The Black Shroud - Strange Tree/Blessed Tree?

Hello Forum,

Today I had to hunt Haughtpox Bloatbelly for the Twin Adder Quest "Cure for the Pox". We got to the spawn early and had to wait for his timer to come up. During this time we were casually running around and messing about.
We then came across this odd tree...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezIMbbXXoVg&feature

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I've been playing FFXIV since its release and have never seen anything like this.
Is this new? Is this part of the 1.23 Geological Stuff? Along side the Twelve Symbols?
Either way, thanks for checking it out; Hopefully this is something new and exciting.

Woah that's weird

A glitch in the Matrix

That's interesting. I've never seen that tree before. o.o

Hmm, a mystery! Wonder how long it will take to be solved? We've only so long left to figure it all out.

every month this thread...

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Originally Posted by bobbygunz

every month this thread...

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Please explain? There seems to be many people who are in the dark here.
It's something that's of interest and I think people would like to know.
I've lurked the forums since their release and not seen this. Especially not "every month" as you so claim.

I'd make the guess that it's one of the Shroud's Hedge Trees that 'protects it's border from intruders' but quite honestly I'm not sure.

That tree has been there since launch, it has always exploded with light when you touched it. It never had a purpose as far as anyone knows, and if there were grand plans for it in the lore they seem to have died with the old dev team.

Weird, but not new.

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Originally Posted by Rylock

That tree has been there since launch, it has always exploded with light when you touched it. It never had a purpose as far as anyone knows, and if there were grand plans for it in the lore they seem to have died with the old dev team.

Weird, but not new.

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Thank You, the clarification is good to know ^^!

Most people stumbled upon this tree when Eft parties were the "In" thing while leveling in the old exp system.

Also pretty sure that's why the area is called "Treespeak"

We meet again, Drazzen! Cool tree. I'm pretty sure that's new, I know others claim to have seen it, but I've been in that area a while back and didn't see any glowing trees. Wonder what its for....

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Originally Posted by Kayokane

I'd make the guess that it's one of the Shroud's Hedge Trees that 'protects it's border from intruders' but quite honestly I'm not sure.

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It is my belief it is indeed a Hedge tree. If you pay attention to the story quests and such, I believe when the little boy enrages the elementals, the tree he sets ablaze is a hedge tree and does the very same thing. If that is not the 1 there is a quest that I do remember had to deal with a Hedge Tree and it did that as well.

There's other trees that do that, like the one nearby Gerolt at Nine Ivies. But yeah been there since launch.

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Originally Posted by Punainen

I'm pretty sure that's new

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Trust me it's not.

Still pretty cool. I'm gonna go check it out.

Would be nice, if for some reason, because of the color of the light that's released..these had something to do with the overly-aspected crystal and clusters in the files.


...but as I just went to see for myself, no, no they do not ;_;

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Originally Posted by Drazzan

Please explain? There seems to be many people who are in the dark here.
It's something that's of interest and I think people would like to know.
I've lurked the forums since their release and not seen this. Especially not "every month" as you so claim.

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I saw this when bloat belly first came out, as the tree is right next one of his spawns :o it's really old

That used to be a popular grinding spot, but it's no longer used for that.

I remember someone claiming a long time ago that touching it spawns a Gigantoad. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Punainen

We meet again, Drazzen! Cool tree. I'm pretty sure that's new, I know others claim to have seen it, but I've been in that area a while back and didn't see any glowing trees. Wonder what its for....

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Ya it's not, it has been there since launch, I used to have fun around it when doing mining leves up there weeks after launch. However I believe I remember someone saying there is an NPC mentioning it, can't remember where though

Thank You all for the responses. It's just what I hoped for when posting about it here. It's a shame that no real use came of the trees, but I am intreged to know what causes the lights to trigger different colours. "Back in the day" so to speak; I used to level in Thanalan, and then pushed for Eft parties down near the Murmur Rills, so I don't recall seeing it before.

The quest you mention about the boy setting fire to the hedge, I don't recall that, but I don't skip text, and I do love the lore of this game. In certain quests where the Imperials are attacking "The Hedge" I always imagined some large Conjurer barrier surrounding the Black Shroud. It'd be nice if these things were carried over to 2.0. Though I'm not sure if that would happen.

Hey Punainen! =D

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Originally Posted by Drazzan

The quest you mention about the boy setting fire to the hedge, I don't recall that, but I don't skip text, and I do love the lore of this game.

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It's the main-scenario quest "Beckon Of The Elementals."