who are absolutely excellent at doing um housing.
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:33.360
The housing update so far that we got is we got one more interior design, which is the dark minimalist, which my little godheart loves so much.
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:40.239
And then uh the the other updates we got were of course to the storage.
00:58:40.639 --> 00:58:44.079
So now I have more places to put more things.
00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:49.199
That uh that absolutely won't become a problem for me at all at any point.
00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:51.840
No, no, not at all.
00:58:52.320 --> 00:59:11.119
More stuff, which is funny because uh okay, so at the time of this recording, I just saw something incredible for for the yard, and I may may do that, and because like my yard right now, I love my yard.
00:59:11.199 --> 00:59:16.480
I I absolutely adore my yard right now, especially because I have a Kugari house.
00:59:16.559 --> 00:59:25.679
Uh, it's got the OSAN uh on the side, which I have I have like for so I have blocked off the viewing of it, it's like covered with trees.
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:28.400
So even if you go into it, you're safe.
00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:30.320
No, you know, your privacy is safe.
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:33.599
You can just sit in there and you're you're good and whatnot.
00:59:34.079 --> 00:59:43.360
What I just saw, I am probably I'm most likely gonna do just to mess people up and try to get into my house.
00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:46.480
Okay, I'm not gonna say it.
00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:47.679
I'm not gonna say it here.
00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:50.159
You're just gonna let it be a surprise.
00:59:50.400 --> 01:00:00.159
Yes, and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna work on it, and I'm gonna be like, hey, come check out my house and see if you guys like it, and then that's that's gonna be the big review.
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:30.159
But I will say though, I will I will say though, in my house right now, in the basement, uh, I did rework it to where it was a movie theater, and now I have set it up where it is a stage uh area, so I have a walk, uh I have a runway, I have a run runway, and also I have a backstage area for people to get to prep and all that stuff, just in case we do some sort of indoor uh fashion glam event.
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:34.960
Um I just need to I need to uh spice up the decorating a little bit more.
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:44.159
But uh but yeah, uh overall it's 95% done uh in everything that's down there and everything.
01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:49.039
But the rest of my house, I you know, I I I love how it is laid out and everything right now.
01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:59.280
Um knowing me, I probably will just be like the hell with this and store everything and start all over from scratch with a new interior design.
01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:03.199
So that's just that's just how that's just how I work.
01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:12.079
So uh, but no, uh my front yard, I'm going to rework that, and I probably will uh make a big review of it whenever I'm like, hey, my front yard is done.
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:13.440
Come check it out.
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:14.880
Cool.
01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:19.280
I I we need to do a housing tour soon in HJP.
01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:20.559
We need to do that again.
01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:30.559
Um it's been a long time since the last one, so a lot of people have done make a lot of changes from uh from then to now.
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:36.159
So oh yeah, especially with the new spaces that have been opened.
01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:42.639
I know the the um the Kraken's Call FC house has had big changes to it.
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:50.719
I haven't done a lot of big changes to my FC, um, but like it's on the list of things uh to do.
01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:53.840
There's a lot there's a long list of things to do.
01:01:54.159 --> 01:02:10.239
Um the uh like right now I'm totally into I want to try and do a weekly treasure map thing because treasure map uh especially the Dawn Trail treasure map drops, the the glam drops have been excellent.
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:12.719
Have you seen the cloth of legend?
01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:20.719
Um the cloth of legend drops out of the new uh treasure maps, and it creates some of the prettiest glam.
01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:22.719
Holy crap.
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:34.400
That and the um if you haven't gotten a chance to try it out, the variant dungeon that came out in December, um, the new variant dungeon is amazing.
01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:45.599
Uh the if you're a level 90, it's actually a good way to to level characters because you actually get XP uh for leveling in the variant dungeons.
01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:53.599
I have tried kind of doing the advanced stuff, but I haven't really cleared anything yet because I've been able to prog it much.
01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:58.159
Um but I'm really super interested in going in and doing that.
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:03.519
Uh, you only need to have um a minimum of two people to prog the advanced.
01:03:03.599 --> 01:03:07.840
So if you've got a buddy and you want to do that, jump in.
