First of all, I love your content! Your incredibly dry sense of humor is just chef's kiss "Mwah" Secondly, In regards to 8:50 I propose "Twix" That way we cover our bases and don't have to hear "I was on twitter...err X, scuse me" a thousand times a week.
Hi Chair, genuinely wondering, r u ok there buddy? The weather system™ in FINAL FANTASY XIV gives you the most ass weather during cinematic shots of the cutscenes, albeit kinda funny when you're brooding in the rain at Radz-at-Han
Myths of the realm and pandaemonium are the real endwalker patch story arcs to me. I could believe these patches were drafted as the trial series and shifted when they decided they wanted to leave dawntrail to dawntrail and that two trial series, every shadowbringer role quests, and maybe eden was too much of a requirement whenever they want to do an actual void story.
Something effectively tells me this was the case that and they wanted to setup a future expansion set in the Thirteenth but wanted at least a general 'gist' of what we could be walking into first. Their thought process was probably some penultimate trial series focused on the Void however when coming to what they wanted do MSQ wise they found themselves stepping on the toes of what they wanted to do for Dawntrail or possible other expansions and so ultimately made the call to use the Trial series as a MSQ. Keeping in mind Dawntrail is also the first time since Shadowbringers they've changed the head writer of the expansion and I get the impression somewhere in EW development they ultimately had to make the sacrifice of pouring the Emet setup stuff into the next expansion(s) versus doing too much with that in post-patch MSQ If anything my major vocal point would've been just focus on Garlemald for Post-MSQ focus on the fall of the empire, what that means, what is going on with the remaining Legions etc but maybe this stepped on toes of future expansions as well or they thought that they needed something a bit grander to entice players story wise, they also shot themselves in the foot with how they handled Garlemald To even get the full context of how things are now going post-6.0 you need to have done all the Role Quests similiarly this whole Voidsent questline effectively only really works if you have 1. Leveled Reaper to 90 2. Did the Warring Triad 3. Did all Shadowbringers Role Quests 4. Did Eden. Without these things you miss important contextual stuff that happens in nearly every patch and it results in them also being able to draw on these things that would've likely otherwise been VASTLY more important if this was just a Trial series.
@@TheDragonsPiti kinda skipped through role quests in shb, what exactly is inportent from them that's referenced in msq? is it just the characters themselves?
@@oktinaa I.E. it continues stuff with the Warring Triad series in the ending questline after you do all of them. The E11 boss is actually a person from the Thirteenth taking on the form of Cylva (the Elezen Gladiator you see pop up in the Role Quests) who is Cyella Valthane, she was one of Ardberts traveling companions who was 'behind' all the Voidsent stuff happening on the First prior to the Flood of Light, she betrayed the WoL's but after being defeated she is sparred by Ardbert and they go on to try and "kill" Loghrif and Mitron. She's the one who sets up the Hunt Boards for the Cardinal Virtues due to Vaulthry reanimating their corpses and turning them into Sin Eaters. Anyhow at the end of the questline Cyella is united with Unukalhai who we bring to the First and they discuss wanting to restore the Thirteenth with Beq Lugg, the only real reaction either have is surprise that a fellow memoriate survived when you talk to them in Endwalker after meeting Zero. It's pretty clear that the foreshadowing for something to do with the Void and eventually going there for an expansion has existed since Heavensward and was expanded upon in Shadowbringers, so it's clear for awhile they've wanted to set an expansion there but doing so would if they want to properly build off what they set up require doing a ton of side content and making it mandatory (The Warring Triad is easy enough but making the ShB role quests all mandatory would be insane as it'd force you to have at the very least one job in every category at lvl 80)
@@obamaorb7426 Lol. No. Most of Post ARR is far more mid, most of ARR itself is far more mid. The first half of stormblood is far more mid. You are just comparing it to the utter high of the end of endwalker. The post 6.0 story is setting up a future expansion, likely the one after DT. it has to do the world building to make that expansion pay off. You honestly sound like a "only does 5% of the game andy" butthurt cuz there was no new eureka and mad at everything.
hotboxing an entire universe seems hard, kudos to golbez, in any case, i dont play ffxiv but I still had some great laughs, cant wait for whatever non-ff vid you make
12:25 To be fair, pretty sure Matoya noted this back in Heavensward when Y'shtola was notably much weaker. Thirty more levels can do a lot for one's aether reserves :)
No it can't! Your MP is 10,000 at level 1 and it will be 10,000 at level 100! :p (Seriously, I can't be the only one that's weird to. The pre-ShB days made so much more sense with your MP and HP pools both increasing with levels...)
Popping in the comments for that good good engagement, cause I can’t watch this for a while because it’s spoilers for me right now 🎉 but always glad to see a new video!!
The Pandemonium/Myths of the Realm raid stories should have been the MSQ for 6.1-6.5. The resolution of Lahabrea's story, and the denouement and conclusion of one of the weird leftover things from 1.0 that hadn't been explained. The raid story could have been faffing about on the 13th and dealing with Bronzebez and his color-coded-for-your-convenience henchmen. Instead we got "Hey kids, who wants to battle some Zodiark space farts!?"
