In this video I go over the last 2 years of playing ffxiv. Why I got into the game, my thoughts on each expansion, and my most memorable experiences. There will be footage of endwalker trials and bosses in this video. So if you’re not caught up beware of spoilers.
The ARR Relic Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEsVfa70yzw&t=21s&ab_channel=BigBluePurple
The Heavensward Relic Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QDC9njea5c&t=136s&ab_channel=BigBluePurple
Music Used in Video:
Spira Unplugged – FFX
Rhythmical Bustle – Melty Blood
Imperium – FFXIV
Intro Stage – Megaman and Bass
Fight On – FF7
Touch and Go – Tekken 4
Astro Man – Mega Man 8
Deep Blue – Megaman Zero 4
Staff Roll – Megaman X3 (PSX Ver.)
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My favorite moment was doing the deltascape savage raids on release. Me and a bunch of my fc mates managed to get all the way to beating Exdeath part 1 and that was a fucking thrill. Unfortunately real life hardships struck and I can't commit to a schedule nowadays.
Hi there! Thanks for sharing your opinion and experience with FFXIV! It’s my favourite game. ☺️ For myself, I’ve been with this game since 0.1, so before A Realm Reborn. Taking this into consideration I’ll do my best to keep this short, because, in 10+ years a lot has happened. 😂
For me a Realm Reborn was great! Compared to what the game was before, it was amazing! 🤣 By the time that chapter of the game started I had all the jobs then available at level 50. I even had an Alt at level 50. You see…. there was an exploit during 0.1 👀 *ahem* Anyway, ARR was when the story (main plot) really started taking off in my opinion. But, it wasn’t until Heavensward that the game truly grabbed me and stole, and broke, my heart in the process. 🥺 I confess Stormblood was not my favourite expansion, but even so, anything that made my favourite characters come to life even more was worth it! Shadowbringers was a revelation. I honestly couldn’t believe how good the game became! Yes there were ultimate fights and many other exciting things to do, but for me, the story is always king. Man did I cry a lot. 😭 And then, BOOM!! Endwalker!! Aside from the obvious emotional impact, it felt that the conclusion of my journey had finally arrived. If FFXIV had ended for good at that moment, I would have been happy. ☺️ Thankfully, the adventure continues, and that’s good, because I still have plenty of things I want to do with this game! 😁 Years passed by, I grew older, busier, and gaming could no longer by my only hobby or passion, and that’s ok. But I’ll always go back to FFXIV!
Favourite thing to do besides advancing in the MSQ? Collect mounts, minions, glamours, weapons, and leveling all my jobs. Yes still lol
(Except DoH and DoL)
Sorry, this wasn’t short at all my bad. 😅 See you on the next video! 👍 Take care. ❤️
Huh, alliance raids being the hook that got you is a unique perspective! I'm glad you found something that clicked!
Been an on and off player as well since 2.5, but my reasons to drop the game were always related to some in-game FC drama.
I'll at least share my first time.
I was a small sprout, running through Limsa, doing my questing when I got a pop-up on screen, without thinking I clicked yes. Turned out I signed the creation of a new Free Company, I decaded to stay tho, despite having no intentions to be in one.
It ended up growing nicely, I grew to really like the people in there, we bought a medium house, then a large and one day, the FC leader just stopped logging in, me being the longest serving officer at the time, the game eventually passed the lead automatically to me and it was business as usual, for the next few months we kept growing the FC, some people left/stopped playing, new people came in, we got new people in officer roles, it was practically a whole new company of people. And then the original leader logged on one day, I was super happy to see her back, but at the same time I was in call with other members of the FC that were like "whatever you do, do not give her lead yet". It made sense, it was a different community, suddenly having someone only a few people knew from back then as lead would be a bit of a shock, any sane person would agree.
Anyway I got up to her to greet her back and after a while, with no other messages sent, I just received a text "Give me my FC back", those words landed like a hammer, under normal circumstances, I would happily pass it on and move on, but these were anything but. So I did not pass it back and tried to explain to her the situation and said that she can get the lead back once she gets to know the new people in the FC better. Well not even a week passed when the other co-founder of the FC decided this isn't right, kicked every other officer from the FC and him and the former leader left. Those two were the reason I probably stuck with the game for so long, we built the community together, we worked our asses off to buy the house and everything, this felt like getting a dagger to the back.
At the same time I finally saved up enough for the Fenrir mount in the gold saucer, this was pre-challenge log for that place, it was quite the grind and as I was finally sitting on the mount in our FC garden I was like "I am not even happy I got this", I logged off and did not come back til much later. Honestly thought I would never return really.
