To save your brain, Minfillia isn't wearing anything protective because she isn't a fighter. Just straight up, she's a miner. She knows how to extract ore. The main reason she's seen as the defacto leader of the Scions is because up until you join, she was the only one with a direct connection to Hydalin. As for everyone else and their outfits, most are casters, one's a martial artist, and one's a rogue just trying to look nondescript and fit in with the masses at the moment. So yeah their outfits aren't bulky suits of armor because that doesn't reflect what they are, they're scholars, mages, and investigators.
Also if you played a Lalafell, you could've found out that you can clip perfectly into that window on the top of the backside of her pants. It's a design choice I both cannot understand and neither unsee since first hearing about it
aww yeah.. ice mommy.. step on me ice mommy! In regards to the video.. looks like they fixed Minfillia's inflating boobs when idle. Used to piss me off or make me laugh, depending on the alcohol content of my blood stream at the moment. Seriously.. her older idle animation made her look like she had inflatable balloons. It was horrible animation. Remember Square.. breathing does not increase a lady's bust size..
If you're wondering about carrying three corpses in your inventory, you should take a look at the item tooltips moving forward. There's a bunch of really funny, really witty descriptions in this game. I seem to remember the item text for the corpses picking fun at the exact "Where and how are you carrying these?" question
14:30 mutamix bubblypots is a goblin. Their main language is very different from the eorzean used by most people in this game. They also aren't great at learning eorzean, so they try to describe more complex words by making compound words out of easier words. So yes in universe these names are also supposed to sound ridiculous
Fact fact about Edda's party- you see them and a few other NPC adventurers outside the entrance of the first three dungeons that you do (or in case of the third one, dead inside it). Edda's questline continues in an optional level 50 dungeon and then in 'Palace of the Dead' (rogue-like extra). The elezen and her grandfather are the third party that also joins the Scions and their story continues on in the background
The real heartbreaking part is when I went back to level an alt on another server and knew to look out for them... Avere is *awful* to Edda. Dude doesn't even *like* her.
Arenvald (who becomes relevant in late Stormblood) is also hanging out around the Waking Sands throughout the game. The one that surprised me was Meffrid, a quest-giving MSQ character you run into during the Little Ala Mhigo questline, who shows up again in Stormblood. When people talk about the writing improving, I think about how his death landed compared to other characters we know for even less time.
@@RothAnim Arenvald's story in ARR is rough. He's basically working with his party to do the best he can and then gets chosen for a solo mission. His party saves up enough gil to buy him a new set of armor then he sets out. Livia's assault on the waking sands happens after he leaves and his entire party is killed.
This story is like one of those movie series or tv shows where "when you're done with it" you look back, and every little bit seems to add the grandeur that is the final product. But if you think about starting over and re-watching the stuff, it feels weird how slow it is. Bojack Horseman was like that for me as well. That series had a fantastic story and ending. But the build-up feels so slow rewatching it. --- And that's why a channel like this is so enjoyable. I loved the FFXIV story, but I don't have the patience to watch it again on my own. But to re-live it through the emotions of someone new. I'm here for this!
Every half year or so, I think “I should replay the msq; I loved it so much!” And then I go to replay it…. Yeah. I much prefer watching others experience it and living vicariously through them xd
If you are underwhelmed by Ifrit, know that, later down the line, you will be able to unlock more challenging versions of the fight, meant to be played with 8 players. Also, believe me, you have seen nothing yet as far as stakes in this game's story go lol.
Not sure if anyone else has brought this up: Depending on your starting city, you get a different Scion who you meet who introduces you to the order. You did Limsa Lominsa, so you got Y'shtola. If you started in Ul'Dah, you'd get Thancred (the white hair K-pop boy), and if you started in Gridania, you'd get Yda and Papalymo (Papa Meow). About Level 10 or so, the storylines converge at Ul'Dah. Your starting city is based on your starting job. If you want the tank mount, you'll need to level crafting. Warning: That is a long time intensive/gold intensive process where its actually best to level all the jobs at the same time because recipes for one job require things made from other jobs, and they all use the same kinds of materials. Which requires you to level at least Botany and Mining, which is even more time involved. And since I don't think you can use the Market Board on a Free Trial account, that also requires fishing., which is its own entire thing. Legit talking hundreds of hours of work to level all those. And the mount is a Shadowbringers reward, so you couldn't get it on the Free Trial. On the plus side, crafting/gathering/fishing are basically mini-games complete with their own abilities, and they have their own stories like the job quests, so it can be fun, just very time or gold intensive. Also, just to double-check, one of the most important things to do that many new players don't do is unlock the Challenge Log. Its available at 15 in Limsa Lominsa from a blue quest giver, and it unlocks basically weekly missions to play the game and get XP/Gold/Other Currency rewards. It adds its own completionist factor into the game and makes leveling, especially if you play other jobs, much easier. Make sure not to miss it.
ARR was done in a year, and it shows. Subsequent stuff was made with more... quality in mind. That being said, I love ARR for what it is: A good base game to expand from.
In game terms, ARR was a miracle and a half. Fixing and working on 1.0 while revamping and creating ARR simultaneously with many, many, many hours of god-level micromanagement. Some things (like documents for Minfilia to sign) hit the cutting room floor for expert editing (you almost never see their hands when handing things between each other).
