FFXIV: Shadowbringers - 5.4 MSQ part 1

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[@cloud09gaming]

G'raha is the catboy we need but don't deserve lol Seriously though I really like how he's been made a regular party person now. I've liked his character since ARR days. Was pretty happy about him coming back when guesses were that the Exarch was him.

[@acgearsandarms1343]

Did you believe him when he said he didn’t have an encounter with G’raha in order to conceal his identity?

[@MisteRRYouTuby]

...and here I am, awaiting the return of Methys Masher, bane of Primals and Dragons and Capt. of the Immortal Flames.

[@lordpoundcake2317]

Everytime Ethys takes a picture I feel like he is gonna take that info and form it into a question for eorzivia.

[@delectableangel1986]

he's gotta tie it into the theory-crafting around the rumors he started for shardbert

[@lordpoundcake2317]

@@delectableangel1986 Fandanial is a shard of shardbert WoL...?

[@delectableangel1986]

@@lordpoundcake2317 did you see his video about how everyone was calling the character from final fantasy 16 shardbert?

[@seniorderpface]

Urianger got that travel bug guess spending half a decade with the kids gotten the better of him

[@Kaslo25]

I realized rewatching the end of 5.3 that the bag Urianger tosses to Thancred is charged bullets :mindblown:

[@sorarockss93]

It's Y'shtola not Urianger.

[@Kaslo25]

@@sorarockss93 You are correct, still a little mindblown that they remembered that tiny detail that he needed someone to make his rounds

[@sorarockss93]

It's not exactly a small detail tbh. For example, if you use the trust system, and take Thancred without Ryne being in the party he won't do certain abilities. Because she ain't there to give him bullets.

[@acgearsandarms1343]

How much would it cost for the Ironworks to make a Magitek device to supplement Thancred’s ability to imbue his bullets for him?

[@goldenphoenixnaruto]

5.fwoo! Huzzah!

[@ridleyroid9060]

Was waiting for this, cause i didnt understand most of what was going on tbh.

[@SarahExpereinceRequiem]

Noblesse oblige or, the white elf's burden by Alphinaud Leveilleur :V

[@garyrobertson3795]

Counterpoint for g'raha having memorized the spell. He was studying the separate tests, he was just waiting for a variable or two to be finalized.

[@zombiejade898]

I couldn't tell the difference with Aymeric (he just sounded happier than normal lol) but Cid definitely sounds way different. I just finished rewatching the HW scenes and he's sooo much gruffer here. Nothing bad, just different.

[@Z0mgXenu1]

"HOW"

[@HawkinaBox]

1:10:42 Funny because I do the same thing, recording inside a closet for best sound quality. xD

[@Lobotobro]

This may be a stupid question, but I've just caught up with the game on PS4 and this is the first cutscene footage I've seen from the PC version I believe. Has there been a lighting overhaul that the PS4 version didn't get? Or maybe it's the color saturation?

[@baatargharl8905]

So, telophoroi, Lunar Bahamut. What's the over/under on the Lambs of Dalamud appearing next patch?

[@acgearsandarms1343]

Forgot they even existed.

[@RogueAkai]

Anyone know what the BGM at 49:32 is called?

[@rpgfel3371]

I'd pay $60 to find out what the hell Alisae did during ARR besides finding the entrances to coil.

[@delectableangel1986]

hmm let me think. she probably went to Hogwarts to learn magic? oh... wait... wrong story.

[@Hayseus712]

Since when does "umbral" mean light? Am I forgetting something? I think if anything the ancient Allagan report blows the mystery of light vs dark aether wide open. Why would the Allagans use the word "umbral", literally meaning "shadow", to describe light aspected aether? Keep in mind the people of the First, afaik, didn't even USE the terms "astral" and "umbral". Why are we assuming they mean "umbral" when they refer to light? I'd like to posit another theory: Either the properties of these aspects of aether have changed over time due to the rejoinings, or they were never separate kinds of aether to begin with, and throughout history people have been inaccurately abstracting them into two distinct poles. I expect we're going to see something akin to one of those explanations in 6.0, and it will possibly be related to the cause of the Final Days/Starshower.

[@EthysAsher]

Umbral does not mean Light. Light pulls aether towards passive polarity, a polarity which scholars on the Source historically refer to as "Umbral" because they did not entirely understand the effects of Light and Dark (and because the writers hadn't fleshed this out from the beginning). Vrandtic scholars literally conflate the passive pole with Light because they literally watched a flood of Light drag all aether into extreme passivity. So "Umbral" and "Light" are different metonyms in different worlds for the same phenomenon. There is no evidence that the way aetherial polarity works has changed over time or between shards -- if the difference between the semantic and aetherial definitions of Astral and Umbral is confusing, just refer to active vs passive instead.

