7.3 Roundtable (FFXIV MSQ) | The Grinding Gear Podcast #141

The Grinding Gear Podcast

Garrett Weinzierl and Kyle Fergusson

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4.9 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

The Round Table gathers. 7.3: The Promise of Tomorrow MSQ ends the Dawntrail ark in traditional fashion. Garrett, Kyle and Jesse freshen themselves up on the story happenings, having played it back in August. Preach, recently caught up, shares a fresh viewer's perspective. Is Calyx around for the long haul? What does that mean for the story and Sphene? What lessons have the devs learned from Dawntrail and what will they carry into the future. One thing is clear, FFXIV is a story first game and it’s future rides on its ability to capture it’s fans once again. 7.3 seems a solid start.

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0:00.0	Grinding Gear presents the MMO Roundtable.
0:03.3	Final Fantasy 14, 7.3 edition.
0:18.9	Welcome back, gentlemen. Hi, this is Garrett.
0:20.6	Kyle is here as always. We're here with Preach and Jesse Coxon. If this is your first time listening to one of these, we're probably going to call Preach Mike a lot. His name is Mike. If you're confused as to who we're addressing, that's who it is. We've done this a few times since we selfishly took all the time in the world to get
0:40.7	through the Final Fantasy 14 MSQ. And then we liked getting together and talking about the story,
0:45.9	like a bunch of total nerds. And if you missed our announcement last week, OK, Mage couldn't make it
0:53.3	for this one and implored us to just go on, go on without or save ourselves. Specifically said, I hate you guys. That's true. It was huge fallout. That could potentially be an interpretation. I question as to how, but you live in your reality, Jesse. I can't confirm she's just messaged me.
1:12.5	I miss you all.
1:13.1	I wish it was there.
1:14.0	Hopefully we'll be back soon.
1:15.1	Hell yeah.
1:16.3	Oh, my message says, y'all suck.
1:20.7	It all caps.
1:23.7	Wow.
1:24.4	Geez, just yelling it at you.
1:26.0	Just saying it at you.
1:26.9	It's absolutely yelling it at you. So ground rules suck. One word. Absolutely yelling it at you.
1:28.6	So ground rules for today.
1:29.9	We are here to talk about 7.3 MSQ.
1:32.0	We are going to spoil the ever-loven shit at a Final Fantasy 14.
1:36.0	And for the non-Garrett and Kyle individuals joining us today, we will not be talking about Expedition 33.
1:47.2	And you are only allowed to talk about Final Fantasy 1 through 3 in addition to Final Fantasy 14 because we have finally beaten those games.
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