FFXIV History: Heavensward Era

[@Larryzaur]

It was fun going back through some old videos to find the footage for this 😭 Check out World Flipper ► bit.ly/3jHJFPl Footage Credits: 【M O N K E Y B U S I N E S S】by Very Merri ► kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYvcqoKKqNpqkJI FFXIV 2015 Rising Event by StardustCarbunkle ► kzbin.info/www/bejne/f521iaiKbqZngqc

[@Darc1972]

I miss being able to put Venomous Bite on my Physical DPS/TANKs. (I don't know if it did much but it was cool as heck)

[@dafire9634]

Larry,what chestpiece is that at 6:14?

[@SilenceAndViolence_]

@@dafire9634 Midan coat of Casting! :D

[@dafire9634]

@@SilenceAndViolence_ from alexanders raid?

[@SilenceAndViolence_]

@@dafire9634 ​Yep! Prototype version can be exchanged for 4 Midan shafts in Idyllshire (Sabina is the npc), and the Midan version (same but dyable) drops in savage. Both from Brute Justice, aka Burden of the Son :)

[@Curious963]

I still see other people talk about Shadow Flare with tears in their eyes, jealous of their Squadron Arcanists with the skill still active for them.

[@AlistairArsene]

Whenever I do Hades EX and the party manages to kill Ascian Prime before he can cast Shadow Flare, I feel a sense of spiteful glee. “If I can’t have it, NO ONE CAN.”

[@Leandra001]

@@AlistairArsene glad I ain't the only one feels that way.

[@Tobeh]

I cri ever tim

[@jude_210]

I can't tell you how much I miss pre-stormblood scholar. It's not even the same job anymore

[@Leandra001]

@@jude_210 i miss the REAL Selene. She was my besti!

[@OracleGrouse]

I remember being in a queue for a really long time and raging when a party member summoned their chocobo cuz it kicked us out of the queue

[@dazzlemasseur]

Omg that's nuts

[@Leandra001]

Oh gods. I forgot that. That was frikken annoying, only because I was dat guy rofl.

[@amuro9624]

Oof Also the timer wouldn't be shown on the ui and it would still go down when you're mounted or in a city. That made it so that you'd have to really think before you summon it.

[@aemeneol8569]

You've unlocked the memory of the poledance DRG AoE and now I sorely miss it.

[@Amariyali]

The EW Benchmark makes me hope since it looks like we get at least smth like the poledance back 😭 (I wasn't around when it was part of the game and I still smhw miss it)

[@AeonzAgaze]

That and the cool bard backflip aoe. I miss spamming that lol

[@NaegeruGaming]

I think if you do the level 50 dragoon fight in new game +, Estinien still does it during the fight

[@astralaris8712]

"there is so much more i could talk about" PLEASE DO, i could listen to it for hours on end...

[@NeoKyno]

Proto Ultima appearance is tied to its quest in Idylshire. As long as one out of the 24 persons has the Proto Ultima quest ongoing, it will show up. However, if nobody does, the succubus will spawn.

[@IosLocarth]

Is this still the case? That's super whack

[@Yoran507]

@@IosLocarth The quest is "Unidentified Flying Object". To complete it, you need to kill Proto Ultima, which is why it will replace the Shadowcourt Handmaiden if at least 1 player in the raid has the quest. If 0 out of 24 players have this quest, the Shadowcourt Handmaiden will still appear instead.

[@IosLocarth]

@@Yoran507 I'm actually familiar with which quest activates it but I didn't realize that you could still have the other thing proc now because I've never seen it

[@MephistoGaming-zx3qh]

My first run of Dun Scathe had the succubus boss actually, though I knew about ProtoUltima at the time xD

[@exiaedges]

Wow, I didn't know that. That's one of the few or only cases in which possessing a quest or item affects the instance itself. Also, the Proto Ultima items that you can get are pretty nice. My personal favorite is the earrings in which I used as glamour for the earrings slot until Aetheryte Earrings was introduced.

[@jesusg1998]

PLEASE keep making this type of videos, i'd love to heard all of the old stuff back in the day.

[@sniderealism2410]

His "basically" video series is a good way to look back on how most jobs were in the past.

