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[XIV][7.2 Zone]
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Literally nothing about what's going on in any of the storylines is ok
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Like
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legitimately how the hell did Alexandria survive this long
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Also I remember last week someone telling me Arcadion had a bad story and I'm like
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lol
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lmao
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Arcadion so far has the best raid story of all the raids IMO
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Also I got the dog minion from the dungeon first try
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I've had several people ask me where I got it today lmao
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Anyway one of the lessons I'm getting from the raid story is: we should not allow catpeople to do anything
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It's extremely funny going through the story as a Miqo'te because so much of the story is Miqo'te doing dumb shit
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Anyway I really enjoyed MSQ
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It will probably go unappreciated, but we need to give a lot of credit to Sphene's VA for being able to portray different versions of the same character so well
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Sphene, Endless Sphene, and Simulant Sphene are all such different characters who have to use the same voice
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I'm also very excited at the idea of Sphene fighting???
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From what she says, it sounds like she used a Grimoire and is capable of both attacking and healing magic
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She says she's going to start with healing, but I wouldn't be surprised if in 2 patches we get a Sphene that can flex healer and dps for a dungeon
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anyway I really want to highlight what a good job they did overall with 7.2 story sequences so far
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the scenes in MSQ are terrific
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Great shots and acting from everyone
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Also I appreciate Calyx as a villain like
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little bro tried to do an orbital strike on the WoL
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and yeah it didn't work, but it's like one of the smartest things we've ever seen a villain try to do
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Also the revelation that Endless Sphene was quietly manipulated to go down her doomed path is so depressing
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Wuk Lamat almost crying upon hearing Sphene ask for her help
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She was only there for a short time, but Simulatnt Sphene was great in her mocking cruelty
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We don't know what Calyx is up to specifically but his talk of human evolution is scary
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an ipad kid has been put in control of everything
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also I do have a question for Shale
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since it's said that Shale picked out Sphene's undercover outfit
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did you look at the formerly dead queen and was like "she'd look great in cutoff bootyshorts" or
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Anyway a lot of the fights themselves seem like a step up even from regular Dawntrail difficulty
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I'm still working on understanding the second boss of Underkeep's weird ass tells
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The third boss is mechanically easier, but more punishing because so many of its attacks are two hits which can lead to instant KO at the current gear levels most people have
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Of the Arcadion normal fights, I think M6 is the easiest to understand, but Sugar Riot hits really hard
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her raidwide just does dummy thicc damage for no reason
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M7 is going to be the wall fight for most people
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anyway I'm glad they mentioned in MSQ that memories of the castle were locked away because I noticed that in the Alexandria dungeon
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also we have this extremely odd case
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of a legacy being passed down then being passed back to the original person
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I loaded back into the game and shout chat is discussing the booty shorts
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also I had to redo M7 because I didn't get the drop I wanted and like
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man
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the queues were so long
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no one wants to do this fight
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fortunately when I finally got back in, it was with like 6/8 of an ultimate group so even though they were new we cleared in two pulls
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ok I played the new Borderlands map today and I can say my new goal in life is to run a chaser aoe through an enemy team
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not sure how to feel about the new version of Borderlands but there's variety in the drone phases now also they actually fight back now
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in one of the phases the big drone has an enrage lmao
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jesus christ the Suzaku Unreal DPS check is ridiculous
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it's tight to begin with and her mechanics mean a lot of interrupted uptime just doing them right doing them wrong means you lose even more dps
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I did get my clear/reclear with much suffering which means Recollection EX is next
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god I just reread the description of VPR's Vipersight gauge and it truly is the most useless gauge of all time
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it's literally just an unintuitive way to show which end combo attack will have higher potency, something the ALREADY GLOWING HOTBAR BUTTONS ALREADY DO
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if it didn't have the coil stocks on it, I would just turn it off completely
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heck if you have a good memory you could turn it off since coils maxing out has a sound cue
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It really feels like it's there just to give Viper a gauge before level 82