Playfriends, now we're back to the MSQ! This is your spoiler free lore comment! Patch 4.1, "The Legend Returns", was released in October 2017. This patch would give us the Royal City of Rabanastre starting the Return to Ivalice quests, the Kojin tribe quests & reputation grind, and a few weeks later the new 48 player Rival Wings PvP battle. Rival Wings operates similar to a MOBA, and has a dedicated, if small, following to this day! It's time for Arenvald time. Arenvald has been a member of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn since back in ARR. His mentors died in the Garlean raid of the Waking Sands. He's been with us through the Crystal Braves debacle and he's been on the front lines of the liberation of his homeland. Oh, and he's got the Echo, if you don't remember. While Krile is perhaps more adept at using hers (not that there's much "skill" involved in using the Echo), Arenvald is a more typical combatant, and thus the ideal understudy for Durmin. And this patch is all about getting some training in with the 2nd string Warrior of Light. 4:58 - After the amount that I had to type up for Omega and Ivalice, I'm happy to have Arenvald (and the MSQ) give the lore this week. 5:21 - Aw, who am I kidding, I can't help myself, MOAR LORE. The Monks of the Fist were devoted to Rhalgr and made the Reach their home (note the massive statue of Rhalgr). But you can go through their training regimen at level 70! The optional dungeon Temple of the Fist is located right here in the Reach, and goes through some of their history and lore. 7:57 - This would be our lead in to the situation in Rabanastre and its plight in the Ivalice quests. 9:04 - Arenvald proves here that sometimes the person scheduling and arranging your D&D game doesn't have to be the party leader nor the GM. Or at least be like Durmin and bring some snacks! 15:30 - Perhaps the most depressing part of Arenvald's past is that it isn't that unusual. There's a lot of people under Garlean rule who have lived this experience. 15:55 - I love that the story intertwines two motivations. The Scions need some R&R after helping with the Liberation, and getting back to some fun dudgeon delving is just their ticket. But the loot isn't for living the high life, it's for helping with the grander political story, helping the needy and getting Ala Mhigo back on its feet. 21:20 - "Somehow, the boy just isn't very buoyant" 22:00 - Dan is, obviously, in the past, as the most recent patch added all the post Stormbood MSQ dungeons to Duty Support. And he's right, your companions are Arenvald (Tank or Melee DPS), Alphinaud (Healer or Magic DPS), and J'Moldva (Melee DPS) who is a member of Arenvald's Scions squad. There must be some NPC dialogue that explains that Arenvald's team ends up merging with Durmin's route, rather than the race to the treasure that occurs with a full player party. 25:25 - If I recall, the Push/Pull mechanics of The Kelpie had a bug at one point, causing them to do the reverse. It's long since been fixed. 25:51 - You can very briefly see that Durmin has been inflicted with Dropsy and Water Resistance Down due to the arena edge. Dropsy does persisting water damage, and coupled with the resistance lowering, it can get really dangerous. This will come up in future content. And I say that as someone who died to dropsy in level 90 content just the last weekend. 26:50 - The Old One is based on Japanese figurines called Shakōkidogū, or their more generic cousins the Dogū. These clay figurines are from the Jōmon period (14,000-400 BCE), and have been found across the primary Japanese islands, but mostly eastern Japan. And I learned about them because of Digimon. 28:33 - I am sad to say that this transformation sequence may have been removed in the recent update that added Duty Support. I'm guessing something about this ghost sequence didn't work well with the NPC system. 33:52 - The thing about Duty Support that I am the most apprehensive about is if players don't get little cutscenes like this because they played through the dungeon with the NPCs. I think they should be left in, regardless of how the dungeon was completed. Fortunately, that' won't be a concern much longer, as starting in Shadowbringers all dungeons are designed with Duty Support/Trust in mind when it comes to the cutscenes and story. Next Time: Our next steps toward an Ala Mhigo for all Ala Mhigans. Voice Cast: In a bit of a change up, Arenvald is now being voiced by Joe Dempsie, who you might recognize as playing Gendry Baratheon in Game of Thrones.
@@TheIvoryDingo Is it removed just for Duty Support, or from the player party one as well? I figured they'd keep it for player parties, since it's voice acted.
