Veteran WoW player reacts to FFXIV A Realm Reborn Trailer
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2023
- My first look at FFXIV's ARR trailer. Damn this was so awesome! Any who knew Deathwing was so tiny lmao
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Welcome to ffxiv, i hope you'll enjoy your time here~! 🎶 I look forward to watching along and seeing what race/job you'll pick to start out 👀🍿
@@ZestyTime233 haha thank you! i look forward to seeing you there.. i have some ideas for my job/race but nothing set in stone yet 🥸
XD You picked probably the shortest version of the trailer.
I've quit wow ages ago and I started playing FFXIV like a bit over a month ago and I can't say I can ever see myself touching wow again. The community is really nice, classes are fun to level, story is good and theres so much more. Lotta things to do in FFXIV
As somebody who did something similar during BfA, after playing WoW off and on since the second month of Vanilla, and who now has almost 2500 hours in FFXIV, enjoy the ride! If there's one thing the community likes more than the game, it's seeing new people enjoy the game. Like introducing a friend to a TV series you love, we're hyped by seeing other people get hooked on the thing we love.
And no matter what anybody else tells you, the two most important things to remember about the game are to enjoy it at your own pace, and to make sure you max out the music volume for the boss fights, there's a ton of fantastic music in the game.
I played XIv since 2.0 but always had WoW in the back. However since SL I pretty much quit for good. I tried DF but the game is not fun, mythic + has not been fun for me since legion and the content nerfing, gear grind, fomo, and horrible story just made me nit want to go back at all. If I need. Break from XIV besides raiding I just ply other games. Feels way better.
yep i've heard a lot about the music and i cant wait to hear it myself too! i never even thought of it like you mentioned with the tv series but that makes a lot of sense!
One thing I feel FFXIV does which puts it ahead of WoW is the fact that FF puts a lot more care into making past content more viable even when new expansions come out; there's not that feeling of being funneled to the current "endgame" while everything else gets neglected or even deliberately pushed to the wayside. The game's library of content only grows more vast as time passes instead of being "phased out" and getting lost into irrelevancy or even outright deleted from the game; and with a minimum of ten more years ahead in terms of further development, one can only imagine how large yhe game would be when it's twice as old as it is today.
this is really nice to hear actually. you're totally right about the situation with WoW and i'm glad FF does it differently@@sixthcairn
fun fact : at the end of the video, when the Warrior whistles for his chocobo, the one that answers is the exact model of chocobo that legacy players received as a gift for subscribing during a window of time in 1.0, though all legacy players regardless of sub have a special tattoo on their upper back between their shoulder blades to signify that character as being a "meteor survivor".
That’s a really nice touch and nod to their old school player base
Those characters also have a special tattoo on their back and their names in the credits for ARR.
An equally fun fact: All those same legacy players (specifically those who paid sufficient amounts of sub time, not just folks who dropped a one time sub immediately and called it good) also *Permanently* have a reduced subscription fee for the game as a show of thanks for supporting the game during its rocky 1.0 era. FF14 truly treats its oldest supporters exactly how you'd want such devoted supporters to be treated, and that behavior invariably spreads to how it treats the community as a whole.
@@TheMongrali never knew that, thats super cool man
Animators: "so just how apocalyptic do you want us to make this shit?"
YoshiP: "Yes."
hahaha honestly i wasnt expecting so much destruction
@@JustRussSuch devastation was not your intention, huh?
@@Jettison42 how very glib
@@Jettison42 i see what you did there.
'twas a test of their reflexes as it were.
@@Jettison42ngl that sound kinda sloppeh
For context a plot summary of 1.x: The Garlean Empire is trying to conquest the continent of Eorzea (where the game happens) and they found that the smaller moon was artificial, created by an extinct civilization and they found a way to control it. They got the big idea to drop it over the Eorzea forces to win the war, but unbeknownst to them this moon Dalamud was really an imprisonment hull for the elder dragon Bahamut.
