my boyfriend had been playing this game for YEARS, where as i picked it up last year. i had just finished ARR, and he had lvled up another alt to play with me, and that is when i noticed the tickets and asked him about them. the look on his face said it all. all those years running. so much running XD

What about the ferry from limsa to basically right outside the waking sands? Didn’t find out about that until i was in stormblood

Found both the ferry and the ticket in my early arr just because i like clicking on everything

I'm good

Dude i found out like a week ago. I have 7k hours.... 😵

I think XIV is the only fantasy RPG where I actually like elves, because they're just so oversaturated everywhere else.

@@truesoprano2152 Elezen exhale elitism without too much high fantasy elements.

@@luiz8755 they are also technically part dragon.

@@luiz8755 This! I play Elizen to: 1. Be rare. 2. Look down on inferior races.

Elezen boi here: it’s a bit of superiority mixed with me having a long neck IRL so it’s only fitting.

ARR is my favorite as well. I really liked the story and the music and it's what got me hooked on the game. I actually dislike most of Heaven's Ward as it felt disjointed and kinda boring until the end when you got back to the ARR areas and the pre-Stormblood stuff.

I see you do not play Lala then. Both dwarven communities in Shadowbringers have houses only lala can get into, with dialogue and moving/interacting dwarves. Those homes also have lala sized furniture and the ONLY beds in the game you can /doze on and your character will lay down and sleep on. A special interaction and emote that only lalas get, and only lalas will ever see. Heavensward has a lot of places you can wander into with lots of interactions and even npc's to click on that their dialogue changes depending on where you are in the storyline, and I don't just mean like Fortemps manor. Shadowbringers has a few but not a whole lot sadly and I have found only a handful in Endwalker.

I have a friend that has skipped 100% skippable cut scenes. The players exists..

"I was dismayed that the Crystal Exarch was , and I was glad that "

@@BalintNemessanyi Seek help, my friend. If you feel that way then you really need to seek help, and find your passion for life.

@@BalintNemessanyi Ok. In that case, carry on, and I hope you find something to be happy about.

Why?, they are far prettier than normal Elvaan!

o/ I have one alt, she is a Duskwight. Dark is gorgeous.

Duskwight here too, prettiest Elezen on entire Zodiark! ;3

i play duskwight too but i play with pale skin color, i like the cooler skin tone it makes :p

My alt is a duskie girl!! (And my main is a wildwood boy, I unironically love Elezen❤️❤️)

I love him so much, he is best boy

I remember.... -when she was actually fun pretending to be her dead sister

Yeah, I liked her a lot when she was Yda... and then it slowly morphed into "Who ARE you... and what have you done with my favorite girl?"

I do this as well... talking to NPCs between the MSQ. Especially Estiniens lines during HW were so so funny. You miss them completely if you only talk to the main quest giver.

Same. I love small starts. Or it feels small in retrospect anyway, obviously killing a lesser deity at level 20 is a big deal for some stories haha

I have always been a quest reader, even when I played WoW. I also always talk to the NPCs around the questgiver before the questgiver. :) So much more context to everything!

While I wouldn't call ARR my favorite, I also don't get the dislike people have for it. I enjoyed it completely.

I had the misfortune of unlocking it while trying out healing, every other dungeon had gone so well I thought 'what could go wrong' Everything. Everything went wrong. And now for some reason it's the only dungeon I get for leveling roulette.

I lvled AST during the last mog tome event going through Aurum and it was so easy I would see how long I could go without eating fruit for fun. Went through it recently as a WHM and it was SO HARD. And yes the most toxic players always seem to pop up there. One tank got mad at me for asking him to slow down cause our sprout healer was getting overwhelmed. Shouted at me that's he's been pulling this dungeon wall to wall for 6 years and wasn't going to take advice from a spout then left. Funniest sh*t I ever read.

The last mentor I had an interaction with kicked me from NN. Then proceeded to notice the dumbass had combat materia in his crafting gear, and had no acheivements for actual combat content (ex/savage). These are the people giving advice to new players. The whole mentor system is a fucking joke.

I've noticed that Mentor tanks in that dungeon seem more toxic than most other mentors in any other content. Like I had a Mentor Tank in WoD yesterday, they were great! Pulled their mobs with ranged attacks and Provoke, used their mitis like they were supposed to and were cracking jokes between pulls. Was a great time! Had a Tank Mentor in Aurum Vale today who basically sprinted ahead of all of us and told the Sprout Healer to adjust or leave :/

@@Gatescholar sounds about right. Probs the same guy that rocks UpTo s rank hunts, tomahawks it once then goes afk. Mentors are the most self entitled assholes this game has to offer, not all of them, just most of them.

