XIV Heavensward Summed Up (very minor spoilers)Follow

59 is chill to Jazz music or do quests for ADS's kids.

umm you didnt mention any dungeons or trails inbetween all those errands... also surely theers other stuff besides hunt sto do at 60.. what about tome farming and all the bismark i see in PF?

Since i am currently lvl 53 MCH, i can't speak for what comes next. I can however point out something you have forgotten.
Errands for the Vath.
Can someone please explain why they are sooooooooooooo enamored with Nanka meat?

So what you're saying is, if eorzeans weren't so lazy you'd be left with nothing to do?

They didn't add any crafting stuff? No expansion to FC or player housing? I could have downloaded and logged in, but I figured I'd give the people who actually paid for it a chance to play rather than clogging up queues and taking up space just to poke my nose around. The download would probably take longer than actually putzing around anyway.

Well yeah, but that kind of ruins the joke.

Actually, it was pretty funny when the story NPCs are all like "We must hurry! Time is of the essence!" and I'm like "Nah dude, sorry, just recalled to the FC crafting workshop to turn in 21 Rose Gold Ingots. Be back in 15." Or "Come this way quickly!" and I got "Wait, sorry, I saw a triple triad icon I have to get my butt kicked at cards first."

The moogles say as much.


It's pretty good fanfare.

Hunts summed up:

18:47:10 Wixmix the Mighty at (18,25)
18:47:20 All Hunt LSs are notified
18:47:28 Everyone ports in, half to the wrong instance. Rage ensues.
18:47:33 People starting shouting "please hold" "please don't pull yet"
18:47:50 Wixmix the Mighty is pulled before anyone is even close to getting there
18:48:30 Wixmix the Mighty dies, just as the zerg is showing up.
18:48:35 Someone shouts "WTF who pulled?" Another shouts "thanks for waiting jackasses"
18:48:40 One of the few who was there for the kill responds with, "LEL STFU NOOB. L2 FLY FASTER. LELELELELELELEL!"
18:48:41 All hope in humanity is lost.

It is a lot, which is why I have been impressed. The quality of the zones and the story does feel impressive and I must say the conclusion ends just as fantastic. I've already expressed how much SE deserves praise in another post for this.

Yes, you pretty much have some way to go. The final zone doesn't feel as much but I wont add spoilers.

I just worked out roughly how much time I've spend on it, comes to above SE's estimation maybe even 60-70+ hours (Correction, I've actually double checked its more like 80+!!!!). Played since the Friday release, most of that weekend, nearly every evening last week and again nearly all weekend just gone.

Considering I've only got one 60, nearly every zone side quest completed and a 2nd job at 55 almost to 56. I think it's safe to say I didn't rush through the content. Then again that's the way I play, not about being the first to "have" or skip all the CS's/NPC texts.

That's on top of having a job mon-fri 9-5 and a other half who doesn't do games....

Edited, Jun 29th 2015 10:09am by Lonix

Edited, Jun 29th 2015 10:13am by Lonix

59-60 felt like a free level. There was so much xp from MSQ IN AL, and Library.

Yea I have not barely touched the game in weeks. Played the weekend after launch of Heavensward and have not even felt like picking the game up.
We are such a powerful warrior of light and we are errand boys and girls...





Edited, Jul 6th 2015 4:59pm by Nashred

Honestly the 50-60 grind was mad easy, and totally worth it. HW storyline is crazyyyyyy good, and I was wearily treading through the ARR story. This was baller. The ending actually felt like a real Final Fantasy game, not an MMO.

You are hearing what you want to hear. Just quit already.

Alright, as someone who actually cleared all 4 sections of Alexander within in the first few hours, let me clear this up:

No you are not learning "new" mechanics in the general definition of the word. Alexander reuses Coil mechanics along with some you've dealt with throughout 2.0 and the variations done in 3.0 content.

Now, are they new if you've never done coil before? Yes. Oppresor is Caduceus revamped, as in if you have both of them together all hell breaks loose. So to those of us who've farmed coil since 2013 it did indeed feel the same old same old, those who didn't? Yes it is new. If you look on the official forums, I don't care how white your armor is as a knight but people admitted that 3.0 thus far did feel like 2.0. Even Yoshida has said it would be like 2.0, unless you can list out every way that 3.0 has DRAMATICALLY changed gameplay and evolved from 2.0, because even the director/producer said that it wouldn't be that big of a change. Is it a change from the norm in 2.x? Definitely, it's a fresh coat of paint more than a new car altogether which is why I stated despite the hype around flying, they failed to incorporate it into dungeons or actual content which would have been amazing.

Let me break down Alexander 2 mechanics for you:

Run in, gather mobs kill.
Rinse repeat.

Sound familiar?

Now hold on.....

Once you get to the boss theres 2 goblin tanks you can use...which are essentially cannons you've used in content since 2.0. What's the main purpose of these you ask? To drag a bomb away from the party - What does this bomb do you ask? Think Brayflox Hard Mode, the exact same, only when they go off instead of instant wipe, it plops vunerability on you of some kind. However the fight is tank 1 get bunch of mobs, tank 2 do the same..rinse and repeat. Horde fights are nothing new in FFXIV ARR. It's essentially a trash pull.

Alexader 3...is a return on Turn 11 from Final Coil mixed with a bit of CT. 2 Tanks stand in front to soak damage, e.g Kalliya, you have to deal with TETHERS, e.g Kalliya, you have to deal with adds that can hinder your party if they left unchecked? E.g World of Darkness slimes and Penance. You have to tank swap due to a certain debuff that can potentially one shot a tank? E.g Kallya. So once again, unless you never touched coil, it will feel exactly the same, which is neither good nor bad, but definitely can't pretend it's never been seen before in XIV.

Alexander 4 actually has a few unique mechanics but largely, it's dealing with mechanics you've done in HW dungeons and, again, if you've done coil before. Storyline wise..there was actually a bit more fetch quests than 2.x's line, but they did it in a fashion it didn't completely block you from progression.



If you did most if not all content in 2.x you would feel exactly the same unless you're actually..dare I say, forcing yourself to think HW was different to blind yourself from the fact it truly wasn't. This is exactly why I stated:

If they incorporated Flying into dungeons, THAT RIGHT THERE, would have been an evolution of dungeon design and gameplay you normally see with expansions. But as of 3.0? It feels they simply missed a great opportunity.

Hell I did quite a few fates not even for the exp in hopes that they were new style FATEs, even the hunts. What's cool is, one of the AI hunt marks actually uses mechanics when it's not zerged in 20 seconds.

Overworld mobs using mechanic? That is actually something new. But sadly it's a long respawn S rank hunt. (Basically think Turn 10.)

So maybe once 3.1 hints things will be shaken up, but quite honestly, for an expansion I expected more, especially gameplay wise, but in terms of a PATCH? It's perfectly fine. I mean if you truly think about it, people wouldn't have flooded back to North Thanalan Fates to 57 if everything truly WAS new.

I'm just stating what I see though, because like I've said in another topic..once you do your quests in HW spots..there's nothing there but FATEs and maybe hunt marks, so unless you enjoy dungeon spams, nothing...truly changed between 2.x > 3.0 that would make it TOTALLY new. Like any major update, everything feels fresh becaue you're breaking away from your 210th Shiva Ex and 70th WoD run.



Edited, Jul 8th 2015 6:22am by Theonehio