This week in Final Fantasy XIV, we’re diving into the third and final Variant dungeon from Endwalker – Alo Alo Island. Your local mad baby is keeping up the achievement grind while the subathon suffering continues onward.
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Excited to see you poke around in Criterion one day to see what you make of what they do with the trash and bosses there
It wasn't a waste of time to fail the secret path. There's a bit of map you cannot get to without failing so you do need to fail it once for the mapping achievement.
Great video, Cider!
(Please do correct any inaccuracies) Quick breakdown of Woox Walking: Normally when your character attacks in Oldschool Runescape they stall for a tick (0.6 seconds) however if the enemy's attack pulls you into your weapon's range, through auto-retaliate, and you queue a step back out at the right rhythm you skip this stall.
The most notable boss that this is used again is Vorkath who has an attack that targets your current tile and .6 seconds later its it, thus if you're always moving, you never get hit.
That high pitched "TREMBLE". I can't. 🤣🤣🤣
2:29 best insult ever.
Although, it was kinda neat that Alo Alo lore came up in DT, so that was cool.
I found variant to be a little faster when you go as a DPS. I did all of em as a Summoner. With rampart and the heal it's easy enough.
I would enjoy the trash mobs to be more interesting.
We have these trash pulls because we have a huge amount of players who didnt play during coils and come from wow and other mmos who are shocked there isnt a ton of trash in raids wasting a bunch of time
Honestly most of the fun I got from the variant dungeons was the puzzle aspect of them, the actual fights themselves are… Okay? But not the most impressive imo.
Local NPC found dead in a ditch. Foresincs claim cause of death to be an overdose of shade.
I still have to do the secret route again and hope it drops it's TT Card.
I wouldnt want this for regular dungeons, but for varient dungeons I wish they would do puzzles again like arr instead of trash.
At the time of my like we are at 646 hrs. which is 26.9 days! Man this is going to be a subathon for the ages! GL Spider~~~
My favourite part of the variant dungeons is that their solution to complaints that dungeons were too linear is by making a dungeon that you choose a door to go through… into another very linear dungeon where sometimes things are different when you do something.
If you have a collection of anything worth more than $5000 you should 100% add it to your household insurance policy.
Whatever the change for trash is, it should not be like the turtle in the level 99. More Giant pulls for 8.0!!!
there were no lalafell mermaids in this.
Good stuff, as an FYI the boss song from Mount Rokkon wasnt new, it was the Stormblood trailer music
How do I know I'm cool? I'm not guilty of ANY of the shade Cider threw at Pasasun myself. That was a roast.
Semi-related to this video, but your whole series has gotten me to really look at all of the content in this game after close to 5 years of playing. Thanks for opening my eyes to all the fun stuff!
extremely funny to get a dungeon trash mob rant in the only content where they're actually tied to puzzle solving, granted it's only 1 or 2 per variant dungeon.
i remember trying to solve Aloalo alone and absolutely losing my mind over the tree because i did it by accident once and had no idea what i did.
in Sildihn i could see the other path but hadn't actually unlocked the ending that gives you the answer for the drakes so i had a run where i did it almost correct but accidentally killed the 2nd largest first by a server tick (thanks for all those automatic aoes, yoshi p) and then thought i had to kill them smallest to largest.
but it's leagues above what the rest of the dungeon trash have ever offered besides "should you let the morbol seeds hatch in arum vale for more exp" and the answer was "only if you're in the exact level bracket where it would matter and even then, only if the party allows it" and now they don't drop exp at all so you're just wasting time if you let them hatch
I was literally just thinking "5-10 mins of the vid will be more trash pack/dungeon complaints like the last several videos" and then he pointed it out himself
legend says… he’s still live streaming to this day
Lol i made a cameo in the subathon cutaway! Cant wait to finish this vid and then go back to the stream for non-stop Cider action!
I appreciate that the fairy boss's "TREMBLE" was raised to a slightly higher pitch. Well done.