Creative Studio III Appreciation Thread [SPOILERS]

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I am happy with job changes this expansion on the whole, certainly improves to be made such as fixing the borked mnk rotation but I do like the rework and new animations for it a lot! BLM also needing some love given the caster hatred the mechanics seem to have but I still love the job. I am really enjoying the newest AST card iteration and hope in future we get some royal road esque effects and time dilation mechanics. Picto and viper are great additions also, love them!

The graphics update is a major win but it has many bugs to deal with. The double dye system also is great but some pieces of clothing second dye channel leaves me with a big question mark.

I love female hrothgar but their rigging issues also need dealt with as a minimum. Along with new hair, unlocking face locked hair etc.

The story from a very high view is alright but the english localisation leaves a lot to be desired along with the voice acting. I think I will play the rest of the expansion in japanese as if Wuk Lamat continues to be omnipresent I frankly am not enjoying her voice over, the VA can't seem to yell and emote very well. Overall I did enjoy the slow pace and getting to know the various peoples in Tural, some really didn't get the time to breathe such as the X'braal though. The second half had me wondering why we as characters and the scions were not pondering more the actions we were taking in the last zone. If you don't scrutinise the story much it's enjoyable enough but honestly the writing quality AND voice over was poor in comparison to older expacs.

The encounter design feels a lot more fresh than Endwalker and Shb thus far, I look forward to the raids a lot. I am loving the fights on every job, even though BLM is suffering a bit atm.

The zones also feel great to exist in, really loved wandering them slowly during the MSQ. Many zones both in the world and dungeons I look forward to gposing in. Running around getting aether currents was enjoyable and I've even been working on clearing all the side quests in each zone alongside maxing fate levels.

There is plenty to enjoy in Dawntrail, there is also a lot they could have done better! And for many the story has sadly been very lukewarm for a variety of reasons.

[MoofiaBossVal]

The new Viper job is fun and cool to play, particularly the Awakened phase with the blue shounen battle aura and the rapid dashes.

The new samurai job outfit looks good. I usually prefer to mix and match piece to create my own custom transmog, but here I am pretty satisfied just using the 100 set + 70 hat.

I enjoyed Tural, namely the new city and the first two zones, and the third zone kinda. I liked the Pelupelu, Moblins, and Mamooja.

I appreciate that the dungeon bosses were a little more difficult than last.

Story held my interest up through the Mamooja village/level 94.

I liked Gulool Ja Ja, Koana, Bakool Ja Ja as a villain, Zoraal Ja in the first half, and Wuk Evu. Sphene was pretty and sounded nice.

Valigarmanda and the snake Vidraal world boss had cool designs. Final boss design was decent.

The lightning world as a concept is a little imaginative but I didn't find what we got to be very visually captivating. Solution Nine looks good though I'm not sure that's ehat I want out of a final Fantasy title.

The Tuliyollal day and night theme and the Solution nine were very good. First time I did all 400 FATEs across the 6 expansion zones to buy the music rolls. The town themes, dungeon mid boss, and final dungeon theme were also okay.

My character looks exactly the same as before the graphics update so I'd say that I am satisfied (as opposed to other people saying they wish they could revert to how they looked before). I like the new grass.

[Jonsky]

My opinions have been...tempered...by others' opinions (I think just MSQ stuff though). That being said, I liked what they did to get (one of?) the moral of the story across - we must turn off a whole zone to stop an AI who is trying to go haywire in a bid to consume all life (in every reflection? More?) to preserve the memories of her fellow countrymen and that two characters are coming to terms of either parting ways with a loved one or just discovering loved ones only to part with them so quickly.

It's interesting to see that some people just can't handle letting go of a pretty zone becoming "untextured" and depressing where it was once so colourful and "alive". So much so they found a way to restore the vibrancy via New Game Plus.

I get that there's the sentiment that this was just gonna be a holiday for our characters but then became us taking a step back and letting another character have the limelight. Perhaps expectations were subverted and the story became "this character is everywhere" but it makes sense in a way - they're trying to become the leader of the region and they desire to lead it in a positive manner. The Rites that Gulool Ja Ja sets us to complete necessitates them to adventure, something our character lives for. We learn that they're effectively a "city kid" so it makes sense we're asked to support them.

I'm looking forward to how the story progresses from here. The Azem Grail (you know, that relic Sphene was trying to use to merge reflections) has a lot of implications and I have a feeling it pretty much opens up all of the intact reflections (again, more?) for adventure...once Y'shtola and friends make a breakthrough with it, at least.

[Palladiamors]

I'll praise them when they do something worth praising, not for whatever this abomination was

[AnotherHighlander]

Uh-oh you are being positive, all of the people with the "Here's a link to my 3000000 word essay on why Dawntrail literally ruined my life" signatures they made 30 minutes after early access went live are going to come out of the woodwork

Wait aren't you the one who said this

If y’all’s goal was to make me feel like a dumb idiot and feel like shit then congrats you succeed. I don’t know what I did to deserve everyone posting these rude images and responses at me but from all the thumbs up I will take that as my cue to take my idiotic opinions and my dumb worthless self and eff off. All I did was disagree in a pretty civil way and gave my reasons why, I guess my stupid idiotic takes are so bad though that they don’t deserve a response. Thank you for all for putting me in my place.

[Bellybell]

I do enjoyed every bit of DT and many changes in the game, everything that has no wuk in it anyway.

[EdwinChucklenuts]

Dawntrail's a blast and I sincerely hope everyone who hasn't fucked with the game since the end of Endwalker will move on to a game they do enjoy and let us enjoy ours

[CottonC]

Side quests are mostly good. Dungeons are amazing. Music is awesome, although not always in sync with the area. Visuals for the new jobs and some of their skills... and while I'd like to prize them as a whole, this is already where I have to draw a line, since they need tome tuning (and I do not mean simplification, which is already a thing that was announced and will further add to all the negative things). Sooo, yeah, good job on the few things that they managed to do right and those elements feel awesome, I just have deep hope that all other elements of FF XIV will be held to the same standard.

[Aurumis]

they are not very creative

I loved the entire ff14 except DT, I'm not gonna do appreciation for something done wrong
I'll just praise the tiny team that made the dungeons and some of the new armor designs, and dungeons music, nothing more. They need the critiques.

[Isala]

Wait aren't you the one who said this

Careful now. They'll accuse you of stalking them.