More along the way happened and I took two more extensive breaks but I did manage to clock in over 7.000 hours in by now and during endwalker I've been quite active and having fun. Also I really enjoy watching others go through the story these days, like a dementor feeding on other peoples emotions, always fun.
Thank you for sharing your experiences~
"A Realm Reborn" main story is pretty meh yes but it does set the foundation of whats the come in expansion stories. Try ARR again with the New Game Plus feature, with your story knowledge now you'll see tons of foreshadows planned years in advance enhancing A Realm Reborn story way more.
I think the level 50 relics are less boring if you do them with a friend. I have 2 remaining, only doing them as I ran out of content for now, but there is no achievements for them all unlike the 60's and some others. Played since Sept 2010, 1.0 launch and I love seeing how new players are playing the game.
I'm just trying to make gil nowadays and hoping to get a bigger house in 6.3 so I can finally get into decorating. Same opinion on normal raids though, hope we someday get a tier on par with Eden's raids, though the omega ones were also pretty great. Do give the other casters a try though, if you like mobility, both RDM and SMN are way comfier than BLM, and also require less rotation optimization.. summoner in particular has almost the same mobility as the ranged dps jobs. Other than that, Eureka is pretty cool, specially once you get past the first couple zones, and finishing one Eureka relic lets u get subsequent ones much more easily, specially the shiny relic armor sets.
And if you haven't done so yet, give PvP a try, crystalline conflict in particular is really fun and easy to get into, and so are frontlines, though those are more chaotic and last longer.
Lovely video, I agree with the take. When I part away with FFXIV it is always on good terms, and I don't tend to unsub when I part because I want to be able just to login if given the chance. Still need to do the ARR and shadowbringer relics, but I will take it slow.
Great video! It's fun to listen to someone talk about how they got into this game and what kept them hooked. I started playing in early February 2020, right before covid became such a worldwide issue. Like you, I saw the game during a steam sale and decided to give it a shot. I was burnt out of WoW at that point so I was searching for another MMO to sink my teeth into. I've been hooked ever since. My goals for FFXIV this year is to get all of my crafters to 90. I didn't really get into crafting and gathering until around October 2022. I saw my FC peeps with the jellyfish mount from the Omicrons and I wanted one for myself. All of my gatherers are already at 90, so that leaves my crafters, which most of them are still below level 50 lol
What a journey man, that was an interesting story.
Black Mage is definitely kind of a bad idea if you can't stand being a turret.
Red Mage feels more like a raged dps rather than a caster, and that's why I like it personally. Very mobile, with very satisfying SFX!
I wish there were a way in Duty Finder to separate people who just want to run through to grind from beginners who do their first run. Then you wouldn't have to wait for a new patch to get a fresh experience with new mechanics. I'm a beginner and I'm not even through ARR, and I'm about to drop the game, because I hate getting grouped with pros who have already left half the map behind before I can say hello. And even if they take the time, getting dragged along with a pro is not the same as learning together with other players who are new to the content.
Ultimates are best thing i ever done in the game, no doubt. Good luck!
My favorite part in this video is what you said about taking a break on the game, that it's always on good terms with the game. That's what I feel, sometimes I just don't feel like playing the game, so I stop subbing temporarily. This doesn't mean I don't like the game anymore, quite the contrary, it helps it so when I come back I restart with a fresh feeling and not burnt out. After committing one year (during the peak of the pandemic) in the game there was just not enough content to do left for me, but that's not bad at all, just means I can play other games in between. Now I usually play 1-2 months every patch release and then take a break, unless there's something that catch my attention and I like it that way.
The thing I love about this game is that it allows me to take a break, and come back every patch with no worry.
My most proud moment was for sure in Zadnor [Shadowbringer second relic weapon zone];
After working for weeks non-stop on collection all notes and having to farm attempts on duels (which I ony was able to win one… The Second Leon fight in Zadnor [Just the hardest *cries*])
I got the mount needing all notes and I was so proud cause it was all a single player achievement.
Someday… I'll go back to clear all duels qwq
4:08 do the coils raids and tell me that alliance raids are "just leaps and bounds better" than everything else in ARR lol..
If you want to play a caster but hate cast times you should play smn. Since EW they changed drastically how it plays so it plays very similar to physical range class (like dnc) with only 3 actual casting per minute. Couple that with the fact you summon the primals and their attacks are flashy its sure to give you that casting dopamine
Y’know its really funny, I started playing at around the same time, and for the exact same reason, I was sick of Destiny 2, and how its being handled, this game though felt like the antithesis of that, playing Destiny felt like a compulsion, like I’d invested too much time to stop, with FFXIV I just enjoy the game (and the company of friends made there in) too much to stop. 🥲
The wonders of how the FF14 team encourages you to take breaks. The game will be always there for you when you come back.
