Anyone finished teh most recent main scenario missions?Follow

About how long would you say all 16 quests take?


Also do you get anything cool for finally finishing the story? Im gonna guess no since the patch notes didnt mention any new items that one would assume would come from that (i mean i doubt a delivery postmoogle cap comes from main scenario completion)

heh 3-4 hours? pretty shocking considering the usual patch layout was 1 dungeon 1 trial.. yet no new dungeons were added so that means its now 1 trial plus 3 1/2 hours of "run around and talk to NPCs?"... Also is that tower defense fight the trail you do in teh story? I really hope tahts not all after all with all that buildup I would think everything that wasbrought up in 2.0 would be resolved by the end of 2.55, then 3.0 while existing on teh same timeline right after 2.55 is a sequel but a WHOLE new threat/story (i,e the dravianinas) which means...

Which means by the time 2.55 is done Im hoping those masked guys are dealt with (if not completely at least satisfactorily) and Zodiark is finally seen (and hopefully fought) (no spoilers though :p)

lol thats new since when does the game warn you that something is gonna take awhile lol... but is steps of faith part of the main scenario or is it just a "lets get ready for ishgard" pre heavensward event?

It warns you mainly because it's a rails kind of setup. As in the cutscenes play in a chain without much of your interaction from NPC > NPC, so it does take a fair bit of time and basically doesn't want you to skip it.

Overall it is "Let's get ready for Ishgard", but there's more to it.

Must say I wiped atleast 10 times to steps of fate. It was surprisingly harder than i thought it would be. But like everything else ocne you learn the mechanics its not so bad. Also man... Those final cutscenes! I didnt know so much could happen all at one time! lol! Yoshi-p Spoilerwent game of thrones on this patch's storyline! From you being accused of poisoning the little miss to rabauhn going "This IS SPARTA!" on teliji.. omg his arm was cut off??? Jeez.. Not to mention who knows the fates of the scions. Wont lie almost teared up a little there when minifilia said, "My friends.." before grabing the light from thancred and how there was a shot with just Y'shtola and Thancred looking at her with a face of "I'm telling you I'll make it through but I probably wont." tough stuff. Very enjoyable

Edited, Apr 1st 2015 9:25am by SaitoMishima

^Oh damn LOL

Quality wise..it's about the same, just more happening in it and more setup for the heavensward storyline, so you could honestly skip it if you wanted but it's just a wrap up then the credits then the usual cliffhanger.

It's very, very cliched though (which I'm sure I'll get attacked for saying), but honestly there were very little ways to setup finally opening ishgard and overall good ending to 2.x's storyline like Coils ending was a good wrap up to 1.x's storyline. (Just unlike 2.x's story, you have to willingly get bent over by bahamut for a few hours and never walk again after whereas 2.x you just have to pray people know how to use a cannon.)

I'm surprised some of you think it was predictable. The story so far has been quite lighthearted for the most part, even if some darker themes have been touched, and the plot has had mostly good endings in the favor of the player. The 2.55 was in a stark contrast to this, since the extent of violence we witnessed was unprecedented and the ending had a more depressing, melancholic tone to it. Moreover the last dialogue emphasizes that this should be the trend going Heavensward.

Surely Yoshi-P has been saying that HW will have a darker theme than ARR did, but at least I had no idea what exactly he could've meant by that until I experienced the 2.55 contents. Personally I am excited for a more mature story in the future as shown by the glimpse in 2.55.

I was just in a bad mood when I wrote that, lol. I will definitely check this out, but unfortunately I've been really underwhelmed with 14's story and it's presentation so far, minus a few cool parts here and there.

Just because there will be a fresh start doesn't mean things had to go down the way they did. Nobody had to die, there didn't have to be "meaningless" suffering for some parties involved, and the previous story didn't exactly hint at those particular developments. Quite the opposite, in fact. You can have a coup d'état without killing off political leader(s) and you can have (all of the) supporting characters follow you to the new lands while being exiled all the same (like Alphinaud and Urianger did in this case). More importantly in FFXIV death (or being cut in half or having your limb cut off) is not something that "usually happens", especially to the good guys. The tone is completely different, and no one could be blamed for having thought that at it's worst the story would've come to some kidnapping (Minfilia in 2.0 anyone?) / expulsion at best. After nothing happening to Minfilia and Thancred in vanilla even though the possibility was always there why would anyone automatically assume anything would be different in 2.55? I'm glad it is, but I can't in any way consider it a predictable development. Acting as if there was only ever one way to go about it is just pure nonsense.

Anyway, you're going to downplay any and all plot developments this game is ever going to have so joke's on me for actually giving a serious reply.

Edited, Apr 5th 2015 11:52pm by Hyanmen

Raubahn taking the helm would've been more than expected, considering his position as an equal to the other two city-state leaders (at least in his portrayal in the story). The unrest only made apparent that there is a coup coming, not how it would actually play out. If not Raubahn, what was made apparent is that Teledji was the mastermind and that it wouldn't have been a huge stretch to see him become the leader of the new Ul'dah either. Yet these developments are so god awfully boring and expected I'm not so sure why this self-proclaimed "typical trope" is worse. In fact I would really like to hear where in the story had it been hinted that Teledji would get cut in half and Raubahn would lose his arm in the process of becoming Gutts?

Your issue (in this case, I have no time to make an essay) is that you take the "typical tropes" while completely removing yourself from the context of FFXIV in which these "typical tropes" have been excluded for the most part so far. Thinking what would happen based on how much emotion is invoked is a prime example of this indeed. Basically nothing happened to Minfilia and Thancred in 2.0 even though emotions would have been invoked by something happening, and with nothing happening the whole development was basically a dud. In this context your hindsight-after-the-fact is nonsensical. Regardless of what your typical tropes happen to be the story had not gone there before 2.55, so there was little reason to assume it would have gone there in 2.55 either. In fact the previous developments of either no important good guys dying or good guys dying heroic deaths while bad guys died non-graphical deaths was the precedent SE had set in the story of FFXIV to that point.

So to put it in simpler terms, just because some development is a typical trope doesn't mean it was going to be used in FFXIV since a precedent did not exist even though it could have and these tropes turned the atmosphere of the game to something completely different than before. After only bad guys dying in a very non-graphical and mild manner or in an epic "saving the world" kind of way you suddenly think it's completely normal for a good guy to die in a non-heroic manner, arms to be cut off and lalafells to be cut in half? It's like after the timeskip One Piece started featuring Berserk-style explicit violence and séx. "Oh this is just like in Berserk, how predictable." In the context of One Piece it is not.


Edited, Apr 7th 2015 9:03am by Hyanmen

I can't help you if you don't tell me what is so hard to understand.