#alex shouts to the void

[alex-multiverse]

Ranking arr class quests from lamest to coolest

Ff14 has a lot of jobs. And we all love them for different reasons. One of said reasons often includes the job quests, which help with contextualizing the flavor and place they have on the land of eorzea as a whole.

But what about the first step before achieving said job?

Today, im going to rank all the class quest plots in a realm reborn, from what i consider to be the most poorly executed, to the best story in this batch of content. This includes every starter combat job from levels 1 through 30. So no hw jobs who start in arr territory nor crafters or gatherers.

9.- Gladiator

The most boring of the class quests by a mile. The whole guild feels like a bunch of wannabee heroes who stick out their heads in places they shouldnt, and aldin, the focus character, kinda steals all the spotlight from the guild and the wol, even in the final lvl 30 duty. Mylla is cool otherwise and seeing every single gladiator sent to do plot things being near death in an obvious trap is something hilarious to me. And the plot to poison the sultana is funny on hindsight cause its not going to be the first time it happens.

Overall kinda boring, and still, it was better than dealing with paladin after hw

8.- Archer

Xenophobia: the class quest. While it is a good story that contextualizes the systemic issues thst gridania has, the main conflict between Silvairre and Leih isn't entertaining to watch. And the fact that the elezen's shittiness isn't really adressed and leih just kinda puts up with so they get along. And the whole "subduing the vil poachers" feels off when you consider the lore of the keepers of the moon in the twelveswood and their whole "actually living in peace with the elementals and being branded as poachers by the gridanians" all ends up leaving a bad aftertaste in ones mouth.

7.-Lancer

Drk isnt edgy as Dragoon is, and its predecessor is also quite edgy at times. Lancer quest focus character is Folques, who is yet another victim of gridania's aggressive culture towards outsiders, except he is a murderous bastard who thinks that getting stronger via murder is cool. So we prove he's wrong as we become stronger by killing him instead.

Overall kinda meh story about a rude rival that foreshadows some of the themes of revenge to occur in heavensward and stormblood.

6.- Conjurer

Weird how all gridanian class quests are relatively low.

However, conjurer is one i genuinely enjoy. Sylphie is sn amazing character and the explanation of the way conjury works is so good. Reason of it being a tad low, is because e sumi yan is a bad teacher, and sylphie is a terrible student. Other than that, im happy they returned for sb whm quest, closing a book on conjurer in a really good way that ill speak about later.

5.- Arcanist

Our favorite custom officers are a fun quest for beginners, fitting as summoner is the easiest job in the game. I particularly love k'lyhia's energy, as well as how the job includes aspects of its future job incarnations and its own core with her. The power of the summoner and the strategic might of the scholar.

Only complain is that i miss k'lyhia, and i need to see her in dawntrail.

4.- Marauder

You kinda just break rocks and chase after a big animal for 30 levels. Which is to say, they make work with what they had, and had to set in the conflict between beast and man to follow up with Gorge in warrior. Its not terrible, but its obviously just there for the warrior set dressing.

3.- Pugilist

Slapstick plot. The most hilarious class quest solely because hamon is such a riot to be with, abd his solo duty when you kicks his ass and he starts to level up is the best gag in all of a realm reborn. Besides that, the quest isnt particularly memorable besides the average ul'dahn crime sindicate plot.

2.- Thaumaturge

The cocogang is just shadow wizard money gang if it was real. I really love their whole "evil priest that do shady things in the shadows" except the shadows are 2 feet away from the place they do burials and stuff. basically they are all chunnibyious and im all here for it. Plotwise is really cool; it introduces voidsent and also adds some fun conflict in the form of the youngest -and magically deficient- of the coco brothers, and it ends with all of them broadening their horizons. whats not to love about this gang of arsonists?

1.- Rogue

The last addition to the basic classes, also is my personal favorite class plotwise. The rogues guild is full of character and so fun to have around. The whole concept of them being the actual people who punish pirates for their heinous crimes is genius, and the dumb rivalry they have with the yellowjacket captain is hilarious in the same way that lupin the 3rd does with inspector zenigata, and that one gag of Jacke being hanged in the hooks upstairs because he ate a sandwich is hysterical. couldnt expect less from ishikawa.

if i had to nitpick, is that the job loses me a lot aesthetics wise when it becomes ninja instead.

Will make a ranking of the arr job quests later when i feel like it. hope yall understood the weird ramblings of my mind

[an-idiot-in-a-trenchcoat]

Hope I’m not too late for today! This is a wip drawing of a stained glass portrait! I asses the flat colours plus some very basic shading to help with definition.

