Heavensword, if you removed the weird "Evil Catholics!" nonsense from it and ignored The Most Pointless Death in the Entirety of FFXIV. I enjoyed the conflicts of the dragons - both between dragon and human, and between dragon and dragon. I enjoyed the complexity to be found in Midgardsormr's personal conflict, the growth in relationships between the main cast, and Nidhogg's final fight was very fun. Even the Warrior of Darkness stuff was fairly well done, though I don't think SE gave it the ending it deserved. I also really enjoyed the seeming betrayal and then return of Urianger - he'd long been my favorite of the Scions and I felt Alisaie's emotions as my own!

In comparison, ARR felt like a patchwork of goofy mini-adventures with no real direction up until the final quest. Stormblood has suffered from an utterly forgettable and one-note villain in Zenos, and the balancing of Doma's and Ala Mhigo's liberation felt very forced and glossed over.