issue with the goblet (and gridania's) aside from what you said is houses are pointed weirdly so you would have a mansion but the entrance to the front lawn is on the side and the house's view is blocked by some poor person's tiny little shack and a mountain... mist is mostly good, shiro is great. ishgard would be great if it wasn't grey due to the never ending winter

only tech issue I've noticed is it takes longer for the game to close when I quit (and buns still missing hats)

Well, then. The pope and his knights of the round table were worse than I thought, lore wise.

At this point new housing would be too cool compared to the old zones, unless you go with sharlayan or ala mhigo or something old...🤣🤣 The New inn room is insane imagine the shitstorm if you compare a district on that level to shitty Goblet housing

Keen as for Spoilercast. Can't wait!

I’ve got to counter the Picto misinformation here! I actually think that Picto is VERY GOOD in low level dungeons as it gets the ability to paint everything needed to create Mog of the Ages at lvl 30!

There is nothing hidden about vipers combo timmer the chsnge for finisher is based on a buff you give yourself and the action timmer for the combos is tued to that buff as well when you lose that buff the combo breaks

PS5 mount tilting issue is not mentioned unfortunately. Hopefully the issue fixed soon without Yoshi-p not mentioning it

my run of the 95 dungeon took over an hour, with all four people new. i was on healer, the tank seemed a bit unsure, and idk what the dps were doing but the damage was low (managed to convince the dancer to closed position before the last mob pack) and the bosses were looping like 4 times before we downed them. and the last boss claimed lives (i think we wiped 5 times) but it was fun to survive a tankbuster on whm

What I agree on is that FFXIV gifts you absolutely nothing! Everything feels like labor in my opinion. Don't get me wrong here: Some things get their Value by not being accessable for everyone and that's very good and needed. But with things like leveling alt-jobs for example...as mentioned in this episode...why not giving more exp? It takes FOREVER!

The picto buff is applied to the party immediately. The thing on the ground is their equivalent of lay line and when you cast any color spell inside it reduces the cast and recast time and removes one stack of hyperphantasia and when theyre all gone, the ground effect disappears and you get the proc on rainow drip.

My god I want the rest of coerthas and the other half of Mor Dhona and silver tear lake. I want that original area of the game teased in the 1.0 trailer 😫

I did see some people who tried to make spooky housing designs were sad that it wasn't as dark as it was before the update.

The change from "tribes" is so strange to me, because it comes off as if it has some sort of negative connotation or is derogatory in some way-at least I've never heard it used in a negative way-when it's just a group of people. It feels like telling me that even though I lived in a place with so few people it was classified as a village, I shouldn't call it a village, even though everyone there called it a village. A very strange choice to me

I noticed the lack of fauna too, not even talking critters, but enemies, the only time I got in combat during the whole msq was the shalalani pterodactyl segment. Maps feel so barren without silly mobs at the sides.

Hi guys - I can tell you why cutscenes look jagged as a plugin called 'JitterFix' has already fixed it - DLSS and TCSMAA+Camera Jitter rely on micro camera movements (jitter) to work. For some reason, in cutscenes and in gpose this is not enabled like it is in gameplay. I hope they fix it!

Oh hell yeah prime real estate

How did you get inside i want to explore this for myself 😮

The graphics Update has shown me that at least 20% of the playerbase is insane and needs help... the things ppl are posting on the official Forums are beyond autistic...

2:12:22 Gatherers now have a "Revisit" passive that can randomly reset the node you're gathering & also completely restores your GP. This can also proc on collectables, it's a super nice change.

Note about the Twitch campaign. You don't have to claim one drop to work towards the next. I just watched 6 hours and then grabbed all 3 rewards.

I found the expansion to be "okay", I'd probably give it a 6.5/10. Not bad, by any means, but just... some really bizarre choices that I think make the landing not quite stick as well as it could've. The "Smile" song that plays a couple of times (namely the pre-end credits?) is so genuinely awful. I think this is Sokken's first actual "miss", it has the same vibes as children putting on a Lion King play during Vacation Bible School.

1:09:10 I think the allied society thing is as simple as dwarves and omicron aren't tribes, and they intend to do more reputation quests in the future that aren't tribes.

Dawntrail is very much another Stormblood, and I'm enjoying it. The zones are gorgeous and memorable, the combat is fucking *phenomenal*, and while I have my issues with the MSQ they're nowhere near as dire as some of StB's issues. Plus, I really enjoyed being a relative unknown in Tural while also getting characters looking at us going "oh, shit don't mess with that one" it's fun! It's refreshing! It's pretty much the adventure I and my FC wanted, with some sizeable bumps in the road. I can't imagine very many people will be willing to give the new writers any slack, though, not after the awkwardness of the EW patches. It's gonna be an exhausting online experience with all the stupid discourse to be had. And while criticism is warranted, the sheer amount of rage I've been seeing is comical, but it always is on the internet.

These people in the comments must be playing a different game. Ive had the most fun and joy in an MSQ since... Stormblood

One of the first things I did in DawnTrail was the damn jump puzzle and lets just say I have yet to actually get the achievement lmao.

A little skeptical of "love the pacing". Maybe the rate events unfold isn't so bad (though they still haven't figured out not dumping 80% of a region's side quests all at once), but the exposition is still too much tell, not enough show. And that's tedious when all of the dialog, everywhere, from everyone, is incredibly wordy and monologue-ish. It really punishes those of us who want to read all the text and talk to every NPC. And I think that the "real people don't communicate like this" problem with how the text is written is a huge part of what harms the voice acting, too. This game needs to figure out shorter, more natural dialog. Maybe it means going the conversation tree route -- if nothing else, topic prompts along the way would at least make it feel more dialog, less monologue (maybe I just have a subjective preference for how ESO NPC dialog works). They also seem to be going a little harder with the anime reaction humor, where timing is so important for that kind of thing to work -- and animation/emote timing is exactly something the XIV engine is poor at building dialog around. So much humor in the game falls flat because of the sluggish emote timing. Rather than improve it, Dawntrail seems to be drawing more attention to the shortcoming. =( Anyway, strong agree that it's irritating the way players pop back into view when you talk to an NPC near a quest NPC. The hide behavior should be based on proximity to the quest NPC, and that doesn't change just because I'm checking in with Alphinaud on the side.

The main story is so disappointedly boring for wayyyy too long. I was falling asleep and forcing myself through it till around lvl 75-76. A lot of repetitive dialogue, with even your character making the same exact dialogue choice word for word. I adored ShB and EW from start to finish for the story. HW too. DT feels like an after thought, not to mention all the graphical problems so many have been experiencing. Chocobos are drunk now too with the 45 degree sharp turns.

The spoilers-free feedback I'm seeing is that the story is boring & slow. I re-rolled last year & have been playing completely without FOMO + meta-gaming the fun out of the adventure. Sounds like Dawntrail will be the PERFECT endgame for me, personally 😊 love that this game is staying true to its casual-supremacy roots. Exactly why it's so successful!

I also Love Dawntrail but there are some issues and some of the characters are annoying. However a lot of those issues existed in Stormblood and with Lyse. Over all I really enjoyed it and love the look and am having a lot of fun. I can't wait to see where they go with REDACTED!!

Shadowbringers and Endwalker have poisoned the world of XIV. I'm so tired of these mouthbreathers praising DT for its "low-stakes" adventure. You know what was high stakes back in my day? Eorzea getting conquered, Nidhogg razing Ishgard, or one of the Scions getting nearly bisected by Zenos. All of it was confined and built in a way that made you care. None of this shark jumping bs needs to be here at the gods damned halfway point. Dawntrail is a slap in the face.

maela prophetic about beachwear lol

We cheesed Amon with ressing 3 runs in a row. Was a crazy expirience 😅

I love all the music in this expansion except for Tulilolykollyllyltly or however it’s spelled

All the bosses seemed to be a middle finger to blms with all their shotgun mechs 😂

MSQ is good but role quests, I only have done healer dps and magic dps, are boring and feels unimportant

Oh no Amon is being a little shit again! 😮

Tourtural have that old april's fools vibe from SB era. it was a very good laugh.

For people with block box, you ahve to go into currency settings and select a different currency for the one that used be comedy.

I bet most of the healers in that thread never set foot outside of Expert roulette.

I started FFXIV way back in August 2013 and was never able to do the Diadem 1.0 with my FC. I got around to unlocking it yesterday to level MIN and was fascinated with how the zone evolved over the years Thanks for documenting exactly why it was so troubled.

Wait, why did they switch face cam locations tho…?

The alisae and alphinaud dolls are pretty cool. Im glad they didnt stop the idea at yshtola, not that i can afford them haha

The whole thing reeks of "I don't know what im talking about" when it comes to the healer strike. Which is funny, because the people making the posts have been found out to not ever participate in any endgame activities at all, so they *really* don't know what they're talking about. Makes the whole thing be easily dismissed.

Thanks for the discussion Speakers. Here's hoping the relic system is interesting this time round. Also I love the idea of a Relic Roulette, or the Bicolour zone shop steps!! See you in Tural!! 🎉

Those drums during mogmail are loud they scared the crap out of me with headphones on I thought my cnc machine had crashed lol

I really feel like almost EVERY class now fell victim to the sheer mass of classes in this game. I feel like SE should now stop implementing new jobs and instead AT LEAST use two full expansions for fixing the existing classes AND improving the overall system

I'm a WHM main and I see a tank who uses their toolkit effectively like once a week at most. People who post this stuff clearly don't do regular DF with random strangers. Saying there's no difference between regen and barrier healers is a joke, healing content you don't know yet as a barrier healer is a different beast entirely. I would like a little bit more of an engaging dps kit on bosses but that's about it. Trash pulls when the tank pulls hard are plenty engaging 11 times out of 10, unless I get that one WAR who breathes their kit and presses the exact right button 100% of the time.

The healer strike is one of the most idiotic propositions I've ever heard. While its true that healing is not hard if your ENTIRE party plays PERFECTLY the reality is the vast majority of groups never do. The xenosys video showing the first dungeon cleared without a healer proves nothing. A group of sweats can pretty much do anything if they are good enough and try hard enough. The first ultimate was cleared by a group of 8 tanks, does that mean that DPS jobs are unnecessary now? Anyone who plays a healer with random people have had experiences with tanks doing chain pulls using no cooldowns and people getting hit by telegraphed boss moves constantly, so healers are very much a necessity, that the top healers and the sweats are not satisfied with the job hardly speaks for the other 95% of players.