01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:16.719
I've nearly gotten, I think I've just gotten almost all of the glam out of the variant dungeon.
01:03:16.880 --> 01:03:26.960
Uh and it is also very good, especially if you love like a thousand and one of Arabian Knights or you know, Aladdin, that sort of thing.
01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:27.199
Yeah.
01:03:27.360 --> 01:03:29.920
It's very, very bad.
01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:35.440
No, I I think I do need to do more of it.
01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:38.239
I think I've cleared maybe three spots of it.
01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:39.760
I need to go into it.
01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:42.320
And I like the rest of it.
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:45.199
But I've been like, We just got okay.
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:57.360
So my disappointment with it, I will say, is that for clearing all of the routes on the normal, uh, you don't get a mount anymore, which is a little frustrating.
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:01.440
Uh instead, you get uh a faceware item.
01:04:02.639 --> 01:04:11.199
Um, and the thing that I'm most frustrated by is that it's a faceware item that's technically already a headpiece in the game.
01:04:11.679 --> 01:04:21.119
It is uh the choke, I think it's like the pajama eye mask or whatever it was from the end of Endwalker.
01:04:21.199 --> 01:04:36.079
Yeah, it's that they turned that into a faceware item, which of course means that it can now be, you know, it has a better die scheme, I guess, and you can wear it with headpieces, which is, you know, is always nice.
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:44.800
But uh it's um I apologize for all that.
01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:50.880
But uh that's why I've been trying to be quiet around it.
01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:56.000
But anyway, uh the but yeah, no, it's it's the the glam I didn't it's it's okay.
01:04:56.079 --> 01:04:56.880
It's okay.
01:04:57.119 --> 01:05:00.960
But I yeah, I'm uh I'm gonna I'm gonna give a criticism there.
01:05:01.119 --> 01:05:02.400
I'm not happy about it.
01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:24.239
I was I was actually really upset to find out that the mounts are attached to having to do the advanced stuff, which you know, I would have I'm fine with them having mounts as as rewards for doing the advanced, but why can't we get a mount for for completing all 12?
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:26.800
Because at least it's a grind reward, right?
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:32.239
Yeah, and it at least follows the same expectation that we had from previous.
01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:49.679
But to to then not give us yeah, that's just that that's a little weird because like all the other ones, like you said, it's like they gave out mop rewards, and now you're gonna switch it up and you're gonna give us an an eye a facewear.
01:05:52.320 --> 01:06:14.159
And it's literally it's literally just it's like the sleeping mask thing, and don't get me wrong, people have gone to Directions with it, but it's still technically that's something that's available in the game, and it's an item from the previous expansion, so it feels lazy.
01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:16.159
It feels lazy.
01:06:16.719 --> 01:06:19.760
I don't like it because it feels lazy.
01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:23.679
Yeah, I don't like lazy rewards, they're frustrating to me.
01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:26.719
Yeah, I I don't know how to feel about that.
01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:30.320
Um yeah, that's that's disappointing.
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:31.199
That's disappointing.
01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:32.719
Yeah, yeah.
01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:39.760
But at the same time, doing going through and doing all 12 of the routes, and they are fun to do.
01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:54.480
So if you're someone who's just motivated by doing the routes themselves, and then being able to get enough of the uh the shards, the pot shards or whatever they are, uh to be able to turn in to get the the glam or the bot items, it's totally worth it.
01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:55.519
Totally worth it.
01:06:55.760 --> 01:07:04.719
So I'm not trying to convince people not to do the variant dungeon, but it's like if you feel like you have to be completionist on all 12, no, you don't.
01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:06.239
You absolutely don't.
01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:16.400
All you have to do is just meet and defeat the boss for each one of the main lines, and then you can go directly into the advanced.
01:07:16.639 --> 01:07:24.239
Which that makes a guess a nice change for that, but I still would have liked to mount reward.
01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:24.800
Dang it.
01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:29.920
I put all the effort into clearing all 12 lines, uh 13, technically, 13 lines.
01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:31.760
I want my mount.
01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:33.039
Yes.
01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:37.199
Uh yeah, do all that and your job quests.
01:07:37.519 --> 01:07:37.840
Right?
01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:38.960
Do your job quest.
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:39.760
Anyway.
01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:42.800
Uh you're in her ear.
01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:45.119
Anyway, way too many times at this point.
01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:46.639
Uh, they also made some.
01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:57.840
Oh, by the way, if you do uh go into to um PvP, those of you out there listening who do, um how do people feel about the changes to Battle High?
01:07:58.559 --> 01:07:59.920
How do you feel about that?
01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:04.159
Have you have you played a lot of front lines to be able to like get a hold on it?
01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:05.199
Because it's weird.
01:08:05.519 --> 01:08:06.320
Not really.
01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:13.519
Um, I think I only started frontline like as of this recording, like four days ago.
01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:19.920
Uh so I've only done like maybe three front lines.
01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:20.800
Okay.
01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:23.199
So let me give a quick breakdown.
01:08:23.520 --> 01:08:25.439
Let me give a quick breakdown of how it works.
01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:42.000
So previously, whenever you would die, if you had any bottle high, which battle high has gained from either um uh clapping cheeks real hard uh in in assistance to your buddies, or it is uh actually capping somebody.
01:08:42.079 --> 01:08:46.560
Like you, if you get a death, then you would get a fair amount of battle high.
01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:56.720
Um now the amount of battle high that you get for killing someone who has no battle high has been reduced.
01:08:56.960 --> 01:09:05.680
But if you come across somebody who has battle high, you get more points towards your battle high if you cap them.
01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:19.359
So if uh you happen to have no battle high and you come across somebody who has uh maximum battle high and you magically either assist or kill that person, then hey, your battle high goes up faster.
01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:20.000
Oh wow.
01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:26.399
Uh even better, when you die, your battle high does not get reduced or taken away.
01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:28.319
Oh, that's awesome anymore.
01:09:28.880 --> 01:09:29.439
Right.
01:09:29.920 --> 01:09:40.960
Unless uh you get killed, as far as I can tell, um, you get killed a second time without gaining any battle high, then it will get reduced.
01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:42.399
Ah, I see.
01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:47.359
So the first time you die, essentially, you don't have it reduced.
01:09:47.680 --> 01:10:00.079
But the second time, if you die without gaining any battle high or not gaining enough or whatever, then you you won't you do actually see a reduction in your battle high.
01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:03.119
So um that's an interesting change.
01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:12.720
I kind of like it, but at the same time, I don't I'm very confused on some of the matrices of it.
01:10:12.960 --> 01:10:19.600
No, how much you lose depending on who kills you or whatever or what it's related to.
01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:25.840
And that's just down to I haven't spent enough time doing it, so I'll I'll get a better handle on that later.
01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:28.319
No, I I I could say that on that.
01:10:28.560 --> 01:10:34.239
I I'm gonna have to I'm definitely gonna be playing a lot more front lines, so probably not our next podcast.
01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:40.560
Uh we will I'll I'll be able to understand it a lot more um than this time around.
01:10:41.039 --> 01:10:47.439
Uh for just keep in mind for anybody who is listening, like the next patch that's coming up is 7.51.
01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:51.840
Okay, 7.51 is our uh our odd patch.
01:10:52.159 --> 01:11:01.520
Odd patches are when we see custom deliveries, we see um the the in-between stuff.
01:11:01.680 --> 01:11:19.279
There's usually uh for this one, we're gonna have one big, huge drop, and then what are considered to be, I guess, smaller drops along with it, because we're getting custom deliveries, we're getting auntie tees, we're gonna get some tacos, we're gonna help make them tackles.
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:20.000
Yes.
01:11:20.159 --> 01:11:21.359
Uh, I'm looking forward to that.
01:11:21.439 --> 01:11:23.039
Those stories are usually fun.
01:11:23.279 --> 01:11:34.239
Um, and then we're gonna be getting uh uh the last location, our last planet for uh cosmic exploration.
01:11:34.640 --> 01:11:43.439
So if you want to build up your tools or you want to um just see how the last planet plays out, now's a good time to do it.
01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:52.880
Uh the big thing though is gonna be the ultimate rate is getting dropped.
01:11:53.039 --> 01:11:59.199
We're getting dancing mad ultimate.
