Friday, August 26, 2022

Final Fantasy XIV 6.2 MSQ Thoughts

Good morning everyone,

The 6.2 update for Final Fantasy XIV rolled out this week.. and on last night's stream we dedicated the entire time (or nearly the entire time) to the New Main Story Quests... and I loved it. Zero... a humanoid/voidsent hybrid, is an incredibly compelling character with a great design comes across as a no-nonsense bad ass, but by the end of the new MSQ quests, one could see probably getting a chance to have a real world around.

The world of the 13th (or the Voidsent realm) made some real extended use of the new dungeon, but we got to learn about what happened to the 13th... and it's the reverse of what happened to the world of the 1st, while it was threatened by Light... the 13th was completely enveloped in Darkness. Outside of Zero, there are no other humanoid beings seen roaming around. This kind of lead to a unique problem for me, because I was engulfed in the story, which meant I didn't want to go back to repair my gear following the dungeon or the mandatory in-cut scene fight sequence before doing the new trial

The new dungeon, called The Fell Court of Troia is very straight forward... and it was full of Trojans, so if you were looking for a pack... I'm kidding, but all the enemies are labeled 'Trojan' something or other, so this obviously feeds into my thinking that there is certainly going to be an emphasis on Greek Myths going forward in FF14. On a first attempt, didn't have too much trouble until reaching the final boss of it. 

The new trial, 'Storm's Crown', has two phases in the normal variant, and I had a lot of trouble picking up on the patterns at first. The second phase sees the field being brought in tight, so not alot of room to avoid AOE attacks. Barbariccia has a really night design.

I did start up the Island Sanctuary stuff, so that could be a nice casual diversion from time to time.

Next Thursday we'll focuse on the new Raid content associated with the Pandæmonium story arc, which should be a real treat... or nightmare

Twitch Clips

We picked up a new following during the stream in BestBunni! Always glad to see new folks hanging out!

For the raid we dropped in on Oldish22 who was also playing FInal Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/oldish22!  

Had numerous issues with Xfinity yesterday, with the internet going down twice when I was working, including one instance where the upstream power level dropped below 40 which I've never seen before. During the stream we had two minor interruptions, one kicked me from FF14 while the other didn't. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #2, Double Combo #1 and Defensive Combo #1 for 28 minutes

Parallel lines have so much in common. It's a shame they'll never meet.

There are three types of people in this world: People who are good at math and people who are not

Song of the Day: Dangerous Woman by Ariana Grande

The Phillies Swept the Reds... Bryce Harper is coming off of the DL today... and Zach Wheeler was placed on it... Playoffs are still in doubt as far as I'm concerned. 

My quest for the Veteran achievement in Mass Effect 3 is 4275 out 5000 enemies killed, or 85% completion

Really need to focus on the recent commission request based around the time The Shield was a thing in the WWE... but I really hate working on fics that involve a large cast of characters.

Saw that Sony had the balls to raise the price for the PlayStation 5 just weeks after shutting down production on the PlayStation 4. But of course by the time I end up go into looking into a PS5, it will be marked down to a reasonable price in the form a bundle.

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For tonight's stream we'll be doing arcade runs with every nearly every character in UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late cl-r, so we'll see what we can figure out with the bulk of the cast!

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Persona 4 Golden and other notes

We opened up Persona 4 Golden tonight, and the intro certainly reminded me of the one for Persona 4 Dancing All-Night... and of course I mad...