SPEAKER_00 0:09

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Aorsian Report. My name is Violet, and I'll be one of your two lovely hosts as I sit upon my throne of minions and mounts, telling you all about all the lovelies coming. And I am other friend and hostess.

SPEAKER_03 0:30

I am Hoka. Uh, the Alice and voice of wealth and taste. I may have stolen many a man's and female soul and faith, but you can't prove anything at all. At all.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Ever! Anyway.

SPEAKER_03 0:49

No, never. Anyways.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

Okay, we're gonna be talking about uh the new live letter, live letter 91. Um, this is part one of um the live letter 91 that is going to be coming out right before North American Fan Fest.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

Wait, wait. Um let's let's say it louder to the people in the back. This is part one.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Right, part one. But like if it wasn't mentioned here, it doesn't mean it isn't gonna be mentioned in part two, although part two is going to be more explanation of what's going on. 7.5 is gonna be a big long patch. Like we're we're starting it from the 28th of April, right after North American Fan Fest, and then it is going to be going all the way until October. Um, we're gonna be hitting five point uh 7.56 is gonna be coming in early September. Whoop. And then we're gonna be sitting on 7.56 until 8.0 comes out.

SPEAKER_03 1:53

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

It's getting closer. It just feels like it's gonna happen tomorrow. It's like, oh my god, I'm gonna run around, get all my stuff, and like put it all together.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

Ah like, oh my god, I still have so much to do. Like, ah so much to do, and 8.0 is 8.0 is almost here.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

Ah right. Okay, so speaking of stuff to do, let's talk, let's do a brief like overview of the stuff from 7.4. We got the end of the raid series, right? Our Arcadian is now done, story is done, Savage is out, so good, so good, so much fun. Um, we also just recently got as the end of our 7.4 patch cycle, we got uh Tale of the Merchant Variant Dungeon, Variant and Criterion. Um, I finished all of the variants for the normal. I have not done the advanced or the criterion yet. Looking forward to doing that soon. Um, but it is also excellent. Had a lot of fun with that. Uh I really do wish that they could figure out how to get their um their rewards kind of handled a little bit better because it's been a little awkward as per usual, but I don't think we're ever gonna convince them to not have like the consumable ribbons or whatever drop as your your consolation prize. But let me tell you, I have got a stack of ribbons, and I've only gotten like a couple of minions, and it feels bad, man. It feels bad. Like I I want I want the cool stuff, but alright. It's still fun to do the fights, so I'll I'll keep doing it.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

Uh so yeah, I've only done three paths, maybe four. But each time I go in there, I keep on getting the people wanting to do the the last path, which is like, okay, uh, I I still need to do one through eight, but oh yeah, that's that's fine.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

Yeah, we have unfortunately dubbed the the the hidden path the 13th reason why. Yeah. Because uh of some certain mechanics we won't spoil, but let's just say it is it is a very good time. However, yes, it is it is the special hidden path. Don't focus on that one entirely, go do all the other paths. Once you have hit done all of the end bosses for each one of the the path lines, which there's only like a go straight, go east, or go left, go right. Um, and once you've done those last bosses, that's when the advanced version will unlock. And once you have gone through the advanced and done all three bosses in the advanced, then the criterion will unlock.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

So that's how that unlock cycle works. Um, there is a new uh the it starts out, of course, with the Corvosi pot shirts, which is what you get to be able to buy. What is quite frankly, two of the coolest glam sets because you don't just get one glam set this time, you get two.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

I see I've seen oh uh who was it? I've seen people wear that around, and I'm thinking in my head, I don't need this, I don't need this, I don't need this, but I really need to do this. It's a I need it in Ruby Red, I need this in hot pink. I need this.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

Oh, here's the best part for you, hookah. One of the sets comes in Ruby Red already. Oh my goodness. Don't even have to dye it. Yes, really?

SPEAKER_03 5:41

Oh yes, so save that die.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

Um, because uh we'll be talking about how that's important later. But uh okay, so Merchant's Tale, absolutely fantastic. You get brass coins, I think they are, but that's the next currency that you have. There's another set of of like minions and mounts and things that you can get out of the next set, and then out of then there's gonna be another currency from doing the criterion that allows you to get things there. But there's to be fair, there's not a lot of reason. If the only reason you do stuff is because you're gonna get stuff out of it, there's not a lot of reason to do the criterion version of this uh thing, which does kind of suck. Personally, I just I do it for the fun of the game, yo. So I'm just want to at least do it a few times to just see if I can do it. But um the especially now that you don't have to worry about trying to get through a ton of trash mobs or anything, it's just boss, boss, boss.

SPEAKER_03 6:57

I I think that's the one my favorite thing about uh this being uh uh variant dungeon um this time around. The mobs the the fights in between one boss to another is not that long. Like I really love that a lot. I mean it there's a lot more dialogue into it, uh a lot more um history when you go to different paths and whatnot, which which I really really love. Uh so but yeah, the all the boss fights that I face so far have been some of my favorite fights in in this game so far.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

Um they're so pretty. They're so great.

SPEAKER_03 7:39

Um and some of the mechanics that I will oh I'm sorry, like just some of the mechanics in those fights, it just blows my mind. I'm like, wow, all right.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

Oh yeah. Oh yeah, they're they're a lot of fun to figure out, but they're not they're not too difficult to figure out. It's just once you've done them a few times, then you kind of you get it down, you know what's up, it's not a big deal. But one of the things that I found um truly interesting is that okay, so we're following a pattern here for those people who happen to be lore fiends. I am spoiling nothing. I just want to say that if you like lore, one of the things that we did um in Endwalker with the variant dungeons is the last one that came out, Aloe Aloe Island, happened to mention quite a few things in that particular uh last dungeon that uh pertained to things in Dawn Trail. So if we're following that, this is going to be the the variant dungeon that's coming out. There are a lot of stories in here that happen to pertain to an area that we've not been to yet. But was mentioned. So if you're a lore hound, get on it. Variant Dungeon is gonna be super fun for you.

SPEAKER_03 9:04

I need to get on that.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

Okay, so so that's kind of the recap of that. We of course had the the explosion in glam because we've you know been able to enjoy all the glams, all the places, all the time.

SPEAKER_04 9:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Um we are now have had announced that we are going to get our systems even further upgraded. They mentioned that 8.0 is going to be the customization expansion. I believe it. Like I fully believe it now. I'm on board, I'm a believer. Because the next thing that was announced was that um we are now going to get a separation in like we've had two objects that we deal with for um our our glams, right? We have our glam chest, which is where we create our glam plates and actually put together outfits and everything. Um, and then we have the armoire. The armoire has been very limited to just the level 50 job gear and the items that you get from seasonal events, and now it has expanded to the things that you can get from the MOG station or from the online store. Um, we're getting an even further expansion of the armoire, so now all of the gear that you get from the 7.0 dungeons can, as well as all of the job gear from Dawn Trail, all of the 7.0 actual like armor gear can now be placed in the armoire.

SPEAKER_03 10:43

Yeah, I like that a lot. Like, you have no idea how huge that is.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

They've also announced that they're gonna be taking uh this the the uh artifact gear and the job gear and as well as all of the armor, and they're gonna be working their way back through all of the dungeons and adding that to the armoire system. So we will now have an armoire for our armory, and we will have a glam chest for our glam outfits, and quite frankly, I think that is a perfect solution.

SPEAKER_03 11:22

Yes, I 100% agree with that. That when when they when they mention that, like I think you can you can hear people just screw screaming hallelujah.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

Oh yeah, I'm I'm truly okay, and then along with that, just to okay, so I got some bad news for all the people who have been buying dyes and selling them on the market board to to lazy people who won't go buy them from the dye monger. Um they're doing a massive overhaul of the die system.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

Oh, uh yeah. I I want to thank all the people that bought dye from me uh recently. Uh I have I have retired that for about weeks now. And uh so thank you for your pictures. And uh yeah, uh I I probably won't be selling any more dye in the near future.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Me over here actually having to sell real things because I refuse to.

SPEAKER_03 12:24

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I I I sell real things too. I just so happen to sell some dye on the side.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

So I know I know about your side hustles anyway. So, okay, so the new die system is uh essentially they're gonna take all of the dyes from ARR, which is 85 dyes. That's a lot.

SPEAKER_03 12:46

That is.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

Um, with and they are going to combine them into one die item. So don't get rid of the dyes that you have. If you, like me, have a massive backlog of dyes to make sure that you can dye everything exactly the way you like it. Make sure you keep hold of them because you'll be able to turn them into the calamity salvager who much with the facewear items will will be able to uh convert them into, I think they're calling it die item one, uh A. The A-type die.

SPEAKER_03 13:24

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

And that if is if you apply the A-type die, then it will give you the option to apply one of the 85 different colors. So um that's collapsing a lot of space. I'm regaining a lot of space in my my Chocobo saddlebag for that. Bless you, Yoshi P. I'm very happy.

SPEAKER_03 13:47

I I mean it seems like they're doing a lot of quality life with the dye system, with the glam and armor um system as well, which is like huge, huge for those like you know, that deals with a lot of glam and and whatnot. So it this is gonna be huge for everyone in that type of thing.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

I think so, yeah. Yeah, this is definitely gonna be one of those things where it's gonna be it's gonna feel like a massive quality of life upgrade. And as soon as we get it, we're gonna feel like why haven't we had this the whole time? Because well, they did it.

SPEAKER_01 14:23

You mean like the person you mean like the repair all button that just really that's such a time saver?

SPEAKER_03 14:33

Just hit that button and it will just do it for you. Oh my goodness, where was this the entire time? The repair all button.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

Now I just need a like uh a move everything for the FC chest, like we have for retainers. Once I get that, then I will I'll be ecstatic. But all right, so moving on, there's a little bit more about dies because we're not just talking about their base dyes, quote unquote. We've also got the Ishgordian restoration dies, which are now becoming, I think, like die B. Um, and then for uh C, we're getting all of the things from Cosmo or for Cosmic Exploration. So Cosmic Exploration, we're gonna get all of those neon dyes and all those base dyes that came out. Um the metallic and pastel dies, however, and the jet black and the the pure white, all of those things are going to be kept separate and they will be individual dies.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

Yeah, so I I like that part because it's like there's a lot of people that still buy the dyes for the mug station, so I'm glad they're keeping that separate and not lumping dumb.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

You can just use my name. It's fine. Yes, I buy die, okay?

SPEAKER_03 16:01

Yes, I was not gonna go there. Not gonna go there. Oh, I will.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

Like, I I even encourage birthday presents in the form of die.

SPEAKER_03 16:14

Uh jet black, I'm assuming.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Oh, of course, of course. Occasionally a little pure white, because you never know. But um, anyway, so yeah, that they are keeping it separate enough, and I think that's a good move. And I this isn't the first time that they've done this consolidation move because I don't know how many people are aware. Little little side thing. If you go and you do the glam um quest to unlock your glam chest and to use glamour prisms, back in the day, there used to be glamour prisms for each type of item. So you know how when you repair certain items, they have a certain job that they are associated with for crafting to be able to repair them.

SPEAKER_04 17:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

Well, that used to be the job that you had to have to make a glamour prism to be able to put your items that were repaired that way into your glamour chest.

SPEAKER_03 17:11

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00 17:12

Yeah, so Geek was super specific. Um, and there's still to this day a way to turn in your old like if you have still got the original glamour prisms from way, way back in the day, you can turn them in for generic glamour prisms.

SPEAKER_03 17:31

Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

Yeah, it used to be almost entirely tied to the crafting and gathering system or to the crafting system. So they they split that off and they just came up with the generic glamour prism, which was quite frankly, a much better idea. And I am wholeheartedly in for uh like in favor of that. And I think that the die system will wind up being a much better way. And honestly, the fact that they're they're able to show that they can consolidate it to an item, I think means that we could even potentially see pushing into the future of potentially having more dye channels more easily accessible for people. Because one of the big things that came up with the die channel expansion and having more die channels on items is that's also more opportunity for you to essentially wind up having to spend a lot of gill on um more uh uh expensive die, I guess. Right? So now that we we're kind of moving in a good direction for that. Yeah, so that's just some base quality of life stuff. Real quick to touch on the stuff that we don't talk about, which is the MSQ. There is gonna be new MSQ in 7.5. 7.5, by the way, to remind people, is coming out after North American Fan Fest. It is coming out on the 28th of April, so end of April.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

Yeah, so when most people are flying home from from Fan Fest or whatnot.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

So because so the first thing you're gonna come home to is having to update your game.

SPEAKER_03 19:23

Pretty much because my flight is all over the place, uh and whatnot. So yeah, it's that that yeah, there's I'm I'm hoping to to to pull some strings and whatnot when I'm when the time comes, but I'm just really excited for fanfest.

SPEAKER_00 19:40

I I can I know the the the HJP excitement for FanFest is palpable. Everybody's like got their their like accommodations all handled and people have gotten their flights and like everybody's like just chomping at the bit. It's like hold on.