@@Veishan The story of myths of the realm was really good. What are you smoking? Pandamoniom was the literal epilogue of Endwalker. Stop being a childish contrarian and pay attencion next time
@@Veishan Kid, are you okay? You need help? Myths of the relm was a very decent story. Pandaemonium was the epilogue of endwalker. Next time please pay close attencion.
6.x was not MSQ. It was the Trial Series dresed up as MSQ. Pandaemonium and Myths of the Realm should've been the post Kinowalker MSQ. This post expansion cycle was a massive dropped ball.
I can only ask one thing from the devs after this post-patch storyline: NO MORE FINAL FANTASY 4 REFERENCES! Oh by the gods, it's just wall-to-wall FF4 references and it was tired by about the latter half of the 6.1 patch! Please, reference any other game in the series until at least after Dawntrail.
It's pretty telling how you spent almost the entire video deadpanning a mockery of the patch story until Wuk Lamat comes on screen, your voice becomes (slightly) livelier, and you start summarizing rather than mocking. I really like her, and she fills a void in the main cast that's been empty since pretty much ARR. I hope when she gets sent upstate to the waifu farm like all the other non-Y'shtola waifus her ticket says "Ruler of a nation" rather than "Dies for Drama".
Really starting to get tired of the "Bad guy is actually just a good guy that had bad stuff happen and it's really tragic please feel bad for him" trope in every single piece of media from the last 20 years. Sometimes people can just... Be evil. Doesn't have to have a half-assed tearjerker stapled on to the last 10 minutes. It's just a tactic to make you feel _an_ emotion near the end of the story so you remember it being better than it actually is. But hey, people keep eating it up like it's the best thing since sliced orgasms so it'll keep happening. My money's on this war mongering asshat in Dawntrail is just an ambitious yet misguided warrior who wants his country to be strong and prosperous. There's no chance he's going to actually be evil.
oh okay i feel super validated to hear you sum up your thoughts about these patches. i completely quit after 6.1 and recently marathoned them when there was a free login period and hoo boy. these patches felt like the devs were asleep at the wheel and going on autopilot with the indulgent references.
I have friends ask why I avoid even the trailers for the game now. Because I don't want to predict that over arching story as easily as I have been. More so in patches.
I don't fully agree. Oh, don't get me wrong, I found 6.2-6.5 kind of...bland. But not everything you ding on it is fair. I've been thinking since sometime in ShB that funneling the excess Light from the First to the Void would be a neat way to equalize the two and maybe restore the Void. It made me think of a sorta similar concept from the Wheel of Time books where a solution to a problem was basically pitting two opposite polarized evils against each other to destructively interfere. I felt it was just kind of a neat idea if there was a way to do it, and indeed, might be the ONLY way to restore the Void. I do agree that a lot of the character stuff was kind of bland, and the retreads of Zero figuring out like three or four times "Oh right, I can just trust these new friends", and it seemed like they rushed through 6.2 and 6.3's Fiends as these grand generals with armies that we...never bothered with...only for them to then DRAG OUT the last two. We beat Golbez! Now we need to run off and come back in 4 months with the patch because we have to have Zeromus as the final Extreme and can't do it just yet! I don't think it was bad, but I think the pacing was not well done. 6.1 I liked. 6.2 and 6.3 could have been done more logically (the "diversion" stuff was just stupid), build up the darkness army, then 6.4 could have been fighting them and 6.5 could have been going after Golbez and Zeromus at once as the big bads responsible for it all. And we didn't need dozens of scenes of people eating food. I did think the Garlean political stuff WAS well done - it fit the character of the Garleans to be proud, even to their detriment, as well as Vritra being a shrewd diplomat and understanding a way for them to save face. The concept is stupid, but have you seen politics and political leaders? It was true to life accurate as all hell. THAT PART made perfect sense. I also thought the part with Troia wasn't BADLY done, and the part with Zero's Domain was pretty well done. It was collectively the biggest lore dump on the Void and how it and its denizens operate we've gotten in 10 years. I consider that worthwhile and interesting. But from basically the end of the Barb fight on until the pre-DT stuff in this last patch, the stuff between those two points was just like "What? Why? Why even?"
Speaking as someone who paid little attention to story and only watches this to get a rough idea of what’s going on… is he being serious when connecting Zero and Zenos as the same person. Because that’s wild if zero is the WoL in the 13th while being somehow connected to Zenos…
12:21 Matoya's whole spiell about that is actually just a mistranslation the original JP version only implies using her Aethersight is tiring and not some sort of life-threatening consequence 🤓
12:26 Ik it's a joke haha funny video, but I've read that this was a localisation error. In the original Japanese apparently Matoya says something along the lines of worrying that using Aethersight will just tire Yshtola, without the life-threatening implications.
That's my understanding too. The implication is that one day, spending energy on aethersight will tilt a life and death situation, where she needs her full power, the wrong way
Well yeah, they outright explained that there's so much aether everywhere that just breathing will replenish anything lost. The worry is that she's a BLM and in combat could drain her aether and get a tick from her magic eyes which would dip her into the negatives and down her ass.
@@MagicScientist yeah I have the feeling that they’re deliberately showing Y’shtola being reckless with her aether to finally set up a pay off to that.
