Excitment soars heavensward

I'm mostly looking forward to levelling my White Mage to 60 while playing through the continuing story campaign. For me, the story is the one driving force that keeps me coming back, and I want some payback on a few people for a few events prior. I just hope they don't sweep the last story under the rug entirely in favour of the dragon wars raging on. I need some closure.

Aside from that, exploring the new areas will be a priority for me. I love finding new places and seeking out interesting landmarks. I've been wanting to walk through the gates of Ishgard ever since I saw it in the green hills of Coerthas (yes, they were green once upon a time) pre-calamity. To explore the city itself will be a dream finally realized.

My friend and i are going to level our mains together initially to 60 I'll be going WHM and he'll be going SMN (he's actually my cohealer) after that it's going to be a race between him and I to hop on the AST bandwagon and level that bitch. Frankly I'm super excited about it, he says its going to be his new main, but I'm also quite interested in it as well. Double AST healers maybe? :P

Aside from that I'm quite excited to see all the new maps and fly on my sexy Griffin mount. :D

I don't understand what everyone is so excited for. I haven't even bought HW yet. (I couldn't possibly be the only one?)

Everything about HW that I've seen so far is kinda blah to me.

Let's not flame me either. It's just my opinion.

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Originally Posted by VoltaAsura

I don't understand what everyone is so excited for. I haven't even bought HW yet. (I couldn't possibly be the only one?)

Everything about HW that I've seen so far is kinda blah to me.

Let's not flame me either. It's just my opinion.

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I think the expansion is going to be really fun. The only real concern I have is that the content will get burnt through really fast. Especially since the endgame got a shortcut put into it, so people can beat it with much less effort and hours now.

But other than that I think the game will be really fun again for me. I'm looking forward to playing content at an appropriate item level and not 40 item levels higher. I still think they need to make dungeons that are much closer to the current maximum item level. But that's a different discussion for a different thread lol.

I'm looking forward to something to do. So bored. I want HW to be out noooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. >_<

Honestly, I'm looking forward to a lot of things. If I had to pick three though, it'd be these, in this order. Continuing the story and seeing how it progresses, exploring the new areas, Machinist.......

EDIT: Also, fishing. I want to see what new fish I can find within Ishgard. I made it a point to finish grinding my fisher up, and blowing 1mil on gear for it just so I could have at least a halfway decent chance of catching a few wonders of the sea......

A disastrous launch followed by exploration and questing. I'll level the new classes but not immediately. I'm a new player, really, so there are still current classes I haven't fully experienced.

Note that when I say "disastrous launch" I'm not being sarcastic. I've been there for some of the worst launches in MMO history and at this point there is something about unstable servers I find almost charmingly inevitable.

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Originally Posted by VoltaAsura

Everything about HW that I've seen so far is kinda blah to me.

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Stave a dog for long enough, and even a bone seems like a feast. In all seriousness though, I think a lot of the excitement stems around the fact we've been recycling old content ad-nausea for many months now. The cycle has been highly predictable, with new story quests added here and there.

There has always been three new dungeons in the 'expert' roulette, with the older ones relegated to the 'hard mode roulette'. The latter of which now has a mile-long list of dungeons attached to it due to a lack of originality on SE's part. There has been a constant replacement of old tomes with new tomes, relegating older equipment to dungeon drops and yesteryear's tomes to the scrap heap.

It's always been the same dance over and over again, just with new flourishes.

For me, and I presume many others, it's very much a chance to break away from this cycle. There will be a multitude of new areas to explore, new quests to enjoy, and ultimately a vast amount of fresh content to get our teeth into. To use my earlier analogy, it's giving that starved dog a sirloin steak instead of a bone, served with a garnish on a silver platter. Of course we're going to eat it up. We've been hungry for quite some time, and it's finally time to feast!

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Originally Posted by VoltaAsura

I don't understand what everyone is so excited for. I haven't even bought HW yet. (I couldn't possibly be the only one?)

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You're not. Still wondering wether I'll buy the CE or the standard edition.
The first thing I'll do though: pray the Twelve, Primals, Ascians, Yoshi-p and RNGod before turning my Kirimu coat into a shiny materia ! Hopefully it will be an interesting Crit V so I could sell it 4 or 5 millions gyahahaha !!

After that... dunno. Gonna do some quests to laugh even more at Alphinaud probably.

The only thing that drives me mad is that I REALLY want to play the AST but then again I want to see the story and AST to 50 takes time. WAAAAH WHAT TO DO FIRST