Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

[Anoat]

I’m out of town this weekend but it’s cool I didn’t get early access but you guys are making me wanna play right meow

[Fiye]

This is probably the best FF experience I've had since 9.

Easily.

[Fiye]

Fucking hit me with the feels again and I'm not even at the first trial.

[AlastorTGN]

Is it fir to say that the (up to the first Trial)

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absence of the Empire so far is a huge breath of fresh air?

[Buffy]

I can't seem to see any min/btn nodes in first 2 new zones. Someone tell me why I'm dumb?

[Fiye]

Maybe not until you get to the first full zone?

[AlastorTGN]

Just remembered another thing, regarding a recurring character you meet in the chambers of the Crystarium...

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The Warrior of Darkness, Ardbert. So many scenes with him now and they've been great at really expanding the character from what little we got from him and the rest in Stormblood. The way we've seen what his' failure' brought to his own world and how we might be his redemption, it just feels really well done.

[Dotsudoku]

This is probably the best FF experience I've had since 9.

Easily.

you're not kidding, just coming out of the first dungeon and wow

[AlastorTGN]

Glad to see there's a positive consensus and it's not just me. I was pretty jaded towards the end of SB, so I'm not exactly a massive shill for this game.

[Dotsudoku]

I hate sounding like I'm making excuses for them, but I really feel like SB felt lame because it was just political theater. I enjoyed HW much more, but ya know.. dragons, religious corruption plots, high fantasy. when the template is considerably more exciting, the end product follows

[Alkar]

I'm still at the very beginning with the split path but it's been really good. SMN and RDM feel really good to play and there seems to be enough quests to level multiple jobs at the same time through the main scenario.

[Kachiko]

Story's definately brilliant that reaction in the notKobold settlement when the coin is pulled out is bloody hillarious!

Not to mention the guy pulling everyone to the First has seen all of the scions nekid now, though you have to connect those dots. Poor Than keeps getting nekid, for great plotstice.

[Dotsudoku]

I mean who hasn't thought about thancred naked

[Enygma55]

SCH got completely gutted. Its basically unplayable outside of high lv raids.

Not being able to use Aetherflow outside of battle make dungeons very hard to play as you cant use it freely between pulls.
Feels so unintuitive.

Fairy heals got majorly nerfed. MP management is bad.
They lost half their kit and got nothing in return.

I am so sad. All you can do on SCH is heal.... which I guess is mission accomplished in SE's eyes.

[Dotsudoku]

dunno where to even start. it's incredibly playable; dungeons are not hard because combat requirements; MP management was tightened for everyone who isn't WHM; their healing kit was expanded markedly; they've never had more time to freely DPS

[Dotsudoku]

SCH was made considerably more boring and definitely needs some adjustments, but almost everything you said is blatantly untrue

[Enygma55]

Unplayable is an exaggeration. Boring and unfun is about right compared to what it use to be.

[Kaisha]

Just finished the first dungeon.

All the first dungeon do was make me ask why it looks far better than the field zones in this expansion thus far, which imo are ugly as shit with their texture work.

SCH was made considerably more boring

My main complaints are that it's now boring to play, and that having nothing to dump aetherflow stacks into other than just spamming Lustrates feels wasteful as all hell since you don't want to waste meter building by just overwriting your aetherflow for the MP return. That and Aetherpact is still slow to initiate.

[Kainos]

Is it just me or did they improve/optimize the graphics engine?

I havn't played in months but everything seems much sharper than I remember and fluid

[Prothescar]

The crystalline mean quests are actually really good too btw, they outdid themselves