Slight mistake in your video: the "people" of Living Memory are not living, breathing, and thinking at all. They're nothing more than memories and are not even souls. That's why Living Memory is such an infuriating zone to me. Its very existence is an insult to Endwalker. You're right to say that Wuk Lamat is a shallow character whose growth is artificial and superficial though. She simply had no place in a royal contest and should have supported Koana instead.

Voice performance of Wuk Lamat in german was 1000% better than the english one....

I've never had as much fun in a videogame as much as I did playing a destroyer in Lost Ark, a class that's not even meta (as far as I recall), but what ultimately made me drop the game was how unforgiving raiding was. Not in the sense that mechanics themselves were hard, but the fact that if *one* person failed (or disconnected), the whole group was punished, if not cause an instant wipe. I've had more than my fair share of hostile environments to know when to back out.

Remember: According to Sena Bryer, if you dont like "SMILE", you must be a Racist. /s off, well analyzed, good feedback! Shame CS3 and SE wont see or listen to this...

i love how you pronounced every ffxiv word. good presentation and points. i was listening and my brain didnt shut off after 2 minutes. ty ❤

JP voice cast was great. Time for dubfriends to make the switch.

Kind of disagree around the 70% mark about not being able to go out into the world and just *play* cuz that's how I've levelled all my jobs not maxed by the MSQ for the last 4 expansions. Pick up some hunt bills, turn the queue on, do some fates on the way. I can't spam dungeons over and over to level, my brain would melt. I like to run to zone lines and manually pass through, usually to hear the music of the zone for as long as possible. Make a pit stop and do some tribal quests. Try to teleport as little as possible. Otherwise, great video. I quit wow in shadowlands, and haven't regretted that decision, mostly for reasons you've already stated. (Disrespects it's own lore, every expansion tries to erase the previous ones and reset, etc.) I'm also not a competitive person whose interested in the gear treadmill, I mostly just played wow for the story. But I still try to keep up. Likewise, I don't do Extremes or Savage in XIV, just not my content, and it's likewise for WoW. There was a time in TBC where I did do heroics and raided, I even offtanked Naxx in Wrath. It was kind of fun, but tiring. Not really what I'm looking for anymore. I will agree WoW's combat does feel snappier, and I miss that feeling sometimes (like i sometimes miss ffxiv 1.0 lol), but on the opposite spectrum, especially with the release of Throne and Liberty, I find myself weary from all these MMOs going for ARPG combat. I yearn for a slower more methodical combat system, with much deeper gameplay systems beyond 'gear make number go up,' and have gotten into FFXI in recent years and am obsessed lol. Tho FFXIV is also my main home, i find its Jobs hollow shells in comparison to XIs iterations, and its combat equally as shallow. I've gotten into unreal engine 5 despite not being a programmer in an attempt to recreate the FFXI battle system lol. Though it's difficult, it's really opened my eyes and increased my appreciation of the staggering amount of work that go into games like wow and ffxiv. And thanks for all the work YOU put into this video.

I'm glad I played the German version of Dawntrail. Wuk Lamat's is voiced way better there than in English

I played this game on and off and it has high highs and really low lows. I think the game is great, and im very happy to see so many people enjoying it. But jesus i cant keep going through 100s of hours of story and cutscenes that i truly do not give a shit about in order to play the actual content. I fully understand this is a graphic novel/story single player rpg first and an mmo second and im glad it works for others. But i just cannot bring myself to play it anymore.

Genuinely, the Cornservant questline was the best story in Dawntrail. His kernels put Wuk Lmao to shame.

While i appreciate your opinions, I disagree with almost all of them. Dawntrail is my second favorite expansion after HW. I will freely admit the first half is slow, but needed to build everything for the second half. The second is a masterpiece from beginning to end. Living Memory is my favorite zone in the game by quite a bit. Through the MSQ parts of it, it made me cry a few time and it really hit an emotional point with me that 14 hasn't done since the end of 5.3, my absolute favorite part of the game. Wuk Lamat is my favorite new character in the game. She is so weĺl voiced and acted that I hope we get her as an ongoing party member from here on out. I'd love a story for her of having to travel the world with us to further her role of Dawnservent, while getting to be more of a normal character without having all the DS things be her main story point moving forward. I really can't wait to see where the game goes from here because, IMO, Dawntrail was an incredible foundation for the future of 14.

