Revelations from Patch 6.35

[RyuDragnier]

Hildibrand

Started off slow, with a little too much competency from Nashu, which sorta scared me. But low and behold, it got goofy and stayed that way. Hildibrand 64 (Brandihild) is by far my favorite addition to the questline, being what Hildibrand wishes he was, an intensely competent inspector on par with Sherlock Holmes. Playing as Godbert was the power trip we've all dreamed of, and the blitzball kick was a chef's kiss on that entire instance and cutscene chain. Overall, was rather pleased with this new questline. But please, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let Brandihild survive past this questline and meet good Inspector Briardien so we can have another good mystery. I really think the two would work together swimmingly.

[Denishia]

Repeating my impressions here:

My first thought after finishing Orthos -which at least with low aetherpool is definitely a notch above the other Deep Dungeons in difficulty and a better written and integrated story- was that the ethical question that the story let you pick an answer to was centered around the ethos of their callous cloning usage and bioengineering and thus once again was not addressing the core sin of aggressive imperial ambitions. Noah's position as head royal sciencist priviledged in this heavily imperialist society meant her mindset and the blindness of her focus was perfectly written. But it working on further reflecting the ethical qualms of Elpis. And bringing up Tiamat and the carpet of bodies for miles in Meracydia as this 'both sides gray in war' when not addressing that the only reason there was a war in Meracydia in the first place was Allag's fault as aggressive warmongers - the line they crossed was miles back and wasn't the science horrors but the imperial motivation driving the science horrors in the first place. A common complaint for me when in comes to XIV's writing. I do like that it returned to CT plot threads and worked more Coils and especially HW area lore into it (Sophia music played during my runs and it was appropriate as we fought Sephirot mobs), and the meta-ness of finally pitting G'raha whose Allag fanboy from CT onwards clashed terribly with the Allag learned about in Coils and Azys Lla and the rest of the game.

Relic Grinds:

I'm a simple lass; Grenoldt and Mowen pleased me greatly. Also DoL/H are my true relic grinds and are more than grindy enough for me.

Hildibrand IS the Relic Questline/Grind for this expansion. I love Brandihild with all my heart and the revamped theme. And the low-poly model joke feels like an in-house in-joke inspiration from the 7.0 overhaul. Playing as Godbert was sufficently OP, I like the reoccuring Doctor Lugae villain, and the PuPu is from another homeworld Meteion destroyed, so good tie-in there. I'm assuming they're setting up a WoL fights their clone. And once more with the kick it feels like a cruel tease for a Blitzball job but that could just be my heart talking, what with that adding weapon-shape diversity and pleasign the FFX fan in me.

Moon Bunnies:

I love the seriousness of the post-credits aftermath that the Loporrits are wrestling with- the gaudy siliness of the nightclub theming (which good for the dominant RP game) constrasts to the maturity of the topic/characterization point it wrestles with.

[SannaR]

After the 1st rank up with Loporrits

I was correct in guessing that the unknown bunny's clothes were tattered. It is odd that no one seems to know them. Well Livingway might. We also learn from Inventingway that the reasons the supporters and the other bots attack us are due to our "small" stature. As again they were expecting Ancient sized people.

After you complete floor 30 Noah does offer short insight into her, Unei, Doga, Amon and each boss.

[Cleretic]

Putting in my theory on the Loporrit questline from the second milestone quest. I don't expect this to be right, but on the off chance I am I want to write it down.

The loporrit in the black robes who's really dour about everything is actually the first loporrit to ever wake up and pursue their own dream, even leaving the moon to do it, only to get jaded, beaten and give it up. But they were still a huge influence on the loporrits and their culture, even if they were absent for so long.

That's right: the black loporrit is Namingway!

Incidentally, another observation from the quest, because I think part of the script changes depending on your class and I'm curious if anyone can confirm:

The description Dreamingway gave for the thing I had to make as an Alchemist is "Machine oil that passing Loporrits will not mistake for a refreshing beverage.” That strikes me as perfectly suitable for an ALC product description... and not fitting at all for almost any other crafter. Did anyone get something different?

[Iscah]

Incidentally, another observation from the quest, because I think part of the script changes depending on your class and I'm curious if anyone can confirm:

I haven't confirmed directly, but the Namazu quests definitely did this, inserting something approximately class-appropriate in most requests.

[SilverArrow20XX]

Incidentally, another observation from the quest, because I think part of the script changes depending on your class and I'm curious if anyone can confirm:

The description Dreamingway gave for the thing I had to make as an Alchemist is "Machine oil that passing Loporrits will not mistake for a refreshing beverage.” That strikes me as perfectly suitable for an ALC product description... and not fitting at all for almost any other crafter. Did anyone get something different?

Got the same as a Culinarian.

[Iscah]

Got the same as a Culinarian.

From memory it tends to be one thing for alchemist/culinarian, one for the three metalworkers, one for leatherworker/weaver and I can't remember whether carpenter gets its own or gets lumped in with one of the others. If you look up the scripts it should have all the versions.

[Zero-ELEC]

OH! Big big big post-floor 100 Eureka Orthos spoilers follow:

Once you reach floor 100, Noah gives some backstory on both Excalibur (the final boss) and Eureka the eikon. The way Noah describes Eureka's creation process is not unlike creation magicks. Additionally, Excalibur also ties into the Phlegethon and the Allagan rebellion which is Neat. Fun to see these plot threads revisited.

[SannaR]

Splendorous Tools

Oh man. Moweana and Grenoldt used to sort of be a couple(?) before he went to live under the sea with the Ondo. It feels like it was just a close and friendly business friendship. They both seem to have feelings for the other and yet Grenoldt seems to be the shy one. This questline is also happening at the same time as the current DoM/DoW relic step as the finishing touch for this stage at least was to coat it in oil. Grenoldt came to this idea from a strange dream he had where he was bald and some beefy gentleman strides in and douses him in oil. The shock must have knocked him out of bed cause he woke up on the floor. Grenoldt also doesn't drink and seems to never had any alcohol. Chora-Zoi a mithra we're introduced to I guess in this questline is there only to be representative of how the ShB tool and relic weapons have replicas as that's what she's good at.

[SannaR]

4-5 rank up

We opened up Cookingway's cafe/bakery. The mysterious Loporrit shows up again but doesn't complain this time. I feel rank 6 will give us our last room and rank 7 will be like when the Arkasodora area added the last few banners. Is Findingway an actual minion or just a very small Loporrit?

Edit: Easter egg or not you decide

After obtaining rank 5 an untargetable Loporrit appear and roams between the cafe and the stage pulling out their tomestone and putting both area on their to do list. Now this could be Tweetingway or just a random bun that everyone will just name Tweetingway. It seems that at least when it comes to sweets Puddingway has a voracious appetite as if you talk to Cookingway if you want any of the treats you should grab them before Puddingway learns of the cafe.