01:11:59.359 --> 01:12:01.760
And people are already arguing over the name.
01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:04.159
Have you seen the arguments over the name?
01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:07.520
Why are they arguing over dancing mad?
01:12:08.239 --> 01:12:18.319
Okay, well, you know how uh the ultimate weapon or the what is it, what is it that everybody I know everybody calls it U.
01:12:19.279 --> 01:12:19.520
Right.
01:12:20.079 --> 01:12:21.600
That's not what it's called, though.
01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:23.119
That's not the actual name of it.
01:12:23.680 --> 01:12:25.279
It's like the ultimate weapon.
01:12:25.439 --> 01:12:28.640
Um, oh geez, what is it called?
01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:30.560
Oh my god.
01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:37.600
I have to look this up now because like I know it's under high-end duty and we have raids.
01:12:38.319 --> 01:12:43.920
Uh it's not the ultimate weapon refrain.
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:51.359
Okay, so they see ultimate weapon refrain, it's actually UWR, right?
01:12:52.880 --> 01:13:01.439
Uh but but um, or the weapons, it's the weapons refrain ultimate, is actually what it's called.
01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:03.279
The weapons refrain ultimate.
01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:08.000
So the weapons refrain ultimate got turned into uwoo.
01:13:09.119 --> 01:13:14.880
Because it's the ultima weapon ultimate is technically what it is.
01:13:15.039 --> 01:13:15.520
Yes.
01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:25.840
So it's like uh the unending coil of Bahamut Ultimate got turned into UCOB because it just very quickly shortens into that.
01:13:25.920 --> 01:13:33.600
Yes, and then you have the epic of Alexander became T because the Epic Alexander T.
01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:34.640
Yes, T.
01:13:35.119 --> 01:13:41.279
Alright, so then we have the Omega Protocol became top, so on and so forth.
01:13:41.359 --> 01:13:42.399
So very simple.
01:13:42.560 --> 01:13:44.800
We got uh, you know, what is it?
01:13:44.960 --> 01:14:04.399
Uh then you have fru for um, you know, girlfriend, and then and then but this last one, all of the casuals, all of the non-top raiders want to call it, oh god, it what is it, damn you.
01:14:05.520 --> 01:14:07.279
They want to call it damn you.
01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:09.520
I thought I thought I read you mad.
01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:10.560
Isn't that what is it?
01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:13.199
And then oh, that's right, they want to call it you mad.
01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:21.199
All of the uh the the raiders want to just call it uh uh dancing mad and just want to leave it at that.
01:14:21.520 --> 01:14:26.000
Because of course, you know, they're very serious people, obviously.
01:14:26.319 --> 01:14:27.279
Obviously.
01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:34.560
Obviously, and all of the but yes, all the casuals, all the filthy casuals are like, you mad, you mad, you mad?
01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:36.800
Are you mad?
01:14:37.039 --> 01:14:53.520
And of course we have brought back the you mad face, the you mad bro face has become now the the the ultimate, and of course, all of the actual raid teams that are getting prepped for for doing the the ultimate the first race.
01:14:53.760 --> 01:14:56.560
Um uh what is it?
01:14:56.800 --> 01:14:58.399
My brain's starting to slow down.
01:14:58.479 --> 01:15:00.399
We have to wrap this up.
01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:01.119
Yeah, we do.
01:15:01.279 --> 01:15:02.720
But um, my brain is starting to slow down.
01:15:03.439 --> 01:15:04.880
World first, world first.
01:15:05.279 --> 01:15:09.119
So you have the world first, um, and that's a big thing.
01:15:09.199 --> 01:15:16.479
In fact, there's gonna be a huge um like uh raid stream that's gonna go on.
01:15:16.560 --> 01:15:18.000
Uh, usually, what is it?
01:15:18.159 --> 01:15:21.039
Uh you have Frosty from Mog Talk.
01:15:21.199 --> 01:15:27.840
Mog Talk is like the home of all World First for uh Final Fantasy XIV.
01:15:28.479 --> 01:15:33.680
And that is literally Mog Talk M-O-G-T-A-L-K dot com.
01:15:33.920 --> 01:15:35.199
Mogtalk.com.
01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:57.279
Have and they especially for ultimates, they have a charity stream where uh they take donations and um they they help a charity out based on uh the viewership and they watch uh for um the the first uh the person who does first clear on ultimate.
01:15:58.079 --> 01:16:04.479
So Dancing Mad, of course, is being set up right now, and it's going to drop June 2nd.
01:16:04.720 --> 01:16:07.680
That's when the excitement begins, y'all.
01:16:07.840 --> 01:16:11.359
Uh for world first for um Dancing Mad.
01:16:11.520 --> 01:16:14.960
I don't know even know how much we're gonna see of.
01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:33.840
I know that they they hinted when we got to see the the the bits and pieces uh from the uh keynote, we got to see uh the dancing mad, we got to see God Kefka, we got to see, we got to see bits and pieces.
01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:41.840
So I don't know how much how much translation from the savage fight we're actually gonna see.
01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:46.720
See, um my thing is though, like all we saw was Kevka, right?
01:16:47.119 --> 01:16:54.000
Kevka, which um which all the mechanics that I saw was pretty much uh stem from the savage fight.
01:16:54.720 --> 01:17:01.439
Now because it's an ultimate it there's gonna there's multiple layers to the fight to begin with.
01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:06.079
So what we did not see is the war and triad.
01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:18.800
And if you have not played which if you have not played six, uh the war and triad were like these three gods that was balancing the um the world, essentially.
01:17:18.960 --> 01:17:22.000
The world's well we we get that in heaven's work, right?
01:17:22.079 --> 01:17:25.119
We get like a version of the war and triad.
01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:35.279
But like, are we gonna are we gonna get the true war and triad of or are we just going to get extra phases of like god Kafka?
01:17:38.800 --> 01:17:51.520
I that would be interesting if they if they'd gone that route because there was only two phases of Kevka in six, which which we saw, which you only which you saw in in Savage.
01:17:51.840 --> 01:18:05.680
So right I um but isn't there also what something something something that somebody mentioned about like the pinnacle and uh Kevka Pinnacle and stuff like that, or am I thinking of something else?
01:18:06.000 --> 01:18:07.359
Might be something else at this point.
01:18:07.439 --> 01:18:09.039
Um fair enough.
01:18:09.279 --> 01:18:10.479
But you I don't know.
01:18:10.560 --> 01:18:16.399
I never played six, so I for me I'm just sitting here going, ooh, big fight.
01:18:19.199 --> 01:18:26.880
You know, and this this is come this is gonna be something where I I may tune in just to see what the fight's gonna be about.
01:18:27.119 --> 01:18:36.239
And normally I like to go in, you know, relatively blind, unless, you know, you know, some uh you know a raid leader is like, hey, I need you to watch this video.
01:18:36.319 --> 01:18:37.359
I'm like, okay.
01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:52.960
Well, I mean, there's gonna I I know that the that we've got um we we have the Sprout to Ultimate group in uh HJP, and there has been a huge push for Uwoo.
01:18:53.520 --> 01:19:03.680
Um I know that some people were uh trying to get uh at least to see the the end of that fight before fan fest.
01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:04.479
Yeah.
01:19:04.800 --> 01:19:10.399
But I know that y'all are still working towards that, so that's just an ongoing thing.
01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:11.119
Yes.
01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:23.199
Um I personally I like watching the ultimate fights, but I've tried, I've come in and I've like guest starred and I've helped out uh with some of the the early bits of the fight.
01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:34.960
I don't really have an interest in doing ultimates just because it's it's way too much sustained stuff over time, and I need more breaks for my hands, uh arthritis.
01:19:35.039 --> 01:19:39.760
It is in fact a beat, a giant, giant B-I-T-C-H.
01:19:40.079 --> 01:19:44.399
Um, I I'm not fond, we don't get along.
01:19:44.560 --> 01:19:46.560
Like we are not friends.
01:19:47.840 --> 01:20:02.640
So I play the game as best I can with what I got, and while I think I do a pretty dang good job of it, uh there are things I struggle with, and sustained play over long periods of time is one of those things.
01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:13.039
Um and so uh ultimates are kind of like outside of my range without being able to take breaks, and that's hard when you have what is it?
