Final Fantasy 14 Worldbuilding Guide

Since otherwise my specific posts will be even longer.

I'm only up to the start of Heavensward so so some of this will probably be wrong! There are some very vague spoilers but I've tried not to spoil anything significant.

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FFXIV: From SB to ShB!

I finished the second Final Fantasy 14 expansion, Stormblood! It is generally considered the weakest of the expansions and yeah...I had some Issues with it.

But now I am done and, with AI companions available for the remaining expansions, I will hopefully never have to do a new dungeon with real people again. Not that the dungeons felt any harder (they did get harder, but my skills have improved to match), or that anyone was mean about my mediocrity, but it's still stress I could deal without.

I've started the next expansion, Shadowbringers, and am really enjoying it! Though it is MUCH HARDER and I needed to play with other people to get through the first dungeon after the AI companions kept letting me die, but that just made me more glad I'd had the chance to practice. And then I decided it would be useful to be able to do one specific crafting thing and fell into the Levelling All Crafting And Gathering Classes spiral. So finishing Shadowbringers might take a while. But I'm having fun!

Anyway. First, a post about Stormblood.

Content notes, for this post and the expansion: rape, war crimes, suicide.
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