SPEAKER_03 19:59

Uh five weeks now. Uh five weeks, okay. Uh so yeah, speaking of that, like flights and stuff, like just seeing the the time frame of people buying their flights and everything is like uh yeah, uh don't don't expect to tell me how expensive they are when we're about almost a month out to it.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

Yeah, yeah. This is this is literally we're hitting like last minute. Y'all should have already had your stuff, y'all should all be ready to go. Like, you know, I am going to be watching from the comfort of my home because streaming is a thing and I am I am all about it. Yay!

SPEAKER_01 20:43

Yay.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

All right.

SPEAKER_03 20:46

Hopefully, you hopefully hopefully you'll be able to see some of us on camera, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Oh, that would be so fun. That would be so fun. All right, so the new uh the they we didn't get to see a trailer because that's coming in part two. Yeah, so trail to the heavens, and I'm gonna be honest with you. Yoshi P had like a little banter bit here that was hilarious. It's like trail to the heavens, is everyone gonna die? And I was just like, huh, ha ha ha ha ha no.

SPEAKER_03 21:17

It's like, uh while you tease that now, uh, why would you even joke about that at all? We already have some people already died and come back, and then somebody's like, uh you better not make this into a science.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

However, the the new JP tri title, just to to give a little bit more explanation of where they're going, does translate into the path going beyond or the path to the uh going the distance. So that sounds a little less ominous.

SPEAKER_04 21:53

I know, right? Oh, geez.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

Why does everything in English have to sound so ominous?

SPEAKER_03 22:01

You tell me.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

I don't know. English just be that language, I guess. All right. So part one, uh, 7.5 is gonna be scheduled for April 28th. Uh part two um is uh of the MSQ is scheduled for early September. So when we start getting into our last patch, um the patch schedule, which they did show in the live letter, I'm gonna mention it now, um, is going to be 424-425 is the fan fest. And then right after that, three days later, we get uh 428 patch 7.5. Thus begins the great roller coaster to the end. Um starting in early June, we're gonna hit patch 7.51. Um, and then 7.55 is coming late July. So pretty rapid fire, actually.

SPEAKER_04 23:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Um and that's gonna be right after the EU fan fest, which is July 25th, 26th. Uh, we're then going to get uh we're gonna have the rest of the summer into early fall, early September. We get patch 7.56, and then that's the last patch before 8.0.

SPEAKER_04 23:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Japan fan fest isn't until October 31st through November 1st. So we're gonna have a Halloween fan fest. Hopefully that means lots of cosplay. I am so excited about Japan cosplay. I I love it every year. It's my favorite cosplay event. So that's how we've got the schedule coming out. Most of that is just showing the main scenario. Uh, we don't get into those storylines. We are going to get a capstone quest for allied societies for Dawn Trail. So if you have not done your Dawn Trail Allied Societies and you want to do that on content, you might want to get on it.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

I am working on two of them. Oh, wait, hold on. Two of them are at max. I'm working on the third one, which is the we've talked about this, like off podcast, the the the quote unquote boring one.

SPEAKER_00 24:29

Well, okay. So I've completed all of them. Um, but I will say that this is content that will sit in the game long term. You don't have really feet have to feel like you do it on content or anything like that. Um, I like to do it on content because it's fun to not be spoiled because there's usually like a cute little story ending. Um, so if that's something you care about, you might want to get on that.

SPEAKER_03 24:56

Oh, yeah, most definitely.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

All right.

SPEAKER_03 24:59

So then yeah, I I just need to buckle down and be like, all right, let me just do this for the day and then get it done and over with.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

And then we have the finale of the inconceivably further Hildebrand Adventures.

SPEAKER_03 25:14

Yay! The real MSQ.

SPEAKER_00 25:17

The true MSQ. I have been enjoying this Hildebrand so much. It is so fun.

SPEAKER_03 25:24

It's so good.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

This last bit that came out, mmm, Chefskis. All right, we're not gonna go any further into that. So then we're going to get uh new custom deliveries from TSO Ya. Um, and that's gonna be in I They haven't got any details on it, but it is um uh Mamulja custom deliveries. So we'll we'll see how that plays out when it comes out.

SPEAKER_03 25:52

So are we just gonna so we're just gonna be like delivering tacos and whatnot? Or what's the deal?

SPEAKER_00 25:58

You know what? I if I I don't know. But but if but if Lady would like tacos, I I'm down for tacos.

SPEAKER_03 26:07

Um we're just gonna run for the border and get some tacos or something, or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

We'll find out. All right, so now we're gonna get our duty support updates. Um, what's to come in 7.5? We've got Dusk Vigil and She Suite of the Violet Tides are both getting duty support. So the the of course we get the the dreaded reduced mechanical difficulty with duty support because they had to. They had to.

SPEAKER_03 26:46

Oh, I'm sorry, was that loud?

SPEAKER_00 26:50

So we want solo players to be able to enjoy the content, but we're being careful not to take away too much from mechanics and gimmicks, says Yoshi P. Um you know what? I'll be the judge of that, Yoshi P. Uh so far, I have not been an enjoyer of a lot of the mechanical difficulty changes. I don't, I don't hate it, but it's been it's one of those things where even though these are some of not these two, well, Dust Vigil, yes, but She Sweet of Violet Tides, I really like that dungeon. It's that dungeon's really good. It's really good. And I'm kind of scared because there are some others that even though I would have listed them as definitely one of what my most annoying, like every single time I get into Xamiel Darkhold, it's not necessarily me like, yay, it's Xamiel. It's very much a oh god, Xamiel.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

I know, right?

SPEAKER_00 27:48

And Orum Vale, same. Like, oh god. Like I have entered Orum Vale fully with everyone in the chat like, oh no.

SPEAKER_03 28:01

What was that one that we what was that one that one dungeon we ran uh that we ran in together? And we were like, this changed a lot.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

That was Xamiel. Okay, that was Amy, okay. Xamiel Darkhold, um they made significant changes to it, which I kind of understand. It was kind of a carryover from 1.0 a little bit, so it had some very funky, funky mechanics. They didn't remove everything, and they didn't remove every pain point, which was kind of nice, but at the same time, like that first boss was significantly changed. And oh yeah, I'm I kind of hated having nostalgia for the annoying boss, you know. I do too, because like they were fun fights, especially during that time, and then you're gonna completely rework it to a well you you learn the weird mechanics, and then you wind up feeling kind of proud of yourself that you found out how to like deal with the weird mechanics, you know? Exactly, and then they take the weird mechanics away, and you're just like, oh, where where did they go? I know where did where did my weird mechanics go?

SPEAKER_01 29:18

They disappeared.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

They took it away from us, they took it away, but yeah, so um we'll see what kind of change we will see what kind of changes that turns into. Um I have I have a theory. I have theory. We'll go over it a little bit, but uh, I have a theory about these changes to dungeons.

SPEAKER_03 29:38

Is it a game theory?

SPEAKER_00 29:40

It might be a game theory. Hey! Anyway, all right. So uh we are also getting some PvP updates. Uh PvP series 11 is going to begin, so that means that um we're going to need to get on that PvP if you have not finished your PvP series. So I am behind. I have been I have been slacking.

SPEAKER_02 30:04

I got my mount. I'm happy. Yay! I got my mount.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Yep. All right, so we're also gonna get some PvP action adjustments. We're gonna get a new Crystalline Conflict Arena. This thing looks cool.

SPEAKER_04 30:18

It does.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

I'm gonna be for real with you, because it is very Google library coded. I am very into it.

SPEAKER_03 30:28

Is this the first one that's like f indoors?

SPEAKER_00 30:32

It well, it's not the first one that's fully indoors because we did have the one that was um the uh I can't remember the name of the Clockwork Town, I think it is.

SPEAKER_03 30:42

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:44

Yeah. Um, but this one is very like it's so very pretty. It looks very much like the Google Library. I'm so into it. Um there's gonna be, you know, specific line of sight cuts. I they that looks really fun to fight through. I love Crystalline Conflict. It's actually one of my like guilty pleasures in this game. I love that you can take people with you now into casual, and I I want so badly to like take people with me and go do it. So fun. Um, we've got the new dungeon that's gonna be coming out um for MSQ. So we've got at least one new dungeon. Uh the pronunciation of this dungeon has been apparently a point of contestion on the internet.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Um you know what? I'm not gonna go there, and I'm not gonna do no.

SPEAKER_00 31:43

I no let's just say there might be some male gamers that will have a little difficulty finding it, but it's okay. We'll help them out.

SPEAKER_04 31:51

Um boy.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

Um I'm you know what? No. No, I no.

SPEAKER_04 32:04

Um anyways.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

The clitium, apparently. For anybody who's wondering.

SPEAKER_03 32:14

Is that how you pronounce it? It's heard so many.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

It's supposed to be uh Latin adjacent, so clitium um would be the uh the pronunciation that I would go with. Yeah. Having my two semesters of Latin somewhere in my far-flung past.

SPEAKER_03 32:32

Uh I've heard so many different pronunciations of it. I'm like, wow, we're just gonna yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

Yep, yep. It is a 17 and up game, y'all. But I do. And then of course we have our go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 32:51

Oh, I do like the setting of this. I'm not gonna spoil anything, but uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm looking forward to the setting and how how this dungeon is gonna play out.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

So yeah, it is it is very much that we are uh well, we're going back to Garlimald, y'all. Uh so I hope you get your snoo boat snow boots on for that one. Um, all right, so now we're gonna get into the last 24 man for Dawn Trail. I don't know how many people have been getting into it. I did not play 11. So this is not a nostalgia point for me, but I know a lot of people who did play 11 who are big into the nostalgia trip that they have been on with the 24mans, and they have all been very happy with it. And uh for anybody who has played the uh I mean, it who might be perhaps a black mage enjoyer. This might be perhaps the one that you want to definitely work towards because it looks like it's gonna be a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_03 33:53

Yes, exactly. Um I didn't play 11. I know friends that played 11, and I've watched them play 11. Um, I have gone and um read or not read watched videos of the story of 11. And one particular character character from 11 has appeared in Final Fantasy Fantasy Wow, I can talk today. In Final Fantasy Decidia. Uh so you know that's where I know one particular character came from uh from 11. So I'm looking forward to it. I've been I've been happy with with the raid series. Granted, I've never really played 11, but I've been loving the fights and just the mechanics are so fun.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

Yes, the fights are are just they are still to this day, even in the first one, even though we get enough DPS that we can skip a lot of mechanics, it's still difficult. It still actually has some challenge to it, which is nice. Um, the of course the third one's gonna be called Echoes of Vanadil Part Three. Windhurst the Third Walk. I don't know if that means anything to you. It doesn't mean anything to me, it just means a good time because I'm gonna go and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna enjoy it.

SPEAKER_03 35:10

So same here.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

Yeah. Then we're gonna get another trial. Um, Inuo. Again, this is apparently a monster that people are familiar with. I don't know. So I get to be surprised and and just enjoy.

SPEAKER_03 35:26

So this trial, the um this particular boss is from Final Fantasy V. Now, have I played have I have I ever played and beaten five? No, because uh during that time five wasn't really available to play, and I know since then it's been available to play, and I've not reached out to it and and and um purchased to play it, but I know this particular one is from five because I've had a buddy of mine who has played five show me this fight, and I'm like I'm sitting looking at it, I'm like, are you kidding me with this right now?

SPEAKER_00 36:04

Right? Okay, alright. So that gives me a lot of hope. I'm I'm really interested in that. Doom Train, which was the last uh uh Patches um trial that came out. I had a blast with that. So um I am I am very much looking forward to that. Okay, so now the Unreal trial for people who are interested in doing the unreals, um, is uh we're moving on from Sukiyomi's pain to Shinryu's domain.

SPEAKER_03 36:35

I do they hate us or something?

SPEAKER_00 36:40

This trial has in in its like normal and extreme mode has an absolute like love, you either love it or you hate it. And there are a lot of people who hate it who still love it, so it's because it is wild, it has a lot of crazy mechanics, it is uh it's actually an MSQ trial, and the extreme version is used to as a trial run for a lot of ultimate raiders. So that one's gonna be fun. That one's gonna be fun. There has been a lot of speculation on the DPS check and whether or not people are gonna be able to meet it that easily. And seeing as how every single Unreal is synced down to the eye level of the base expansion, it's gonna be tough, y'all. It's gonna be tough.

SPEAKER_03 37:30

Fun times indeed.

SPEAKER_00 37:32

Oh, yeah. And then, of course, we got the um there's an ultimate. There is going to be an ultimate. So if you were you were sitting here waiting, like on you know, your fingernails all gripped and waiting for the the ult. There's gonna be one. We know nothing about it, other than there will be one. It is probably gonna be announced at North American Fan Fest. Let it be near. Please let it be near. For the love of God, please let it be near. We then we're gonna wait another 40 days and we'll find out. We'll we'll that's a that's a for April announcement, apparently. So y'all hear hear that one directly from Yoshi P on the floor. Hey! Yay! Okay, so then we're gonna get some the final upgrade to the Phantom Weapons. So, and I'm gonna be for real with you. These look gorgeous. We only got two examples. We got Dancer and we got Viper, and I'm hoping that we get like a full like showcase out of part two of this live letter because those fans look sick.

SPEAKER_04 38:46

I love it.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

I am so hype for those dancer weapons. I mean, they are gorgeous.

SPEAKER_03 38:54

I want I want both the dancer and the Viper one today showcase. And but yes, so good.

SPEAKER_00 38:59

And yet here I am still trying to collect toes.

SPEAKER_02 39:04

Oh my god. Are you still in the candy pizzas level?

SPEAKER_03 39:08

Yes, I'm still collecting candy. I'm I'm still collecting candy, trying to, anyways.

SPEAKER_00 39:13

I'm still a friend who's also still in that stage. So it's like the demi atma was one of those things that's like, I understand why you did it, but oh lord, um it's uh it has been a sticking point for a lot of people. Okay, and so now we're gonna move on to uh Occult Crescent. Occult Crescent has been one of those things where for me, I and I hate to say this because I love this game, but this has actually been a kind of a big disappointment for me. Occult Crescent was really fun at first, the first few weeks that it was in there, and there was a lot of people committed to it. And then as soon as we kind of like had people crack open the uh the tower, Fort Tower, which is the big dungeon type setup there. Uh, let's see, not having duels was kind of a disappointment because that was a really big fun point from Bajia, uh the previous uh exploratory area. The fact that there's a apparently only looks like there's gonna be what two or three? Something like that. Something like that. Uh we're uh 7.5 is gonna see the north horn of the occult crescent. Story-wise, this has been a very interesting area, story-wise. But mechanically, it has been kind of a letdown, and that is disappointing to me. Now, I am very interested from a story perspective, which I'm not gonna go into, about the architecture that they showed in the screenshots from the um, let's just say that architecture looks extremely similar to some architecture that you'll find in the merchant's tale. Yeah, which is also very similar to some architecture that shows up in some other places. So, lore hounds, be aware. You might want to find yourself wandering back into a cult crescent to pick you up some more lore, especially for 8.0 drops. Yeah, it's like you can't make me. We are gonna get new monsters, we're gonna get new fates, new critical encounters. It's just a whole new area with new stuff. And then they did make some changes to the way that the new forked tower is gonna work. Is the forked tower of magic is going to have a normal mode and it's gonna have an extreme mode. And the only thing that they haven't really made a lot of positive change to is uh you you don't need 48 players to go in. You can't, it's a maximum of 48 players. So you can go into normal with a smaller amount of players and still be able to clear the content. However, if you want to do the extreme difficulty, you do still need to do um uh 12 or more players in three or more parties. So it's gonna be slightly more accessible. I mean, they they made some changes to it, but it's still a you have and you're not gonna need any items to get in, which is gonna be the big thing that's gonna be the huge improvement. You just have to be at the right place at the right time, which I don't know if that's much better, but it's better at least. Our server? Yeah. Fortunately, this is content where you can go to other servers and you can do it. You don't have to be on your home server to do it.

SPEAKER_03 42:54

No, I know, no, I know.

SPEAKER_00 42:55

Um, yeah, so that's helpful. Um, okay, now we're gonna talk about the the class in the corner, the thing that everybody has been going on and on and on and on and on about since it was mentioned however long ago it was mentioned. New limited job a Beastmaster.

SPEAKER_01 43:18

Yay.

SPEAKER_00 43:20

Okay, so Beastmaster is coming in 7.5. I'm gonna be for real with you. I don't know if this would be content that I'm excited for, but I can certainly understand who is going to be excited for this. For instance, my wife, all over this. Me, anybody who you you all over this. So Beastmaster is extremely monster hunter coded. So if Monster Hunter is a game that you enjoy, this is going to be a job that you're gonna you're gonna feel the crossover vibes. You're gonna feel it.

SPEAKER_03 43:56

Nice. I yeah, I cannot wait. Because as much as I like Blue Mage and try to collect the spells and everything, at a certain point I'm just like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 44:08

Yeah. Yeah. Like, I'll love the collection aspect of it. Being able to go around and get all of the different monsters and be able to like, you know, collect them and then maybe even like try to grow them a little bit. But as much uh I'm I am a occasional Pokemon type of enjoyer. I am not I am not someone who's just like I gotta go catch them all ever. That has never been my vibe. So um but the the the base for it is that as uh Blue Beige is ranged DPS, base Beastmaster is melee DPS. The uh your weapon is a one-handed axe. Um starting level is going to be one, and then it's going to go to level 50. Um the job quests will be available upon the release, so you can immediately go and grab them.

SPEAKER_03 45:06

As long as you have Dawn Trail.

SPEAKER_00 45:09

Right. You do have to have Dawn Trail registered to your account, and you have to have completed the 2.0 main scenario quest. So you have to have completed ARR and you have to own Dawn Trail. Yes. You'll also have to have a Disciple of War or Magic level 50 or above to go and pick it up.

SPEAKER_03 45:30

Well, it's a good thing we have that all covered.

SPEAKER_00 45:32

Right? All right. So, um, and I've proven that uh you can in fact at least get through ARR in about six weeks maximum, if you absolutely need to. So uh in honestly, I've been I've been going back through uh playing an another my alt character. I don't play alt, but I've decided to to try and do one to stave off some of the uh the burnout of playing Violet and uh my my bunny character. And I've I created a Lalafell. He's a lot of fun, and just being able to go back and limit yourself to the things that you just want to do and not having to feel like you have to do everything is actually a huge burnout stave off. Like it it will absolutely help you immensely. I've seen that that basically narrowing your your field of of view will actually help a lot rather than feeling like you're overwhelmed with everything.

SPEAKER_03 46:34

Um so I also I also been playing my alt, which is also a lala file, and I I DM you the other day saying going through MSQ as a lala is funny as hell.

SPEAKER_00 46:47

It really is. Like you can't even see over the desk half the time, it's hilarious. Um, but the the thing that I have noticed though is that ARR is actually not that bad, it feels like any other like adventure story, and you're fine. It's when you get to the post patches that it I just it's annoying as hell. Um that's where it started to get to the point for me where I was just like, I don't know. Yeah, it was better.

SPEAKER_03 47:17

Yeah, ARR post was a struggle to get through.

SPEAKER_00 47:22

Yeah, for real, for real. All right, so the what the way that it's gonna work is you're gonna go out into the the world and it's mostly overworld based. You're gonna capture beasts, they're gonna you you have to weaken them. So of course you fight them, weaken them to a certain point, and then you can add them in to your bestiary, um, at which point when you are, and this is where I uh, you know, I'm really interested in it, is that it's you can capture different beasts, you can then choose one to kind of walk around in the world with, which is kind of cool. Um you your bestiary is of course just like your blue mage spell book, it's the thing you want to, you know, fill up. There's um a way for you to go through and you know uh show them off. You can also they have designed it so you can capture all of these mobs solo, so you don't actually have to have a bunch of people. This is mostly designed as solo content, which is for me kind of where I tap out. I really am much more engaged in the um group content in Final Fantasy XIV. Uh solo content's nice. I don't mind it, obviously. I mean, I've gotten my Blue Mage up to you know pretty significant point, and I've done a lot of stuff in this game solo, but uh I have recently uh explored the the joy of friends and playing game together. So that's kind of where I'm always looking, is wanting to see how I can play with other people. But if you are a solo content enjoyer, Beastmaster is going to be a lot of fun for you.

SPEAKER_03 49:11

Oh, I I'm gonna spend a lot of time uh in Beastmasters just so uh I'm gonna enjoy it, learn more about it, and see like like you, trying to see if I can do this in a group and whatnot. Um I I feel like there's gotta be a way. You can't just like say that this class is solely gonna be a solo type class, but without any interaction with anyone else. That's just there there's gotta be some interaction in some shape or form.

SPEAKER_00 49:47

Well, we'll find out, but I have I have uh okay, so here's where I'm gonna put my cons my tinfoil hat on, conspiracy theorist full blown. Here we go. So one of the things that they talk about this being unique to Beastmaster is that you can go back and do um, there's a completely new battle system that has been developed specifically for Beastmaster. Now, I'm not certain if this is in fact like from the dungeon, but my assumption would be that you can have because it says you can have up to three beasts that can accompany you at a time using their abilities and actions to fight alongside you. That what if one of the reasons why we have been seeing all of these older dungeons, specifically the ones between one and 50, being modified for being able to be done with duty support is not just for people who don't want to fight through queues, but also to make it viable for the Beastmaster system. So you've got your three NPC beasts that get to travel along with you to go through these different dungeons.

SPEAKER_03 51:05

See, now that makes a lot more sense than what they've been meeting up on. Yeah, so I I like that a lot. Uh, if they are modifying a lot of the older dungeons for Beastmaster, then I'm all for that.

SPEAKER_00 51:23

Um now they've also got unique content that has been developed specifically for Beastmaster. So there's basically a gauntlet, and that's how you you take your beast through what's being called the crucible of the unbroken, which is the most monster hunter thing I've ever heard. Um uh and you overcome its challenges together. So that's how you're gonna be able to grow and expand your your beast's abilities. There's gonna be apparently lots of rewards because, of course, like even for Blue Mage, we have things like triple triad cards and we have glam items and we have all of those things that are available. So uh we're gonna get a replay of that. Um, for those who are fans of the fight content in Final Fantasy XIV, uh, the person who is responsible for most of that is Mr. Ozma. And apparently he has been in charge of and has put most of the time into developing Beastmaster and all of its mechanics and mechanical interactions.

SPEAKER_03 52:35

That's gonna be fun. Uh it's gonna be fun to learn. Ooh, especially coming from Master Hunter and then bringing some of that experience over to Final Fantasy XIV. Ooh, that's gonna be really interesting to find find out.

SPEAKER_00 52:50

It is one of those things where it's like, I will admit, like, I'm on the fence about it. Like, I don't want to get too hype or unhype about it because I'm like, this could be fun. Or it could wind up being another like collection slog, kind of like Blue Mage was for me in the very beginning. I didn't actually enjoy it all that much for the first year that I had uh Blue Mage unlocked, and it wasn't until I discovered how to integrate Blue Mage into group content um that the solo content bit wound up being something that I wanted to tackle. Um the the thing is that for all of the uh Blue Mage enjoyers out of there, by the way, as an aside, apparently um we got our updates pushed back.

SPEAKER_01 53:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:39

Yeah, because they spent so much time on Beastmaster. So yeah, there's been a little bit of a crash out in the Blue Mage community. They're just like, what? No. Whoopsie! But there, but there will be, there will be, there will be an upgrade, uh, update, and we will get to see new spells and new stuff. I don't know how extensive it's gonna be. I'm not holding out a lot of hope for it, but um it's okay. Honestly, Blue Mage is is one of those things where it's like, I want to do more with it, but it there's such a there's such like a high barrier to entry for a lot of people to be able to kind of like leap off that edge. And it's the guides are all over the place because quite frankly, it is chaos incarnate. You can literally, you just build your own way that you feel comfortable playing the job. Um, and that can feel very overwhelming to a lot of people. Beastmaster feels like it's going to be um again another very dedicated single-player solar solo content for the most part, and then it's eventually going to like maybe expand into maybe we'll see Beastmaster raids or something like that. That might be fun.

SPEAKER_03 54:55

Or have like raids where you can bring either your Beastmaster and Blue Mage.

SPEAKER_00 55:00

That that I will be honest with you, that sounds exciting to me. Um, but yeah, the the they admitted fully that they prioritized Beastmaster to be able to complete it so it could come out on 7.5. So if you are a Blue Mage enjoyer and you were desperately hoping for your updates and you don't care very much about Beastmaster, I'm very sorry you got minorly hosed on this one. You get nothing. You lose. Or at least for another six weeks. Yeah. We'll be okay. We will survive. Um, we do have a lot of content. Uh let's see. So there's also uh moving on from Beastmaster, because at this point we don't really know a whole lot. Uh, I did get to see the translation of what the Beastie looks like, and it is very cool because it looks like there's gonna be like a base ability that your your monster has, and then it's gonna have abilities that it can grow into and abilities that it can get for other things. I don't know how it's going to work together. Obviously, they haven't given us any details on that, but it looks like it's going to be a fascinating system. And as far as like at least the going out and hunting down mobs and being able to collect animals, I'm down for that. That sounds like fun.

SPEAKER_03 56:25

Oh, it does. Um, because I okay, I know we were Final Fantasy Podcasts, but we also came from playing World of Warcraft as well. And as playing as a as a hunter in World of Warcraft, one of the things that you can do there is the ability to tame wild creatures out in the wild. And if this is anything similar to this, it's not gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 56:50

It's it's the the only thing that's gonna be similar is probably going to be the capturing animals, but otherwise it's gonna be very different.

