#ff14 stormblood

[wolpromptaday]

#FFXIV #WOLpromptAday

November 3, 2024

Almost everyone has a WOL ship. But have you or someone you know ever shipped with Meteor Survivor himself, even as an AU? How do you feel this would be different from a relationship with another NPC? What would it be like being the Significant Other of Meteor instead of your WOL?

[necozukin]

[eeveesffxivbrainrot]

Haunted History

A necessary mission through the Burn turns into a unwanted trip down memory lane, to a time before the Warrior of Light was even a simple Adventurer, and instead was something much more detrimental.

[holycowboysong]

I kinda knew going in that Stormblood is the divisive one and though I'm mostly enjoying it... Wtf was up with that bit in the Azeme Steppe where they treat two of the characters being potentially made into slaves as like a funny haha moment? Why is no one morally outraged over the fact this particular faction just enslaves other people? Why are we not addressing that? Why was my first command has Khan not to abolish slavery of all kinds?

[jlinebeck]

FFXIV The Wreath of Snakes Extreme (Seiryu EX) Synced MiNE Clear - Warrior (WAR) Tank PoV

[last-flight-of-fancy]

i miss Sid and Rielle... (<- afflicted with the curse of becoming very attached to minor side characters once again)

[n3rd-qu33n-ffxiv]

Scarlet Meditation

Oh yeah. It's monk time. I was struggling finding a melee class I enjoyed. I did samurai and reaper, but when I finally got around to monk... I fell in love. Thankfully, according to friends who have played longer than I have, it's the best it's ever been. I hope that bodes well for it. I may stick with this class...

I'm not going to lie, getting decent action shots was challenging considering how fasts monks move, and how her tail sometimes got in the way.

Especially the limit break.

The Temple of the Fist was obviously so fitting for this... and I'd just like to say I LOVE how well the headpiece goes with the chest piece.

[kouriimei]

FFXIV Tsukuyomi-Inspired Handmade Earrings (Pierced/Non-Pierced)

"In darkness blooms the spider lily..."

Incorporating the beautiful elements of the Far East brings earrings inspired by Tsukuyomi, featuring...: 🌙 Shining amethyst-colored bicone beans, hand-woven and strung into a diamond by yours truly! 🌙 Gold-colored TOHO seed beads 🌙 Gold-plated cubic zirconia fan 🌙 Korean synthetic opal-faceted gold-plated moon 🌙 Crimson bicone beads 🌙 Available as a pierce, screwback clip-on, or resin clip-on

[aerithium]

FFXIV Stormblood Review

New Game Review!

This review does contain spoilers!

★ Score: 7/10 ★ Date Finished: Feburary 12th, 2024 ★ Final Thoughts: While not a proper game, the expansions for FFXIV serve the length of games in themselves therefore are included. Stormblood was quite an enjoyable expansion, only slightly weak because it falls after Heavensward which I enjoyed more. The plot is your typical rebellion story but has a unique twist as the WOL liberates two nations. I found half of the story more interesting than the first, the time the crew spends in Doma roped me in more than the Ala Mhigan side of things ever did. Doma was also full of new and loveable supporting and side characters as well as new locations that felt more enjoyable to explore. On the other hand Ala Mhigo was much more lackluster, especially the new areas. The dungeons/trials in this expansion were great, every time I unlocked a new one I was ecstatic to queue for it (something that I never felt in ARR and occasionally felt in HW). The music for this expansion is also good, especially the boss music that plays in the dungeons! But unfortunately this expansion has its drawbacks. The biggest supporting character, Lyse, is written rather poorly. Her character would be more fun if she happened to be a new character, but the reveal that she was acting as Yda for two expansions makes her character flounder. She is written originally as naive and reckless but with time gains a sense of responsibility and leadership, something she should already know from acting as a Scion, but if they were to remove her orgin of acting as Yda she would lose an incredible amount of depth. I wanted so badly to like her but found it hard until probably the final cutscenes. A few minor notes/compliants, the dialouge writing suffers occasionally and sounds goofy/took me out of the story. A few moments with voice actors had this same effect (often with Lyse and Zenos). Lastly, the final set of cutscenes perfectly both tie this expansion together yet keep me starving for more, plenty of loose ends are tied and cliffhangers/reveals are shown that made me beyond intrigued.

