The disapointment that is Alexander

[Nestama]

Agreed, need more like this Ultima I think

And we did. We got Ravana's theme (which people apparently hated for some reason. I love it), Singularity Reactors theme and the new final boss theme for most dungeons. If everything were orchestral, the game would sound pretty bland. To go further back, there's Shiva's phase 1 theme, Ramuh's song, etc.

It's kinda like Bayonetta. You have your amazing orchestral music in places, but there's also the jumpy and motivating pop/club-music. It gives the game extra spice.

[Lyrinn]

We got Ravana's theme (which people apparently hated for some reason. I love it)

Waltzes aren't exactly what comes to mind for most gamers when facing a god of war wielding 4 blades - waltzes aren't even popular to begin with. It fits because you are metaphorically dancing with him but that's it.

[Dererk]

Try not to forget that the Coils wer a continuation and conclusion to 1.0 so they need to be epic.

But Alexander ya I can see what OP means but sadly this is because the devs once again thought it was a good idea to make short instanced raids they mind as well just drop us off in the boss area T_T.

Way to go Yoshi you ruined what could have been an epic raid learn from this please.

[NFaelivrin]

Alexander's story so far is boring and it does feel like they could've, at least offhandedly, built it up a bit in the pre-60 MSQ.

[StrejdaTom]

Alexander's story so far is boring and it does feel like they could've, at least offhandedly, built it up a bit in the pre-60 MSQ.

People wanted raids not related to MSQ or easy enough for everyone so they could see the MSQ (imo coil story was kinda a part of MSQ).
They got both. Easy raid (I don't mean savage) not related to main story quest at all. Which is definitely not the best option but for some people it is better than what coil was.

I would rather have raid that is somehow connected to the main story and it would be possible now as they introduced 2 difficulties. Also I was raiding previous coil for 2 things - the feeling of acomplishment and story (I was the unlucky person who never looted anything so raiding for loot wasn't kinda my thing). Now the story was shown in easy mode and savage mode has nothing new about lore in it, which kinda kills one of the reasons why I raid, I was always looking forward to the cutscene in the end that comes after weeks of wiping.. but yeah, now I have atleast some guaranteed gear.

IMO there should be 2 completely separated raids with different difficulty and story. But that will never happen.

[Welsper59]

Maybe it's just because I associate the FFXIV goblins with FFXI (since they're the exact same), but I honestly don't view those guys as anything like comic relief. Sure, they had their suicide Bomb Toss that made them a bit comedic to fight... but the ones you'd normally fight in exp parties would destroy you alone, and sometimes kill you too with their accidental suicide bomb toss. Goblins were generally something associated with fear in FFXI lol.

[ChiefCurrahee]

I'm pretty disappointed that for an expansion that was supposed to "try different things" we were given coil 2.0

I want to see some end game content that isn't a DPS check and team jump rope. Give us a reason to use lesser used skill like "bind" and "heavy" or even "sleep"

As far as Alex savage is concerned, well I'm thinking of sitting this one out, maybe 4.0 will actually "try different things"

[Nadirah]

And we did. We got Ravana's theme (which people apparently hated for some reason. I love it), Singularity Reactors theme and the new final boss theme for most dungeons. If everything were orchestral, the game would sound pretty bland. To go further back, there's Shiva's phase 1 theme, Ramuh's song, etc.

It's kinda like Bayonetta. You have your amazing orchestral music in places, but there's also the jumpy and motivating pop/club-music. It gives the game extra spice.

One of my favorite video game OST to this day is VtM: Bloodlines.

Mmmm Crüxshadows and Lacuna Coil...

[Almalexia]

The music is terribad!!!! Stop it with the 15yr girly pop music.

We are in a Final Fantasy. We need epic classical themes!

Sounds like you need to delete everything you know about "15 yr girly pop music" because that's not what I hear when I fall back right into the DF queue for another weekly Alexander drop.

I have a reason to keep believing Soken will deliver on the BGMs every patch, you see.

[Mikhaill]

I could go on a whole spill about how bad Alexander is in general but I'm biased because FF9 is how I wanted Alexander to be done.
[I honestly don't like Alexander the raid itself anyway. While it's neat to have a summon be a raid...read above lol.]
Offtopicy: But I wish summons wasn't 'bad' in this game. The only one who isn't is Ramuh and I think we faught him because we were being tested, and Shiva too...

Shiva ended up being my favourite because she actually saved our lives in HW and ended up being an actual person. Not to mention that cool fight with her and Ravana she tried to help us there too!

^ I wanna see more of that.
I'm just tired of fightning Primal's because every dude and their moms wants to use them for some sort of ritual crap. xD
I know it's how the game works but just my little 2 cents.

Inb4 I'm flamed to death.