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Where do I find the Wacky Racers?Mr Bean wrote: ↑2022-06-07 08:08am The new delinquent racer tribe quests have similarly crazy good XP to Shadowbringers. 8 days worth of quests to gain a level when equivalent Stormblood tribes required 15-18 days worth of beast tribe quests. Well Endwalkers tribe offers 3x the experience just like Shadowbringers offered 3x the experience of stormblood.
TLDR: To put in numbers, my astrologian at level 85 needs 8.5 million to level, Pixie tribe quests from Shadowbringer are 375k per quests aka 1.1 million per day. Well the Endwalker wacky racers offer 920k per quest for 2.7 million per day.
So you need to have done this quest chainLadyTevar wrote: ↑2022-06-07 10:17amWhere do I find the Wacky Racers?Mr Bean wrote: ↑2022-06-07 08:08am The new delinquent racer tribe quests have similarly crazy good XP to Shadowbringers. 8 days worth of quests to gain a level when equivalent Stormblood tribes required 15-18 days worth of beast tribe quests. Well Endwalkers tribe offers 3x the experience just like Shadowbringers offered 3x the experience of stormblood.
TLDR: To put in numbers, my astrologian at level 85 needs 8.5 million to level, Pixie tribe quests from Shadowbringer are 375k per quests aka 1.1 million per day. Well the Endwalker wacky racers offer 920k per quest for 2.7 million per day.
I can't even recall my trip? I learned of it's existence when I came back from hiatus toward the end of SB. I somehow fiddled around and got 800 clears after my FC did some farms and got me the rest of the unlocks. And then at the end of ShB, looking for something to keep me interested, I set my sights to go into EW with all the (existing) pre-requisites unlocked. The hardest clear, obv, being Diamond Weapon. So, even after EW launched, I only did a few clears here and there.
Just one correction there's no american VA after ARR, it's all the same London cast that does both NA and European English, that said yeah the London cast is a vast improvement over the LA cast, though I think it's mostly due to direction they were given as the LA cast did have some big names but their performances weren't great at all.TheFeniX wrote: ↑2022-06-13 11:47am Yea, I mean I still love some slapstick even in my old age. But Hildy stuff always felt like me, or really my character, was the only "straight man" involved. Much like.... shit, who was the Elezen Inspector guy? Anyways, you were always meant to be his mirror: two reasonable people watching insanity in action. It's about time the WoL embraced the absurdity and understand the microcosm they are in when interacting with Hildy and Nashu. The laws of Ethyris do not apply. And as said, you even have those two adventurers who were like "when in rome" and so they both play Bob-omb volleyball with you.
It's an interactive media, interact with it. But as I said, a vast majority of people are posting like "ZOMG, FUNNY FACE!" WTF man, they've had that since ARR? I also want to see more damned voice acting. At least the American VAs, post ARR, do a bang up job, even when asked to Ham it up. Susano is a perfect example: REJOICE! And even in ARR, Gilgemesh was pretty hilarious.
I still laugh at the delivery of these lines today. Needs more.
Or just... even him spamming tank busters, and being like "huh?" "What?" as they do nothing. So he legit just Falcon Punches the tank, and then is like "THIS SPEAR I STOLE IS SHIT!" It's fun too cuz Greg will drop 4th wall breaks here and there.
And that's the whole point -- we ARE the straight-man in this routine, but over the 'years' we've learned how to wind Hildy up and point him in the (mostly) right direction.TheFeniX wrote: ↑2022-06-13 11:47am Yea, I mean I still love some slapstick even in my old age. But Hildy stuff always felt like me, or really my character, was the only "straight man" involved. Much like.... shit, who was the Elezen Inspector guy? Anyways, you were always meant to be his mirror: two reasonable people watching insanity in action. It's about time the WoL embraced the absurdity and understand the microcosm they are in when interacting with Hildy and Nashu. The laws of Ethyris do not apply. And as said, you even have those two adventurers who were like "when in rome" and so they both play Bob-omb volleyball with you.
I wonder if part (at least for some people) why they dislike the Paladin job quests (and to a degree the Gladiator ones) is that you're not acting like a lawful stupid thug who just charges in and slaughters all who they deem to be "bad guys", instead you're working within the system as much as possible and even when you can't you consider what is the best solution for the next step to do things in a way Ul'Dah doesn't end as burning ruins with the streets covered with people you killed.TheFeniX wrote: ↑2022-07-14 02:07pm I put off finishing out ARR and moving to HW on my alt cuz I need to level DRG. I can't go into HW without having one up on Esintien. I remember way back playing through HW, everytime Esty would get mouthy, I'd be like "don't make me kick your ass again. I'll fuckin' do it if the game lets me."
It's pretty nuts how PLD gets dumped on, but it's honestly one of the better ARR Job quests. I even drank the koolaid and mocked it until I went back. It consistently both lore dumps via cutscene and combat. However, DRG just... lore dumps. The first 3 quests are "hey, here's a bunch of info of what DRGs are. It's all lies, but whatevs! Now, go kill 3 mobs and come back!" PLD at least works engagement with the Job. You're actively in the middle of the corruption and helping fight it. And more than that, your existence is used against the Job Quest giver. It's honestly set a bar really high.
Realistically, LNC/DRG is probably the weakest combo storywise. It's blown away by ACN/SCH/SMN. I mean, anything not involving Y'Mitra is low tier anyways.
I think there's not just the words but also cultural differences that make the translation fail, as IIRC "an old wise master who acts like a prick to test you" is fairly common character type in Japanese stories (the Japanese possibly having gotten that character type from the Chinese back in the day) so they would be more familiar and accepting of that character types then most westerners who don't really use that character type as much if at all anymore.TheFeniX wrote: ↑2022-07-15 05:34pm Yea, he comes off as an arrogant prick. Even if it's a translation failure, it's like a trust fund baby mocking us for scraping together enough money to barely survive after being given a small stipend and then being like "Imma take it away to test you." To twist the knife, his actions (and possibly Hydaelyn's, depending on how you read it, he may have been acting with her approval) directly lead to the death of one character and nearly kills a third mere hours later. In fact, the entire premise is dumb because we're fighting people so powerful, one openly admits they could kill anyone except the WoL on a whim, they just don't cuz they're playing the long game.
These interactions massively colored my perceptions of FFXIV dragonkin, which was the point, in that they aren't really any better morally than spoken. Except, laughably, they're worse because we aren't immortals and naturally stupid tough and intelligent (most dragons, like their DnD counterparts, seem to be born with tons of inherent knowledge).
