made a twitter account just to show off this mount 290 hours in the making and to publicly announce that i'm never going back to ishgard ever again
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[6.5] In the new
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AR, Llymlaen has a unique attack/voice line that triggers upon a player using the /blowkiss emote on her. This attack "Navigator's Dagger" stuns the player and deals MASSIVE true damage, and is a reference to some much-beloved fish lore! 🐟 EN POVS:
hey I made a dictionary containing every canon
#ffxiv
language, and every single known word in those languages, including translations, lore context, and the real-world language it's based on (if applicable) for all your naming and writing needs. 📔
Rough demonstrations of just about every single way you can handle a bite while fishing in
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, aka why every experienced fisher will tell you to never reel in anything you don't actually want. (Extras + notes in thread 🧵)
This attack shares its name with the fish Navigator's Dagger, and its trigger is almost certainly a reference to the big fish version, Navigator's brand. Their log entries describe how Llymlaen is known for throwing knives, and once threw a blade at Oschon for seeing her naked.
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fishers, it's finally time for violence!
Llymlaen, goddess of the seas, creator of fish! Thaliak, god of rivers, patron of our best AA skill! Oschon, He knows what He did! For luck, thanks, or revenge for Their creations, come fight the fisher gods with me~
Details in 🧵
@RhalgrsDragon
Navigator's Brand is required to complete "The Beast of Brewer's Beacon", the quest the game uses to introduce players to big fishing, so it's many peoples' first big fish, making this a very special easter egg indeed!
This attack can only trigger if the boss is in combat and not casting at the time! Additionally, from our testing, it seems like it can only occur once per fight. Comparing it to the JP video, it seems to deal HP %-based damage.
Cheers to
@RhalgrsDragon
for catching the POV!
Update I've been told by multiple people that they got this to trigger more than once per fight, so it looks like it's either that she's casting or queuing up attacks so often that there aren't many opportunities to trigger this, or there's a hidden cooldown on it!
Since Patience-related things were missing from the original video, and I've been asked a few times:
Time comparisons of regular hook, precision/powerful hooksets, failed hook, escape animation cancel, and quit cancels in
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.
Notes in thread! 🧵
my WoL (especially in fisher form) is mostly a series of silly lesbian jokes: a diagram
Happy pride! By the way, the Eorzean Aquarium NA is hosting a number of pride events today; come say hi and fish (or draw?!) with us!
It's a bit niche, but I've written a full guide for the entire Pteranodon mount process in
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. If you're looking to get this scaley boi, one of rarest mounts in the game, check it out:
The Soul of the Martyr // Seele des Märtyrers // Âme-de-Ratatosk // ラタトスクソウル
fun
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🐟 fact: according to the moogles, Ratatoskr has been alive this entire time! Upon her death, her soul transferred itself to a new vessel: an enormous dragon-like skyfish.
#AquariumArtParty
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#ffxivart
It ended up being only one cute fish :p
I've long said that Paglth'an Discus is my favorite aquarium fish, so I figured I should show them some love!
Interesting teeny tiny bit of FFXIV lore from today: this might be the first actual confirmation of where the South Sea Isles are?
That actually has some implications that probably very few people care about :'D
#NatureArtParty
Tempest my beloved 🩵 It's a beautiful zone already, and clionids are some of my favorite mobs in the game, so it was all very exciting for me, haha
"To me, Fishers of Light!"
Happy patch day all! Less than 24 hours until all fishers blind Thaleia; please read the thread carefully, and I hope to see you all there!
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fishers, it's finally time for violence!
Llymlaen, goddess of the seas, creator of fish! Thaliak, god of rivers, patron of our best AA skill! Oschon, He knows what He did! For luck, thanks, or revenge for Their creations, come fight the fisher gods with me~
Details in 🧵
Did you know that the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV has an aquarium where you can see every single aquarium fish on display in a single house, accessible from level 1? Come visit, and enjoy 180+ fish across 27 (and counting!) rooms at the Eorzean Aquarium today!—
I've looked through: both encyclopedias, the entirety of the FSH, BTN, and MIN logs, every mount, minion, and Triple Triad card description, NPC dialogue (incl. 1.0 archives!), the whole sightseeing log, official forums, and a handful of interviews.
I hope I got everything..?
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it typical fashion, I spent so long fussing over the first drawing that I missed most of the second creature, haha. It was delightful as always!
@fisherfruity
Pressing and holding CTRL will bring aetherytes to the front on the map—no more struggling to click a teleport through quest or merchant icons!
also if any language didn't have any examples, I just wrote down any description of it I could find to so people could make✨lore-accurate✨headcanons and the like!
