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    Death unto Dawn page up

    https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/shado...ers/patch_5_5/

    Only a small update:


    PATCH 5.5

    Custom Deliveries
    House Durendaire is considered the foremost of the noble houses of Ishgard, and Count Charlemend stands at its head. Thus, when such a dignitary is seen skulking about the Firmament, it could scarcely go unnoticed. What manner of surreptitious business could have brought the man to the newly rebuilt district? All will be revealed in a tale of unlikely friendship set amidst an era of change.



    I was convinced that we'd not get 3 custom deliveries in a single expansion. I am prepared to grind one more time.




    Other then this small shock, it's mounts and familiars from the live letter and expansion of explorer mode. Long live the gposers!




    Another Update comes:

    The Tower at Paradigm's Breach.

    The white-garbed 2P's discovery was the first domino to fall in a series of conflicts that have only escalated since the arrival of the black-shrouded 2B, the pattern they form growing ever more complex. The time of revelation may be at hand, but is this tale one of hope...or despair?


    Even the NAME tells a story for those who did Nier to the brutal ending of endings. This has it's own special site off the special site. Lets concentrate here.

    That first picture is right out of nier. Second picture has the weapons I wish we were getting. Third is a very very sad corpse. Guess he didn't talk it into making him another sister. Four. Named for a suit of cards. So there's going to be four of these. Odds are the final is going to be a the two red queens. So we can assume the other boss is going to be the other suit. Club and spade on the way up, and two red queens at the top.

    (I'd still love some hidden way to fight Enoe for a special weapon)


    Zadnor

    New Save the Queen Battlefield

    Zadnor
    The IVth Legion has been forced to retreat north to the barren plateaus of Zadnor, but the arrival of their imposing flagship gives the Resistance pause. Clearly a sign of desperation─or so one would hope. Both sides have been pushed to their limit, but who will emerge the victor as the battle for Bozja reaches its bloody climax?


    Climax. So two zones, three major dungeons. Less content compared to Eurika. On the other hand with the cap of 25 given a prestige system that lets us push past the limits, I'm looking forward to capping, and then over capping, and seeing what I can solo. Or a group of other folks similarly obsessed and over powered trying to clear savage.





    Faux Hollows

    The Whorleater (Unreal)
    Few opponents loom larger in legend than Leviathan, he who has plunged many a would-be hero into the depths of despair. Tremble not before the Lord of the Whorl, and let the tide of memory carry you away...




    Whelp, I was wrong. I was SO SURE it was going to be another Ifrit. I'm not sure if I want the music to be different, or just MORE hardcore "Levithun levithun" then it was before.

    Given that they had to nerf it a little because it was even more insanely hard then ever before, I still somehow feel like this is the one that I could actually do well at.




    Brief note due to live letter.

    I'd completely forgotten that this is just part 1 of 5.5 and the other part is pushed back. So yes, we won't be dealing with the Lunar threats completely yet. This isn't the end, this is nearly the setup to bring us towards it. So of course cloud deck is Werlyt. And I'm looking forward to every minute of it. Thank you all.







    It's updated again!

    As towers rise and darkness falls, Eorzea's players take the stage- blades poised to meet the Final Days.

    PATCH 5.5

    Main Scenario Quests

    Death Unto Dawn - Part 1
    The Scions have finally succeeded in discovering a cure for tempering, which should prove instrumental in allowing the Eorzean Alliance and the land's beast tribes to settle their differences. Prospects of peace may soon fall to ruin, however, as Fandaniel and the Telophoroi scheme to recreate the Final Days, and ominous towers rise in all corners of the realm. With the servants of chaos amassing at every turn, will the Scions uncover their plot before it is too late?



    Two pictures with this one. While I don't notice anything too obvious in either of them, the references to peace with the beast tribes furthers the theory about where the patch will take place.

    I do want to ask, have we seen the gryphon rampant as a political icon before? Can we get a theory about where this meeting is happening?


    "New Challenges"

    PATCH 5.5

    New Dungeon

    Paglth'an
    Though the herding of livestock keeps the nomadic Amalj'aa constantly on the move across the sweeping plains of Paglth'an, the permanent settlement of Zolm'ak offers respite for the weary and a venue for gatherings both political and social. Yet without intervention, it may not long be so...




    Confirmation of the info from 1.0. Looks like it wasn't completely ruined by the fall and the primal summoning of the past. Three pictures. One looks like an overworld shot, tower is VERY close, very probably the implied danger. One likely a fight inside the dungeon. Third looks like a trust style shot... but looking behind them, is that the FIRST ifrit altar?

    PATCH 5.5

    Chronicles of a New Era

    The Sorrow of Werlyt
    With adamantine armor and a beating, blood red core, the Diamond Weapon is the culmination of countless sacrifices and untold suffering. When the ultimate triumph of the VIIth Legion's monstrous Weapon project descends upon Werlyt, who will be saved, and who shall fall?




    I'm feeling that the cloud location is indeed going to be this fight. It also confirms there will be loss. We can't save everybody this time. This entire plotline has been about not saving everybody though. Sure, we can't always see every side of the fight and feel the losses, but this time...