[@craigwheeler4760]

I began playing in December 2017... and I will tell you that Blood Bath for Tanks, the Tank and fighting stances, ect. lots of those things were still active. My favorite recovery combo as a blackmage was taken from me by the updates. when I was down on HP, what I could do was caste a spell that healed me by 1/2 the damage caused . It was fast cast time, and I combo'ed it with a skill called "Scathe" to do damage as I moved. When shadow bringers came out, I had to totally give up on hard content with the Blackmage and switch over to main tanking and Red mage due to the loss of his recovery combo. And TP stands for "tactical points' It was linked to some skills for Warriors back in the day. I used to run out of it, and be stuck defending while standing around for a couple of seconds. It regenerated way faster than MP though, so it was not a big deal until you got to savage.

[@ellchenelle1682]

you didn't have to brink Draks fast monk ptsd back------ I still remember all the videos where seabass would give him that card

[@Destoryer12]

When Larry started to talk about it, I was legit waiting for a small exasperated Drak to appear on screen XD

[@LiffehXIV]

As someone who started playing at the beginning of Shadowbringers, I have a ton of friends who tell me the same stories of from before I played and it just makes me wish I got into XIV much sooner. Such a cool vid Larry, make more of these :^)

[@dazzlemasseur]

Can't wait for people who only join during EndWalker to ask about stories of the shadowbringers era.

[@jackjohnson8305]

No you don't trust me, people cry about losing skills all the time but the QOL changes and updates that we got throughout the years make me don't want to go back.

[@john_7000]

Ff14 was a exploiting mess back then, I am really glad I joined now, cuz if I joined back then I wouldn't enjoy it seeing larry talk how ppl exploit content or troll others like black mage having provoke or astro ruining ppl's fun by making ppl go faster, it not fun to me and it ruin the game, glad the devs balanced the game and streamlined everything to make it an actual functional mmo that anyone can enjoy and anyone can play normally, man imagine if we don't have tank stance like we do now, and everyone can get provoke oh boii I don't want to think about those trolls who will troll others just because they are bored 🤦🤦

[@XMegaJuni]

When I hear larrys’ voice it takes me back to when I got into ff14 back in high school. Hehe

[@WorldGoods]

God damn that makes me feel old

[@CeruleanRogue]

Another thing I remember was Fate Grinding. It was inefficient for anything other than healer to level via dungeons. So once you got to thirty you went to Costa, then to Coerthas, then basically lived in North Than doing fates. The zone used to be almost as populated as the end game hub because EVERYONE went there for their alt jobs and you'd have dedicated callers and parties in shout chat telling people which route to take to which fates. It actually was pretty fun for the first five hours. Then it just got soul crushing. Only better alternative was the long pull in DD over and over again until your eyes bled. I still twitch when I get that dungeon these days.

[@RandomFlask175]

Before they buffed dungeon exp and introduced PotD later this was true for HW zones too, I remember grinding in churning mists for hours

[@CeruleanRogue]

@@RandomFlask175 Oh god I remember that... And it was almost worse than Northern Than because you could only access one side of the zone.

[@Krescentwolf]

@@CeruleanRogue ON the original release of 2.0, the MSQ didn't have enough xp awards to get your character to 50 at the time. N. Thanalan FATE trains were basically the only way to grind levels at that point. XD

[@Legofps123]

"DD IS UP" (Dark devices fate)

[@KogashiwaKai]

Cortheas fates were always fun for me...

[@HarleyMaebry]

Fun fact about Ring of Thorns: there are a couple FATE’s in Western Coerthas Highlands that feature a Dragoon who still does the pole dance.

[@ToxisFaux]

Ah yeah Aliambert of the spiked butt. Hilarious fate

[@KogashiwaKai]

Also you see a lancer use it in an early gunbreaker instance....i got salty

[@SorasShadow1]

The DRGs in Heroes' Gauntlet will do it too, full Shocked Pikachu mode when I first saw it. There's no way they don't know how badly people want it back so it kind of felt like a taunt or a tease or something on their part, but thankfully it looks like EW will have a similar looking ability, maybe. Guess we'll find out in 60 days....

