Thread: The Patch 5.2 Discussion Thread! (Spoilers)

Thanks MrThinker and Moose! Really interesting, will see whether I can find the mention for ARR players and look up the 1.0 stuff on YouTube, as that sounds really relevant now.

Originally Posted by Daemius

Very curious about what we've combined Garuda with in the new raid series. Ramuh is obviously Ixion + Ramuh. Ifrit looks like Ifrit + Diabolos and maybe a little Ferdiad. Garuda, I'm stumped on, just looks like revamped regular Garuda. Extra set of 4 wings, slimmer build. Her eyes are Cloud of Darkness-y. She doesn't match any of the Mhachi raid bosses as closely as Ifrit's redesign does though.

The six wings remind me of Storge, the Lightwarden.
And for Ramuh, I think that there also are a lot of obvious Zurvan similarities as well.

Originally Posted by RicaRuin

The six wings remind me of Storge, the Lightwarden.
And for Ramuh, I think that there also are a lot of obvious Zurvan similarities as well.

Zurvan having some influence on Ramuh makes a lot of sense looking at him now, hadn't thought of that before, but yeah, that's clearly where the wings on him are coming from.

Garuda gonna continue to elude me. I'm gonna just bank on Garuda + Cloud of Darkness + idk, Echidna for now. I can see the Storge influence in the wings as well but I feel like there's gotta be more to this one than Garuda + Storge.

Originally Posted by Daemius

Very curious about what we've combined Garuda with in the new raid series. Ramuh is obviously Ixion + Ramuh. Ifrit looks like Ifrit + Diabolos and maybe a little Ferdiad. Garuda, I'm stumped on, just looks like revamped regular Garuda. Extra set of 4 wings, slimmer build. Her eyes are Cloud of Darkness-y. She doesn't match any of the Mhachi raid bosses as closely as Ifrit's redesign does though.

I would wager we remember Chirada & Surparna & combined them into Garuda.

Originally Posted by Keever

The voice at the end of the trailer sounds like Elidibus, even in English. I think the confusion may come from the fact that the more recent voiced lines from Elidibus-possessing-Zenos were actually spoken by Zenos's voice actor giving a more sedated line delivery.

Here is the one scene where Elidibus's Heavensward-and-onwards voice actor has been heard, back in 3.0:
Video

Compare the trailer (timestamped).

Sounds definitively the same to me, just as in the Japanese version.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isnt that Heavensward stinger scene currently the only scene he had a voice in?

Originally Posted by MrThinker

Correct me if I am wrong, but isnt that Heavensward stinger scene currently the only scene he had a voice in?

From what I remember it is the only scene where he speaks with his real voice. The other scenes he seaks with Zenos's voice to, probably, maintain the illusion it was the real Zenos speaking.

However, despite this unique scene, I can confirm it is Elidibus speaking in the French version as well.

I would wager Eden's recreation of Ramuh is a conflation of the original and Ixion, another noteworthy enemy fond of lightning attacks.