Your story's very similar to mine. I was a big D2 player who was burnt out around the beginning of 2020 when I tried 14. Your video of the ARR relic weapon was what encouraged me to get my warrior axe. Hope you enjoy the 6.3 day 1 alliance raid this time!
Enjoyed the vid. Would love to show this to a buddy of mine who's on the fence … but man, the Endwalker boss spoilers!
For a number of years I was playing casually, on and off through the Stormblood days. But ever since the launch of Shadowbringers, I've been putting in 20+ hours a week consistently since then. I just love being part of the community and life in Eorzea is wonderful. I wish I hadn't found ffxivcollect though, because ever since I started going hard on achievements and mounts, I probably play too much. Still worth it though!
My most beloved Memories are also usually big Turnarounds within the whole Game.
-Clearing Coils back when they were relevant with 7 other ppl who had no idea about raiding and how the Stuff work. Also with a horrible Ping because the physical Server forbEU were in the US back then.
-Experiencing the Start of the first Expansion
-witnessed a Raidtier nearly destroying the whole Raidcommunity. So many people quit the Game back then and it was super hard to fill Groups for Savage.
-Stormblood Launch and Raubahn Savage + Pippin Extreme was so fun to see.
-The Introducing of a complete Savage only Phase in a Savage Raid. The Neo Exdeath Phase Transition was soooo good.
-Clearing the first ever Ultimate on Patch was absolute amazing. Still one of my best Memories i have.
Currently im also playing FF14 on and off. Ive cleared all the Ultimates so far and usually clearing a Raidtier week 1 or 2 so i have so much Downtime between Patches. Once Savage is done and all of us are BIS Geared i take my time off waiting for the New Content. Not a big Fan of the Alliance Raids or Extreme Trials. I usually do them 1 or 2 Times and thats all because for me there too easy to invest my Time in. I like them though but i want to be challenged.
Ah so you too got tired of Destiny 2 huh? I don't often see people go to FF14 from Destiny, it's usually just other MMO's to FF14.
I started off as an archer – because I heard it was the easiest to get into the game. Later, having switched to RDM as my main job, when I finally maxed out Bard… whoo boy, its all a lie ! o.O Archer aka Bard is the busiest job in the entire game (sans ninja 😛 ) XD
imo of course ^^ I maxed out all jobs, battle jobs and crafters/gatherers. The thing that surprised me most was that usually, in every other MMO, I liked playing different characters. I liked having not only another class/job/profession, but also another look, another purely visual movement set where different races were concerend. But not in FF14. I may have indulged in some Fantasia here and there but always stayed true to that first look from the beginning. It may be due to the fact, that you can have all jobs on one character. But I think its also that you grow more attached to that heap of pixels… much more than in other games. You are that character, that version of the WoL. I think, this also connects the community and makes it what it is.
Whats the most fun? … Good question. A lot of things, actually… Many things, like the slow paced story or slow gcd, were what made me like the game: other MMOs, that have you run from action to action, got me burned out so fast (looking at you, GW2…). Not so here. I have played for almost three years without any break so far. And even if I finish everything I want, there is still so much left for me to do whenever I want to 🙂 Good times.
Eureka is very fun all except pagos fuck pagos
I played XIV since 2014 on and off, mostly played Destiny 1 but when Destiny 2 launched and it was gross, broken and removed all fun from PvP I went to what I felt most comfortable with, XIV. It's funny that a lot of us here have similar stories.
very similar experience i was a d2 raider i player arr as a bard dropped it came back as a different class and got hooked but now i have mained monk . and enjoy it but i dropped ffxiv again went back and played old final fantasies specifically 8.I came back to ffxiv leveled gun breaker and fell in love all over again here i am now looking for a good raid group maybe awaiting 6.3
Nothing stopping me from playing D2 and FFXIV
FF14 is my home, I always comeback from my breaks from the game 🙂
For me the most memorable experience was doing coils when it came it. It was the hardest content we had ever seen and it kicked my butt. It actually made me quit the game but I still remember the experience and when i returned to the game I went back and did it again synced. Such a cool story and I still love the coils raids.
Red Mage is the perfect caster for me due to movement and utility
I hurt when I kept hearing you say you made a new character and ran through ARR three times. Did you really make whole new characters or did you miss the fact a character can switch classes ? Still 1/4 the way through so you may have, but I could not imagine going through ARR a second time.
Fishing in FF is a game entirely in it of itself. I have probably 2000 hours on FFXIV just fishing. There is a tight knit and extremely dedicated community specifically for fishing if you ever decide to get into it. It's extremely addicting as well. It's basically pokemon: fish edition.