[@tdmc6428]

@@SorasShadow1 you can watch the live letter and see…. Something in the dragoon part

[@SorasShadow1]

@@tdmc6428 i said something that effect lmao, "thankfully it looks like EW will have a similar looking ability" We don't know based just on the trailer if it's going to be a no-target aoe that you can use in cities though.

[@Albatross0913]

Finally, a history class that doesn't put me in crippling dept

[@dazzlemasseur]

I legit want him as a teacher.

[@callbackspanner]

2:40 That's Wide Volley. RoD we still have, same as it ever was.

[@Larryzaur]

YES indeed it is! I'm dumb please forgive me

[@williek08472]

Hi from 2024! We got Wide Volley back

[@TacetCat]

RIP Shadow Flare and interesting AST cards. I remember the new cards by "the bad ones go to ranged; the good ones go to melee." One of my favorite moments is saving a wipe against Midgardsormr as AST with three new people. Without Ewer's refresh, I wouldn't have had enough MP to get everyone up.

[@fishythom5910]

I forgot about the hanging guy! That’s so funny, I love little things like that

[@duskblade1119]

And then they had another hanging guy in the Firmament.

[@sorawild33]

Additional point with old tank stances, in Stormblood WAR im particular was able to do so much damage in their DPS stance that they were able to dance between both stances. Tank stance for aggro, then switch to DPS stance for Fell Cleave spam and watch the WAR soar past everyone else on the DPS chart.

[@Seedmember]

Wow, that Rising event with the Squenix HQ visit sounds awesome. I hope they repeat something like that again sometime. I missed last year's event, but I was in the one with the letters arriving in bottles on the beach, and it was very touching reading the devs' messages to the players.

[@Boyzby]

If I heard correctly, they're adding the ability to replay old events during whatever the current one is, I imagine like New Game+, so hopefully they do it for that Rising because it's also my favorite.

[@jamsrjp]

We also had a rising event where we were teleported into a doom like maze. And you played it in first person.

[@TruthBeyondTheTruth]

As a ninja player I remember being I charge of aggro management with shadewalker on the tank and smokescreen on whichever dps was getting too much aggro

[@FireFr0ggy]

I love being NIN. I used to join PF Savage and the tank would say "ILY NIN". Now I'm...I'm NORMAL like the rest of the DPS. D: T-T

[@callbackspanner]

Or shadewalker on the BRD for fights like Final Omega so the PLD could cover them for the first tankbuster mechanic.

[@Blutwind]

or reversing it to screw with your party (if you did that on random pf you were evil)

[@sayi50]

I miss oGCD mudras. Having mudras GCD made NIN feel a lot slower. I miss getting the speed card and popping Goad to keep TP up while becoming speed.

[@writer_man5318]

I remember having Kiss of the Viper and Kiss of the Wasp

[@howezter6427]

As someone who has recently started playing FFXIV it's really interesting to learn all the past stuff and see how much the game has changed

[@heulg.darian2536]

Garuda damnit give me my shadowflare back. Garuda: Haha slipstream go brrrr

[@fridtjofjohanolderheim6213]

I love these so much! Super glad we got another episode

[@casualnerdjason6678]

Didn't know that Diadem existed before the Ishgardian Restoration! Great video, thanks for your work!

[@Feast_]

Fun fact: we are in the third iteration of Diadem. The second iteration had the Emergency Mission raid mentioned in the video, and if I remember right it added a queue for Disciples of Land Now it's just strictly DoL and very different from what it was before

[@casualnerdjason6678]

@@Feast_ That makes total sense. Thanks for that info!

[@ibacka8800]

@@Feast_ Still won't stop us DoL from throwing ourselves at the mobs and immediately dying

[@Feast_]

@@ibacka8800 ah yes, throwing DoL at a tree in diadem This is the modern Lv1 Hogger raid

[@callbackspanner]

I miss DIadem 2.0. Darksteel Island was the best. And I weep for new FCs who need to build their airship+sub fleets from scratch without it. The sub construction costs were balanced around having unlimited darksteel access, and they've never given back a substitute after deleting Diadem as a source.