@@chan742 I checked the post-dungeon cutscene with the book in the inn and it no longer shows them falling. Because with Duty Support, any actually named characters did canonically do the dungeon with you regardless of whether you are with other players (it's why the post last boss scene always has them run up and why you can talk to them after finishing the dungeon).
Dan gets a doughnut: "I'm going to carry this away from everyone" Viewers at home, please do not repeat this violence. Doughnuts stack or at the very least stay still. You do not want to move the AOE damage onto someone by accident, and you are the safe zone.
One of the reasons I'm enjoying this series is getting to re-experience the story, so that I notice things I may have missed, or that gain new meaning in the context of things more recently learned. (Seriously. New Reveal From Fan Fest + Bit From #40 = Interesting Prediction) This time around I'm delighted to find how efficient the storytelling is. On one level it's a lighthearted, simple adventure, a pallet cleanser after the end of 4.0, and Zenos killing himself. On another level, you're learning about the Mad King, and why no one is much interested in finding the "True Heir To The Throne" and why most are sure no such person exists.
Yay! More MSQ! I really like the Drowned City of Skalla part of the MSQ. It gives more information about the Mad King, gives some more background to Arenvald, and is generally a fun dungeon.
In the handful of weeks between Dan recording and releasing this, Drowned City of Skalla has introduced duty support - and in doing so, mild updates were presumably required to make it a bit more NPC friendly. While each boss was touched up, the only noticeable change I could find was that the second wave of Subservients summoned by The Old One are now stationary (Dan cut this part of the fight for time - these adds would move in around the boss in a slow circle, just enough to make exploding them a bit more of a trick). As for the rest of the dungeon, sadly the gaps that were crossed by transforming into a floaty ghost are now crossed by a spectral bridge that is summoned when enemies are defeated. I'm glad Dan got the silly ghost transformation on record - the bridges are gorgeous, but the ghosts were so jiggly and fun.
When Arenvald approached me with talk of "getting back to adventuring" I was like "you have been slacking! I defeated Omega and found Ivalice already!". Also Hildbrand would be very proud of Alphinauld, them claim he was about to reach the same conclusions.
BLU's Clues: Skalla brings us another Blue Magic spell, this time the Hydro Pull used by the Kelpie boss at 25:50 to drag Durmin off the platform. This spell is an optional part of one of a BLU's most devastating combos, as it pulls all normal mobs in a large area right onto the caster. "But that sounds like a bad thing for a squishy mage!", you say, and you would be absolutely right, if the mage in question didn't have the icy Ram's Breath of a chimera, which freezes every enemy nearby solid for several seconds. The followup to Ram's Breath is Ultravibration (a spell learned from, no kidding, giant Ala Mhigan dragonflies), which shatters any frozen enemies near the caster, killing them instantly. Drag them in, freeze them, shatter them. In about 6 seconds, a single BLU can wipe out a pack of trash mobs that takes Durmin's crew a minute or two to beat down. Now, the spells have long cooldowns, so a BLU can't just run from pack to pack casting them...but if you have several BLUs, they can take turns with the combo and effectively delete all the non-boss mobs in the dungeon without breaking stride.
I didn't realize how much I missed Alphinaud till now. He's really become one of my favorite characters! Ah dang, now I miss having Alisaie around too, though Alhinaud's probably glad she wasn't around for the ghosts ^^
The trick with Ninja is that the only Mudra (Ten, Chi, or Jin) that matters for a Ninjutsu is the final one. 1 Mudra is always Shuriken 2 is either Single Target Lightning(Chi), AoE Explosion(Ten), or Weaker Single Target Ice(Jin) 3 is either AoE DoT(Chi), Attack Speed Buff(Ten), or Single Target Water*(Jin) The other thing I found really helpful was that having them arranged on a D-pad, since I play on console, really helps to associate the different Ninjutsu spacially. E.g. I had "Ten" on Up, and "Chi" on Down, which meant that a lighting strike was Up-Down. Like lightning coming from a cloud and striking the Earth. Then the firey AoE I associated with lava exploding up from the ground, Down-Up. The attack speed buff is like a gust of wind building and then shooting upwards, the AoE DoT throws down some kunai, so build then Down, and the Water attack is like building the water and then shooting forwards (I had Jin on Right) kinda like waterbending. The only downside to playing Ninja on a controller is of course the teleport being awkward when you have to actually point the camera where you want to blink to. *The Water is slightly lower damage than Lightning, but allows you to do follow with a from-stealth attack w/o stealth.
