Prior warrior posts:
1-30: http://coldrungaming.blogspot.com/2018/12/ffxiv-p...
30-50: http://coldrungaming.blogspot.com/2018/12/ffxiv-p...
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Better Axe Around
-Curious Gorge has begun once more down the path of the warrior.
-His brother (Broken Mountain/Fell Demon) is recovering from his corruption too, but is more of a scholar. He wants to spread their village’s teachings across Eorzea.
-It’s weird to see Broken Mountain without red Inner Beast eyes.
-They’ve heard of a legendary warrior named Mythril Heart, but hard to tell if he’s real or fantasy. Broken Mountain is a skeptic while Curious Gorge is a true believer.
-I talk to some scholars, hunt around… and the legend is real. I found Mythril Heart’s battleaxe.
-They’ll keep researching, though understandably worried that any ancient techniques they uncover could tempt the inner beast. We’ll tread cautiously.
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Duty and the Beast
-A beast has been spotted nearby. A diversion from Mythril Heart, but duty calls.
-I arrive too late. Curious Gorge fought the beast off, and in doing so unleashed his own inner beast.
-What follows is basically a repeat of our last fight. I take him out, and also the manifested inner rage.
-Aw, this is sad! Broken Mountain urges Curious Gorge to stay away from me. Not my fault, but being around me empowers his inner beast.
-It looks like Broken Mountain will be my main buddy for this 50-60 questline. His scholarly focus is on how to tame the inner beast.
-Interesting! All the Inner Rage that manifested in the fight just now was mine, not Curious Gorge’s.
BROKEN MOUNTAIN: “Only the flames of animosity may temper a warrior’s soul.”
-Pushing ourselves to the max, testing our mettle… this must be how Mythril Heart learned his techniques. It’s how I’ll progress as a warrior.
(And to some extent, as a real life person. I tend to hate stressful situations, but in limited doses they can push me.)
-Woohoo!! I unlocked a new aggressive Beast Gauge stance. This should spice up my solo gameplay, though my group gameplay will probably still be limited to the tanking stance.
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The Bear Necessities
-Curious Gorge is still having trouble with his inner beast. Shows hesitancy when training and during normal duties.
-Anyway, I’m on Mythril Heart’s path. He once spent a season hunting giant grizzlies. So go I.
-Big bear goes down.
-Back to the group. Curious Gorge, who was working the Limsa Lominsa guards to fend off kobold attacks, says they’re gone but they’ll be back.
-Unfortunately, he’s been something of a liability. Too hesitant, afraid of his inner beast. We gotta get him back in the game.
-The key is experiencing victory against challenging foes. What separates me from Curious Gorge?
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Pirates of Shallow Water
-Kobold, sahagin, and pirate attacks have increased. Limsa Lominsa wants my help fending them off.
-I head to one of the pirate staging grounds on the Isles of Umbra to cut if off at the source.
-The captain is pretty tough, him and his coeurl pet.
-I always feel bad taking out coeurls. They’re basically big pretty kitties.
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How to Train Your Warrior
-The Lominsan captain I helped protect is impressed.
-What was different this time is that the challenge itself wasn’t what raised my inner beast. The pirates were fairly tame. It was instead the fact that I fought to protect others.
-Meanwhile, Curious Gorge was injured fighting kobolds. Visit time.
-Btw, I really like how the 50-60 questline is continuing the story of Curious Gorge and Broken Mountain rather than going off to new characters altogether.
-Gorge was injured literally falling on a grenade to shield his allies. Some new, super powerful type of kobold explosive. And yet he was barely injured.
CURIOUS GORGE: “The moment I saw the bomb, I knew I couldn’t let my comrades come to harm, and leapt upon it as if by instinct.” Nurturing the inner beast through protective actions.
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Slap an’ Chop
-A big kobold attack is coming. Curious Gorge still greatly worries about his beast harming his allies.
-omg. I have to literally emote slap him to rouse his courage and desire to fight.