Basically, it's like she has to constantly stretch a muscle, so she's not at her full strength. It's like the scene between Magneto and Mystique in X-Men: First Class where he points out to her that maintaining the "normal Human" appearance requires a constant level of her strength, both her physical strength and her mental strength as she has to have at least part of her mind concentrating on the illusion. Her power isn't an on-off switch, she has to maintain the transformation actively. But this means she's using some of her mental and physical energy to do so. He points this out while she's working out with weights and how, when she drops the illusion and is in her true blue skin form, she's physically stronger (and probably mentally sharper). So imagine Y'Shtola is a Black Mage, but has 20 of her MP bar permanently used on her vision. That means she only has 8k to work with, which means she is 1 or 2 Fire IVs short in her burst window vs a BLM who has all 10k of their MP to work with. It's like that. For her to come to her true strength, she'd have to relax her vision magic, being blind in the moment but stronger in overall power.
I'm not 100% sure, but basically if Zenos's voidsent partner was the Warrior of Light on the 13th, would that make Zenos a Warrior of Light on the Source in some way? ...that or that he secretly wanted to turn you into his sex slave...but that's an open secret at this point?
I'm glad that I've read Nekopara now, and can understand all of the deep lore of the Misshapen chair channel. By the way: Coconut > Maple > Azuki > Vanilla > Chocola > Cinnamon. And you can fight me about it.
12:21 was this not some kind of translation mistake? like "You need to use Aether to see!" but in the end you restore your aether by eat some stuff etc
9:05 --- "Xwitter" XDXDXD 12:45 --- Yeah, upsets me everytime... only to then learn recently: its a translation "oopsie" and the draining isnt as serious as we are let to believe... So that whole plotpoint is moot - if it ever was one: after all, except for that one (ONE!) time Matoya mentions it, it never comes up again - and we are three expansions in without anyone else speaking of it. So, yeah, if they bring it back in DT... ... that would be lame. 36:25 --- No, its not: the switch was obvious when we got the blue crystal flashback... 48:50 --- Whats your point? YoshiP already said, unless you pay for the skip, there wont be any. Whether thats good or bad you'll have to decide for yourself (I think its good), but going on a tantrum that DT is where new and veteran players have to figure out stuff... There wont be any new players in the DT zones - except the skippers that dont care for plot anyway. I wasnt too happy with post-EW, either... I liked the dungeons and trials that came with it, and I do believe its a setup for later (just like the Warriors of Darkness back in HW), but as Alisiae said: I would've liked if our adventures would've stayed "closer to home" after saving the Universe. Still, totally hyped for DT so there's that.
I didnt take that serious post endwalker so in a way enjoy it, but dawntrail its just bad, all the relevance that was given to wok lamat could have been shared with Eren and Kraile, but no, its all wok lamat
I like how Zero has absorbed energy like a void sent for 10,000 years and now shes eating super hot spicy curry, rest in pieces the long anticipated taco bell shit
I commented on the Sea of Stars video and the vid blew up. Hope it works again. If not I'll take it as a sign that your non-XIV content is what true Gamers want.
As someone who absolutely hated their time with EndWalkers story, this just seems like the exact same problems I had with it but shorter and with less genocide apologia.
I went through it on my main then got my alt to the part where you go to garlemald to ask permission to use the tower (then go to the first to ask permission to use the tower in the next patch) and just stopped. That character needs to finish 5.4 and 5.5 and I am seriously considering waiting three months and paying for the Dawntrail boost so I don't have to. They literally took the trial series and padded the whole thing out to make three patches of side content fill five patches of MSQ and it was some of the worst story flow in a very, very long time. I can't believe they didn't have an actual lead up planned with real story. Maybe a couple of patches with Wuk Lamat to get to know her and show her around as we wrap up loose ends. I look forward to seeing how they have to shoehorn Zero back into the story later or if she never shows up since no character introduced in any trial or raid series is actually cannon (Yes, even Gaia). There is no possible way the .1 - .5 will be a new start point for new players. "Welcome to the game, your first trial is Barbariccia". I don't see that happening. I just have to keep reminding myself that the people that wrote Werlyt wrote Dawntrail. It won't be Ishikawa good, but it shouldn't be had. I don't expect to be blown away by and expansion that is supposed to be setting up another 10 years and I doubt I'll be disappointed.
Good video. very worried about the quality of the future msq honestly. when I heard they were going to make a new player skip option for dawntrail I thought it would be AT 7.X not at the beginning of 6.1. this decision... explains a lot. these patch quests were odd! all the best content was not in msq!! the max rank for all tribals quest was peak.
It's probably insensitive of me to say this or maybe I missed something about the story, but the parts of the post-patch story where everyone was saying "Oh, we can't just turn on the Towers! It might scare people!" were honestly the worst parts in my opinion. Like...who gives a shit??? Seriously-
If you want the channel update. After this, I plan to not make FFXIV related content until Dawntrail comes out.
To all my new subscribers, hopefully this video doesn’t scare you off completely.
Music in order of first use, ignoring duplicates. I think I got most of them.
