Preach does Seat of Sacrifice and Reacts to Elidibus and Exarch Cutscenes 

That tiny crack gave way to a complete ocean of tears in me tbh

The way there's rage in his voice when he says 'rage', and despair in his voice when he says 'despair', the VA is absolutely masterful

@@UmatsuObossa and we can't forget "Your sacrifice will be our *salvation*."

@@ssjonupants yeah the way he almost whispers salvation is cool

every time, without fail, I hear him say "But you are not here to see it.." I get emotional. That VA is amazing.

I mean a tragic story doesn’t become less tragic just cause you know something good comes out of it

@@jotunn30 mkay

Does some heavy crits of emotional damage there.

im so sad to what happened to him in Endwalker

That single fcking tear ffffffff

Vappis tho

@Urazz He did fail some obvious mechanics though. Also remember he doesn't really have the power to wipe the group and the one time he did a healer Rescue'd him. So yeah.

This has to be the most disastrous clear I've seen lmao.

@Urazz He did pretty well considering he didn't know the fight. The tanks though, omg.

for real lol, somehow Preach kept getting teams that are, to put it lightly, rather disastrous, to the point that i don't even know if they are trolling or not (which is really common in his raids and trials fights too many times have the healers carried his teams lol. Especially the diamond weapon fight, they didn't just carry it, they lugged the whole-ass-team to victory

He didn't get as many chances to shine as Emet-Selch but goddamn did he nail that monologue at the end.

Matt Stokoe. The man does more character building with a single sentence than some people can do with an entire book.

I loved how he switched from his sincere statement, his confusion from his ailing memory and his over the top behaviour to show Elidibus getting too into the "warrior of light" role. Then there was the VA work for his original form at the end. offhh.

Oh and of course the ever so fun rock remix of aumarots theme

The Red Bahamut references a Red Dragon that was featured in the CGI opening movie for Final Fantasy Origin on the PS1 re-release of FF1 (bundled with FF2 making it's NA/EU debut). What's hilarious is that such a dragon doesn't exist in FF1 proper and only appears in that opening movie. Was really surprised to see XIV reference it in a blink and you'll miss it kinda way. Good work catching the references you listed though. ^^b

It was the logo for 1.0 and 2.0.

@@khinzaw77 2.0s logo was decidedly different, its a clear reference to the original 1.0 logo, the "wheel" of heroes.

The twins are Palom and Porom, who famously lost their lives saving yours

I'd argue that the Elidibus stuff hits even harder having now finished Endwalker

@@AlexGelinas42069 True EW does add a ton of levity to Shadowbringers, how EW makes ShB a better is a testimate to the writing.

Or how good writing can trump dialogue choices with different outcomes.

@@AlexGelinas42069 Agreed. Elidibus's character goes from cartoon villain to absolute master stroke of little kid with too much responsibility slowing going mad with it.... and Endwalker only piles it on more.

@@katarh "Little kid" might be a bit of a stretch given what we know from the Pandaemonium stuff so far, but he's certainly *young*

Preach gets rescued constantly should be the title

I have yet to see a single ex wow player that is actually good at the game

@@maximilianweber3743 I mean, if you want to get technical, there is Zepla.

@@maximilianweber3743 this is his first time doing the trial + plenty of wow players have cleared savage and ultimate raids like echo and limit guys (and many more)

wym

What?, he is a Primal, at least Elidibus as him, he basically did what Ysayle did as Shiva, got the prayers of people to be given form alongside their aether from beyond the rift, that's the entire point of 5.2 and 5.3

@Gud Phrog I think they mean his original role that is being Zodiark. Even if he separated from Zodiark, is he still um.."human"(have no idea what word to say here) or not?

@Gud Phrog OH. Everything makes sense to me now. Thank you for the explanation

You absolutely killed it, amazing work!

Coming back because I'm running this with the wife tomorrow. AND YES I HAVE LB ON MY BARS!

He was like what equivalent to 18-20? A young man compared to the other members.

@@specialnewb9821 I’d argue even younger than that. Like mid-teen years

This. Everywhere Elidibus is brought up including the short stories on the site, he's addressed as young man. (shonen) Obviously, they're trying to sell the idea that he's super young compared to the other Convocation members. Of course, by the time of Shadowbringers, he's thousands of years old, but he's also lost his memories and grown more unstable since splitting from Zodiark, so who knows how much opportunity he has really had to mature since then.

The Alphinaud comparison is apt considering he was also friends with Azem (WOL) and inspired in no short amount by your antics as the resident troublemaker / problem solver on the Convocation.

Exactly. Put an 18-20 year old to become the president of United States and tell me you won't call him a kid.

I'm now picturing the cutscene as a lala playing out as it would for any other race... But somehow they've managed to find a step stool to stand on from nowhere.

yeah, I've seen healers not knowing about it at high 70's. Same with DPS and a few tanks. LB isn't even in a good spot to find it. "general" why?

@@KMCA779 for sure, if it's a meme that people don't even know how it works there may be a problem with how it's introduced to the player.

