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azems-familiar · 6 months ago

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what is going on with PLD that is awful 😰

uh. i don't know how to explain to you this other than to tell you that the questline is so nonsensical and bad that the CHARACTERS literally say "this makes no sense" and "i don't understand this at all" during it

#asked and answered #it's like.......um. rough #one of ul'dah's main political parties is supposedly funding a 'cabal' of assassins that stole the sultansworn's Prize Sword #and have 'defiled its honor' or whatever #the sword refuses to...shine? for anyone? so after the disgraced former captain of the sultansworn secretly gets it back #(while telling people it's still msising)#he....fakes his death and sets up an elaborate ruse so his apprentice works with the wol to kill off this cabal and 'recover the sword'#there's also this whole weird bit about. um. the soul crystals fighting for dominance and you have to fight each other and win to satisfy t #*them #how the monetarists are tied to the death's embrace is never really clarified. there's some kinda uncomfortable tropes in it too #at the end of the whole thing the captain shows up like yeah i did all this to make the Sword Shine again #also wol you have to beat all of us :D #everyone goes wtf is wrong with you. the apprentice kid goes hey YOU didn't teach me anything wol did #the questline was so bad that for the 60-70 questline they returned to GLADIATOR.#ffxiv

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