I love that the after show is basically a full podcast episode itself :V Happy's an awesome guest. Can't wait to see you guys on SotR too

I don't even read the lodestone, I wait till MrHappy uploads

The "DT's not about me" thing is so interesting to me - for me, that change was SO refreshing.

Ran into Mr. Happy while poking around a zone trying to level up my WHM so it could be on standby for the inevitable of my Monk capping and wasting EXP from MSQ. Was doing a few FATES and found a swarm of people, so I threw a few heals out to a few hurting units (great for aggro generation, the thing FATES care most about) and one of them was Mr. Happy. I had to double check with my FC to confirm the details of what he played and what server he was on, but it's a neat little thing I can say I did. Now back to MSQ I go! \o/

Garrett mentioning GMM is the best thing that's ever happened to me cause Kyle and Garrett remind me so much of Rhett and Link

This was an excellent podcast! Hopefully y'all do State of the Realm some day!

59:34 Every Support main facepalms when their Botlane Carry jumps back into the fight right after you put in all your effort into saving them 😂 In FFXIV terms, it's like being a Healer that Rescues a DPS but the DPS still walks back into the AOE.

Personally, I like the story Dawntrail told. Having us be less of a foreground character is alright with me

I loved the podcast and enjoy watching you guys. You normally have a pretty fair take on things, however, I do take note of one comment you made at the end about players always having to have a story about them. I love to read a variety of types of content, I love stories, I love character building, and I love world building. In most forms of media that I enjoy, I view the world and events around the main protagonist. It's their story, they are the stars of the show and hero in their story. However, FFXIV has always been different. We are the "Warriors of Light" or former WoL. Either way, we have defended the star for years. So while I agree we don't have to have "everything" about WoL, but when the "dod-doo hits the proverbial fan" just let us do what we are good at without interruption, let us be the badass for at least that moment. That's my one request. 💪🤪

I am not a huge fan of Mr Happy content, but i have to say i really enjoyed how he interacted with the GG crew. This was a super good podcast. I like the chill vibe, FFXIV should be chill no matter what you are doing i feel.

“someone could’ve been playing since they were 15 and be 25 and be a boomer in ffxiv” I feel seen 🥲

Looking forward to the after-after-after show!

2nd comment I know but someone in our FC (they left) complained because Wuk Lamat's voice wasn't feminine enough.... I think there's a few things going on with the hate. I loved Dawntrail, it's my favorite expansion so far, they have all been wonderful, but I really love this one.

The first 2 DT extremes weren't too difficult but they are very, very fun. Picto is broke AF.

Loving Wuk Lamat and dawntrail. Definitely see this X-pac being looked on fondly.

Still remember I start at 2.0 and cannot figure out how the registration works (still can't) that's how I found mrhappy channel.

Rift, Black Desert, and Aeon are some of the MMOs I dropped almost immediately; Rift had some cool ideas, but at the end of the day, they weren't different enough from WoW to make it worth switching.

oh DAMN! I forgot we had 2 separate levels in the beginning! happily forgot nonetheless, that shit took so fucking long - this also made me think about when you had to lvl more than one job to get some of the others, I don't feel like that's TOO long ago tho'

Really excited for the Wuk Lamat hate debate. Personally, I like her and how she fits in the entire character roster but I can see why some don’t both in game and probably in a meta sense.

Aw man, really sad to hear kyle hated hollow knight 😭. Its my favourite platformer of all time. Im looking forward to the extreme, savage, and whimsy streams more than than the MSQ in dawntrail. And other games of course.

So...... What's everyone else doing during maintenance?

This is sooooo cool

Haps is a good guy!

Mr Happy truly made me love the game as a struggling beginner so seeing him with you guys is so awesome. Shout out to you three for all the work you do

Happy thinks Ashes will fail...I'm just wondering if it'll ever actually release. But yeah, I'm with him in that when it does, I don't see it succeeding. I think they're aiming too high for what they're trying to be. It sounds, from what I've heard at least, that they're trying to bring back "the old MMO", and that's just too niche nowadays for how big they're trying to be. I think most of the people who are hyped about it are gonna bounce off. I'll play it for a bit though cuz I think the class system is kinda interesting.

