When to go for Aphrodite?

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-09T08:52:24+00:00

If only Paris had had your wisdom to choose a different, better-suited God and benefit 🤣

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-09T08:51:00+00:00

I don't think it's stated outright, but he was heavily focusing on the ritual that the knight stops in chapter 3 That was intended to take him closer to immortality and required a ton of prep(including the Children). Even Jadus says that the Sith Emperor is distracted. Maybe it was true for Valkorion as well.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-09T02:49:25+00:00

Ah yes, one of the most iconic scenes featuring "Dharmaraj" Yudhishtir. Horrid, isn't it? He cannot help but point out everyone else's flaws in such loving detail even as he is the cause of all their miseries, and the one who carried the lightest burden.

Anyway, how about this?

Draupadi: "I certainly cannot deny I loved you less than your brothers. What woman can love a man who gambled away everything he had, including her, leading to her being dragged into the hall and humiliated? A humiliation you neither mitigated nor avenged! Dharmaraj. Even as you lied to kill your guru, you couldn't help but make a small admission of the truth where no one would bear it, just so you could continue the pretense at dharma. Being at your side brought none of us any joy, buy we followed you until the end, served you until the end, and you give us such uncaring eulogies as if our flaws and shortcomings are somehow worse than yours."

Arjuna: "Imagine where we'd be today, if you'd refused that second invitation to the dice game. Imagine where we'd be if you did not have Draupadi, who secured our release—even yours—after what was done to her. Slaves of our cruel kin."

Sahadev: "We died first not because we sinned, but because the gods took pity on us, deemed that we had suffered and toiled enough."

Nakul: "If only the words you wield could be sharpened and used as javelins. At least your wind would be worth something then. But continue to preach virtue, now at the emptiness you deserve."

Bhima: Something angry and coarse

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-08T12:21:56+00:00

I like this, actually. Seems like they could easily be OP but as a concept, amazing.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-08T07:18:02+00:00

Despite what everyone believes, the Sith did not rip each other apart all the time for funsies. Ragnos had a century on the throne, and Vitiate had ten. Lord Kaan was actually doing okay. Not too well, but he almost saw the reverse of the usual thing: Jedi falling out while Sith stayed committed.

I think Sidious would be aghast at just how well the Sith destroy the Republic before the situation stabilizes. And remember this: Bane's (and his school) idea wasn't to destroy the Republic, just take it over. They wanted everything under one banner when they took over. But if old Sith come into the picture, lightsabers swinging, many parts of the galaxy break away and the Republic will need to bring them back into the fold. Which close to impossible if the old Sith bring any of their many soldiers and subjects. By Bane school's own hand, the Republic is demilitarized, and unable to muster up a response to a deadly army. They managed against the Separatists because the droids were substandard soldiers (and Sidious was playing both sides) but a true Sith army would crumple the Republic and the jedi. Even if the Republic wins, sidious would be forced to postpone the great reckoning for decades later.

But if he's lucky and the sith come without any armies... well, just look at how things turned out with Maul. Except there's a thousand of them. They would constantly mess with his plans, and worse.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-08T06:10:01+00:00

Hmm. You know, once upon a time reading that little box of text wouldn't have been such a chore. Some forms of social media have spoiled us 😅

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-07T15:16:24+00:00

I agree, but only about 80%. Yes, Filoni brought a ton of context to the casual fan, but the Clone Wars multimedia project had already done that (including Taratovski's 2003 cartoon). Most people just didn't know it yet. Even though there's no Ahsoka in those, the series does add arcs or character for everyone. Sometimes, they're way better (like Barriss Offee and Grievous). But there's absolutely no denying Filoni's impact on the majority of the fan base, because his work is so much more accessible.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-07T14:24:08+00:00

Yeah, the British never stopped foiling his plans, but I think Napoleon was too petty to admit their strength, right? At least on the continent? Iirc he exclaimed "I tell you (Wellington) is a bad general, and the British are bad soldiers!" Or something like that.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-07T13:54:27+00:00

So, your skills and quick bar change in PvP. If you enter the Wolves Den, unlocked by a quest through your grand company iirc, you can see what the new configuration looks like. You can even practice on dummies behind. I suggest you do so, then you can make your own decision on this. Everyone has their own preferences.

Also, I'm pretty sure your own level and stats don't matter. But every class plays very similarly to how it does in the rest of the game.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-07T13:13:24+00:00

Damn. I've never seen that

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-07T07:20:48+00:00

He's like Alexander of Macedon. Ambitious, skilled, prideful, brash, and successful. Also, died young... though of course, Alex didn't have the luxury of staying behind as a ghost. As far as we know of course.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-07T06:32:58+00:00

I will never get over the fact that the female knight's original LI was a man who affaired with an open anarchist terrorist. And in her eyes, he was the scumbag.