Watching Captain Grim continuously suffering and failing tank LB, then scream "YOU DO IT!" at his party-trolls never fails to amuse me.

and interrupting. For healer it esuna.

Chat makes reliving these moments worse ... I'm crying over the scene and a few random chat comments makes me laugh so it's just a mess of actual crying laughing.

Also after Emet the whole thing transitions to the WoL taking their place even if WoL has different methods and beliefs.

Aye it helps when you learn that not only their motives are kind of sympathetic who wouldn't give up everything to save the ones they love. But you also learn that your past self was part of the convocation at one point.

wait were people actually upset about that? hes been built up since 2.1 lmao. granted all of his best characterization was in these two patches but hes hardly a rushed character

@@ketchuprats8378 true he's the most interesting Ascian back then

Literally only Elidibus is a Ascian you can truly sympathize with, for every other was just a genocidal madman. Emet deserve no sympathy at all ShB, you can understand the Ascians, but at the end of the day, they are pure evil. Gaia arc ending is literally what the Ascians should be doing ever since the beginning of the time. But they choose genocide instead, nope, can't relate at all with people like that.

It's no Hades

Yeah lol healers learn that little tidbit eventually in their career; especially if they’re doing savage. The same principal applies to every aoe heal in this game.

@@Sasorislovery yep as a Dancer main you can ox you're sweaty enough give an extra tiny bit of time to some people on Technical step. About 1 second I think if they're the farthest one away.

Cascading is gone. In 6.0 they made all buffs apply at the same time, they died cause they used literally 0 mit with the LB

@@skylarsimes8 you can literally see the cascading happening in the video. Also they had scholar shields and sacred soil when the LB4 went off.

Happens when you put in effort and passion instead of just doing the bare minimum for a paycheck.

The writers are really talented in properly setting up stuff beforehand, but I'd also argue that they are equally talented in being able to go back to previous story threads that were dropped due to one issue or another (like all the story beats that got dropped in the switch over from 1.0 to 2.0). Like, the whole G'raha Tia being in 5.0 hadn't been planned out at the end of ARR. The writers were able to recognize that chance and properly integrate it.

@@roetheboat1 And the music is so well done. Not just fantastic new tracks every expansion(thank you Master Soken! We're not worthy!) but they were able to imbue emotional moments onto their core soundtrack from the beginning. Then, they continue to intently time these musical cues up perfectly so that they hit at moments of new emotion. Essentially, layering emotional moment on emotional moment that we naturally tie to these musical cues so that when the cue hits, it triggers the memories of those moments. And they do this expertly! I remember at the Fan Festival in 2021 when Soken announced that Soken had been working on Shadowbringers while in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy and hiding a Cancer diagnosis from the rest of the dev team. While Yoshi-P sobs over what his best friend had to endure with his back turned, the lead writer, Natsuko Ishikawa, felt bad for trying to get him to trim "To The Edge" 1 second to make it fit better with the cutscene while he was dealing with Cancer and chemo. Several things can be gleaned from that video. Mostly, Soken is a fucking warrior-poet! But, more to the point, that is a story of what is possible when passion meets precision and it's indicative of what they are doing at FFXIV...what they've been doing for a decade. Building cathedrals of story, sound and experiences. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮'𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙙'𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠!

Yeah its pretty rough and it helps shed some light on how badly his mind was falling apart by that point. Its easy to forget we originally met Elidibus back in ARR while his mind was more intact and he still held some respect for us and was even rather diplomatic in contrast to his fellow Ascians. He also was the one that saved Unukalhai from the 13th before it turned into the void world and treated him well as a disciple. I believe you can actually go back to the Rising Stones and tell him the fate of his mentor which made him feel genuine sad although he understood you had to strike him down. (if you haven't finished the questline that unlocks after you do all the ShB role quests)

Interesting, where did you get this info from?

I don't think this is an obvious thing till the event of endwalker and the raid, if I remember right, before endwalker we are still very unsure who this promise are made to

@@talancorwell I've done it myself. It opens in the bar near your inn room after you finished all the role quests and is under the New Game+ tab as "Void Quests". You might be able to see him still in the main chamber regardless of if you did all the role quests to tell him the fate of his mentor but my game state is obviously a little different since I've already done it so he's moved. I believe he just stays around after the Warring Triad story since he doesn't have any other orders from Elidibus on where to go next.

@@talancorwell I think it's short story in Lodestone or some sort of novel

Tank LB is Classic, good thing I'm playing Tank and know when to do it xD (you do it after first slash)

literally same

SAME THO

Until your boss comes and demand a full report on why you were crying during work

@@SaigaTenshi then you tell him about the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, which has a free trial that includes the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 with no restrictions on playtime

It's not that strange. Whenever any programmer reads our code they start crying as well. It's par for the day.

Casting lb3 right after the text to transcend limits disappears I believe works

Nah the timing is easy af lol, cast it once he gets his last bar or a a sec later and you'll be fine.

@@Artis312 The problem here is that in EX this LB needs to be cast quicker than in normal

@@nestorreyes126 does it? I thought it felt the same. Havent done normal in a while so may be wrong.