Timestamp - Name - Contributing Artists (Game if relevant)
0:12 - The Ewer Brimmeth - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
0:25 - A World Apart - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
0:54 - The Nautilus Knoweth - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
1:05 - What Comes of Despair - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
1:10 - Finale - Martin O’donnel, Michael Salvatori (Halo 2)
1:14 - Shadows Rising - Ryo Yamazaki (Stranger of Paradise)
1:20 - Tremble - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
1:25 - Bring me to Life - Evanescence
1:34 - Return of The Hero - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
1:42 - Vibrant Voices - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
1:52 - Shade’s Delight - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
2:03 - Revenge of the Horde - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Heavensward)
2:12 - Night in The Brume - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Heavensward)
2:31 - More Than Truth - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
2:46 - It Has To Be This Way - Jamie Christopherson & Logan Mader, Akira Takizawa & Pete Crossman, Jimmy Gnecco (Metal Gear: Rising)
2:53 - Divine Words - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
2:56 - Eternal Wind (Shadowbringers) - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
2:59 - Machinations - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
3:20 - Tranquility - Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV 1.0)
3:24 - Prevolt/Zophiel - MONACA (Drakengard 3)
4:03 - Metal Gear Solid 2 Theme - KCE Japan Sound Team [probably] (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty)
4:15 - The Map Unfolds - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
4:23 - Imperial Will - Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV 1.0)
4:31 - Discordance - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
4:38 - Misconception - Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV: Heavensward)
4:45 - Blind to the Dark - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
4:47 - Rigged Game - Machine Girl (Neon White)
5:00 - Sorry For Party Rocking - LMFAO
5:37 - Dynamis - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
5:46 - Perfumed Eves - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
5:55 - Somewhere in the World - Nobuo Uematsu (FFIV)
6:03 - Twilight Terraces - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
6:45 - Slave Knight Gael - Yuka Kitamura (Dark Souls 3)
6:47 - Who Brings Shadow - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
6:58 - Spoken Without End - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
7:29 - The Last Stand - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
7:36 - Flow - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
7:42 - Ink Long Dry - Keiko (Piano Collections FFXIV)
8:03 - Canticle - 山下愛 (FFXIV 1.0)
8:19 - Facture - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
8:41 - Sailor Uranus and Neptune Transformation - Takanori Arisawa
8:56 - Down The Up Staircase - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Heavensward)
9:24 - Endcaller - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
9:26 - Answers - Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV 1.0)
10:28 - Sleep Well - Koichi Sugiyama (Dragon Quest)
10:59 - Answers (Priano Version) - Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV: Endwalker)
11:09 - Troian Beauty (Endwalker) - Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV: Endwalker)
11:42 - Damnation - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
12:02 - ‘Neath Dark Waters - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
12:11 - Blight - Kou Otani
12:19 - Each Drop - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
12:42 - Neverborn - Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV 1.0)
12:51 - Smoke Weed Everyday - Snoop Dog
13:02 - Forever Lost - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
13:30 - A Fine Death - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
13:42 - Heroes Forge Ahead - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
14:11 - The Echo - Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV 1.0)
14:27 - Everywhere and nowhere - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
15:11 - Battle with the Four Fiends (Buried Memory) - Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV: Endwalker)
16:25 - Unspoken - Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV 1.0)
16:37 - Fragments of Forever - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
18:05 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Reprise) - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
19:58 - Black Steel, Cold Embers - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
20:26 - Rencounter - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
21:17 - Kiss of Chaos - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
21:26 - Throw It All Away - Everett Bradley (Sonic Adventure 2)
21:44 - Troian Beauty - Keiko (Piano Collections FFIV)
21:57 - CɌY$†∆Ɫ ШЄЄD (ØЯỊ₲ỊИ∆Ɫ MỊX) - ∆$†ɌῗØ
22:12 - The Maker’s Ruin - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
22:39 - Deep Blue - Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV: Endwalker)
22:40 - Battle Theme 2 - Nobuo Uematsu (FFIV)
23:12 - Inner Recess - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
23:48 - Forged in Crimson - Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV: Endwalker)
25:35 - Spoiler - Hyper (Cyberpunk 2077)
25:36 - Supply Demand - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
25:54 - As You Like - Saori Yoshida, Mio (Yakuza 0)
26:45 - The Labyrinth - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
27:05 - Starsbreath - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
27:42 - Only So Much Oil In The Ground - Tower of Power
29:00 - Dangerous Words - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
29:35 - The Coil Tightens - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
29:40 - Another Moon - Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV: Endwalker)
30:06 - Primogenitor - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Heavensward)
32:15 - Dreamscape - 009 Sound System
32:41 - Paradiscical Predicaments - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
33:22 - Kaze no Oka - SAM Free Music (Marc’s Theme 100% Orange Juice)
33:50 - The Mushroomery - Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV: Heavensward)
33:54 - Daring Dalliances - Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV 1.0)
34:22 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
34:41 - SHOTS - LMFAO
35:38 - One Small Step - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
35:39 - Defender of The Realm - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: A Realm Reborn)
36:11 - Kingdom of Baron (Endwalker ver) - Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV: Endwalker)
36:13 - Zero’s Domain - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
36:38 - vtmntscoat (guitar remix) - dxnnyfxntom x destroy lonely
37:07 - Among Us Theme - I don’t actually know who made the original Among Us theme
38:06 - Tequila - The Champs
39:08 - Bury The Light - Casey Edwards, Victor Borba (DMC V)
40:18 - Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
41:02 - Forever At Your Side - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Shadowbringers)
42:24 - Rock and Awe - Timothy Michael Wynn (Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3)
44:59 - Footfalls - Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV: Endwalker)
49:16 - Festival! - Murasato Shota (100% Orange Juice)
50:42 - Answers (Piano Version) - Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu (FFXIV: Endwalker)
51:09 - Cheerful Mood - Murasato Shota (100% Orange Juice)
First of all, I love your content! Your incredibly dry sense of humor is just chef's kiss "Mwah"
Secondly, In regards to 8:50 I propose "Twix"
That way we cover our bases and don't have to hear "I was on twitter...err X, scuse me" a thousand times a week.
