Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[FudoMyoo]

This expansion alliance raids are so good! So SO GOOD!!!

Nostalgia memories 2003-2008ish. (I have LS mates still playing in 2026 lol)

Jeuno, Windurst, San d'Oria, HNM, Sky & Sea. Reminds me of my mithra in Windurst, my elvaan at San d'Oria and my galka in Bastok lol

[Yuella]

It's a love letter of FFXI players. They compiled all the memorable parts of FFXI into these 3 raids.

Bosses:
Shadowlords, Ark Angels, Omega and Ultima, the archdukes, Alexander, Promathia, Shinryu


Promyvion's Memory Receptacles
Fafnir (HNM camping)
Kirin (Sky camping)
Besieged

Prishe and Shantotto, the two most popular characters based on survey

It's done a good job evoking those memories back for FFXI players

[Scott]

After this Raid I'm even more Sad we never saw Bastok.... its really unfair for Bastok Players.
And after I saw the Adventurer Plate and Portait Material I'm even more sad.

Jeuno, San d'oria and Windurst all get their cool Adventurer Plate Decoration... only Bastok Players can't represent their Home Nation... They at least could have released an Adventurer Plate for Bastok as a little show of good will.

[KateHarthing]

whilst I never played 11 I genuinely cry every time at that last fight. These were SO good

[Valence]

If you had never played ff14 and had a raid series in another game themed about ff14 the same way this one was, and everything would be about telling you how great memories the characters have of that fight at star's end with the endsinger, or how bitterly they remember about that character emet selch, I bet you'd get bored out of your mind too since you would have zero connections about any of those.

[Iscah]

Not a single really interesting new mechanic (aside from the last boss taking turns to shield).

The two-tiered arena was a neat idea, although it never got used for anything beyond fairly basic up/down mechanics and then vanished from the second part of the fight.

[Clerith]

Went in blind as healer - and enjoyed my time! (Many revives, saves and heals - but sadly no wipes.) ^^
Looking forward to the NGE alliance raids.
I never played FF11 (= no nostalgia) – but with Evangelion, I'll definitely feel the hype and use my Asuka glams.

[Anarnee]

I think I need to give it some time to settle, but this may be my favorite raid series since Ivalice. I did like Myths of the Realm, but it ended kinda flatly for me.

I had fun with this all the way through... Though the end boss was giving muppet.

Never played 11 but I have been thinking of trying it because of this, fell in love with all the characters and boss, and want to know more about them all.

[Voidmage]

For me the whole thing was "meh" from beginning to end.
Fun fights, sure and the glamour outside the first one was also good enough but the story was, like Nier, just there for fan service.
There weren't even any consequences like Prishe traveling around or Jeuno actually affecting Tural. Everything is separated to an absolute degree.
Not even additional dialogue that we basically met Shantottos counterpart (BLM quest line) or Iroha (who actually searches desperately for a way back).

I acknowledge the work and all that went in and I do think the devs did a great job of showing the XI locations with this games graphics but I am tired of Alliance raids being delegated to crossovers.
Imo the Ivalice raids were far better in that regard because it wasn't just an Isekai for the second time.

A fun raid series but completely forgettable outside the fights.

[Carin-Eri]

whilst I never played 11 I genuinely cry every time at that last fight. These were SO good

Same

And this moment at the very end choked me up too: