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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

For example, i hope Sage doubles down on damage == healing and thr multi-layered defenses

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I totally forgot i did this

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Not that i think this will circulate much but i wanna ask anyway. What are your hopes with your favorite #ffxiv job with the coming Evolved Mode? What shtick or gameplay thing do you want to see carried over to its new form? Or what kind of gameplay do you want from it next expac?

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The Extremes have all been fun, i havent cleared the new one but im like almost there basically. In Endwalker i only really liked Barb but so far ive found at least one really enjoyable thing in each extreme (except maybe Zoreel Ja)

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Im excited for the Deep Dungeon and Quantum difficulty, i think Quantum is really interesting. I also never did the Chaotic ARaid for various reasons so i cant comment on that

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Occult Crescent has been fun, minus the very strange fate scaling. Ive been progging Forked Tower with my co-healer and thats been a lot of fun, i think the Phantom Jobs are really cool and i hope Chemist becomes a real job (Squeenix please, it could have like NIN Mudra for making concoctions)

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

5-8 are all AMAZING IMO. I love adds in 6, the multi stage of 7, the LB manipulation of 5 and 6. We're still progging 8, but i think phase two is very cool

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

1-4 were fairly safe in my opinion? Honey B and Wicked Thunder being the standouts. My static didnt like Honey B, but i think if we did a better strat for alarm pheromones (we did *gestures vaguely* good luck!) they would have liked it more.

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

7.X CONTENT: 8.4/10 As some context, i started raiding after the second tier of eden unlocked but before the third tier came out. I do all the EX fights for at least a little bit, and i dabble in Ultimates and have cleared UWU. I have really enjoyed this expansions savage fights.

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I know the EW patch quests arent the most well liked, but it was nice. The writing team took a step back with at the very least Dawntrail, taking a mentorship role with the new team.. and while they misstepped, i like the direction they went and the story they've told

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I think im excited for the story to come, for the next 10 years of Final Fantasy 14. Ive never been a hater on the story, i like Dawntrail but i know it has issues. I liked the Endwalker patch quest, i think its going to mirror the Warriors of Darkness a bit, that it was setup for later.

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

old person crossing the street? Things are beautiful *BECAUSE* they end.

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I think this is BEAUTIFUL, and for me personally, i view death as the one instance that gives life its MEANING. Things are going to end, you are going to end. If you have no time limit, if you're immortal, why do things when in 100 years no ones going to remember? Why be kind? Why help the >>

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

leading to when we turn it back ON, its in a very natural, beautiful state.. showing they have finally accepted that death is a VERY natural part of life and its okay to grieve and feel sad but they keep moving, they have to, for the ones they've lost

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

When we turn it off, we watch as it slowly dies and becomes a desolate greyscape, again mimicking the Alexandrian's look on death.. that it sucks, and all is naut and death SUCKS and they dont want to deal with the feelings of loss.. and as the story goes on they start to kind of accept it more >>

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

really REALLY wanted her to). With the BAD part of the ending out of the way, the environmental story telling with Living Memory is PEAK. When we first go there its washed out by golden light, mimicking the Alexandrian's look on Death, which is that death is happy, you get to be an endless.

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Her asking for citizenship to Alexandria? Makes sense, it also makes sense that they want her to be queen again.. but she should have refused, stating the reasons above. I think it was a MAJOR misstep to have her not be an adventurer, even if she doesnt join us on our adventures (even though i >>

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

NOW, for the ENDING. Sphene becoming Queen again was a mistake. It goes against her character arc. Eternal Sphene was a prisoner to being Queen, and most signs during the patch content point to flesh Sphene becoming an adventurer and it would make sense. She has her FREEDOM again, why not??

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

our jobs making an impact in the ANIMATIONS we do, us DOING animations in the first place. Ive been on the "Squeenix doesnt reinvest in XIV" train, but im SO glad that this patch proves, at least at this moment, they are investing.

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

all of the convocation so in my mind it makes sense. Back to the cutscene and its not 100% story related, this patch SHOWS that Square Enix is investing in FFXIV more. All of the cutscenes and custom animations are PROOF. The soldiers moving the way they do, the way Sphene3 moves >>

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Im not sure if Calyx succeeded in his upload or the Ascian at the end yoinked him out, reason being he was sweating and commented that he doesnt have lungs (which i read as a "Why is this happening, i DONT have these"). Ive suspected that an Ancient is going to come back, we havent dealt with >>

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

but i do also like that we did it without it. The cutscene AFTER the trial.. H O L Y, custom animations based on your job, a whole fight sequence, Wuk Lamat and Sphene POPPING off was INCREDIBLE. As soon as Calyx starts his upload, i had called he was going to Ultron himself, which he DID (maybe)

