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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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!
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.
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!!! 😛 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 😀
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
song!😭😭😭
Golden crystallized aether leftover from the calamity of Bahamut's release from his prison within the lesser moon of Dalamud.
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.
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.
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.
Animators: "so just how apocalyptic do you want us to make this shit?"
YoshiP: "Yes."
hype for new russ arc got it downloaded n ready to go 😀
Yes Heavensward trailer is a HUGE spoiler, don't touch that until you're there
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.
Wow look at me being a good lil chatty boy
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 YouTube 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 YouTube 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 YouTube. 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.
No matter what happens, may you one day look back on this reaction with fond nostalgia.
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.
Welcome to the Unending Journey, Russ. There is so much in front of you now.
Enjoy. 🙂
"rollercoaster town or something." well kinda actually
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.
Welcome to 14.
Still after playing for 10 plus years and seeing that video countless times, it still brings a tear to my eyes. ❤