I think my favorite part these new to the game videos are hearing their plotpoints and hearing which ones are incredibly wrong and incredibly right and just going 😊
This series of yours is so much fun to watch! I'm glad you're having a good time, and it seems you have a very good co-adventurer assisting in these shenanigans too! Enjoy the unfoldening of the story
Yeah, I started right before Shadowbringers dropped. Took me over two years to get completely caught up with the story (of course, I did every piece of side quest and optional material along the way and did several 2-week long crafting breaks every time I got to a new area storywise, but still…). If it hadn’t been for the pandemic, I probably wouldn’t have caught up until 6.2 or something.
@@powerofk Mmhmm. Took me about two years as well, and I started between Shadowbringers and Endwalker. And I wasn't even editing my play into videos or writing scripts! I look forward to watching Caffeinated Dad's journey.
I'm actually so glad that you're enjoying the story of ARR so far. I really liked it, too, when I was going through the game the first time and I often get people asking me why cuz it's "the worst of the expansions". It's not my favorite, but it's enjoyable! And I find it hard to be too critical of it since I learned the history of how ARR came to be. Plus, they've made a lot of improvements even since I started playing two years ago! tl;dr I love seeing new people get into this game, and I am so excited to see more of your journey through the story! Good luck!
Hey I appreciate the kind words! I know people have said it's a slog but I prefer to know the background of what I am working towards in game ya know, especially from a story mmo!
@@zeehero7280 I have a hard time holding too much against it considering everything the devs had to do in order to make it. I mean, they were consistently and regularly updating 1.0 to make it playable and fun for people while simultaneously developing 2.0 from the ground up and they did it in under a year, plus they had 1.0 go out in probably the most incredible way I've ever seen. Yeah, ARR has its flaws, but they're still actively updating it and trying to make it more streamlined which is more than most MMOs would do with older content. Not to mention, they're still fighting with 1.0's spaghetti code at every turn. I think that people are too harsh on ARR sometimes. It's good, imo, I've taken multiple alts through it and enjoyed it every time.
Fun fact - ever time you have something in your inventory that makes you go "Wait, how?" CHECK YOUR INVENTORY. There's almost always a joke or explanation. Like "You don't know HOW these are fitting in such a small spot" or the like.
I died laughing at the Squidward sounds. I’ve always had them play in my mind when I see lalafells walk, but actually hearing it in a video is just amazing!
The game story used to be a lot longer and padded but a lot of quests were cut or turned into side quests to speed the process of getting through a realm reborn along
There's an NPC conversation where a woman says "And then I cut it off and threw it in the river!" and the male character states "A fate that should befall no man!"
Copperbell mines is you helping them suppress a slave uprising, cuz they have been enslaved and then imprisoned for 300ish years, but it would look bad if they got out, so stop that WoL, k?
@@genXantiKaren There's a sleeping lalafell in one of the small towns near Ul'dah who is having lecherous dreams about Raubahn. ("Oh, yes, I am your Sultana...")
New subscriber here! Absolutely love watching this series as someone who has been playing FF14 since 2019. Your sense of humor is hilarious and your new player perspective offers me the opportunity to look back on my time in ARR. I hope you continue this journey as I impatiently wait in anticipation for the next episode!
I remember reading Momodi's voice (and every lalafel, for that matter) in an EXTREMELY THICK New Jersey accent. It was so fun. :) Glad to see you're enjoying yourself! Can't wait to see more!
I didn't know I needed a video series like this until you started releasing these videos. For the sake of the universe, these must continue! Thank you for the laughs, and I'm so glad you're finding so much fun in even the early content of the game. Take my comment and my like to help out with the almighty algorithm!
Hey lex thank you for the encouragement! I think I have to at the very least continue to ARR but I mean heavesward being free... gotta keep going. Again thank you for your warm support!
G'alactica shouldn't spoil you too much and follow you every step with an endgame character because you should experience the challenge as a pure untained newbie.
Sweet. Enjoy this massive and beautiful story. Been a while since I played it and seeing the beginnings again let me remember instantly all of that and what is to come. And, oh boy, there is sooo much good stuff coming your way. Btw, mained Warrior tank and this was a blast. So buckle up for an awesome ride!
after finally finishing the game up to the end of endwalker I can confidently say... yeah the beginning was fucking chill, like snoop smoking that zaza with the gang chill. But with a newbies perspective yeah fighting a firegod at like lv.18/50 is kinda outta pocket but then again the final boss in the very first final fantasy with the context of strangers of paradise this is usual final fantasy series activity
You are the first and only streamer I've seen thus far turn down the easy mode carries/playthrough (free rides, items, etc.) in order to get as close to the "normal" player experience as possible. I respect that.
Loved the video! And really enjoyed your sense of humor, which kept me invested in the initial part of the game that I must have played like ten times by now. And as a Lalafell player, I can confirm that yes, we basically come with our own personal stepstools.
Dude, I am LIVING for your reactions so this game. I've been playing it for a long time and recently helped my sister play through all of it over the last year or two and your reactions are just amazing. Subbed cuz I have to know what you think of the rest of the story XD (I'm binging the entire playlist, I watched a couple of vids out of order before going to the playlist)
I love these FFXIV videos! New follower here, and I'll be recommending this series to others as well. You legitimately made me laugh out loud so many times. 😂
The tank is from the Dwarve beast tribe. You can buy it (after you reach reputation rank 7 with the Dwarves) with the beast tribe currency you get from the Dwarve tribe quests. You can unlock it when you get to the shadowbringer msq line. I'm not sure how much of the msq you need to do before you unlock the start of the dwarve beast tribe quest line. I still want to know what server you are on, so I can visit you in-game.
