I really DO hope Alexander's story steps up, but I don't think it can top Coil's.

[Kemonologist]

Anything we do now can't help anything. Finally, we know he must fully awake because they already show full pic of him. But the story during that is still mystery, you can't guess anything because we don't have any clue like COB that we know we must fight Bahamut at last. In the latest part, dev might give us some surprise plot twist like Mide betray us or big scale raid such as fighting him on the ground and in the air outside with support from NPC. Lore are different from system, they must write full of it already before develop raid for continuity of events. However, they must keep them in secret and can't release all in the 1st part. Same with Void ark, they already told us this ship is only first dungeon of story line. We will go other dungeon in 2nd part. That mean they write whole of story line already and still develop dungeon and event for it. Sometime you must wait a little because the first part is only introduction of most story. In 2.0 we and NPC know about Bahamut and his threat already but Alexander, we and NPC still need to learn and study about it together. We don't know anything about it except basic knowledge about primal. And he still not fully awake now, that is the reason why people don't think it is a threat. When Alexander have more awakening, they will show more story and his threat further. I think 2nd part in 3.2 will tell us more about it and we can guess about 3rd part from the progress of field changing too.

[Eul]

Am I the only one who think she might betray for something? :|

[myahele]

Am I the only one who think she might betray for something? :|

I think she'll probably ended stealing whatever it is she's been seeking from us and run a way with it. But will return soon after due to the power of friendship telling her that she must rely of friends to help out with this ... something happens and we'll never see her again once we beat Alexander

[Lone-wolfe-02]

I think she'll probably ended stealing whatever it is she's been seeking from us and run a way with it. But will return soon after due to the power of friendship telling her that she must rely of friends to help out with this ... something happens and we'll never see her again once we beat Alexander

This. I suppose it's out of the question SE kill her off in the first boss of the next alex part

[Azazua_azura]

I personally like Alexander because the setting reminds me of Dwemer ruins from Elder scrolls (morrowind to be exact) And its not to far from the story if you followed ARR, goblins are a nomadic beatman tribe who have been trying to be tradesmen with the city states much like the quirin, and others. If you follow brayflox's lore she has been in a cheese war with the illuminati. You see a bit of this with the two brayflox longstop runs first run you clear the place out and are given special gobbi cheese. Then a second time when you find out b brayflox "stole" the recipe for the gobbi cheese. You see more of it during the sharlyan area where you do alot of main story and side quests involving the fight with the illuminati.

With the illuminati being thwarted every turn and goblin wishing to share knowledge, they got desperate, and they summoned thier primal. Which it would make sense for alex to be their primal since its a walking fortess. Which suites the goblins well since they are mechanical and normadic which is pretty much what alex is about.

as for each encounter they actually make sense based on where you are. first fight is with the 2 defence systems are guard dogs. then you have all the goblins trying ti get at you, living liquid is easy to figure out if you pay attention to the surroundings. Alex appears to be steam powered (big reason for being in water more water more steam) iys pretty much a living water based on tech from the codex if you pay attention to the fact that you see a device making the water become sentiant.

Pretty much a third defence protocol nearer to the power sorce. then the actual final boss fight which is a key defence proticall for the heart.

pretty much it males sense if you pay attention.

I bet this is all about cheese lol.

[Elvin]

Oh please, don't compare Morrowind`s setting with this.

Morrowind dwemers were not crows and did not play with cheese. They had a far better background...

[Colorful]

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Why'd you have to bring up Morrowind? Now I'm going to end up spending another dozen hours on that game. .-.

[Craiger]

I fully agree... And the fights are really boring. A3S is pretty good, and that has a lot to do with it not being another goblin thing... It's certainly the least epic raid so far.

Alexander feels very limited too, what can they really do to make the fights more interesting? and make the story more interesting... Unless they add some more fights like A3S (which I still don't understand), then we're stuck with these damn boring goblins for a long time.

[Warlyx]

we all agree , more alex , less goblins!

so far the story, enemies and the like have been kinda boring

[repoe]

I personally like alexander better then binding coil, the goblin humor made me smile. But I especially like how a large population of FFXIV loves to B@m about the alexander A1-4 not being as good but boring when compared to coils T1-13 completed plot.

Review T1-5 cutscenes or synopsis, just like the current story in Alex, nothing amazing, nothing horrible. It's just a start of a new storyline.

Coils sense of urgency. Vs Alexanders boring nothing
Coil: bahamuts revival, calamity. Is one bad B.
Supporting info that calamity is bad: ARR cgi cutscenes

Alex: alexander fully operational. Drains all the E from the planet
Supporting info on planet drainage: Lore