Now I know why I had a slight crush on Thancred in ARR. 🥺

Makes me miss Merlwyb's ARR voice as well.

Just started Stb and I've gotten used to all the new voices except for Thancred. I liked his ARR voice better 😅😅

Another Critical Role voice in ARR is Alphinaud, voiced by Sam Rigel

Yeah, I actually still prefer Meryweb's original voice, and I actually liked Alphinaud's too

TBF with the right optimization BLUs can wreck everything up. AV was more like a really over studied case of it I was kinda looking forward to this event this time because I only really learned the run in the last event. On other hand I can understand if they never put it on the Moogle event ever again as it was reeeally over abused

I love to be the tank in that one an do the death skip.

I love the aurum vale it was my first warcraft-esque dungeon and it was the easiest so far so no I haven't had issues like some claim

Blue Mages can pretty much decimate anything

I feel this from when I was leveling my healers...

Yes I know I see it alot.

So how will you make a 20 min video about the one time I had a "training fight" with her ontop of the statue?

I always figured her "being dumb" was just her roleplaying as Yda, since she does a complete character 180 between post-ARR and when it comes out she's Lyse. While the other characters of the Scions "knew" she wasn't really Yda, she must have been acting close enough for people who weren't close enough to Yda to know the difference. But once she "becomes" Lyse, she's far less airheaded than she was in 2.0, and her only real character flaw is her insecurity about leading the Ala Mhigan Resistance.

I miss Papalymo..bring him back..

Bit of a late reply, but I've noticed this misconception is pretty common - Lyse isn't actually the leader of Ala Mhigo. We see her frequently being the representative from Ala Mhigo that works with us/the Scions/the other city-states (the last one often alongside Raubahn). Since that position from the other city-states often is the actual leader, I do understand why people think she's higher up on the chain of command that she actually is (the actual leaders are an elected group of representatives, and so far we've not been introduced to them). But really she's the leader of the Resistance, which essentially acts as a sort of branch of the military at this point, as well as seemingly a peacekeeping and rebuilding organization. Raubahn is the General of the Ala Mhigan army, and so technically is above her, and so she is actually a lot closer to being like his second in command, just not directly. Also, amusingly, while keeping her impulsive nature under her control is part of her arc...she never actually manages to follow through on anything impulsive that makes things worse. She gets frustrated plenty, but pretty much every time someone is there to prevent her from doing anything rash, until she's able to control it on her own. Extra amusing is that Alisaie is the one that does lose her composure, during the Ananta stuff. Both twins, in fact, have more of a track record overall of making things worse than Lyse, lol.

@@Beredaman08 True, but that's all post Stormblood MSQ stuff. I made that comment right after beating Stormblood.

As a regular venue bun Ill just say that metallic dyes are super popular in the clubbing scene! I dont think Id ever combine metallic orange and green like in the video though, that does look terrible.

@@DranCh My FC uses our FC chest to store mats so we can make gear sets every 10 levels for our sprout members. That way they can focus on leveling and the story without having to worry about gearing too. Whenever I make a gear set for a new member for the first time I ask their two favorite colors and dye the gear those colors as best I can to make it look good. One of our newcomers told me Orange and Green the other day. Was an interesting mix for those two...

I love the pearl white dye, or the metallic purple. I use those a fair bit for my glams unless using the plum purple or some other shade of purple. My toon is pretty much on a purple theme as both myself and my boyfriend (whom I met in game, and who’s my in game husband) really love purple. We’re both viera with purple details in our hair. My hair in game is some light purple with darker purple ends so I tend to match my outfits to my hair color wise

I've done some interesting things with metallic red and metallic yellow. The metallic orange...no I can't make that work.

Metallic Blue and Metallic Sky Blue can also be good, but I've found it requires that the item you're dyeing only have a portion of it be changed so there's enough going on with the piece that the dye is only a part of the overall color, or is heavily dependent on the material of the item being dyed. Also mixing with other items in darker colors to offset it, rather than using the dye on everything.

Playing as a Viera turned me into a glasses connoseur. :p

Yea Dhezmel can be hit or miss depending on party skill development. I've had some horrible groups for Sunken Temple also.