Really enjoying this series, looking forward to the next one! As for unlocking your Marauder evolution of Warrior, you need to finish your level 20 MSQ called Sylph Management. It comes about 8 or so quests after fighting Ifrit. You should be close but maybe not quite there yet. Enjoy the journey, take your time, can't wait to see more.
The reaction to Cactuars is great 😂 They're a long-standing tradition of the Final Fantasy games. They can also hit like trucks depending on your level, so watch out for the Needle attacks
Like the difference between them walking and running Is actually hilarious! I've found out most of the mobs in this game hark back to other ffxiv games!
Yep, this was around the same part of the story that I got hooked, albeit 10 years ago. The only marauders' guild is in Limsa, just as an fyi. You need to do those class quests in order to unlock some of your abilities. At 30, that's 2 abilities, not including the Warrior job unlock. That said, I'm happy that you're liking the story so far. It's the reason why I keep coming back time and again to play.
I think the story pacing fast is because the developers cuts out/revamps alot of old MSQ. Old ARR MSQ used to be such a slog to go through 😂 21:52 some of the class skills is unlock via doing class/job quests so do progress your class quests! You can check if your class/job quest is available by looking under the current MSQ ui top left. Also noted that to unlock WAR you also need to be done with lv 20 MSQ quest too It’s been fun watching your journey and I hope to see more FFXIV videos in the future! Have fun haha
The MSQ you need to finish is called Sylph Management, and it's only like level 20. You can easily be around level 30 in your main class by that point though.
love when you reach a point where you can just grind out hunts to get aetheryte tickets so you go from spending all your gil teleporting to no gil and being able to teleport as much as you want. also have fun with the next section :)))
The password being "wild rose" is a reference to final fantasy 2 which used a key word system to get different dialogues from characters. The term "wild rose" was the first one you learned and was a password for the rebellion of the game.
" Ifirit the demon guy goes down pretty quick" That is why i recomend doing the story with the NPC's because with other players pretty much nothing is a challenge, lets you go at your pace and be somewhat challenged and feel the power of these boss's
actually not really i have done ifrit with the npc's and while yes he takes longer to kill you don't really miss anything by killing him faster as 4 man ifrit is very bare bones and he pretty much saw everything the boss does
@@GalacticW I'm not just speaking on Ifirit but all the Dungeons and trials, but to each his own, of course only doing the first time through, not suggesting he do it every time
Nah Papa Meow fits in nicely with Asmon’s nicknames for the characters-Milfina, Uberdanger, and his wife Y’shlotta. 😃 your rundowns of the plot are great, keep em comin!
For more fun from the Devs, make sure you read descriptions of everything. I have a triceratops minion and they basically retell the trike scene from Jurassic Park
Teleporting between aethernet shards inside a main city doesn't actually cost you anything to do. It just makes getting around the city a lot quicker. And once you find all the shards inside a city you get a few extra teleports that drop you just outside any of the exits or at the airship landing for that city. It's definitely worth taking the time to find them all! EDIT: Also, you can right click any element in the HUD editing menu to change whether it's visible or not. You have access to like 10 action bars total and you can change the keybinds for them in a separate menu.
I've played ARR at least twice, but I never noticed the Ungust was the guy who was bothering the meat skewer lady.... I guess I'm just that face-blind.
honestly the big group content is either as easy or as hard as you want it cause in the duty finder you can set restrictions which adds a lot since I am also in the camp of not wanting to struggle through raids or trials but still want to enjoy the content
You've seen Ungust get backstabbed and thrown in to be tempered (to be killed offscreen for being tempered), but this isn't the last place you see him! If you do Palace of the Dead, he has a random chance of spawning in there as a zombie with a different name - but if you pay attention to models you can see it's him. Same outfit and haircut.
Every grouped content in the duty finder can be done with the "Minimum Item Level" and the "No Echo" setting to simulate the on release experience... roughly It's commonly abbreviated as "MiNE" and people sometimes do these runs cuz its fun and its nice to experience old content properly also the trials in the game have an EXTREME/SAVAGE version thats basically Heroic/Mythic in WoW
I do find myself missing the old days. This trial used to be a real challenge back when the level cap was 50. Most people would not pass it on their first attempt.
As someone that does savage raids and extreme trials, you might enjoy it. it's like a choreographed dance where everyone performs to the boss's tune. There's also normal trials, which are story bosses, and normal raids, which are fairly forgiving optional bosses. There's also unreals and ultimates which I don't have a lot of experience with, except to say that ultimates are the hands down hardest content in this game.
unreals are just old extremes tuned up to level 90, as for ultimates they are so fun and have cleared uwu (definatly easiest ultimate and would say is easier the p12s) and now I am proging TEA with my static and part of me wants to say it feels easier the p12 but i just think i am having way more fun progging it then i did with p12
@@GalacticW Really? that's reassuring. I've been going at p12s for a while. I'm looking forward to those now, knowing I can handle them. Now to get the static on board.
I've been playing FFXIV solid for a couple years... nothing has touched me like this story... but during the current lull I've been dipping back into GW2 which I played years ago.. hence how I found you.. :) your GW2 videos have been a great help... anyway... back to FFXIV... I think ARR kinda gets a bad rap... is it the best of 14.. well no.. but its still great fun.. problem is the other expansions just get better and better as you go, so ARR gets left behind.. I hope you enjoy the ride... take your time! I do hope you get to the end its a long but well worthwhile journey..