[@krisnwo420]

Don't forget about the glitch where you stayed in the /sit animation and scooted around the world. Or the glitch where your hands would stay up, like in that one Rourou video from way back in the day.

[@Dehn396]

I have to thank Seebass for educating people on how to play Heavensward Astro right

[@kerrycherry3713]

if only he can help educate people on hwo to play SHB ast xD

[@Boyzby]

Oh god... That run to Brayflox Yard's first boss is so ingrained in my brain, I could probably do it blindfolded. I'd rather not relive those times though.

[@SuperHexer123]

Ah yes the feeling of refusing to let go of a skill. Back when MCH had its 2 turrets I named both of them, and when ShB took out my boy bibbles I REFUSED to takehim off my bar. Even made a farewell gpose capture with him before ShB released and we learned bishop was being removed. Please give me my son back square I miss him....

[@waxocelot9395]

If he's bibbles what did you name the rook

[@SuperHexer123]

@@waxocelot9395 I named rook Ron, so I had Ron and Bibbles

[@waxocelot9395]

@@SuperHexer123 What about the Automaton Queen

[@rlagay]

@@waxocelot9395 Gunnhildr, obviously.

[@indubitanter4490]

I miss my aoe bishop, please let me summon something equivalent to it bc automaton queen isn’t till 80 :’(

[@MsDevilKitty]

Man I miss alot of these old things. I remember for Dun Scaith I played day 1 and saw the succubus and thought "oh cool!" then i took a break and came back to this proto ultima guy and was like "Who is this imposter"

[@kimbaker7045]

as someone who only started playing XIV last year, I really appreciate seeing all the differences and changes to things over the years. thank you very much for making these kinds of videos, I love them a lot. :)

[@AnriadosGamer]

Oh man, you've unlocked memories. Idyllshire building stages, the old cross class system. I think I also still have some old diadem entry passes somewhere on a retainer. Thanks for the nostalgia Larry.

[@MarkermusPrime]

There's not a day I don't miss bloodbath for my warrior... my healer friends loved hanging out with me because they never had to worry while doing DPS. They day it disappeared I died in a dungeon and they asked what happened, we all grieved that day.

[@TheRPGeeks]

I eagerly await part 3 talking about Raubahn EX

[@Leandra001]

Yeah awaiting that Tale. I was there! Horror. Sadly we may have Unreal in EW if they dont get the servers under control.

[@TheAssirra]

As someone that didn't play Stormblood till recently (took a 4 year break) and i kept hearing about it i was thinking of some epic showdown trial with the general himself. Imagine my face when i found out what it actually was...

[@soul1356]

@@TheAssirra it was a terror for us early access players for the first few days.

[@TheAssirra]

@@soul1356 oh i can imagine. Had a similar experience in wow during some events.

[@cetonis2767]

Looking forward to the preemptive history video about things that were deleted in Endwalker

[@Zaki_Arx]

big numbers... and belts... XD

[@johngrace1312]

So fun fact, me and a couple of FC mates were talking about old DRG, and one of them tried to look up Ring of Thorns, and no web page existed for it, so we thought that we had collectively dreamt it up for a bit

[@Holymagimian]

RIP protect i will always miss you, the struggle when some one in the party die and you have to cast protect.

[@toastedpoptarts7815]

Really liked that you included old footage too! I wish I could explore old mor dhona and idyllshire. T_T It was nice being able to watch and participate in the Enclave and Firmament growing. Can't wait for your next one! :D Especially to show my friends who are just joining.

[@stickytim64]

Gosh the heavensward memories. Honestly it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, but boy learning how to get the triple fellcleave rotation down was a fun time.

[@Anon1496]

It's really fun to hear about all the old things in the game. Merri talked about his 1.0 days on stream before and it's like listening to your dad go "Back in my day" Now to wait for Larry to talk about Stormblood so i can relate and go "I WAS THERE"

[@Lilly_Belle]

God, I love these history videos. I haven't run Dun Scaith since Heavensward, so I had no idea the handmaiden was replaced. I'm gonna have to go take a look at that.

