Quote Originally Posted by Adamantini View Post
What I mean is that I'm seeing very often people see some beloved character from some other FF, and they get a lot of hype about it. My friend himself was excited about the Magus, he told me they were his favorite characters. At the end of the dungeon he himself was left with the taste of "is that it?"

As soon as the new patch came out, it didn't take long for posts to appear from people saying that Golbez's lords were killed quickly and rushed.

To me who've never seen them before, they look like just any NPC without deep development. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
You could say the same thing about Calca, Brina, and Fenrir, who are also past FF characters that ended up just being dungeon bosses with no explanation. Unlike the Magus Sisters, who actually got a bit of lore and lead-up, these ones had nothing. Just because it's your friend's favorite doesn't mean they're owed a giant swath of story to concentrate directly on them. The Magus Sisters got about the same initial exposure as Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, Leviathan, Bismark, and Ramuh. A lead-up where we know they're there and given some background, and then we fight them. The first 3 show up again for Ultima Weapon and Titan once more after that but that's it unless you count re-imaginings in Eden or SMN abilities.

Odin was a source of evil that gave his powers to the 3 main enemies of the OG MSQ and 2 separate expansions in FFXI, but in FFXIV he's just a special fate and a trial in a side quest, neither of which get much involved in the actual story.


Golbez and his archfiends are being introduced and dying fast because they're being presented in post-expansion patch content that isn't meant to go beyond patch 6.5. We only have 3 patches left of MSQ to finish the current void storyline and then set up 7.0 so they can't exactly dwell on the archfiends. It's probably going to go 6.3 = Cagnazzo & Rubicante, 6.4 = Golbez, 6.5 = whatever surprise Yoshi-P says we won't predict that will lead us into 7.0.