Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward

okay with how abrupt it was, because...

Instead of having the build-up that we did for Heavensward, where you go to Coerthas and you have to work your way to Ishgard, or Stormblood, where you have to clear Balzer's Wall at the end of the Heavensward patches to get into Stormblood.

It was literally, hey, go through this thing.

Now you're in the fourth.

comes to.

It was overly done and then they fine tuned it.

Heavensward was a little bit.

I think it started with Stormblood and just continuously got better.

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But, uh, I, I think it'd be fun to like, yeah, retroactively look at Heavensward, uh, you know, Stormblood, probably even Shadowbringers, I think.

Those, those, they're both old enough now, I think-

Oh

Well, the first part of the-

"Here's the next part of the trailer." [laughs]

The first part of the Heavensward trailer that they showed on, um, the NA one was literally just the, the Warrior of Light walking in the snow.

Oh, yeah.

... ugh.

I, [laughs] I, I admit I have some reluctance with ending up doing Heavensward 2.0, where our only companions are Alphinaud, Estinien, and whoever the heck else we recruit to be our friends in, in this, uh-

[laughs]

... new shard.

You should be.

Jen, we are still on the Heavensward patch 3.2 MSQ today.

We sure are, Ken.

We are playing through the quest, Consequences.

Not much to say here, Jen.

It was all pretty much on the cuff.

Yeah, this is a story and it continues and we're at the end of the patch.

So like shit's going on.

The zoo, for example, obviously you have to go into Pharaoh Sirius, which everybody hated.

Or you could go into Heavensward and do a zoo fate.

And that was awesome.

Some of our friends got them from there.

They're all dungeon bosses or raid bosses that have been remixed into solo versions.

So you can look no further.

You just have to look into Heavensward Dungeons and Raids.

Like there's going to be a Living Liquid remix in there.

Lots of flying around.

Looks very Heavensward in that respect.

There's a new story involving several new Elder Dragons.

Some really cool designs here.

Okay, that's fair.

So in Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward, in Alizla, a weather phenomenon called the hyper-electricity may rarely encounter a short period of about five real-world minutes in which an untargetable entity with the same model as Ultima Weapon but colors closer to the Final Fantasy VI version... will fly around the zone.

At the same time, the unmarked fate titled Prey Online will spawn, referring to an entity called Proto Ultima.

These fates will reward Proto Ultima Exploring to participants that can be traded for a statless level 1 headpiece called Ultima Horns.

So I will say actually something that's worth pointing out as we're getting into the jobs.

So like mechanically, they go up to Heavensward in terms of which jobs you can play.

And most of the mechanical stuff is sort of based around Heavensward era in terms of like...

In terms of like enemies and areas it talks about and stuff.

But the jobs abilities... are not so like do not assume you're going to be playing heaven's war dark knight you're not you're playing shadow bringers dark knight or end walker dark knight really kind of sort mostly end walker dark knight we'll say um because a lot of the abilities are are based on current iterations of the jobs because this when this book came out Dawn Trail was not released, was about to be released, I think.

not to mention the Omega Raids.

Heavensward has Ros Velgar becoming an ally in order to bring peace to Ishgard.

Shadowbringers has this untempered Tiamat.

And of course, Endwalker has this convinced Ritra to come out of the shadows as the ruler of Favnir.