So I just completed THE TWINNING in FFXIV, and I have some thoughts to share with you.
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Sorrows of Werlyt is such a fantastic storyline. It is a hell of an emotional ride with giant robots. Hildi may be a good thing to do first.
Do keep in mind that the Twinning was the other endgame dungeon back in 5.0 so it given the extra info we needed for how the CE came back to this point of time and place. I really hits home how big our PCs are to the world of ff14 and how much that our story means to these people we both knew and those who came after only getting the tales told, never seeing us living in the flesh.
Any other MMO is going to have a hard time to ever top ff14's story if any of them even try.
And that's where the name "The Twinning" comes from – The twinning of Omega and Alexander.
On Werlyt. Ok, I understand, with all the chat hype, that you might be a little wary. I do wish the chat, and myself included, had not gone that way.
Yes, the story is heavy. You will absolutely be infuriated with one particular NPC. All I will say is that it does have a satisfying ending, though maybe not a completely happy one, as is Ishikawa's wont. The fights are fun, they change things up a bit, some Gundam action for one 🙂 . What I'm saying is, give it a try. It's worth it, even if only that we get to see more of Giaius and learn a bit more of his story.
Twinning is very emotional the more you think about it. I recommend "Promise of Tomorrow" side story as an additional read.
I Highly recommend doing Werlyt, as it's one of the best sidequest storylines in the game
You need to do Sorrows of Werlyt! Do it!
I'd STRONGLY recommend reading the short stories "A World Forsaken" and "An Unpromised Tomorrow" – they're available on the Lodestone, and give a bit more information about what life in the timeline Graha came from was like.
FYI – The Tycoon is a wrapped up reference to Final Fantasy V. The king of the land central to FFV's plot is King Alexander Highwind Tycoon.
Why don't you want to do Werlyt?
Werlyt is good but uneven (in terms of story quality), the trials themselves are very fun though, and the second of the three trials has such a smooth rock soundtrack for part of the fight.
The Warring Triad trial series is also arguably the most lore important of the three trial series from HW/SB/ShB, and if you have done all of the ShB rolequests allows for an additional side-story quest to be unlocked.
Of the three 24-man Alliance raids, Ivalice is probably the one that connects to the MSQ the most (and is an unlock requirement for accessing Bozja if you ever want to try it). But the Shadow of Mhach is a funny Indiana Jones-esque adventure story too. The NieR raids are fun but they are definitely the most MSQ/lore disconnected from FFXIV world/story.
Also if you want to appreciate ShadowBringers more I recommend unlocking and doing a optional level 60 dungeon that was added in 3.2 of Heavensward, “The Lost City of Amdapor (Hard)”, players who had done that dungeon had extra context when the ShadowBringers trailer came out originally.
I find interesting the fact that since it involves time travel, the dungeon don't make qualms about talking of your deeds in Crystal Tower, Alexander and Omega, even if you had not cleared them yet (CT was optional until 5.3). Because you will do it, eventually, at some point in time, and the time loop will close perfectly.
Werlyt have amazing fights, but I found it a bit meh on the story. My friend that is a big Gundam fan was getting super hyped by all the Gundam references, but most of them flew over my head until he explained them to me.
Hildibrand is a good break between heavy contents. And each Hildibrand arc is broken into episodes (one per patch), so you don't need to tackle a whole expansion of cutscenes all at once, you can do one episode per day (roughly an hour if you watch everything, maybe two with streamer banter accounted) and alternate with all the other content you need to do.
Sorrows of Werlyt is a must! It's absolutely amazing. One of the best stories in FFXIV. Warring Triad should be done too. Really important lore.
“I am not part of Zepla’s cult” 😂 are you sure?
I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Endwalker.
sorrow of werlyt kicks all those story arcs asses ngl. started it cuz i wanted to throw hands with ruby weapon. 4 hours later im getting hit in the feels
you need the read the related side stories … A Wold Forsaken and An Unpromised Tomorrow to complete the picture
If you're going to do Warring Triad, I also recommend finishing the first 2 HW extremes and then unlocking the Warring Triad extremes. If you then finish all the role quests in Shadowbringers, you then get even more story content
What happened to the forest ):