And that elf Gandalf looking guy is Lousioix Leveilleur, it will be mentioned a bunch during ARR.
No matter what happens, may you one day look back on this reaction with fond nostalgia.
May that day bring him some Answers!
@@cocodojo
no, may he have found his Answers
"has your journey been good? has it been worthwhile?"
Still after playing for 10 plus years and seeing that video countless times, it still brings a tear to my eyes. ❤
it's a banger cinematic i won't lie!
@@JustRuss There is an end-of-version ARR raid that has the rest of what happens after the Warriors of Light disappear. Believe it or not, it goes even harder.
FF has had for decades epic, over-the-top trailers, but holy crap did they go for gold with FFXIV.
@@Uldihaa Binding coils
There is a raid series called the Binding Coils of Bahamut after you complete the base game of ARR. It is optional content and missed by a lot of players. I recommend intentionally completing this raid series and watching a very important cutscene that plays after one of the fights.
will do!
There is sooo much lore in BCoB that it's sad that it's optional. But considering a lot of the fights in there, I can see why. Let's just say they've learned a lot about raiding and there's a reason we have normal and savage now. That being said, it's still lv50 so a lot of people unsync for it, but as a streamer, you can get actual parties for it, they are pretty much the only people that can now lol.
@@JustRuss resist the urge of spoiling yourself here. I made the mistake of looking into it on youtube instead of beating the boss (aka suffering) and watching it after all of this. Do not recommend.
Some context on the Trailer:
-The 1st part of the trailer, is the closure of the 1.x servers. The moon (Dalamud) was approaching the planet. So, they used that to do a reset from 1.x to ARR.
-The warrior is representing "you"
-A lot of the characters, you will know them eventually.
-Chickens!!?! HOW DARE YOU!!! :P they are chocobo
-When the group respawned, the respawned 5 years in the future (So, the massive destruction done by Bahamut, the dragon, is now 5 years in the past)
For the rest, you will learn it mostly in the game :D
Using the shutdown of version 1.0 as part of game's lore is one of the most clever MMO ideas ever. 😆
Good context, doesn't spoil anything. If anything, I remember starting and was more confused by why they kept making a reference to a calamity that happened 5 years ago off screen (i didn't watch the trailer)
Peepaw ;-;
@@AoyagiMei How did you miss the intro when you created your character? This cutscene plays when you start a new character, always, and it's unskippable.
@@orangejuche there is an unskippable cutscene after you create your character but it is not the end of 1.X cutscene with Bahamut blowing things up which gives you the needed context
How the hell do I still get chills and goosebumps every time I see this trailer?
it's honestly a banger
Rewatching this ten years later still gives me chills.
it's so good!
I never get sick of watching this cinematic, can you believe this is what they used to shut down the 1.0 version? It’s beautiful.
yeah i imagine it was so hyped when it came out too, completely remaking the world and stuff
@@JustRuss People aren’t wrong when they make comparisons to Cataclysm either, but I think this is just ever so slightly better. Though I like to imaging Bahamut and Deathwing would get along well.
@@VashimuXIVhard to say, DW is edgy and insane. Meanwhile Bahamut is just so fucking pissed 😂
@@matus19971 Misery loves company as they say. Though I imagine Bahamut is like twenty times larger so that’s a problem for sure.
@@VashimuXIV Bahamut absolutely dwarfs Galakrond who dwarfs Deathwing so 20 times is a humongous understatement 😂 DW wingspan is around 3-400 meters. Bahamut's wingspan is 13km 😅
Yes Heavensward trailer is a HUGE spoiler, don't touch that until you're there
One thing I want to point out as someone who was actually around during the 1.0 ending and everything: There's a lot of misinformation about it from people who have only seen a specific video on CZcams that has been edited to have the cutscene play at the end, complete with a loading screen. This isn't how it actually happened on the day of the shut down.
The "End of an Era" trailer did not play within the game client when the servers went down. Every single person online merely got what was called an "R0" error (also known as "No Route to Host") -- this was accompanied by a chat message that said "Confound it! We've lost contact with the main host!" before being kicked back to the main menu. The trailer was simultaneously released on both the FFXIV Website and also on CZcams for people to go watch. The "End of Eorzea" video on YT presents a more nostalgic, fascinating look at it - but it's unfortunately not representative of what actually happened with the players that were around for it.
If you think about it though, it makes sense: The 1.0 servers for XIV were located only in Japan at the time (no NA or EU exclusive servers or datacenters), meaning there was high latency for anyone outside of Japan, and they were always notoriously unstable on top of that. They were even worse during the final shutdown event because they allowed all existing players, including folks without active subscriptions, to login to experience the end of the game. This caused the game to crash *a lot* for most folks during the ending event. Trying to push a large cinematic cutscene to all online players at the time simultaneously would have almost certainly caused the game to crash for everyone. It was a lot smarter to just let the servers come down, and then redirect everyone to the trailer via the FFXIV website and CZcams. They also did a Live Letter from the Producer following the server shutdown and they played the trailer right at the start of it as well.
the end of era trailer splices together the end trailer you saw with the trailer thats exclusive to the coils of bahamut raid into a singular narrative to show what happened.
So, something to note about FF14 that's different from WoW: Your race doesn't affect what classes you can pick, and you can play every class on the same character, without having to make an alt or Respec your stats, as every class levels separately from one another. Switching classes is as simple as equipping the weapon for the class, and the game lets you save armorsets, so that you don't have to individually re-equip everything when you switch classes. Also, classes in 14 are very linear in their growth. There aren't any skill trees, instead you simply acquire skills from leveling up/doing your class quests. Your Black Mage will have the same spells and available equipment at Level 50 as everyone else's Black Mage.
I'd like to point out that two jobs do share leveling, but its because they both come from the same base class. Both Summoner and Scholar share the same leveling since they are upgraded versions of Arcanist, just with different roles and stats, Scholar is a healer while Summoner is a magic dps.
I wish I could experience the FFXIV journey all over again, but tis a one time experience. Enjoy every second of it, even it it seems slow at times.
yep! seems a lot feel that way
The old man transported the heroes (the player characters) 5 years forward. What happened in the immediate aftermath is a mystery in the world that you learn about in the ARR raids (lvl 50).
ohhhhh thats cool
From what I have gathered, those who played in 1.0 and started ARR when it was released, instead of ariving at whatever city you pick to start, it will actually show you being teleported to outside of it instead of arriving as a fresh adventurer on a chocobo carriage. This happens because, the players from 1.0, are teleported 5 years into the future, into the beginning of ARR. And some have noticed some minor changes in the dialogs from some NCP's if your character was around 1.0, it reallt makes you see how much effort they put in the game to even give this small unnoticed details unless you look closely.
10years of playing this game with almost 27k hours playtime and still get hyped seeing new people join the game and start playing through the story and enjoying it, and the ARR trailer gives me goosebumps everytime I really hope you do coil to get to see the extra little conclusion to ARR.
thank you! i will do coils :D
Best part of ff14 for me compared to other mmorpg is that the old expansion endgame content never becomes obsolete you can still play all the old content in the base game.
yeah i like that you can scale down level to make them harder again :D
@@JustRuss also some of the older locations get revisited in expansion content. they dont just abandon it to time. so you will see people while leveling at much higher levels doing their own content along side you.
what makes it even more epic is the fact that first part of this trailer was the ending of FFXIV before realm reborn when they closed the servers. so like all the hardcores that were online in the last moments of the server got this sequence and now they all have some tattoo on their avatars to signify their previous adventures
that is so awesome :o
Randomly stumbled across your channel will be interesting to watch another new FF player experience the game!
look forward to catching you on stream!