01:20:13.119 --> 01:20:20.960
Uh if you do everything perfectly, Uwoo is still a like 21-minute fight.
01:20:21.359 --> 01:20:29.920
Yeah, I and at this point, like we're where we are right now, uh, with the Buccaneers and Clan Nazi and everything.
01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:34.079
Uh, we are only up until uh Titan at this point.
01:20:34.239 --> 01:20:40.079
So it's like we're I we're like just about halfway, maybe I think.
01:20:40.640 --> 01:20:51.840
I don't know, halfway into the fight, but like even then, like getting to that point, my like at a certain point, my hand starts to cramp up and everything like yeah, well, it's pretty it's pretty common.
01:20:52.079 --> 01:20:53.439
Yeah, yeah, it does.
01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:56.079
Getting old does suck, it does suck.
01:20:56.239 --> 01:21:04.319
And there are some people who are just not even in tight like 100% on on doing it uh raids in general, and that's fine.
01:21:04.479 --> 01:21:07.680
The game includes all that, but that's the next thing we're looking at.
01:21:07.840 --> 01:21:34.960
So if if you're into the crafting and gathering, 7.51 is definitely gonna have stuff for you if you are down to at least watch, which I heard they're they're adding in a ton of like new sound, uh what is it, new voice acting, and we're getting more um more lines got added.
01:21:35.119 --> 01:21:37.840
Like, like it's a whole experience now.
01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:38.640
Yes, yeah.
01:21:40.479 --> 01:21:44.960
I would never want to UFC fight, but I'll be honest, I've watched some of it.
01:21:45.039 --> 01:21:46.800
It's kind of fun to watch.
01:21:48.399 --> 01:21:52.880
And yeah, WWE don't want to do it, but I will definitely watch it.
01:21:54.000 --> 01:21:57.279
But uh no, it it sounds like a good time.
01:21:57.439 --> 01:22:09.039
I've not done a a savage fight, and like I'm looking forward to watching someone else do a savage fight because I would rather let them experience it as well.
01:22:10.960 --> 01:22:21.119
I'm sorry, yeah, the the ultimate fights uh as opposed to uh being in it, but even though we are doing oowoo uh and everything, but it's it's for me, it is fun.
01:22:21.439 --> 01:22:27.600
Um, but for the uh for for uh I don't even know, you mad, I guess, for Kevka.
01:22:28.319 --> 01:22:29.600
You mad, you mad, bro.
01:22:31.439 --> 01:22:31.920
You mad.
01:22:32.479 --> 01:22:35.359
All right, so anyway, uh we've got a lot going forward.
01:22:35.520 --> 01:22:38.000
I think at this point we've kind of gone over it.
01:22:38.159 --> 01:22:58.880
I'm still kind of filling the doldrums a little bit though, because you know how there's always that dip that happens, like the new stuff that comes out, you get to experience all of it, um, the big changes that come through, and then there's that point where you kind of get that dip right before the next uh the next patch comes through, and then then the excitement builds again and again and again.
01:22:59.039 --> 01:23:01.199
Yeah, so I'm still feeling it right there.
01:23:01.279 --> 01:23:09.439
I'm I'm trapped in cosmic exploration because I do want to get because I'm so look, I'm a simple creature.
01:23:09.600 --> 01:23:17.199
I saw somebody making things with the new cosmic weapons, and it makes little planets go around your head while you're crafting stuff, and I have to have that.
01:23:17.279 --> 01:23:18.800
I'm sorry, that's important.
01:23:19.199 --> 01:23:20.000
Okay, yeah.
01:23:20.159 --> 01:23:24.800
I I'm gonna have to join you in uh cosmic aspiration just for that sounds ridiculous.
01:23:25.199 --> 01:23:33.680
You and me, we're getting on a plane, we're gonna we're we're getting on a space shuttle, we're going to the moon, playing out with bunnies, and we'll we'll make ourselves some cosmic stuff.
01:23:33.920 --> 01:23:41.680
So in the meantime, they've there's some really cool stuff coming down the line, and I am super excited for it.
01:23:41.920 --> 01:23:46.720
But right now, I've I think that uh we've talked out our reactions.