[@Toksyuryel]

The handmaiden is still there, you just almost never fight it because someone in the group probably has the proto-ultima quest.

[@coconosuga5351]

I hope the wait time for Dun Scaith today is instant purely bcos of Larry's video 🥳

[@LensMusicBox]

I remember as a poor kid reading my brothers gaming magazine they borrowed from their friends. I would read and reread the Final Fantasy XIV sections wishing I could play. I wanted to go on adventures with friends, go through the story, and just get lost in the world of FFXIV. 20 years later, I became a tried working adult that had forgotten my childhood wish. Until a funny video about FFXIV This is Basicly a Blackmage popped up in my KZbin feed. Long story short I got me a gaming PC, researched FFXIV and what happened to the mmo, fell in love all over again. Now I'm a tired but happy working adult who wishes to thank you for helping me rediscover this beautiful game. Thank you Larry, I'm eternally grateful.

[@LensMusicBox]

P.s In honor of the youtube video that lead me to the game again the class I started with is Blackmage! I'm p good with Blm too!

[@NikMitchell]

wow, man - I really appreciate the throwback. From this Legacy player to you - it made me so happy to see someone capturing the moments that marked my experience with HW that we can't experience any longer. Thank you Dino farm in Diadem! All those moments... will be lost... like tears... in rain... BUT THANKS TO YOU, WE CAN JUST REWATCH THE VIDEO. Thank you so much.

[@Verpal]

From now on we mustn't let anyone refer to Larryzaur without the title "Professor".

[@SmallerGaia]

No one seems to remember the Warrior stun of Brutal Swing.. It was my favourite and felt SO powerful! RIP My Brutal Swing :(

[@yourjunes]

Watching this I was expecting to miss the game I never got to experience, instead I'm just really impressed with how much they've improved these old zones and old content for new players. I don't feel like I missed out,

[@J-Dizzle95]

I love these videos. A lot of people go into the history of FFXIV but they are always talking about the behind the scenes stuff. The development, what was happening at Square Enix, and all that. That stuff is cool, but this is what I would MUCH rather hear about!!! What the game was actually LIKE or the players enjoying it at the time. Thank you!! This makes me feel like I have a tiny little slice of the past to take with me even thought I missed these points in the game’s life. :)

[@skoreanghost]

As a 2.0 player it's always funny going down memory lane especially with you explaining this stuff for all the players who never experienced this stuff.

[@Asako_Gaming]

DPS Tank was best Tank. It's just not the same anymore. He also forgot the Raw Intuition oversight where you always take Crits from side and rear...but this applied to heals too, so a SCH would have guaranteed crit Adlos for it's entire duration. Totally working as intended.

[@InchonDM]

When you brought it up, I could just hear in my head, from the DrakGamestein video where you guested on Omega EX, the most anguished "MY SHADOW FLARE!"

[@SuhImb]

“Still miss Shadow Flare” - all Scholar mains from pre-SHB

[@Ravenride13]

This video brought back so many memories ;-; Ive played since 2.0 and I was smiling the entire way through this. Thank you

[@wither5673]

i just finished heavensward and the damn thing made me cry 2 TIMES!!! i never cry from movies or video games except e few very specific ones, but damn.....

[@redcrystal7710]

I got friends in my FC that would tell me stories about how the game was back then and I was amazed with how much as changed since then. One of them really wants that DRG skill back in some form XD

[@c_huvaknunh9138]

LARRY! how could you forget that Paladins could cast protect and stoneskin too? Oh and WHM had Stoneskin 2 and Aero 3, god those were the good old days.

[@HyouVizer]

I miss Aero 3 lol

[@cabellism]

Love these videos. As someone who started in ARR beta3.... been here for each and every change. Time flies when you have fun.

[@manacharge]

The fun thing about Proto Ultima in Dun Scaith is that it only appears if at least one person in the entire raid has the repeatable quest from idyllshire. It's entirely possible to queue into Dun Scaith where nobody has the quest and you fight the original boss!

[@Jambara]

fun fact Squadrons still use shadow flare and it does a ton of dmg, I rock 2 arcanist dps and AOE pull, they melt the mobs, pretty fast way to level up low level jobs.