Your channel got recommended to me from your recent xiv content and I hope you enjoy your journey through the game, it's a wild ride
loving it so far!
Welcome to Eorzea!
Feel free to revisit this trailer as you play through the Main Scenario Quest of A Realm Reborn - the game will explain as you play through it.
Also please make sure to do Coils of Bahamut before going into Heavensward.
okay! i assume that's a raid?
@@JustRussfunny enough was talking about wanting to do coils of Bahamut with some friends and one friend who is a veteran player mentioned how it is one of THE hardest pieces of content early game. matching end game level stuff. so as a sprout myself who just got to heavensward. take your time, get used to the game and how whatever cool job you pick up works and maybe find a group with some friendly veterans to do it with. it sounds like it needs some vc coordination lol
@@JustRussThat is the first raid designed by the team so it has some oddities that later 8-man raid series don't have and is definitely worth experience at MINE (Minimum Item Level, No Echo) which is a set of rules made to imitate the original challenge.
@@AyameAkito yeah i really like that you can scale down to do the old stuff and it's still challenging
@JustRuss yes, it is an optional raid series as others have mentioned. Is super important lore-wise so is highly recommended.
Separated into Coils of Bahamut (4 fights), Second Coils of Bahamut (4 fights), and Final Coils of Bahamut (4 fights).
I'm glad it was this trailer and not the the spoiler one.
yep! trying my best to avoid spoliers :D
Usual notes apply. as a fresh face don't feel any need to do regular side quests that dont actively interest you, just focus on MSQ, class quests, and other blue quests not associated with new classes. Just MSQ should be plenty for your first class but this game is balanced for running more at the same time especially in the earlier game. So if you obsessively do all the side stuff on the same class as MSQ youll out level it real fast and trivialize the content or have the game revoke skills to do it. Last friendly note, Any time a level requirement is noted it almost universally is class level and MSQ progress to the same level requirement. So for example lvl 15 you can gain access to the hair dresser and challenge log but only after the lvl 15 MSQ.
gotcha! thanks
I've been obsessively watching new player vids, especially WoW refugees. I was a Lineage 2 player when WoW first was the big thing and moved to different MMOs over time. Recently went back to Aion Classic and I had forgotten how TOXIC communities can be. This story and the people who play have been amazing over the last few years. Welcome.
thanks!
Just want to point out that those players that had an active account for FFXIV 1.0 when they shut the servers down has this exact thing as their backstory. Everyone else has a different one. Legacy players also had a special Chocobo and the Goobue mount they have is also different (if they got one while 1.0 was running). Yoshi-P made it very clear that he was very grateful for those that stuck around and he and his teams went out of their way to acknowledge that.
Big time as all of those names were added to the credits
"In the same fleeting moment thou must live, die, and know."
When Bahamut cast Teraflare so hard the servers went down.
Watching Answers again makes me cry in nostalgia, especially knowing what it represents
So fun fact - and admittedly remembering mostly off of a vague memory - I believe this trailer played when players did the final quest chain for Legacy.
Fun fact; Bahamut, the dragon here, is in EVERY Final Fantasy in some form. Even the first one on the NES!
Golden crystallized aether leftover from the calamity of Bahamut's release from his prison within the lesser moon of Dalamud.
That Answers trailer still gets me teary-eyed
I to this day can't get over the soundscape of this trailer. The battle scene is so increadibly well done when it comes to the sound. It is legitimately horrifying in some places, like "horrors of war" level details. Like, we hear the epic clashes being mixed with screams of pain and death, it's messy and raw and chaotic. The scene of the Black Mage blowing up the Magitec walker is a prime example of this. Not only do we see the driver for a split second realise how fucked he is, but the impact and explosion is mixed with a *very* well done scream of death as he's vaporized by the blast. He died painfully and they did not hold back in conveying that.
Yeah the cinematography is nutty here
The flames of truth trailer will reveal what happened to the mage that teleported the heroes into the future.