It is really amusing that a "natosphere citizen" cannot understand "showing the problems with war by waging war". Just like "forcing democracy" seems to not sound ironic to them.

The "Talk to wuk lamat" Quest line

I know a lot of people hated Zero, but at least SHE had character development.

To-many re-used armor, weapon, and Monster skins. DT see the most re-use of resources out of all the expansion. Its like Square phoned this one in.

The vocal performance was absolutely atrocious as a fellow veteran player since 2.0 I know DEI had their claws on this expansion and pray the post patch updates is massively improved. It was hideous This is why since 2.0, i ONLY play with JP Dub, english sub.

Yoshi P skipped DT for ff16

I wonder what 8.0 is going to be like. Maybe something in Meracydia? They’re basically the hermit kingdom of the Source, and for all we know they could’ve been preparing for years to invade the “Allagans”, and with the Garleans out of the way, now’s their chance. Maybe the story could involve uniting the various factions of previously occupied Garlean territories to drive back the Meracydians.

Man that video is so good and yes older zones / content are a waste as soon as a new xpac comes which is a damn shame because there's so many interesting stories, zones to go through. You level up way too fast to even play one campaign from start toi finish. I do think it comes from the fact that wow is an mmo to play at max level even if you have a campaign that is good or bad. As you mentionned they're afraid of comiting to wow story through the game. Not sure how long is a campaign in FF but surely it's not 6-10 hours of story.

17:09 Bruh I was on board with your review until you said you hated Texasland. . . JK. Good review. I think your review is harsh but fair. They dropped the ball with the writing of this MSQ. . . and need to be called out on it IMO.

Sell out

Twitter has made the devs cuckholds to the toxic crowd spreading toxic positivity, and probabaly dont even play the game but spend 24/7 in balmung hubs erping, Yoshi P has said theyvwont try new thibgs or make big changes coz thwy scared of critisism from social media 😂😂😂😂😂 1.0 will happen again one day

woke lamat

I actually liked the expansion. But I also see the flaws. Wuk is great and I love her. I wish they actually built her better. The voice director should have done a better job directing and audio mixing. Sena was doing a great job. In 6.55 she had moments when attacking she would also growl, this had shown a feral side, that I wish we could have seen more. But alas. All songs were amazing except for "smile". They really stepped up their PvE game, giving us some of the most fun dungeons we had. Sphene straight up sucks. I find nothing to like about her. Pacing could had been better. We spend an ungodly amount of time with the f-ing saddle. But then breeze through the more interesting zones. The story did a great job establishing the world building. The problem with that is that world building is boring. They should have put the focus on creating a conection with the characters. SHB was great, not because of the first's world building, but because they made good characters. I hold the opinion that the story would have been 10 times better if Wuk developed a crush on WoL. Trying to impress them at every turn. Even trying to confess her feelings, but getting interrupted every time. It could have aso changed some dynamics with other characters like Goolol Ja Ja and Koana. Goolol giving you "the talk" and testing if you would be capable of looking after his daughter, while Koana would get to be the protective older brother. Even the kidnapping scene would have fuelled into Wuk's juvenile idea of love. The charming hero saving the captured princess. Her arc could have been about growing up, also she could have had interactions with the people that know you and come to the understanding that you cannot stay and it would be selfish of her to hold onto you (mirroring Sphene with her inability to let go) During the last zone story, Sphene should have seen the love Wuk had for you and tried her hardest to stop and attack you or win you on her side. By the end of the story, Wuk is more mature, still has feelings for you, but doesn't act on them. Just hinting that, at the end of your journey, you will have a home there with her, seeing you as family. Also delete the "Smile" song.

