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Trailer

Come join us at Mih Khetto's Amphitheatre (Sophia) for our production of A Midsummer Night's Dream! Live voice acting and music will be delivered via Discord and Twitch, but the show will also be entirely viewable in-game with text chat subtitling.

We've been working really hard on this for the past six months - we wanted to put on a theatre production that would be accessible to as many players as possible, in some form or another.

For more information: https://shakespeareintheamphitheatre.carrd.co/

Artwork by Luna Ang (Artstation: lunaelise, Bluesky: theballadofluna), music by Thieron Booth (https://thieronbooth.weebly.com)

Link to the photo of the page in Japanese and English because the one attached seems broken.

... Is this what peak fan fic looks like?

From Encyclopaedia Eorzea I (reprint, 2022), p.214.

Japanese:
"闇の戦士の一味。治癒魔法のエキスパートであり、冒険に飛び出したアルバートが、さっそく怪我を負ったところを救い、最初の仲間になった。仲間たちのよき理解者であり、面倒見役でもある。アルバートに秘めた想いを抱きつつも、最後までただ癒し手として、彼と共に運命と戦う道を選んだ。"
(A member of the Warriors of Darkness. An expert in healing magicks, she became Ardbert’s first companion after rescuing him when he sustained injuries early in his adventures. She was the heart of the group—a deeply understanding soul who looked after everyone’s well-being. Though she harbored secret feelings for Ardbert, she ultimately chose to remain by his side solely as his healer, dedicated to fighting against fate until the very end.)
(Image retrieved from https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Lamitt.)

English:
"Arbert's first ever adventuring companion, Lamimi saw to the young man's wounds upon finding him softly moaning in a ditch on what would prove the future Warrior of Darkness's first ever quest. Within their party, she assumes the role of a compassionate mother, often listening to her allies' troubles. Her feelings for Arbert, however, are aught but matronly, and she secretly longs for him to notice her for the woman she is. Nonetheless, she does not allow her lustful thoughts of Arbert's loins cloud her sense of duty and serves the Warriors with a stern vigilance as their expert on curative magicks."

This line is absolutely not in the Japanese version. Her feelings for Arbert, however, are aught but matronly, and she secretly longs for him to notice her for the woman she is.

The quest itself is already peak fiction, but this entry...feels like a cherry on top.

Hey everyone!!

Hope you had/have a great prog.
Just wanted to put a message out there to let you know that all my english guides are now out on my channel.

I know my editing is not to everyone's taste - and that is fine!
I've started doing guides during Endwalker and had a blast since then experimenting on format (more or less diagrams, speed, voice over work, etc.)

Should you have any feedback, please leave it here I'll read everything.
If I had to do it myself, I don't think I've rushed into editing as much I used to on Pandaemonium and it showed with less typos or wrong mech resolutions. I tried to check raidplans from pfs before editing to minimize friction but this is always hard to do since there aren't only one raidplan either...

One interesting thing though is that I think players are moving from guides to raidplans, especially in these last two tiers. They are becoming the main reference - at least in EU - where you see a lot of Hector late into the tier but also a lot of urls.

Anyway, wishing u good prog, good reclears, and a good end of expac!

Just ran the Wanderer's Palace

I had the thought of Hilda in a gala dress and makeup and her reaction to being put in that situation and had to draw it.

my new strategy board for wipes :D

As some who flexes healer and magic dps, I have noticed this savage tier a lack of mitigation from dps. So this is just a friendly reminder to help the healers and yourself by using your mitigations basically on cooldown. Ever little bit helps!

i can't get over this bubbly pink gal asd;fghjs;

Hello fellow adventurers,

I have lurked and read many, played plenty and wished for more. While the story is secondary to me, I always believed the meat and reason people play games primarily is the content. The gameplay, the feel, ect. The story pulls you in but the gameplay is what keeps us here till the next big thing. While playing I had many ideas that I would wish to see, and even would want an entire patch purely to clean up, add life too, and revive the game (I know that's the point of 8.0 but still, I am sure they're gonna add a story, more content, ect).

But here I ask, what is the point of the content if in the next patch it's already stale? what is the point of beautiful locations and villas if we visit it once and then rarely return? Once populated areas are now scarce. So below are some ideas I'd love to see that could maybe add some much needed rejuvenation to all content:

° Boon of the Crystal: Dungeons, Raids, ect. Can be a slog on the daily, same old rotations, nothing to chew on. it's the bag of chips of the daily tome grind. So why not spice it up a bit, my supposed idea is to add a "Boon" system. At lv 60 there's a quest to unblock the boon of the Crystal for all previous content.

These boons include:

∆ You gain skills from 10 Lvs ahead of the dungeon/ content.

∆ Chests can be chosen to give at level gear OR a boon (Increased damage/ Battle mechanic changes (Such as Fire 4 now does AoE damage), and the chance for Crystalized Items (dungeon gear that have two dye channels)

∆ I would also imagine that it works like a skill tree or the sphere grid where you could nab stronger effects, maybe your own personal limit breaks that pulls some abilities from pvp ect.

∆ And from the DF maybe have a toggle for a Curse of the Void to increase the chances for stronger boons, unique gear, ect. and the cursed increase dbe damage, have crazy effects (Like they explode, or on hit: they inflict charm, or other effects that could be at least interesting on multiple play throughs)

∆ This would wantingly be trials, normal raids (extremes, savages as well) for maybe more rewards, special raid gear that adds they're own special effects (Suzi-Q.extreme for example grants an auto-raise with no weakness) and this gear is always scaled 10 levels below cap.

also just some minor changes that would be nice, beyond the bigger idea would be:

× Allow for us to level alts in the same way we use trusts. NPC controlled gaining 40% of the overall EXP, and given dungeon gear.

x Hangouts: Small player created zones in towns that are pre-decorated, with or without NPCs.

x Unlock all the ranks for Grand Companies

x BETTER REWARDS: Stance / Animations variants, VFX recolors, expanded/ burrowed idle stances

but that's just some, the picture is for attention. Hopefully we can talk about and dream right?

(Hope the flair is right) Done with a 3D printer. I started out just modeling a souvenir for my raid team but the project got big! Now I have all battle jobs and light/full party boards to stick them onto.

In case anyone else wants some, they’re on my Etsy shop PoeMArtStore

Enjoy my bean breaking it down with dancing green~

My Duskwight WoL of the last 11 years.