    Two pictures. Diamond weapon looks even more badass then I'd imagined it looking. That is all.

    Of note, no confirmation that THIS will be cloud deck. We are though used to the idea of a trial to finish a plotline, and is this epic enough of a fight to finish the plot, or is cloud deck for something, and somebody else?


    (old update)

    New to Patch 5.5
    Main Scenario Quests
    New Alliance Raid - YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse
    New Dungeon - Paglth'an
    Chronicles of a New Era - The Sorrow of Werlyt
    New Trial - The Cloud Deck
    New Save the Queen Battlefield - Zadnor
    PlayStation®5 Version Open Beta Begins
    New Unreal Trial
    Ishgardian Restoration Updates
    New Custom Deliveries
    Explorer Mode Update
    New Game+ Updates
    Performance Update
    New Mounts
    New Minions
    New Emotes
    and more!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ICountFrom0 View Post
    https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/shado...ers/patch_5_5/

    New to Patch 5.5
    Main Scenario Quests
    New Alliance Raid - YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse
    New Dungeon - Paglth'an
    Chronicles of a New Era - The Sorrow of Werlyt
    New Trial - The Cloud Deck
    New Save the Queen Battlefield - Zadnor
    PlayStation®5 Version Open Beta Begins
    New Unreal Trial
    Ishgardian Restoration Updates
    New Custom Deliveries
    Explorer Mode Update
    New Game+ Updates
    Performance Update
    New Mounts
    New Minions
    New Emotes
    and more!



    It's not much to start with, and I'm not seeing anything obvious in the picture.
    I think what is obvious is the world is in trouble as the leaders of the all the nations are pictured.
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    So are we ready for fake out deaths or real deaths this time? Who's gonna be the next Papalymo?
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    "I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip." - Rabindranath Tagore

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    I can only hope that G'raha bites the dust in this one. No offense to the folks who like him. But honestly, I have a hard time believing anyone could die at this point.

    What I'm really looking forward to is the final part of the Sorrow of Werlyt questline. I wonder if they're really going to go for Zenos as the living hologram thingy for Diamond Weapon, or if we'll see a twist and either get someone unexpected (Livia? Varis?) or have it be manually piloted the whole time. I guess I'm also looking forward to seeing how they intend to finish Gaius's... uh... "arc", if it can be called one. I really hope they don't continue throwing his underlings under the bus to cover for Gaius's failings—if they want to keep up the "Gaius was oblivious to what was happening around him" stuff, then it ought to reflect poorly on him, not just the people whose careers and very lives revolved around him.
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    But G'raha did not have fake deaths, at least in my pov. On the other hand for Y'shtola there could be "third time's a charm".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erendis View Post
    But G'raha did not have fake deaths, at least in my pov. On the other hand for Y'shtola there could be "third time's a charm".
    Fourth*

    Bloody Banquet > Cut in half almost by Zenos > Catgirl go down the hole. She's had three!
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    "I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip." - Rabindranath Tagore

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rosenstrauch View Post
    I can only hope that G'raha bites the dust in this one. No offense to the folks who like him. But honestly, I have a hard time believing anyone could die at this point.
    The thing about G'raha, though, is that the Stormblood narrative was building up to his Noble Self-Sacrifice (tm). Heck, G'raha himself had it all planned out, in detail, how he was going to throw his life away to save the WoL. The Scions caught wind of this, and pretty much forbade him from doing so. For him to nobly self-sacrifice now would be as hackneyed as Nanamo's fake dramatic death was. And if he were to just randomly get offed - what more does that bring to the narrative than anyone else being randomly bumped off? It'd pretty much just be empty shock value. "Oh, my, they spent all this blood, sweat, and tears to keep G'raha alive, and then he's suddenly hit by a truck. Aren't we gritty???"

    I agree that Werlyt did Gaius's characterization no favors. I had a rant or two about that on these forums before.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
    And if he were to just randomly get offed - what more does that bring to the narrative than anyone else being randomly bumped off? It'd pretty much just be empty shock value. "Oh, my, they spent all this blood, sweat, and tears to keep G'raha alive, and then he's suddenly hit by a truck. Aren't we gritty???"
    This is how I feel about any of the Scions dying at this point. Just one patch ago we saved them after a long period of them being in genuine danger. The writers could have found a way to have one or more of them stay on the First if they'd felt the need to write them out of the story then - at least then they'd have a happy ending. Killing them just one patch later would be pointless shock value and doesn't add anything to the narrative.
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    So you wouldn't say... feel like you had a personal stake in revenging them, if say, Zenos killed one to see the fire in our eyes? Or Telophoroi boy.
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    "I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip." - Rabindranath Tagore

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    I think the title is referencing that we're about to see the end of the 7th Astral Era, and the ensuing Calamity set in motion by Fandango and Zenos is starting the 8th Umbral Era, which will likely last until the end of the 6.0 story, which will then kickstart the 8th Astral Era.
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