Salutations from the bunker. We’re all maintaining our appropriate social distance (of at least 300 miles, in our case) to bring you this latest episode! Turns out that, perhaps given other circumstances, we have next-to-no details about patch 5.25 in spite of Square’s usual practice of Live Letters and content dumps, so we do our best to talk around that and speculate on what exactly it will look like. Of course we’ll all have access to 5.25 by the time this episode reaches your electronic device of choice, so maybe give us a listen while you get on that initial relic grind? There’s additional chatter about Pan’s idiotic Mentor Roulette quest and some Easter event chat too, if that’s more your thing.

Hosts

Christina Zammarrelli

Gaming has been a core part throughout Poptarts life. Though her specialty is JRPGs, she tries to branch out and try new things. Most of her time gets put into the MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV, but she still finds time to play new games.

Chip Locke

Chip has a boring adult day job and then burns as much free time as possible playing the videos james. Fond of a variety of MMOs, JRPGs, and action games without active time button mashing.

Kristen Allison

Began the gaming life with a game boy to be kept entertained during a vacation in the early 90s and forgot to put it down after that. Currently, most gaming time goes into FFXIV. Doing her best to prove she's not a robot.

Deanna Huber

Playing all kinds of games since she was a kid, Deanna is a big fan of many different genres of games. But the main focus has been FFXIV since May 2018. She occasionally strays to FPS or RPGs whenever one catches her attention.

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