Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Alliance raid

The XI connection isn't a drawcard for me so the raid itself just feels really disjointed. Not too excited by the outfits so I might be sitting this one out and not bothering with the weekly run.

Plot-wise... I knew there was a good chance Sareel Ja wasn't dead, but wasn't expecting him to turn up here. It also tells us a bit more about the gate, which I had assumed was a direct portal to the Ninth, but it seems you end up in the larger rift along the way? If it wasn't for the external context I might assume that the world he had visions of was the Ninth before the apparent Flood of Lightning, though the different names for races would suggest not.

I like the detail of Alxaal ending up with a Mamool Ja name (more or less) because he was named by one, though I assume it is somewhat coincidental that it looks like a name and not just a word. (Mamool Ja names in Japanese don't have the final "L" they have in English, but Alxaal still does.)

The auction felt so wedged in for the sake of it. Was it some kind of nostalgia hit for XI players or just an unnecessary tone shift?

Bakool Ja Ja feels... flat? I guess the writers may have had to work out what to do with a character who was more popular than they anticipated, but he's just feeling very utility-story-driving now.

As others have noted, Prishe and Alxaal are now wandering. I've only seen them in Earthenshire so far.
About the auction

I feel that he only looks over at the auction house in hopes of an idea of how do we go about obtaining the electrope. There were two others interested in it and we didn't have an idea of how much they were willing to spend on it. The XI tie in is the auction house is XI's market board. But interested of being able to see how many of an item is put up and for how much you could only see how much the last few were bought for. Let's say you wanted to sell a stack of HQ coffee biscuits back in ShB. In XI they would have a going price dictated by the playerbase. There would be times when someone would try to raise the going price of an item but it tended to not last long. The most "interesting" thing about the auction house is you also had people who wanted to plummet the going price and would sell them at a cheaper price. Then there would be times when someone made a mistake in setting the selling price and end up selling a hot ticket item for 1 gil. So smart and sometimes broke players would try and fish from time to time to try and buy something at a more affordable price.