Patch 6.1: Newfound Adventure (April 12th, 2022)

[Kaslo]

[Hioki]

Getting the minion in the first days is always a great feeling, but man, this time I really want that final boss orchestrion asap

I managed to get the orchestration roll on my first run. I think there might be more than one minion out of this one? I saw Thal on my run through, but another FC person saw Azemya.

[Corrderio]

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I feel like it'll be partly the thirteenth and partly Merycydia, since we still have a ton of patches before 7.0 we'll probably be dealing with the thirteenth all throughout them. But we also have Cylva and Unakhalai on the first trying to find a way to restore the thirteenth as well, so I imagine this storyline and theirs will intertwine once we figure out how to travel from source back to the first.

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Cylva and Unakhalai are the reason why I really hope we get an expansion investigating the world of darkness. Not sure if you did The Void Calls side stories but they do hint at a way to restore The Thirteenth

[Anoat]

I managed to get the orchestration roll on my first run. I think there might be more than one minion out of this one? I saw Thal on my run through, but another FC person saw Azemya.

I got Azeyma, that’s pretty cool if there’s more.

[Koul]

Well. I absolutely hate being a healer in pvp now. I understand why they did it cuz healing is so powerful but I dono. Also, the new pvp mode is sooo insane with teams being able to snowball so fast. You're pretty much fucked if anyone is on different rez times and unable to coordinate

[Drai]

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Cylva and Unakhalai are the reason why I really hope we get an expansion investigating the world of darkness. Not sure if you did The Void Calls side stories but they do hint at a way to restore The Thirteenth

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Yeah I did all those, and during this MSQ when Y'shtola specifically brings up Unakhalai she asks you if you know of anyone else from the thirteenth, and you can bring up Cylva if you've done those quests, also of note was Unakhalai's name being voiced in that cutscene, which leads me to believe he's gonna be pushed front and center soon enough.

[Anoat]

Did the new role quest epilogue for finishing all of Endwalker roles. It’s not really too exciting but you do get to spend more time with Fourchenaut and an unexpected and humorous guest starring role from someone else but I wouldn’t say it’s hugely lore heavy like the Shadowbringers role quest finale was.

[Cantih]

Yet.
There were multiple updates to the Shadowbringer's role quest cap line.

It seems I'm mistaken. I swore they added another quest to the line in 5.5 after it was introduced in 5.4.

[Prothescar]

Crystalline Conflict is so much fun. RDM honestly feels so stupid in there, I have such a strong toolkit to deal with just about everything.

[Anoat]

Crystalline Conflict seems to be the most time efficient way to farm tomes now with each match lasting a max of 6 minutes but most over far before that.

[Shenrien]

Samurai is broken, and 1v5 easily, Ninja has potential to wipe out a team as well.

If you're not playing sam/nin/drg/whm/war/mch you're hard trolling.

[Anoat]

Holy fuck is SMN annoying in crystal conflict so much with gigantic ass AOE

Feels like if you don’t win on the initial push you are more likely to lose because the opposition can counter push while you have longer death respawn timers from being later in the match and before you know it poof they are on your door step

[Gokulo]

I managed to get the orchestration roll on my first run. I think there might be more than one minion out of this one? I saw Thal on my run through, but another FC person saw Azemya.

Ohh damn, I only saw Azeyma in the two runs I did.

[Corrderio]

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Yeah I did all those, and during this MSQ when Y'shtola specifically brings up Unakhalai she asks you if you know of anyone else from the thirteenth, and you can bring up Cylva if you've done those quests, also of note was Unakhalai's name being voiced in that cutscene, which leads me to believe he's gonna be pushed front and center soon enough.

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Nice. Most people I know didn't do those quests. Though yeah I really do hope they give us a nice set up for The Thirteenth. That and if Y'shtola can master warping to the other reflections dear god at how many expansions we could have. All of a sudden that 10 year plan makes much more sense.

[Gokulo]

The quest was worth it for the final fight alone though, pretty cool visuals:

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[Kaslo]

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So it just hit me, what if Azdaja ends up enslaved to Golbez to serve the role of his Shadow Dragon?

[Kaisha]

You're pretty much fucked if anyone is on different rez times and unable to coordinate

This I'm feeling super hard. At the least have rotating respawn times or something so it syncs up with others on your team. Doesn't help that people are being stupid (as usual) when the healer or tank is dead and they rush ahead after respawning instead of waiting on them.

Also double-healer seems pretty busted atm? At least before people figure out their jobs of choice/what's-broken-tier (hi NIN).

[Anoat]

After having more time to think on the 24 man raid, I honestly think this is the most unique and fun 24 man boss set we’ve seen. I think Rhalgr and Nald’thal are closely tied for first place, I kinda want to give the edge to Rhalgr for the unique arena and the giant METEOR FIST! Brygeot is hilarious for the unsuspecting wipes when the hammers drop, many laughs were had, but I think that will wear off as the weeks go by. Azeyma fight is I think the weakest of the four, but it’s still very fun compared to other alliance raid bosses.

[Kaslo]

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So it just hit me, what if Azdaja ends up enslaved to Golbez to serve the role of his Shadow Dragon?

Oh god, I'm going down a hole...

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Unukalhai has Cecil Harvey hair... Could Golbez be Unukalhai's brother?

[Vaspinne]

Can anyone give me a tl;dr for how the new pvp rewards work? Is it like, 1 match = 1 level up for a reward or something like that? Or is it more of an exp system? Or wut? =X