Oh, don’t mention those puppets, they’re horrible 😵‍💫

What are PvP tiles? I’m very new at Savage, haven’t ever done the older fights on level so I don’t have context on what that is.

They’re fun fights I think. I found the second one the most annoying personally, the mechanic where you he the hearts over your head and then the arena is flooded with AoEs and random hearts moving out from the middle has tripped me up a few times so far, I haven’t intuitively found the safe path through it yet. Rest of it was good though!

I think I’ll have to run through them again a couple of times just to get comfortable with everything but definitely enjoyed the tier, and the story is a bit of fun too.

The last time France used it was in 1977, so while it might have started a while back they only stopped using it less than 50 years ago.

Someone crunched the numbers and worked out this was cheaper than dealing with people wanting refunds of their DLC content when the main game was delisted.

I can’t speak to the Xbox stuff but for the most part I feel the Dawntrail launch has gone really well. Yes, there’s some bugs, that’s usually inevitable for a launch of this size, but the only game breaking one I’ve seen was Syrcus Tower which was fixed in under 24 hours without bringing the game down for maintenance.

But I don’t think there’s been anywhere near as many queuing issues as there was in Endwalker, and while I’m only just past the first dungeon in the MSQ the only issues I’ve seen (other than ST) have been cosmetic.

They pushed a hotfix out for it.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/4a5c69b15c1f8712b9a2e113e6487347d605ffbb

The job listing in question. With all the new Vipers out there, demand can only go up.

Correct. The countdown is to the official release, not the early access.

You can also cheese it with resurrection, the raise invul blocks curtain call damage. But since everyone else is then dead you need a strategy to revive people afterwards.

Also a lot of the potency increases aren’t just always there, they’re based on new traits you get in the level 91-100 range, so you won’t see those increases immediately in most cases, you have to level up and get the new job trait.

Honestly probably just watch some TV or get some extra work done, although if you’re looking for a game to play, the remastered version of Beyond Good & Evil came out this week. Been probably 20 years since I played it originally but I remember it being a fun game with a great cast and musical score.

Fair point. Personally I’d love to see you be able to save a glamour against a gear set as well so you can use your glamour plates for everything else. But with gear sets being stored client side rather than server side that probably won’t happen.

Will be interesting if we get something akin to the ||body snatcher|| mission from Endwalker. I remember a lot of people struggled with it at the time but I quite enjoyed the change in pace (and I don’t mind a stealth game either so sneaking around the ruins avoiding enemies was fun to me).

Sadly didn’t see anything about increasing the number of glamour plates. We now have more jobs than glamour plates, so if you have one glam per job, something has to share, and you have no room for casual glams. And that’s before you factor in DoH/DoL jobs.

A lot of people will be excited about that to get Viper and Picto to 90 quickly 😊

For what it’s worth, as long as the stream is active you yourself don’t have to be actively watching it. You could find a streamer who’s streaming overnight (relative to your timezone), put Twitch on, go to bed and wake up with a mount.

And to be fair, any sort of external requirement is going to annoy someone, and FFXIV does have a few of them. Between regionalised promotions, food tie-ins, streaming rewards, timed preorder bonuses, time restricted PvP rewards, expensive statues locking emotes, etc.

There’s always going to be some stuff people would like but either can’t get or don’t want to participate in whatever the promotion is. I don’t see that going away any time soon.

I totally didn’t think of Zhloe and her poor orphan children when looking at this image, no no. Don’t forget to feed the children.

Might have just missed it. Is Martin Brundle just not on commentary this weekend or is there a reason he’s not there? Missed him on the grid walk today.

Oh, I missed them having to backpedal on that! That’s good news.

I reckon you’re right on Viper. But I know exactly what you’re talking about 😊 I think half my jobs have been covered so far? Scholar was at 16 and Machinist was at 20, still waiting on Summoner and Warrior (although Scholar is my real main job regardless).