Yesterday Square Enix announced their next expansion pack for the hit MMO Final Fantasy XIV. It will be called FFXIV:EndWalker
In this video I give my thoughts on the expansion and have some serious concerns.
Endwalker Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQt4mPBULHA
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im crazy fucking disappointed with the end dragon from Ex trials, we went from farming alive breathing dragons. To a mighty morphan tin can dragon ><
Im a filthy casual so im fine with everything they showed. Oh yeah, the new raid will have Lahabrea on it, we finally gonna have a real epic final shodown with him (i hope), He died in the most shitty and disgraceful way at the Praetorium.
As a healer main, I needed Sage yesterday. But other than that yeah, I can see this being relatively lukewarm because they didn't show meaningful changes to the battle system YET. The hope here for me is that the new content caters to higher end players due to the level cap increase. My biggest want out of all this is job balance and it is mostly on the Healer and Tank side of things because Healers have been a nightmare of balance for the dev team and with a fourth they need to hit that balance stride that Tanks had. However on the other side of things, I hope this expansion tanks got a huge amount of tweaking to allow for them to still have unique play styles and really evolve them. Last expansion was making them all on equal footing, this expansion needs to be where their identities can be expanded upon and made stellar.
Yea, at all, feels half-hearted and stagnant now. ShadowBringers was the apex, downhill from here
Upset they are going to do nothing to make the jobs play differently within themselves, i.e. some kind of talent system… As you said, the tanks play mostly the same. The dps classes get boring FAST af… Only interesting role is healker for me tbh. Even then, there isn't much you can do to change the way you heal.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Good video as always. If anything else, I am excited to go to the moon and for all the various FFIV references we'll be getting.
The new small-scale PVP was definitely needed. It's almost impossible to get into a PVP match off peak-hours because frontline is 72 players and that's hard to fill.
imo the only thing this mmo needs is some hardcore 4 man dungeons and maybe make the open world more relevant rather then just fates.
Currently taking a break from XIV, but the expansion news seems ok. The things Im most happy with is 1. The name is not Forespoken and 2. Chemist/Apothecary is not the healer. Gotta luv it when everyones "pro predictions" were totally wrong
Thanks for an overview, the expansion content though, basic AF.
Damn, they are getting rid of more things and making the game even easier? I guess that's the end of the road for me. Hope ya'll have fun with this game.
FFXIV desperately needs some changes, in gear, in dungeons content,in raid content…in jobs differentiation, in pvp..you name it. but it s so much i dont think we ll have even half of it soon. still, this was nothing but a teaser so i didnt loose hope yet that some changes can be showed for 6.0, i guess we ll see
Are ya ever coming back? Also, I just want harder dungeons, more dungeons, and more world content. Give me a reason to go out into the world and do things.
Unfortunately they did not announce any of the side content besides the sanctuary. Hopefully they give us more info on the side content in the next announcement
What is the music in this video, from mid onwards. I like it
Pretty sure they will not invest in another MMO, instead they might do FF themed Destiny alike. I expect them to revisit the FFXV comrades model and they will try to make a new FF from it. IMO, FFXIV is a Final Fantasy game with MMO elements and a big part of its install base only cares about the story which takes a LOT of resources to create. That is why the story events will continue to be the main focus over the mechanics.
Just watching this video now..is your bgm from chrono trigger? Sounds like it. I could be wrong though