The Story In Missions

Teodor makes that entire expansion worthwhile.

Distinguished. As. ***.

Man. I wonder how a Japanese storyteller ever thought of that!?

Well, I mean...yeah.

I mean, I liked the character design, ffxiwaifu, #bestgirl, etc but there were a few things that made it not really worth hanging around to me. The big thing wasn't even in-game, it was the execution. Many of my friends kinda lost interest and quit because all of the stuff we worked hard for to be ready for SoA was immediately underpowered and obsolete, relics included with absolutely no plan to update them. Then the RME shitstorm happened and Matsui learned that you don't obsolete Relics completely. After the March 2013 update, my LS was pretty much dead. We went from like 15-20 members always online to 4-5 AFKers for some reason and I was only around for friends so that was it for me. :/

I think I may have paid more attention to the mysteries and lore instead of their current events and concerns of the average townsperson.

Well even in the Midras helm +1 Quest line. There is very clear cut "No leaking of Mid-lands information".
Like Super pressurative on this idea that Adoulin stuff STAYS in Adoulin and not outside.

Random bits I missed or found out about after coming back to re-experience the storylines of XI because I rushed this back in the day:

Masato Kato (The Antiquity/12,000 BC story arc in Chrono Trigger, the entirety of Chrono Cross, some writing contributions to Xenogears) penned the original basic premise of FF11 and Rise of the Zilart. Suddenly, the part where naive, young civilizations are threatened by the long-term effects of a race of ancient *** exploding in everyone's faces has a bit of a precedent. Zilart and Tu'lia? mo' like Zeal and Solaris, amirite. Aldo was totally his pet character (explains ACP where he returned as a freelance writer) but Batman's writing was mostly by another writer.

Yaeko Sato wrote everything regarding Windurst and Kazham, from the enigmas surrounding Karaha-Baruha to the culture and nation-states of the Mithra. Found out she came back to conclude the overarching mystery of Fenrir and that fateful battle in Wings of the Goddess while writing up the setting and story of FFXIV 1.0 at the same time, which is why everything is relatively consistent. Turns out she also wrote the lyrics to Distant Worlds, Forever Today, FFXIV's Answers, and now the ending theme to RoV.

Fake Louverance in Chains of Promathia referred to the "Western Kingdom", a vital participant in his gambit to resurrect Tavnazia to its former glory. With reference to a western city of famed exorcists across the sea back in the Halloween events of 2006, it's clear one writer planted the seeds for Adoulin a decade ago while remaining vague enough for other writers to fill the blanks later. Alexander and Odin are obviously alluded to in Chapter 5 as well, but nothing really gave conclusive evidence that they would build an entire expansion involving the two until the introduction of Limbus half a year later, endgame content introduced to hype us up for the definitely-confirmed-by-then ToAU.

Adding to CoP, being confused about Chains of Promathia is normal. Even its own characters were addled half the time with Tenzen himself fighting you out of desperate confusion. The entire final boss battle is because of one particular character was so fed up with being confused that he basically gave up on existence.

There's a hidden quasi-dating sim element in SoA involving Arciela according to an interview with the lead writer of SoA in an issue of Famitsu. Snagging creep shots of her chest apparently causes the "likability"/bond rating with her to reasonably plummet, but I didn't notice any real changes in dialogue.

The "Thirst for the Ages" questline is the one I remember best and paid the most attention to, since it's all about digging up relics and documents pertaining to mysteries around Adoulin. "The Curious Case of Melvien" was also pretty interesting. Likewise, the Epeolatry quest focused in on one of August's generals, and some RUN AF got into the mysteries of the Strange Apparati.

I just remember doing those cutscenes together with friends and I was like, "wasn't he wearing something else?"

"What are you talking about, Rammie?"

"They must have made a mistake or something."

"No, that's definitely two different guys."

"You're off your rocker."

WELL WHO WAS RIGHT, ***.

I wish with the trusts actually, If you summoned Kayeel-Payeel or Ferreous coffin if they would repsond to you owning say Claustrum and Mjollnir respectively.
Makes me feel sad, i wanted to Show my Mjollnir off like "Who's gonna live for 800 Years now!"

Edit: oh god i did not proof read that im so sorry.

Yeah. Would be amusing to party up with Noillurie for that purpose.