I wish I wasn't at work... Site is blocked and can't even see any of the images that the OP linked /sigh. I also want to get aboard the hype train damn it lol.
Famitsu, New Patch 2.2 Preview (Spoilers!+ a Surprise)
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03-13-2014, 04:54 PMVydos
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03-13-2014, 04:58 PMNekodarNorth Shroud, closest teleport Fallgourd Flout...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lithera
Already known to be in that area. -
03-13-2014, 04:59 PMDuelle◾Eagle Eye Shot - 1500+ damage on a 75 Paladin. Is possible that she will not use Eagle Eye Shot at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tupsi
◾Calcifying Deluge - Conal attack that does damage plus Petrification. (Large and far conal range)
◾Gorgon Dance - Long duration, AoE Petrification. Starts using at 30%. This is a gaze attack and can be negated by facing away from Medusa.
◾Pinning Shot - AoE Ranged Attack and Bind.
◾Tail Slap - Frontal damage and Stun.
◾Shadow Thrust - Single target 1000-1300 damage, strips Utsusemi.
◾Petrifaction - Gaze Petrification attack
^--- This is Medusa's move list from FFXI. I'd make EES her enrage. Once you hit the enrage she'll spam it on everyone in the raid. Would make it one-shot its target regardless of HP and damage mitigation effects.
I'd make Petrifaction one of the core mechanics of the fight. Something like she uses it on two random raid members every 45 seconds, requiring Esuna/Leeches to remove it but only when after the effect has been weakened. DPS would have to switch to the petrified party members and damage them (petrified members would be able to take damage from allies) until Petrifaction is replaced with Weakened Petrifaction.
Pinning Shot would be a ground-targetted AoE and thus avoidable if you avoid the marks on the ground. If you get bound by Pinning Shot she'll lunge at that target and hit them with Shadow Thrust, hitting the bound target for 75% of their max HP.
Tail Slap would be used at random intervals during the fight and force everyone that is not the tank to stay behind her.
Gorgon Dance would be the second core mechanic and forced tank-swap mechanic. Gorgon Dance allows Medusa to place a stacking slow effect on the target every 15 seconds. If the effect hits 5 stacks the target becomes Petrified. Regardless of her aggro table, Medusa would proceed to instantly kill (shatter) said target once the debuff hits five stacks. If you want to be really unforgiving, shattered characters cannot be resurrected until after Medusa is killed or the raid wipes. If you want to be even nastier, you could make it so anyone within line of sight of Medusa is affected (this would mean that raid members getting hit by Pinning Shot would mess up positioning and thus add to the difficulty of the fight). -
03-13-2014, 05:04 PMStarkbeaumont
I'm kinda concerned about SE burning potential good stuff like Siren and Diabolos so early for some casual dungeon content without much story related to them just like all the dungeons so far. Even Medusa looks a bit misplaced in a mecha-heavy place like coil but so was Twintania and at least they gave an explaination for that.
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03-13-2014, 05:06 PMpanzertrollYou can see images here (topic on the french forum) : http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ur-les-donjonsQuote:
Originally Posted by Vydos
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03-13-2014, 05:09 PMShneibel
need reinheart's translation Q.Q
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03-13-2014, 05:13 PMSkiesSiren and Diabolos are sincerely rather minor summons in the FF series, only XI gave them that much importance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Starkbeaumont
Presumably they want to put other ones in the limelight this time, so they're 'burning' those ones to deal with the nostalgia while they arm other, unexpected, ones for use.
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03-13-2014, 05:21 PMMurakumoMillennium
Why everyone say Medusa? It are look like generic Lamia mob to me.
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03-13-2014, 05:23 PMNestamaThe dungeons they're in aren't entirely unrelated to them. Without a lighthouse, ships are more prone to be shipwrecked. Bring Siren into the picture and you have yourself a deadly lighthouse. She'll call out to the sailors, who will crash their ship by the lighthouse, adding more ashkin to her thrall. It is also implied that Siren was once many, but is now few as the people of Limsa Lominsa made it their goal to kill them off. They were a threat much like they were in Greek mythology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Starkbeaumont
For Diablolos, as I said, he was most likely summoned from the Void by the people of Amdapor to use against the people of Nym. Their plan most likely backfired and now their town lies in the ruins we will be seeing very soon. Medusa will probably share the same lore the Lamiae of FFXI have: "According to rumor, Lamiae are not technically a race of beastmen, but actually a form of organic weapon (also known as a chimera), created by alchemists fusing the parts of multiple organisms." So chances are the Allag created her using level 100 Alchemist skillz. -
03-13-2014, 05:25 PMpanzertrollthis new don't have a lot of information.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shneibel
>> it's not medusa. it's Lamia from FF II, III, IV, V, etc.. -
03-13-2014, 05:29 PMNestama
For people saying it's not Medusa, this is why we are saying it's Medusa.
FFXI's Medusa:
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...usa_(FFXI).png
FFXIV's Medusa:
http://www.famitsu.com/images/000/04...0fa7bf0643.jpg
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03-13-2014, 05:29 PMPeptaruLamiae had a single cobra-like hood, the bend of the (multiple) snakes coming off of the head of this creature are tell-tale of medusa, not just a lamia.Quote:
Originally Posted by panzertroll
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03-13-2014, 05:34 PMpanzertrollLamia from FFIIIQuote:
Originally Posted by Peptaru
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...5/5c/Lamia.png -
03-13-2014, 05:34 PMKuwagami
http://www.famitsu.com/images/000/04...0fa7b47351.jpg
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03-13-2014, 05:36 PMNestamaYeah no. The Medusa in this game is a HD reskin of Medusa from FFXI. I've already posted the similarities.Quote:
Originally Posted by panzertroll
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03-13-2014, 06:51 PMNekodar
Medusa is a Lamia type mob... Confusion solved...
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03-13-2014, 07:33 PMPinkie_PieThat looks like something from darksoulsQuote:
Originally Posted by Zanmato
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03-13-2014, 07:34 PMSotek
Nailed it;
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Originally Posted by Sotek
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03-13-2014, 07:38 PMCUTS3RWhy didnt we have this one as mount ? >_>Quote:
Originally Posted by Zanmato
http://www.famitsu.com/images/000/04...0fa7c1bbe6.jpg
looks like a reskinned Trent to me.
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03-13-2014, 07:56 PMTupsiYeah..which sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sotek
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03-13-2014, 08:06 PMReiryuuAs I mentioned before. Don't get your hopes up, most of it is already on the lodestone. The only thing new is the pictures and the random comments they have on it which are just guesses and speculation that people are making here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shneibel
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03-13-2014, 08:24 PMcharlemagne
Oh Lordy! I hope that Medusa doesn't have the merrow ability rising swell.
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03-13-2014, 08:37 PMNestama
Or the Lamia No.3's Grim Reaper ability... or Belly Dance (AoE "gaze" Charm).
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03-13-2014, 08:43 PMForteXXWhen you translate the text, it says Lamia. Then again, for all I know it says Mother of Lamia, making it Medusa.Quote:
Originally Posted by MurakumoMillennium
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03-13-2014, 08:57 PMalexhatesmilThe article saysQuote:
Originally Posted by ForteXX
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シリーズ頻出のラミアのようなモンスター。『FFXI』の造型にかなり近い。
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A monster like series regular Lamia. It's very close to the FFXI model.
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03-13-2014, 09:22 PMMahou
I love it. Completely looks like a low budget precursor to Ganmen from Tenga Toppa Gurren Laggan.
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03-13-2014, 09:35 PMGhastoWe already know where the new entrance is, North Shroud, in the southmost clearing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lithera
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03-13-2014, 10:13 PMLineageRazor
Looking at the Treant reskin mob... All those little bumps where a normal treant would have branches and foliage, makes me feel sad for it. A bit like if you bionicized a human, cut off their arms, and only left stumps cuz, hey, they a cyborg, they don't need arms they got lazors 'n shiz.
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03-13-2014, 10:15 PMWolf_GangIt probably is a Trent.Quote:
Originally Posted by CUTS3R
Since the new coil takes place in the Black Shroud. The mobs look like Allagan versions of it, hence the funky Ochu. -
03-13-2014, 11:00 PMNintenPyjak64It's near Fallgourd FloatQuote:
Originally Posted by Lithera
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03-13-2014, 11:41 PMDante_Purgatory
I dearly hope that Diablos won't be the boss of 'The Lost City of Amdapor'...it would be such a waste.
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03-13-2014, 11:48 PMInosaskaYa at least then I will be able to play something that I enjoyed very much from my FFXI days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anienai
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03-13-2014, 11:58 PMmythicroseWish I could have that as a mount.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kuwagami
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03-14-2014, 12:01 AMEcks007Yeah, looks like a normal Lamia to me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by MurakumoMillennium
http://www.famitsu.com/images/000/04...0fa7bf0643.jpg
In fact if memory serves me right, it looks a lot like a high res version of XI's Lamia.
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03-14-2014, 12:05 AMNeoAmonQuote:
Originally Posted by Ecks007
Nay! This is Medusa from XI:
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2..._Ikeda_Art.jpg
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03-14-2014, 12:09 AMEcks007Uh, okay. Well I didn't say Medusa, I said Lamia.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoAmon
But the more I look at it the head snakes do look more like a Medusa when comparing XI models. Oh well, still, this should mean Lamia will be seen in the game as well now and likely in the same level (assuming Medusa doesn't also spawn them as adds). -
03-14-2014, 12:10 AMLordSaviournotice the Cobra Snakes coming from her head, and then the lack of Cobra Snakes coming from normal Lamia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ecks007
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03-14-2014, 12:14 AMSotekI don't get it... How?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dante_Purgatory
What is being wasted here? Summoner potential? That was never going to happen anyway, certainly not in a satisfying way for most. Having a large list of summons simply isn't going to work for Summoner in XIV, unless people want Job abilities to be wasted on what is effectively a vanity pet, because that's all Diabolos-Egi and Siren-Egi would have ended up being. Best anyone could hope for is if Arcanist gets more summons during a cap rise, but who uses Arcanist? Lore? He has lore, he destroyed an entire civilization. That's more than Bahamut even achieved, thinking about it...
Heck, based on lolGoogleTranslate, he actually is an summon;
He is just like Odin, with no tribe brown nosing. If Odin was a boss of a dungeon I'd actually probably be happier than I am with the worthless zergfest we currently have, just sayin'. Not like Diabolos was a dungeon boss before he was a summonable avatar in XI or anything. Just cross out Amdapori Township and read Pso'Xja, problem solved.Quote:
But, by hostile powers, "messenger of darkness than" is summoned to the magnificent capital.
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03-14-2014, 01:56 AMKako0404The Goobue looks inspired from the Deathgod Totoro Fan-art. (don't click if you don't want to lose your Totoro innocence)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilraen
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03-14-2014, 02:20 AMTupsiEvery lamia from XI is in XIVARR dats atm, so yes they'll show up. If this isn't "medusa', they didn't want to recreate the FFIX version Marilith or w/e her name was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ecks007