Any idea what is in patch 2.57?

[SevarrienBladeson]

I'm not the expert on lore or anything, but I've seen it said multiple times by others that the blessing and the Echo are two different things. I'm pretty sure I saw Moose say it too and he pretty much is the Lore guy for english speakers.

That said, the only reason we actually need the echo is for primals so they can't temper us fighting wise, the whole ressurrection/become stronger bit is mostly just for gameplay purposes.

I see. Either way, connected or not, to add Echo to Steps would be a foolish thing to do. It is the most powerful boss to that point of the storyline and it takes away the thrill of doing the fight without any aid by any buffs aside from skills and thus the thrill of a legit boss fight that isn't a Primal lol.

[Dualblade]

I see. Either way, connected or not, to add Echo to Steps would be a foolish thing to do. It is the most powerful boss to that point of the storyline and it takes away the thrill of doing the fight without any aid by any buffs aside from skills and thus the thrill of a legit boss fight that isn't a Primal lol.

While you probably wounldn't get people wanting to do so in DF, you can turn off the echo buff if you wish. I think its just a simple right click like with other buffs.

[Nagrom]

Supposedly in the Japanese version of that event Midgar is more clear in that he didn't strip you of the blessing, but sealed it cause it was a drain on Hydaelyn's lifeforce. The blessing was going to fail anyway because of her state, he replaced it with his own for this reason.

The English version is just more ambiguous for whatever reason.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ersus_english/