Thread: Revelations from Patch 5.5 (Part 1)

Yorha Raid:

The story itself I found lacking, but the actual raid itself was a lot of fun. So no change there from the prior two raids. I didn't have time to do the follow up quest before work though so maybe there will be more to things. But far it continues the trend of 'good raid but story implementation is poor.'

I'll go more into my full thoughts after I do the follow up quest(s), maybe they'll change my mind. But for now that's all I got to.

Sorrow of Werlyt

I'll admit my first reaction to Gaius becoming the new commander of the Werlyt rebellion was "Really?" But I digress. The fight with diamond weapon in normal mode was fun, and the change from Zenos to Alfonse as the "Data type" was quite interesting. Props to those who bet on Diamond not actuallybeing Zenos. Valens showed himself to be as disturbing as ever, and quite good at combat provided he knows his opponents moves before hand. Regardless, I am glad Diamond Alfonse managed to quite literally pop him before he deactivated. I'm still 50:50 on Gaius being an advisor for Werlyt's independence but at least he got out of this with one kid.

EDIT:

Nier

I have to say this was underwhelming, even w/o the hype of being a Nier/Yoko Taro advocate. Everything being resolved with "portal from another world" is fine and dandy, but taking away the framework of the "Taroverse" and what are we left with? In my opinion, a very unengaging story that I couldn't connect to or recognise the themes of. I'm still going to do the weekly quests, because apparently we are going to get memos from here on out that might actually explain what the heck happened, but I'm not holding out hope.

MSQ

Damielliot lives again, AND he speaks! Glad to see Tiamat freed and moving on. Meracydia seems to be off the table for 6.0 while she tries to reign in and comfort what remains of her Horde. Maybe for the next expansion. I was expecting Arenvald to outright die, and now I'm even more dubious about them going all the way on actually killing someone for narrative stakes. Krile acting as the Eorzean emissary to Sharlayan was an unexpected outcome, and while I am certain that Hydaelyn isn't as maicious as other primals and just didnt know how to go about things the right way, I am glad that the Scions have gotten around to asking questions about her and the Blessing of Light.

Never been caught up with MSQ before! Excited to give my two cents.

Ayyyyy, Fordola is back! Best of luck to her and Arenvald. I know she’s terrible and I shouldn’t like her, but I do, and I hope I can get her for trust dungeons one day... (I still think about what the proper answer was to her question after she got Echo’d. Too bad they didn’t let me say “alcohol and split personalities.”)

The meeting between Alisaie and Estinien wasn’t what I had imagined -it was better! RIP Estinien. G’raha fanboying over who is to him another historical figure was adorable, but salty elf makes me laugh more. Now I know why the devs put Tiamat in! Turns out Midgardsormr did something else right in bullying me into talking to her. I dig how Estinien of all people convinced her to bring freedom and/or mercy to her children... but I have to admit I’m a little scared of somebody who’s even 0.5% Nidhogg. Good thing he’s on our side. I got a good laugh out of impersonating Estinien for the node, but wish I got a dialogue option that let me tell him I plan to rip Fandaniel apart, because that’s all I’ve wanted since day one. I’ve BEEN over this open-up-a-dialogue-with-the-Ascians thing. Some butts need kicking! Continuing to be proud of Alisaie!

The music in Paglth’an SLAPS. Estinien and Tiamat arriving to kick butt together is *chef’s kiss*. The man’s come a long way since I first met him doing my DRG quests. And I’m cautiously hopeful about working with more friendly Amalj’aa. Part of me is glad the Syndicate took their heads out of their butts and are trying to be useful for once, but part of me wonders if all this teaming up is too good to be true.

More MSQ reaction

I KNEW those towers involved summoning somehow! That’s some nightmare fuel. How do we shut them off? Can we save the guys in there? ARENVALD NOOOOOO- Fordola has a point, though. You can’t save everyone in a war. That’s why I have a broken shield. Didn’t Matoya already get on Alphinaud for this? Plus there’s the fact that there are some lives whose cessation would instantly make Hydaelyn a better place to live, so I can’t really agree with my boy today. And I know Alph has rubbed off on Estinien some, but as another awful woman once said, “you can’t do a damn thing when you’re dead!” That includes making your dreams reality.

I hope Krile can convince her Sharlayan homies to be useful and we don’t just get hours of politics while the world is about to burn. (I’ve heard at least one other fan say that Krile or Fordola should get to kill Zenos so he doesn’t get what he wants. After what he did to her, I’m here for it. I don’t know how, but a Krile finisher would be amazing.)

And I have to admit that, despite having zero love for the dastardly duo, I’m already very invested in how Endwalker goes. My fellow Scions and I have way too many people we care about and have gone through way too much trying to keep them safe just to see it all get the FFVI treatment from a spoiled broken record blood knight and a death seeker who picked the most hateable host body outside of Television... Telomere... whoever it was screwed us in 2.55. Please oh please don’t let us have another bleak-ass “rocks fall everyone dies” ending like 2.55. But oh please DO let Venat somehow pop up (if “Elidibus” did it, why can’t he?) to pimp-slap those two out of existence.