I came here to play, not to feel

Hey all! I'm happy to announce that I have officially made it to Ishgard. But the last Story Quest leading me there was just...wow, it was certainly intense. I felt everything that was going on, and freaking out during the cutscenes. I don't see how my character is gonna find a way out of this situation, but so many questions running in my head right now. Will I be found innocent? Is my crew still alive? Do I ever return to go after those who wronged me after my faithful service to the realm? WHY URIANGER? You were one of my favorite characters. Really looking forward to playing through Heavensward to hopefully get answers to these questions. Alas my game time expires in a few days so I won't be able to make it far in the Story.

On a side note, I've unlocked the Machinist, Astrologian and Dark Knight. I tried each of them out and so far here's my thoughts on them:

Machinist: Like the idea of using guns to attack, but seems kinda slow and doesn't seem to deal a lot of damage, which is a problem in Dungeons. But it might be due to my current gear so once I'm able to get more gear then it'll probably improve.

Astrologian: I've never healed in any MMO since its too much responsibility for me to handle, but I like the card system. Down side is it's a bit confusing since I don't know when start using the Draw system and if the effects of each card has an area of effect for my party of if I need to target each party member tog rant them the benefits.

Dark Knight: Like with Astrologian, never Tanked in an MMO, but I really did enjoy testing this Class out. Attacks are nice and flashy and if I were to Tank, I prefer swords over axes (looking at you Marauder). After testing DK on some test dummies I think I have my skills set in the order I wanna use them so all that's left is to hop in a Dungeon and hope for the best.

The first two words you get in the game are hydaelyn saying "hear....feel".......so pay attention to the opening cutscene better my good man. Hydaelyn knows you are going to be hit in the feels later on it seems :)

Sarcasm aside, the game does do a good job on the old emotional rollercoaster at time. And i think you will be enjoying the story in Heavensward, since in my opinion, it is better than the ARR story :).

Well, I totally love the final ending from ARR and Coil. The story of Heavensward is ok, but there some minor things that bothers me (no spoilers here).

If highly recommend you to do the Dark Knight jobquest! Dont skip these, they are just awesome!

You should put a spoiler warning at the top of your post, because there are still a lot of people who aren't there yet.

When I hear her say " hear feel Think." I screamed " NO ". And continue to do so til this very day.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Caitlyn

Well, I totally love the final ending from ARR and Coil. The story of Heavensward is ok, but there some minor things that bothers me (no spoilers here).

If highly recommend you to do the Dark Knight jobquest! Dont skip these, they are just awesome!

---

Oh I enjoyed the little tutorial one they gave me for the Dark Knight and I did enjoy it. I just gotta learn how to tank because I did die few times during the tutorial.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Zomkei

You should put a spoiler warning at the top of your post, because there are still a lot of people who aren't there yet.

---

Sorry about that

Machinist: You're still low level still, need to get to 60 and get all the abilities (most DPS classes don't show their true potential till level cap). I personally don't like MCH in dungeons because it's best ability (Wildfire) is wasted on trash mobs because they die too fast. They feel more powerful on boss fights.

Astrologian: Use cards as often as you can, all cards are single target but Attack Speed and Recast can be made to AOE at Lv 35 with Royal Road. You don't need to give cards to every party member you give it to the most appropriate person, if it happens to be just one person then that's just the luck of the draw.

If you thought the ending to ARR was bad then you have a whole other storm coming your way.
Heavens ward Is gonna take you on an unrelenting emotional roller coaster. You are gonna cry both happy and sad tears. So get the tissues ready.

Quote:

---

Hear..... Feel..... Think.....

---

Mute button.....

If you thought that was intense just wait until you get to the end of the HW story.

Haha!

Sorry, couldn't help but giggle. As I tell my friends, "It has Final Fantasy in the title. You should know you do not finish the game with your feels intact." It's a complicit agreement: picking up any Final Fantasy title is an acknowledgement that at some point, your heart will get stomped on.

I enjoy the class/job storylines more than the Main scenario.

Sometimes I wish I weren't so well read, that way I could reach out and fully embrace the feels like a lot of the playerbase does.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by ExcentricNoob

Oh I enjoyed the little tutorial one they gave me for the Dark Knight and I did enjoy it. I just gotta learn how to tank because I did die few times during the tutorial.

---

Be sure to take the tanking tutorial quests from the Hall of the Novice mentors you see littered around many maps and it should help you out a lot with the basics. If anything else leaves you uncertain then just open a thread in the tanking section of the forum and people will gladly clear things up for you. Tanking honestly isn't very hard but when you're doing it for the first time ever it can seem like a very scary task, especially when you lose enmity and don't even know what that word means *laughs* ;;;;;