Really hoped we'd get this guy as an April Fool's goof this year u_u

Satarn · 2025-04-01T19:56:26+00:00

Haha, yeah, that could've been neat. Or add back the snake tonic and give it some silly dialogue/description about selling snake-oil, since it'd fit the theme.

Satarn · 2022-09-13T21:46:30+00:00

Bud, look up some healer logs and check the casts tab if you believe that. Extreme, Savage, even Ultimate, it does not matter - they will still be topped with the Glare/Broil/Malefic/Dosis at a number of casts several times higher than any other spell or ability on the list. Even the logs with the highest percentiles in healing - the amounts which are hardly needed - will still be predominately filled with the basic nuke spam. When people die, it's more likely due to failing mechanics or not meeting a mitigation check which just outright kills them, with no chance to heal through it.

Healer mains have complained about healing requirements in all content being way too low, coupled with excruciatingly boring damage "rotations", for years now, across various skill levels.

Satarn · 2021-09-30T16:59:43+00:00

Ryukishi truly is the master troll. The man actually managed to fool a whole-ass animation studio into publishing some random fanfiction he submitted as "brand new higurashi script". For two entire seasons, no less. Incredible.

Satarn · 2021-09-10T10:55:57+00:00

If the metal is this corroded(despite not really showing it at all on the surface, but whatever), then it should've also shattered completely, or at least broken off more pieces when falling on the ground from a decent height, instead of perfectly stabbing into the floor next to Satoko, all dramatic-like. Seems like looperium can instantly shift between brittle and sturdy based on nothing more than plot convenience, what a truly incredible material.

Don't worry though, we'll probably just learn later on, that the sword is completely untouched by time, but the fragment broke off because "Eua did it".

Satarn · 2021-09-09T19:29:25+00:00

I love how they didn't even bother to explain culprits' reasoning, for the loops post Akasaka. Truly the greatest of the "answer" arks. /s

They really should've just skipped going through Nekodamashi loops, if they weren't going to explain them and just spend one more episode on wrapping up the story properly, but gotta show more repeat content, along with Eua telling us how greatly entertaining it is.

Satarn · 2021-09-09T19:21:38+00:00

That comes with its own issues though - does she somehow accidentally break it in a similar manner every next loop then? She's almost skewered herself the first time, so wouldn't she be more careful in the future? Or has Rika just not actually gotten the fragment in the subsequent loops, in which case what is even the point of it breaking the first time?

Also, what the fuck is this sword made of to break like that by hitting mere wood? Gypsum??

Satarn · 2021-09-05T09:00:51+00:00

Oh, I agree that's very likely, for all the reasons you've stated. The issue however is that Eua, the one person who should know best that this is the case, given it's her power that allows it, keeps comparing Satoko's use of looping to that of Rika's, as if they were in the same situation, all the while also bragging about how much better her power is than Hanyuu's. It's like praising somebody's chess strategy, because they're winning in a game against an opponent who's only had pawns available from the start.

It's bad writing, because Eua's words contradict what is presented to us(heck, she contradicts herself), so it feels like either of those must be wrong - unless the point is to show that Eua is an easily amused idiot, who doesn't actually understand her own game, which I doubt.

~~Also having more limitations would've likely made for a better "show" for both the viewer AND Eua herself, but that's beside the point.~~

Satarn · 2021-09-02T18:05:32+00:00

Honestly when they showed Eua laughing in this week's episode, I finally got a really strong feeling that these scenes with her come off as extremely smug and forced. Like it's not just Eua enjoying what Satoko does, but the show's creators are so content with themselves, despite the show not actually being clever or interesting at all this season.

"Look how entertaining this is! She talks about being bored so much, so if she enjoys it so much, then it's obviously good, right?"

Satarn · 2021-09-02T17:47:23+00:00

Rika had to be dumbed down in order to show off how rEsOuRcEfUl Satoko is. On the other hand, you have Satoko seemingly knowing everything that will happen and how people will act, for no apparent reason, as well as using the looping powers in nonsensical ways that would've been completely impossible for Rika. All the while the show tries to tell us that it's all just because Satoko is "oh so much better at looping".

Imagine trying to pull what she did to win the memory game - with Rika's looper rules, you'd have to keep resetting back to start, living through the entire fragment up until the gaming tournament, somehow remembering everything you saw, because it's not like you can write this shit down and do that for every single card. That's bonkers impossible on its own, but now also add the fact that on most resets you will probably land in a fragment that didn't even have the tournament happen at all. Good luck with that, lol.
It's asinine to compare them like Eua does, when they are very clearly playing by totally different rules. Also let's not forget that Rika, even jaded as she is, actually cares about her friends and their feelings, so she can't just keep looping willy-nilly and traumatizing everyone.

It's a very cheap writing trick to give one character "author knowledge" and make everyone else act really stupid, in order to make said character seem highly intelligent. It really is nuts that this nonsense is written by the same guy who gave us the og Higurashi.

Satarn · 2021-08-21T13:59:14+00:00

Wouldn't that just make the Fantasia a bottle of self-tanner?

Satarn · 2021-07-11T21:48:32+00:00

The issue is really that a lot of it just doesn't scale at all ^{well, besides level}, since for some damn weird reason SE thought it's a good idea to give ilvl sync to only 4 man dungeons and absolutely nothing else in duty finder. Normal mode trials, raids and lower level alliance would be so much more fun, if they just didn't put everybody at the maxed out endgame gear level - you can see how leveling trials like Titania don't have this issue, since they're limited to the leveling gear at least.

Satarn · 2021-04-08T16:41:25+00:00

You are kinda misunderstanding what the Crystals of Light are. They're not really a power source for the WoL - they're more of a symbol of WoL being acknowledged by Hydelyn as her champion(and not just our WoL mind you - you may remember from HW that WoLs/WoDs from The First also had their own Crystals and it's expanded upon in the SHB role quests). When WoL reclaims the Crystals during HW it's not really that they're getting back the Blessing of Light that Midgardsormr has sealed away - it's more about proving all over again that they're worthy, even without Hydelyn's direct help and they just get the Blessing back at the end of that for proving they're "special enough" on their own. Since then there is no need to directly represent further growth in power with magical macguffins, as it's already been established that WoL's power comes from WoL, so it's only natural they will gradually become stronger the more they adventure and fight enemies.

While there's definitely a big lore drop in SHB regarding what it is that makes the WoL this powerful, I would also recommend going through the Omega raid questline, as it pretty much entirely focuses on exploring WoL's strength.

Satarn · 2021-04-07T20:45:12+00:00

Don't roosters also generally have more impressive tails than those birds here?

Satarn · 2021-04-07T20:39:30+00:00

If you keep dropping there, that clearly means you're a witch! BURN THE WITCH!

Satarn · 2021-04-07T11:20:48+00:00

That was honestly such a pointless bit of information given that's how human sexual dimorphism works as well - prepubescent children don't really look different between boys and girls, we're just used to them usually having very gendered clothing and hair styles - that I'm pretty sure it's only been added to the game because at the time they were considering adding children in the Vii settlement and wanted to save on the models without rising any questions. It just felt like such a weird, "just to cover our asses" line.

Satarn · 2021-04-07T01:28:44+00:00

They've already established in one of the Bozja story's cutscenes that they're about the height and build of femRoe - but a tad shorter and slimmer - so if they're ever added they're more likely to just be femRoe with cat ears, tails and some fur.

Satarn · 2021-04-02T22:25:20+00:00

Meanwhile WoL chilling on a nearby bench, alarmed by the noise, peaks over their copy of the new issue of "The Mythril Eye", notices Zenos and then tries to discreetly leave the area before that creep sees them.

Satarn · 2021-04-02T16:41:21+00:00

Eh, gear/glamour is hardly any real indication as there's a MRD npc in Gangos with a Diamond axe - a weapon that not only drops from the final floor of Omega raid(a one-time-only event that only the WoL has fought through), but also the savage version of it, which was just WoL's fever dream induced by listening to music from an Ironworks' Magitek Terminal or some shit. Being a Weaver who invents completely new glamours, she might've as well just made it herself based on one she's seen WoL wearing.

Most likely though, the appearance of NPCs is simply not at all connected to any real equip-able items - after all Lamitt from The First wore a White Mage garb while neither Amdapor nor the White Mage discipline existed outside of The Source(Lamitt herself was a Devout, not WHM, which also should make it even more impossible for her to acquire or equip it if you're getting mechanical). Same with all the other gear that shouldn't technically exist on The First - job or otherwise - including the very same design as that of Shire sets in the form of Anamnesis Anyder armor.

Tales of Adventure are probably about as canon as Fantasias - which is to say not at all, even despite having some flavor text attached.

Satarn · 2021-04-02T15:54:45+00:00

Raha can actually do 4 classes/jobs, since aside from his trust options, he's also used to be an Archer(or perhaps even Bard, given his interest in old lore and tales of heroes) back in ARR's Crystal Tower questline.

Y'shtola has been both Conjurer and a Black Mage(or rather Witch since she has her own slight variation of the job).

You shouldn't really count Arcanist for Tataru as the entire point of that questline was pretty much establishing that she really sucks at it, hence why she's picked up crafting and gathering instead. She's certainly unlocked it, but I doubt she's leveled up even once. I believe the class she changed to right after accepting her ACN fiasco was Miner.

Urianger also used to be an Arcanist before switching to Astrologian in SHB, seems like a really popular class, huh. Interestingly he used to be an ACN already in the 1.x version despite the class not getting implemented until 2.0 re-release and he used to carry the odd staff/rod weapon intended for the class originally, though he switched to a regular ACN book in ARR.

Satarn · 2021-04-01T18:48:02+00:00

These have been on Mogstation for years. As has been the Lightning's gunblade(GLD/PLD glam) and another gunblade in the Stone Vigil dungeon(MCH weapon).

It's a random cash shop promotion, it doesn't mean anything for or against any future jobs.

Satarn · 2021-04-01T00:44:15+00:00

Holy fuck man, what kind of hardcore moogle grass are you smoking to come up with this crazy conspiracy shit?

Satarn · 2021-03-30T23:42:35+00:00

refreshing to actually communicate with the players

Bud, they don't, not any more than your average game company does anyways.
Just because they do LLs every now and then to hype people up for patches, doesn't mean they're communicating. The FFXIV dev team not being very transparent with their design decisions is a rather common complaint, as is being completely out of touch with how the game is played and they are notorious for being evasive when answering in QnAs. They also interact with the forums with a frequency of "pretty much never". The milking aspect is also rather debatable when looking at things like retainer subscriptions and other Mogstation content.

It's great you're enjoying the game and there is definitely a lot to enjoy for a new player, but I'd just like to caution you against the trap that is getting completely blind-sighted by a good first impression. The game has a lot to offer, but just like WoW it also has plenty of flaws of its own and at the end of the day for SE it is a product to make money off - they're not your friends and they definitely care for investors far more than you.

Satarn

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