Lol So for thos wondering.... Yes Community members Blue, Vulcanfaux and I went Blue Mage for Ultima. What was cut out is after, or rather during, Jay casting LB3 on Ultima Weapon the three of us Self-Destructed and proceeded to blame Jay for friendly fire lol

Prae used to be a 8 man dungeon that could take at least 1 hour to complete.

@pngmk2

2 ай бұрын

With 40 minutes of netflix in between😂

@provitusmaximus2270

2 ай бұрын

im old enough to experience that bs

@RaidenKaiser

2 ай бұрын

Honestly even though it took longer the rewards for it made up for it you got way more exp for running level 50 dungeons back then and the gill was nice

@AzureRoxe

2 ай бұрын

Funny enough, you could skip the cutscenes by logging out and logging back in, so by the time the cutscenes ended in one fight, a few people tended to do this method to just fight the severely powercrept bosses and keep moving forward. Sometimes it was so fast that by the time one cutscene ended, the other began immediately. The XP reward back then was also FAR higher.

@cynreiusacari3163

Ай бұрын

Cooking with cutscenes or convincing the group to just destroy the door for fun. 😂

Yeah, whenever a streamer's community posts up in these iconic places (I won't spoil where or when), random players will notice the crowd ask what is going on. All it takes is the reply "Streamer welcome," and many will join in. I love this little detail of the wider community, that even if they aren't fans specifically, that they divert their time in game to make someone they don't know feel even more welcome.

I hope that you can experience the Rathalos fight for those that do not have the commitment for XIV.

@umelgaming3177

2 ай бұрын

we would like that too but the issue is Jay is only committing himself to HW and Rathalos is in the post game of the next expansion. He would have to be willing to divide his time between continuing FF14 and starting MHGU to see it. Which although likely, is not anything he has promised us

Bro just having Answers playing at the end there made me tear up, fuck's sake, this game man 😭

@Nathan-sh1zg

2 ай бұрын

YOU GET IT

You're going to fall in love when you start HW and I'm so excited.

If you are going to pledge to play Heavenward I would very much recommend you expand it to 3.3. The narrative of the game from Heavensward onwards (with the exception of Endwalker) is as follows: though the MSQ has a satisfying ending for the x.0 patches, the true ending of the expansion’s story is not resolved until the x.3 patches. Heavensward’s story is built up 2.3 to 2.55, carried out in the 3.0 patch and concluded with patch 3.3 (patch 3.4 starts the build up to Stormblood which you can ignore if you are ready to quit by then).

A heads up 2.1-2.2 (and part of 2.3 ) are very long with a lot of reading CS but there’s some important set up in it though. IMO ARR earns its stripes from the second half of Dreams of Ice (2.3) to 2.5 Part 2 (2.55).

HW PLEDGE LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

I love what they did with that Boss fight before the dungeons. If you didn't know, that fight used to be the biggest joke in the game, it had way simpler mechanics, 1 phase, and you came in with EIGHT PLAYERS. the loading screen would be full of players talking up how hard the fight was and wondering if they were even gonna pass, and then the boss would be dead in under 30 seconds. So for SE to go in and remake the fight into an actual difficult fight is amazing imo.

@Nathan-sh1zg

2 ай бұрын

oh? you mean Cape Westwind (savage)?

Everyone says the Story gets good at HW but I would say it's the lead up from 2.1 to 3.0 where it already starts

Let's goooooo! glad you're enjoying ff14

Oh please do look "too much" into the story and it would be wonderful if you uploaded your theories. Being amazed at sprouts figuring out the story or laughing at how wrong/silly their theories are is best part of watching newcomers :P

Congrats on beating ARR! Fun fact: those solo instances at the end are brand new, and really enhance the characters there for it. Guy with the double shields used to be a trial that lasted 20 seconds if that 😂 The fight against lahabrea used to be bundled with the ultima weapon AND the gaius fight in a single extra long dungeon, with cutscenes you couldn't skip, all the while barely being that playable. I don't love all the changes they did in the ARR revamp, but those are definitely standouts. Excited to see you get to post-ARR! Especially the bahamut quests, i think those are a standout of base ARR

@Grief_Jerky

2 ай бұрын

Did they happen to add the trust system to the Coil? my social anxiety stopped me from asking for help with it back when I was playing 😅

@vincentbeton

2 ай бұрын

Yeah it is very much improved. Though Castrum Meridianum had those cool parts like bombing the pipes and then where you pulled like 20+ Mobs over a longer distance, and then bomb them with Cannons you could interact with. That was pretty cool but not worth sticking around another 20 Minutes there^^

I really hope he will make it to the end of Endwalker. I wanna see those tears. 😊

Ohoho freah mea- I mean, a new sprout who's journey I can enjoy in a totally-not-emotional-vampire fashion 😊 (Really though i appreciate that you can acknowledge both things you like and dislike, I'm interested in seeing how your perspective evolves as you play further)

Yes if you only play the 2.0 story. I would not recommend it. However afther 2.0 it starts getting better and better and with the 'best' expansion shadowbringers. You in for a treat

Love your ffxiv journals - congrats on finishing ARR, and SO excited to see you break out the pledge bottle for Heavensward!