This is killing me, I want to play so bad, but I had to lay my great potato gaming pc to rest after the graphical update. Gotta save up for a PS5 and let me tell you, I'm having serious FFXIV withdrawals. Usually, I have coffee and play first thing in the morning. But right now, I just sit there staring at my wall, all twitchy from the withdrawals. Touch grass, you say? Yes, I'd very much like to touch the grass in Il Mheg and Rak'tika

Garrett watching James Hoffmann: I see you are a man of culture as well 😊

Mr happy looks GOOD. whew!!!

good podcast 👍

Pictomancer PvP overpowered. Let's talk about that. I have yet to lose a match

Few things to keep in mind. Not everyone has a friend who plays, or has a streaming crowd to vent to, so it's natural to seek somewhere, anywhere, to release our feelings. You guys will be experiencing it at a bite-sized pace, rather than experiencing all of it (relatively) rapidly over the last two weeks. It's a lot easier to endure an irritation when there's a sizable gap between occurrences. Lastly, disliking one factor of a game does not mean we hate the entire game. I distinctly remember you guys vocally (and irrationally) disliking the Il Mheg dog-people, yet I'm pretty sure you still overall enjoyed Shadowbringers.

In FFXIV, your own character is a Mary Sue Chosen One (quite literally: she chose you, and on at least one occasion raises you from the dead to continue your quest). In light of that, calling out any NPC for stealing your limelight is the biggest lack of self awareness possible.

Now that I'm about halfway through DT, I really don't understand the whole "it's not about me" thing. I don't see how it's any different than any other expansion we've played. Even ShB, which is the most "about WoL" expac by far, so much of it is centered around the scions and the people you meet on the first.

Too short.

As good an origiin stor yas my Gamer Handle. Bluefirl. Was playing WoW back i nMoP, and made a new character to level lit. Was a female Graenei shaman. And at the time I was terrible with names so I was just going to call it Bluegirl, cause duh. And at some point, not until Igot to MoP, Jade Forest, did someone ask "Hey, does your name mean Blue female-in-real-life?" And that's when I found out I mispelt the name. And because it's a funny anachdote, I decided to use it going forward. So, since that day some decade plus ago, I coined my gamer handle.

You want to know why I hate Lyse? Play Dawntrail. Wuk Lamat is everything Lyse should have been and then some. Wuk Lamat is an actually well developed character.

clock spots is probably the worst way I've ever heard anyone describe proteans and I'm really glad that hasn't caught on. clock spots mean a very specific thing and most proteans recently are not resolved by going to your clock spot and if you tell me clock spot, I'm doing something completely different than resolve the protean properly

Minor spoilers for DT MSQ I'm in the camp if thinking Wuk Lamat is a weak point in DT, and while I do think the VO (VA+direction) is of less quality than average for the game, that is not the main reason. For me it's that her specific type of character growth is more or less the sole focus of the MSQ for a big part of the MSQ. It is very similar to SB and how I feel about Lyse. I like Lyse now, after the growth. Didn't like the growth and it's basically the same with Wuk Lamat. The last cutscene with her in 7.0 was great (there was several others as well, it's not like I didn't enjoy any of them through the story, but I'm avoding specifics) but I don't think a single one of the "pep talks" she gave ever landed. I did however, for the most part, enjoys Alphinaud's journey, except I thought it overstayed its welcome with the Crystal Braves plot. So when the "young character learns about the world" was in focus, it just doesn't seem to work for me. When it's more in the background, as with Alphinaud in HW, it can work very well. Zero is a bit of an outlier, because I liked the 6.1-6.5 patches, even though you could describe them as something as shouldn't like, based on my I defined above. I think this is because I treated the void lore as the main thing mentally, and it made it work. My main issue with DT is not something new to DT though, and that is the clear stuggle the devs have to make good cut scenes and dialogue with the WOL, when they have to be a blank slate with more or less no room to act within a scene. It was very noticeable for me in DT, but I think this has always been the case. I'm just more aware of it now. The WoL can do nothing in a scene. We can't cast spells, attack, defend, unless it can be done in a generic "every job can perform, and every player's WOL would do, this action". I don't envy the devs trying to write a story within these restrictions.

Mr Crappy is awful, has been for like 10 years 😂