[@Hayseus712]

@@EthysAsher I appreciate you taking the time to write up this explanation! That said, I think the thing I'm most hung up on is this: if the people of the First could observe that the passive aether consuming their world was aspected toward light, and that property is and always has been the same on the Source, why would the Allagans have chosen such a clear misnomer to refer to it? It only makes sense if they had a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of passive vs. active aether, and as (from what I understand) the most aetherotechnically advanced civilization in the Source's history, that just doesn't sit right with me. I mean, I'm sure there were things they didn't know in their time, but I have a hard time imagining they misconstrued something so fundamental as to assign a word meaning "shadow" to an aspect of aether that is observably light. I feel like there's more to this puzzle still.

[@GearheadPrime]

@@Hayseus712 The Allag studied The Void to learn about magic, they saw the drained husk that was the 13th, devoid of Aether, and associated Darkness with Stagnation. The Allag were bad about not paying attention to the wider picture and a focusing on one specific thing, it seems.

[@ryes5]

Why do your graphics look so good? I'm confused. Looks like a soft filter.

[@TwinBladeMel]

I believe he is using Reshade

[@Cynicz13]

how long until an ascian takes over one of emet's clone bodies?

[@acgearsandarms1343]

It only works for them if they’re dead. Clone bodies aren’t dead. Unless you’re an Unsundered Ascian, I don’t think you can take over living people.

[@lunausagi8495]

@@acgearsandarms1343 Sundered can't posess living bodies. Summoner quest confrmed this

[@acgearsandarms1343]

@@lunausagi8495 Ah right, thanks for reminding me.

[@DandyCipher]

Look Urianger and Thancred are husbands I don't make the rules

[@Ascarion47]

Well, maybe if the non-tangent expansions had more interesting characters and in particular opponents, it would be more popular. And now we are setting up for the next expansion to deal with Zenos AGAIN, who I already found very uninspiring in Stormblood and some crazy dude who just wants to destroy the world. So yeah. Both these characters seem very one-dimensional and uninteresting to me.

[@GordonFreeman032]

Emet and Elidibus seemed one-dimensional too at first (HurrDurr resurrect Zodiark, DARKNESS DARKNESS DARKNESS!)

[@Ascarion47]

Elidibus kind of was to the end, too...

[@ridleyroid9060]

@@Ascarion47 You lost me with this. How can you play through 5.3 and think Elidi was one dimensional?

[@HintedImage]

@@ridleyroid9060 He pretty much was. He was so engrossed in saving their world, even before the sundering that he blatantly ignored anything that wasn't such, which ultimately led to his downfall.

[@ridleyroid9060]

@@HintedImage That doesn't make him a one dimensional character tho. A character with a tunnel vision for his goal sure, but not one dimensional. A one dimensional character was Lahabrea, Elidibus in 5.3 got a whole lot more fleshed out. You saw him struggle with his belief, his memories, his fight between his role as emissary and as a shard of zodiark. Before that sure he was because we knew exactly next to nothing about him, but calling him one dimensional after 5.3 is wrong at best.

[@ProfessM]

With how poorly she handles a carbuncle I'm not trusting a chair that money grubber builds from IKEA let alone a bleeding airship. Then again I still haven't forgiven that pink potato for ruining my man Haurchefant's memorial at the end of 3.0 and I never will. My group's head cannon is she blackmailed someone from Isghard and took their ship they had the Skysteel finish hence the Manacutters. Low key she might actually be my least fav character we see on a regular bases. And this game has Nero mister I have a face that must be punched.

[@ReksNuadiah]

Being awful at combat and being good at crafting are two different things - that being said your opinion on her is fair enough.

[@ProfessM]

@@ReksNuadiah Fair enough about the crafting v combat but I felt that seeing how she failed so hard at combat showed she was unreliable with advance skills. Arcanist is a job that uses a lot of math and higher learning and well if I found out I was getting in a plane built by someone that had trouble with math I think I'd change airlines. I know she is popular but I don't know her going from making beard and clothes to an airship is just to much of a leap even accounting that a culinarian can fry up some ship parts.

[@acgearsandarms1343]

@@ProfessM She did have help though in making it, but apparently as her accounting and receptionist skills go, she can multitask.

[@glemmstengal]

Glad you upload these so I don't have to pay $10.

[@Person1................68]

I bet you're a delight on a night out.

[@Goujiki]

Wish I didn't have to see the chat. FFXIV community becomes worse by the day.