Congrats on finishing 2.0 :D Post ARR is a bit long at first but once you get to HW you'll realize the increase in quality from the very first cutscene. Have fun in Eorzea :D

It’s been so long I’ve honestly forgotten about the Rhitahtyn fight and I’m just wondering how in the hell I managed it with Black Mage?! Like I’m not even flexing or anything I was a complete noob and didn’t know what was going on half the time like HOW?! 😂

i know im late to the party, but Rhitahtyn used to be an 8 person trial, the first 8 person trial in the game. and even on launch he a pushover. before they made it a solo instance at the start of endwalker i think, the fight would MAYBE take 20 seconds max. while i miss the memes of cape westwind being the hardest content and then just...him getting steamrolled...the improved solo instance is so much better and lives up to it being hard, especially for new players that being said...bard is imo the hardest job to do the fight on now. lowest DPS of the DPS jobs (for ARR at least...dancer might be lower? idk much about dancer). doesnt have the survivability like the tanks or the healing of the healers. all you got is second wind and MAYBE potions for healing, and that last phase damages you quite decently. im honestly surprised you beat him without the level 50 chest piece and a low level bow. but thats a good thing because that shows that you know how to optimally (or near optimally) play the job at this point in time. fun fact: all 3 of these duties (Cape Westwind, Castrum and Praetorium) used to just be tank and spank 8 person instances, you could ignore basically everything and win. i highly recommend going and watching videos on all 3 pre reworks to see how different they are fun fact 2: The Praetorium used to include the ultima weapon and lahabrea. but these all got updated to what it is today

I appreciate the even-handed review, and I agree with it--especially the time investment. I love FFXIV, but I agree it does require some investment. A lot of what makes the game so good is the setup for a payoff that comes later, and we're talking all of ARR worth of setup here. As someone that is eagerly awaiting Dawntrail, I will be completely honest and admit that I started the game once before Heavensward released and quit. I only got into the mid 30's before I left. That said, something about the game kept calling me back, and I decided I would stick it out this time. That was one of the best gaming decisions of my life, no joke. If anyone reads this and is thinking of trying out the game, just know that the game does ask that you take on a bit of slog. ARR's development was chaotic, and it's amazing what the game has become since then. However, you will be surprised when something you thought was insignificant gets paid off somewhere down the line. There's a method to that slog. Take it slow, talk to NPCs, you don't need to rush. In fact, it's probably better if you don't. If it's not for you, that's fine, too. I will just say, the writers still surprise me with the callbacks to things I didn't expect them to address again. Even in the newest trailer, they called back all the way to post-Heavensward. I won't spoil by going into specifics, but that's just an example of how story beats from half a decade ago can still matter in the present.

Let's be real MH community We all know we're gonna make him pledge to complete MHGU as a prowler

Not sure if it was mentioned before, but likely the reason you feel like it ended early is because it kinda does. In the 5.3 patch, roughly 30 msq quests were axed from ARR

oh boy, this is one you're gonna have to re-react to when you reach later parts lmao.

I love that you are not giving the game infinite praise in just this expansion. I love the game, but arr can be rough. I hope you continue with the game, and I believe it gets better, but if it does not hook you, I’d love that you are as honest as you can with the criticism

If you don't complete Heavensward, I'm looking forward to people saying you should play Prowler. I'm also somewhat amused that both you and GaijinHunter went from Monster Hunter to FFXIV - which, to be fair, so did I.

Godamm, Im away form XIV , waiting for Dawntrail update. But those jornals are making wanna play it now! That cant be good

Generation ultimate time?

For me the game start at the end of ARR patch content Wait and see for your reaction of heavensward

so we all agree on GunLance right?

@Manwhaka

2 ай бұрын

What style?

@umelgaming3177

2 ай бұрын

@@Manwhaka alchemy make the man really confused

@Marvelous_Jared

2 ай бұрын

Or Prowler

@johannesnagengast7643

2 ай бұрын

GL

@Myrtneough

2 ай бұрын

Oh that's mean. I love it.

Arr has serious filler problems and they try to gaslight you into thinking the chores are actually important. I dont think the titan questline would piss off new players nearly as badly if they didnt pull this shit. Like fine make me build my reputation but dont you dare try to gaslight me like this shit had anything to do with fighting titan i dont think when i first did it i would of been nearly as mad if they just kept it as "do me a favor then i will send you to titan" it really made me mad that time when they tried to pretend it was training for the "real thing "