Thread: Revelations from Patch 5.5 (Part 2)

Whole MSQ incoming:

I am not really sure if the amount of quests were really worth splitting up the story line the last few weeks. Other than the parts towards the end I was left mostly disappointed.

It is of course absolute awesome to see all the races of Eorzea working together like that but the whole time at the meeting I was just thinking "can someone bring those beast tribes their own chairs?"

Still I am not sure why Alphinaud is suddenly so immensly unsure of himself. He always was the person that hit himself the most for his mistakes and I do like that about him, but his whole behaviour really was a bit too much. (Especially since the truly world ending events are still not happening)

I guess being disowned by his own father who only seconded before that said how he and especially their mother had missed them can kick a lot of people of balance. I do understand their ways of trying to solve problems without violence and if I could I would choose less violent solutions but not everyone has the luxury to just run away from a conflict and let other countries deal with it. But I guess they really are a lot like Amaurot.

At least they right away point out that this behaviour makes it suspcious. Why would they sent someone into a dangerous zone to just say no? What do they know? And will it in the end nearly be their doom until we come and save their asses?

The solo instance was interesting and tedious at the same time. I am honestly a bit over that role playing mechanic and having to do that for three NPCs in one fight...yeah not something I liked. I also dont really know why somehow everyone just decided to look at the moon.

Of course we then show Zenos and honestly I reaaaaally doubt that this guy would in any way be part of the scions in the expansion...he suddenly has hatred and other negative emotions and I kinda wonder where they came from and I am curious about what Fandaniel meant. In the german version he said that he will have even more dreams but he was standing with Zenos who agreed....were they talking about Zodiark?

Also that Venat (?) tease at the end...come on SE thats all? Damn the next expansion cant come fast enough.

Overall I'm a bit puzzled by how the MSQ seems to bring up several plot threads, then abandons them in favour of more critical events. If this was any other patch MSQ, I'd assume that they'd be resolved in a future patch, but I can't imagine them being done in Endwalker.

At least it's better than 4.55, which didn't provide much forward momentum to the plot. Here in 5.55, we know that Things Are Happening, and Things Will Be Happening, and we have a clear goal to work towards.

I understood the intent of naming the big alliance the "Grand Company of Eorzea", but I did wonder what the very non-Eorzean Hien thought about that. Especially since he should still be busy working on his Far Eastern Alliance.

While I have some minor curiosity on the comments on the former Crystal Braves who left the organization, I admit I'm probably not that curious. I suspect most of the comments are along the lines of "Alphinaud was stupid and dumb", which has been a fairly common sentiment among players going through ARR anyway. Still, I'm surprised we didn't get more dialogue about that in this patch, since I don't think it will be brought up in Endwalker, and so we'll never know what Alphinaud's final report would look like.

We're going to talk to the Sylphs! Except we didn't manage to get more than a few dialogue boxes in before we got the news that the Sharlayan Envoy had arrived. Will we be talking to the Sylphs again in Endwalker, or is this another quest thread dropped?

Fourchenault is almost certainly putting on a performance, as is implied and mentioned by just about everyone in-game and out-of-game. It's as theatrical as Fandaniel.

I tried tossing the "not wisdom but indolence" line at Fourchenault, but he basically ignored me. I was hoping for at least some reaction on some stranger using Louisoix's favourite line.

I have no idea why Fandaniel is bothering to wait for the Scions to arrive on the scene before doing the whole glyph plan. He's obviously not too bothered by the failure of the plan, but it does seem like he's either testing us, or using our reactions to his schemes for some other purpose. If I had to guess, I'd say he's trying to draw Venat-Hydaelyn out by making sure we keep running into his Final Days performance.

I suppose the "dreamer" mentioned in Fandaniel and Zenos's conversation refers to Zenos himself, what with the dreams of the Final Days, but I can't help but remember that one of the names of Lavos was the Dream Devourer.

I admit to some slight disappointment that the lower-ranked Scions are out doing stuff and not in the Rising Stones, and so I can't check if Aenor has yet another horny dialogue to meme on.

Originally Posted by Anonymoose

Main Scenario up to Lotus Stand

Gonna be fun watching the inevitable breakdown into the camps of the traditional "Dad's a jerk, but he'll come around." and the "Dad's playing 4D chess to bait his kids into doing what he can't or playing a complementary role to his own plan."

Personally I'm combining the two into "Dad is playing 4D chess to bait his kids into doing something, which makes him a jerk". As in, only a jerk would come up with a plan like this. I'm pretty sure once Endwalker releases and we find out what Sharlayan are hiding, I'll be able to come up with an alternative plan for Fourchenault that didn't require him to make a public show of disowning the twins. He did that just because he's a jerk by nature, and so it's the first plan he thought of.