[macgyvertape]

FF14 Stormblood thoughts

Lets see, I posted my running commentary on wrapping up Heavensward in Oct '22 so it's been a while. My friend and I got busy and took a break from the game.

A long time ago I forget who posted:

“#do new players know any opinion they have about stormblood is basically akin to #someone finishing da for the first time this year and saying they have some thoughts about anders they'd like to tell you about #like cool it's understandable you have these thoughts. i however am running for the hills”

which now that I've finished Stormblood I understand, and that's with skipping a bunch of non MSQ stuff.

I'm so excited for Shadowbringers, it was impossible for me to dodge spoilers since people I follow for D2 were posting about it, so I'm going into it knowing a lot of the big spoilers while the friend I play with has no idea. So I was very excited to see a certain skunk haired character pop up post expansion patch.

Actual running commentary on Shadowbringers below, I'm so glad I took notes for when I took a break

Wow so theres swimming in this new city?

I know vaguely who Zenos is and he’s the main antagonist. Just waiting for him to be introduced since the antagonist in the beginning is a joke of a dude with a hammer

Zenos shows up with like a golf club bag of swords, I know this dude is supposed to be this game’s attempt at Sepiroth but I’m not impressed

It was very easy to predict that some of the people we just did quest for were going to die. But damn something happens to Y'shtola every expansion 

This storyline is very serious and draws on real world issues, which could not be more of a contrast to my friend and I playing it as we hangout and eat dinner

Fighting an unwinnable fight with my 2 applicable WHM damage spells. Sure he slashed me up but I feel like in universe I can heal tank through anything but a drugged drink

Wow the Black Rose is some serious warcrimes chemical warfare. 

I thought Lolorito was dead what’s a dude working for him doing here

Fuck this fish-dude with the bell. Its totally personal

Wow so the imperial viceroy is a asshole who has people kill their family for displeasing her. Really casting the imperials as absolute monsters

Wow huge underwater sections, also didn’t know the dragon-ppl lived underwater

The more Yotsuyu talks the more I’m like “hmm maybe Ilberd had a point”

Susano is a delight, he’s just hamming it up

Huh so apparently Kurenai is the real princess and the person we fought was the body double, I’m going to continue this questline even though it isn’t worth it exp wise just to see how this plays out

Gotsetsu returning to the village: not sure if the intent was to have him be naive, but he comes off as an asshole with talking about how he is owed hospitality and complaining about the tone people talk to him in. Like dude, the whole village is going to face deadly repercussions if you’re seen.

I didnt realize there was a wolf-person race. Why can’t we play as them?

I thought Yugiri was gonna die when we fought Zenos round 2. Guess he’s one of those trope “lives for a strong fight”.  

Took a week break then coming back to another new faction with Cirina kinda feels like its killing the momentum

I wasn’t expecting this Sun cult, Magnai is such an asshole, like fuck off with the slavery and a double fuck you with the sexism

Gosetsu is so arrogant, like if he would just shut up things would go so much more smoothly

Is Koko and Sadu of the Dotharl trans or non binary? Great if they are. Like their belief in reincarnation seems pretty understandable if you factor in the later lore about sundered beings being shards of each other and merging over time

Can’t believe we’re letting this empire dude run away for a second time

Yotsuyu had sad childhood backstory, still not sympathetic for the injustices she commits now. 

Hien is gonna flood Doma Castle, i know this is like a historical tactic but all I’m thinking of is Rains of Castamere

Damn Gosetsu got taken out by a falling rock (ceiling), how anti climatic I’m not really torn up about it because all the characters just stood around talking

I’m gonna really hope Hien actually killed Yotsuyu with that sword blow

At first i thought some of the questnames were coincidences, but no Doma part of Stormblood has a fair amount of Hamilton references

Oh no Krile, feels like a real kick the dog moment for Fordola

Summoning a primal to bring back a dead child, the question isn’t if this will go poorly but the extent of how poorly it will go. (Although you can resurrect people in battle so I guess thats gameplay and story difference)

I appreciate how Allisaie tried another option

The Shri Lakshmi mechanics were hard and annoying, most challenging fight in a while

Big fire the death star vibes for Fordola, also I just realized she has thigh high tights with the gap between the skirt. WHY instead of armor like other characters get

A randomly appearing Estinien, how did he know to come here? Why now? I have no idea but what a cool entrance, this is the hottest he’s ever been

Does Fordola have the fuckin sharigan?!

