Lost city of Amdapor Hard [SPOILERS]

[Frederick22]

So exploring the deps of the city was really good...

Lovely music and the final areas before the 3rd boss are very intersting.

- Its seems that time didnt decay on the structures, not like the outside ( no surprise, the magic to preserve something exist )
- Much of the structures looks like the Sanctum of the twelve ( Could be that the amdapor people are descendants of the ones who built that? )

There lot of people who thought that maybe were the amdapor who summon Diabolos in an effort to fight the Mhachi ( fire vs fire ) but it went out of they control. After seeing the corpses of Mhachi ( why BLM? BLM origin is from Bela'dia. Couldnt they use Void Ark gear instead? ) it confirms that they summoned Diabolos, not the amdapor.

Also I have a doubt. Why the Ampador didnt use their living statues to fight Diabolos? Specialy the 3rd boss? By how it showed up and it last words once we defeated him, it seems she was never used on the first place ( The padjal said the statues. were sleep, and what when Diabolos appeared? Still sleeping? I would guess ampador arent good building weapons lol ).

[CyrilLucifer]

The most memorable part for me standing in the middle of the walking corpses Holy'ing as I always do, and my stun eventually was resisted. They then Holy'd me right back, stunning me in turn.

It was...an experience, certainly.

More seriously, that wamoura boss at the beginning was messing with your head. All of his attacks imply he was causing direct hallucinations. You as a player even hallucinate the images of yourself and your party members. I'm actually wondering if part of our perception of the area (namely, the pristine end sections) was influenced by this.
So essentially, you were high on wamoura pollen the entire time.

[Kotemon]

I was impressed by how much nicer the dolls and pots look with the updated mesh and skins. I was under the impression that the lower reaches we went to were part of another structure. Hence why the statues came to life as you entered. I'd assume right now that Diabolos lulled all of them into slumber before they could react and had to abandon the place to seal him in. However, Anchient Stone, Anchient Aero, Water III??. Seems like white magics were stronger then. But where did those reskinned sea horrors come from? Native life? Undead Machi pets? My god all those dragons and things that kept on appearing each platform on the way down. Makes sense why they want tanks to have a HP buff. Seems much harder than the last two dungeons.

[Anonymoose]

But where did those reskinned sea horrors come from? Native life? Undead Machi pets?

In XI, the name was Sea Monk, because it came from the sea and had eight arms (with which to Hundred Fists you in the face).
In XIV, the name is Void Monk, I suppose because they come from the void and have eight arms (with which to Hundred Fists you in the face).

The Mhachi void mages used bound voidsent for all sorts of things, so I imagine you're correct that they were pets (after a fashion).

[Jonnycbad]

Why does that last boss damage you with Cures again?

[Rocl]

Why does that last boss damage you with Cures again?

She casts Reverse beforehand.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I still want that Cure IV *pout*

[Cherub]

Something I actually realized just now, the BLM inside there are using the Stardust Rod. Now in FFXIV lore, Shatotto created the Stardust Rod and was also the one to discover the means of black magicks. So was Shatotto a mhachi? Or is it just game designer decisions? Notthat it truly matters but well trivia I guess.
It's also worth noting that alot of high ranked magic is being used. I assume those corpses were nothing more than normal footsoldiers, to imagine that they were able to use Holy. Mages back then were truly on another level and to me it also seems that the mages back then aren't simply white and black but way more than that.

[sickbaby]

well amdapor was sealed up during the war of the magi which was the white mages of amdapor fighting the black mages. the mhachi voidmages where another group wrapped up in it. they're the ones that summoned Diablos. but I think either the white mages or the Elementals of the shroud said a big NOPE and sealed that place up. which later the Lambs of Dalamud (cult that came about during the calamity, they dabble in void magic) they hang out in ruins now and with the power of the elementals fading atm they were able to break the seal on amdapor.. we go in and kick Diablos' butt (nm mode) and he flys off to the Void Ark. something the Mhachi made back in the day.

ummm.... but i know the end of the war was marked by a giant flood (the mhachi knew so they made void ark). so I think thats why you see some sea-type creatures in there using flood?

I was hoping there was going to be some more lore in the dungeon, things to read and stuff... but i guess not.

[CGMidlander]

In XI, the name was Sea Monk, because it came from the sea and had eight arms (with which to Hundred Fists you in the face).
In XIV, the name is Void Monk, I suppose because they come from the void and have eight arms (with which to Hundred Fists you in the face).

The Mhachi void mages used bound voidsent for all sorts of things, so I imagine you're correct that they were pets (after a fashion).

lol
But really, the "monk" is probably referring to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophius