SPEAKER_00 0:11

Hello, everyone. It's the Aorsian update, and I'm your host, Violet, an ancient one wandering around in modern times. I'm only vaguely lost, but I am slightly feral. So get your shots before you listen to our next host.

SPEAKER_03 0:29

Hoka, and I am sort of here, sort of not sort of interested in this whole uh ultimate rating that's been going on all day today as of this recording. So Yes.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Yes. Okay. So with this is the 5.1 like introduction. We're gonna talk about the patch that just dropped. However, what we're not gonna do a whole lot of going into on is we're not gonna talk about the world first because right now it's going on, and we would prefer people to be directed to the charity streams and to the local streams for all of the world first raiders. Uh go put your attention on them for right now. Right, we're just gonna discuss the things that happened in the patch because um this is a big deal, and we're we've got a big episode upcoming where we give our reactions and our what we saw and what we've been interested in over the time period of this going, and it has been wild, it has been wild.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

It's been so interesting, and I cannot wait to talk more about it in in the next episode. But in the meantime, though, a patch did drop though.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

A patch did drop, and we did get some content. If you are one of the hardcore, see, I love this because I can officially say that as far as Square Enix is concerned, as far as creative business unit is concerned, if you are a hardcore player of Final Fantasy XIV, this is the patch with your content. And by hardcore player, I mean crafter and gatherer.

SPEAKER_03 2:09

Um well that ain't me. Not yet, but ain't me.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

Nope. That's okay. I've got all my crafters and gatherers up to a hundred, and I'm still there's still a lot of that for me to do. So um I am uh like I said, I've got my my crafters and my gatherers up to a hundred, and while I am uh working through that cosmic exploration, um, I keep having lots of stuff happen in my life, so I've like had to drop it, pick it back up, drop it, pick it back up. Um, the last I left, we were still in Sinus Ador. Uh uh we were we were still on the moon. We were still on the moon, hanging out on the moon, doing things on the moon. Um, and then we moved on to Fayana, and then we hit OISIS. I did hang out on Fayana a little bit, and then I hung out on OISIS for like the past two, three weeks. I did not complete the novice level of my cosmic tool for Carpenter, because that's the first one I'm working on, um, until today. So I'm now officially in the level 100 like zone of crafting my relic tool. And um the reason why I'm focusing on one crafting tool is because uh for each level of the tool that you complete, you actually get a bonus to being able to level the other tools that you have.

SPEAKER_03 3:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

And I didn't realize that until I'd already gotten and I thought I had to do it simultaneously, you know, like Skyworker stuff.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

So I was like literally leveling everything and had it all kind of lined up at the exact same level. I got up to like level five or six. I was grinding at that point, and then then I read that and I was like, oh done this completely wrong.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

Oh, that sucks, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Okay, so um an other things that are going on that we didn't uh necessarily talk about in the last um podcast either, the Make It Rain campaign is going on right now and will be continuing through June 11th. So if uh and here's the thing, I want to clue everybody in. If you go to the site for um Path of the Heavens, which is uh what we're on right now, which is a 7.5 patch cycle all the way into Evercold, it does have listed that there is going to be an update to the gold saucer. We don't know when it's gonna happen, but it is going to happen. So, because of that update, if there are things that you want to buy, you might want to get started on your little pile of MGP now so that you will have it available whenever whatever happens.

SPEAKER_03 5:21

But but I I'm trying to save it for the the blackjack mode.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

That's why I I have all this I have all this coin, and I've been saving what do you mean there's well just keep going, just keep get your get up to the blackjack, just don't stop, just keep going, keep going.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

What do you mean there's something new?

SPEAKER_00 5:41

Yeah, there's something new coming, something new, and then uh also keep in mind while you're focusing on getting your MGP at the Make It Rain, don't forget to go to Olda and do the quest line so that you can pick up a very adorable Dapper Otter Minion, and you can pick up the absolutely adorable otter backpack, which there was a funny story, a little glitch with that earlier uh this year. If you had the black lace parasol, the uh otter backpack just randomly showed up in your fashion accessories list. So I got to sport that backpack like uh like I was a thief in the night for at least two, three days. I was just like backpack, backpack.

SPEAKER_03 6:36

And they took it away.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

And then they took it away. But they gave it back to us, but they did, they did give us back, uh, give us our backpack back, and uh so I went and I picked that up. Um, I have a couple of alts that I want to grab it for because it's just the most adorable thing. There's uh of course, like I said, I've gotten, I think I've gotten everything I care about at uh the gold saucer. So for me, it's just a pile of MGP that I just keep throwing coins on top of, hoping that something big and cool is coming out. Um we'll see what happens. Ha ha.

SPEAKER_03 7:15

Yeah, so I I became one of the what was it a few weeks ago at this point, maybe more than that, close to two months at this point. Uh I was one of the lucky uh grand winners in everything.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

And I was like, oh yeah, that's right. You were! Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

And my name is still on the winner's board when you go look at it. It's like, ah, oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

That is so cool. Oh my god, I gotta go check that out.

SPEAKER_03 7:41

But all right, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

It is. Yes, it is. Um it it took me, it took me a while. For me, it was fashion reports and uh doing the oh things that I would suggest, by the way, that you might not normally think of doing. Go and do your uh like mini-games that you wouldn't normally hit up, triple triad. Yeah, go do the tournament because the tournament, um, go to the battle hall. When you're in the battle hall, talk to the NPCs, play the NPCs. That will put you in the tournament, and the tournament, if you happen to be in the top ten, will pay out big time. Oh uh, the other things I can suggest to do is go play Verminion. Um it's difficult to play Verminion a lot because not a lot of people play it, but one of the things that you can take advantage of is the bonuses to MGP through the Make It Rain campaign do apply to your challenge log.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

So any of the things in the challenge log that say go play three games of Verminion, five games of Verminion, same thing for Mahjong, if you played this many games of Mahjong, so on and so forth, then that will also get applied to the bonus.

SPEAKER_03 9:20

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

If you do fashion report and you happen to be in an FC that does their own uh bonuses to um your company actions, yes, then you can get an absolutely ridiculous amount of MGP.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

Which is if you turn on the jackpot uh action.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

Now, if you're like me and you have a slightly lesser, slightly smaller FC, uh my maximum with all of my other bonuses was 99,000.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

Which is not bad, but if you are in a much cooler FC, apparently you can get much, much more than that. Um I haven't got it confirmed what the actual total for the the top end can be, but it is a lot.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

A lot of things.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

So do not sleep, a lot, a lot, do not sleep on this make it rain campaign. Go and get your otter. Um, it's utterly adorable. And don't forget to do your gates and get your MGP all piled up so that when the update comes out later on this year, you can go and get your cool things or go pick up your giant golden saucer mount. That thing is hilarious. I'm sorry. I will fight anybody. I love that mount. It's awesome. I've thought about you can go and get your blimp. I've thought about hijack.

SPEAKER_03 10:58

I've thought about getting the uh the giant um cactar mount, and I'm like, oh, I really I really want this so bad. It's hilarious. I I I might just go and get that, but that would take me a little bit longer to get the blackjack mount. But I at this point I know I'm gonna be playing this game forever anyway.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

So oh oh yeah. Oh yeah. Dedication! Dedication. Okay, so now we're gonna move on to 7.51. 7.51. We got our final destination, the final star has been approached and discovered by our Loperate friends in cosmic exploration.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

Yay!

SPEAKER_00 11:47

When you go to now you will have needed to have unlocked Oisius to be able to unlock the last location. So, of course, you have Sinus Adrarum, and then you have Fayana, and then you have Oizus, and now you have uh Oesion or O uh Oxesia. Oxesia, I think is how I yeah, something like that. It a lot of these names are difficult for me to pronounce. I forgive me if I'm not pronouncing it the way you think it should be pronounced. I'm just going off of what I have heard people call it. Umesia or oxesia is uh the next location. Unlike the other locations we have been to, we do actually see signs of a former civilization.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

So story-wise, that's gonna be very cool.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

Story-wise, that's really interesting. Uh it is. I'm looking forward to doing it, but I but first I want to level a lot of my uh crafting in some of the earlier stages of uh cosmic aspiration first, so before I even even attempt to tackle the last one.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

To be fair, I'm gonna give you the the like clue in on this. When you are leveling, you may want to actually go back to prior locations because you will get more experience.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

Yeah, that's that's my point.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

However, right. However, if you like myself, you went to the moon and you already had all the experience, um, then at that point, what you're looking at trying to build up is all of your uh points for your research for your cosmic tools. Yes, cosmic tools at this point before today had three levels, which was novice and I think um cosmic and then cosmic master. I don't remember the details on it. I'm sure I could look it up, but the point is it had three. We are now looking at a fourth and it's cosmic mastery.

SPEAKER_03 14:04

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

So to clarify the whole point of cosmic exploration, you need to be level 90 in a battle job or any of your jobs. Basically, you have to have old Charlian unlocked from Endwalker as a location, at which point you can start your journey to cosmic exploration with any crafting or gathering job that has at least gotten to level 10. So level all of your crafters and gatherers to level 10. And if you have put it by the wayside until you got through Endwalker, and then you went, Hey, I want to try this out. Cosmic exploration sounds fun, great. Go find naming way in old Charlian, and he will go ahead and unlock that content for you. There's a lot of complication, a lot of there's a lot of layers to this particular bit of content. The first area was I'm gonna be honest, it wasn't my favorite. It was a bit of a grind, it was fun, especially if you had people to kind of like hang out with while you were doing your crafting and gathering, uh-huh. But it doesn't feel, I guess, as special because it's it's feels like just another part of the moon. If you're into the sci-fi aspect of it, then it's a lot of fun. And I really like the whole Star Trek angle on things, and yes, I feel like the uniforms and a lot of the glams that you get out of it do have a very like Star Trek sort of feel to them. Am I wrong?

SPEAKER_03 15:54

No, you're not wrong. No, no, you're not wrong at all. I'm like, I I think I have a glam that's Star Trek um like okay, yeah, fair enough, fair enough. Especially when you're on the uh attention um, so it's like I am in uniform. Ha ha ha ha.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

That's so cool. That is so cool. So I like that uh it's it's one of those things where it's an interesting bit of content, it's kind of reminiscent, of course, of the Ishgardian Restoration.