-We split at the battlefield, each protecting a contingent of Maelstrom guards.
-Victory! And best of all, he didn’t submit to his inner beast.
It wasn’t about feeding rage. It was about harnessing it in a productive direction. I feel there’s something useful here. See also: “Celeste.”
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And My Axe
-Big battle time against the sahagin. The battle needs both me and Curious Gorge.
-He’s ready, but if his inner beast takes hold, I just need to give him another good slap.
-As we prep for the battle, we won’t be alone. Some storied Lominsans join us, including Storm Marshal Eynzahr. I’ve seen him around, though I imagine if I started in Limsa Lominsa I’d know him better.
-The fight starts well, massacring them, but scarily enough, his inner beast comes back out.,.. AND HE MASTERS IT HIMSELF! GO CURIOUS GORGE!
“Remain steadfast, friends! My inner beast will protect you!”
-The group of us finish off the sahagin captain and her scorpion pet.
BROKEN MOUNTAIN: “The day will soon come when, with proper training and instruction, all the peoples of Eorzea can choose to walk the path of the warrior.”
-We didn’t just save Limsa Lominsa. We proved the strength of the warrior style of Broken Mountain’s and Curious Gorge’s tribe. The Lominsan guard, the Maelstrom, will start training their troops with it… with Broken Mountain as chief trainer.
-Got my final set of warrior gear, and hooooly shit it looks cool!
Ququshu’s come a long way from her days as a basically naked new marauder.
-A nice storyline! I’m glad they continue to develop Curious Gorge, but his story seems at least somewhat wrapped-up. I wonder if they’ll keep him as the focus in the 60-70 quests.
It didn’t blow me away the way the dark knight story did, but that was unusually brilliant and a fair bar. I like the characters involved and appreciated the focus on Curious Gorge.
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Not-so-silent Night (Starlight Festival)
-Some singers are in town in Gridania for the Starlight Festival, XIV’s Christmas event.
Adults traditionally sing to ask protection from the winter and afterwards give out presents to kids.
-This year’s singers are a boy band called the Homunculi. I find them and their agent, Maisenta.
-Their problem is that most of their songs are… inappropriate for a family-event. For example, “Fair Lady, Return My Breeches.”
An Ishgardian composer wrote them a new song, but it requires two male voices and two female voices, and the male voices have to be in a different vocal range from theirs. Basically, we need a new group.
-Wait, I get to pick who sings??? Like for the first one, a female singer with a birdlike quality, I can choose between two women or a chocobo. DEFINITELY going with the chocobo.
-…boo. They don’t let me bring a literal chocobo into the choir. That was just a joke option.
-I rustle a few non-singers into the group who fit the composer’s description, including one roegadyn.
Before and after.
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Theatgrhythdaniam (Starlight Festival)
-There’s a follow-up quest where I get to actually conduct the choir’s performance. It’s a rhythm game!
-This may actually be my first rhythm game, even as a mini-game. I can’t think of one I’ve played before.
-There’s an easy mode and a hard mode. I don’t get a perfect score on any of them, but gradually improve as I get used to it.
-The concert was successful! The Homunculi are passing out presents to kids who attended… but there aren’t enough.
-oh my god, it’s Godbert Manderville to the rescue playing the role of Santa Cl…
Ahem, the “Saint of Nymeia.”
-My main role in this quest is to find the little girl who ran off crying because there were no more presents and tell her that the Saint has arrived.
-I was afraid here, waiting for some other shoe to drop. Like, would the girl be killed? But no, we find her, console her, and give her a present from one of the local merchants.
-There’s even a nice bitter stinger, where the merchant admits to this act of charity not from the goodness of her heart but to help inspire a future buyer.
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Random Stuff Around Eorzea
Slightly different from FFX’s Anima:
Starlight Festival dance party!
Lalafurry:
Famous Eorzean comedian, Seth Roe’gadyn:
“Pulp Fiction” infiltrating my XIV:
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Next time: the conclusion to the warrior storyline, levels 60-70.
