Overall Review of Heavensward: Final Fantasy XIV

[Slappah]

I'm glad you're enjoying yourself but, like the poster above me pointed out, I don't feel like you can rate an expansion based on just having reached level 60.

You still haven't even experienced basically all of what heavensward is so far

And that's not even mentioning the fact that were only halfway-ish through the expansion

[ddwarbird]

I'm glad you're enjoying yourself but, like the poster above me pointed out, I don't feel like you can rate an expansion based on just having reached level 60.

You still haven't even experienced basically all of what heavensward is so far

And that's not even mentioning the fact that were only halfway-ish through the expansion

Well to be fair, I normally only mmo expansions up to the level max and then just play casually until the next one. Usually the big story moments come in the expansions themselves and not the patches inbetween however I am aware there is some story I may have missed but fortunately, that is what wikipedia is for. Other then that, there arn't really anything new apart from raid content and top tier stuff.

[Kaurie]

Well to be fair, I normally only mmo expansions up to the level max and then just play casually until the next one. Usually the big story moments come in the expansions themselves and not the patches inbetween however I am aware there is some story I may have missed but fortunately, that is what wikipedia is for. Other then that, there arn't really anything new apart from raid content and top tier stuff.

This is pretty untrue.

Each patch comes with a chunk of story content, judging Heavensward Story based off of 3.0 only would be like judging a season of a TV show by it's 2 hour premiere.

Secondly, there are plenty of things that set it apart other than top tier stuff (crafting, hildibrand, pvp etc).

[Alberel]

Great to see you're enjoying the expansion OP. I just wanted to correct you on the following though:

Well to be fair, I normally only mmo expansions up to the level max and then just play casually until the next one. Usually the big story moments come in the expansions themselves and not the patches inbetween however I am aware there is some story I may have missed but fortunately, that is what wikipedia is for. Other then that, there arn't really anything new apart from raid content and top tier stuff.

These patches aren't filled with just raid content. There is loads of content for casual players (such as you describe yourself) and it seems a shame that you're dismissing it all just because it came in a patch rather than in the base expansion.

The recent 3.2 patch contained some of the biggest story reveals to date. Do you really mean to just go look that up on wikipedia instead of just playing through it as you would normally? I'm struggling to see where you've gotten this perspective on the game from.

[ddwarbird]

Great to see you're enjoying the expansion OP. I just wanted to correct you on the following though:



These patches aren't filled with just raid content. There is loads of content for casual players (such as you describe yourself) and it seems a shame that you're dismissing it all just because it came in a patch rather than in the base expansion.

Yeah, I understand but I mean the raid content I usually don't do, all the patch content I usually do in my old time. This review was just a base review for Heavensward commenting on the aesthetics mainly of the game and story up to a point where the levelling progression ends. I may do a review of the intermediate stuff as well but I would have to play that first.