Patch 5.4: Futures Rewritten

[Anoat]

Gonna have two days or so to finish all the 5.4 content before Cyberpunk takes over my life

[Gokulo]

Preliminary Patch notes:
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...5b72592c6f4f6f

New role quest, interesting.
Also, classic UI mode, but it looks too bright and hurtful :D

[The Stig]

Patch 5.4 notes: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...8c2f1094131070

I know MNK's getting changed but I don't really understand it until i go test it for myself.

Downtime boredom productivity so I created and uploaded 2 videos where I paired it with 2 anime tracks. Both of the cutscenes are the same, the first uses Dragon Ball Super's Limit Break x Survivor and the second uses My Hero Academia's You Say Run. I was pleased with how both turned out so just sharing the results here! Pick your poison depending on which franchise you're more familiar with!

[silverdragontyr]

People doing early math say Mnk damage overall is less but not greatly so. Maybe a couple percent. Mainly because of loss of damage increase on auto-attacks. It's up in the air if Tornado Kick + Increased forbidden Chakra rate will make up for it. One thing is for certain. Just having a Mnk is a 5% damage increase for your party without melee; Which in itself is pretty nice.

I'm conflicted as a Mnk main. Not having to worry about GL will be nice. However it also makes Mnk oGCD game REALLY busy. Essentially doubling our rate of Chakra gen endgame and potentially increasing it during brotherhood due to spells proccing it. Then add in TK and RoE is now a 3 charge 6 second True north. It will be interesting to say the least.

[Anoat]

These Eden tiers suck. Bad. The first three are not fun at all. The first half of the final one is slooooooow and dumb. The second half of the final one is actually fun. But highly disappointed in the finale to Eden.

[Gokulo]

Yeah, that slow section is so annoying in the last fight...
Plus. I was disappointed that

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It was Ascians again, lol

[Anoat]

The emerald weapon trial is BAD ASS and puts this entire Eden tier to shame

[silverdragontyr]

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Not a fan of the last two fights. Agreed last fight is way too slow. Also, with the music of the last fight, and everything about memories and DARKNESS! this went FFVIII to Kingdom Hearts real fast.

[Anoat]

Well, the last fight was designed by Nomura, soooo

[Lucavi]

Seriously, you know Nomura freedom just like you know Amano freedom.

Amano: Purple lips, pale skin, gangly, gaunt appearances, wispy hair, corpse-like.
Nomura: Belts, insanely attractive models, obsessions with convoluted plots, contrivances, black attire and hoods.

[Vaspinne]

So what you're all saying is that, me being a diehard fan of KH, I'm going to love this tier huh?

[AoE]

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More like a sloppy FF14 take on FF8 than anything. Was kinda cringey for me but I'm glad it's done.

[Lucavi]

So what you're all saying is that, me being a diehard fan of KH, I'm going to love this tier huh?

Maybe? I know Gaia and not-Minfillia can't carry the script by themselves this tier. Watching the world first race, though, the savages are going to be brutal, so that's where I'll get my fun.

The music is also tits. Love me some good FF8 songs.

[Anoat]

Well having finished all the new content of 5.4 (except Savage), I rate it thusly.

MSQ started out pretty good, pretty lame ending though.

Matoya’s Relict dungeon very fun, I like it.

Emerald Weapon fight was super fun, really like it.

Eden raids disappointing, did not like.

Void quests were super simple but were nice lore extensions so I dig it.

Like the changes to triple triad, especially the list showing me where to get the cards I am missing.

It was an okay patch, hard to top 5.3 but overall pleased.

[Kaslo]

Eden felt like there were cutscenes missing after the fights...

[Scythiroth]

I'm still sad there was basically 0 FF8 stuff in the raids besides music and one boss fight. Why even theme it towards FF8 at all?

[The Stig]

I'm still sad there was basically 0 FF8 stuff in the raids besides music and one boss fight. Why even theme it towards FF8 at all?

I guess if we need to blame something it's the inclusion of gunbreaker and the gunblade glamour way back in the beginning

[Vaspinne]

The Eden storyline kind of involved some orphans? But no time travelling witches ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Lucavi]

I'm still sad there was basically 0 FF8 stuff in the raids besides music and one boss fight. Why even theme it towards FF8 at all?

Because I wanted to hear the music, and I got it. So good, Soken!

[Gokulo]

Full theme of Shadowbringers: