Thread: Dedicated Thread for Patch 2.55 Story Discussion/Spoilers

I really enjoyed the new 2.55 storyline. I like that SE took the dark path and decided to shed some "blood" (even censored) in the story.Everyone is vulnerable. We also saw the other sides of the GC leaders. They are not always behaving as you would like for them to behave. Many people did not like that Maerlwyb and Kan-E-Seena turned their backs to us and refused to help us. But for me this was excellent since now they seem more convincing as state leaders. The nation and its profits always comes first no matter what. They behaved exactly as you would expect from a politician. Because after all they are politicians. I would like in future to see more deep stories and better cutscenes though. The voice acting was mediocre. And our character the warrior of light is a muted emotionless puppet. This must be fixed in future pls.

Originally Posted by Riardon

And our character the warrior of light is a muted emotionless puppet. This must be fixed in future pls.

If you talk to Serendipity, the goldsmith guild leader, she says:

Originally Posted by greyfurr

If you talk to Serendipity, the goldsmith guild leader, she says:

Perhaps a bit off topic, but I think a "Mini-Me"-esque minion that wore the AF of your current job and otherwise looked like a chibi version of you would be an awesome pet. Especially if it nodded at regular intervals. >w>

On topic: Dangit, I hate this, one of my favorite NPCs is dead, we get a Man Behind The Man after finally seeing Teledji kick the bucket, and in effect we accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Also, all the respect I had built up for Kan-E-Senna and Merlwyb just disappeared in a puff of smoke when they abandoned the Scions and I to our fate.

About the only upshot to all this is that at least we don't have any confirmed deaths on the Scions, and getting to see Haurchefant verbally Bright-Slap Alph.

Originally Posted by DarkStar

Also, all the respect I had built up for Kan-E-Senna and Merlwyb just disappeared in a puff of smoke when they abandoned the Scions and I to our fate.

They were probably terrified that the Crystal Braves were trying to pull a similar thing in their home territories, so they rushed home in case. Either way, they know they can't trust the Crystal Braves, and will most likely try to slowly move them out of their city-states.

Originally Posted by greyfurr

If you talk to Serendipity, the goldsmith guild leader, she says:

LOL I forget who, Thancred I think, at one point mentions your silent gestures and "stoic nods."

Speaking of Thancred, I love how he's always in trouble with women. It's funny.

My thoughts about ARR's ending

I want uldah fall to ruins like ala'mhigo, since almost all trash from uldah come from ala'mhigo, and lalas.

Nanamo UI's dead... if someone watchs bleach anime or naruto, lolorito is like aizen / black zetsu, but even more cruel, gaius van baelsar and nael van darnus are less evil than him. I prefer nero ruling over uldah than... they

I wish scions were still alive, but I don't have my hopes up

Originally Posted by Ralos

I'm worried about the space time continuum

So putting aside my feelings dealing with this patch's portion of the story (Don't really like it this time) I'm finding some areas of inconsistency that are bothering me.

First is the whole Dragoon thing. My main job is DRG, but really anyone who has completed the Dragoon job quests knows we've already met Estinein before. You also know that our relationship with Estinein didn't end well at the end of the job quests.Now SE didn't completely ignore this as Estinein gives a little wink and nod to you if you've completed the job quests and says don't worry we won't fight, but I feel that's not enough.

He was entirely in Nidhogg's thrall.... he had deep anger and wanted vengeance... and now it's all subsided? I presumed him dead (and his disappearance wasn't entirely ambiguous) so can I get a little explanation here?
If I really wanna get nit picky, how do you explain this for the people who are under taking the DRG job quests durring, or even after this point in the story line?

and then Nanamo dieing (wtf to that, my favorite NPC) causes problems in the
CUL story line, the end of which has you serving dinner to Merylweb and the Sultana, and succeeding spectacularly much to the dismay of lord Lolorito.

Anyone else noticed things like this?

There's probably some quest or another featuring Raubahn too despite being jailed and missing an arm. (again, wtf to that)

There is only so much "consistency" you can have in terms of a timeline when it comes to events like that.

A way to look at it is like this. ALL DOL/DOH/DOW/DOM classes quest take place before 2.1. Assume when you are doing those class quest it's before 2.1 to further resources by having to change the story does make it a bit harder to manage so youjust have to say to yourself "All these stories take place before 2.1"

If you start to think to much into every nook and cranny it will just be that much harder to right the story, it's a lot simpler to just have ti be "did they complete x story quest" or "did they not" then with two choices they can add extra flavor for those who did compared to those who didn't. But if they started to go down the rabbit hole and prepare for every situation they would pretty much be setting up for scenarios that might occur 2% of the time.

But see it's actually a good sign they are doing this because it shows they aren't going to be held back by old CS or story based events that might conflict with present-tense scenarios. So something like the Sultana falling might have been seen as impossible because she is involved in the Culinary story but now that we see this as a possibility it pretty much means no NPC is really safe but the safety of said NPCs isn't going to occur within the same patch in which they are involved in something important.

You most likely won't run into a scenario where John Doe is involved in a job quest but then if you play in the same patch in which John Doe was revealed he dies in the main story, they most likely wouldn't do something like that but, John Doe could potentially die along the line in any subsequent patch from his arrival.

/10charlimit