Is Hildibrand worth doing?

[Clethoria]

Do you enjoy Japanese comedy? Yes? Yes. No? Eeeeehh. 2.0 unlocks a few trials. 3.0 calms the comedy down for story and tie in with the in game plot with a character deeply involved. No trials, but I loved it. I'm sad there wont be any coming in with 4.0.

[MicahZerrshia]

ARR Hildy was good and I would suggest definitely doing these quests.

HW was meh so do em if your bored.

Neither comes close to 1.x Hildy. Sad you guys cannot play those questlines anymore

[Enkidoh]

ARR Hildy was good and I would suggest definitely doing these quests.

HW was meh so do em if your bored.

Neither comes close to 1.x Hildy. Sad you guys cannot play those questlines anymore

I agree: his original introduction in 1.0 was hilarious but still touching (the second one with Gauwyn the Gannet was my favourite ), and was some much needed light-hearted comic relief in a storyline that was becoming increasingly dark and depressing indeed. But his return in ARR kind of went off the rails, in that his humour became increasingly bizarre and cartoonish (I mean,

his initial return in ARR, he crawls out of a grave after being presumed for dead!

), not to mention a vehicle for fanservice battles like Gilgamesh or FFXII's Mandragora Royalty.

And by the time of his HW appearence, it was clear SE simply no longer knew what to do with him, and just keep putting him on a bus, hoping that one day the bus will take him somewhere far away that he cannot return from. He's still funny, but his antics are starting to wear thin. I hope SE does actually give him a poignant and fitting send off when Shadowbringers rolls around.

[Heliantheae]

The final quests are great. They get sentimental. The Costa del Sol quests are the best of the bunch.

[Tracewood]

Hildy and Briardien need to team up again, the chemistry between them was awesome.

I enjoyed the side quests, even if they don't have their own trials I'd settle for duties honestly.

[seekified]

The ARR quests are pretty good fun. It got stale in Heavensward, and I basically forced myself through the last couple of tiers just for the sake of completion.

[JD_Shadow]

From what I've heard, they are planning to conclude the series in 4.5 as well as gate something within the last stretch. So yeah, you might want to get that done.

There's quite a good story in the HW one, even though there isn't a Primal fight in there like in ARR. Then again, most of HW was really well done, so no surprise that they brought out their A game storytelling on a comedy relief side quest there, too. The fights are interesting, though not difficult. You could just get them unlocked to fill out your list so you can roulette them for the dailies (hey, the more variety, the better). There's also some callbacks to past FF games included, as well.

But yeah, the latest announcements seemed to include the entire saga wrapping up with something else being tied to doing them. Depends on what it's worth to you. Just don't expect for them to be quickly done. Some of the quests are lengthy.

[Canadane]

I feel like I'm the only one that thought the HW hildi quests were better than the ARR ones.
Not as great as 1.0 but still great fun.

[Mansion]

I did the ARR part for the Trials it unlocked, and I think it was possibly the worst part of my FFXIV experience, just miles away from what I find entertaining or funny. But I heard that the Yojimbo Fan Fest fight will probably be added in the game through Hildibrand's quests...
I am shivering with terror.

[Sakuraluna]

I haven’t don the quests in a long while so I don’t know exactly how quality has changed, but at the very least the 2.x quests are worth it. I really enjoyed those.