SPEAKER_03 56:57

Oh, I know. I but but but if it has that same feeling of just going out in the wild, I'm like, okay, I want this particular beast in my uh in on my team. I'm gonna go out and you know, quote unquote hunt for it and then and capture it. That that part really excites me because it's like I remember my team that I had, I had I had a gorilla at all time, a raptor, and a wolf at at all time.

SPEAKER_00 57:26

I was a cat bear. I liked cats and I like the bears, and then I had like a couple of specialty things that you could only get if you grab them from quests.

SPEAKER_04 57:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 57:37

Um, I think there were like the winged serpents or something like that. Those were fun. Um, I never I never played a hunter to max level, so I I'm I may not be the person to judge from all this, but it does look like I like I have some interest. It's there the interest meter is is not at zero, it's at like four or five right now.

SPEAKER_03 57:58

I mean, okay, understandable.

SPEAKER_00 58:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 58:01

Mine is uh at a nine.

SPEAKER_00 58:04

Yeah, I kind of figured yours would be a lot harder. My wife, my wife was just like, oh beast master. Um, I was talking with a friend earlier who's MIFC, who uh his response was uh I like that. And then I would explain another part of it, and he's like, I don't know if I like that. And so it's like it's it's going kind of up and down. We'll see, we'll see how it plays out.

SPEAKER_03 58:25

Yeah, I'm really interested to learn more. Um hopefully at FanFest. But uh yeah, just I'm really excited. I'm so well.

SPEAKER_00 58:35

Hopefully, we'll learn before FanFest because that's when part two of this is gonna come up.

SPEAKER_03 58:40

True.

SPEAKER_00 58:41

So, ocean fishing update. We did we are actually getting an ocean fishing update for all those fishing fans out there. Um, we're going to get a new route, Favnair. I hope it winds up being more popular than the Ruby route because um the Ruby route has been dissed entirely since it came out. So we'll we'll see how that goes.

SPEAKER_03 59:08

It's not it's not so bad.

SPEAKER_00 59:12

I like it, okay? I like the Ruby route. I know it's shrimp heavy, but I like it. Um, I'm really looking forward to Thavnir. The the pictures that they put up of it, it looks very pretty. I like the backgrounds and everything, and I've always liked the Thavnarian area. I think it was very well done.

SPEAKER_03 59:35

So in one of the one of the screenshots on on there, right? Does that look like our uh island sanctuary? Sort of kinda, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 59:45

Doesn't it look a little bit like an island sanctuary? Oh my god. If they're gonna have ocean fishing outside of my island sanctuary and they're not gonna let me fish there, I'm gonna be so mad.

SPEAKER_03 59:56

I same, same, but like when I first saw the picture, I was like, why does that look like my island?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:03

Right? Why are you going to my island? I didn't give you permission. Um you trespassing.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:11

You trespassing at the thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:16

All right, so now we're gonna see uh cosmic exploration. We're going to the star uh Oesia, I think is what they they called it. Oesia. Um and it all it's not a barren planet, it's actually a lush green paradise. So looking forward to that. That one's gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:41

It it does. Um, I've spent so less time in cosmic exploration at this point. Yeah. I do need to go back.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:53

I do I keep going back every now and then, but like it's it's one of those things where again, uh the group content kind of has, and it and technically it's mostly solo content, so group content's kind of got me by the throat right now, and I'm having a hard time kind of pulling away. Uh, not a bad thing though. Very much enjoying hanging with my homies in uh Final Fantasy XIV. It's a good time.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:20

Always a good time.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:21

Um the speaking of more multiplayer content, apparently the gold saucer's getting an update, and they're working on more multiplayer content for the gold saucer.

unknown 1:01:34

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:36

Yeah, we can go gambling together. Let's go gambling! Yay! It's not like we don't need to wear it. So, yeah, that it's apparently gonna come in 7.5x. We don't know which one yet. And uh, but there's a reason why that they're waiting to announce details. They don't, they're sorry to keep us waiting, but they did want to let us know that that we will start seeing more multiplayer content in the gold saucer. And I find that quite exciting. And then, okay, now we're gonna have the thing everybody's been waiting for housing. Drum roll, please. Okay, we finally got our updates, and this is what we're gonna get. Small indoor furnishings is gonna go from 200 items to 300 items. Outdoor furnishings is gonna go from 20 to 40. So we are doubling our outside items for each level or each size of plot. So outdoor furnishings for small, 20 to 40. Outdoor furnishings for medium go from 30 to 60. Large is gonna go from 40 to 80, and of course, we're gonna get the same amount of expansion to the storage, so lots more space, even more than they were talking about. I am excite. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:11

I am too, but the one thing I'm I'm hoping that they announce in at FanFest is let me float items in my house.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:22

They are talking about doing an a UI UI upgrade. We are talking, they have mentioned that there will be an a UI upgrade. They want to update the housing UI. However, um, they don't have any details on that yet. So we're really just getting like the the more details at a later day sort of business with this, which I'm like, all right, well, don't break the game, but like floating items sucks. Um okay, so small is gonna go from 200 to 300, medium's gonna go from 300 to 450 for indoor placement. Large for those people out there lucky enough to have one of the what 50 larges on a data center, um, get uh go from 400 to 600. Private chambers and apartments are both gonna see upgrades of 50 items. So it's gonna go from 100 to 150. Um that's that's good because right now uh both of my apartment and my my private room are both just storage rooms. Um so and yes, I have both. Shut up. Um the the other thing they talked about that is gonna be cool is that uh they managed finally to get the interior change working that he'd been talking about to make your small house have a large interior. But that will be the next update. Yeah, not this time. So, so it's gonna happen. They got it to work, y'all. We're gonna we're gonna be able to take our little tiny houses that we're finally able to buy through the lottery, and we're gonna be able to turn them into the TARDIS of our dreams. So they also gave us not just the white room, which I mean, okay, for real, that all white interior. Was that the only one that was getting some sort of weird flashbacks?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:31

No, you're not the only one in the white room. You walk in and you're like, uh, am I in the matrix?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:37

I need to go. I need to go right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:40

I don't remember taking the red or blue pill. What is this?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:43

