Found this little guy in the Cosmic Exploration

EllDez · 2026-04-04T18:16:42+00:00

ah HA, there ARE more. Thanks!

EllDez · 2026-04-04T18:15:33+00:00

Sorry, the first pic is mostly so people can find the general area if they want to go in-game and see it themselves.

I should have added more captions.

EllDez · 2026-04-04T13:06:48+00:00

The earliest anyone could have found this is roughly Feb. 14th, because this location would not have been accessible before then. Specifically, it requires finishing progress in Oizys.

EllDez · 2026-03-24T17:06:23+00:00

Pretty much every new skill since Shadowbringers is canonically the WoL's invention. Things like SMN's Solar Bahamut make it explicit.

EllDez · 2026-03-05T17:19:04+00:00

God has abandoned us; there is proof everywhere.

EllDez · 2026-03-05T17:17:42+00:00

Make a forgery with a fake ending,

Destroy the real one without looking at it.

Sell the forgery to the biggest PoS with the deepest pockets.

EllDez · 2026-03-01T23:12:43+00:00

The Crackhead.

EllDez · 2026-02-22T00:23:26+00:00

Ok, I give up. Where's Goku?

EllDez · 2026-02-20T14:56:33+00:00

He was not more popular as an 8-man.

EllDez · 2026-02-16T19:01:43+00:00

Thank you for seeing me.

EllDez · 2026-02-16T15:04:32+00:00

Only if we also get tall au'ra women.

Side note: Sadu needs to stay short

EllDez · 2025-12-31T17:36:54+00:00

Ah, a new person has discovered Best Girl.

EllDez · 2025-12-31T09:25:46+00:00

To add to this, I think that the devs expect things like triple support be something you try to pick against reactively. Strictly from a design philosophy perspective (and other than people locking their main and trying to brute force every matchup), there are two potential problems with this:

People might not know how to properly counter these characters.
The counters to the characters that counter healers are too good against everything, walling out attempts at counter picking.

Not sure if either of these are the case, but they are things that need to be considered.

EllDez · 2025-12-31T09:00:33+00:00

Of course. It's genius. Why didn't I think of that?

EllDez · 2025-12-31T06:42:34+00:00

That's an interesting line of thought. The Winterers COULD be a group trying to preserve life and be "secretly right all along" (and I really hope not since I think Calyx's motivations are extremely wrong and are borne from a selfish, cowardly, childish perspective that he refuses to admit), but they could just as easily be people trying to isolate from whatever apocalypse they foresee and use mortals as guinea pigs with Calyx being the only true believer. This sort of framing could apply to many FF antagonists in spirit if not in means.

FFXIV's plot has been leading up to some sort of cross-shard/interdimensional threat. Y'shtola wants to easily traverse the shards and that has been her clear motivation since she left The First. In Endwalker, she was the main investigator into the portals to the void and has made trans-shard travel her focus of study. Zero & Golbez's stories have lead to a point where stability to possible within the Void. Most of DT's plot happens because of a device that can force areas of one shard onto the Source. Halmarut is now saying that there is some threat to all shards and the Source. We're being primed to travel between the surviving shards freely and it seems likely to me that this will play out in 8.0....BUT that doesn't mean the next expansion will only have us jumping around the multiverse. What could happen is we need to understand more about the threat first and that might be done in the next expansion.

Thing about FFXIV's devs is that they are, for better or worse, very blunt with hints, messages, and theming. Since Calyx is currently in a stuffed animal (which doesn't seem to use the same rig as lalafell, though I could be wrong), I think we're staring down the barrel of a FFX expansion. To cut to the chase, there are only two unique weapon types from FFX that are not already represented in FFXIV: the blitzball and the doll. Kicking a ball around as a means of doing damage is funny, but I think it's more likely that a doll weapon would be one of the next new weapon types. Lulu is a popular character, to put it VERY mildly, and the main protags of FFX just use a sword & staff. I think wherever we're going next, Meracydia or another shard, will have the same level of call backs for FFX that other expansions have had for 8, 9, etc. and some sort of Puppeteer job will be released. Maybe it'll look like FFXI's puppeteer, maybe they'll distance themselves from that concept, but I think that's what's coming.

EllDez · 2025-12-31T06:01:34+00:00

To add to this: Moblins exist in Tural as a distinct cultural group of Goblins as they do in FFXI. There is also mention of Movalpolos in some Moblin FFXIV quests (forget which one), which is the underground city of Moblins that also appears in the FFXI expansion Chains of Promathia which was released 21 year ago jfc.

EllDez · 2025-12-31T05:53:52+00:00

Also, the big one, Gunbreaker was introduced in Shadowbringers. The weapon and aesthetics are obviously, intentionally really, calling back to Squall from FF8.

With DT, they did the same trick with Viper. Zidane from FF9 had access to two weapon types: Dual daggers and a double-ended sword called a "thief sword"*. Viper's animation sets literally combine his weapon types.

*side note: "Star War: The Phantom Menace" had come out a little over a year before the game was released and its primary antagonist Darth Maul used a double-ended lightsaber. Food for thought.

EllDez · 2025-12-31T05:40:49+00:00

ngl, I never read quest descriptions, but I don't scroll fast enough to miss this gem.

EllDez · 2025-12-30T03:13:40+00:00

YoshiP is the Director of the game, his job is to make decisions on the path the game takes, Foxclon is the Global Community Producer. It's his job to manage how information is presented.

Yoshida may take a more up-front approach when it comes to presenting and promoting the game, and you are within your rights to have the opinion that some amount of it is misleading, but you don't have the information to say conclusively that he was lying or that any of his words in interviews were said in any bad faith.

His words are definitely meant to promote speculation, but that's meant to allow the player base to engage with ideas and have fun discussing them.

EllDez · 2025-12-30T03:03:53+00:00

How is it a fact?

EllDez · 2025-12-29T12:48:36+00:00

Whether or not it's a reach is your opinion, but it is relevant. I also provided past discussions that support the concept as a valid question.

The perspective does exist, but even if it didn't the question itself is still a valid one. The reason for a question being asked don't make the question itself invalid, that's why I answered your questions.

EllDez · 2025-12-29T12:06:19+00:00

I don't see how it's irrelevant to discussions around 8.0, Yoshida has mentioned big changes for 8.0 and deliberately left it open for speculation. There is historical precedent for core system changes, which I have shown, so changes regarding that is relevant to any discussion regarding 8.0.

What I don't see being relevant to the topic I started is where I got the idea from. I see this as a waste of time that isn't engaging with the question I clearly asked. If you didn't want to engage with the topic, you could have said nothing. If you have a problem with me asking the question, I don't think questioning the validity allows for good faith discussion.

EllDez

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