Rhapsodies of Vana'diel [Missions]

[ccl]

MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE NOVEMBER UPDATE:
The cutscene left in the game in

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Empyreal Paradox

Video:

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Does it seems like this is how it will end (I didn't watch it)? Can't believe they did that lol

[dasva]

So I'm running 3 characters thru and all of them have all expansion missions done... but at times they get different cs or partly different or in 1 case 2 got it but the other didn't very weird

[Spira]

done with this set of missions.
its not too bad. story is decent, albeit a little contrived and messy and the pacing is definitely too fast (which i can understand since they're giving it to us in 3 updates only), leading to character appearances being touch and go. One of the biggest annoyances tho is that the RoV thing basically has 1 theme song and that Escha theme that they keep using...

battles were pretty easy. Empy fight wasnt even a challenge. I think we all could foresee who the antagonist is.
we still have quite a few cameos who havent appeared yet. Arciela, Naja, Trion, Maat.. and so on.
cutscenes arent that great but i guess theres very little to build on and they're probably holding out for part 3.

still a good send off for the game tho

[Sechs]

Fuck whoever copy/pasted mission steps from ffxiclopedia, Temple of Uggalepih's mission The Cursed Temple is map 2 J-6 using BG's maps.

It's map 3 using the game's own mapping hierarchy.

[Hammy025]

Next step is ornate door in WoE, but only if you enter from Grauberg S (have WotG done) or Passhow S (have VW Jeuno done).

I have 4 characters running through this at once. 2 have finished WotG and had to go back and finish the Cait Sith and Atomos avatar fights to progress. 1 (the newest character that just finished CoP, Zilart, and ToAU) also progressed as soon as I got him through WotG 7 (maybe earlier, that's when I went to San d'Oria [S] for the CS). The last character is my main that never did WotG. I was doing those missions side by side with the last character above, so they're at the exact same place in the story line.

This one is stuck on Sacrifice. He can't get into WoE like the previous character did which was through the Cavernous Maw in Batallia (after CS's, you get an option to go to the past, go to WoE, or nothing). My main never got that option to go to the WoE.

The character that got through doesn't have the Abyssea add-ons which is the biggest difference. Other than that there's very little difference. He has not finished Apocalypse Nigh whereas my main has. CoP and ToAU are exactly the same.

Any other ideas? Or do I just need to suck it up and finish WotG?

[Tile]

SE actually posted this if anyone hasn't seen it yet.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...450#post556450

[Hammy025]

SE actually posted this if anyone hasn't seen it yet.

Thank you, that's good info, but it confirms that I should be able to progress since the character doesn't have any of the WotG missions that would block past Sacrifice. I also checked the current 'known issues', and this isn't in there.

[Tdizzle]

Thank you, that's good info, but it confirms that I should be able to progress since the character doesn't have any of the WotG missions that would block past Sacrifice. I also checked the current 'known issues', and this isn't in there.

Keep us updated if you will. I'm curious as well. I started doing (or starting progressing further) on WoTG missions and really really would rather not have to bother with finishing them.

I'll start Rhapsodies ch 2 and that was the mission that should be key to tell if we're blocked or not. I noticed in the wiki page that mission says you can't enter WOE from Xarc (s) and you have to go through graeburg or pashaw instead. One requires you to be almost done with WotG while the other requires you to pretty far on VW (finished the Jeuno NMs I think). If either of those are true, I'm screwed, but neither is listed on that list as 'blockers'.

[Lordesequiel]

Tearing my hair out here. Stuck on "Ganged Up On". Wont give me a CS, i meet all the requirements posted on the official forums. Called a GM and asked if it was bugged, said no and that they couldnt help me but i should look out ofr small glowing dots on the floor that are easy to miss and press enter.... FML.

[NynJa]

Keep us updated if you will. I'm curious as well. I started doing (or starting progressing further) on WoTG missions and really really would rather not have to bother with finishing them.

So you're saying you dont have a TP Bonus moonshade?

[Hammy025]

Tearing my hair out here. Stuck on "Ganged Up On". Wont give me a CS, i meet all the requirements posted on the official forums. Called a GM and asked if it was bugged, said no and that they couldnt help me but i should look out ofr small glowing dots on the floor that are easy to miss and press enter.... FML.

I was briefly stuck on this one as well. I think I got past it by zoning into San d'Oria [S] for the CS there, but I don't remember for sure, it could have been one of the other million things I did.