Your Momodi voice is now my canon voice for her. I hope you're happy. You cannot become a warrior yet, you need to progress further into the MSQ to unlock job quests.
about boss progression, after you finish the ARR expansion you can unlock Extreme version of the trials and Coils, there you gonna get a real multiplayer content progression, most of things in the main story is just easy so anyone can do it without getting frustrated
The part I like the most about the story is that it doesn't pull any cheap writing clichés just pad the length or cause cheap drama. It's a little hard to cite examples without spoilering, but I will say that there are moments where I'd go "Wow, I've seen lesser stories milk this misunderstanding into a full season." Granted, ARR is full of timewasting "Prove yourself!" moments, but at least there it makes sense because you haven't started killing gods full-time yet.
7:05 Regarding the papers: keep in mind that what you're playing through right now was basically a last-ditch effort to save the game after it flopped so hard the original director was demoted and they brought in someone who at the time had never worked on a FF game. They were not given a lot of resources and the game was developed in about 2 years. Keep that in mind when you start getting into the expansions and they very clearly actually have a budget
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To save your brain, Minfillia isn't wearing anything protective because she isn't a fighter. Just straight up, she's a miner. She knows how to extract ore. The main reason she's seen as the defacto leader of the Scions is because up until you join, she was the only one with a direct connection to Hydalin.
As for everyone else and their outfits, most are casters, one's a martial artist, and one's a rogue just trying to look nondescript and fit in with the masses at the moment. So yeah their outfits aren't bulky suits of armor because that doesn't reflect what they are, they're scholars, mages, and investigators.
and they all have the equivalent of a Master's Degree in something-or other from Fantasy Yale/Harvard (that's what their funky tattoo is all about)
And even if it was armor & if you thought that's not very protective just wait till you see some of the other 'armor' gear sets
Also if you played a Lalafell, you could've found out that you can clip perfectly into that window on the top of the backside of her pants. It's a design choice I both cannot understand and neither unsee since first hearing about it
and then there's Urianger
@@EagleCeres I would say PhD is more accurate
"Unless you have pertinent business here, I must ask you to-"
"Cat."
"Here at the behest of Y'shtola!?"
"cat" or even "meow" lmao
Dont worry, the game has chill, it also forces you to fight multiple ice gods too, very very chill.
But quite a bit before that, you'll get doused by a water primal. ;)
@@Norbert_Sattler dont forget FIRE!!!!!!! so much fire
Again and again and AGAIN! AND AGAIN!!
aww yeah.. ice mommy.. step on me ice mommy!
In regards to the video.. looks like they fixed Minfillia's inflating boobs when idle. Used to piss me off or make me laugh, depending on the alcohol content of my blood stream at the moment. Seriously.. her older idle animation made her look like she had inflatable balloons. It was horrible animation. Remember Square.. breathing does not increase a lady's bust size..
Watch out for that windy day. I hear a dreadful gust is on the horizon.
If you're wondering about carrying three corpses in your inventory, you should take a look at the item tooltips moving forward. There's a bunch of really funny, really witty descriptions in this game. I seem to remember the item text for the corpses picking fun at the exact "Where and how are you carrying these?" question
I was going to say the same thing. Key item inventory tooltips have some great flavor text.
The black loam from the starting Limsa quests 😂
"Literally a steaming pile of shite"
The most cursed ones are the Ishgardian items lol
14:30 mutamix bubblypots is a goblin. Their main language is very different from the eorzean used by most people in this game. They also aren't great at learning eorzean, so they try to describe more complex words by making compound words out of easier words. So yes in universe these names are also supposed to sound ridiculous
Also you can tell Mutamix is male because the name ends with "ix", female goblin names end with "ox"
@@eFeXuyi learned a thing today about the gobbos
Fact fact about Edda's party- you see them and a few other NPC adventurers outside the entrance of the first three dungeons that you do (or in case of the third one, dead inside it). Edda's questline continues in an optional level 50 dungeon and then in 'Palace of the Dead' (rogue-like extra). The elezen and her grandfather are the third party that also joins the Scions and their story continues on in the background
Very easy to miss but I love little touches like this :)
The real heartbreaking part is when I went back to level an alt on another server and knew to look out for them... Avere is *awful* to Edda. Dude doesn't even *like* her.
Arenvald (who becomes relevant in late Stormblood) is also hanging out around the Waking Sands throughout the game. The one that surprised me was Meffrid, a quest-giving MSQ character you run into during the Little Ala Mhigo questline, who shows up again in Stormblood. When people talk about the writing improving, I think about how his death landed compared to other characters we know for even less time.
@@RothAnim Arenvald's story in ARR is rough. He's basically working with his party to do the best he can and then gets chosen for a solo mission. His party saves up enough gil to buy him a new set of armor then he sets out. Livia's assault on the waking sands happens after he leaves and his entire party is killed.
@@ecyor0 I recall someone pointing out that Edda's entire party was awful. They were basically the stereotypical toxic party.
Shockingly, "where are the guards?" does, in fact, get answered.
... And _how._
This story is like one of those movie series or tv shows where "when you're done with it" you look back, and every little bit seems to add the grandeur that is the final product. But if you think about starting over and re-watching the stuff, it feels weird how slow it is.
