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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Final Fantasy XIV shows off patch 2.4's story and Shiva]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/10/10/final-fantasy-xiv-shows-off-patch-2-4s-story-and-shiva/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/10/10/final-fantasy-xiv-shows-off-patch-2-4s-story-and-shiva/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/10/10/final-fantasy-xiv-shows-off-patch-2-4s-story-and-shiva/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/patches/" rel="tag">Patches</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/previews/" rel="tag">Previews</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/endgame/" rel="tag">Endgame</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News Items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/consoles/" rel="tag">Consoles</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/final-fantasy-xiv/" rel="tag">Final Fantasy XIV</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/subscription/" rel="tag">Subscription</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/10/10/final-fantasy-xiv-shows-off-patch-2-4s-story-and-shiva"><img alt="This image is nothing to Sneeze at." data-credit="Square-Enix" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/f854a3d8a83001df309ffb3076c82d25/200900669/ffxiv-storyprimal-epl-1010.jpg" data-mep="501617" /></a></div>
The next major <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/Final-Fantasy-XIV/">Final Fantasy XIV</a></em> patch will bring more story content.  Every major patch does, after all.  <a href="http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/8e7b8ec1da206183703265de3e76687371980459">A new preview on the official site</a> makes it clear that players will continue working with the Crystal Braves, delving further into the conflict that's brewing deep within Ishgard the threatens all of Eorzea.  It also makes it <em>very</em> clear that players will be facing off against fan favorite Ultros in the next installment of the ongoing Gentleman Inspector Hildibrand storyline, which should delight <em>Final Fantasy VI</em> fans even more than their magitek armor mounts.<br />
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You can also take a peek at a preview of <a href="http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/51a750ecc29b3f709a70c8519d706ddd90c21432">the coming battle against Shiva</a>; the Hard version is part of the storyline, while the Extreme battle requires players to first clear The Striking Tree (Extreme).  It promises to be a pretty cool fight.  Take a look at the previews, and keep your eyes peeled for when the patch is going live.<br /><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/10/10/final-fantasy-xiv-shows-off-patch-2-4s-story-and-shiva/">Final Fantasy XIV shows off patch 2.4's story and Shiva</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://legal.aol.com/terms-of-service/full-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/10/10/final-fantasy-xiv-shows-off-patch-2-4s-story-and-shiva/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20975919/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/10/10/final-fantasy-xiv-shows-off-patch-2-4s-story-and-shiva/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>endgame</category><category>ff</category><category>ff14</category><category>ffxiv</category><category>ffxiv-patch-2.4</category><category>final-fantasy</category><category>final-fantasy-14</category><category>final-fantasy-xiv</category><category>news</category><category>news-items</category><category>patch</category><category>patch-previews</category><category>patches</category><category>primal</category><category>primals</category><category>quest</category><category>quests</category><category>square</category><category>square-enix</category><category>story</category><category>update</category><category>updates</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eliot Lefebvre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New preview available for Final Fantasy XIV's Garuda fight]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/24/new-preview-available-for-final-fantasy-xivs-garuda-fight/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/24/new-preview-available-for-final-fantasy-xivs-garuda-fight/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/24/new-preview-available-for-final-fantasy-xivs-garuda-fight/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/video/" rel="tag">Video</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/previews/" rel="tag">Previews</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/endgame/" rel="tag">Endgame</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News Items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/consoles/" rel="tag">Consoles</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/final-fantasy-xiv/" rel="tag">Final Fantasy XIV</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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The primals are among the greatest forces within Eorzea, something that <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/Final-Fantasy-XIV/">Final Fantasy XIV</a></em> players are no doubt acutely aware of after the clash with Ifrit. The second primal battle is coming, pitting players against Garuda, deity of the Ixali. That means another pitched battle against a superior foe in the Howling Eye, a battle which the official site has <a href="http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=2db6ff94d8971fb061085efefc0bcefe4ae333c8">just recently previewed</a> with a video of the fight in hard mode and a video preview of the new weapon rewards.<br />
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According to the lore, the Ixali revere Garuda as the Empress of Birds, a soaring deity who maintains an appetite for the flesh of land-dwelling creatures. She is the incarnate strength of the bird-men as well as a source of great terror. But just as with Ifrit, players who defeat her can expect to have a variety of fantastic weapons, as illustrated in the video just past the break. Just be careful -- if you aren't on the ball when you fight her, you could find yourself <a href="http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=2db6ff94d8971fb061085efefc0bcefe4ae333c8">completely blown away</a>.<br />
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[Thanks to Alex for the tip!]<p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/24/new-preview-available-for-final-fantasy-xivs-garuda-fight/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>New preview available for Final Fantasy XIV's Garuda fight</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/24/new-preview-available-for-final-fantasy-xivs-garuda-fight/">New preview available for Final Fantasy XIV's Garuda fight</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://legal.aol.com/terms-of-service/full-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/24/new-preview-available-for-final-fantasy-xivs-garuda-fight/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20223393/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/24/new-preview-available-for-final-fantasy-xivs-garuda-fight/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>boss-battles</category><category>console</category><category>consoles</category><category>endgame</category><category>fantasy</category><category>ff</category><category>ff14</category><category>ffxiv</category><category>final-fantasy</category><category>final-fantasy-14</category><category>final-fantasy-xiv</category><category>garuda</category><category>lore</category><category>new-content</category><category>preview</category><category>primal</category><category>primals</category><category>square</category><category>square-enix</category><category>video</category><category>video-preview</category><category>videos</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eliot