The white flash in the middle is the point where the original 1.0 servers shut down. Imagine watching that, then having the game literally go dark for about 18 months... and then comes the second half, literally showing the rebirth of the world (and the game) from total destruction. :)
was the game actually down for a whole 18 month period?? :O
@@JustRuss Yep. If you get a chance, watch the “Fall and Rise of Final Fantasy XIV” series.
CZcams served up your video. Glad they did!
thanks so much! glad you like it
I think what also makes this trailer so timeless for FFXIV fans is this was the trailer that played after months of build up in 1.0 story events. You could actually see the moon getting closer and closer, your character would get nightmares after sleeping in the inn, and there was a lot of talk already about Dalamud being the end. Not to mention, since they actually did kill the servers, it really was the end, in game and in real life!
yeah that's a really cool way they did it tbh!
The trailer is far more powerful after you play the game and understand whats going on.
Bahamut even changed the climate of the realm. There is one city state in perpetual winter that says in dialogue it only became that way after Bahamut was freed.
God damn after the 10th anniversary event I am like..
Tearing up Seeing Louisoix smiling in the face of bahamut.
Smiling for the hope of a better future.
The best trailer for any game ever SO FAR...
I think I might agree 👀
There's a small part 2 to the fight that picks up after Louisoix teleports everyone away.
how did they get the comparison? let just say you can stand on Bahamuts puny arms and get exact measurement from how tall the person is. plus Deathwing can stand on castles while Bahamut can stand on mountains to make it easier to envision.
yeah he is a very very big boy, i didnt realise in the video hahah
Such a hecking great cinematic, great music, great animations, its just great, i love ARR! It might stump you abit on the road, but i still enjoy it, it has been nerfed alot lately!
amazing cinematic! better then i expected! i think i will enjoy the story. i bet i'll find a way especially if stream is interacting with me in game too :D
Yeah, Deathwing wants to be Bahamut when he grows up.
he can only dream haha
There's another longer cinematic that shows how the fight ended after the old elf 'ported everyone away.
Bahamut is pretty scary... makes every other bad guy look tiny in comparison.
absolute beast!
Welcome to the Unending Journey, Russ. There is so much in front of you now.
Enjoy. :)
thanks! welcome!
The ARR Cinematic reminds me too hard of the Cataclysm Trailer that WoW has, think they got a bit of inspiration from them, both MMOs changed their playstyle, story telling and map with this Expansion
As a WoW player of over 10 years I hate to say It but I joined ff14 last year and haven't looked back.
another person free from the grips of wow
The ARR trailer is the reason both my husband and I left WoW and went to Ffxiv.
it's so amazing! i watched it again today haha
Canonically, Those folks who were "Teleported" were actually sent forward in time by 5 years. Not spoilers.
Watch the flames of truth trailer!
Hope you have a great journey.
Thank you, I will
Welcome to EorzeanWatch, where almost everything is interconnected all the way through to endwalker! Hope you enjoy the game adventurer
Fun fact, they did a size comparison between Bahamut and Deathwing and Bahamut is 1k x bigger than him
absolutely insane!
@@JustRuss here was the image source for size comparison i.imgur.com/kKf0nx1.jpg
Deathwing is next to Bahamut's head
I was expected a trailer that revealed what happened, since most react to that version instead and it's a more epic looking version, but oh well. Lol XD
hype for new russ arc got it downloaded n ready to go :D
lets gooooo
World of Warcraft definitely set the trend for the genre (like for example, the very concept of "instances"), but it's definitely well past its prime. FF14, on the other hand, has flourished significantly since ARR took it down and rebuilt it from the ground up.
In the end, it's about the game *as well as the community* and the one in FF14 is certainly a very good one. I hope you'll enjoy your time.
This trailer really hits different after Shadowbringers
I would recommend "WoW players experience ff14" but I believe it might be a little too early for that lol
Either way, if you decide to play this game fully, I and many others welcome you with open arms
Thanks!