Bojack Horseman was like that for me as well. That series had a fantastic story and ending. But the build-up feels so slow rewatching it.
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And that's why a channel like this is so enjoyable. I loved the FFXIV story, but I don't have the patience to watch it again on my own. But to re-live it through the emotions of someone new. I'm here for this!
Every half year or so, I think “I should replay the msq; I loved it so much!” And then I go to replay it…. Yeah. I much prefer watching others experience it and living vicariously through them xd
"Well come" is a reference to the SNES game Chrono Trigger, made by developers of Final Fantasy back in the day
That's actually a really awesome call back!
also in memory of the late Akira Toriyama I'll mention that he did the art for that game.
FF14, you either love it or hate it. But once you're in, you're hooked.
You either leave during ARR or become a walking advertisement.
If you are underwhelmed by Ifrit, know that, later down the line, you will be able to unlock more challenging versions of the fight, meant to be played with 8 players. Also, believe me, you have seen nothing yet as far as stakes in this game's story go lol.
Gotta start with saving your country. only then can you move on to higher orders of magnitude saving.
“How is this armor supposed to protect her?”
It doesn’t, Minfillia is a miner
Only a little bit. In her spare time.
A miner miner.
Also technically not a legal adult so a minor miner miner.
@@shingshongshamalama Pretty sure she's an adult. She's in her 20.
Not sure if anyone else has brought this up:
Depending on your starting city, you get a different Scion who you meet who introduces you to the order. You did Limsa Lominsa, so you got Y'shtola. If you started in Ul'Dah, you'd get Thancred (the white hair K-pop boy), and if you started in Gridania, you'd get Yda and Papalymo (Papa Meow). About Level 10 or so, the storylines converge at Ul'Dah. Your starting city is based on your starting job.
If you want the tank mount, you'll need to level crafting. Warning: That is a long time intensive/gold intensive process where its actually best to level all the jobs at the same time because recipes for one job require things made from other jobs, and they all use the same kinds of materials. Which requires you to level at least Botany and Mining, which is even more time involved. And since I don't think you can use the Market Board on a Free Trial account, that also requires fishing., which is its own entire thing. Legit talking hundreds of hours of work to level all those. And the mount is a Shadowbringers reward, so you couldn't get it on the Free Trial. On the plus side, crafting/gathering/fishing are basically mini-games complete with their own abilities, and they have their own stories like the job quests, so it can be fun, just very time or gold intensive.
Also, just to double-check, one of the most important things to do that many new players don't do is unlock the Challenge Log. Its available at 15 in Limsa Lominsa from a blue quest giver, and it unlocks basically weekly missions to play the game and get XP/Gold/Other Currency rewards. It adds its own completionist factor into the game and makes leveling, especially if you play other jobs, much easier. Make sure not to miss it.
ARR was done in a year, and it shows. Subsequent stuff was made with more... quality in mind. That being said, I love ARR for what it is: A good base game to expand from.
Minor correction, it was 3 years not 1 year. That is still a crazy small amount of time for an mmo though
3 years WHILE trying to fix and patch the worked 1.0 version. Basically rebuilding an MMO while fixing a broken one
In game terms, ARR was a miracle and a half. Fixing and working on 1.0 while revamping and creating ARR simultaneously with many, many, many hours of god-level micromanagement. Some things (like documents for Minfilia to sign) hit the cutting room floor for expert editing (you almost never see their hands when handing things between each other).
I genuinely love the story and feel of ARR, but it does indeed have a severe lack of polish due to having much less development time.
I think my favorite part these new to the game videos are hearing their plotpoints and hearing which ones are incredibly wrong and incredibly right and just going 😊
This series of yours is so much fun to watch! I'm glad you're having a good time, and it seems you have a very good co-adventurer assisting in these shenanigans too! Enjoy the unfoldening of the story
If you go through the entire game at this rate, you'll have content for a *long* time. I'm here for it.
@@Hronika-kw5pl Do you... think I'm insulting him or something?
@@Hronika-kw5pl There isn't a "speed". Why are you talking about speeds and touching grass and things?
Yeah, I started right before Shadowbringers dropped. Took me over two years to get completely caught up with the story (of course, I did every piece of side quest and optional material along the way and did several 2-week long crafting breaks every time I got to a new area storywise, but still…). If it hadn’t been for the pandemic, I probably wouldn’t have caught up until 6.2 or something.
@@Hronika-kw5pl You're passive-aggressively picking fights by phrasing your ideas as questions? Isn't that sad?
@@powerofk Mmhmm. Took me about two years as well, and I started between Shadowbringers and Endwalker. And I wasn't even editing my play into videos or writing scripts! I look forward to watching Caffeinated Dad's journey.
I'm actually so glad that you're enjoying the story of ARR so far. I really liked it, too, when I was going through the game the first time and I often get people asking me why cuz it's "the worst of the expansions". It's not my favorite, but it's enjoyable! And I find it hard to be too critical of it since I learned the history of how ARR came to be. Plus, they've made a lot of improvements even since I started playing two years ago!
tl;dr I love seeing new people get into this game, and I am so excited to see more of your journey through the story! Good luck!
Hey I appreciate the kind words! I know people have said it's a slog but I prefer to know the background of what I am working towards in game ya know, especially from a story mmo!
@@CaffeinatedDadARR does a really good job building a foundation for the rest of the game to build off of, so it's definitely worth it!
its the worst in terms of quality in a game where worst means "Still pretty good"
@@zeehero7280 I have a hard time holding too much against it considering everything the devs had to do in order to make it. I mean, they were consistently and regularly updating 1.0 to make it playable and fun for people while simultaneously developing 2.0 from the ground up and they did it in under a year, plus they had 1.0 go out in probably the most incredible way I've ever seen. Yeah, ARR has its flaws, but they're still actively updating it and trying to make it more streamlined which is more than most MMOs would do with older content. Not to mention, they're still fighting with 1.0's spaghetti code at every turn. I think that people are too harsh on ARR sometimes. It's good, imo, I've taken multiple alts through it and enjoyed it every time.
This is awesome. Glad you're enjoying the story and game so far. Videos are immaculate too btw. Very well done. I look forward to seeing more!
Fun fact - ever time you have something in your inventory that makes you go "Wait, how?"
CHECK YOUR INVENTORY. There's almost always a joke or explanation. Like "You don't know HOW these are fitting in such a small spot" or the like.
I've seen about 5 or 6 comments suggesting I pay more attention to that as I am playing through! Thanks for the heads up!
I died laughing at the Squidward sounds. I’ve always had them play in my mind when I see lalafells walk, but actually hearing it in a video is just amazing!
Haha! I am sorry but I have now internalized that sound for lalafells. ... suffer with me!
Glad you're having fun, brings back the good memories! I didn't mind the slow start, and even enjoyed it quite a bit. Enjoy your walkthrough!
The game story used to be a lot longer and padded but a lot of quests were cut or turned into side quests to speed the process of getting through a realm reborn along
DAMN IT I CAN’T UNHEAR THE SQUIDWARD FEET NOW
"isnt this game PG?" LV15 dungeon Sastasha is stopping sex trafficing
There's an NPC conversation where a woman says "And then I cut it off and threw it in the river!" and the male character states "A fate that should befall no man!"
Gotta love seeing Limsa Lomina's NPC discussions@@genXantiKaren
Copperbell mines is you helping them suppress a slave uprising, cuz they have been enslaved and then imprisoned for 300ish years, but it would look bad if they got out, so stop that WoL, k?
Sounds like something that would be PG. After all without that age after it, then the guidance is needed regardless of age.
@@genXantiKaren There's a sleeping lalafell in one of the small towns near Ul'dah who is having lecherous dreams about Raubahn. ("Oh, yes, I am your Sultana...")
I love all the different nicknames new players give characters/ locations😂
Fun stuff watching you go through this content! Hope you keep going.
Thanks! I have a new episode out on monday!
New subscriber here! Absolutely love watching this series as someone who has been playing FF14 since 2019. Your sense of humor is hilarious and your new player perspective offers me the opportunity to look back on my time in ARR. I hope you continue this journey as I impatiently wait in anticipation for the next episode!
I remember reading Momodi's voice (and every lalafel, for that matter) in an EXTREMELY THICK New Jersey accent. It was so fun. :) Glad to see you're enjoying yourself! Can't wait to see more!
I didn't know I needed a video series like this until you started releasing these videos. For the sake of the universe, these must continue! Thank you for the laughs, and I'm so glad you're finding so much fun in even the early content of the game. Take my comment and my like to help out with the almighty algorithm!
Hey lex thank you for the encouragement! I think I have to at the very least continue to ARR but I mean heavesward being free... gotta keep going.
Again thank you for your warm support!
G'alactica shouldn't spoil you too much and follow you every step with an endgame character because you should experience the challenge as a pure untained newbie.
Sweet. Enjoy this massive and beautiful story. Been a while since I played it and seeing the beginnings again let me remember instantly all of that and what is to come. And, oh boy, there is sooo much good stuff coming your way. Btw, mained Warrior tank and this was a blast. So buckle up for an awesome ride!
Enjoying these videos. Can't wait for more! You're gonna "love" the Warrior guild "master"!
Fun Tip: If you have questions how things work for quest items fitting in your inventory such as corpses, read their description. :)
I've seen that comment alot! I'm going g to have to pay attention to it more as I play!
after finally finishing the game up to the end of endwalker I can confidently say... yeah the beginning was fucking chill, like snoop smoking that zaza with the gang chill.
But with a newbies perspective yeah fighting a firegod at like lv.18/50 is kinda outta pocket but then again the final boss in the very first final fantasy with the context of strangers of paradise this is usual final fantasy series activity
You are the first and only streamer I've seen thus far turn down the easy mode carries/playthrough (free rides, items, etc.) in order to get as close to the "normal" player experience as possible. I respect that.
I apprciate it! Can't expect to have the true experience if everything I'd made easy mode!
I love your take on ARR so far. Hope you enjoy it and continue through to Heavensward as well!
Honestly the ff14 community has loved these so gonna keep making them!
it was the "barry white voice with a k-pop look for me"!! This is now my fav story interpretation!! Keep up the good work!!
Man this is great, you're really entertaining. Please keep this going
Hey thanks! I'm enjoying my time through the game
Loved the video! And really enjoyed your sense of humor, which kept me invested in the initial part of the game that I must have played like ten times by now. And as a Lalafell player, I can confirm that yes, we basically come with our own personal stepstools.
Dude, I am LIVING for your reactions so this game. I've been playing it for a long time and recently helped my sister play through all of it over the last year or two and your reactions are just amazing. Subbed cuz I have to know what you think of the rest of the story XD (I'm binging the entire playlist, I watched a couple of vids out of order before going to the playlist)
Ha! Well thank you! Ideally I have another video coming out this Friday with my finale part 1!
