The Bitter Finale Of FFXIV Heavensward



(Episode 3)

We have arrived at the finale of Heavensward. The expansion that has offered us a ton of great content, features and more but all for it to feel nearly ripped away from us at the last moment. The drums of War now sound.

0:00 I Wasn’t Ready
0:27 The Stage Is Set
2:18 To The Bitter End
8:07 The Drums Of War
12:23 The Next Steps Forward
13:39 The CDG Journey

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42 thoughts on “The Bitter Finale Of FFXIV Heavensward”

  1. ngl sometimes having adhd is great if anything because i completely forget some details and i get to be surprised anyways. i was so damn surprised to see ilberd and went "YOU" because i forgot his stupid ass entirely with everything else that happened up to that point

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  2. This is me cooking, but I think the only reason they wrote the Lyse/Yda switcharoo (the real Yda died before the events of 1.0, she was never in game) is as a retcon because Lyse is too stupid to justify she being an archon, who are supposed to be the best scholars of Sharlean, and Lyse is as dumb as a bag full of bricks.

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  3. Well, to clarify something, Ilberd was masking as “*The Griffin*” which was his title there, not his name
 monk quests actually give a lot of Ala Mhigan lore, I’d highly recommend them

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  4. God, I can't wait for him to do Stormblood. Again, the first half is rough cause the pacing is so slow.

    But the Trials, the story post that halfway point and the raids
    Good Lord, I can't wait for him to do the Stormblood Raids.

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  5. I really wish the removed MSQ quests would be added back as optional content. Papalymo Totolymo shines in stuff I'll remember but modern players won't see.
    There was a quest where Ramuh-tempered sylphs store his appearance and paraded his likeness around in parody.

    People should know, and remember.

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  6. Something I tried to say in chat but is still important, without spoiling any other games, in FF5 you can fight both Shinryu and Omega as optional superbosses, SNES era game and all, and there’s texts that references them as enemies who’ve clashed many times and were rivals in a sense
 but we never see it. It’s merely something we can read up on in that game that has no bearing on its plot.

    This clash between them was vindication for a plot beat from another game over 20 years in the making from the time FF5 originally released to 2017 when Stormblood was on the horizon. Think about the people who were kids when FF5 came out in Japan who then played this.

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  7. Papalymo's death his different. Up to this point, the only people who died, were the ones introduced in the same expansion, or just a couple of quests before, the point of their death. Papalymo on the other hand, is one of the characters you meet in the introduction phase of the game, and was even in 1.0. And yet… there was a whole lot of fuzz over Moenbryda's death, including a funeral… but no such thing for poor little Papalymo. Because of the war Ilberd forced to start, we don't have the luxuary of taking our time with such things and his mourning period kinda fall to the wayside. :/

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  8. Here's an interesting bit of trivia. When this patch first dropped the title it gave you was "Papalymo's Final Witness" but they changed it to "The Finest Pupil's Ally" because the the original was too much of a spoiler.

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  9. 0:59 — They also dealt with a giant unexpected climate shift from temperate grass and wood lands to frozen tundra within a matter of days – think about "The Day after Tomorrow", something like that. Somehow, even though we know of this, there arent many hints about how the Ishgardiens struggled because of also that… I mean, its mentioned here and there but we do not see pre-Calamity Coerthas ingame…

    9:36 — He is NOT known as that -.-

    Though I started in Gridania as an Archer, I never really grew close to either Yda or Papalymo… Then HW comes along and they are just gone. Then they appear again and all they have to say is "oh darn, we send you a letter" – and I was like "… really? I fight for an entire city trying to stop a 1000year war and you guys send a letter…? … Okay, yeah, sure, I know how it is" – in short: I was pissed at both of them. They were there the whole time while we were worried sick of them (I was also pissed at Thancred that he stayed in the wilderness instead of making his way to us, but they didnt quite say when he was thrown out of the Life Stream so I let it pass). A letter!? You send a letter to your friends who would give their lives for you and you are like "nah, this is more important, keeping an eye on the resistance…" – which is wasnt, they didnt learn anything we couldnt have learned from any other member of the resistance, especially with Gundubald backing us up. – To make a long story short, I wasnt too upset that Papalymo was gone… Like you said, we've already gotten used to his absence during HW and though we have to take the time between patch releases into account, I cant remember Papalymo being especially prominent in those patch quests since he and Yda returned… so there was no re-bonding with these two.

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  10. Back in heavensward ending i jokingly said "well that is 3 friends down, do i hear 4". I somewhat forgot Papalymo a bit …

    Granted Estinien survived, but just to quote tfs Vegeta again. "DO I HEAR FIVE!?"

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