[a-bucket-in-the-void]

this is gonna kill me, what’s that song with the album cover that’s like looking out a car (or maybe it’s a train?) window and it’s sort of left heavy? like the edge of the window is on the left. and there’s a sign outside the window and in like the middle of it there’s like a. tiktok audio (idk)

i only remember vibes and it’s gonna kill me if i don’t figure this out

[conanssummerchild]

its honestly kind of crazy to me how much my sister just doesnt like me as a person. I would kill to have a younger sister, i saw my cousins this week and they're all younger than me, one's one and a half years younger and we always have fun together, we both love to draw and we both like taylor swift, spending time with her is always nice, the other is four years younger and despite the fact that she's a little shit and i barely ever see her, i feel that instinct to protect her and keep her safe that my sister's never seemed to feel with me. i'm barely three years younger than my sister, we could have fun, she could be there for me and give me advice but in nearly 16 years i haven't met her standards and in over 18 she's never wanted a sister, or maybe she has, just not me.

[actual-changeling]

nothing better than sitting on the floor of an ugly, dirty train station for an hour. germany at its best

[alexisarchived]

what i didn't expect from my second round of dracula daily is how quickly i would miss the entries in the gaps. the first time around i didn't mind the breaks between updates until we got to droughtula (aka the week long break at the climax of the story), but this time around even one day passes without an update and i'm gnawing on every tumblr post i can find like "sir i need my emotional support solicitor"

i don't know whether this is partly the added effect provided by #re:dracula or whether these early scenes are just so much more significant to me because i know now where this is all going, but i've been consuming every update the moment it lands on my phone and i'm so excited to see this through to the end

[justagaycryptid]

Watched American Psycho and this man wants to be Alex DeLarge sooo fucking bad its unreal

[meova101]

It took Alex J about two minutes to start flirting with Alex B in FP1. I think that's a new record.

[whatabeautifulmindforreading]

THE ACTUAL FACT THAT JUNE WHO IS ONE OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN ALEX’S LIFE IS NOT IN THIS MOVIE MAKES IT LOSE TWO POINTS AUTOMATICALLY AND IS COMPLETELY UNFORGIVABLE!!!

[theverytiredghost]

i’m with prince henry. if i saw alex claremont-diaz, son of the president of the united states, at a party standing there with his perfect teeth, pretty brown eyes, and big wispy eyelashes then i too would need to leave immediately.

[gregorygerwitz]

I have another Speak Now series moodboard I could post tonight if anyone is interested! or I could spread them out so it’s not a burst of content on my weekend and then nothing for a week at a time?

it would probably be posted late again if I do it tonight, or first thing tomorrow morning before I leave for work. part of me also wants to wait for the first one to actually get some attention and traction, but if there’s a demand for more, it does exist!

[an-idiot-in-a-trenchcoat]

I just realized after that icon poll that we both have heart icons! so hey!!!!!

HEART GANG!!!!!!

HEART GANG!!!!!

[mumrikhenry]

Listen party people

I am a strong boy. I will survive this.

But i swear to god. If we loose Breggie AND the Dodgers poach Soto, im gonna start maiming motherfuckers.

[conanssummerchild]

im sorry to bring this back up but i was listening to long story short and i remembered why i was so upset when taylor and joe broke up, its not because i have some 'parasocial relationship' with taylor swift, it was because i really related to what taylor sang in songs like peace, afterglow and the great war, but if taylor felt like that and was still loved, maybe some day i could be too. i get NOW that taylor and joe just probably werent right for eachother and i sincerely hope she and travis are happy together and stay together for a long time, im just being pessimistic and i know that but i guess being unlovable is just a recurring and painful theme in my life and it scares me

[actual-changeling]

the funniest thing about academia is the infighting.

and i don't just mean between the different sciences, i mean the highly specific infighting between two topics that to an outsider are one and the same.

my professors will be dropping the absolute WILDEST insults about another dude's speciality and if you don't have like ten different levels of knowledge and a wizard spellbook on hand it will sound like "that bastard guy is stupid he uses the colour pink - unlike me, a genius, who uses the colour pink".

fascinating.

and then there's the very obvious stuff like the organic chem guys finding several letter long abbreviations for a compound because it's "too long" meanwhile you have one look at the "easy" nomenclature examples for complexes in inorganic chem and have three strokes at once.

also there's physics. no one likes physics except for the people who do like physics. most physicists don't like physics. it's that one roommate everyone cannot fucking stand but you can't get rid of them because they pay the rent and keep the house clean.

[justagaycryptid]

idk who this Jack Manifold person is (I think hes one of those annoying minecraft youtuber fuckers???) but I guess a good thing about him watching Marble Hornets is hes infecting more people with whatever the fuck they happened to put in Marble Hornets thats out here making everyone who watches it gay and/or transing their genders