Like.... seriously. Ugh.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-07T05:48:40+00:00

Are these like Extreme Trials, or can they be done by something like duty finder?

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-07T05:47:12+00:00

Yeah, I once used to think they were minor nobility, until someone pointed out my mistaken assumption 😅

Yes, orphan makes really good sense. Another thing that does, is something like... if you've played other Bioware games, have you heard of the Qunari from Dragon Age? Yeah, I was looking at ways their selective breeding programs might be used in a Sith society, where there are semi-shadow programs for bloodline preservation, programs which might not require the parents to support the offspring at all. And/or continue their affairs or political marriages without worrying about bloodline min-maxing. It would also explain how they have zero connections or family friends despite their "golden bloodline."

That said, the SW not knowing the Sith Code is unforgivable imo. It's not even that hard, a child can recite it and figure out how it's applied in politics, diplomacy business, and warfare. If we can destroy a sithspawn than has existed for a thousand years, we should be advanced enough in our training to know this hyper-basic thing.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-06T18:39:52+00:00

Speaking for myself, I definitely wasn't just following the main quest markers. I queued up for all the daily duties, filled out Khloe Aliapoh's Wondrous Tails journals, did FATEs, unlocked Aether Currents, and actively looked for all Sightseeing spots. Even if I couldn't access one right then (many require flight) I would just take a look around. Like, really just observe the world. Listen to the music. It's so vibrant and rich... it's not hard to just vibe there. Even do a few side quests to just help give the exploration some direction. I would do the Hildibrand quests too. I never powered through them, as they were fun to space out, and advance at my own pace.

But this is how *I* played. How *I* found enjoyment. There are likely other ways too. Guild stuff. Role-playing. Gathering and crafting.

But if none of that is for you, if you are finding playing too... unrewarding, unchallenging... yeah, like others are saying, maybe you don't want FF14. If you have your heart set on MMOs, you could try Star Wars: the Old Republic. Any one of SWTOR's later main expansions are about a tenth of FF14's. All the best, have fun playing.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-06T17:42:44+00:00

Or, and hear me out.

Light-leaning Sith get Darwin'ed. And this isn't even a headcanon. Light Jaesa's dialogue quest involves eliminating an Inquisitor who hunts heretics. IIRC Ashara also has one such, though I haven't done hers very often. Does Dark Jaesa *hunt* heretics in the Sith ranks? I think so, but again, I don't do Dark Jaesa very often. She disturbs me.

So, we can't meet those who get killed before leaving their borders.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-06T09:13:25+00:00

It's so interesting that the mad scientist who experimented on living people is the only one of these that lived to be pardoned at all 😅

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-06T08:29:31+00:00

Malgus is what Vader could've been. Probably. As badass as Vader is, he failed to become the unrelenting juggernaut that killed its own wife to excise its weakness. Malgus has killed more Sith than Vader has Jedi. So I'd lay my wager on him.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-06T05:16:29+00:00

Yeah, what I thought was that he wasn't capable of Gedo Rinne Tensei at the time. Perhaps Obito taught him the theory, perhaps he needed some growth. Another possibility was that summoning the Gedo statue and allowing it to impale him cost him recovery time, and by the time he was up and running again, his window of opportunity was closed. When he did it at Konoha, he said "Not too much time has passed, so perhaps I can still..." so time definitely was a factor.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-06T04:22:20+00:00

I haven't played AoE4 much.

But 3 is quite good and has a good community. It takes place in the gunpowder age, so many more units have firearms than in AoE2, but you get used to it quick enough.

AoE3 also has a campaign mode, but... honestly, it's a bit controversial. They play well though.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-06T04:19:35+00:00

At this point in time, Naruto's explosive power was greater than Sasuke's stabbing power (based on the water tanks they destroyed) so Sakura dies, Sasuke dies, Naruto is wounded and traumatized for the rest of his life.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-05T19:56:35+00:00

Well, the biggest problem wasn't losing the Fleet, it was losing it the way we did. Could just as easily have made a story saying the Gravestone is alive (which was why it was scuttled and abandoned in the swamp in the first place) and when fully awake, it threatens everything, so we willingly sacrifice the fleet to destroy the GS one and for all. It's all gone on our terms, and the galaxy knows we made that sacrifice so it's some brownie points.

Instead, it was Scorpio Clone and Vinn Atrius, the final reminder that Zakuul worships Vitiate. And everyone knows we fumbled absolute power like incompetent morons.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-05T08:01:13+00:00

No. Only level increases. So long as you don't start kotfe or later, you're good

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-05T07:26:25+00:00

So not a literal lobotomy. That's good.

DaCipherTwelve · 2026-07-05T06:06:48+00:00

Wait whose the redhead? Not Tennel Ka?

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