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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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

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Christina Zammarrelli
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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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Hello! We're back on our "Dawntrail story recap" grind, well, we were for about 25 minutes of our approximately 73 minute runtime, anyway. We're also talking about the drama with the new Ultimate (red dots for all), sharing some pretty absurd takes on candy, and just chatting about that fun XIV game life for quite a while. It's just a cozy lil' episode as we window down 2024, beware of spoilers for the Dawntrail quests, but you probably already knew that.

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3lg

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We promise to have more than seven and one-tenth thoughts for this rather chonky episode. The extra runtime is because the XIV mobile announcement hit as we were recording, so enjoy our live reaction to that several days later! We also talk about the new FFXI alliance raid, some other 7.1 initial reactions, and a smattering of other discussion. No spoilers in this episode, and we'll return to our very slow stroll through the Dawntrail story next episode, unless something else crazy happens.

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One more live letter before patch 7.1 comes out! This was a pretty interesting live letter so we ended up with a lot to talk about again. If you were following along with our story recap, and still not done with Dawntrail, there's a ton of spoilers in here. We're mostly sorting out the information dropped at the live letter, but do discuss in-game activities (or lack thereof, shame on Pan mostly), and also more general Gaming Things.

Timestamps

00:02:43 Sharing Pan
00:05:20 Lilli
00:13:30 Kristen
00:23:54 Live Letter 84 Echos of Vana'diel
00:33:19 LL Amount of content
00:44:25 LL Chaotic Raid
00:52:05 LL PvP
00:59:38 LL Chat bubbles and other QoL
01:10:20 LL Glamour Contest Gear
01:13:56 LL Final items
01:19:33 Final thoughts

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3kt

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Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

Kristen Allison
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We're back on the story beat! Also we talk a bit about the Korean fan festival news, and get up to our usual rambling shenanigans. Mostly story though! It wasn't really our plan to be doing Dawntrail story recap about 4 months after it released, but here we are. Spoilers ahead for the story up to just before the first trial, and some accidental light spoilers for future story. Which we're also sure you're done with, but just so you know. There's also some really deep thoughts about whether Eorzeans are familiar with the germ theory of disease for ... some reason? Enjoy!

Timestamps

00:04:22 Sharing Time
00:18:35 Korean Fan Fest
00:26:23 7.1 date + Live Letter
00:31:03 Story: Meeting the Yok Huy
00:44:37 Story: Yok Huy History
00:55:31 Story: Worqor Zormor
01:07:56 Story: Post Dungeon
01:15:10 Story: Valigarmanda

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3kl

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Christina Zammarrelli
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Chip Locke

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We're finally back! It's been a long time in the "mostly not REAL internet" desert for Lili, but she has das fiber and we can record again. We're taking a break from story recap (which, yikes, yeah we know!) to talk about our reactions to the 7.1 live letter (the first one, anyway). Lots of good news, including some housing relief, and exciting new opportunities to wipe together with 7 to 23 of your best friends. Also there's some off-color jokes in here, so on that tip, we haven't missed a beat.

Timestamps

00:01:52 Sharing - Kristen
00:03:56 Sharing - Lilli
00:09:59 Sharing - Pan
00:18:21 Game Population and DDoS
00:23:09 Community Drama
00:35:57 New raid
00:40:58 Hall of Novice
00:48:54 Chaotic Alliance Raid
00:52:05 FRU
00:55:56 Misc. Sidequests
01:00:21 Unreal
01:04:26 Allied Society Quests
01:06:05 Custom Deliveries, Housing, and More
01:15:50 Halloween
01:17:37 Outro

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3ka

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Christina Zammarrelli
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We're taking our sweet time breaking down the Dawntrail story, so this week we've got another spoiler-filled episode covering what we're calling the level 93 quests. Koana develops a sudden personality, Wuk Lamat somehow gets lost on a fifty foot walk, and we think you shouldn't name towns after, you know, things that destroy them. Like fire. So Many Fires.

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Timestamps

02:12 Sharing Time
07:30 Job Balances
15:52 Events
21:13 MSQ Level 93 Story
57:47 Final thoughts

Episode URL: mtb.gg/3jv

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Christina Zammarrelli
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