[@KZorander]

Arcanists are also the best when you're trying to learn a new healer via squadron runs. I'm over here, fresh level 30 AST playing 52 card pickup and my Arcanists are like "I gotchu"

[@Narutosonicrule1245]

Larry, Larry no, I still have Rain of Death as a Bard, that's the one with the red arrows from the sky, that fancy backflip one is Wide Volley. I still miss it, along with ring of fire and foe's.

[@naoremonth]

Stuff like this - whether from a video like this or from friends who played FFXIV earlier than I did - really makes me wish I got into FFXIV earlier, back in HW or ARR (or even 1.0) so I'd have that kind of history with the game. ...Of course, I don't know if I'd actually have kept with the game if I'd started it back then, but it's really interesting to hear everyone's memories of how things were, for better or for worse.

[@LordMoneillon]

So fun to watch this as a Heavensward player, I remembered so much things that I had forgotten ! Thanks for this video man

[@pluviasalutor1290]

I've been playing since like 2013 and I'm amazed at how much stuff I forgot use to be in this game. So from one vet to another I really appreciate these videos, Larry. Edit: RIP Ring of Thorns, I miss you.

[@aowen3767]

I've only been playing for about a year and its really interesting, Ive been wanting something like this since seeing fire materia on the market board.

[@writer_man5318]

Wait, someone is selling fucking elemental materia on the market board?

[@aileenswann]

@@writer_man5318 You can still use it to exchange for some of the items on the HW relic iirc :P

[@Shadowdra]

some other things that could be talked about: Ninja: Armor Crush wasn't a thing. Poison Stances changing abilities. The fact that shuriken was better than Raiton due to clipping and poison buffs. Paladin: Tank stace was lvl 45. GL keeping aggro in dungeons. Sch/Smn: Being able to spread DoTs. Machinist: Overheat effectively silenced your abilities for 10 seconds afterwards. ST turret and AOE Turret. Misc: CC Skills did damage so they were part of the rotation. Too bad if you used it early for dps and a mechanic needed it. Strength Materia on tanks for damage, Vit Materia on DPS to survive raid wides. Elemental Resistance Materia existed. Chocobos taking up party slots. Also the fact that party finder wouldn't show that and would just error out if a party of 4 with 4 chocobos was still in PF and you tried to join. Odin fate would increase above lvl cap for every kill. Raid gear coffers didn't exist. Raw Gear instead. You couldn't tell how many people already cleared a raid tier when you queued in. The surprised look on your face when only 1 chest dropped and you thought you were getting 2. you couldn't enforce already cleared condition in PF. Fate Grinding for leveling was faster than dungeons.

[@djmanat1775]

In Amdapor Keep the devs had to add that barrier before the first boss because people would just sac pull to save time. Demon Wall used to have adds, and they were ROUGH. The general strat was to use the melee limit break on the one on the left (LB left bee). Those two adds are in Amdapor Keep HM as a tribute. Pharos Sirius had to be nerfed because it was so hard that people would bail when they got it in their roulette. They took out about 1/3 of the adds in the dungeon so it was more manageable. For a while Labyrinth of the Ancients had a bug where the last boss (who had a different name) would spam Ancient Flare even after everyone had wiped, so the entire raid had to bail until the instance got reset. Also, during the Behemoth fight there would have to be one tank on each tower, pressing the button as soon as the floor glowed red. LotA used to have the standard 4 dps/2 tanks/2 healers setup; Syrcus Tower was the first time we ever had the 5/1/2 setup we all know and love today. The Binding Coils of Bahamut isn't in the Normal Raids roulette because at level it was REALLY FREAKING HARD, about on-par with the Savage content of today.

[@oTheDucky89o]

Hey I like this historical content so much. Can't wait to see stormblood and shadowbringer as well

[@FaytKion]

I still have hot bar graveyards to this day. I will never let them go. Also, for idyllshire, the cool kids spot was on top of the stone in the middle of the courtyard. Only accomplished ninjas and lucky mount riders could get access to it. Master ninjas could climb the building with the pipe behind the aetheryte.