Hi Chair, genuinely wondering, r u ok there buddy? The weather system™ in FINAL FANTASY XIV gives you the most ass weather during cinematic shots of the cutscenes, albeit kinda funny when you're brooding in the rain at Radz-at-Han
Can you play chained echoes as a follow up to the sea of stars video?
The fact they removed my autistic edge waifu was the worst april fools
"There's more to life then paying rent" Oh right, bills and taxes, I had almost forgot, thanks Red Alisea!
Myths of the realm and pandaemonium are the real endwalker patch story arcs to me. I could believe these patches were drafted as the trial series and shifted when they decided they wanted to leave dawntrail to dawntrail and that two trial series, every shadowbringer role quests, and maybe eden was too much of a requirement whenever they want to do an actual void story.
Something effectively tells me this was the case that and they wanted to setup a future expansion set in the Thirteenth but wanted at least a general 'gist' of what we could be walking into first.
Their thought process was probably some penultimate trial series focused on the Void however when coming to what they wanted do MSQ wise they found themselves stepping on the toes of what they wanted to do for Dawntrail or possible other expansions and so ultimately made the call to use the Trial series as a MSQ.
Keeping in mind Dawntrail is also the first time since Shadowbringers they've changed the head writer of the expansion and I get the impression somewhere in EW development they ultimately had to make the sacrifice of pouring the Emet setup stuff into the next expansion(s) versus doing too much with that in post-patch MSQ
If anything my major vocal point would've been just focus on Garlemald for Post-MSQ focus on the fall of the empire, what that means, what is going on with the remaining Legions etc but maybe this stepped on toes of future expansions as well or they thought that they needed something a bit grander to entice players story wise, they also shot themselves in the foot with how they handled Garlemald
To even get the full context of how things are now going post-6.0 you need to have done all the Role Quests similiarly this whole Voidsent questline effectively only really works if you have
1. Leveled Reaper to 90
2. Did the Warring Triad
3. Did all Shadowbringers Role Quests
4. Did Eden.
Without these things you miss important contextual stuff that happens in nearly every patch and it results in them also being able to draw on these things that would've likely otherwise been VASTLY more important if this was just a Trial series.
@@TheDragonsPiti kinda skipped through role quests in shb, what exactly is inportent from them that's referenced in msq? is it just the characters themselves?
@@oktinaa I.E. it continues stuff with the Warring Triad series in the ending questline after you do all of them.
The E11 boss is actually a person from the Thirteenth taking on the form of Cylva (the Elezen Gladiator you see pop up in the Role Quests) who is Cyella Valthane, she was one of Ardberts traveling companions who was 'behind' all the Voidsent stuff happening on the First prior to the Flood of Light, she betrayed the WoL's but after being defeated she is sparred by Ardbert and they go on to try and "kill" Loghrif and Mitron.
She's the one who sets up the Hunt Boards for the Cardinal Virtues due to Vaulthry reanimating their corpses and turning them into Sin Eaters.
Anyhow at the end of the questline Cyella is united with Unukalhai who we bring to the First and they discuss wanting to restore the Thirteenth with Beq Lugg, the only real reaction either have is surprise that a fellow memoriate survived when you talk to them in Endwalker after meeting Zero.
It's pretty clear that the foreshadowing for something to do with the Void and eventually going there for an expansion has existed since Heavensward and was expanded upon in Shadowbringers, so it's clear for awhile they've wanted to set an expansion there but doing so would if they want to properly build off what they set up require doing a ton of side content and making it mandatory (The Warring Triad is easy enough but making the ShB role quests all mandatory would be insane as it'd force you to have at the very least one job in every category at lvl 80)
April Fools Day was a crazy choice.
Makes sense because this post patch storyline was a massive joke
@@obamaorb7426 It really wasn't though, it was quite good.
@@obamaorb7426until it gets relevant two expansions later
@@JathraDH
Most mid storyline since early ARR
@@obamaorb7426 Lol. No. Most of Post ARR is far more mid, most of ARR itself is far more mid. The first half of stormblood is far more mid.
You are just comparing it to the utter high of the end of endwalker. The post 6.0 story is setting up a future expansion, likely the one after DT. it has to do the world building to make that expansion pay off.
You honestly sound like a "only does 5% of the game andy" butthurt cuz there was no new eureka and mad at everything.
THEY HOTBOXED AN ENTIRE DIMENSION?!
John Heavensward will never not make me laugh
SE hates healers, we've lost yet another NPC healer
To be fair, we have a WAR now. That's basically like a Tank and Healer at the same time if the forums and Reddit are to be believed.
Y’shtola canonically having the Demon Core is perfect.
Time for the funniest echo flashback in the entire msq.
thank you chair
He actually managed to make me laugh and smile with post patch. Truly skilled
It is now canon that the only reason we fight Rubicante is because he got really pissed off that nobody played Tomadachi Life
"I have to traineth right awayeth"
22:49 as a relatively new viewer of your channel I appreciate you putting that callback for that right hand joke.
