Wings of the Goddess Missions - December 2010 Update

[Hanyoko]

Maybe talk to the troupe leader?

[Gwynplaine]

This thread is now about earring stats.
Good riddance to a long and shitty expansion.

[Hanyoko]

do you get to pick or are they lolrandom?

[Yugl]

Edit: GDI

[gmanx2099]

I guess I haven't posted 10 posts yet. The final battle cutscenes are on youtube now. I just put them up. Just look under Maiden of the Dusk

[TacoTaru]

Trying to avoid spoiling the ending here because I enjoyed what I've done up to the point I'm at, but has SE said they aren't doing anymore disc expansions for XI? As much as I am really liking the Abyssea expansions, I'd like to see another full fledged expansion with the new team at the wheel.

[Spira]

don't think they've ruled anything out definitively.. and even if they did before.. i wouldn't take that as a rule since they've gone and changed a lot of things they'd set in stone (like lv75 'final' cap)

thx for the yt... have a vid of the fight itself too?

[Spira]

just cleared WotG... CS are good as usual.. can't say i felt the story tied up well enough but its a start..

as for the earring..
it seems to be..

for Regain,
latent = weapon drawn
1TP/tic

for Refresh,
latent = weapon kept (not drawn)
1MP/tic

[Yvonne]

for Regain,
latent = weapon drawn
1TP/tic

for Refresh,
latent = weapon kept (not drawn)
1MP/tic

That's actually pretty damn good then, thanks for the information! Not too underwhelmed as I was yesterday, but I feel conflicted which Augment I want.

So does that mean Acc.+4/Regain gonna basically be the next staple with Brutal then (2-handed jobs)? Assuming future endgame isn't revolved around Abyssea.

[Jeryhn]

as for the earring..
it seems to be..

for Regain,
latent = weapon drawn
1TP/tic

for Refresh,
latent = weapon kept (not drawn)
1MP/tic

Wow. Confirmation?

[Spira]

um yeah.. as in, we tested it right there and then.
u could ask my pt members.. one of them has posted on ffxiah about it

[Shibayama]

I'm curious...

Might there be a hidden effect where if you're in abyssea/woe the effect increases?

Just a thought, would be pretty easy to test too, just because I'm hoping for abit more than 4 attack on the earring after such a long expansion.

[tsola]

Yeah, just finally chose my earring myself, and the refresh is indeed active when your weapon isn't drawn. The JP wiki I originally found info on it converting TP->MP has been changed now too.

[Malacite]

So, anyone else severely disappointed with the ending?

I've been looking forward to it for so long, and it just felt completely underwhelming. The CS right after the final fight was fairly epic, but all the others from running around the world just felt like CoP-lite.

Spoiler: show

I mean come on we don't even get to see Lilith's world? Cheap bastards could have at least shown Lilisette taking charge over there, you know, end it with her leading mankind into one of the cities to take it back or something. No, instead they give us the wedding crap which was cute but nothing anyone cared about, and then the earring. Yay. Fuck you SE. CoP still takes the cake for best ending. What the fuck was up with Lilith turning into Altana btw? Or at least a very close clone, as her model looked just like Amano's artwork of the Goddess...

[Spira]

with regards to the ending...

Spoiler: show

i'm pretty sure this is just a so-called ending.. like SE has a habit of adding a little something after the 'end'.
the whole Zilart expansion was like a continuation of the original story arc
Storms of Fate for CoP after defeating Promathia
Apocalypse Nigh for both Zilart and CoP..
Waking the Colossus / The Rider Cometh count as continuations for ToAU... and to some extent, Balrahn's arms quest line do too...

I'm willing to bet we'll see Lilisette again. Somehow I don't think we will see Lilith's Vana'diel just like that tho...

as for WotG content coming to a close.. if im not wrong there are still 7 unused parts of Walk of Echoes... tho I don't know if they count for enough of anything to be added there...

Symbolism

Spoiler: show

WotG has always been quite a bit of a nostalgia-fest, firstly by remixing old zones for use that are at once familiar as well as new. That most of the NPCs you meet in WotG probably have current day counterparts also add to this whole 'back in the day' feel of the expansion. In addition, almost every single mob they brought into WotG has appeared in a past FF, adding to the whole familiarity thing.

The ending of WotG seemed to want to take this further.. especially with the whole flashback dawndrops thing... (which might have been necessary given the storyline spans 3 years). The music from the final battle contains a melody that is almost identical to one we've all heard in the WotG pre-release trailer. Instantly recognizable, bringing back memories... Lilith Ascendant looks exactly like Altana on the WotG retail boxart, partly to evoke such thoughts of familiarity, and also because apparently the thing she stole from Lilisette was probably the part of her that made her a Wing of the Goddess.

The other thing it probably was meant to symbolize would be that its as if you're fighting Altana herself. I remember joking with a friend.. in RotZ, the last boss was Eald'narche, a Zilart.. in CoP, we fought Promathia.. ToAU, we fought with a treasure of Aht Urhgan, so to speak... so in Wings of the Goddess, we would fight the Goddess Altana.. lol..
of course, the likelihood of you ever fighting Altana herself is close to 0 since u're always on her side and she'd never fight you.. so perhaps this was a workaround.

[Malacite]

I wouldn't be so sure on that last point with regards to that new quest Esha'ntarl gives (Emissary of God or something like that?)

The 6 Caturae hold the key to the celestial capital?

Ah found the OP:


http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/101...12-06%29/page8

Emissaries of God
Client: Esha'ntarl
(Hall of the Gods)
Summary:
The enigmatic caturae are suspected
to hold the key to gaining access to
Al'Taieu, the celestial capital. Defeat
all six known species, that the door
to salvation might be cast opened!

Except we already went there in CoP so... wtf? XI's plot is really getting screwy with 3 alternate realities.

[calinz]

I wouldn't be so sure on that last point with regards to that new quest Esha'ntarl gives (Emissary of God or something like that?)

The 6 Caturae hold the key to the celestial capital?

Ah found the OP:


http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/101...12-06%29/page8




Except we already went there in CoP so... wtf? XI's plot is really getting screwy with 3 alternate realities.

Abyssea - Empyreal Paradox is in the dats so this quest likely leads to the Shinryu fight to end the abyssea storyline.

[Alkar]

Spira, did you manage to buy the Atma for WotG completion?

[Cant]

same here, ive complete wotg, got the earring but cannot get atma
ive try a few places seeking for a final CS but nothing

[Tomino]

MMO Jesus will bring fluffly kitties to anyone who will kindly upload videos from WotG final missions, I'm sure.
Would really love to see how it ends, shame on me I quitted for 14...