SPEAKER_03 16:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

But one of the things I like about it is that unlike the Ishgardian Restoration, where once you got past the certain levels of all the the Ishgardian Restoration, you can't go backwards. So right now, if you were to start a character and you were to go to Ishgardian Restoration, you're doing grade four because that was the last level, that was the last thing. You cannot go back to grade one, really. You have to pretty much start at grade four, and that's what you're working with. Whereas when you do cosmic exploration, the way that they've layered things is that you can go back and forth, and that's important because of the way that the cosmic tools work, is once you get past your first novice level of a tool, then you get bonuses to not only leveling up your next tools through cosmic research, which cosmic research is part of the rewards that you would get off of any of the cosmic missions that you get given. I suggest going ahead and trying to complete one as far up as you can get it because it makes it easier to finish the rest of them. You get bonuses to that. I also suggest because there's less moving around to try and start with a crafter first rather than a gatherer. Part of this is down to in general, it is easier to do gathering out in the world to level, and it goes really, really quickly, like kind of insanely quickly to do gathering.

SPEAKER_03 18:11

Yeah, so yeah, two of the three gathering gathering that I have, um mining and flower picking. That's what I call it. Um I'm slowly working on fishing, but let the the the first two uh I have those at 100, and I did that out in the wild as opposed to doing it at uh cast more exploration. I only did I only did the the mining um up there mainly because I wanted the the coins so I I can try to get the mounts up there.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

Right.

SPEAKER_03 18:47

That was it, but that's the thing.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

That is a new thing that they did add um in uh this expansion, which I is I found really interesting, is that you can go and earn uh your scripts, you get orange scripts and purple scripts. Purple scripts are for more lower level things and you know your more common items, whereas orange is all your specialty stuff and it's much higher end things. The by the way, purple scripts, the reason why, as a gatherer, you want to make sure that you get as many of those as you can. Go and look at the script vendor, and under gathering specifically, it has um tomes, and those tomes are confusing. But basically, if you want to be able to access timed nodes, you want to be able to access high-end nodes, you want to be able to access everything that then gets turned into the highest end gear for each expansion, you need to be able to have those books open or the tones, and that will allow you to be able to search for certain items in certain zones.

SPEAKER_03 20:00

Yes. Most definitely. Um, I learned that the hard way.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

She comes along and she's like, Hey, I I'm I've got my gathering up to 100. I can come and help the gather this with you. And I was like, Oh, okay, so we'll hang out here until this, you know, pops up. The the node pops up, and she goes, Wait, what where is it? What are you doing? What is going on here? I was like, Did you go get your tones? No. Okay, well, I guess you know what you're working on next, huh?

SPEAKER_03 20:54

Yeah, that's my um for fishing.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

Fishing's probably the easiest. I love ocean fishing. Ocean fishing is super, super fun. It happens every two hours. Go to the docks at Limsa Lomensa. Past if you take the Aetherite to the Arcanist Guild, go past the ferryman and out onto the docks, and you can speak to uh the Rogan there. I cannot pronounce her name, and I'm not gonna try.

SPEAKER_03 21:29

I don't remember her name.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

I I think it's uh Rose Flynn or something like that. Something like that. Anyway, something like that. Anyway, she's the one every two hours, talk to her, you get on a boat, it's an instance duty, you get taken to different places, you get to do fishing that's basically you just throw your you know rod out there and you throw the bait out into the water, and you just grab as much stuff as you can. You have ocean missions, voyage missions that you You can meet. There's also big fishing that can be done. And if you happen to be able to go on the new route, which is the Thavnerian route, which is an extension of the Ruby route.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

Yes. Which I know everyone has been doing at this point, which is frustrating.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

First day, I went out. The whole FC. We were just like, we're pulling up fish. Fishing we go. A fishing we will go. A fishing we will go. So cosmic exploration, very cool. I like the new zone. It's a lot of fun. Um, as far as what's being built up there, unlike some of the other zones where we were building up the actual transportation system, we're going to be looking at revitalizing the world. So that's going to be a very cool story aspect. If you're really interested in doing those sorts of things and you like doing the craft, uh, the crafting and the gathering, um, I would say go check it out. And don't think that the the top-end stuff is at all going to be easy now that you have gotten do not rest upon thine laurels. There's still plenty of things like achievements and new master recipes to be able to be done. The other things that we were talking about for crafters and gatherers uh this time around is we got a new custom delivery. This one's going to be found in Tuliol. Look for the taco time quest. I love it. I love it. So we'll be doing turn-ins for Auntie T. We will finally get as many tacos as we could possibly hope for as she negotiates with her new intra entrepreneurial uh expository business. So you'll get more details about that. You go you go hang out. I will say this though: say hello to Tequito for me if you go do custom deliveries. Tequito is best boy. Um, we're gonna also look at we got more housing items. Okay, so for all of those out there lucky enough, cool enough, awesome enough, or rich enough to have a large house that is full of the maximum amount of items, I know that a lot of people were having some really serious issues with the any items over 400 being displayed in their houses. There's an actual option that they gave to try to mitigate some of the memory and the graphical issues that were happening that they saw on their end before it was even put out, which was to only show items that were within your camera range. Well, some people, the density of those items was still so high that you would start to see glitching in and out, and there would just be entire items that would go missing or entire sections. So, in the meantime, the feature that is uh to hide furnishings when the number of furnishings on the screen exceeds 400 has been temporarily disabled. Oh no. Yeah, so uh according to the development team, we wish to sincerely thank everyone who's provided information on the official forum regarding the furnishing display issue detailed here and here, and there are links in the patch page. Presently, we are continuing to investigate the issue based on reports we have received. Although we have made progress on narrowing down the possible causes, we have yet to ascertain the root cause of the issue. To avoid a potentially long-term impact on gameplay, we have chosen to temporarily disable the feature to hide furnishings in patch 7.51. However, given that the feature is necessary to ensure graphical display stability, this provisional measure may negatively impact performance. So just keep in mind if you're a person who has decided that for your aesthetic that or for the creative purpose that you are building towards, you have put more than 400 items within a single camera view, you may be causing people to have severe graphical slowdown and have issues rendering all of those objects. So until then, we uh they are asking people to consider rearranging your furnishings for now, or uh people to adjust their graphic settings as necessary. So if you do a lot of housing tours or you're interested in a lot of housing, what I would suggest is perhaps lowering your graphics just a little bit, just until they've worked out the issues with this particular situation.

