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SBFord
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Final Fantasy XIV - Goodbye Ishgard, Hello Stormblood - MMORPG.com
So, farewell then, Ishgard, and goodbye Heavensward. It’s been fun. I’ve played a hell of a lot of MMORPGs in my time, and this expansion has been one of the best.
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Bard to main to 70, then going to check our SAM and RDM before leveling my AST and DRK to 70 as well. Quite enjoying bard so far. Feels different, and familiar.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but I suspect the answer came from FFXIV Census: https://ffxivcensus.com/
Heavensward is hands down one of the best expacs I have played in a long long time!
The story was amazing! The music scores one of the best if not the best of any game! I went from 47 to 60 in past 4 or so weeks and had a blast!
I am actually gonna miss Heavensward and will have to see how Stormblood is going to pan out. It will be hard for SE to surpass the excellence of Heavensward.
The drop down to 2 dungeons rather than 3, meant the roulettes felt stale, only having 2 dungeons in expert meant it got old fast and towards the end I spent more time as a transient player than I ever did in ARR.
The Bard changes, I had the foresight to level a few other classes before HW and I am glad I did.
The Hidelbrand stories, I loved those in ARR but in HW they were just not of the same standard.
While the HW main story was amazing and the way they handled Alexander was far better than BCOB I felt overall that in a lot of ways outside the main story HW was treading water, but that could be because of the amount of content I skipped (Diadem, Vermillion, Grand company platoons)
Overall though, HW remains my favourite expansion of any MMO, and I was there for TBC and LK in wow, Revan in swtor and many others.
FFXIV has found its place, I just hope they shake up the content delivery a bit and put a bit more experimental stuff that actually grabs me, because my worry with SB is their patch system of 2 dungeons, 1 primal and a raid of some sort will become too familiar.
All of that being said, looking back since FFXIV came out, as a player with 1200 days sub time and many optional purchases and 8 retainers I still feel I got more than good value for my money and I will continue to give this game my cash, even when I dont play it because I want to see it continue to grow.
FFXIV is for me and has been since 2.2 the benchmark of a themepark mmo and I hope with SB They push the boat out even more.
They already said that the pattern was going to be the main focus again with the excuse that people expect it. After i heard that my desire to try SB sank to the ground.
Aloha Mr Hand !
Aloha Mr Hand !
AST main, tried samurai for funs wanted red mage or ninja. But must say im in love with the samurai!
Class changes have mostly been good, especially given what I've heard from others. Only negative I've heard is two of the warrior skills became a single skill with which one up being dependent on your stance. Bards and machinists are justifiably ecstatic, and people seem to be really liking the new classes. Now if only you could get past several MSQ roadblocks... Well, and being able to stay connected. Yes, the instances (including dungeons) can be flaky and kick you out where you wind up back in a queue that can be in excess of 4000. The first primal fight can disconnect you and lock you out of your character until someone is able to actually fix it (response was it could take 'several days' to get the characters back).
I took a break before Heavensward, and returning to the game to prepare for it was one of the most unfriendly and confusing experiences I've ever had in any game as a returning player. I did return for a bit to participate in that event which was themed around super sentai / power rangers, and tried to do some story content, but couldn't even find out where I was supposed to go because the quest log is utterly useless. Having a lot of stuff to do is nice, but the presentation is absolutely horrible and unintuitive.
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Should be able to better than just munge a few letters of existing names.
Maybe it's a translation thing?
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Who could forget that cutscene moment after the Vault, and many others throughout the main story.
Think they've created a few bumps in the road with the new class changes, but onward we go.