Im totaly HYPED!

So, since ever fanfest started and they showed all the new stuff for 5.0 all I can read in this forum is complaint following by complaints.

Thats why I think its finally time to make a positive post!

So in this sense: THANK YOU!

Thank you for the great idea to bring Nier into this game and let us dive us once more into it. I cant wait with what they come up with for boss fights and if the atmosphere will feel the same! (and the music!!!)

Thank you for finally giving us Viera after 5 years of asking if we get it ♥

Thank you for the 4 man mount and FF15 event!

Thank you for new a new tank (and hopefully healer) class!

Me, personally, Im super excited and I look forward to 5.0!

I want to see more of Viera, but other than that I'm cool with everything.

I'm definitely way more excited for ShB than I was SB, and SB was adding the main job I wanted to play. I think the direction the plot is going in way more interesting. The villains are better. The areas shown off are cooler. The music is better. The trailer is more exciting.

I mean, so far it's almost like they've always been catering expansions directly towards me.

My sister and I played FFXI at different times, she ended up playing way longer than me into the expansions as well. We decided to try FFXIV together once it released on consoles for nostalgia near the end of ARR cycle.

Starte as a WAR in LL, she started as ACN. Once we got to the MSQ sequence that brought us to Gridania we both decided to switch jobs cuz moar nostalgia... me to LoLDRG and her to BRD. And that's what we main'd through the rest of ARR.

Then HW was announced with all it's DRG Glory, which spoke to me as a DRG main... even though I eventually switched my main to BLM through HW... that initial hype was all about the goon.

Then SB was announced... and I've always been a highlander so the promise of taking back the homeland?! Sign me up!

Now during HW my sister and I definitely noticed and started to tire of the longer DPS queues, so I suggested going into SB that we switch our mains to Tank and Healer since we anticipated that DPS queues would only get worse with two more being added into the game. I switched to PLD and she switched to WHM, which we primarily played as through the MSQ. I did level all the jobs though this cycle, and decided that DRK was my favorite tank to actually play as, so I've been mainly playing DRK since patch 4.2 or 4.3ish...

So ShB trailer drops and what the what... DRK Glory!!1 SE pander directly to me once again!

Hype at maximum!

Hell yeah SB2 is looking like a sequel that will surpass the original.

I am far more hyped for ShB than I was SB! But it isn't necessarily SBs fault. I actually really love where the story is going, but HW really was a tough act to follow. I also found myself gravitating more towards the Gyr Abania areas than Othard. Don't get me wrong, those areas are wonderful but Eorzea is home. Plus I will actually be pretty caught up this time around, which allows me to enjoy said hype with everyone else without the worry of spoilers.

I am super stoked for the Gunbreaker job and so happy it's a tank. I really enjoy tanking in this game even though I have to step out of my comfort zone to do so. If Dancer is brought in as a healer I don't think I'll be able to contain my excitement! But we're going back to a darker theme, we have pixies, bunny girl senpais and possibly boys will join the fray; this next expansion just has my name all over it!

I'll be honest, I don't particularly love the Dark Knight quest story... it's a bit too emo teen for me, but I do enjoy the spin they are putting on it through the main story quest plot. I think so far it's incredibly well done, and the trailers are looking suspenseful and very intriguing. Not only the story but also, how are we getting to these new featured worlds? Is Rak'tika Greatwood in Dalmasca that they showed on the map in the Ivalice raid? Is it... a different world altogether? I have so many questions that I really want to see answered so my hype is building and building. I also really love how high fantasy they are going with this expansion, which was not at all what I was expecting with what I thought was going to be "modern tech in fantasy setting Garlemald" and wasn't too excited about. I'm so happy they did decide to include high fantasy settings.

So far everything has looked so high quality and really made me happy I still play this game.

I am cautious. I was super hype for Stormblood, but that expansion ended up as a major disappointment. Got burned so hard that I quit the game for almost a year. I do like the potential theories of where the plot is heading this time, and I like the jungle zone they are introducing (something I wanted for a while), but I won't hype over it. The game stopped being as fun as it used to be, but I'm willing to give it a chance again and do want them to dazzle me. Do they have a chance? Sure. But I will still be cautious.

I would like to see more of viera as well. Thank you for adding viera SE/dev team/Yoshi p/everyone involved :)

The last time I was this hyped for an expansion was Heavensward. Stormblood was really disappointing for me and stopped playing for almost a year. I finally get to be a Viera and I am a HUGE fan of Nier: Automata so the 24 man raid got me really hyped this time around as well. I can't wait to preorder.

Thank you Dev Team!