SPEAKER_03 27:21

Right. Um, this is a good move on them. Um until they figure out what's what's causing it and everything. Uh this is this is probably the best move, uh, especially on the development uh on on the developmental side of things where it's like let us turn this off. We will continue to research what's going on, and then once we figure it out, we'll patch it and then turn it back on. Because this way it's right, you know, people can still play the game, people can still enjoy the game. It's just that in the meantime, that feature is just turned off. Right. Great move on um. I I applaud them for even addressing it and and everything and putting it uh uh putting it out there.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

So oh, I agree, I agree, big time. The other thing that to note about residential areas is that a large quantity of outside furnishings in your character's vicinity of your own outdoor furnishings, your outdoor furnishings will now be given priority. So now all of the outdoor furnishings for housing and so forth, the priority of what is seen is going to be related to whether or not you own the property or you own those items or not.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

So a lot of people were seeing where some people had like completely covered the entirety of the outside of their homes with a lot of things, and those graphics were starting to take priority over the graphics in their own backyards, and so making that change I think is a good move too.

SPEAKER_03 28:59

Oh, 100%. Uh completely agree. So I'm just glad I'm just glad they're trying to figure it out because housing is a huge part of this game, uh, which we both know because we love to do housing stuff to our house all the time.

SPEAKER_00 29:17

I love designing houses, I love working on houses, I love the housing system. I don't love the housing system, if that makes sense, but the very idea that these are walkable in-game neighborhoods that allow you to be able to not just have to know somebody to be able to go to their house, but you can go to a completely unknown person's house because you were wandering around a ward in a neighborhood randomly on a Tuesday, and you were like, I'm gonna go into somebody's house and see what they've done with it. That is the coolest dang thing to me. I mean, it is just one of the things that is a huge draw for this game.

SPEAKER_03 30:01

Oh, most definitely. Like there's like how there was like housing uh in my area uh before a few of the HJP members uh moved near me and everything. I went to like different houses and see what they had in there. It's great. I love it, I absolutely love it.

SPEAKER_00 30:22

We're also getting a few new furnishings. Of course, we have the new location, new star that we're going to with Cosmic Exploration. So we got a lot of cosmic exploration themed items.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

I've seen them. I want them.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

Uh if you're into the space and fairing thing and you like that, it goes along with a lot of the other things that came out from OISIS. OISIS had some other really great and and some of the other zones. Honestly, if you are big into sci-fi, cosmic exploration has been an incredible place to get a lot of sci-fi cool stuff.

SPEAKER_03 31:01

Oh, yes. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

So uh we also have a new triple triad, and that's I will almost tell you right now, the new triple triad NPCs and the new triple triad cards are probably in reference to cosmic exploration, and we have more stuff out there to get. Through the Auntie Tease Tacos, we have um a new emote that has been added. I of course did not get to it because uh going and doing your custom deliveries, you get 12 per week, which means that if you were to do your custom deliveries uh today before reset, you would have been able to do six, and then after reset, you would have been able to do another six, but then you're done until next reset, which is going to be Saturday, uh Tuesday.

SPEAKER_03 32:02

So wow. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

Yeah. So this is a uh so custom deliveries are on a weekly, you only get 12. Um, I usually go and see which ones have bonuses. If you look under your timed thing, there's there's under timed in your actions and traits. If you look down towards the bottom under general, you will find your timed button. You click on that, and that will take you to all of the things that have timed limitations on them, and that's everything from custom deliveries to your daily grand company crafting and gathering turn-ins to your Doman Enclave if you have opened that up. Um, there's also a bunch of other things over there. I keep on top of my time stuff because it's a really good way to not only keep on top of leveling crafters and gatherers, being able to build up scripts, being able to with Domin Enclave, for example, I have got the maximum level of my Doman Enclave that has been um built up. So that means that I can get a total of 40,000 gill for an investment of 20,000. So you put in 20, you get out 40. And you do that on a weekly basis, and that 20k per week starts to add up.