Hate those dungeons with a passion! Especially if I’m running with random people (the dungeons are fine with FC because all of us know the dungeons) and especially if the tank is a DRK that doesn’t know what they’re doing, or a WAR for that matter (they’re the two tanks I really don’t like when I run SGE or WHM) as they too can go down like a lead balloon unless they know what they’re doing. I just see so many people in AV just run right through the piss puddles and so many tanks that just aggro the entire first room (not just once, but sometimes both two or three times) before finally sticking to the sides and working their way through the first area. Absolute nightmare and while I don’t like tanking or DPSing in there, it’s most definitely a healers worst nightmare 95% of the time

@@ReyOfLight i love how it’s always a DRK or WAR 😭😂 worse is if they refuse to eat the fruit or use mitigation. one tank stacked the debuff to SIX and i was running out of mana healing him at the first boss already. the audacity to say “i was lazy to eat the fruit :3” at the end.

@@VampguyN85 oh no, it got worst the last few days. recently i have tanks that just aggro the entire mob wave in sunken temple and wipe the team too. guess they are on a farm run and were impatient so they wanted to get mobs clear asap

@@eclairia404 DRK or WAR are seriously the worst thanks unless the player is very competent at tanking. For me at least, GNB is the easiest to heal, followed by PLD. I also play GNB myself if I tank (do have DRK at 50 as well so not like I haven’t tried it) and I’m really not good at tanking but on GNB, I’ve even tanked the first ShB dungeon and only died once in there because I messed up on one AoE on the first or second boss. I was totally terrified in there but the combination of being GNB along with having a good healer (and my boyfriend on team as well, think on MNK) really saved it.

So much yes! Not to mention so many less competent tanks just running through there as if it’s a regular dungeon and then wondering why the team wipes several times… Like hint: don’t run through puddles and don’t multi pull the first area! Healers have very limited resources in there because of the level cap and tanks are still meh themselves unless VERY skilled at tanking so they’re able to work around the skill issues from the level cap

You must be an ex-WoW player :P

if you play mmorpg it's nothing it's just another boring dungeon. I play mmorpg till my memory remember and Aurum Vale provide nothing. dung 16-50 have only value for players who are new to this genre

Same

i would say Aurum Vale is the first place you can really try how good healer are you as a sprout :D

@@kmeanxneth agreed! (Though I know you werent replying to me lol) First time I ran through I was complimented ;v; and it meant a lot to me at the time since I had to play through terrible lag

Ancient Flare is by far my runs' biggest killer, because half of the party gets greedy and the other half nopes out, so there isn't enough DPS to power through the cast. It's kind of funny, but mostly it's just irritating. I haven't wiped on World of Darkness in quite a while. Though the worst run I've *ever* had in WoD was when we wiped three times...on the first pull. Not boss. Pull.

There's no such thing as a clean inventory. Not in this household. 😭😭

I got in a dungeon tonight and hit level 30 in the dungeon ... and then the healer started yelling at me for not having my job stone on... I was like really? I leveled up in the dungoen, should I have left to go get it?

I loved my female Highlander until I found out everyone thinks Highlander women are ugly LOL I think mine is pretty though, and she has a scholarly vibe I think it's a bit unusual for Highlander. Now my love for her is rebounding especially since I never seen anyone that look quite like her and she might be kinda original, not even in screenshots online.

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But have you cleared Balmung Quicksands (Savage) ?

@@avycatte :(

I ended up playing elezen and have never wanted to swap. I was hesitant to choose it at first exactly because I didn't want to fall into the "perfect and better than humans" stereotype (I didn't realize they were so underplayed when I made my character) but when I was designing characters, I ended up making an elezen I really liked, who looked pretty, but also friendly and down to earth and I just loved her and stuck with her ever since. Everyone mentions the necks, but I didn't notice it before others mentioned it (I've tried to avoid staring at my character's neck since then for fear of ruining it for myself). It's just weird, and also like for 80% of the part of the fanbase that simps over male npcs, they are either either obsessing over a male elezen, or a villain.

The story is one of the best parts about the game, it only gets better and better

The story itself is around 130-200 hours in it’s entirety. No idea how you didn’t get to atleast Stormblood or atleast post Heavensward but it happens I suppose. I do hope you can enjoy the game eventually

@@warrxnt I was about to say, even back when I first started in 2020, I got through all of ARR, including post-ARR and started HW (before the Crystal Tower raid was a requirement) in well under 100 hours. I was even still on my 1st free 30 days of subscription. Took a break because the friend I was playing with stopped playing after the 30 days was up, they didn't want to pay a monthly sub. Just picked it up again this year, and wanted to re-do ARR because it had been nearly 2 years and I needed a refresher on the story so far, so I made an alt and started on my way. Then I had a dumb/awesome idea for another alt so I ran 2 alts through ARR, in its entirety, in less than 100 hours combined. My first alt has even become my main now as I'm well beyond my original character's progress at this point.

you don't "get through the story" to play Endgame. Endgame is a treat you get while you wait for more story.

@@jencendiary yeah, Endgame is just for waiting for more story XD

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