Thread: Revelations from Patch 7.2: Seekers of Eternity

Originally Posted by Tehmon

7.2 Arcadion Story (All Raids Spoilers)

I am so bitter about Brute Bomber's death. It has to be one of the more... heartbreaking deaths in the game for me. Dude gets manipulated by the President, and then the only person, his childhood best friend, who could most likely talk some sense into him, just lets his death happen and doesn't intervene because he is a coward who has " accepted " his own death as well. Oh, and do we learn the cure to the soul degradation sickness right after Hector dies? Of COURSE we do!!! Just to rub salt on the wound.

And then, this entire scenario's awfulness is just emboldened by what seems to be a lovers spat between Retsarra and Eutrope, as there seems to be some ridiculous miscommunication and misunderstandings going on that could've been solved by.. talking things out, or so it seemed to me. And in the meantime, of course Eutrope was never a bad person, not really, she was just trying to save her boyfriend!!! All the edge she might've had has been taken away just for relationship drama that leads to Hector's death, essentially.

The entire romantic relationship now takes precedent over the friendship Retsarra and Hector had, as Eutrope and Neyuni are kidnapped by the President. As Retsarra said, he won't let the President take away anymore people he cares about. That's such a lovely sentiment, but rescuing Eutrope won't take away that you knowingly sent Hector to his death, now does it? We obviously have to see how the finale of the raid pans out and how Hector's death is going to be handled by GEEZ, am I bitter. I know FFXIV gets clowned on for not being brave enough to kill people for good, but this is one death that feels so bad to me, just complete clownery.

Justice for Hector, idk. Maybe they'll rename Arcadion " Hectorion " in the finale, lmao.

It always does feel sometimes side stories could have been prevented from escalating to the point people die by simply having characters talk it out to clear any misunderstanding since FF14 began. Of course some people do not like it when things can be resolved with simply just talking because of the hate for things that remind them of "Talk no jutsu" but sometimes this path is the obvious reasonable path that should have been taken but stubbornness of characters and some players wanting a reason for escalating events for excitement in the story seem to prevent this from happening.

Originally Posted by EdwinLi

It always does feel sometimes side stories could have been prevented from escalating to the point people die by simply having characters talk it out to clear any misunderstanding since FF14 began. Of course some people do not like it when things can be resolved with simply just talking because of the hate for things that remind them of "Talk no jutsu" but sometimes this path is the obvious reasonable path that should have been taken but stubbornness of characters and some players wanting a reason for escalating events for excitement in the story seem to prevent this from happening.

7.2 Arcadion spoilers

I just think that whenever misunderstandings, coincidences and miscommunication stems from romantic relationship drama and tension, it becomes very frustrating to me when others fall victim of that tomfoolery and clownery. And it becomes especially harsh when the fact that an outsider got killed partly due to their incompetence actually brings the two back together... well I can't vibe with that. But who knows what's going to happen in the finale, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that the death leads to something important and not just corny and predictable heroism that now invalidates all the criticism of past tomfoolery. Nu-uh, I'm not having that this time around.

The new MSQ antagonist...

I kind of understand what they are going with Calyx currently as the new antagonist despite his role is probably going to be very shot unless they plan to have him as a antagonist part 7.3 era contents.

He is basically the opposite of not just Wuk Lamat, Sphene, and WoL but every single person we have known since FF14. A character dedicated to purely logic and reason with his actions with no room for any form of emotional attachment in anyway with his actions.

For him the Endless is the most "logical" choice for evolution since all the flaws of mortality are erased and he see the countless sacrifice of other beings from other worlds as necessary to maintain this form of Godhood since no one will care about people they have no attachments with since people care less about people they do not know and care more about people they do know.

However, I still feel there should have been some kind of build up for him in 7.0 through small hints and mentions. Not to mention they obviously are building up to the concept that he may have faked Sphene's death and planned everything from the beginning to reach this point in 7.2 to 7.3 since he always planned for Endless Sphene to go crazy and fail in her plans to save everyone as Endless then have these Neo regulators introduced after.

10 char or so

Msq thoughts

So was Calyx just not paying attention from wherever his endless body has been hiding to not have an idea of how strong the WoL is? Cause otherwise he'd of known that lighting strike wouldn't have killed the WoL. Yet they seemed to have also anticipated the use of the Azem stone and know about reflections and the source. I am glad that we got back to Milos and his mother. That yes porxies can cure the levin sickness, but that as some of us expected if they don't want a relapse they would have to move away from the dome. I do worry about them though cause I feel that they won't be able to get their happy ending.

It's not often that I wonder why the supposed smart people can't figure things out in XIV's story or others but there definitely were times in the msq where I'm going Krile you really can't figure out why Calyx wants to make people panic so they choose to register their neo regulators? I do wonder about why or how that one body in Heritage Found just turned to dust. The dungeon and trial were fun and made you not want to mess up so glad they've kept that up.

Raid

Who would have thought Brute Bomber was secretly a softie and owned cats? I am glad that at least one person pushed back at the idea to stop the fights. As with the dungeon and trial these fights had some teeth. M7 especially. I hope M7 has as many arena changes in savage as it does in normal. Still a bit confused about the petrification attack as my co healer and I would be looking away, far away from the boss and some times not even doing anything and end up being hit by it which would cause us to die from follow up attacks. I wonder about what this drop of life it's called is as I would say physonekrosis sounds akin to what happened to us via absorbing all those light wardens. Did anyone else notice the lack of regulators on people in some scenes even when those people should have been wearing them? One example is after Eutrope and Yaana fight they both don't have their on.

I also am just getting sick of not telling some npcs about our Endsinger fight, our near death dual with Zenos and considering the wants of the msq villain our meeting of simulations of the Ea, Omnicrons and the Nibirun as examples of why it won't work.

Originally Posted by Fenral

This one is a bit of a second coil throwback:

you need to get behind the flowers. At least you have to kill the adds this time instead of keeping them alive.

I'm not quite sure about that

As Blighted Bloom was a stop moving and not a look away or Line of sight. You also still had to kill the slugs unless you were doing the mega slug strat. Or are yout alking about the bees? As you still wanted to kill those unless you could power through them. Unlike Sohm Al's 1st boss. Where even on launch you could ignore them.