The Drowned City of Skalla does now have Duty Support (and has had for about four weeks), for anyone who is wondering. Makes me wonder how far ahead Dan records these things.
Can’t say how far ahead this was done in specific, but I do know there’s more content that has been recorded but not yet released and it was done at least early October for some of it. Also, I am glad Dan got this done before the patch update bc you no longer turn into things to pass sections of the dungeon anymore. ;~;
I just went through the start of the stormblood patch quests a few weeks back, and i was gonna say, i could have sworn the duty support was in for this
Actually I think Dan may have just made a mistake here. If you check at 23:00 the screen he's got up says that it can be done solo. So I suspect he recorded this after duty support was added but didn't realize that it had been added.
@@AdeonHawkwood That graphic appeared on dungeons that were planned to have Duty Support but did not have it yet. You could even see the dungeons in the list but you couldn't do them. If you had read the other replies to my comment, you would have learned that a certain aspect of the dungeon no longer exists now that it has Duty Support, and that aspect is still present in this video. Also, at the end of a Duty Support dungeon all of the available NPC's appear after the last boss is dead. In this video none of them appeared.
Ah! Today we have finally caught up with where the story was when I first picked up this game! I joined the game back in 2017, shortly after the 4.1 patch release. It was a very different experience back then, for a whole host of reasons, and it's been a lot of fun to see Durmin go through it all up to this point! Of course, with the time it took me to play through all the story, Durmin won't catch up to the point where I finally ran out of story quests for the first time until the next patch, 4.2, and the first patch I got to experience on day one, 4.3, is amazing and holds a special place in my heart for sure. Looking forward to Durmin's progress in wrapping up loose ends and paving the way towards a new expansion...
So one of the funniest errors in the game is ever was on the Kelpie boss, on release the effects of Hydro Push and Hydro Pull were reversed. A funny joke at the time is that it made sense cause Kelpies are liars. I believe it was hotfixed to correct the issue (I struggle to call it a bug or a glitch). Also the gear for this dungeon was actually based on a player submitted design as part of a contest. Their are several sets like this designed for one role and then the dev team creates a set to match the winner. In this case the healer gear was the winner of the contest. I personally am partial to the the tanking chest piece, one of the best in the game.
Random fun fact about that Sprint command, that is actually a spell! I learned that the hard way in a dungeon. My dualcast didn’t get to be used bc a trash mob was cleared with the first cast, and Sprint was up to get through faster… which then used up my dualcast.
Sprint isn't actually a spell so much, as it's not treated like one anywhere else. It's actually another part of the way Dualcast works that you ran into there: "Effect is canceled upon execution of any action other than an ability". Sprint explicitly cancels Dualcast from this, rather than from being a spell in itself.
- is always a good time when people dunks on Alphy, especially if it leads to a treasure hunt & some archeology - at this point i just assume the DTC knows that they have to princess carry Durmin by default 🤣
This was a great idea, Arenvald. A good break from all the heavy stuff, plus Ala Mhigo could probably use the extra funds. Now how are we getting all this stuff out of here?
If you do this quest as tank you can get Arenvald as a red Gladiator symbol DPS and Alphinaud as a green Archanist symbol healer (and a random ala mhigan lancer)
After the relatively heavy main plot and intense raid series, I'm sure in the mood for a good, old fashioned treasure hunt! (A treasure with admittedly dark origins, but I'll take what I can get)
True, true... I didn't really mention that because Arenvald had actually hinted about this before, waaaay back in ARR when he was nothing to the plot yet but the ward of A'Uba Tia and Aulie, two minor Scions who bought it during Livia's invasion of the Waking Sands@@vdate (bought it protecting Arenvald, IIRC). But that was a while ago, and what was only hinted at there is spelled out here, and... yikes is a good word for it, yeah.
Does anyone know how this quest was changed after they added NPCs to it? Bardam's mettle MSQ was changed to reflect that you are taking the trial together, so i imagine it's the same here, everyone going in together instead of racing I wonder how Alphinaud fared going down of if WoL goes through the warded prison door
They still have Arenvald plan to meet you inside, but instead of saying it'll be a race to find the treasure he says he hopes you don't mind but he invited another friend along, with said "friend" being a dps to make it a party of 4. idk how they changed the cutscene afterward though
Kind of a mixed bag. I did work on my Halloween costume and am ready for tomorrow wrt that! But also, the fabric paint bottle was hard to use for some reason and I strained my hand. ;; However, I am doing some mount farming after getting a confidence boost in respect to the lv89 Trial’s EX, so I’m working on Shadowbringers EX trial farming. /o/
@@natoriousthehopeful2786 mine’s less a specific character and more a conceptual one. You know how transphobic internet trolls will be like “of course you have blue hair and pronouns”? I took that concept and made it my costume this year by means of a blue wig and painting on various pronoun sets on a shirt. :3c
Arenvald's muffled, still-face-down 'ugh, bugger it' at @33:54 is low-key one of the funniest pieces of VA work thus far. I was *not* ready for that.
Playfriends, now we're back to the MSQ! This is your spoiler free lore comment!
Patch 4.1, "The Legend Returns", was released in October 2017. This patch would give us the Royal City of Rabanastre starting the Return to Ivalice quests, the Kojin tribe quests & reputation grind, and a few weeks later the new 48 player Rival Wings PvP battle. Rival Wings operates similar to a MOBA, and has a dedicated, if small, following to this day!
It's time for Arenvald time. Arenvald has been a member of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn since back in ARR. His mentors died in the Garlean raid of the Waking Sands. He's been with us through the Crystal Braves debacle and he's been on the front lines of the liberation of his homeland. Oh, and he's got the Echo, if you don't remember. While Krile is perhaps more adept at using hers (not that there's much "skill" involved in using the Echo), Arenvald is a more typical combatant, and thus the ideal understudy for Durmin. And this patch is all about getting some training in with the 2nd string Warrior of Light.
4:58 - After the amount that I had to type up for Omega and Ivalice, I'm happy to have Arenvald (and the MSQ) give the lore this week.
5:21 - Aw, who am I kidding, I can't help myself, MOAR LORE. The Monks of the Fist were devoted to Rhalgr and made the Reach their home (note the massive statue of Rhalgr). But you can go through their training regimen at level 70! The optional dungeon Temple of the Fist is located right here in the Reach, and goes through some of their history and lore.
7:57 - This would be our lead in to the situation in Rabanastre and its plight in the Ivalice quests.
9:04 - Arenvald proves here that sometimes the person scheduling and arranging your D&D game doesn't have to be the party leader nor the GM. Or at least be like Durmin and bring some snacks!
15:30 - Perhaps the most depressing part of Arenvald's past is that it isn't that unusual. There's a lot of people under Garlean rule who have lived this experience.
15:55 - I love that the story intertwines two motivations. The Scions need some R&R after helping with the Liberation, and getting back to some fun dudgeon delving is just their ticket. But the loot isn't for living the high life, it's for helping with the grander political story, helping the needy and getting Ala Mhigo back on its feet.
21:20 - "Somehow, the boy just isn't very buoyant"
22:00 - Dan is, obviously, in the past, as the most recent patch added all the post Stormbood MSQ dungeons to Duty Support. And he's right, your companions are Arenvald (Tank or Melee DPS), Alphinaud (Healer or Magic DPS), and J'Moldva (Melee DPS) who is a member of Arenvald's Scions squad. There must be some NPC dialogue that explains that Arenvald's team ends up merging with Durmin's route, rather than the race to the treasure that occurs with a full player party.
25:25 - If I recall, the Push/Pull mechanics of The Kelpie had a bug at one point, causing them to do the reverse. It's long since been fixed.
