#ffxiv patch 7.2

[spotofmummery]

'TIS TIME TO DOOMSCROLL!

[ainyan]

FFXIV Patch 7.2 Special Site Live:

Some highlights:

New to Patch 7.2

Main Scenario - Seekers of Eternity

Raid Dungeon - The Arcadion: Cruiserweight Division

Cosmic Exploration and New Tool Enhancement Quests - Cosmic Tools

Crescent Isle

New Dungeon - The Underkeep

New Trial - Recollection

New Unreal Trial - Hells' Kier (Unreal)

New Weapon Enhancement Quests - Phantom Weapons

Allied Society Quests - Mamool Ja

Inconceivably Further Hildibrand Adventures

Allagan Tomestones of Mathematics

New Crafting Recipes

New Mounts, Minions, and Emotes

New Cornservant Quest

Additional Duty Support

PvP Updates

[scrollsfromarebornrealm]

THE MAKO RIDES AGAIN (FFXIV)

(credit to @matrixdragon for the screenie!)

[dhajetii]

It’s so nice seeing the endgame cities so alive and full of player activity again. Folks emoting at their crafter friends. Crowds of players around quest NPCs and other random locations you know the quests have you linger at.

Then someone says something shitty about Wuk Lamat in the shout chat and several others chime in … except for them XD it’s nice to see the activity spike.

[summon-copy]

guess which idiot did the Cosmic Fortune 1 (one) time and immediately got the mount

i'm so good at gambling :3

[cinisekha]

CAPTAIN XEVA OF THE USS EORZEA REPORTING FOR DUTY

[wol-taleal-desharn]

I got the cute new minion on my initial run of the new dungeon :> omg its so cute ofc, being the minion collector that I am, kept it.

(its selling on my server atm for 8-9 mil...)

pic under cut ofc

lookit you you goodiest of booys

[voidsentprinces]

This expansion isn't beating the Splatoon allegations.

[neaththeheavens]

The ring is her studio, and reality her canvas! She's the rebel with a cause who captivates all with her illusions -- Sugar Riot!

[aceflorins]

🎶WHEN I RIIIISE IN THE RIIING🎶

🎶WE LOCK EYES AND THAT'S WHEN I REALIIIIZE🎶

🎶THAT I'M FREEEEEE🎶

🎶THIS IS MEEEE🎶

🎶THIS IS WHO I WAS MEANT TO BEEEEEEE🎶

🤖🎤✊😩

[spotofmummery]

The Faces That Amon Makes - Raid Edition

((Some of these cutscenes are just... -chef's kiss- 👌 ))

[elizabethrobertajones]

Unfortunately I won the Groovy Glasses and had to apply them to every glam Frog has, on account of whatever is going on with her and the Toad Guys. Even worse, you're prying my Black Mage glam from my cold dead hands still, so

[scrollsfromarebornrealm]

live shot of Soken taking my ass out with the 7.2 trial theme

[thefreelanceangel]

"Kona! Kona! Look what I learned to paint!! The pixies are going to love this!"

"What di- WHAT IS THAT?!"

"Summer! What is that?!"

"I learned to paint it from a show in that dome place! Isn't he adorable????"

"Summer! SUMMER, STOP RUNNING IT AT ME!"

[wandererxiv]

Now that I am home and have time, I'm going to type up my joys, responses, and theories about patch 7.2! Spoilers and etc. below the read more!

Most of this is comparisons to FFIX, which is a lot of reaching on my part. This post is image heavy, as well. Please listen to me talk about my favorite Final Fantasy.

So, I think we were all pretty much aware that somehow a real Sphene was going to show up. I thought it would be Ascians taking over her form, but hey "you were essentially dead but good morning" works, I guess.

I put this next to FFIX's Garnet as the real Princess Garnet dies at the age of six and in a twist of fate the playable character Garnet arrives by ship with her deceased mother after a storm. She looks exactly like the recently passed princess and is taken and raised as a replacement.

The fact we didn't get to give her a nickname was a lost chance. At this point in FFIX, when Garnet is escaping Alexandria, she takes an alias to keep her identity hidden. This is how she becomes "Dagger". I got excited for a moment thinking Sphene would take an alias similarly, but she didn't.

As another little nod to IX, the design on Sphene's jacket is reminiscent of Garnet's cloak.

Now more reaching from me: When they talk about the aetherytes being shut down due to the war, I think about how similarly the airship gates were locked in IX because of war and unrest. There's also the "railroad" between Lindblum and Alexandria. In IX, this is Gargant Roo, an underground passage between the two kingdoms where you travel by giant gargant (The first boss of the new dungeon!). Similarly, the gargant's fight in the dungeon is similar to the mechanics in IX.

In FFIX, gargant climbs upside down and along walls on a vine and you have to use levers to control the flow of sand to allow him through.

Now, I squealed at this one. Dali Coffee. Dali is the first village the group encounters in IX. Outside of the village is a tower where an old man named Morrid resides. In IX there is a mechanic called a "Collector's Rating" that relies on you finding "collectables" throughout the game. In Morrid's home, there is a model airship that you want for this rating. To obtain it, Morrid asks you to find various coffee beans around the world and bring them back to him!

In Final Fantasy IX, you explore the planet of Gaia. However, there exists a second planet, Terra, that you find is trying to fuse together with Gaia, taking Gaia's souls to feed itself and empower the people of Terra who have died. I don't think this is the plot point of XIV's Calyx, but it's the same concept as "eating" a shard.

Now for the Dungeon!

I am sure most of you know that it is a recreation of Alexandria's castle in IX, but did you know the song? It's called Two Hearts Not Captured. It's actually from the ending of IX... so if you want to see that, it's here. (The video is the entirety of the ending, but I have linked at the timestamp specifically where this song is played.) This made me tear up.

We didn't get Brahne's giant portrait with a cat... thing? We got a curtain on the wall instead. So upset.

I've already talked about the first boss, so let's talk about the second briefly. The design is a mechanized Alexandrian Soldier and was done incredibly well. I was so happy with how they translated it.

Now, something I noticed around the castle... the candles. Sure, Alexandria was using electrope, which is purple, but the candles? They're purple... hmm.

In IX, you are trapped in the main antagonist's palace and you encounter purple glowing lights (they're purple, fight me about it). Turning these off does two things: it gives you an item reward, but also "locks" boss mechanics! It disables the "security" system in the palace from using various attacks. And what is the security system in place?

It's our friend! Valia Pira!

By the way, one of the songs that plays after this is Fleeting Life, but I call it Bobby Corwen's song.

If you're still here, bless you.

Here, Sphere speaks about learning magic with a tutor. In IX, Garnet had a childhood tutor named Doctor Tot (pictured below) and, though born a summoner, is mainly a White Mage through the game. Sphene wanting to learn healing magic is a neat touch.

She also mentions later that she has a grimoire she can use. I am reaching with this, but there's a hidden boss in IX that can be encountered twice. He's a book. A grimoire. And I just needed that little pinch in there. He's actually really cute.

OKAY LET'S TALK ABOUT the xiv recreation of BEATRIX.

A loyal knight who sought to protect the princess. Now, Beatrix isn't always this figure. In fact, she's an antagonist in the beginning who destroys an entire city and commits war crimes, but a lot of people love her and she's so cool.

Everything to the touches on the sword are done well. Now, Beatrix's theme song is Rose of May, which is why she has rose themes in her attacks, but she also uses actual skills she has in IX when you fight her and the one time you get her as a guest in the party. The theme that plays is perfectly named for a sworn knight, Protecting My Devotion. (In fact, right before we played the patch, I said to @notleriff, "I have two requests, and my first one is they use Protecting My Devotion for the trial. I was so happy.)

Okay, a few reaches I have with what happens and what's said by Sphene in the following quests/story beats.

The fear of death.

Of course, this is a real thing we all deal with, but in IX one of the themes is

The regulators remove the memory of those who died from the wearer. Even Sphene touches on this. There is also the fact that the mist on Gaia is created by a machine called the Iifa Tree to make fiends and cause wars. This feeds souls into the lifestream and they are then directed to Terra. Very similar to how Solution 9 works, yeah? Though, our Iifa Tree doesn't hold a boss that just constantly mustard bombs you when you don't have a cure for it...

Vivi is also all about existentialism. (I mean he's not even a real person...)

The main antagonist of IX struggles with his own immortality, realizing his ambition is meaningless, so he just decides to destroy everything. "If I can't live, no one can." I'm trying to see the comparisons to Kuja in Calyx, but Calyx is more like the Garland of IX, who sees the race of Terrans as superior and is the sole caretaker of their souls. His entire goal is to revive his people and is using the souls of other planets to do so.

I ate good this patch. I am so happy and excited to see more IX stuff. If you made it this far, thank you for wasting your time on my fangirling over silly things.

[starrysnowdrop]

The Wrath of Zeus is unleashed upon Hali, wounding her, but it merely inconveniences her.

“So she didn’t die. Vexing, but expected.”

Hali scoffs. “Well that was rude!!”

I love how Calyx is introduced by unleashing all of the electricity from Solution Nine and hitting WoL all at once, but it’s nothing more than a mild tankbuster. It’s one of the best intros for a character in game so far.