"She's here! BARBACOA" that caught me so off gaurd 😂
hotboxing an entire universe seems hard, kudos to golbez, in any case, i dont play ffxiv but I still had some great laughs, cant wait for whatever non-ff vid you make
This whole rent bit had me dying
How did you make a Code Ment reference on the one fucking day we get a new Code Ment?
Have you ever considered I'm just that good?
Wait that's a thing??
WE GOT A NEW CODE MENT?
That Vergil edit was immaculate, absolutely wild. 🎉
Its kind of crazy to me that they introduced the idea of Dynamis in endwalker and it was mentioned, maybe once in the patches?
The character writing in the patches was so bad. Barely anyone felt distinct. I hope it was the B team that wrote this and not the writers for DT.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who absolutely hated this storyline, thank you Chair, the jokes and gin helped me finally finish it.
12:25 To be fair, pretty sure Matoya noted this back in Heavensward when Y'shtola was notably much weaker. Thirty more levels can do a lot for one's aether reserves :)
No it can't! Your MP is 10,000 at level 1 and it will be 10,000 at level 100! :p
(Seriously, I can't be the only one that's weird to. The pre-ShB days made so much more sense with your MP and HP pools both increasing with levels...)
@@SubduedRadical no one said that her aether reserves equated to MP though.
I can't wait for him to tear right the hell into Dawntrail.
I was being optimistic, but once again Chair was right.
Popping in the comments for that good good engagement, cause I can’t watch this for a while because it’s spoilers for me right now 🎉 but always glad to see a new video!!
"There's more to life than rent" - words to live by.
The Pandemonium/Myths of the Realm raid stories should have been the MSQ for 6.1-6.5. The resolution of Lahabrea's story, and the denouement and conclusion of one of the weird leftover things from 1.0 that hadn't been explained. The raid story could have been faffing about on the 13th and dealing with Bronzebez and his color-coded-for-your-convenience henchmen.
Instead we got "Hey kids, who wants to battle some Zodiark space farts!?"
Your literaly a liar, the stories were really good
@fredy2041 I want some of what you're smoking
@@Veishan The story of myths of the realm was really good. What are you smoking? Pandamoniom was the literal epilogue of Endwalker. Stop being a childish contrarian and pay attencion next time
@@Veishan Kid, are you okay? You need help? Myths of the relm was a very decent story. Pandaemonium was the epilogue of endwalker. Next time please pay close attencion.
@@fredy2041 I wasn't talking about those. Try to keep up, smart guy.
the chapters being "five point one" when its 6.x has sent me into hysterics
6.x was not MSQ. It was the Trial Series dresed up as MSQ. Pandaemonium and Myths of the Realm should've been the post Kinowalker MSQ. This post expansion cycle was a massive dropped ball.
you are my favorite FFXIV ASMR sleep videos
Tripple communio under pot! My only weakness!
As a rpr main who basically never does tripple enshroud cause I'm a fking casual, I liked that joke
Rofl all the paladin jabs, chair on fire as always no matter the content he covers
I can only ask one thing from the devs after this post-patch storyline: NO MORE FINAL FANTASY 4 REFERENCES! Oh by the gods, it's just wall-to-wall FF4 references and it was tired by about the latter half of the 6.1 patch! Please, reference any other game in the series until at least after Dawntrail.
Maybe they could try making their own original stories tbh, i'm tired of everything being reference to previous FF
The RE4 joke....*chef's kiss*
sounds implausible, but i literally had the thought that chair was my favorite ffxiv content creator before i went to sleep. nice surprise
😂 I always wait for your story synopsis. I can’t believe how hard I laughed at this one.
Oof the Barbie EX trial
It's pretty telling how you spent almost the entire video deadpanning a mockery of the patch story until Wuk Lamat comes on screen, your voice becomes (slightly) livelier, and you start summarizing rather than mocking. I really like her, and she fills a void in the main cast that's been empty since pretty much ARR.
I hope when she gets sent upstate to the waifu farm like all the other non-Y'shtola waifus her ticket says "Ruler of a nation" rather than "Dies for Drama".
Really starting to get tired of the "Bad guy is actually just a good guy that had bad stuff happen and it's really tragic please feel bad for him" trope in every single piece of media from the last 20 years. Sometimes people can just... Be evil. Doesn't have to have a half-assed tearjerker stapled on to the last 10 minutes. It's just a tactic to make you feel _an_ emotion near the end of the story so you remember it being better than it actually is.
But hey, people keep eating it up like it's the best thing since sliced orgasms so it'll keep happening. My money's on this war mongering asshat in Dawntrail is just an ambitious yet misguided warrior who wants his country to be strong and prosperous. There's no chance he's going to actually be evil.
This is so much better than the actual patch lol.
Yo. The bit about changing to Canticle meaning fetch-quest fully laid me out on the floor.
I love chair
1:21 ok I’m really digging the voice acting in this one
I cant tell if that’s a real name or not I’m so behind 3:20
thanks I got hit with dementia and extreme sleep for post endwalker
oh okay i feel super validated to hear you sum up your thoughts about these patches. i completely quit after 6.1 and recently marathoned them when there was a free login period and hoo boy. these patches felt like the devs were asleep at the wheel and going on autopilot with the indulgent references.
