Zel's Weekly Digest
Week 21 - April 2 - 8, 2024
Worlds Collide…Again
So it seems Yoshi P was able to convince FF16’s Naoki Yoshida to do a crossover event!
Xarale and I did the event together, as we always do.
It was a fun enough event, and clearly was trying to get people to get 16, but that’s kinda hard to do when it’s still a console exclusive. Not everyone can afford, or even wants, a PS5, and it was incredibly tone-deaf for Yoshi to tell people to just buy a PS5 when he was asked about when a PC release was coming. For one, they're expensive! I'd much rather use that money to upgrade my decade old PC than get a console that I don't even have any games for.
The fight was fun, but I feel like the advertising is kinda misplaced when a lot of the players won't even be able to play 16, which kinda kills the hype a little.
That said, I’m laughing at how out of place Clive looks. He looks like a modded character!
I LOVE the mount from the event. It's so cute! You can even pet it! I immediately tossed the glam into the armoire, probably never to be seen again, because I don't really like how it looks on Zel.
Special Tarasque Force
I honestly never thought I’d beat this achievement fate!
For those not familiar with it, The Tarasque fate, introduced in heavensward, is notoriously tough. In fact, even in current day, you need a sizable group, and for a while, you needed multiple parties. This is because the boss has one really nasty attack called Dragon Stomp, that is big enough to fill the whole fate area, so it’s pretty much out of the question to just dodge it. Thankfully, it can be stopped with a stun from the tank.
The issue is that it can use this attack several consecutive times in a row, meaning you need multiple tanks, as well as needing the firepower to wear it down.
Thankfully, now that Blue Mage exists, you can Perpetual Ray to stun it when needed, without waiting for a tank’s stun to come off cool down.
Well anyway, I was hanging around in the Dravanian Forelands, doing fates to farm dying memories, ignoring this fate like I always did, when I see a shout mentioning the party in party finder. Curious, I signed up. And promptly died.
I came back as Warrior to make sure we had another tank, and while it took several minutes, we managed to chip away at it, blue mages keeping the stomping at bay with my stun on standby as backup. And we beat it!
So that’s a long overdue achievement I honestly never expected to get, but that’s part of what I love about this game, sometimes unexpected things happen, and you meet some cool people along the way. Also I probably should have been paying attention to chat. Whoops!
Roulette time!
I needed to get some of the MotR coins for upgrade items, so I queued up. Mag showed up while I was waiting, and though we got Aglaia down, Euprosyne was taking forever to pop and said we had a wait time of half an hour as a two healers, so we decided to do roulettes instead.
It was fun, of course, I always enjoy hanging out with my FC mates! And I like healing for Mag, since he’s actually a good tank, unlike half the Duty Finder tanks I run into. I always kinda dread paladins and gunbreakers. Warriors are so mind numbingly easy to keep alive that it’s honestly a shock when someone is bad at them. And Dark Knights are kind of a mixed bag. They’ve got the lowest survivability overall, but I find that the ones that actually stick with the class at 90 tend to love the class enough to actually learn what they’re doing.
Plus we’re at the tail end of the expansion, so everyone’s pretty geared up now and most duties are way easier. We even completely skipped the scales mechanic in Aglaia! I fear it's going to become one of those rare mechanics that rarely gets seen, but maybe that's for the better. It was way too easy for one single person to wipe the whole raid by themself completely on accident. In fact, I've done it before! Just ask Zeb! She saw me do it during a 7am run!
Marvelous Manderville
Yes I keep grumbling about the relics.
And yes, I’m still making them when I have enough tomes. I’m not really making it a priority because I can already foresee it being my Poetics Sink come Dawntrail.
Bonus Round
Just a snippet from my Fate grinding.
Thats all for now! See you again next time!
Posted 2024/04/19