The ending to Stormblood...

[WarzonePrez]

So as a PLD with an ilvl of 384, I'm having a hard time DPSing down "you know who"s three swords...

Any pointers? Or so I just NEED to gear up a DPS job for this?

Stay in Sword Oath the entire fight. I was i397, but even Concentravity seemed like a tickle. When the swords pop, hit Fight or Flight, and start each sword with a Riot Blade combo ending with Goring Blade, with the next combos being Royal Authority. Repeat for each sword. That should make them go down fast enough to beat the timer.

[Amariel34]

the new Manderville mambo one

If it's from the quest line, I probably won't get it. I did some of that and I can't STAND that guy. Oh well.

[Sclair0]

I get and agree with the criticisms, but when I was playing the scenareo I really enjoyed it, and if it worked in the moment on me then I guess the deus ex machina worked

Next time though I'd rather if we're going to die and be deus ex machina rescued... Let us roleplay as the rescuer forcing the asshole to retreat, not the guy beforehand.

I do wish this had been before fanfest, but overall very fun patch.

[DevilsDontFly]

I liked the patch? Yes, I did.
Was it necessary to split in two parts? Absolutely not.

In fact I'd argue that the only reason the patch got divided in 2 is because they also wanted to patch the XV crossover into the game so when the time comes they just turn on the event start switch.

In regards to content itself everything added could have been added with part 1, in a single patch.
I was expecting at least an epic MSQ trial to finish the expansion with a bang. But oh well.

[Leomoon]

I WANTED HIM DEAD!

[Nihility]

Yeah it was quite good. I loved the part where

all tension was immediately removed by an off-screen deus ex machina

and that final scene was just

extremely disappointing because there was no kind of build-up or cliffhanger that left you wanting more. It was just a big cop-out that just screamed "PLEASE BUY OUR NEW EXPANSION FOR THE GOOD STORY". So I'm pleased to know that our story will lack any kind of risk or challenge and we'll just hop on over to another shard and do everything we normally do but with a different coat of paint. .

sounds like that's what the entire next expansion is though
war goes on while our hero of light diddles around in dimension X being all angsty and dark for a while

[Fumpr]

I hope other enjoyed it, but I found the ending extremely disappointing.

[silentwindfr]

sounds like that's what the entire next expansion is though
war goes on while our hero of light diddles around in dimension X being all angsty and dark for a while

maybe the goal of this expansion is to become not the hero the world need, but the hero it deserve?
more seriously, from the start all the story is about balance that can be broken and make the world a mess.... let's be honest we often win.... too often actually. don't that create inbalance between light and darkness? maybe we need to become a warrior of darkness for get light and darkness in balance inside us?
or maybe hooded man is a traitor!
no i think it's more about find balance between light and darkness, what is strange since i don't see the balance between darkness and light to be soo much broken in the source world.

outside all of this story, i'm conflicted not by patch or the stormblood story, but more where we go.... if we can't win nor loose.... what can we do? because ascien will not stop.all i see is an eternal battle between light and darkness for create balance, but that solve nothing?
i'm extremely curious to see where the game go with this expansion...

[Destati]

I remember when I first cleared "Before the Dawn" in ARR and how much it made me go "Oh Sugar-Honey-Iced-Tea". I was so hyped and at the edge of my seat as I went right into Heavensward.
Heavensward still ended with quite a bang, not nearly as much "oomph" as ARR granted, but still got me ready and raring to go into Stormblood (which was an arduous task because at that point I was up to date with everything so I had to wait those few months).
Stormblood's ending was... disappointingly underwhelming. I've been waiting for that "Sugar-Honey-Iced-Tea" moment like ARR and HW, but... nothing. All I really felt was mild annoyance at -redacting cause I can't figure out how to work the spoiler tag-. "You're calling me at a very bad time, my dude! Knock it off."

[Zumi]

Left me with more questions than answers. I don't really get what happened. Where did all the scions go for example.