01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:49.199
I've been very excited about 7.5.
01:23:49.760 --> 01:23:53.680
I am stupid excited for the next fan fest.
01:23:53.760 --> 01:23:58.239
And in fact, I think we're gonna do something exciting for this new fan fest.
01:23:58.399 --> 01:23:58.960
What do you think?
01:23:59.199 --> 01:24:00.720
What's that gonna be?
01:24:01.119 --> 01:24:07.119
Ooh, I think that for the first time ever, let us do a live stream.
01:24:07.439 --> 01:24:09.600
So everybody mark your calendar.
01:24:09.680 --> 01:24:24.239
It's gonna be kind of early in the morning, but we are gonna be live streaming probably at least half the day on um July 25th, so that we can go over the uh the keynote and go over all the new things that are getting dropped.
01:24:24.479 --> 01:24:34.560
You're gonna get live reactions from me, live reactions from Hula uh Hookah, and we're gonna we're just gonna go over everything that's going on in real time this time.
01:24:34.800 --> 01:24:40.399
And then, you know, I'm probably gonna be drinking a lot of coffee because it's gonna be so early in the morning.
01:24:41.600 --> 01:24:43.920
So much coffee, so many things.
01:24:44.079 --> 01:24:44.800
Oh my goodness.
01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:45.039
Yes.
01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:51.439
I might have to I might have to bring in my coffee maker and just set it right next to me and just mute my mic.
01:24:56.960 --> 01:25:03.439
It's just it's gonna sit right here, and I'm gonna make my coffee, mute my mic so I can make my coffee and everything.
01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:05.600
Smell a little coffee friend.
01:25:05.680 --> 01:25:06.880
Yeah, absolutely.
01:25:07.119 --> 01:25:10.239
All right, so we've that's the plan right now.
01:25:10.399 --> 01:25:12.079
We're we're getting it set up.
01:25:12.239 --> 01:25:24.000
We're gonna have we're gonna have a live show for you, breaking down, talking about, showing our reactions to the latest uh fan fest, and then I think we're gonna be doing that one in October too.
01:25:24.159 --> 01:25:30.800
So uh if the if the live live um stream goes well, I'm excited for it.
01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:32.319
Come hang out with us.
01:25:32.560 --> 01:25:36.239
I'm excited to be excited with us, join us.
01:25:36.399 --> 01:25:36.800
Yeah.
01:25:37.039 --> 01:25:40.720
This is probably gonna be my first time doing something live like this.
01:25:41.039 --> 01:25:44.159
Uh and it's gonna be really fun with you.
01:25:44.319 --> 01:25:46.239
And I I it's gonna be a great time.
01:25:46.479 --> 01:25:47.359
It's gonna be a blast.
01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:48.159
Hell yeah.
01:25:48.239 --> 01:25:57.680
I'm I it I will admit I really missed y'all being at the the thing and me not being able to go because having our reactions live, I think, would have been a lot of fun.
01:25:57.920 --> 01:25:58.319
Yes.
01:25:58.640 --> 01:26:05.840
But I'm so glad you got to experience the the fan fest because it it looked like it was just the best time.
01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:08.000
I learned a lot during that trip.
01:26:08.159 --> 01:26:23.600
I learned uh what not to do, uh, and then what I need to do next time to try to live stream something, or at least not really try to live stream, but I'm probably just gonna just do a recording of my reactions.
01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:26.079
Yes.
01:26:26.640 --> 01:26:29.439
So that's that that's for the next time.
01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:30.720
In three years.
01:26:31.039 --> 01:26:34.479
Well that oh yeah, we'll see how it goes down.
01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:36.239
We've got time to plan, you know.
01:26:36.399 --> 01:26:38.800
You know, uh, we can do this.
01:26:39.039 --> 01:26:46.720
All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and um pack up and head off to the void because I have some some little voidlings I need to take care of.
01:26:46.960 --> 01:26:51.199
And uh, I think uh I will see you in the next one.
01:26:51.520 --> 01:26:55.199
And may all your etherite travels be free.
01:26:56.159 --> 01:26:56.720
See ya.
01:26:57.680 --> 01:26:58.239
Bye.