25:51 - You can very briefly see that Durmin has been inflicted with Dropsy and Water Resistance Down due to the arena edge. Dropsy does persisting water damage, and coupled with the resistance lowering, it can get really dangerous. This will come up in future content. And I say that as someone who died to dropsy in level 90 content just the last weekend.
26:50 - The Old One is based on Japanese figurines called Shakōkidogū, or their more generic cousins the Dogū. These clay figurines are from the Jōmon period (14,000-400 BCE), and have been found across the primary Japanese islands, but mostly eastern Japan. And I learned about them because of Digimon.
28:33 - I am sad to say that this transformation sequence may have been removed in the recent update that added Duty Support. I'm guessing something about this ghost sequence didn't work well with the NPC system.
33:52 - The thing about Duty Support that I am the most apprehensive about is if players don't get little cutscenes like this because they played through the dungeon with the NPCs. I think they should be left in, regardless of how the dungeon was completed. Fortunately, that' won't be a concern much longer, as starting in Shadowbringers all dungeons are designed with Duty Support/Trust in mind when it comes to the cutscenes and story.
Next Time: Our next steps toward an Ala Mhigo for all Ala Mhigans.
Voice Cast:
In a bit of a change up, Arenvald is now being voiced by Joe Dempsie, who you might recognize as playing Gendry Baratheon in Game of Thrones.
33:52 I can confirm that the scene with Alphinaud and Arenvald falling is no longer part of the game. It instead goes straight into the bit at 34:38.
@@TheIvoryDingo Is it removed just for Duty Support, or from the player party one as well? I figured they'd keep it for player parties, since it's voice acted.
@@chan742 I checked the post-dungeon cutscene with the book in the inn and it no longer shows them falling.
Because with Duty Support, any actually named characters did canonically do the dungeon with you regardless of whether you are with other players (it's why the post last boss scene always has them run up and why you can talk to them after finishing the dungeon).
Dan gets a doughnut: "I'm going to carry this away from everyone"
Viewers at home, please do not repeat this violence. Doughnuts stack or at the very least stay still. You do not want to move the AOE damage onto someone by accident, and you are the safe zone.
The snapping to start the fight is amazing
One of the reasons I'm enjoying this series is getting to re-experience the story, so that I notice things I may have missed, or that gain new meaning in the context of things more recently learned. (Seriously. New Reveal From Fan Fest + Bit From #40 = Interesting Prediction)
This time around I'm delighted to find how efficient the storytelling is. On one level it's a lighthearted, simple adventure, a pallet cleanser after the end of 4.0, and Zenos killing himself. On another level, you're learning about the Mad King, and why no one is much interested in finding the "True Heir To The Throne" and why most are sure no such person exists.
Ooo I'm interested to hear what that prediction might be. Maybe you could post it with rot13 (or the al behd cypher if you want to be more on theme)
Yay! More MSQ!
I really like the Drowned City of Skalla part of the MSQ. It gives more information about the Mad King, gives some more background to Arenvald, and is generally a fun dungeon.
In the handful of weeks between Dan recording and releasing this, Drowned City of Skalla has introduced duty support - and in doing so, mild updates were presumably required to make it a bit more NPC friendly. While each boss was touched up, the only noticeable change I could find was that the second wave of Subservients summoned by The Old One are now stationary (Dan cut this part of the fight for time - these adds would move in around the boss in a slow circle, just enough to make exploding them a bit more of a trick). As for the rest of the dungeon, sadly the gaps that were crossed by transforming into a floaty ghost are now crossed by a spectral bridge that is summoned when enemies are defeated. I'm glad Dan got the silly ghost transformation on record - the bridges are gorgeous, but the ghosts were so jiggly and fun.
24:00 That Shinku (Rozen Maiden) costume! Delightful🌹
Oh my goodness, you recognized her!
(I've never commented on TH-cam before, but I'm Alice's player and I had to say thank you! 💖)
When Arenvald approached me with talk of "getting back to adventuring" I was like "you have been slacking! I defeated Omega and found Ivalice already!".
Also Hildbrand would be very proud of Alphinauld, them claim he was about to reach the same conclusions.
