We’re going to lose a couple of hours tonight due to maintenance, so it’s time for this week’s reset recap! Assuming you didn’t get completely hammered by the DDoSing over the last couple of days, what are you proud of getting done this week in Eorzea?
Congratulations! Now I know Dawntrail is the current expansion, not Endwalker, but I know there’s people here in the group that haven’t gotten that far yet so I’ll be somewhat vague with this question, but how satisfying was that final fight?
But seriously, well done! The EW patch content is a largely self contained story (I don’t think that counts as a spoiler), and Dawntrail is the beginning of a new story arc, so you can now say you’ve completed the first decade long story arc in FFXIV. It’s the Marvel equivalent of having just watched Endgame after having gone through everything leading up to it 😊
Now, you have a very important question coming up soon. Are you going to play through Dawntrail on Viper or Pictomancer, or stick with what you already know?
I found it quite satisfying! I was curious how that part of the plot was going to play out while the the bit with the other antagonist was wrapping up. I think they did a great job delivering the sense of two combatants pushing themselves to and beyond their limits (I feel like by the time someone is at a point where they know who I’m referring to, they’ll know something like that is going to happen so doesn’t feel like a spoiler). And it was a fun fight besides.
I’m curious to see what they do in Dawntrail. There was definitely a strong sense of them trying to wrap everything up.
I’m not planning on running any of the new jobs through that expansion, no. I’m running PLD and SCH right now and splitting that quest xp. And enjoying both so I’ll stick with that for the time being!
Edit: Decided something I put in might be a bit of a spoiler. Changed to “other antagonist”.
One bit of advice on levelling up with MSQ XP in Dawntrail, my experience this time around was they’ve balanced it for one job more than two jobs. I levelled Scholar and Warrior through Dawntrail, and I think I put virtually all of my MSQ XP into Warrior, but did the dungeons on Scholar. Was also doing my daily roulettes on Scholar as I was going through everything too.
I found using that strategy, I didn’t quite have enough XP on Warrior to always hit the next level in time. If I’d levelled one job only I probably would have hit the cap a little early, but there wasn’t enough XP to get two there like there was in Endwalker.
So if you plan to level both during MSQ, make sure you’re also doing roulettes to supplement your XP.