Elasmosaurus // エラスモサウルス
Finally back to the
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fish 🐟! This one's for the Sea Wolf players out there: Elasmosaurus is a legendary species that once towed Aerslaent's pirate ships. They were famed for their gentleness and loyalty, but are now nearly extinct.
<sus>pect Kekemano Ninimano, at your service. Did you know that Ul'dah has no official extradition policy?
Thank you to everyone who came out to attend or watch the
#EorzeanAquarium
event! It was an absolute honor and delight to stand around eating hot chip and lying ✨
Phorcys was mostly a specialist in marine plankton, particularly gelatinous animals, but much to her dismay, she was inevitably best-known for her more eye-catching megafauna projects. Everyone thought she would be the next Mitron, so her nomination for Azem was a major surprise!
tempest is probably the best zone in ffxiv because not only is it just beautiful and mournful in equal parts, it also has a semi-hidden tunnel, not marked on the map, that is useful almost exclusively to fishers and no one else.
Have you ever wanted to see /every/ fish in the fishing log in FFXIV in one house? Some untradeables are still being worked on, but this really is soon to be every single fish in game in one place!
I was lucky enough to be able to design Ocean Fishing Room 2 for this project! 🎉
📢Introducing the Fish Prints Museum!
See (nearly) every fish's print in
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in a single house!
🖼1,300+ Unique Fish's Prints
🚪40+ Unique Room Exhibits
⌚Open 24/7
🗺Goblet, Ward 7, Plot 60, Diabolos
💻
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What's this? A new quest has dropped! ❗️
I thought it might be fun to create an XIV drawing meme, as I always love seeing people excited about their faves! I've come up with the categories below, but feel free to tweak or come up with your own if you'd like to give it a go!
[DUTY COMPLETE] finished both Triceratops and Victor yesterday, which makes me the proud owner of the majority of the rarest mounts in FFXIV (don't think about Astrope don't think ab)
All that hunting took almost exactly 6 months!
✨ short summaries of my main and most-played alt! They're both joke fisher characters that inexplicably grew 6 pages of lore each because I'm hopeless 😊
@ShiroEsuna
Very clear expectations about time commitment & prog speed and mutual trust in each other.
Having compatible personalities is very important, but won’t stop people from getting frustrated or burnt out if things are slower than expected, etc.
"we probably won't get explanations for this ever" I said, just 12 hours ago...
Well, it's just speculation until it comes out, but "Aloalo" is a distinctly Lalafellin name, and the look is consistent with South Sea Isles, so it we might be getting lore for them after all!
The Eorzean Aquarium's All Tanks Wake event is today! Come join us this evening to solve what is sure to be a delightful mystery!
By the way, last year's culprit may have been staying out of trouble, but he's not entirely absent... I hope to see you all there!
🐌All Tanks Wake Returns!
The a valued fish print was stolen! Can you help Inspector Red Herring identify the suspect and recover the art!?
🔍Look for clues!
🦜Talk to Suspects!
🎁Find the print!
⌚October 27th, 6 - 10pm EDT
🗺Crystal, LB, W16, P59
💻
me: I am going to do some light FFXIV fish lore research to build up a working list of fun entries to draw!
me several hours later, starting a document titled “Dictionary of the Official Languages of Etheirys”:
This is a blind run! No plot/mechanics spoilers please, and respect cutscenes! A public PF will go up at the designated time under "Beans Mcgee".
No glam theme! Come as whatever you want!
Event chatter will be in the Fishcord ().
I forgot to take a nice gpose to go with this before I logged off 😭
To everyone that came to
#FishFest
: Thank you for coming! For those that were on any of my boats, I hope you had a fun and got some good points! You all were amazing passengers; see you all again soon?!
For guests who attended last year: not to worry, Kekemano has been staying out of trouble!
... much to his chagrin.
Please be sure to come visit us at the Eorzean Aquarium for another exciting mystery! We've been working to make it even better than last time!
🐌All Tanks Wake Returns!
The a valued fish print was stolen! Can you help Inspector Red Herring identify the suspect and recover the art!?
🔍Look for clues!
🦜Talk to Suspects!
🎁Find the print!
⌚October 27th, 6 - 10pm EDT
🗺Crystal, LB, W16, P59
💻
made an incredibly dumb glam with the new gloves 😭😭😭
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the headgear is maiming/fending exclusive, so I can't even put it on MNK or any ranged, which would have been funniest...
📢Eorzean Aquarium Event! 🏳️🌈
Join the
#EorzeanAquarium
in catching Warden of the Seven Hues in celebration of Pride month!