Right? Okay, so we're gonna get a dark version of it. So now you can choose to either be in the all white and birch room, or you can be in a dark room with darker wood, which is nice. Um so So that's and and that pretty much ends a lot of it. We've already talked about the consolidated dies. We've already talked about a lot of that. And so um, yeah, basically that's the entirety of the live letter. Yes. I think that then it's huge. We'll we'll see how it comes down. We've still got a few things to talk about. Blue Mage. Um, we've still got Ultimate. Uh we've still got a few other things to kind of like come down the path. We haven't seen any game footage yet. It's all screenshots, it's all it's all, you know, other stuff. There has also been kind of a side announcement about being able to potentially turn your warrior of light into a figure. Yoshi Phi was actually playing with a couple of figures that they had had made at the beginning of the live letter. Um I'm gonna be I'm gonna be for real with you. I especially with dealing with shipping stuff back and forth between Japan and so on and so forth, I think I'd probably rather go to somebody off of Etsy in America and maybe we'll see. Um I don't want to talk about it in detail, but uh I think maybe that might be the move. However, they do also have brand new t-shirts. The t-shirts are cool looking. So if y'all want to get your your t-shirts before fan fest, I'd put it in order now. Or just save it and buy it as merch at fan fest, you know, because all y'all go into fan fest.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:35

That that might be the play for me at this point.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:38

Uh but no, like make sure you're just like saving all those little pennies in a big pile, take your giant pile to another.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:45

That's that's what I'm trying to do right now. Anyways, so like the the whole figure thing, I'm hoping they give us a reasonable price point. And I'll and I'll be honest with you, like some of the statues that they released in the past, uh, figure-wise and whatnot. Don't hate me for saying this, because I'm just gonna, you know, I'm just speaking from from the heart and and whatnot. They have not been good. Yeah. Like the like the the the only good ones that I've seen so far are like the really expensive one, which which are the twins.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:20

The Meister quality or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:22

Yeah, like the twins, those are really good, but like, but when we were talking about like some of the features that came of figures that came off in uh Edwalker, they the quality-wise did not look good to me.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:38

So well, I heard the the from what I saw from like Mioni and like a few other people who've done like YouTube fly around like videos of their their Meister quality stuff, um the Heidelin and Zodiarc looked pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:58

Um the but yeah, do you have to buy the $350 quality to or $500 or $600 quality for it to actually look good? The rest of them are kind of meh. Yeah. And personally, I don't have the budget for that. So I will stick with plushies. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:23

Cause I think at one point, I I think at one point, I think World of World Warcraft also tried that as well. Uh, if I remember correctly.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:32

Yes, they did. Um the the all MMOs at some point hit that merch point where they're either creating uh keyboards, controllers, uh, all of that stuff, but also like plushies. I look, I I have I have a Murgle. I have a Murgle. What? Um I had to I had to traumatize my kids somehow. Anyway, uh and then uh but no, I've been more of a plushie person. I I do have my my fair share of plushies from Final Fantasy XIV, but I don't know when's gonna be the next time I'm gonna I'm gonna really kind of invest in that, but um I'm kind of off the merch until things kinda get under control. But apparently there is new collab merch in Japan. So if you happen to be lucky enough to live in Japan, I would go check that out. Um there's also uh there's there's now a pop-up store for Final Fantasy XIV merch in uh Kyoto Station, um, as well as the online store. So there's that. We're also gonna get, of course, the primals is are heading to the United Kingdom for the legendary download festival this June. So if you are into the primals um and you are happen to be in the UK, uh that might be a very cool um festival to go and check out. I've heard a lot of really good things about download. Um but yeah, like 7.5 just feels like it's quality of life packed. We're gonna have tons of content. I don't know how they're spreading it out right now, though. So we'll we'll see. We'll hopefully get more details in the next few weeks.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:32

I I do too, because they have released their tentative schedule because it seems like it's just not like some of the later dates are not set in stone, like the ordinary.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:43

Well, obviously not. Yeah, but like it's dependent upon development time. We all know that.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:47

We we know that um, but but at the same time though, it's like okay, how how are we gonna be approaching uh approaching uh the uh 8.0 story-wise? Uh what new things are we gonna be looking forward to? Uh, some of the enhancements to some of the current stuff and whatnot. So looking forward to it. I'm really excited for it. Um because right now, like, you know, some of us has been in a burnout phase at this point.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:19

And so uh I mean it's just one of the it and then the thing is is that the the burnout phase, uh to to kind of like pick up where we did with the last uh uh podcast, the burnout phase has been interesting for me because it's not like I'm burnout on the game entirely. It's more than I'm just burnt out on all of the things that are happening while at the same time trying to keep up with the game. Yeah, and one of the things that I found really did help a lot was just removing a lot of the expectation and the the necessity of stuff and just going back and playing something from uh from the beginning again, where I didn't have uh raid times or or have the expectation of having to play, you know, you don't realize how much you miss your sprout until it's gone.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:13

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:16

People like you you you think you're so proud, you're so big and you're bad, you put your your your mentor crown on and you go out there and you try to help some people, and then very shortly after doing that. I don't know about everybody's experience, but my experience was I just want a sprout. I don't want no one to expect nothing of me.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:37

So on my on my sprout, uh just recently did a dungeon um in Heaven's Ward. You can probably guess which one it was uh recently, and like um I had someone tell me to put my tank stance on, even though I turned it on prior and into entering it. But for some odd reason, for that particular one, they turn it off automatically, and I have no idea why they need to fix that. It's been years.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:07

It's just been the way that it works, it's just always the way that it works. That's why you have my very first thing I do. I'm tank main, so I'm like turn on tank stance. Uh but anyway, even still, like they let you get away with it. I know because I have mad at you for it.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:24

Because I was a sprout.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:29

All hell sproutiness.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:32

Sprouts forever.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:35

Right. So you know, you you you know, okay, you know what? I'm I'm gonna give Square Enix a million dollar uh product right now. You know what would really sell? Back in back in when I was going into like E3 and all these other gaming conventions and whatnot, the one thing that E uh that EA uh was giving away at those conventions was that little green diamond over your head for the Sims, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:04

Yes, yes, I think they've tried this a couple of times, but they did they didn't do it very good quality. I I need to make, I need to make like sprout thing. I think it would sell like hot cakes. I think people would absolutely love it.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:20

You sell a sprout headband, people will buy that.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:24

Oh yeah, oh yeah, 100%. All right, well, this has been a lot of fun, but I think I gotta get back to the void, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:31

Uh yeah, I I need to do some IRL stuff and get back into the void, too. So, I mean all right.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:38

I will see you later. Thanks so much for listening. Abye.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:42

May all your etherite etherite travels be free.