Lefebvre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[FFXIV's 1.19 patch features new group content, Ifrit primal]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/04/ffxivs-1-19-patch-features-new-group-content-ifrit-primal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/04/ffxivs-1-19-patch-features-new-group-content-ifrit-primal/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/04/ffxivs-1-19-patch-features-new-group-content-ifrit-primal/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/trailers/" rel="tag">Trailers</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/video/" rel="tag">Video</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/game-mechanics/" rel="tag">Game Mechanics</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mmo-industry/" rel="tag">MMO Industry</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News Items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/final-fantasy-xiv/" rel="tag">Final Fantasy XIV</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/dungeons/" rel="tag">Dungeons</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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It's patch day in the world of Eorzea, and today's <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/30/final-fantasy-xiv-releases-notes-for-patch-1-19/">1.19 update</a> looks to bring quite a bit of new content to <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/Final-Fantasy-XIV/"><em>Final Fantasy XIV</em></a>. Said content includes a new confrontation with Ifrit, a fiery primal who waits for brave adventurers at the end of one of the game's newest quests.<br />
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<em>Final Fantasy XIV's</em> <a href="http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=d4986128a7ff000ce85d048a02baf5de2a876b43">lodestone</a> has all the details, and apparently the Ifrit encounter comes in two distinct flavors. One is designed for level 30 light parties (four members), while the other is a hard-mode run intended for eight-man level 50 groups.<br />
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Ifrit wears his badassery on his sleeve if the accompanying video clip is any indication, and the lodestone entry describes him as "a demon spawned by the seven hells" whose exhalations "produce heat of such torridity as to reduce iron to pools of white-hot liquid." See for yourself after the break.<p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/04/ffxivs-1-19-patch-features-new-group-content-ifrit-primal/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>FFXIV's 1.19 patch features new group content, Ifrit primal</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/04/ffxivs-1-19-patch-features-new-group-content-ifrit-primal/">FFXIV's 1.19 patch features new group content, Ifrit primal</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://legal.aol.com/terms-of-service/full-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/04/ffxivs-1-19-patch-features-new-group-content-ifrit-primal/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20073389/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/04/ffxivs-1-19-patch-features-new-group-content-ifrit-primal/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>dungeon</category><category>eorzea</category><category>fantasy</category><category>ffxiv</category><category>Final-Fantasy</category><category>final-fantasy-patch-1.19</category><category>final-fantasy-xiv</category><category>game-update</category><category>hard-mode</category><category>ifrit</category><category>lodestone</category><category>patch-1.19</category><category>primal</category><category>square</category><category>Square-Enix</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jef Reahard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wasteland Diaries: Mutations 2.0]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/19/wasteland-diaries-mutations-2-0/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/19/wasteland-diaries-mutations-2-0/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/19/wasteland-diaries-mutations-2-0/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/sci-fi/" rel="tag">Sci-Fi</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fallen-earth/" rel="tag">Fallen Earth</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/game-mechanics/" rel="tag">Game Mechanics</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mmofps/" rel="tag">MMOFPS</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/wasteland-diaries/" rel="tag">Wasteland Diaries</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/post-apocalyptic/" rel="tag">Post-Apocalyptic</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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	We have a new skills and abilities system in <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/Fallen-Earth/">Fallen Earth</a></em>. I wrote a short guide about the new skills a couple of weeks ago, so this week I'd like to cover the new mutations. If you haven't played <em>Fallen Earth</em> in the past few months, you will log into a very empty hot-key bar and have a very messed-up build. You will have a lot more AP than you did, though. But that AP is useless if you don't know how to spend it. There are no more <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/07/02/wasteland-diaries-capstones/">capstones</a> to plan builds around; you'll have to build a clone that will suit your particular play-style. My <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/05/wasteland-diaries-i-got-skills/">skills post</a> and this post will give you a pretty good idea of what each line does and what abilities or mutations they offer.</div>
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All clones still have alpha mutations, but they are only low-level mutations and are intended to introduce new players to the mutation system. These mutations are based soley on Charisma now rather than Willpower. Every mutation line also has a primary stat attached to it, which determines 75% of the maximum attainable skill level. The other 25% is determined by Willpower. Total gamma (gamma is the mutation stamina pool that you deplete when you use mutations) is now determined by Charisma and Intelligence. Willpower is not nearly as important to mutation-heavy characters as it used to be. Those are the fundamental changes to mutations, and after the cut I'll describe what each line has in its arsenal.<p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/19/wasteland-diaries-mutations-2-0/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Wasteland Diaries: Mutations 2.0</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/19/wasteland-diaries-mutations-2-0/">Wasteland Diaries: Mutations 2.0</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://legal.aol.com/terms-of-service/full-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/19/wasteland-diaries-mutations-2-0/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20020713/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/19/wasteland-diaries-mutations-2-0/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>alpha-mutations</category><category>ap</category><category>empathy</category><category>enhancement</category><category>fallen-earth</category><category>fallen-earth-llc</category><category>featured</category><category>gamersfirst</category><category>guide</category><category>icarus-studios</category><category>Illumination</category><category>mutations</category><category>nano-manipulation</category><category>patho-transmission</category><category>Primal</category><category>sonic-manipulation</category><category>suppression</category><category>telekenesis</category><category>thermal-control</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward Marshall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>