It was so bad i never finished the expansion. I think i was little halfway through the main scenario and i just got tired of it. I've played extremely expansion day 1 and loved the last 2 the most. This i felt they gave into the 1%. I really thought this was going to be a swash buckling pirate theme. Nope

Roster lvl gatekeeping killed the game for me, like Korea never cared about Roster level but for some reason here in the west it's "oh you are sub 200 roster? you must be bad"

That Lion King-esque song is played in places it should never be. HOW DID IT EVER GET PAST QUALITY CONTROL?! I enjoyed the expac for what it is, but HOLY SHIT! Even I can't look past some of the glaring problems! Also from what I've surmised: Zoraal Ja = Vergil from Devil May Cry. He is the eldest brother, despises his Father, seeks to outmatch his father in power no matter the cost. Except even Vergil has a better and more fleshed out reason for wanting more power.

I think a detail people forget about Dawntrail is that our story is done we have slain gods and other powerful people and beasts Dawntrail is Wuk Lamats tale it’s her journey to claim her fathers throne she’s one of the 4 promised and she asked us to help her acquire the throne not to have it for ourselves it’s for Wuk Lamat and Koana

what lgbt inserts does to a storyline

Fair, reasonable, and well-researched. I'm still waffling between LOA and TnL as a BDO refugee but you have my sub :)

wait... the final boss is a zeromus reskin? yea im skipping this expac.

from the moment lost ark was announced i knew i would play the f out of it(i had around 1k hours by the end of the year that LA launched :V) and then get bored by the greedy p2w stuff but hey solo raids sound cool tnx for the info

bROTHER you have so good videos, this is like the 6th in a row, <3 good job

Imagine buying an expansion and subscription just to play a giant beast tribe quest that is so shittily written.

WOW, finally, a proper musical analysis of the Dawntrail music, I love it! Earned yourself a subscriber today, mate. From a fellow muso. Edit: After having watched the entire video, I agree with your sentiments that the combat in the new raids is fantastic, and I hope to see more players come on to the raiding scene.

Might grab it over summer holidays if the price comes down. And set the language to Japanese. Thanks for the review mate.

I know this is a bit late comment but in my personal experience Mythic dungeons have been one of the best content I've done in WoW (with the asterisk that I've pugged them), while it's often heroic level LFG or LFR runs that are the super toxic ones where you get players who aren't quite good enough for Mythic dungeons or normal raiding but are super serious about the game (or try to execute higher level tactics without knowing what makes those work) and then blame others when the things go wrong because they in their own mind can never be wrong. Oh and when I've done mythics I've never pretended to be a veteran mythic player and more then once I've said "I'm not confident about my ability here" and several times I've gotten "don't sweat it" as a reply.

good video i loved it

It saddens me to keep seeing these types of reviews, because honestly.. i loved Dawntrail. I would rate it as the best expansion yet, and i really enjoyed my time with Wuk Lamat, who is now my favourite character. Sorry Alisaie. I am not saying its perfect though... And i am disappointed the friendly rivalry between the scions was so short lived... Few other spots i think were lacking... But overall, it was a fun expansion.

The wooden train bomb scene, I will say nothing more..

SPEAK WITH WUK LAMAT

Honestly I'm sorry but every day ff14 dies a thousand little deaths for me. Its clunky, boring, the combat is bad, the msq is endless weeb word vomit and forced pseudo-poignant moments that come off as melodramatic, and I hate all the characters for hte most part. The only thing keeping me there is I love gposing with mods as a form of creative release, to tell stories (not one off shots of "my catgirl looking hot posing like a vogue model", and I play a hyur midlander male as God intended, of course), and its true the social scene is stronger, and has more tools to work with (like player housing at least EXISTING in ff14, unlike wow), but when you realize how degenerate, toxic, passive aggressive, and mentally ill the playerbase is (vs wow's mental illness, which is mostly in the realm of 'you pulled a trash pack wrong kys' type of thing), that social scene suddenly starts to wear thin. I wish WoW had graphics and more BREADTH of activities like housing etc and gposing so on so forth, because the game ITSELF is just so much better and more fun. I wouldn't play though if it committed to ff14 style word vomit that's *forced* on you from start to finish no matter your end game goals. I actually used to like wow lore a lot before it started going to shit, but I loved that it wasn't FORCED on me over and overl ike ff14 does with its mid weeb filler. The reason the old expansions feel obsolete is becasue they ARE, except that wow doesn't try to force them on you like ff14 does: it respects your time a little more (in that regard, at least). FF14's expansions server 0 point except for gposing, once a new expansio ncomes out. I never go to any zone outside of DT except for lominsa or something, unless its to gpose, because they have nothing of any value to offer. Sure you can do old dungeons but they're mid at best, and you get locked out of so many of your abilities that you can be lvl 100 and yet rarely get to use your lvl 100 powers! or even your lvl 90+ abilities! Your point about renown etc is real though: wow deifnitely needs to work on being more alt friendly, because ff14's job system is honestly so much better in that regard. But levleing actual alt characters in ff14 is even worse than wow's system, and the fact that you can change jobs so easily doesn't change that you now have to grind up the jobs and do stupid job quests to unlock core abilities (and its always just more "teleport to an npc and talk to them, repeat"), and the fact that the jobs themselves are so 1 dimensional and shallow and play so similarly to each other, with no variation, and that awful combo system of button bloat. You have more options for easily switching around, but less reason to even bother.

I'm sorry but wuk lamat was tediuos and annoying. We never engage with her. She just yaps at us and we /yes emote and run off to do it. We're bystanders and she never really get s challenged r grows, nor does she satnd for anything: her entire journey is to stop zarul, stop sphene, and the only goal she has is naive shit like "make my people smile again" or the kind of thing miss america pageants say. nothing about her ever drops the naivete, and all of her poignant moents exclude us. its jsut he and her dad, her and zoraal, her and sphene, etc. The tired, stale recipie of ff14 really highlights this because the entire thing is a boring visual novel of weebshit word vomit, where some decent world building is buried under a mountain of filler, text for the sake of text, where nothing is poignant because nothing is concise. Players just skip through key moents because they've been asked to pay attention to too much thatt is irrelevant and boring. I went 2 levels in dawntrail (the first time, on main) and fought one(1) enemy. I am here to play a video game, not read a book. ESO and even WoW do it better in terms of having the player engaged and playing their class and feeling like an adventuring hero, and TOR does the story driven narrative way better by putting your class quests at a better pace, mixed in with lots of combat and other quests, and with companions you actually have influence over, and a story where at least some or your choices give the illusion of different outcomes. At the end of hte day lets face it: ff14 is boring, clunky, archaic, and only looks good when compared to wow and other mmo's biggest stumbles and outright failures (like even the garbage housing system in ff14 looks great versus literally nothing at all, which wow has). A glorified Second Life, gpose studio (The reason I play) and place to have text based seks with another dude playing a catgirl (see the part about it being Second Life)

I prefer more community of FFXIV compared to WoW(i played for 19 years in WoW) FOr WoW the game has become....no soul since Mythic+(legion is just a speedrunning is perfect) but ruining with BFA and today.........

i put 3000 hours in 1 year while working 5 days a week and quit at brelshaza. they just held the characters too long for me and content is too hard. the game needs a built in deadly boss mods add on that explains what to do. the game requires wayy to many guides in order to play outside of the game. even end game guardian raids need guides. just silly. love the game tho and afraid it might shut down in NA

ONLY 500 HOURS???????????????????? I HAVE 317++ DAYS IN WOW

Let's be clear. The BGM in Come on Eileen is nothing more than sad, live, 70's Holiday Inn slop. It is horrible.

One thing about glamour is that while a lot of pieces look great, the actual "system" is garbage. I first started saving everything I could only to realize later I didn't have the space for half of it, and to top it off if you want ANY alts for any reason you have to hunt for those pieces again. I love the game but this list does a great job summarizing my issues with it.

SE should pay us to play this trash expansion.

Love the thumbnail with the bare midriffs