We Played Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker And It’s Awesome

In a demo session, I had the accidental to play a tiny portion of Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion, which arrives connected November 23. Obviously, demo sessions for MMORPGs and a assortment of different genres are analyzable beasts, but I did person plentifulness of clip to get immoderate bully hands-on with the caller jobs and research a dungeon, The Tower of Zot. As anyone who has played Shadowbringers astir apt already expects, Endwalker is shaping up to beryllium arsenic awesome arsenic its predecessors successful the enlargement realm.

The bulk of my clip was spent playing a caller melee DPS class, the Reaper. This people ebbs Bloodborne aesthetic, truthful that beauteous overmuch sealed the woody for me. However, the Reaper doesn’t conscionable look chill – based connected the demo session, it should beryllium a reasonably challenging and dynamic harm people for those looking to enactment connected their toes during each phases and styles of combat. With a ton of assorted contextual abilities to gully from and respective antithetic assets meters, the Reaper presents savvy damage-dealers with tons of possibilities to grip immoderate situation. While astir players are acquainted with the conception of filling up a assets reservoir to unleash almighty skills, the Reaper indispensable juggle several. 

Granted, it’s perfectly imaginable to play Reaper without mastering the timing of the multitude of skills and bask it too, but hey, if you privation to min/max your potential, immoderate grooming is needed. That said, I was acold much comfy aft a fewer hours of play than I was staring astatine stacked skillbars erstwhile I picked up the character, truthful I bash deliberation it’s going to beryllium doable (and fun!) for the immense bulk of players. Turning into the existent Reaper aft charging up and unleashing monolithic harm feels great. As is the lawsuit with each melee combatants, you request a mode to get retired of the enactment conscionable arsenic accelerated arsenic you get in. Luckily, the Reaper has a chill small teleport portal you tin acceptable up, allowing you to get successful oregon retired of the heavy of things arsenic the brushwood dictates. In summary, I americium playing a Reaper successful Endwalker, and it’s not close.

I didn’t walk overmuch clip connected the Sage because, well, I don’t play healer, ever, but I’ll accidental this – the ocular individuality of the 2 caller classes present is top-notch. Who is going to privation to beryllium a achromatic mage aft you person electro doc Sage available? That’s a bully question. Sage exudes coolness with its kit, and honestly, I astir thought astir playing a healer. Okay, not really.

While I got to roam astir a fewer levels, quests weren’t truly disposable successful the zones, and the Fates (public quests) that I completed were reasonably modular – I won’t spoil the surprises there, either. However, we did get to walk immoderate prime clip successful the Tower of Zot, 1 of Endwalker’s caller dungeons. I played the dungeon some with different players and with a Trust (NPCs that are disposable to bash radical dungeon contented that debuted successful Shadowbringers). Immediately upon entry, you get deed with that legendary way from Final Fantasy IV. As idiosyncratic that places Final Fantasy IV precise high, if not the top, of the FF pyramid, that’s truly each I needed.

The magnitude of “trash” (regular enemies) successful the dungeon seemed astir right, and the brag fights besides felt coagulated for entry-tier enlargement content. Yes, we had to dodge a batch of things connected the ground. Yes, we had immoderate contextual question situations. And yes, the Magus Sisters are the bosses wrong the Tower, culminating successful an epic conflict wherever you combat each 3 astatine the aforesaid time, and they unleash the Delta Attack. That peculiar brushwood tin beryllium reasonably stressful until you get the archetypal Sister down, arsenic the Delta Attack requires dodging galore attacks successful succession. It’s not a proceedings oregon raid oregon anything, but it decidedly perked my involvement levels successful what lays beyond.

Obviously, a mates of hours with an MMORPG is simply a driblet successful the bucket. But everything I saw successful Endwalker speaks to the greater crippled and its continued way of progression, wherever they’ve upped the prime of the rubric with each expansion. With Endwalker representing the expansive finale of the existent communicative arc, I expect a lot. And everything I’ve seen truthful acold thinks that we’ll get it. See you successful November!