No, the post story was good, your a contrarian, move on dude.
Skipped all the patch content after 6.2, after watching this I'm glad. the MMO parts of Endwalker and original story carried hard
I have friends ask why I avoid even the trailers for the game now.
Because I don't want to predict that over arching story as easily as I have been. More so in patches.
Yay, another of the series!
As someone from Ohio, I am not understanding why Ohio has become the Raid Boss of the United States. But I still laugh every time.
Damn I missed these MFSQ vids, great work as usual chair.
zero was my most hated character right up until dawntrail
April fool's day? The perfect day.
Kururu is a character from the Air Gear series, Mr. Misshapen Chair. Unfortunately, is not a catgirl.
I don't fully agree. Oh, don't get me wrong, I found 6.2-6.5 kind of...bland. But not everything you ding on it is fair. I've been thinking since sometime in ShB that funneling the excess Light from the First to the Void would be a neat way to equalize the two and maybe restore the Void. It made me think of a sorta similar concept from the Wheel of Time books where a solution to a problem was basically pitting two opposite polarized evils against each other to destructively interfere. I felt it was just kind of a neat idea if there was a way to do it, and indeed, might be the ONLY way to restore the Void.
I do agree that a lot of the character stuff was kind of bland, and the retreads of Zero figuring out like three or four times "Oh right, I can just trust these new friends", and it seemed like they rushed through 6.2 and 6.3's Fiends as these grand generals with armies that we...never bothered with...only for them to then DRAG OUT the last two. We beat Golbez! Now we need to run off and come back in 4 months with the patch because we have to have Zeromus as the final Extreme and can't do it just yet!
I don't think it was bad, but I think the pacing was not well done. 6.1 I liked. 6.2 and 6.3 could have been done more logically (the "diversion" stuff was just stupid), build up the darkness army, then 6.4 could have been fighting them and 6.5 could have been going after Golbez and Zeromus at once as the big bads responsible for it all. And we didn't need dozens of scenes of people eating food.
I did think the Garlean political stuff WAS well done - it fit the character of the Garleans to be proud, even to their detriment, as well as Vritra being a shrewd diplomat and understanding a way for them to save face. The concept is stupid, but have you seen politics and political leaders? It was true to life accurate as all hell. THAT PART made perfect sense.
I also thought the part with Troia wasn't BADLY done, and the part with Zero's Domain was pretty well done. It was collectively the biggest lore dump on the Void and how it and its denizens operate we've gotten in 10 years. I consider that worthwhile and interesting.
But from basically the end of the Barb fight on until the pre-DT stuff in this last patch, the stuff between those two points was just like "What? Why? Why even?"
Dude, the post patch story was very well, stop being a contrarian. No way its going to be on par with 6.0
@@fredy2041 Huh?
Did you...watch the video? I was somewhat countering his point that it sucked.
@@SubduedRadical Your contradicting yourself a lot
@@fredy2041 Can you provide some examples of this contradiction that's happening "a lot"?
@@SubduedRadical Kid, the 2nd patch was well, done, Zero's character was also well done. There was never a moment of why, what, when
wait this game has a story?
I just thought it had parts you mash trough dialogue boxes and skip cutscenes.
Deadass?
Speaking as someone who paid little attention to story and only watches this to get a rough idea of what’s going on… is he being serious when connecting Zero and Zenos as the same person. Because that’s wild if zero is the WoL in the 13th while being somehow connected to Zenos…
Gaia being about 1000 years old is always a blessing
12:21 Matoya's whole spiell about that is actually just a mistranslation the original JP version only implies using her Aethersight is tiring and not some sort of life-threatening consequence 🤓
12:26 Ik it's a joke haha funny video, but I've read that this was a localisation error. In the original Japanese apparently Matoya says something along the lines of worrying that using Aethersight will just tire Yshtola, without the life-threatening implications.
That's my understanding too. The implication is that one day, spending energy on aethersight will tilt a life and death situation, where she needs her full power, the wrong way
Well that just sounds boring and inconsequential. Kinda like how her blindness is currently implemented so I guess it makes sense
Well yeah, they outright explained that there's so much aether everywhere that just breathing will replenish anything lost. The worry is that she's a BLM and in combat could drain her aether and get a tick from her magic eyes which would dip her into the negatives and down her ass.
@@MagicScientist yeah I have the feeling that they’re deliberately showing Y’shtola being reckless with her aether to finally set up a pay off to that.
Basically, it's like she has to constantly stretch a muscle, so she's not at her full strength. It's like the scene between Magneto and Mystique in X-Men: First Class where he points out to her that maintaining the "normal Human" appearance requires a constant level of her strength, both her physical strength and her mental strength as she has to have at least part of her mind concentrating on the illusion. Her power isn't an on-off switch, she has to maintain the transformation actively. But this means she's using some of her mental and physical energy to do so. He points this out while she's working out with weights and how, when she drops the illusion and is in her true blue skin form, she's physically stronger (and probably mentally sharper).
So imagine Y'Shtola is a Black Mage, but has 20 of her MP bar permanently used on her vision. That means she only has 8k to work with, which means she is 1 or 2 Fire IVs short in her burst window vs a BLM who has all 10k of their MP to work with.
