#patch 7.1 spoiler

[voidsentprinces]

bxnl ohg jurer jnf xbnan uvqvat gung ragver shpxvat favcre evsyr?????

[usagi-mitsu]

I'm SO freaking hyped for the new contents in 7.1. Not even the story, really. But ... Chaotic Alliance Raids??? LIKE HOT DANG

[whitherwanderer]

"i have to water the shitbird wait a minute"

"prosper stupid poultry"

[iron-sparrow]

a gift from the Queen Eternal ₊˚.⋆⁺₊

[sexybritishllama]

i am soooo excited for the chaotic alliance raids you have no idea

[potassium-pilot]

I've hired this catboy to put you out of your misery...

[thecottageinthedark]

[tobyfoxmademeascaly]

look. i do not CARE how much they imply it. until they show me zoraal ja's sex tape i will simply not believe that he and tasheel ja had that baby the normal way. I MUST SHOUT MY TRUTH FROM THE ROOFTOPS! ZORAAL JA HAS BEEN WEARING THAT CYBERGOTH RAVE ARMOR NONSTOP FOR THIRTY YEARS STRAIGHT!! THEY GREW THAT BABY LIZARD IN A PETRI DISH!!!

[kimoi-boi]

Should I have spent my nuts on twine to upgrade my gear? Probably. Do I regret getting a Large Boy? Never.

[thorinoakenbutt]

I'm happy for healers (in the red) to get another jaunty hat, but I'll wait to pass a strong judgement until we find out whether these sets are dyable. I hope so.

[lavampira]

happy patch day 💚

if I post anything from 7.1 it will be tagged with #ffxiv spoilers and #dawntrail spoilers

also prob will be hidden under a cut for any msq or raid stuff 🫡

[mumbledramblings]

erenville..... he has a mini cahciua charm........ oooouuughhh.......

[fjotla-vithir]

HUGE 7.1 spoilers under the cut

Something about manipulating someone into having a kid with you and then springing said surprise kid on that person and expecting it to go well is … a little unsettling.

Needless to say, Mamool Ja had some really shitty parents and we need to protect him AT. ALL. COSTS.

[starrysnowdrop]

Okay, so now that I am done with the 7.1 MSQ, the Pandaemonium Epilogue quest, and I finished the FFXI alliance raid quests, I have a lot to say about it all, so I’ll put my comments under the cut below.

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!! Don’t click unless you’re caught up with the 7.1 MSQ at least!!! 👇👇👇

So let’s get some of the side stuff out of the way first before I dive into the details of the MSQ.

The housing items, omg the housing items are amazing!!! There’s so many that I want for Hali that I know I’ll be broke very soon. RIP Hali’s Gil.

The crafted glam gear looks adorable and so is some of the gear sets from the new 7.1 dungeon. I also NEED all of the weapon design contest funny weapons, but I’ve yet to figure out how to get them.

Next, the Pandaemonium epilogue was so cute, as it’s only one quest long if I remember correctly, and you get a reward that, for many of us, is well worth it at the end. Won’t give it away here but yup I love it.

The FFXI alliance raid… oh my god. I have never played XI so any nostalgia factor is completely lost on me, but the raid itself is really fun, the locations are gorgeous, and god the mechanics are way harder than Myths of the Realm in EW in my opinion. I died so many times… but I still think it was fun! The story is really interesting so far, especially with a certain someone returning and Bakool Ja Ja is still incredibly fun, so I’m looking forward to seeing more in the future, and I’ll be running it every week for gear!

Alright, now let’s get into the MSQ. I’m going to say that overall I enjoyed the 7.1 MSQ even more than 7.0, as the story caught my attention way more than it had in 7.0. At the very least they are giving us some more villains to hate, which is a welcome change, and oh boy am I loving to hate these characters!