[@deanoconnor123]

Ugh I'd love to see a healer that basically takes Nascent Flash and uses that as their whole niche. Imagine a DPS based healer that can cast a party wide-regen that stays up as long as they do damage

[@Cassapphic]

Sage is kinda this

[@Wiles731]

Can confirm as a WAR main, I miss my bloodbath. That plus steel cyclone made giant pulls trivial.

[@squidlump]

Hopefully Nascent flash + chaotic cyclone feels just as good

[@Wiles731]

@@squidlump nascent flash doesn't last NEARLY as long as bloodbath did. I can only get 3 GCDs off in it.

[@squidlump]

@@Wiles731 yeah but those can be some pretty darn good juicy gcds

[@ponderingForever]

3:06 Glad I'm not the only one keeping old skills around on my hotbar... Memories!

[@tj_chaosangel1905]

Man, I miss HW sometimes. Miss the skills that were deleted, seeing Idylshire being built as patches were done (not to mention hanging guy lol), old Diadem (even tho I didn't do that raid in it), and doing the Void Ark raids, which are my favs still to this day. It was also the expansion that brought in the Au Ra, which I've changed to as soon as the Early Access hit, and have been since! Lots of great memories of good times in HW!

[@CanisSkye]

Please make more of these. I started playing the game last year and seeing these is kinda neat and cool. Love the changes and stuff.

[@Aregulargameplayer]

Honestly, I could watch an entire video series on how much each class changed during each expansion and each patch.

[@TheFurrLord]

Machinist was built around being a gunmage and actually played pretty well [after they fixed a ton of the wonkiness that initially came with it]. Though one of the wonky things was that Rapid Fire allowed you to instant cast ANYTHING with a cast bar. Instant cast mount! Instant cast LB! Instant Cast Return/Teleport!. Though another reason why some people enjoyed being gunmage/bowmage was that it was a method to allow us to do higher personal DPS because it removed the "mobility tax" from the job. It actually created the DRG/BRD/MCH/NIN meta at the time too. Then when they said that they were getting rid of castbars and the jobs would become mobile again some of us tried to warn people our personal dps was gonna go down a lot because of it people thought "nah, why would they do that?" and lo and behold that's exactly what happened.

[@akkiko]

7:00 I was leveling an rp alt and all my glamours looked exactly the same. I forgot which class I was levelling and I got into a Gubal for df roulette. The entire party started talking about how the healer wouldn't cast protect. We literally sat at the entrance for 10 minutes chatting with the tank joking the healer was mesmerized by his muscles before I finally looked at my freaken actions and screamed because I was on whm, not sam. thankfully they were good sports about it after I explained lmao

[@successfuladagio539]

Please keep making these. I started around HW then had to stop for reasons. Got back in at the beginning of ShB. It's neat seeing what I missed in that gap.

[@teo7503]

i could listen to larry talking about the old ffxiv for hours

[@humblebird]

Do more of these please, I love these. I wasnt fortunate enough to play this game prior to stormblood and even then I couldnt get into it at the time cause I had no one to play with, so this is an awesome peak into the past for me

[@Nico-lw7ly]

Oh man so many memories came flooding back. 2015-2017 Heavensward was such a magical time to be playing FF14

[@Rakuraiji]

Boy I feel old remembering pretty much everything you talked about.

[@timalice-2833]

Is miss dark knight’s power slash. The overhead slash that ended with an energy blast from the left hand. It was just part of the aggro combo. It made me think of Guts’s cannon arm. Also, warrior’s tank stance used to not reduce damage taken, it increased hp by 25% and healing received by 5% (I think). That combined with thrill of battle brought about obscene hp pools for the time

[@Songfulfire]

Another pretty fun video. I really enjoy listening about the history of the game and seems you enjoy being able to share it. Good stuff 😃

[@inspirations365]

Thank you for the trip down memory lane! I remember the outcry about the Diadem gear. Heavensward is also where Savage started, and decimated Jenova’s raid teams.

[@Squishy3]

still stand by machinist having cast times was fine because the class was designed around it since ammo and procs eliminated them and rapidfire also did, just made no sense to have it on bard too

[@Ashtari]

Agreed. That was my biggest beef with bow mage. It was NOT built for cast bars. In fact you spent over 50 levels learning to play one way, then all of a sudden they rip the rug out from under you and tell you to learn how to play an entirely different way.

