Wondrous Tails – A Final Fantasy XIV Community Podcast

We did it, all 151 original episodes. Even the shiny ones. Is this a shiny episode? Maybe! We got some exciting announcements in the latest Live Letter. Something about glamours, but more importantly the best Extreme fight in the game's history is coming to Unreal trials starting in patch 7.4. We've got all the details, and lots of Pilgrims' Traversals to discuss.

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3pm

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Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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Episode 150! That's some sort of milestone, probably! To all our s*** ***gs out there, thank you for being here. Most of this episode is deep dungeon focused, but we're discussing the other new additions with patch 7.35 (recorded ahead of the patch release) and what we've been up to in game. We got very meta about what the word "deep" actually means, and there's a few edited words for courtesy, please enjoy.

Timestamps

00:02:35 Pan Sharing
00:11:11 Kristen Sharing
00:16:14 Lilli Sharing
00:27:09 New Deep Dungeon
00:53:12 Other 7.35 Releases
00:56:22 Monster Hunter Collab and Events
01:07:59 WoW and Microsoft
01:17:55 Final Deep Thoughts

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Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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Greetings again! This is another smorgasbord episode as we catch up on various topics from our semi-hiatus earlier this year. Most of our collective time has been spent on Cosmic Exploration, so lots of crafting (and gathering). Kristen is on a mission to acquire a prehistoric mount, with a sizable additional crafting and gathering grind on her plate. Speaking of prehistory, there's a bit of Chrono Trigger chat, and some other random gaming discussion near the end.

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Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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In this actually-timely episode we talk about the patch 7.31 content a bit, and continue catching up with all the actual in-game stuff we've been doing! A good bit of news / events happened in the last two weeks as well. We've got some takes on the Fanfest announcements, the Mare controversy, a little bit about mods in general, that sort of thing. Also Pan has a whole raft of 'lapsed player' questions answered for him by the actually-talented majority of the show, so feel free to point and laugh there.

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3p4

Hosts:

Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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Patch 7.3 is out, and we've got an actually fresh episode for you! We're mostly catching up on what we've been up to in-game (both patch and non-patch related), and also sprinkle in some spoiler-free thoughts on the new content as we go. We had a ton to catch up on, since it's been a while, so we hope you enjoy a longer-than-usual episode!

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3p1

Hosts:

Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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Would you believe we're not talking about Dawntrail story again? You would? Well, that's fair. We've got a combo episode of both the second 7.2 Live Letter's news and a quick glance at the (preliminary) patch notes instead! It ended up being quite a lot to look at / go through. We're looking forward to 7.2, and will probably be back to story very soon. Maybe. Unless something happens again. We'll see!

Timestamps

00:01:26 Kristen Sharing
00:02:13 Lilli Sharing
00:07:21 Pan Sharing
00:07:55 Live Letter
00:09:16 Trailer
00:12:26 Raid Gear
00:17:54 PvP
00:22:59 Tome Gear
00:27:19 Cosmic Exploration
00:34:50 8.0 Speculation
00:39:20 Occult Crescent
00:49:24 Minions, Mounts, and extra
00:54:29 QoL +
01:09:20 Blackmage
01:17:32 Final Thoughts

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3n5

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Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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Look, we get it. Dawntrail has been out for almost a year, the story recap is maybe half done. We know and we are tremendously sorry. However, there was a Live Letter which was announced, true to form, about two hours after we recorded our last episode. Then it happened, and now we've discussed it. Our thoughts on what's coming in 7.2, and when, and looking ahead to some revived fun in our favorite MMO of all time (don't tell Kristen, hers is probably XI, still, somehow).

Timestamps

00:02:52 Pan Sharing
00:06:42 Lilli Sharing
00:11:52 Kristen Sharing
00:28:03 Square Enix Restructure
00:35:03 Little Ladies' Day
00:41:47 Live Letter
00:48:33 Sidequest+ Content
00:53:06 Tomes and PvP
00:59:31 New Instances
01:06:42 Cosmic Exploration & Field Operations
01:18:24 Final Notes

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3my

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Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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We're back on our story grind! Mostly, anyway. There's a little discourse about the current state of affairs of the game, and we definitely plead for a live letter which was announced probably two hours after we wrapped our recording, so we won't cover that here. The bulk of the episode is focused on the level 95 questline where we finally earn that last gusher to qualify Wuk Lamat to be Dawnservant. It gets a bit grim at the end, necessarily, and there are obviously spoilers for this bit of the story up through ... well, the thing with the urns.

Timestamps

00:02:08 Kristen Sharing
00:09:22 Lilli Sharing
00:14:28 State of Events
00:27:50 Pan Sharing
00:32:54 Level 95 Story Discussion
01:18:27 Final Thoughts

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3mk

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Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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We do a little bit of story recap here at the end of the episode, just covering the Dawntrail story (yes, still!) between the Cooking Show escapade and getting to Mamook. However, most of the episode is about some of the criticism and drama swirling around, especially with the various issues in patch 7.16, and how those landed. This episode is definitely a little bit more criticism-oriented, although we think there's lots of room to see a turnaround here. Also, as is our tradition, we recorded about 4 hours before the Live Letter announcement, and opined about needing a Live Letter. You're welcome.

Timestamps

00:02:15 Sharing
00:24:06 Patch 7.16
00:46:35 Story Chat
01:04:27 Final Thoughts

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3m4

Hosts:

Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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We're back with an episode recorded ... well, a good bit before we released it for various reaosns. We're ringing in the new year with new chaotic (and other) comedy / drama, but did better than usual at our slow stroll through the Dawntrail main story. We're firmly in 'level 94' territory now, discussing the culinary efforts and likelihood of specific pairings of Dawnservants, and the plot convenience therein. We should be back with a fresh episode sooner than two weeks from this one, stay tuned!

Timestamps

00:02:05 New Content Sharing
00:25:12 Other Sharing
00:35:07 Level 93 - 94 Story
01:13:09 Final Thoughts

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Hosts:

Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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