⏲June 19th, 4-7PM EDT
🗺Prism Lake, (x29,y6) Yanxia, Malboro
🏆Warden Raffles!
🎣Must be Lv70+ FSH*
Staff will offer instruction and free bait!
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The Soul of the Martyr can be found rarely in the skies around the Landlord Colony, flying near the ruined homes of those that slew Ratatoskr 1000 years ago.
Lore aside, it is especially notable for having the longest observed maximum bite time of any fish in the entire game!
It actually lines up with exactly one piece of Lalafell lore, which has been faintly incongruous with the rest for a long time, and is, (you guessed it!) fish lore!
Anyway, we probably won't get explanations for this ever, so I'm off to go think about it for too long.
Even if this huge fish really is the thousand-year-old secondary vessel of the great wyrm, without her eyes, she can't do much aside from fly free in the Churning Mists above Sohm Al.
Surely any adventurer that catches this fish would kindly release it just in case... right?
If you want a pteranodon of your own, in less time than it took me(!), check out this guide I wrote:
Also while you're here, look at my characters whom I love and cherish with my whole heart:
✨ short summaries of my main and most-played alt! They're both joke fisher characters that inexplicably grew 6 pages of lore each because I'm hopeless 😊
It's actually complicated, though it comes up fairly rarely so most players might have forgotten. There are also some forum posts and interviews from Koji clarifying: depending on the region/time period, there is a stigma in Eorzea around interracial relationships.
just found a thread wherein someone earnestly said that in canon, it would be super weird for a lalafell to date a non-lalafell.
they did not attempt to source this claim.
i wonder why they did not attempt to source this claim.
It's surprising that they're so far east given what we know about the Lalafell. Why did they go to Eorzea first? Why are there so few in Othard/Thavnair?
It also puts into perspective just how impressive Nymian sailors were; that's an enormous distance to cover on the regular!
🎣[DUTY COMPLETE]
Cloud Test DC was vibrant, social, and collaborative: fishing there, alongside nearly 100(!!!) other fishers, chatting and working together all week long, was some of the most fun I've ever had in this game. Goodbye Phorcys, er... happy sundering..?
It always surprises me that it's only semi-well-known that the WoL, the player character, *absolutely* has a main theme/leitmotif.
If you didn't know, you can hear it in The Maker's Ruin/Heartless/More Than Truth/With Hearts Aligned!
Would it be vain to boost my dictionary project given a wolqotd about languages is going around..? I don't know, but here it is anyway, for anyone that needs references for writing about the many, many languages of FFXIV! I've been diligently updating it every single patch 😄
hey I made a dictionary containing every canon
#ffxiv
language, and every single known word in those languages, including translations, lore context, and the real-world language it's based on (if applicable) for all your naming and writing needs. 📔
I should take this moment to emphasize: it is NOT possible to cancel Hook-type animations. Anyone that is doing so is hacking, and should be reported accordingly!
I've been thinking it since last tier but this tier has firmly cemented the idea that Beans' Azem was turbo-banned from Pandæmonium because it would have been an unmitigated disaster if she and Athena ever met
[6.5 LL] new
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mount is almost certainly a pixie from the First; you can tell by that sort of gem on the chest! Notably, we also see them in the trailer holding... a gun?
I forget how much Beans lore I’ve talked about publicly, but from the very beginning she has been a Lalafellin fisher-arcanist from the south seas isles.
Words can barely express how UTTERLY ELATED I’ve been at literally /all/ of Aloalo. It’s more than I could have dreamed of!
one thing they don’t tell you about high-end content in ffxiv is that it ruins all the normals for you, not because they’re too easy or anything but because of the residual trauma from dying to the harder version 100+ times…
@fadamniel
Aersthota Morningcalm shows up for precisely 2 ACN quests and then disappears forever. Not only is she relentlessly cool, I swear she's the most sincerely caring NPC in all of ARR. I am madly in love with her.
Make that definitively just Aquamaton! Testing of the exact nature of the issue has to wait until Shadeshifter comes back, but in the meantime people needn't worry about running into similar issues with any other fish. Cheers to those that helped confirm these!
Love the fishing community. One intuition ia broken, they go and check every other intuition to make sure it works and is unchanged.
So far, it is just Aquamaton.
THE SHOW IS TONIGHT! Are you ready, kids?! Yarrr!!!
Thank you so much for the overwhelming support for our show so far!
Sadly, our ship only can hold so many pirates before it sinks...
Luckily... The show will also be ON STREAM - !!
DON'T BE LATE! 🏴☠️