SPEAKER_03 33:41

Oh, yeah. Sounds like something I need to do more often now.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

A little bit. Yeah, put it on your list. We're gonna be moving to a weekly system anyway. Right now, what we have is what I would think of as like a hybrid system, it's a daily slash weekly. A lot of things really are timed on a weekly basis, but they are things that people don't think about necessarily doing. Um, unless you're like me and you spend way too much time playing this game. So we've gotten some new items added. Of course, we have um gear that you'll find for being able to turn in your cosmic credits. As per usual, with each one of the different stars that we go to for cosmic, you have cosmic credits which build up every location that you go to, and then you have each star's credits, which are individual to that star, and those are the credits that you use to be able to get um applications for mech duties, mech fates, okay, as well as being able to pay for cosmic fortunes, which is the gotcha game, because you can't have crafting and gathering in this game without gotcha. No, no, there's gotta be gotcha somewhere, it's it's just how it works. Yeah, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Anyway, let's go. So the next editions and adjustments that we need to pay attention to is dies. I don't know if you were the type of person who made your own dies or if you were a I buy it from someone and then I'm the middleman for the market board.

SPEAKER_03 35:28

I don't I don't know how you did your biz your biz, but I did my biz uh purchasing from the NPC vendors, like the island century, and then selling them in the market board that way. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

Okay, okay. I see how you be. Anyway, so the way that you could do it if you were a true crafter and gatherer from the ARR set is there were locations out in the world where you could literally dig up pigments and then you could craft those pigments into dyes. Oh wow. All of those pigments are now being crushed down into one pigment, and it is called the let me see here. Da da da da da da da all-purpose pigment. So now when you go to all of the locations that you would have gone to in ARR to dig up pigments of different colors, all of them will now just be called all-purpose pigment. That also means that all of the recipes from ARR that used all uh a pigment will now just use all-purpose pigment. So if you happen to have either on the market board, hiding in your bags, somewhere on your person's person, then uh a pigment of a color, that pigment is no longer a thing. You can go to a calamity salvager in a major city, Limsa Lemenza, Gradagna, Ulda, and you can have them convert it to an all-purpose pigment, at which point you can use a recipe from any of the crafters to turn it into dye.

SPEAKER_03 37:18

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 37:21

Also, any other recipes that would have normally used specific colors of pigment are now all-purpose pigment. That's what it requires. However, please note if you are someone who did, in fact, go and dig up pigments and sell them on the marketboard for whatever reason, they are no longer tradable or usable, but they are not automatically removing them from the market board. So you will have to manually go and remove it from the market board. Whoa. So nobody can buy that anymore from you. It's just gonna take up a slot. So if you want to get that slot back for being able to sell stuff, you're gonna have to manually take it down. Whoa! I know, I know. I know. I think we can all handle it though. It'll be alright. We'll be fine.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

I'm fine. I'm fine. Um I'm okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:24

Whatever. Anyway. Um, you're stuffed down. Anyway, um, so we're back to the standard thing with OASI. We're gonna have uh star contributors. I still have no idea how to do that. I am never gonna be that cool, but that's okay. If you are that cool, I will go and celebrate you and all of your successes. Congratulations. Won't be me. Um there are now tool mastery missions. The tool mastery missions will now be adding points to your tool mastery points. Tool mastery points will be uh be built up to give you um all sorts of types of, I'm sure, rewards from that. I don't have personal experience with it. I'm just going off of what it's saying in the patch notes. Anyone who has further information about that, I would love to see it. But the mission scoring is the part that I wanted to kind of get to, though, because this is the part that's a little bit confusing. So there are apparently two different score objectives in tool mastery missions. You may choose to complete the mission at any point after reaching the first objective. Okay. Okay, mission completion will reward you with tool mastery points, a cosmic class score, and contributions to Star Wandings. Comminsure it with your score. Cosmic credits, Oesia Credits, and Oesia Exploration Tokens will also be rewarded. There are, by the way, two new token mounts that you can buy with uh the new Oesian tokens.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 40:18

And of course, the OISIS tokens allowed you to get um mounts from OISIS. So we're definitely this is the mount token expansion. So if you are someone who does that gathering, does that crafting, you also have now got the hookup for some mounts, and they are cool mounts.

SPEAKER_03 40:40

I have seen it.

SPEAKER_00 40:43

You haven't seen it? Okay. So one of the mounts that you can get from OISIS is actually uh the mech spider.

SPEAKER_01 40:53

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 40:55

Yeah. Mech spider, awesome looking mount. I love this thing. I have a friend whose favorite thing in the world is bugs. I know. Not my favorite thing in the world, but that's her favorite thing in the world. And so one of the things that we did as an FC is we went and we all like threw down the cash and we all bought this mount, and we all went out to uh what was it, Black Horizon?

SPEAKER_02 41:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

We went out to Horizons and we all just like sat there and started swarming the entire city with spiders. With mech spiders. It was great. And now on the new uh area on Asia Oasia, you can get um the same spider mount for their mech uh fates or whatever that they have, their mech missions. But it's pink, it's pink, it's so pretty pink too. I love it so much. It's great.

SPEAKER_03 41:56

Pretty, pretty pink.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

Pretty, pretty pink. I love it so much. So we've got uh a few changes to okay. So when you get your your score objective, by the way, yeah, for doing your mastery mission, you will grant it will grant you following bonus effects. You will get a time limit increase, you get a score multiplier, and you get duty action usage increase, and then you also get uh GP recovery. There are three tool mastery missions available per class with a high score recorded for each completed mission. So basically, it's gonna be a building thing. So once you get started to sit down and do your mastery, you want to sit down and actually have the time to dedicate to do one after the other after the other and just get them built up.