Lyse looks hot in the new dress but its the most impractical thing for a fight wtf. Its total fanservice, player character and her fly towards eachother in what could easily be framed as a kiss then the achievement is called “cheek to cheek”

Key to Victory is the quest type I hate where I don’t have firm directions where to go and I got instawiped by the npc followers getting close to the wrong enemy. Wish I could start on very easy

So we freed Krile, what about the rest of the people in the pods?

Zenos turns into the primal dragon that used to be Ilberd, talk about desecrating Ilberd’s belief in using the power to fight the empire

This is a very anticlimatic ending to 4.0. I’m not emotionally tied to Zenos either enjoying him as a villain or hating him as a rival, more like “ah not this asshole again lets see who wins the fight by virtue of plot armor” 

So Zenos killed himself after getting 1 good fight, but I know he’ll be back. I’m imagine my character standing there like the Saitama “ok” face

Ok so Estinian stabbing the eyes means Lahabrea and Igeyorhm are super dead

Guess Elidibus stole Zenos’ body. They should have burned it

Nero being Cid’s ex is the funniest way to interpret him joining the Ironworks

Why is this Arnevald guy talking like he knows me

All of the above written before Jan 2023 and then I took a break till November

Got back into the game and its like “here’s a backstory about a guy who was the product of sexual assault from an occupying military force and his horrible childhood” and then “here’s Fordola’s sad backstory where her father was stoned to death by a mob for collaborating while he was protecting her”.

So that’s really sad, then the next quests are the Sultana’s backstory and “go to the golden saucer, try not to get distracted, challenge impossible”

The orb dissipation duty sucks, I just failed it so I could do it on very easy mode

Me: Alphinaud is gonna fuck up paying for this sword, he’s talking to a pawn broker. 30 min later: yeah he fucked up

Patch 2 sure is my least favorite, I don’t like Gosetsu or Yotsuyu 

Wow not a surprise  the Imperial diplomat is also an imperial zealot, and he’s Yotsuyu’s brother meaning that whole family tree is fucked up

Me: guess the Tsukuyomi wasn’t so infinite. My friend: One Piece was a better anime

The camera really emphasizes Asahi’s crazy eyes and obsession with Zenos. Funny since Zenos then is obsessed with the Warrior of Light

This Garlean with a bunch of Ascian mask trophies is kind of intimidating, but he much have just killed the weak sundered ones. I have no idea who he is, but funnily I know what Ascain is running around as Zenos

Extremely annoying 2 part solo duty that I had to redo when almost getting to the very end, followed by very funny Y'shtola shooting down a guy who had the hots for her

Hell yeah Exarch showing up, now the fun begins because I’m very spoiled on Shadowbringers and my fiend has no clue 

Me: Mr nap time himself! My friend: whose this guy. Such a fun intro with Emet being mean to his family and hamming it up, where he’s ???? until the name Solus is dropped

I appreciate the non serious tune and amount of dutch angles in his intro

Oh shit the Ascian hunter is Gaius (not Balter), I didn't recognize him at all since the part of his old mask around the eyes was white I thought that was his skin color

Oh I’ve been mispronouncing Emet-Selch with a ch sound. Also lmao he takes time to be mean to Varis

Ok after the 2 part negotiation with Varis I want to see Solus bully Varis some more. He deserves it

My friend doesn’t recognize the Crystal Exarch from the brief bit at all, if he didn’t remember who Lahabrea is then no chance he recognizes G’raha Tia except that G’raha has been in Dawntrail marketing 

Damn so Stormblood ends with a fade to black and then a jumpscare evil Varis grin…

Post quest cutscene: Zenos bodyhopping I guess

[lalafellss]

i love my wife lyse hext

[wolpromptaday]

#FFXIV #WOLpromptAday

August 22, 2024

What kind of eater is your WOL? Picky? Hearty? Sin? Are they three meals a day or snack along the way? Do they live off caffeine and sugar or something more natural and balanced? What is their favorite indulgence?

[morika]

📿🗡️ mistwalker 🪻☁️

[rharyx]

This is the current state of affairs, right?

[mmariesr]

More Stormblood art!!

[vogelspinne]

"Farewell my first friend, my enemy"