It's like that.
For her to come to her true strength, she'd have to relax her vision magic, being blind in the moment but stronger in overall power.
You're going to have to explain 40:33 and the Zenos thing.
I dont get it either
I'm not 100% sure, but basically if Zenos's voidsent partner was the Warrior of Light on the 13th, would that make Zenos a Warrior of Light on the Source in some way?
...that or that he secretly wanted to turn you into his sex slave...but that's an open secret at this point?
I died at triple communio XD
So about that Dawntrail video...
lets gooooo new chair video!!
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Yoshi did Golbez dirty fr
Obligatory algorithm comment for an awesome video! The rent jokes were too real 😂
I didn't see this video in my feed at all time to consume
How much dignity did you lose replicating Y'shtola's familiar mantra.
The unregistered hypercam. like how in the world..
I'm glad that I've read Nekopara now, and can understand all of the deep lore of the Misshapen chair channel.
By the way: Coconut > Maple > Azuki > Vanilla > Chocola > Cinnamon.
And you can fight me about it.
12:21 was this not some kind of translation mistake? like "You need to use Aether to see!" but in the end you restore your aether by eat some stuff etc
9:05 --- "Xwitter" XDXDXD
12:45 --- Yeah, upsets me everytime... only to then learn recently: its a translation "oopsie" and the draining isnt as serious as we are let to believe... So that whole plotpoint is moot - if it ever was one: after all, except for that one (ONE!) time Matoya mentions it, it never comes up again - and we are three expansions in without anyone else speaking of it. So, yeah, if they bring it back in DT... ... that would be lame.
36:25 --- No, its not: the switch was obvious when we got the blue crystal flashback...
48:50 --- Whats your point? YoshiP already said, unless you pay for the skip, there wont be any. Whether thats good or bad you'll have to decide for yourself (I think its good), but going on a tantrum that DT is where new and veteran players have to figure out stuff... There wont be any new players in the DT zones - except the skippers that dont care for plot anyway.
I wasnt too happy with post-EW, either... I liked the dungeons and trials that came with it, and I do believe its a setup for later (just like the Warriors of Darkness back in HW), but as Alisiae said: I would've liked if our adventures would've stayed "closer to home" after saving the Universe. Still, totally hyped for DT so there's that.
map of ohio lol - best content
So Gaia did appear? I never finished the Eden raids so I didn't knew she appear
😂 laughed so hard. 🤣 ty. Can't wait 4r more
wake up babe, new MFSQ dropped
I didnt take that serious post endwalker so in a way enjoy it, but dawntrail its just bad, all the relevance that was given to wok lamat could have been shared with Eren and Kraile, but no, its all wok lamat
I like how Zero has absorbed energy like a void sent for 10,000 years and now shes eating super hot spicy curry, rest in pieces the long anticipated taco bell shit
Thanks for shortening the story for me, now I can skip cutscenes.
Gigachaden Chair, Strikes once again.
ugh 6.1 and 6.2 bringing back the 00s was great
I commented on the Sea of Stars video and the vid blew up. Hope it works again. If not I'll take it as a sign that your non-XIV content is what true Gamers want.
As someone who absolutely hated their time with EndWalkers story, this just seems like the exact same problems I had with it but shorter and with less genocide apologia.
Another masterpiece :3
Here we go!
Solid Barbacoa editing.
masterpiece
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Genuine banger
Best summary
Man you really love code ment
Did I hear a rock and stone?!
i cant stawp laughinnnnnnnng lmao T w T
I went through it on my main then got my alt to the part where you go to garlemald to ask permission to use the tower (then go to the first to ask permission to use the tower in the next patch) and just stopped. That character needs to finish 5.4 and 5.5 and I am seriously considering waiting three months and paying for the Dawntrail boost so I don't have to.
They literally took the trial series and padded the whole thing out to make three patches of side content fill five patches of MSQ and it was some of the worst story flow in a very, very long time. I can't believe they didn't have an actual lead up planned with real story. Maybe a couple of patches with Wuk Lamat to get to know her and show her around as we wrap up loose ends. I look forward to seeing how they have to shoehorn Zero back into the story later or if she never shows up since no character introduced in any trial or raid series is actually cannon (Yes, even Gaia). There is no possible way the .1 - .5 will be a new start point for new players. "Welcome to the game, your first trial is Barbariccia". I don't see that happening.
I just have to keep reminding myself that the people that wrote Werlyt wrote Dawntrail. It won't be Ishikawa good, but it shouldn't be had. I don't expect to be blown away by and expansion that is supposed to be setting up another 10 years and I doubt I'll be disappointed.
Good video. very worried about the quality of the future msq honestly. when I heard they were going to make a new player skip option for dawntrail I thought it would be AT 7.X not at the beginning of 6.1. this decision... explains a lot. these patch quests were odd! all the best content was not in msq!! the max rank for all tribals quest was peak.
His right hand comes off ?
Top Tier Comedy! 🤣
FFXIV: quality whiplash
Wrong, grow up.
It's probably insensitive of me to say this or maybe I missed something about the story, but the parts of the post-patch story where everyone was saying "Oh, we can't just turn on the Towers! It might scare people!" were honestly the worst parts in my opinion. Like...who gives a shit??? Seriously-