[SPOILERS] Revelations from Patch 3.3

[Anonymoose]

As always, please be kind to your fellow players and spend a little while discussing new revelations here (or behind spoiler tags in relevant threads) until they've had a nice courtesy window to enjoy the reveals for themselves.

I might actually lag behind in the discussion, but I wanted to give the thread a home and get this shin-dig started.

Welcome to the final patch of the Dragonsong War, everyone.

[Cilia]

But it's not even live yet!

[Theodric]

I'll try not to gush too much about whatever Garlean stuff we get.

[CyrilLucifer]

I won't even make an attempt to not gush about Ascians.

Especially given in 2.3 we got a nice revealing Ascian scene.

[Belhi]

I'll try not to gush too much about whatever Garlean stuff we get.

Its ok. You can gush. We know its kind of your thing. :P

[Nalien]

New Anima weapons confuse me...

The natural conclusion to creating a living weapon, for me, was "unique" names like we'd currently had... "Sultan's Fists" and "Book of the Mad Queen" strike me as... Well, not what I'd name what I guess effectively amounts to your child? All of the new names come across as fairly generic... What you'd expect perhaps from old weapons perhaps with forgotten names (if you forgot Curtana was Curtana, for example, you might call it "Sword of the Sultan"), not brand new conscious weapons... I suppose the achievement implies that the Anima is, for example, the Mad Queen? That makes sense I guess, but then the previous quest seemingly had us assigning a gender to our Anima, though even if Scholars opted to hear a male voice, there's nothing stopping their book becoming a mad queen... Not sure how Kannagi became a Prince, though...

I think what it really is though, is that it is a renaming... My Kannagi is Kannagi, that's her name... Having her now become the Thorn Prince just strikes me as odd, at least the Zodiac weapons had a solid reason for getting a new name... I suppose if the early quests were us nurturing a babe, the current names fit for the teenage phase of our Animas growth... Guess I should wait to actually do the quest to see their justification, but yeah... Hope they grow out of this, not keen on any of the new names (save Warrior, perhaps), nor the new models (save a few, including Warrior, damn that Job just gets all the love this expansion)...

[Shikiseki]

I hope we get more than a 2minute cutscene showing Papalymo and Yda this time.. I want to learn more about what they are doing!

[Nalien]

OK, so after logging in and instantly checking to find the Twilight over Thanalan scroll (Curse you, SE! You made it an Aquapolis drop, didn't you?), I'm off to ruin my Nothung...

So our new character (the one once wandering Idyllshire?) is called Ulan, and her research concerns enhancing Carbuncles (which are apparently similar to our Anima) with crystals... Watch that be how SE introduces the Egi-glamour system then, given they said they'd start with Carbuncle... She mentions having none for sale (you can sell Carbuncles?), though I bet that'll change...

OMG! The Growth page they previewed actually gives your Anima a text bubble! I assume it'll say different things as you progress, this is awesome!

[CyrilLucifer]

I'll edit with my thoughts later, but. Uh. This. This Unukalhai thing. This is pretty big.

Unukalhai saying straight out hes using the Echo, confirming Lahabrea's bit.

Auracite has been used in the past and eventually tore its wielders apart, because it bled the power of the gods it defeated into the wielder. And its wielders changed.

Cue Thordan quote.

Yet, the only "Gods" we've defeated with it were "little Gods" (as named by the 2.3 quest) - Ascians.

Unukalhai gives more info about himself when you question him.

So, he was going to die. But didn't, because "his master" intervened.

Do I need to go on about what this potentially implies?

Most importantly, he's still cute. In fact, SE is intentionally emphasizing his awkwardness at this point. He's adorable.

In regards to the MSQ

Middy's back, Middy's back, woooooo.

And he actually did something! And all the Hraesvelgr 3.0 lacked.

Not a big fan of the Deus Ex Hydaelyn. Happy ending, but, uh, yeah. Didn't like the way it happened at all.

And, this seems random, but can something as overwhelmingly powerful as a Dragon's eye really just be destroyed by throwing it off a cliff? Because really now.

[Rocl]

@Cyril MSQ

Deus Ex Hydaelyn being the phantoms of Ysale and Haurchefant? I did kind of roll my eyes at that bit, but I suppose it's somewhat fitting using the memories of those who sacrificed to prevent another sacrifice.

And yeah, wtf? Just toss the eyes off a cliff? Uh, what? Can't wait for Darklander & Co to use those eyes now. Really quite disappointed with the "stinger"/post credit scenes. Confirmation of it being Alisaie was nice (as opposed to Alphinaud from the Darkest Timeline) and the trek to East Shroud (conveniently near where a zoneline to Gyr Abania should be) reinforces that Ascian plot will bring us to Ala Mhigo.

Midgardsormr actually talking to his son finally was good. I had really gotten tired of him conveniently not talking to his kids (save Tiamat).

I missed where/when we gave Hraesvelgr's eye back, but he definitely had them both in the end, right? (another fitting loop closed, the same Eye of his which sustained Nidhogg was used to defeat Nidhogg)