Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Folanlron

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So at first was a little disappointed that we really still don't know much more about the Key, but the final cutscene pretty great bread crumb going forward. Not sure how I feel about Calyx as a continued villain, but he seems to be a smaller player in a larger group anyways. On one hand...there's a bit of "Ascians again?". But there was always a couple we hadn't dealt with yet that were going to have to show up sooner or later. Ending quest seemed pretty clear MSQ would be leaving Tural, too. I expect 7.4 and 7.5 stuff to be back in usual locales, with build up to Meracydia for 8.0 as my prediction. But if they go heavy Key route, could see us figuring out how to go between shards.

My guess is Northern Ilsabard is next, the "Must let the Winter group know" kind of gives it a nudge in that area, never mind that is were the Garleans are originally from? I'm guessing they have some massive clone storage in the area.

But it was a nice trap lol, death that just keeps getting stronger and stronger one hell of a appearance for Necron though.

The new rendering changes are really really nice also, Max Distance settings only added bout 50mb of extra Vram needed to load everything, but no other bad effects.
 
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Cybsled

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Pretty solid finale to Dawntrail - this and the last patch helped salvage a lot of it. Even Wuk Lamat wasn't that annoying - I liked the heroic moment they gave her in the final fight much more than the original "spheeeennnee leesteeen to meee" we got in the base xpac final fight

When Calyx started to drop all sorts of knowledge bombs in the previous patch and this one, it was clear he had Ascian help. Ancient Concepts, primal summoning, knowledge of the numbering of specific reflections wouldn't be known to random people. There are at least 2 major Ascians that aren't accounted for: Deudalaphon (invention and architecture) and Pashtarot (order). Deudalaphon seems like the obvious suspect for the Ascian during the stinger considering Calyx's whole schtick was invention.

As for the multiple keys, I suspect each key container is attuned to a specific reflection and by slotting Azem's crystal into the key container, you can access different reflections.

They did leave lots of questions - we know from Fandaniel that The Rejoining isn't the top priority for all Ascians, although he was damaged goods. Azem's Crystal/Interdimensional fusion seems to be right in line with rejoining, but they've already done that plotline so there must be a different motive at play.
 
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Cybsled

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Also a side note, but the cutscene cinematography and animations were really good this patch. Lighting, angles, depth of field, use of camera panning. It all felt super high quality
 

Malakriss

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Pretty solid finale to Dawntrail - this and the last patch helped salvage a lot of it. Even Wuk Lamat wasn't that annoying - I liked the heroic moment they gave her in the final fight much more than the original "spheeeennnee leesteeen to meee" we got in the base xpac final fight

When Calyx started to drop all sorts of knowledge bombs in the previous patch and this one, it was clear he had Ascian help. Ancient Concepts, primal summoning, knowledge of the numbering of specific reflections wouldn't be known to random people. There are at least 2 major Ascians that aren't accounted for: Deudalaphon (invention and architecture) and Pashtarot (order). Deudalaphon seems like the obvious suspect for the Ascian during the stinger considering Calyx's whole schtick was invention.

As for the multiple keys, I suspect each key container is attuned to a specific reflection and by slotting Azem's crystal into the key container, you can access different reflections.

They did leave lots of questions - we know from Fandaniel that The Rejoining isn't the top priority for all Ascians, although he was damaged goods. Azem's Crystal/Interdimensional fusion seems to be right in line with rejoining, but they've already done that plotline so there must be a different motive at play.
The only minor text hint we got
was the Deu-terolab name itself plus the fact the Lab Chief's name was listed as Redacted. The Director and his locker were entirely a distraction. But this also could loop Gaius back into the story with exactly when he battled Deudalaphon and the others, namely what they were doing when he collected their masks
 
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Merrith

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That's a really good point about the redacted Lab Chief's name. MrHappy seemed to believe it was Pashtarot when he saw the final cutscene, but the invention link makes much more sense. Cyb your idea for the other Key containers makes a lot of sense, too.
 
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