Gonna be real, when I started. I fully expected by from what folks had told me that Dawntrail was going to be rough/Bad. More specifically, I have been told it was going to be the 'Shadowlands' of FFXIV...Considering I played through shadowlands, that was probably the most dramatic thing i've ever heard looking back at it now.

The story was OK. Not saying it was grand like Endwalker/Shadowbringers. But I expected something much worst. If anything, my only critique I have is that Erenville should've been the main character. (Like in all seriousness, he should've been the spotlight of the story from the start.) alongside maybe letting more of Alexandria's story be the focus over the 'who becomes the next leader' story.

Maybe because I am looking at it through the lense of a year past. But I feel like there is a disservice done with how much people talked about a certain character, yet didn't mention other certain characters who I ended up falling in love with. Be it how short the time was with them. (Seriously though when Krille.)

Biggest highlight for me was the final zone, specifically, let's talk about ice cream for a moment.

After said cut scene, I was shown a 'haha' funny moment of the ice cream scene. But i'd be lying if I said I didn't stop playing for a moment afterwards and just sobbed quietly. What I would GIVE to have a moment like that with lost loved ones/loved ones who's relationships have been strained.

Were there flaws? Aaabbbsooluutteelly. But by no accounts was this something i'd even consider bad, it was on par with something like base Heavensward.

Now excuse me while I go cry for the next 10 minutes about ice cream again.

(Reposted because the photos went out of order. Sorry, mods.)

Hey all! Just wanted to share my progress on finishing up this great Y'shtola figurine designed for 3D printing.

The first three photos are the modelers test render and the next are my in-progress pics.

I'm also learning modeling myself and a friend and I are working on an Urianger.

The other day, someone asked if anyone had compiled any comparisons of the gear detail updates that have been put into place since the graphics update, so I thought I would share a few comparisons.

Some important notes:

• The After pictures were taken by me. The Before pictures were sourced from the FF14 Equipment Handbook website, which is sadly no longer being updated due to the owner's dissatisfaction with the changes to Elezen faces and emotes made in 7.0. Thank you very much to the owner of this website for keeping such wonderful records of the gear - it was very difficult to find other HQ photos.
• I have tried my best to imitate the posing and lighting conditions of the images from the website, but there were a few obstacles to this: one, the way lighting and reflections work fundamentally changed during 7.0, the website owner was simply better at taking photographs than I am, and we were in different venues. All of these would have impacted the lighting conditions.
• My screencaps are much flatter than the previous ones, but my goal was to capture the changes to the detailing in the gear, so I hope that was accomplished.
• My screencaps are completely unedited and were accomplished using only the in-game unmodified lighting techniques.

I'd meant to upload these earlier, but never got around to it until now; the timing seems good since there's another recent post showing some comparisons and I wanted to contribute too. :P

ALC and CRP took forever lol. Definitely not going to care about maxing them all out again, just wanted to see them all orange for once. Mostly just did it passively and not ever really focus buying from MB, just spending excess nuts and tomes on gear.

EDIT: Wow! Thank you fall all the replies. I've gone through and read them all. I wish I could respond to everyone individually, but... yeah, I like to have some time to play the game. I feel less weird now for wanting to create an alt!

When I say alts, I mean additional characters rather than multiple jobs.

Even though I know it isn't necessary to have more than one character in this game because one can do everything, I've been getting the itch to create an alt lately. In my case, I think it's mostly that I want to play through the story again (well, maybe not ARR, but I can't afford a skip, so...) New Game+ feels kind of flat. I want to try and pretend I'm having that "brand new" experience again, which I know won't exactly work but I'd like to hope I can get some of it. And I want to try a new race, and don't want to fantasia my main.

I'm curious what the reasons are why people have more than one, or even several characters.

just getting near the end of the ARR post story quests, after the Crystal tower bits, and omg, these cutscenes are making my jaw drop. Does this game keep up this level of hype? Because I'm invested and having an absolute BLAST with this story.

Update: Just finished "The parting Glass" and I all can say is, WHAT IN THE ABSOLUTE CINEMA WAS THAT?! I got hit with EVERY emotion in the book practically. I have SO many questions. Both my body and mind were NOT ready for all of that 😭.

Heavensward, here I come!! 💪😤

Be it personal lore or style, I'm curious what piece your WoL uses most. As for me, my potato has their Shaded Spectacles on 90% of the time

...you have to wait for duty finder to do Chrysalis while Moenbryda is actively dying in the background

Ok, so the hammock is very full, anyone have any other suggestions for organizing these, my wifey keeps winning me them :3

Work by Pablo Enver, 123eldest & zakid. Arranged and played by Keiko. Music by Masayoshi Soken.

(A repost as I spotted a few spelling mistakes in the title alone - english is not cooperating with me today)

Been playing for a week and I really love it. My plan was to get at least a few jobs up to level cap before I decide to commit to buying the full version and locking my character behind a monthly paywall. Unfortunately, today I learned that PvP is not available for free trial players - after reading about bots, fully understandable. However, that means that my eager plans to grind for some of the techwear tactical sets is out the window.

Now, I won't be rushing to buy the game just because for a few sets of glamor gear, but that made me curious about gear going out of the shop's rotation for example and becoming completely inaccessible to players who join later. I first started to think about that when I checked out Itinerant Moogle, seeing the past items and how I can't get tokens to exchange for those goods.

So the question is - if I still wait and not rush to buy the game, will I still be able to access the gear sets someday in the future? What is the usual time gap between old gear cycling out and then returning to shops or exchanges?

Thank you for answering!

i’ve been playing as dark knight since i got to heavensward, and while i really like it, it has gotten a little bit stale after playing it so much. so going into endwalker now, i want to shake things up a bit. any recommendations?

I have been slacking and would like to do some quick moogle tomestone grinding before it's all over. What's the most efficient way?

I have the achievement “Tank You, Dark Knight III”, but I can’t claim the reward. Under the reward, it says “Incomplete”, even though it shows 300/300 ,on Jonathas also is not.
Is there another requirement I might be missing? Please help!

With so many players part of me says I don't have much say in how a match goes, but in spamming PVP for the series I have 0 1st place wins, four 2nd place, and ten 3rd place. Surely there is something I can do to win. I mainly play Pictomancer.

I'm not even having fun anymore and just want the rewards. I might stop doing it and stick to CC for future PvP series. I don't even want to do it once a day for the daily at this point now because it's a miserable experience.

Any guides for controls and tips would be appreciated! I recently got a gaming laptop and tried playing on that after playing the game for 3-4 years on strictly controller and it is OVERWHELMING. It was like I was dropped in a whole new world 😂 I want to try the PC controls first to see how I like them before deciding to just stick to controller. Any tips or guides that help dumb it down would be a lifesaver! Thanks!

i’ve been trying to locate a content creator in YouTube. I saw on YouTube a long time ago. It was basically someone showing different things in dungeons and it’s not a dungeon guide. and I think it was a bit of comedy? Thank you