SPEAKER_03 42:58

Yeah. Sounds like I have a lot of work to do.

SPEAKER_00 43:01

Uh oh, it's so much, it is it is a lot at this point. But man, it is it's so worth it, it's worth it though. No, I don't know. For anything else, for the fact that okay, so when you sat down with a cosmic tool and you start working it, when you get to a certain level with it, it gets so pretty. It's got the prettiest glow to it. But the ones that kill me are the ones that when you got to Oasis and you got to the top level there, you actually have planets that circle you while you're doing your crafting.

SPEAKER_03 43:34

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 43:36

So cool.

SPEAKER_03 43:39

That is awesome. All right, uh, I cannot wait to get to that point.

SPEAKER_00 43:43

Uh I know, seriously. I'm so into it. I mean, I'm right. So we got some new mounts.

SPEAKER_03 43:48

We've still got what six, seven months till Evercole, maybe less than that.

SPEAKER_00 43:55

About six. We're we're looking at six months ish to to ever call. Well, I mean it was April twenty eighth, if uh you remember correctly, is when seven point five dropped. Yeah, and you were there April twenty-fifth, so Yes. That means that it's it's been we're we're coming up on it's already been a month. It was it was nine months then, so eight months, seven months coming up on it's getting there.

SPEAKER_03 44:28

It's approaching fast. Real fast.

SPEAKER_00 44:32

Okay, so we got new mounts, we've got new minions, we have new fashion accessories. If you have ever wanted to uh dig a hole, you now have a fashion accessory shovel, so cool.

SPEAKER_03 44:48

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 44:49

We also got new faceware, uh, there's a new set of very cool glasses. Um, we'll see how that comes down. I'm gonna see if I can grab those at some point. Keep in mind that we did get with the latest star, we got a new cosmic exploration adventuring plate that got dropped.

SPEAKER_03 45:12

And it's pretty, it's pretty looking.

SPEAKER_00 45:14

It is, it's so pretty. It's all green, and there's pretty green shards.

SPEAKER_03 45:20

I I like that. I love it. I I really like the the really um the whole thing, the color scheme of it, uh, it's really, really nice, and it fits whoever likes that design really, really well. And I can see it, you can customize it to you know to different plates and stuff like that as well. But I think overall, you you could just roll with the entire thing like this and you'd be fine.

SPEAKER_00 45:44

Oh yeah. The addition of the um the custom plates, I've really liked the adventure plates. Especially the ones, especially the ones for that they introduced for the Arcadian for the fighters. Did you go and pick those up?

SPEAKER_03 46:01

I did. I did. And I think I have one attached to my adventure plate. I have to double check and make sure.

SPEAKER_00 46:09

My adventure plate is a remix of at least two. You have to come find me in game to figure out which two.

SPEAKER_03 46:19

Yeah, we we we we both have to find each other in game and and look at each other's adventure plate. But but yeah, no, the the addition of like you can change like sm like individual pieces of your adventure plate to whatever ones you want to use, that's that was fantastic. I absolutely love that. And it's like it's it's a welcome addition to to the game.

SPEAKER_00 46:44

Oh yeah, oh big time. I I'll ha I love it so much. So uh I love and the portraits, the portraits are so cool too. I love being able to actually have a visual idea of who you're calming at the the end of things, having like the portraits pop up for PvP is very cool. I love that. Okay, so let's talk about some quick. I'm just gonna hit the high points of resolved issues. I don't want to like have to read through the whole thing because most of it was stuff that people didn't really even interact with.

SPEAKER_02 47:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:22

So, first of all, this one was funny. So there was apparently an issue wherein Lalafell Dark Knights would get like locked into a specific animation. So where if a Lalafell Dark Knight was jumping with an unsheathed weapon, it would cause the animation to play incorrectly. So what it would do is it would like pull out the little sword and it would just stick it right out in front of you. So you were like a little hopping tiny person with like big swords stuck out. Oh wow, what was hilarious. Look it up online, you see some of the pictures, it was hysterical. Um, there was also a few problems with some of the graphics for some of the minions where there was like a little black dot that wound up somewhat somewhere an artifact or something creeped in. We also uh wound up with some issues in the Crystalline Conflict arena Archaea Harmonious, wherein there were actions that could be executed through obstacles if they were executed while jumping, and that was a particular problem for that map because the whole selling point of that map is because it was one of the maps for Crystalline Conflict that was supposed to have true line of sight blocking. Yeah. So, I mean, jumping does kind of like I mean, I can see over the top, but anyway, so it wasn't supposed to work that way. Yeah, unless you're a Lalafell. Even still, Lolafels got hops. Do not underestimate uh estimate them, Lalafels, they will jump you, buddy.

SPEAKER_03 49:12

Anyway, after they bite your ankles.

SPEAKER_00 49:16

Right, and then there was another one where certain like samurai or machinist PBE actions where in sound effects wouldn't play correctly when executing a combo, they fixed that. Um then we had an issue with Arcanist's summoners, wherein executing actions with certain pets resulted in an incorrect animation playing when the summoned pet was left had left the battlefield.