If you want a funny meme video to watch that goes a bit into just how rough the 1.0 version of FF14 was, check out "Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 in a nutshell" by Trueblade Seeker. Fun to look back at and see why they decided to nuke the old game in such a spectacular fashion lol
Pour one out for louisoix, the ARR story REAAAALY AINT DONE till you finish the binding coils of bahamut raids story
Appropriate level of reacting.
thanks means a lot
"rollercoaster town or something." well kinda actually
oh? looking forward to finding out what it is 😅
@@JustRuss its not the town it showed in the trailer, but look out for "The Gold Saucer". :3
@@CoDwithSwords i heard that's vegas baby!
Welcome to 14.
thank you, kindly
Wow look at me being a good lil chatty boy
look at you go! i really appreciate the chat
I want to watch peoples reaction to this but get so emotional with the song I tend to regret it 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃
yeah i noticed the music a lot more on my second watch :D
Shadowbringers is even better! Acrually the best game video ever
The gear they wear is the level 50 job gear, their weapons are the relic quests for a realm reborn. The longest most annoying relic quests
ffxiv is the one other game that compares to wow
Eight years ago, this was my entry drug! I hope you have a blast good sir, I shall be watching ❤
thanks! look forward to seeing you
9:29 Needfury you okay bruh? 🤨
song!😭😭😭
the music was really good actually! i also noticed the transitions when i rewatched while editing
I recommend, when you watch these trailers. you can do it in-game on the title screen. Under "Movies & Titles" and I highly recommend making it a ritual to watch an expansion's trailer in that menu when you reach it, as it also changes the title screen after it and can sometimes really set the mood
Edit: very importantly. Don't watch the trailers before you make it to their respective expansions. Some of them can be very spoilery.
Cool thanks! Love doing react content so I’m sure I will upload each one here when I get to them
I love the salties in chat who actively don't want others to answer the questions he's legit asking. "That's why we need mods, to timeout people who'll decide to actually answer your questions."
Jeez, guys.
I mean I don’t mind it. They don’t want to answer stuff I’m going to find out as part of the story. When I ask those things I’m mainly just thinking out loud
@@JustRuss Fair play, I can understand avoiding spoilers and whatnot. But in the case of this trailer in particular, there's very little that can be spoiled because most of it was supposed to be known beforehand.
This trailer was actually played as a global in-game cutscene right before the game shut down before the rebirth, and you were doing quests learning about this stuff and meeting these people until the moment it all came down.
There are SOME spoilers that I'm glad they didn't get into, but, for the most part, I think it's fair to ask who these important-looking characters and things are if you're curious :)
Deathwing was a WHELP compared to Bahamut.
He truly was haha!
Nah when you play the game enough Shadowbringer is the best... FF14ARR trailer kinda make sense when you know prior lore but it is quite cool though
i wonder if you ever seen the full trailer you missed the best part
how do you mean? the 1.0 trailer?
@@JustRuss czcams.com/video/1xOOFCltZuc/video.html&ab_channel=FINALFANTASYXIV skip up too 5 min 30 sec point that will show you the true trailer
*Answers plays*
;_;
Yes he 1v1’d him.
shame he doesnt watched flames of truth
Kinda grr at the guy in chat who's like it's Death wing, it's deathwing.... no. Bahamut is older than deathing, so deathwing looks like Bahamut.
Remember Kids. Bahamut did absolutely nothing wrong.
So, about Bahamut, this giant ass dragon... First of all, this is not the original Bahamut. Further info is spoilers. Second, notice when the characters are trying to seal him again. You can see the curvature of the planet for a second (5:01). Deathwing wingspan is about ~360m. Bahamut had the size of a city. And what Deathwing couldn't accomplish in years, Bahamut did in less than 3 minutes. No wonder why they had to seal him in fricking space.