It's the same timing in EX and normal. 4th bar fills then press it 1 or 2 secs after

I had to do it several times in Endwalker as a Summoner. Not that I'm complaining, honestly feels kinda good helping everybody lmao

Had Shinryu run like that last night... 6 people new to duty. In fairness, they learned fast but ooooffff, I think we take for granted how vicious some trial mechanics are the first time through them.

@@adamosborne9440 especially Shinryu - the normal one is so easy if you know what to do but it will one shot some sprouts ez

Well, it's Preach's guild, you can't expect them to be good players lol, most of them are probably new as well

@@niklasstahl98 Don't worry, nobody's complaining. It happens a bit in newer content the first time around.

A 35 year old would be considered a "kid" if everyone else in his social group were elderly octegenarians. It's all relative.

Emet saw him as basically "The innocent young one" but that doesn't mean he's a kid, yup. I'd say equivalent of a freshmen in collage to the upper classmen.

Theirs was a utopia after all, as Emet explained it: Their differences and disagreements paled in comparison to all they had in common. They all wore the same robes (for the most part) and masks to not be influenced by their individuality too much or to stand out.

? there is lots of really pointless references for the sake of references even when better xiv-inlore options would have existed. For example (SPOILER) in EW they reuse the same reference from 2.0 for the Ragnarok ship explaining that its because of its special meaning to our saving and the fall of Dalamud, many people expected them to name the ship after Louisoix after that buildup which would have fitted much better but no lets add references to FF8 and 13 arguably the worst in the series

@@Breaker242 not as bad as literally retconning the legacy of your entire franchise for the sake of a single villain, who appears for a single expansion aka WoW Shadowlands.

@@Breaker242 I could not tell you the name of the ship, that's how little I care about it.

Which is probably why u quit during cata. Wow lore was bring held up by warcraft 3 not wow itself. I lost interest and just left.

@@Breaker242 I mean Eden raid is FFVIII reference glalore

I agree with you, but this is from his latest stream at the time of writing this.

Nothing ...

"Just have to kill him fourteen more times to finish this reputation grind..."

😂

The extreme of this fight is no joke extreme. It's an exquisitely choreographed dance, and unless you nail it, you're going to wipe the raid.

In Japanese, he's addressed often as shonen, and in the short stories, not that long before Amaurot's fall, he's portrayed as a fanboy with a childish admiration for other Convocation members, particularly Azem. He might not be the equivalent of a 6 year old, but he is genuinely and deliberately presented as very young. You read this in the aforementioned short stories, you see this in the memories from his PoV where other Amaurotines are looking down at him, you see it with his childlike stature after you defeat him and you see this (spoiler) In Elpis, where he looks purposely on the young side and is, once again, treated and addressed as a young man. Of course, the Seat of Sacrifice takes place thousands of years later, but then again, he also lost a lot of his memories when he parted from Zodiark, so chances are he's pretty developmentally stunted.

@@Zakjuh Isn't he referred to as 小柄な青年? 小柄な being the na-form adjective for 'short stature' and 青年 being 'seinen' meaning young adult? I don't remember him being referred to as 'shonen' but I could just be remembering wrong. From what I can tell, some of those memories are happening at various points in time during his tenure as Elidibus. From my understanding, by the time the Final Days came about he was already a 'seinen.' And I know this is a bit more of a contentious point, but his Japanese VA also sounds deliberately like a young man, not a teenager. His English VA sounds way older to me though, which kinda goes along with the fact that it feels like the EN version characters have different personalities and almost its own story in a way, for lack of a better description.

I mean... It sort of wasn't. To them, we're *nothing.* Literal scraps of souls, hundreths of a hundreth of a hundreth of the originals. They say, over and over again, that they do not see us as people - because in comparison our souls, our aether, our *entire being* is so incredibly feeble and ephemeral. Echoes and ghosts, in their eyes. So what's a few such willowy mistakes but to be swept away under what the world ahould really have been?

Also knowing that elidibius was a child when he zodiark heart make it more sad.

@@marc789 Do we know that? I know he is younger in the raids, but I haven't done savage.

@@sirthanksalot97 I think you can morally justify all you want, but you are killing sentient people. No matter how elitist your reasons, it's still genocide.

@@GivettheGAS Pretty much, but I get the Ascian reasoning. Those souls are people they once knew, being born and dying over and over again, never getting to live a true life, suffering and dying endlessly for nothing. They'll die regardless, infinitely. 75% of the ancients souls are trapped within Zodiark and Hydaelen, unable to be reborn. They gave everything so that the world could have a second chance, yet the world they gave it all up for is in pieces, the survivors have become like insects that live lives shorter than the blink of an eye. What as any of it for? If there's a chance to bring it back and save everyone, why would they not do everything they can to make it happen? The aether and souls of those sentient creatures they kill will just come back for another round of suffering and death, what's 14 cycles compared to infinity? It's wrong obviously, but if everyone I knew turned into sentient butterflies that die in 3 days, I'd sure as fuck genocide them if it meant rejoining everyone.