BLU's Clues: Skalla brings us another Blue Magic spell, this time the Hydro Pull used by the Kelpie boss at 25:50 to drag Durmin off the platform. This spell is an optional part of one of a BLU's most devastating combos, as it pulls all normal mobs in a large area right onto the caster.
"But that sounds like a bad thing for a squishy mage!", you say, and you would be absolutely right, if the mage in question didn't have the icy Ram's Breath of a chimera, which freezes every enemy nearby solid for several seconds. The followup to Ram's Breath is Ultravibration (a spell learned from, no kidding, giant Ala Mhigan dragonflies), which shatters any frozen enemies near the caster, killing them instantly.
Drag them in, freeze them, shatter them. In about 6 seconds, a single BLU can wipe out a pack of trash mobs that takes Durmin's crew a minute or two to beat down. Now, the spells have long cooldowns, so a BLU can't just run from pack to pack casting them...but if you have several BLUs, they can take turns with the combo and effectively delete all the non-boss mobs in the dungeon without breaking stride.
I didn't realize how much I missed Alphinaud till now. He's really become one of my favorite characters!
Ah dang, now I miss having Alisaie around too, though Alhinaud's probably glad she wasn't around for the ghosts ^^
The trick with Ninja is that the only Mudra (Ten, Chi, or Jin) that matters for a Ninjutsu is the final one.
1 Mudra is always Shuriken
2 is either Single Target Lightning(Chi), AoE Explosion(Ten), or Weaker Single Target Ice(Jin)
3 is either AoE DoT(Chi), Attack Speed Buff(Ten), or Single Target Water*(Jin)
The other thing I found really helpful was that having them arranged on a D-pad, since I play on console, really helps to associate the different Ninjutsu spacially.
E.g.
I had "Ten" on Up, and "Chi" on Down, which meant that a lighting strike was Up-Down. Like lightning coming from a cloud and striking the Earth.
Then the firey AoE I associated with lava exploding up from the ground, Down-Up.
The attack speed buff is like a gust of wind building and then shooting upwards, the AoE DoT throws down some kunai, so build then Down, and the Water attack is like building the water and then shooting forwards (I had Jin on Right) kinda like waterbending.
The only downside to playing Ninja on a controller is of course the teleport being awkward when you have to actually point the camera where you want to blink to.
*The Water is slightly lower damage than Lightning, but allows you to do follow with a from-stealth attack w/o stealth.
The Drowned City of Skalla does now have Duty Support (and has had for about four weeks), for anyone who is wondering. Makes me wonder how far ahead Dan records these things.
Can’t say how far ahead this was done in specific, but I do know there’s more content that has been recorded but not yet released and it was done at least early October for some of it.
Also, I am glad Dan got this done before the patch update bc you no longer turn into things to pass sections of the dungeon anymore. ;~;
I just went through the start of the stormblood patch quests a few weeks back, and i was gonna say, i could have sworn the duty support was in for this
Actually I think Dan may have just made a mistake here. If you check at 23:00 the screen he's got up says that it can be done solo. So I suspect he recorded this after duty support was added but didn't realize that it had been added.
@@AdeonHawkwood That graphic appeared on dungeons that were planned to have Duty Support but did not have it yet. You could even see the dungeons in the list but you couldn't do them. If you had read the other replies to my comment, you would have learned that a certain aspect of the dungeon no longer exists now that it has Duty Support, and that aspect is still present in this video. Also, at the end of a Duty Support dungeon all of the available NPC's appear after the last boss is dead. In this video none of them appeared.
Ah! Today we have finally caught up with where the story was when I first picked up this game! I joined the game back in 2017, shortly after the 4.1 patch release. It was a very different experience back then, for a whole host of reasons, and it's been a lot of fun to see Durmin go through it all up to this point! Of course, with the time it took me to play through all the story, Durmin won't catch up to the point where I finally ran out of story quests for the first time until the next patch, 4.2, and the first patch I got to experience on day one, 4.3, is amazing and holds a special place in my heart for sure. Looking forward to Durmin's progress in wrapping up loose ends and paving the way towards a new expansion...
One of my favorite dungeons! And oh my god. I can’t believe Durmin is here. I love so much everything that’s about to follow.
34:30 It's probably just me, but that portrait of Theodric reminds me of the Guado in FFX...
Yes! More Durmin! Even just one episode really brightens up my week! :D
So one of the funniest errors in the game is ever was on the Kelpie boss, on release the effects of Hydro Push and Hydro Pull were reversed. A funny joke at the time is that it made sense cause Kelpies are liars. I believe it was hotfixed to correct the issue (I struggle to call it a bug or a glitch). Also the gear for this dungeon was actually based on a player submitted design as part of a contest. Their are several sets like this designed for one role and then the dev team creates a set to match the winner. In this case the healer gear was the winner of the contest. I personally am partial to the the tanking chest piece, one of the best in the game.
And they reused the models with different (and in my opinion, better) dye zones for the 84 Crafted/Vendor Gear, the Saigaskin Sets.
WoL: don't do anything I wouldn't do. And don't do anything I would do... There's a bit of grey there of things you should do.
Random fun fact about that Sprint command, that is actually a spell! I learned that the hard way in a dungeon. My dualcast didn’t get to be used bc a trash mob was cleared with the first cast, and Sprint was up to get through faster… which then used up my dualcast.
Sprint isn't actually a spell so much, as it's not treated like one anywhere else. It's actually another part of the way Dualcast works that you ran into there: "Effect is canceled upon execution of any action other than an ability". Sprint explicitly cancels Dualcast from this, rather than from being a spell in itself.
Good think Alphinaud missed the part where Durman and friends turned into ghosts.
- is always a good time when people dunks on Alphy, especially if it leads to a treasure hunt & some archeology
- at this point i just assume the DTC knows that they have to princess carry Durmin by default 🤣
This was a great idea, Arenvald. A good break from all the heavy stuff, plus Ala Mhigo could probably use the extra funds. Now how are we getting all this stuff out of here?
RIP no miqo'te in the skala run meaning the second boss won't have a cat in it
If you do this quest as tank you can get Arenvald as a red Gladiator symbol DPS and Alphinaud as a green Archanist symbol healer (and a random ala mhigan lancer)
After the relatively heavy main plot and intense raid series, I'm sure in the mood for a good, old fashioned treasure hunt! (A treasure with admittedly dark origins, but I'll take what I can get)
Also, Arenvald's backstory, which definitely ranks on the 'yikes' scale.
True, true... I didn't really mention that because Arenvald had actually hinted about this before, waaaay back in ARR when he was nothing to the plot yet but the ward of A'Uba Tia and Aulie, two minor Scions who bought it during Livia's invasion of the Waking Sands@@vdate (bought it protecting Arenvald, IIRC). But that was a while ago, and what was only hinted at there is spelled out here, and... yikes is a good word for it, yeah.
love the soundtrack of this dungeon!!
36:10 'hehe. I'ma tell Alisaie.'
The Skalla dungeon was updated with 6.5 and sadly doesn't have rhe floaty ghost in it anymore
That snap is a great idea! I keep forgetting that your comrades can’t hear your narrating.
Does anyone know how this quest was changed after they added NPCs to it? Bardam's mettle MSQ was changed to reflect that you are taking the trial together, so i imagine it's the same here, everyone going in together instead of racing
I wonder how Alphinaud fared going down of if WoL goes through the warded prison door
They still have Arenvald plan to meet you inside, but instead of saying it'll be a race to find the treasure he says he hopes you don't mind but he invited another friend along, with said "friend" being a dps to make it a party of 4. idk how they changed the cutscene afterward though
Hey everyone, how was your weekend?
Kind of a mixed bag. I did work on my Halloween costume and am ready for tomorrow wrt that! But also, the fabric paint bottle was hard to use for some reason and I strained my hand. ;;
However, I am doing some mount farming after getting a confidence boost in respect to the lv89 Trial’s EX, so I’m working on Shadowbringers EX trial farming. /o/
@@Caterfree10 who are you wanting to go as for Halloween?
@@natoriousthehopeful2786 mine’s less a specific character and more a conceptual one. You know how transphobic internet trolls will be like “of course you have blue hair and pronouns”? I took that concept and made it my costume this year by means of a blue wig and painting on various pronoun sets on a shirt. :3c
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