"Deathwing is an absolute Soyboy"
FFXIV fans been saying this since BEFORE someone scaled Bahamut to Deathwing. Just in trailer alone, one of Bahamut's Megaflare beams would have wiped out easily a quarter if not more of Stormwind. That thing basically hit EVERYTHING across all its beams across all of Eorzea (by now, you've probably seen most of that nation). Just for being loose 2-3 minutes, Bahamut caused enough damage to actually change the landscape and irreparably change the ecosystems (including weather!) of a WHOLE NATION.
Meanwhile canonically Deathwing was loose for about a year or so before the end of Cataclysm and barely changed like 4 locations permanently, and nowhere on the scale that Bahamut did. Ashenvale's 'transformation' is like a casual joke compared to what you see the changes to Ishgard or even North Shroud. And those are locations on the periphery of the battlefield we saw. Even Vylbrand (AKA where Limsa is and perhaps the furthest place from where the trailer occurs of note) saw a more meaningful change than most WoW zones from Death Wing.
When someone successfully scaled out Bahamut though and for lulz tossed in Deathwing, well, that's all she wrote. Deathwing has forever been considered a joke since.
Well Cataclysm actually was the biggest Expansion Blizzard gave to WoW ever since.
9 new Zones (Hyial, Uldum, Vashj'ir, Twilight Highlands, Deepholm, Tol Barad, Gilneas, Isle of Kezan and Lost Isles)
overhauled 10 existing zones (yeah not entirely but that would've made the community even angier that time)
overhauled a few starting zones like gnomes and trolls (they have own starting zones now)
made it possible to fly in azeroth (so a complete redesign from Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms)
changed the hunter by giving him infinite ammo and focus
caster classes actually don't go out of mana anymore when they cast 3 spells regardless of level
Archaeology as a new profession
Guilds had an actual purpose by leveling it and giving you bonuses
new portal hubs in stormwind and orgrimmar
7 new dungeons and three new raids and revamps of two classic dungeons like Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep
2 new races
5 new levels (was the only short coming in the expansion)
new pvp maps (that ffxiv still refuses to add in and make the pvp actually fun)
also you didn't need to spend gold anymore to learn spells
oh and they removed that bad "your next attack uses heroic strike" mechanic and made everything that was bound on weapon speed insta-cast, which is a good thing for combat fluidity and gave all classes more abilities in their talent tree and a better access to abilities at level 10
The Community didn't like cataclysm because blizzard invested too much time changing the zones and after launch they gave all their resources to the raid/dungeon department to bring them out asap.
I started FFXIV near the end of Shadowbringers and got most of the story (finished Endwalker but skipped a few cutscenes in the epilog)
All I saw in my ~700 hourish playtime in FFXIV new Expansion like Endwalker were 2 new classes and 3 new zones + 10 new levels and new abilities to the existing classes thats it..and obviously the story
1:20 --- The lesser moon, not *the* moon :P
4:13 --- Remember those symbols. Or not - but there are symbols and you'll see them again later ^^ Its funny that small details keep repeating and at some point you're actively looking for them.
5:46 --- When 1.0 shut down, this was what the players saw: they witnessed their game world literally blow up. They didnt get to see the chocobo part, that came at release of ARR, to them this was the end. And then they got a life letter :)
8:36 --- Remember the dragon spawning out of the moon? The short is, he did that. The long: eeeeeeh... you'll get there ^^
ah final fantasy, what wow pretends to be
Not even the good version
I love how you mmo content creators think youre clever. Like were not gonna notice that you're hamming it up to try to drive players to your new favorite game. I have not seen one single interesting cinematic for this game. It's just a bunch of random japenese stuff with terrible music. The animation is not good and they never seem to give a hint of wth is actually going on. The only thing I'm certain is happening in this cinematic is that FF is ripping off the whole sword of Sargeras thing from wow and cant even hold back from throwing a ripoff of deathwing into the same cinematic. Gross.
If dragonflight and wotlk came together