3.1 MSQ Reaction [SPOILERS]

**Laerune** · 11-12-2015 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Pomelo

I have a feeling Yda and Papalymo will not be rescued until the ........next expansion. And that they are going to have cameos at the end of every patch.

This would be fresh and it could work, but if this is true, then we might not see a Scions VS Warriors of Darkness battle, atleast not how I envisioned. I think they will come back next patch and as time goes on, Yda and Papalymo will open up to us and tell us more about what they were doing. Or..... What if they are not at Ala Mhigo, but at a small settlement near Uld dah, a town that has been taken by the Empire. We the players wont notice anything, because there has not been any changes, but lorewise it could be that the Empire took some land between patch 2.55 and patch 3.0?

**Fevelle** · 11-12-2015 09:45 PM

BTW, Thancred looks A LOT like Sasuke from Naruto, post manga-ending. I mean, the covered eye, the ragged clothes...

**Garnix** · 11-13-2015 05:22 AM

As soon as we discovered that Heavensward would take place in Ishgard, I immediatly thought 4.0 could lead us to Ala'Mhigo.
I'm more and more convinced now.
I can even imagine something like saving Minfilia there.

I'm also curious on when we will have to fight Nidhogg, as this will obviously be one of 3.X major battle.
I can imagine him attacking Ishgard, leading to people hating dragons again. (One guy hinted at this kind of event at the end of 3.1 in my opinion)
And then the Empires come to kill him, and Ishgardians praise the Empire, so we have to escape, and look for Minfilia to unite people.
That would be ridiculous, but possible...

The future is soooo promising ! With many characters coming back !

**Khalithar** · 11-13-2015 05:37 AM

The 3.1 MSQ was a lot of setup and very little payoff. I'm eager to see where the events go and what the eventual payoff will be, but I felt like it was a bit too much build up and left us on a cliffhanger.

**StarDrake** · 11-13-2015 05:48 AM

Originally Posted by Khalithar

The 3.1 MSQ was a lot of setup and very little payoff. I'm eager to see where the events go and what the eventual payoff will be, but I felt like it was a bit too much build up and left us on a cliffhanger.

It was a lot like 3.1 in that regard, which was also a "well the x.0 main quest is over, now we need to deal with the immediate fallout and set up the rest of the content cycle". I was personally hoping for a little more action out the gate myself, but ultimately I was satisfied. That was a clever way of re-using the Vault!

**Belhi** · 11-13-2015 07:21 PM

I think most things I spoted have been mentioned. It was short but there was a lot in it.

Im actually wondering now if the quests we are getting in 3.15 will continue the Ishgard story arc since it has to do with the clergy. I believe they said in an interview recently in 3.x they were looking to having storylines follow separate branches rather than cramming them all into on MSQ questline. I certainly got the feeling in this patch that they were setting that up with Thancred and Krile heading off to the Falling Stones to hunt the missing allies and we Alphinaud and Tataru are in Ishgard and its politics. Then there is Urianger and the Ascian/primal/Triad thing.

**Alice_89th** · 11-14-2015 12:25 AM

Originally Posted by Belhi

I think most things I spoted have been mentioned. It was short but there was a lot in it.Im actually wondering now if the quests we are getting in 3.15 will continue the Ishgard story arc since it has to do with the clergy. I believe they said in an interview recently in 3.x they were looking to having storylines follow separate branches rather than cramming them all into on MSQ questline. I certainly got the feeling in this patch that they were setting that up with Thancred and Krile heading off to the Falling Stones to hunt the missing allies and we Alphinaud and Tataru are in Ishgard and its politics. Then there is Urianger and the Ascian/primal/Triad thing.

As long as we don't get another Ul'Dah moment where

We get yanked out of our quest for peace with the dragons to discover that the Sultana is still alive, only to then return to our quest and never say a word about it again

I don't mind multiple branching storylines. In fact I think it might be interesting to see an A and a B route (a bit like the start of Heavensward, where you could choose to do the part with Emmanelain or Artoil(?) first) as long as we don't get shot between the two or more plotlines like a ball in a pinball machine.

Because that is what being suddenly told to go to Ul'dah felt like to me. Like I suddenly got shot way of course and then pushed back again like nothing ever happened.

But if we get like, and 'A route' and a 'B route' that must both be completed to continue with 'part C', that is fine with me. Maybe even preferable than trying to stuff it all into one.

**Mimiru_S** · 11-13-2015 09:02 PM

All I could think about, after watching the WoD scene is: Man... Our characters always stand in the background, like statues, while the npcs get to do all the cool fighting scenes. Anyone else wish our characters acted more like WoL and actually did some fighting, in these cut scenes?

**Belhi** · 11-13-2015 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by Mimiru_S

All I could think about, after watching the WoD scene is: Man... Our characters always stand in the background, like statues, while the npcs get to do all the cool fighting scenes. Anyone else wish our characters acted more like WoL and actually did some fighting, in these cut scenes?

Yeah but I understand why it doesn't happen. They would have to do separate cutscenes for each Job plus I suspect the principle in design is that if a character is involved in a fight the player should get to control the character during the fight.

At least they do give a nod sometimes as to why we aren't directly involved even if it is something like 'dazed from an echo vision'.

**HorseBoots** · 11-13-2015 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by Mimiru_S

Cutscene gripes.

You can't have your Virgil-2 Fight without your Virgil-1. I can understand why they can not have animated cutscenes of our characters fighting, to do it right would require making literally 156 versions of that same fight scene with every class/race/gender combination (Although granted you could just weave in both genders for Lalafell and Elezen.) What a lot of story focused Japanese games with a created character usually do to circumvent this simply have the character grab hold of someone else's weapon and fight with that, but of course then you would have people calling it "out of character."

So I'll just take the next best thing, make it a duty. Yeah it won't visually look as impressive as Thancred's anime battle, but it's more pleasing to me the player to have a duty where the game shows me that Darklander is a threat not to be taken lightly rather than just getting ganked before anyone could have the chance to fight back.

Because yeah, if the WoD is being played as the Virgil to our Dante, our first fight should have been Dante vs Virgil, not Lady.

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