SPEAKER_01 49:40

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00 49:41

So anybody who got confused by their their summoned pet suddenly disobeying, that's that's been fixed. So they've gone back to following orders.

SPEAKER_03 49:51

Oh, that's good.

SPEAKER_00 49:52

The other thing was there was a a lot of Japanese art uh that was left in the text for a lot of menus that has now been fixed. However, there are a few known issues to go over that they're still working on. There is an issue when traveling via the Cosmo liner, which is of course the very cool little transportation mechanic they have on Cosmic Exploration, where you're writing a surfboard, cosmic surfboard, from place to place, wherein the camera will function incorrectly after the player is returned to the start point of the route uh when the duty ready prompt is displayed. It doesn't affect the matchmaking, but it will affect the graphics. Uh, there's also an issue with cosmic exploration wherein the footstep sounds of certain NPCs on Oesia is incorrect. So they're working on that too.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 50:50

There's also an issue with Cosmic Exploration wherein Class A mission unlock requirements in the stellar mission window are partially cut off and cannot be read in full. So pay attention to this one if you are doing those, and that is the requirements to unlock these missions are as follows complete class B missions zero of five, complete class B missions with a gold star rating zero of three. Huh. So that's all of the crafting and gathering for the most part that we got. Of course, um, I don't think I I specifically mentioned it, but I am very much looking forward to helping Aunt T get her tacos out to the rest of the known universe because I get what is probably going to be the coolest emote in the game, and that is eat taco. And one of the things that I love about what they're doing with these emotes lately is that if they give us an emote that's just a short emote, they also give us a continuous uh emote. And so you not only get eat taco, you also get uh ravage taco, I think it is. What did they call it? Let me see here, it's hysterical. Um Devour Taco. That's what it is. Devour Taco. You continuously chow down on a sizable taco. Me every night, anyway. Take that however you want. Um, but that's that's the patch notes. It's very short this time around because, of course, all of the focus has been on the world first race to the ultimate UMAD or dancing mad ultimate, in which we defeat Kefka. Some of us for the second or third or fiftieth time. Who knows?

SPEAKER_03 52:57

Depending on which game you play.

SPEAKER_00 52:59

Right? He does keep that clown, just keeps coming up. I swear. You would think he would have better things to do than to harass us.

SPEAKER_03 53:11

What are you talking about? He's Kafka. Of course he's got nothing better to do than to harass us.

SPEAKER_00 53:16

That's fair. So I don't know a whole lot. I like I like I've said, I'm definitely the I do Final Fantasy XIV. I know bits and snippets about other games. I know that um a lot of the things that are very funny about, of course, Kefka is that he is a fourth wall breaking character.

SPEAKER_03 53:37

He is.

SPEAKER_00 53:39

So one of the things that's very funny about him, I didn't I don't have a hope. I mean, I'll be honest with you right now, watching the early, early days, and I do mean days, like I really do think it's gonna be days. Because they are throwing some some wrenches at people, and those wrenches don't look right. No, not at all, especially they are not the right shape. I don't know what they go to.

SPEAKER_03 54:09

Um I and I know we're gonna talk about it more uh in the next episode, but ooh, the the major fake out that we saw today. Oh Lord.

SPEAKER_00 54:23

Let's stop there because I'm gonna be I'm gonna be so for real. Like, I don't want to spoil this this whole mess for anybody who just wants to hear it through us, but it is so the way that they're doing this one is you they are breaking with some tradition. So I was going to make the assumption that because they had uh required you to only do the first four and the second four of the savages for the raid tier previously, that that was the pattern that they were gonna go with. Apparently, they're going with whatever the most recent savage is that you have to do. So if you are looking to try and get into UMAD, you are going to have to clear Arcadian heavyweight 12 Savage.

SPEAKER_03 55:16

Yes. Yes, we're gonna do that.

SPEAKER_00 55:22

You still working on it?

SPEAKER_03 55:23

Uh I haven't even started. Well, you mean working on it?

SPEAKER_00 55:28

Yeah, I have a friend who is in my FC who has actually cleared all the way through 10. They are currently in the process of deciding if they're even going to try to clear 11 or if they're just gonna skip straight to 12. We'll see how it goes for her. Um she's a much cooler raider than I could ever be. But as I was talking to, I was talking to some other people in in chat today, um, and one of the things that uh Jay, who happens to be uh is referred to as Coach Jay for our gaming community's uh raiders for there's in HJP, we've mentioned it before. Um, while we're no longer posting underneath the HJP uh banner, we are still part of the community. Jay is um the coach essentially for the raid teams for U. I know that you're on the Buccaneers for the Raid team. What up Buccanez team? So you're still working for Buccaneers, yeah. Uh also shout out Clan Nutsy, Clan Nutsy out there trying to get that uh that ooo we clear, get that oowoo clear. So he was talking about it. I'm the sort that I've kind of come down to the realization that I have enough physical joint problems that I can play to a high enough level to get through extremes, to get through savages. Like I've done that before. I cannot play to a high enough level to be able to clear ultimates. It is it requires both too much processing, and my hands literally and oowoo. One of the reasons why I had to bow out of being like the the eighth member or the or the ninth member or the the alternate for for both teams was because I was starting to have hand lockups just getting through the first phase and a half.