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I dont know if Calyx knows killing primals is our 9-5, but either way i think it works. If he DOES then he's betting on that it cant die, if he DOESNT, he's just summoning a primal to kill us. I think it would have maybe been neat to use Dynamis/Limit Break to defy his expectations >

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sphene comes into her own more here, getting her NotScholarTM book as we head back into living memory and turn it back on, first appearing kinda glitchy as we head into the meso terminal and face down Death the Primal

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The dark tones are back again, we watch Geode (RIP) die unceremoniously (This is a positive) and then the party runs in as they're turning him to DUST. The funeral scene is VERY nice, and as added story telling our WoL can say no to the drink calling back to ARR

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

7.3 STORY: 9.5/10 BUT MINUS ONE FOR THE ENDING As you can tell by the above line, i have THOUGHTS on this patch. Sphene being a Zoemancer (Basically a life mage) to counter the villain's (kinda) Necromancer (death mage) is NEAT AS HECK, really good "background" story telling

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

For the Raid story, i like that they had the WoL start helping the contestants, and i really didnt expect Honey B. to be like how she is, i was expecting kinda a brat but she's chill! and i really like that. What happened to Hector was tragic but again, i like dark things he better come back for m11

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I also believe this is the patch where we use the porxie to heal the Levin Sickness which i CALLED we were going to do when we first encountered it

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Its cool to explore the underkeep, and i like Calyx continuing to try and measure the WoL and.. i just dont think he quite understands :P Learning more about PERSON Sphene is nice, and i really like that we DO get to learn about who she was as a flesh person, and not just an Endless

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Additionally, we get the first four raid fights, which i quite liked! I dont watch wrestling too often, just when my friends do and im in the room, but its neat! Again, dark tones which i love and also, unrelated to story, MY FAVORITE VOCALIST DID THE SONG FOR M4!!!!

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

7.2 STORY: 9/10 This introduces us to the villain of the expansion, the puppet master Calyx whom i quite like as a villain. It also introduces us to flesh Sphene whom i LOVE and i want to hold her hand. We ALSO get our second raid series story, which i quite like

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I have to admit... whenever a new Allied Society comes out im excited to read the story.... and then whenever the story comes up i am just NOT in the mood and skip it (im sorry dont hate me)

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The Alliance raid was okay! Ive never played FFXI, but it was still neat and stuff, i would like to punt whats his face (I actually cannot for the life of me remember his name).

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

7.1 STORY: 8/10 This starts the narrative that i think is really cool that i'll go over at the 7.3 stuff but also, its just super dark? and i love that. The after-dungeon walk through is neat and dark as all heck, im pretty sure you can see a ghost while doing it, just mmm i love dark stories.

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sphene as a villain i actually quite like. Some people say she's just a new Ascian but i think she's just close to being one. She's a program, and even if she WANTS to not do what she's doing, she HAS to, which is also revealed later in patch 7.3. I think she was a good enemy, if short lived

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sure Wuk Lamat isnt great at too many things, but she accepts that and knows that she needs to learn to grow. Also, maybe not intended, but i love that she is actually really good at Limit Breaking. Multiple times through the story we see her do it and i think its interesting

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Wuk Lamat makes sense as her and Sphene are foils, but i still feel like Koana would make sense to go to the tech place as the tech boi. With some of my negatives out of the way, i had a blast just exploring in low-stakes and watching Wuk Lamat grow and having us be a mentor.

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Theres also just a little bit of weirdness that the Mamool Ja stagnated as a society as a whole with the whole blessed siblings thing, but i do like the dark bit of storytelling. They also kinda just sidelined Koana, and i feel like it would make sense that he would go to Alexandria with us

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

7.0 STORY: Probably like a 6.5/10 I really liked the first half, and i like the aesthetic and major story beats of the 2nd half. That being said, some of the connective tissue is meh... Zoreel Ja feels bad as a villain in the second half, where as in the first he at least has like... a reason?

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

SO now that #Dawntrail story has concluded and we're now in the lead up to the next expansion i figured it'd be fun to review the story and content with each patch and talk about why. WARNING THERE ARE #Spoiler IN THIS FOR 7.0-7.3 of #ffxiv!

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Ehehe ^///^ i can take bigger ones too ;3

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Sometimes i grow a gock and theres only one way to deal with it... well.. two if someone else wants to fuck me~ #gposernsfw | #ffxivnsfw | #xivafterdark | #miqote

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Evil "Alice Lastname" @sevenwitchparty.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

oh to have a ridiculously busty woman with a suspiciously low decolletage offer me a drink, but clearly not bring any type of mug with her 😩

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Ciri Ren @ciriren.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Naughty dark/fairy i think!

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