[@Joe-it2dh]

This is so great, thank you. Please continue this series.

[@rg1medion]

Anyone remember waiting hours and hours for the required fates(at the time) to spawn for Crystal Tower and Hildebrand side quests?

[@kaihedgie1747]

I definitely remember the FATEs for Crystal Tower. That was why I initially dropped the unlock for it, seemed a bit daunting to me as a newcomer

[@KatotsuSama]

I remember being a part of a group that was watching for those FATEs so that a pair of streamers could get them done quickly while still doing other content on stream. Not fun times

[@meuanglao7]

stormcaller pls c,:

[@Raverin454]

This video gave such a nostalgia hit, that rising even was the first one I took part it, I still remember it so vividly.

[@Recusey]

Black Mage + Ley Lines + The Arrow (Astro speed buff) was my goto with my wife. Tuat spell speed on flares and/or Explosion were wonderful.

[@CErra310]

You should make a podcast out of this and invite guests. An hour of you and Zepla reminiscing about how the game used to be way back when would be AMAZING!

[@RaptorianxdReviews]

We will never forget you, Bishop Turret. I really loved cross class skills, but the number of times I ran into a Marauder in late game content made me hate them. I remember people being really mad about the dungeon number dropping, but we get such cool extra content now!

[@wrathoc]

Really enjoying these. I joined the game in late SB so finding out what it was like before my time is a lot of fun. Thank you for the videos.

[@minaly22]

0:43 AAAAH ITS SO UNCANNY!!!

[@raiverns9620]

Wholly in disbelief you didn't talk about the horror that was Gordias savage

[@Toffeehammer]

I love the 3 or so separate "and Square Enix didn't like that!" we get each one of these videos. Those poor devs had a lot to deal with, huh?

[@AliguraAethernum]

I am nostalgic about... -Shadow Fang -Dancing Edge -Scourge -HW Delirium (this was absolutely giga broken) -Fate spam in Coerthas and Northern Thanalan for leveling alt jobs -Not having an aetheryte at the Ul'dah marketboards -MSQ Roulette having skippable cutscenes -Paying 100-300 mgp for mini cactbot -Not all mounts being able to fly -Khloe actually being the main reason to log in every day/week -Blue crafter gear (Ironworks. I just dont like having green gear on crafters) -Actually having space in your inventory -Raubahn Savage -The Great Goobbue Wall -Every DRK spamming Unleash after it got released Any many more...

[@TonyRedgrave]

About Idyllshire, and to a lesser extent Mor Dhona, I kinda like only seeing the fully built versions. When I first got to Idyllshire, I was impressed by how well constructed it was. Considering it was basically a bunch of goblins and treasure hunters, the quality of the town earned them a lot of respect from me.

[@Ketz_y]

Please keep these coming! They are amazing! Thanks Larry! :)

[@LuisRodriguez-wu6cd]

Omg soooooo many feels! Especially the falling dude in Idlyshire! I remember logging in on patch day and looking around for him cause he was always falling from differen places!

[@Kayla-xt9hx]

Larry!!! That bard skill is called wide volley!! And I want it back...

[@Koibito247]

Thanks for the walk down memory lane Larry! some fun memories I've got from HW for sure. RIP Ultimatum the aoe Provoke... PLD rez for those clutch moments when they could basically save an entire raid, "caster" phys range... "never go full fending!" is what I always heard. and the last time WHM had all its own skills before they became cross class xD I still have a skill graveyard somewhere.

[@MewMeg]

Don't worry Larry. Your Bahamut song is one of my ringtones for quite a year now (because I start to play a year ago and I start to know you as quite the same time :3 ) Remember that YOU are a cure to some people out there ♥

[@LeoHark]

I cry about the Astro card effect and the fact that Benefic 1 can proc instant Benefic 2 sometime. it give such a rush feeling for panic healing that I miss till this day. it use to be my favorite healing class but now I don't like playing it because it always remind me of the old Astro...