SPEAKER_02 57:38

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 57:40

Yeah, so for me it's a physical issue, and that's fine. Like, if we think about it as far as like races or whatever, this is a marathon. Ultimates are the marathon of Final Fantasy XIV. And if that marathon, if you are the sort of person who is like, I see this challenge and I will face it down, understand that you're someone who either has the physicality to do it and it doesn't cause you pain, which I genuinely hope you are, or much like a huge number of actual marathon runners, people who are physically capable of doing so, you still wind up at the finish line puking your guts out. And that is a normal physical reaction. So there are just people for whom a 5k, that's great. We're gonna do that one. We don't, we don't need to be on, you know, pushing ourselves to the point where we get chafing in parts of our body that should not have chafing. Have you heard any actual like runners talk about that? It is it is embarrassing. Let me just put it that way. I was like, you know what? There are easier ways to get healthy, Helen.

SPEAKER_03 59:02

Um as a former uh track runner in high school, I can relate. Yeah, especially since uh the events that I did was the 110 hurdles, the 300 hurdles, long jump, and then whatever relay they threw through at me that day, which would be either the Oh, but that yeah, yeah, but that's nothing like cross country, yeah. No, no, no. But I I've I've done like I've done the 5K's run before in my younger days or whatnot, which I plan on maybe doing one in the near future, but I don't know yet. But uh that's that's that's a decision I still need to work on on my uh to see whether my my body can handle it or not. But in any case, uh yeah, I I completely understand and know that experience because it sucks.

SPEAKER_00 59:57

Yeah, yeah. So I uh as a person who suffers from uh at least minor physical disabilities when it comes to that sort of thing and have arthritis, I'm gonna stick to my 5Ks because I think that that's still cool. And then there are some people who enjoy this game and love it to bits, who for whom the idea of proging through things and doing anything other than the MSQ and then hanging out and doing some of the more like solo challenge stuff is just not fun. So the wonderful wonderful wonderful thing about Final Fantasy XIV is there are so many different game modes and so many different things. There's there's something for so many people.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:47

Yes, there is, and there's so much I still need to do uh in in the game. Like I I've done a little bit of delivery, I haven't really that's not been one of my main focus on it, but like delivery is one of them. I want to level my fishing to 100, which which my fishing is really, really close on that, and then you know, crafting and gathering, and some of the main uh other stuff that you know that's not like PvE or PvP or anything of that nature. It's just some of the more um, I guess the more quiet life of Final Fantasy 14.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:27

Well, for me, the f the what it comes down to is that I like to have all of my jobs as top a level as I can because I like to be able to at least be able to craft housing items, at least be able to craft some of the you know uh tools, weapons, things um to get me along. As soon as it was open in Dawn Trail, as soon as it was there, I went off and I did my uh crafting and gathering uh Wachume, and I got everything up to 100. Cosmic Exploration was something that was talked about, but when I finally got there, honestly, it was it was a lot more of a grind than I was expecting because it was very much something that was kind of built around being a leveling location rather than it just purely being something where you're you're grinding out the tools. Because if I was doing it while I was leveling, then leveling up the the tools while you're leveling your character was something that flowed a lot more easily. Whereas if you're just going there to grind up levels for a tool, you don't really get a lot of that in rewards, and so it winds up being something that you have to wait for special events or you have to build up to being able to do certain missions, and it's it's a lot more of a struggle to get that. Now, some people may say that I didn't struggle. Great, that was your experience. My experience is very different. So for me, it was more of a grind that I really wanted to take on. But I love having all of my stuff as at top level as possible. It's uh I love the crafting and gathering, I intersperse it betwixt other things. I there are times when I am totally down for going and doing writing, and I'm totally down for just like going and beating up things as much as possible, but I'm also an achievement hunter, and so I love doing crafting and gathering because for the most part, it's a fairly easy way to increase your just grindier um you know, achievements that you're looking to add on.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:53

Because uh I I I mean, sometimes I got the skills, and sometimes it's been raining for two weeks, and my knuckles are the size of walnuts.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:03

Yeah, I'm starting to experience that where like um my mouse hand it starts to cramp up, especially in the pinky area for some reason. Um but yeah, like like every once in a while I like have to uh uh stretch my uh my fingers and hands out and and everything. So I need to I need to need something to keep my fingers uh strong and everything. So that's that's where I'm at right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:28

Yeah, I actually have a lot of uh I've got some some exercises I can show you on doing that. I've one of the things that has kept at least my hands in working order is there are artist exercises and stretches and so forth that I do. But it's just a lot of counter pressure and just making sure that you're taking the time to take care of yourself. Speaking of which, everybody out there, make sure you drink water, make sure you you eat properly and take care of yourselves. And we will see you in the next one where we talk about this incredibly insane you mad. Yes, because I'm going mad um uh event.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:10

Yeah, most definitely. It's been um interesting to watch. Uh trying to see trying to watch the world first, and it's just whoo and we will.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:22

Oh well, yeah, there's lots of crazy things. We're we'll we'll go ahead and we'll we'll get all of that out there. We'll see you soon. Uh and may all of your aetherite travels be free. Bye, Daniel.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:37

Do your job, Quest. Bye.