I love these FFXIV videos! New follower here, and I'll be recommending this series to others as well. You legitimately made me laugh out loud so many times. 😂
Hey I am glad! I'm having a ton of fun with this game!
The tank is from the Dwarve beast tribe. You can buy it (after you reach reputation rank 7 with the Dwarves) with the beast tribe currency you get from the Dwarve tribe quests.
You can unlock it when you get to the shadowbringer msq line. I'm not sure how much of the msq you need to do before you unlock the start of the dwarve beast tribe quest line.
I still want to know what server you are on, so I can visit you in-game.
I'm going to work exactly for that lol and I am on goblin server!
Glad you're retaining the story somewhat 😂 keep having fun in eorzea ! love the edits
Thanks! 😁 it's been great thus far!
I love the constant mouse movement around Papalymo whenever he's on screen in his first appearance.
it’s so great to watch someone playing through story that i played so long ago that i’ve forgotten most of it
Really enjoying this series, looking forward to the next one! As for unlocking your Marauder evolution of Warrior, you need to finish your level 20 MSQ called Sylph Management. It comes about 8 or so quests after fighting Ifrit. You should be close but maybe not quite there yet. Enjoy the journey, take your time, can't wait to see more.
The reaction to Cactuars is great 😂 They're a long-standing tradition of the Final Fantasy games. They can also hit like trucks depending on your level, so watch out for the Needle attacks
Like the difference between them walking and running Is actually hilarious! I've found out most of the mobs in this game hark back to other ffxiv games!
Fantastic editing and humor that strikes my funny bone. Count me subscribed!
Yep, this was around the same part of the story that I got hooked, albeit 10 years ago. The only marauders' guild is in Limsa, just as an fyi. You need to do those class quests in order to unlock some of your abilities. At 30, that's 2 abilities, not including the Warrior job unlock.
That said, I'm happy that you're liking the story so far. It's the reason why I keep coming back time and again to play.
Let me just say. I love your commentary 😂 Absolutely hilarious. 🤣❤ Subbed!
I think the story pacing fast is because the developers cuts out/revamps alot of old MSQ. Old ARR MSQ used to be such a slog to go through 😂
21:52 some of the class skills is unlock via doing class/job quests so do progress your class quests! You can check if your class/job quest is available by looking under the current MSQ ui top left. Also noted that to unlock WAR you also need to be done with lv 20 MSQ quest too
It’s been fun watching your journey and I hope to see more FFXIV videos in the future! Have fun haha
The MSQ you need to finish is called Sylph Management, and it's only like level 20. You can easily be around level 30 in your main class by that point though.
@@Mir_Teiwaz thanks for the clarification! I will edit it to my comment too
Thank you for the kind words! The ffxiv ARR journey has been great fun and without a doubt one that jm excited to continue!
love when you reach a point where you can just grind out hunts to get aetheryte tickets so you go from spending all your gil teleporting to no gil and being able to teleport as much as you want.
also have fun with the next section :)))
The password being "wild rose" is a reference to final fantasy 2 which used a key word system to get different dialogues from characters. The term "wild rose" was the first one you learned and was a password for the rebellion of the game.
" Ifirit the demon guy goes down pretty quick" That is why i recomend doing the story with the NPC's because with other players pretty much nothing is a challenge, lets you go at your pace and be somewhat challenged and feel the power of these boss's
Hmm that's actually pretty interesting! Thanks for the tip!
actually not really i have done ifrit with the npc's and while yes he takes longer to kill you don't really miss anything by killing him faster as 4 man ifrit is very bare bones and he pretty much saw everything the boss does
@@GalacticW I'm not just speaking on Ifirit but all the Dungeons and trials, but to each his own, of course only doing the first time through, not suggesting he do it every time
Welcome to the fold! I appreciate you bringing this story into a more public eye.
Oh, the adventure continues
YES!! Love your ff14 vids! so fun to watch you go through the journey, please continue!
I'm loving following your journey into FF14. Can't wait to see more.
Edda's story is so nice. Pay attention to NPCs outside the dungeons!
I'll have to go back to see what happened if I can. I think I breezed right past it. Thanks for the headsup!
I am here for this journey! You had me at squidward feet on Tataru.
im new here and your videos are very funny 😂 i cant wait to see your journey going forward. welcome to eorzea fellow warrior of light!
on the edge of my seat for more episodes :3c
Planning on monday!
this is awesome and i can't tell if you know what eventually happens or are guessing but somethings you say are spookily accurate
Nah Papa Meow fits in nicely with Asmon’s nicknames for the characters-Milfina, Uberdanger, and his wife Y’shlotta. 😃 your rundowns of the plot are great, keep em comin!
I will never be able to unsee the Lalafell = red panda comparison now, thanks.
20:30 wtf is that O.o I've literally never seen that. I didn't know you could try out limit breaks like that
That looks like explorer mode. It's also a great way to get nice screenshots of your character in dungeons.
For more fun from the Devs, make sure you read descriptions of everything. I have a triceratops minion and they basically retell the trike scene from Jurassic Park
Momodi standing on someone who didn't pay their bar tab seems in character
These videos are great!! Keep it up :D
Teleporting between aethernet shards inside a main city doesn't actually cost you anything to do. It just makes getting around the city a lot quicker. And once you find all the shards inside a city you get a few extra teleports that drop you just outside any of the exits or at the airship landing for that city. It's definitely worth taking the time to find them all!
EDIT: Also, you can right click any element in the HUD editing menu to change whether it's visible or not. You have access to like 10 action bars total and you can change the keybinds for them in a separate menu.
I've played ARR at least twice, but I never noticed the Ungust was the guy who was bothering the meat skewer lady....
I guess I'm just that face-blind.
I'm sorry it was his top fluff that got me, terrible haircut and everything lol
I'll be watching these with great interest...
Hopefully I can provide that interest for many videos to come!
Make sure you keep current on your class/Job Quests. They're the second most important type of quest through level 60.
Now that I finished ARR I may have to go and try out some of the secondary jobs to learn them!
I never get tired of seeing people play through this. It's always glorious
He just nonchalantly said "because another primal sneezed on me first"...
Boy ... Oh boy.
It was a sneeze right...
honestly the big group content is either as easy or as hard as you want it cause in the duty finder you can set restrictions which adds a lot since I am also in the camp of not wanting to struggle through raids or trials but still want to enjoy the content
About stuffing corpses in your pocket, sometimes it is worth reading item description on quest items
You've seen Ungust get backstabbed and thrown in to be tempered (to be killed offscreen for being tempered), but this isn't the last place you see him! If you do Palace of the Dead, he has a random chance of spawning in there as a zombie with a different name - but if you pay attention to models you can see it's him. Same outfit and haircut.
Every grouped content in the duty finder can be done with the "Minimum Item Level" and the "No Echo" setting to simulate the on release experience... roughly
It's commonly abbreviated as "MiNE" and people sometimes do these runs cuz its fun and its nice to experience old content properly
also the trials in the game have an EXTREME/SAVAGE version thats basically Heroic/Mythic in WoW
PLEASE PLEASE KEEP MAKING THESE VIDEOS!!!
That southern accent attempt, bless your heart caffeine pops
Its not that Tataru didn't notice you, Its cause she felt you were a worthy "Business Partner" :3
Lol I just don't know how my character could have been missed!
I do find myself missing the old days. This trial used to be a real challenge back when the level cap was 50. Most people would not pass it on their first attempt.
Oh Edda... Nothing bad will ever come from your involvement...
the cactaur family of mobs are my favorite mobs in the game. they're so cute and goofy.
As someone that does savage raids and extreme trials, you might enjoy it. it's like a choreographed dance where everyone performs to the boss's tune. There's also normal trials, which are story bosses, and normal raids, which are fairly forgiving optional bosses. There's also unreals and ultimates which I don't have a lot of experience with, except to say that ultimates are the hands down hardest content in this game.
unreals are just old extremes tuned up to level 90, as for ultimates they are so fun and have cleared uwu (definatly easiest ultimate and would say is easier the p12s) and now I am proging TEA with my static and part of me wants to say it feels easier the p12 but i just think i am having way more fun progging it then i did with p12
I don't know if I can get back into the hardcore scene of raiding I did it already in wow and ended up losing love for the game
@@CaffeinatedDad You can absolutely just raid casually in this game, there's no need to be hardcore about it.
@@CaffeinatedDad That's fair.
@@GalacticW Really? that's reassuring. I've been going at p12s for a while. I'm looking forward to those now, knowing I can handle them. Now to get the static on board.
The Warrior of Light: Slayer of Gods and Giver of Nods
I've been playing FFXIV solid for a couple years... nothing has touched me like this story... but during the current lull I've been dipping back into GW2 which I played years ago.. hence how I found you.. :) your GW2 videos have been a great help... anyway... back to FFXIV... I think ARR kinda gets a bad rap... is it the best of 14.. well no.. but its still great fun.. problem is the other expansions just get better and better as you go, so ARR gets left behind.. I hope you enjoy the ride... take your time! I do hope you get to the end its a long but well worthwhile journey..
I love how you’re still mispronouncing Y’shtola quite heavily 😂 Great video, I can’t wait to see more!
Your Momodi voice is now my canon voice for her. I hope you're happy.
You cannot become a warrior yet, you need to progress further into the MSQ to unlock job quests.
he's about at the point where you unlock jobs. like one or two more quests.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that read momodi as incredibly southern
about boss progression, after you finish the ARR expansion you can unlock Extreme version of the trials and Coils, there you gonna get a real multiplayer content progression, most of things in the main story is just easy so anyone can do it without getting frustrated
This game is massive so don't worry, u have a massive journey ahead of u!
The part I like the most about the story is that it doesn't pull any cheap writing clichés just pad the length or cause cheap drama. It's a little hard to cite examples without spoilering, but I will say that there are moments where I'd go "Wow, I've seen lesser stories milk this misunderstanding into a full season."
Granted, ARR is full of timewasting "Prove yourself!" moments, but at least there it makes sense because you haven't started killing gods full-time yet.
7:05 Regarding the papers: keep in mind that what you're playing through right now was basically a last-ditch effort to save the game after it flopped so hard the original director was demoted and they brought in someone who at the time had never worked on a FF game. They were not given a lot of resources and the game was developed in about 2 years. Keep that in mind when you start getting into the expansions and they very clearly actually have a budget
Can't believe his mentor didn't take him to the glamour NPC yet what a disastah
5:26 pretty sure you just said the word y'shtola but thats just my guess
This is great was hoping for another vid
Are you considering sticking with it through the expansions? As in the entire 200+ hour journey?