Keep us updated if you will. I'm curious as well. I started doing (or starting progressing further) on WoTG missions and really really would rather not have to bother with finishing them.

My main that is stuck is on the same mission/quest or further than my mule that got past Sacrifice. Which means that it's not a matter of catching up on old missions, it's going too far and having to do some side quest somewhere. So I'm just going to push on with WotG and check if I get the maw option to go to WoE after every mission/quest. I'll post what I find.

As mentioned earlier, having WoE access from Xarcabard [S] does NOT get you any further, just a brief CS that doesn't mean anything.

[MrJinn]

Thank you, that's good info, but it confirms that I should be able to progress since the character doesn't have any of the WotG missions that would block past Sacrifice. I also checked the current 'known issues', and this isn't in there.

I am currently stuck here as well, no way to reach Ornate Door without getting to like mission 46 or further and I am only on 26 from years ago I never cared to finish the story LOL now I guess its biting me in the rear

[Tile]

when ever i see people that havent finished the missions and they been playing for years i find it odd, I try to to all the story stuff asap. what reason is it that yall havent done them?

[Draylo]

when ever i see people that havent finished the missions and they been playing for years i find it odd, I try to to all the story stuff asap. what reason is it that yall havent done them?

Same here, I can only guess most of them are the type that hate reading or watching CS. It always surprised me the amount of people who would spam enter on CS's.

[MrJinn]

I just never did, and once Abyssea came out nobody cared and now everyone cares :D but easily soloable now I am finishing off fights in 1-2 hits and stopping to do the nation quests every so often slows you down as well. I don't mind CS I like all the stories from each expansion just got to remember old days people rage quit if you fail once and blame it on someone else.

[Hammy025]

I never cared about the story line, just the content (NM's, gear, etc) and game play. Plus I stopped playing shortly after WotG came out, so I never did those.

Anyone that's stuck around Sacrifice or made it past this with only ~WotG 7, can you confirm whether or not you have Abyssea add-ons purchased? That's the biggest difference between my main and mule.

[Tile]

for me a game has to have a good story, its the only thing keeping me active in a game. not a fan of here is a big update, there is no quests or missions but we added some fights that have the same gear you already have but now with 1 more accuracy, enjoy.

[Chumm]

Same here, I can only guess most of them are the type that hate reading or watching CS. It always surprised me the amount of people who would spam enter on CS's.

To some of us, it's just a bunch of anime bullshit.

On topic, Hammy that's very interesting that you get the WoE option at maw, I didn't even know that was an option. The quest text did indeed say that, but I, like a lot of people I think, just went straight to Xarc S when Lillisette said we were headed to WoE. I checked and I'm not getting the option at maws, I wonder if getting the cutscene in Xarc screws you up since she acknowledges you've entered WoE and the game is expecting you to hit the door next. Of course that wouldn't be very good error handling if you warped out before hitting the door, but it could be an oversight. I know that doesn't help your char, but might save someone else a headache.

[Tarage]

So here's something awesome.

I was on the final BCNM in the Empy Paradox and I lagged out. It killed my KI, which won't allow me to re-enter to do the fight. I now have a "Motionless Plume". It's description says "It may be revitalized upon reaching the skies."

I've been all over Escha-Sky. I've clicked all the ???s you click in the story. Nothing is changing the KI back. I literally have no idea how to get my KI fixed so I can do the fucking mission to finish this. And because the fight is so easy, no one has failed it and had to retry it, so no one seems to know how to recharge it.

Does anyone know? Has anyone actually failed this fight and redone it? How do I recharge this fucking KI?

EDIT: Whelp, the answer is stupid. It's literally "Wait an in game day and re-zone into the Empy Paradox." Fuck whoever designed this 'hint'.

[Infini]

This one is stuck on Sacrifice. He can't get into WoE like the previous character did which was through the Cavernous Maw in Batallia (after CS's, you get an option to go to the past, go to WoE, or nothing). My main never got that option to go to the WoE.

Any other ideas? Or do I just need to suck it up and finish WotG?

This quest I think is bugged bad. Its not only preventing progress on RoV 2 (as im at a part in the story in WoTG where lilisette is unavailable) but its also blocking me from finishing the last Sandy S campaign as well as not allowing me to Progress on WotG 40 (i got around the sandy S problem by doing the bastok S campaign only to get cockblocked AGAIN! GG SE). Suspecting the key item here is superseding everything else and blocking the CS's for other quests. Hopefully they fix this on Tuesday its REALLY annoying that I'm utterly roadblocked on this.