But let me back up a bit. I enjoyed that they seem to be balancing out our time spent with Wuk Lamat and allowing us to have some time with others; this time I was really happy that we got to spend some time with Koana. I also enjoyed seeing the progress made in Tuliyollal with helping those who were once Turali get readjusted to life outside the dome again; it was nice to see that being addressed with the support group and the railroad. I’m also happy that we got more backstory on Gulool Ja and his parents, which that will transition into what I really wanted to talk about.

The DUNGEON!!!! HOLY SHIT BALLS!!! 😱

The dungeon was spectacular!! The atmosphere of the fucked up research facility, the zombie researchers, the abominations, and then the tural vidraal final boss… everything was absolutely amazing. The final boss is really difficult at first, but I was thoroughly impressed with it nonetheless. I had a slight panic attack during that fight, but I still loved it overall.

I was also excited to be able to run through the facility and take my time looking over everything at my own pace. It really gave me a mixture of Resident Evil and FFVII vibes, with the Jenova Project in particular coming to mind when examining some of the rooms.

I’m really hoping that this place has more significance than just “Oh this is where Galool Ja’s parents did messed up shit researching feral souls” though. I’m actually hoping that this ties into the greater narrative and the hidden enemy or whatever.

Speaking of Galool Ja’s parents…. Ummmmm… wow…. I never thought that I’d have a hard time deciding who the bigger asshole is, Zoraal Ja or Teeshal Ja… because man, she was a creeper. I know it doesn’t go into a ton of detail on how he was conceived, but it really seemed as though she just created Galool Ja in the lab, you know, as a test tube baby, with how Zoraal Ja reacted to seeing the baby anyway. But ehhhh that’s just my best guess on that. Like I said before, I hope more is revealed with all of this, and it’s connected somehow with the greater threat, but we shall see.

Speaking of the greater narrative, I am equal parts curious, excited, and utterly confused by not only the “fake” Sphene that appeared before the people in Solution Nine and the “real??” Sphene at the very end in the “Meanwhile, in Living Memory…” scene. I am glad that I’m confused at the moment and I haven’t figured out what’s going on yet, yet I’m so damn angry about whoever the hell is controlling the “fake” Sphene. Overall, I had a much bigger and much more positive reaction to all of this than I did in 7.0 with all the Alexandria stuff, so I’m definitely looking forward to more story in 7.2!!

I think if there’s anything I can say that’s not as positive about it all, it would be my personal thoughts on the Alexandrian people. Having both their minds wiped whenever anyone died and having a ready supply of extra souls on tap, both functions made possible by their regulators, the Alexandrians just have no idea how to deal with grief and trauma. And yes, while it’s a very interesting idea to explore, and my science fiction loving brain is eating this stuff up, on the other hand, I am finding it incredibly hard to relate to them in any meaningful way.

Perhaps it’s because I have known both traumatic experiences and death of close relatives and loved ones from an early age in my life, that I look at them and its hard not to laugh at how ridiculous they all look. It’s also really hard to relate to their heavy reliance on their queen, so much so that they have no idea how to grieve her properly or how to handle their affairs without a complete reliance upon her. I am very aware that this might just be a “me” problem and that others may have very different feelings about it all. Nevertheless those are my real thoughts on it, and perhaps I can feel a bit more empathetic towards the Alexandrians in the next patches, but we shall see.

I think that’s all I’ve got for now. If you wish for me to elaborate, or you have a specific question for me about my thoughts on 7.1, please don’t hesitate to send me an ask!! Thank you all for reading!! 💖

[janzoo]

FFXIV Patch 7.1 spoilers within

Oh my god

This whole scene, all I could think of is how much Drakyr would hate watching this unfold. She already hates the Alexandrians' approach to death but she a) was trying to be sympathetic at least and b) hoped that they could, even slowly but surely, learn to come to terms with death.

But no. This shit had to happen. Drakyr is equal parts angry and -

[sexybritishllama]

he wants to be thunder god cid so bad but he’s literally just like ‘the song that they play when you die has started. it sounds like dying because you’re going to die’