The Queue: In which Xiv makes me blush

Uh… yeah, well, let’s talk about stuff other than my face.

Oh wow, are you opening a Pandora’s box here, I could easily list hundreds of options. I’ll keep myself under control and do a short list of critters I’d want to see added. I have to cut a lot out because the Queue breaks if the post gets too long.

• The Ordovician filter feeder Aegirocassis, for the time one of the largest creatures in the oceans and a filter feeder like modern Baleeen whales
• Arthopleura armata, from the Devonian, one of if not the largest invertebrates to ever live on land. Think of a millipede the size of a small car.
• Eryops megacephalus, which lasted from the Carboniferous to the Permian, a large temnospondyl amphibian with some wicked teeth.
• Erythrosuchus africanus, the ‘red crocodile’, was not a crocodile or even a crocodilian, but an archisauriform reptile closely related to the common ancestor of all archosaurs. Approaching five meters (almost seventeen feet long) with a huge head full of massive teeth

I’d probably want to create another of those Titan Petri Dish zones like Un’Goro or Sholozar, perhaps even as part of the areas we’ve seen hinted about in Dragonflight like Avaloren.

My guess is that they don’t want players to be able to easily solo them right now because they see them as grouping opportunities, which extends the viability of the creatures as content. Once 10.1 comes out and we start gearing up in Aberrus, I expect we’ll see folks start soloing those rares.

A – Dr. Henry Armitage, a librarian who recently had a strange and off-putting assailant break into his library and steal a copy of a forbidden tome called The Book of the Names of the Dead. He needs you to take him to Ahn’Qiraj, where he fears the book will be used in a ritual to summon something horrible.

C – After you get to AQ and stop the Qiraji Horror, Armitage keeps pestering you to take him around to meet a bunch of artists, poets, and others who are seemingly going mad. He then entreats you to take him to Kul Tiras, where a ship’s captain tells of a gigantic underwater temple that rose from the sea, and of course he wants you to take him to said formerly underwater temple which is now on the surface.

B – Sorry, but your A and C led into the B, which is also the climactic battle of your C quest.

The underwater temple is of course the resting place of Great Cthulhu, the sunken island of R’lyeh, and the climactic battle is with an awakened Cthulhu, who has come to Azeroth to show these whippersnappers who call themselves Old Gods what cosmic horror is really all about. Cthulhu cannot actually be defeated, although its physical manifestation can be disrupted long enough for R’lyeh to begin sinking again, as the Great Old One does not belong in Azeroth’s reality and can only stay so long as its tether to R’lyeh is maintained.

You get a cute little Cthulhu pet and an invisible Qiraji Horror mount (yes, it’s so nightmarish that we can’t even see it, seeing it would drive us mad) for the completion of this quest.

Do you mean, have I ever asked my wife is she going to finish that pizza? Or have I ever just taken them and eaten them?

Because yes.

I’m happy we’ll get new Mythic+ dungeons, I was pretty tired of the old rotation.

A Bloodrager who used a variety of combat magic — stuff like Lightning Bolt, Haste, Fireball, etc etc — with the Draconic Bloodline. My initial Mythic class was the Angel, but I went with Gold Dragon in the end. I really loved watching her turn into a Dragon and destroy demons, let me tell you.

My slightly less played characters were an Elf Sorcerer/Azata who specialized in being extremely hot (both literally and figuratively — very high Charisma, lots of fire spells, liked to flirt with everything with a pulse), an Oread Cleric who ended up as an Aeon — they were very into being Lawful — and of course a Tiefling Barbarian who went Angel and loved killing demons to prove she wasn’t anything like them.

I played Wrath of the Righteous a lot, y’all. I wish they’d bring Mythic characters into PF2.

I’m trying to get better at not letting the body dysmorphia win, so I’m just going to say Well, thank you, although I don’t see it myself.

Thanks for being here, guys. See you next week/month for patch 10.1.