Happy Heavensward: the things we love!

[h0tNstilettos]

I agree 100%.

I was reading an article yesterday from an MMO vet on one of those MMO sites for a review in progress where based on what he has seen so far, he believes Heavensward could be the best expansion ever released in the history of MMOs. This might sound far fetched, but I don't think it is. I agree with him. I have played MMOs since the EQ1 days and have probably played every major MMO under the sun and have experienced countless expansions and I can say with 0 hesitation that nothing touches HW. It is the largest MMO expansion, the quality is very high, and the amount of improvements over ARR is incredible. I sometimes find myself in disbelief with how they could pull off such a feat while also creating content for the big updates they do every 3 months. They must have sorcerers or other magic folk working for them.

[FateAudax]

I love the new dungeons. The voice over for The Vault bosses when they use their moves is pretty neat. Gives out that JRPG vibe when you set your voice over to Japanese.

[Kit-Kat]

The music and sound direction is impeccable. Soken went all out this time.

You misspelled Nobuo Uematsu. 8D

[Shuon]

Music is great.

Story is amazing.

NPC character developments are pretty good (but I am only in churning mists) especially estinien's dialogues (lol what a snide bastard)

[Onikimaru]

If i had the chance to meet yoshi and thank him and his team personally i would. Monk is absolutely fantastic, even more so than before.
The new skills work so well with monk(although tanks can't seem to handle it :P)

The story is phenomenal, i tried my hardest to skip it..but i couldn't and i think the new voice actors and cutscenes help out with that.

Tons more cutscenes than 2.0, such a great aspect and really absorbs and invests you into the story.

DRK is pretty fun, i am enjoying it so far. It's a shame that they teased AF so much though only to delay it for a month D:

The art direction and the new locations are absolutely breathtaking. I hope we can make more use of flying around them in the future, so we can better appreciate what the team has made.

The music is also pretty amazing.

EXP is a little scarce but that's ok because the story is pushing me to get to the next level to see what's going on.

All in all, i in NO WAY regret pre-ordering the expansion. It exceeded all the expectations i had going in and pushed through the bar of hype i had set for myself and what i had seen.

A great job indeed and if any of the reps over at SE read this. I thank you for all your hard work on providing us with quality content.

PS : please make the Au Ra horns separate from the face

[AskaRay]

You misspelled Nobuo Uematsu. 8D

WEll.....no wonder I'm impressed then :O

Either way I need this OST like yesterday.

[Marxam]

The music. Specifically the dungeon boss themes and more specifically the chorus when choir kicks in with the brass. I think SE finally figured out how to stop speedruns and/or dungeon grinding. Just add great music.

[Kogasan]

I love drk and the auri race. I also love what se did to smn. The storyline is awesome even though it seems abit to easy. Ravana being a breeze beat it the first time I fought it. The environment is beautiful. Keep up the gj se. This is what we've been asking for all along. Only thing I didn't like is the fact that you need 4 or more people to create fc airships and that said people have to be fc members. My fc only has 2 people in it so it makes making fc airships out of the question. Hope you will change that part.

[Brianmj]

I'm digging the responsiveness of the Egis. It almost feels like executing a Rage of Halone combo.

[Balipu]

I love armor crush, flying, the visuals, the Ravana musics, the new main storyline, the new ninja storyline and the more or less improved voice acting.