Stormblood OST - What is the minion?

Pre-Order for the stormblood OST is up, but it doesnt specify what the minion is...
Does anyone know?
Did they show it on the E3 stream?

Each first-run edition also contains a bonus in-game item code!

It could be an orchestrion roll or a minion.

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Originally Posted by ern815

Each first-run edition also contains a bonus in-game item code!

It could be an orchestrion roll or a minion.

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Today's Lodestone post confirms that it is in fact a minion.

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Originally Posted by Emstidor

Today's Lodestone post confirms that it is in fact a minion.

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Except the French Lodestone which says it is a mount. But after looking at the other 3 languages, i am willing to admit it must be a typo :D.

Perhaps it'll be a Wind-up Zenos?

what're the odds they backpedaled on the 'single chara only' thing? OSTs are the one thing I will buy regardless, but still.

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

what're the odds they backpedaled on the 'single chara only' thing? OSTs are the one thing I will buy regardless, but still.

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Likewise. Ive only bought OST's for the last while.

Wind-up Tsukuyomi! <3

Just announced on stream. Wind-Up Tsukuyomi is Bonus Item.

So are we not getting a minion from Tsukuyomi in-game then? :c

I am kind of cheesed that both the Yotsuyu and the Tsukuyomi minions are outside-purchase items. Oh, well.

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Originally Posted by Rokke

So are we not getting a minion from Tsukuyomi in-game then? :c

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Not by the looks of it, confirmed as the soundtrack minion.

Makes sense. The 4.3 Primal has three themes, after all. Four if you count the dungeon track.

Ahaha, this is the first story primal (Excluding Bahamut, I guess) locked to physical merchandise, so I expect certain people are gonna be pissed.

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Originally Posted by Emstidor

Ahaha, this is the first story primal (Excluding Bahamut, I guess) locked to physical merchandise, so I expect certain people are gonna be pissed.

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for me at least, I wouldn't say pissed as much as really disappointed. I got no craftable primal minion and no craftable glamour this patch :[

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Originally Posted by Emstidor

Ahaha, this is the first story primal (Excluding Bahamut, I guess) locked to physical merchandise, so I expect certain people are gonna be pissed.

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I know you said "primal" but Nidhogg was also a story trial and his minion was given with one of the Heavensward artbooks.

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Originally Posted by Yasminou

I know you said "primal" but Nidhogg was also a story trial and his minion was given with one of the Heavensward artbooks.

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Soundtracks. But your point still holds.

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

Soundtracks. But your point still holds.

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My bad, sorry. I mixed his minion up with Hraesvelgr's.

The Tsukuyomi minion being tied to this OST is especially grating to me, not because I particularly cared for the minion or anything, but because I feel we were supposed to have this already.

The crafting recipe for Stuffed Tsukuyomi uses 1 Royal Fern, an item which previously, like its HW precursor item Blood Pepper, was used to "animate" crafted minions. A while back I crafted this, expecting a minion from it (I had failed to read the name properly in my eagerness so all fault on that lies with me). I was very surprised that it was a housing item, which even upon being placed just can't help but look very much like a motionless minion to me.

Initially I had reasoned this away to myself that there was probably a last minute switch, with SE deciding that a crafted minion would be too spoiler-y to have running around the world before most people can reach and clear the primal itself, thus making the already existing minion a stationary item instead.

Now, it feels significantly more like said switch may have happened because a minion was needed to attach to yet another high-priced merchandise item, and was held back for this reason. I have no proof for this, just a feeling I get.

OK I AM FURIOUS!!!! FURIOUS!!!! WHY IS THE TSUKUYOMI MINION TIED TO A $50 CD ?!?!!?!? WHAT THE HECCCKKKKKKKK!!!!

Like others stated, I thought it would be brought out later because it may have been to "spoiler-y" to release a minion for a secret trial right off the bat, BUT they gave us a stuffed doll.

I learned and farmed that fight to get my hands on the crafting item so that I could have it for when the minion is finally released.

AND THEY ARE GONNA LOCK IT BEHIND A $50 CD?!?!?!

WHAT THE HECKKKKK

AND ITS ONLY FOR ONE CHARACTER

WHAT THE HECKKKKKK
I AM SOOOOO PISSSEEEEDD

ALSO ALSO BOTH THE YOTSUYU AND TSUKUYOMI MINIONS ARE LOCKED BEHIND PURCHASED ITEMS?!?!

It if would have been a Zenos minion, we would have considered pre-ordering the OST. I don't like Tsukuyomi though so I don't really care for her minion. But as it's already in the files it was kind of obvious that it's the Tsukuyomi minion that comes with the OST. Where is our Zenos minion now? Will we ever get one? xD

If it had been the Zenos minion on the OST, there really would've been a riot.

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

If it had been the Zenos minion on the OST, there really would've been a riot.

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I don't expect to get one in game, I don't think we've got a in game minion of a main story villain yet so I'm not expecting one for him.

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Originally Posted by jameseoakes

I don't expect to get one in game, I don't think we've got a in game minion of a main story villain yet so I'm not expecting one for him.

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Yotsuyu now has two minions you get from merchandise and there's a wind-up Nidhogg that came with the OST. As for "free" we have the wind-up Grynewaht who wasn't a big-bad, but was a recurring, known antagonist. And if you want to include them, we do have wind-ups of most of the Primals...