Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward (2015)

To no one's abject surprise, I have been replaying Heavensward through an alt account I own.

I had honestly forgotten how nicely the narrative went, even through the dozens of fetch quests and kill quests, and how the characters were all particular to themselves in one way or another. To this day, I cannot explain the hate for Haurchefant that some people have... he's literally better than G'raha with his infatuation for the WoL.

Honestly the peak of what FFXIV's storytelling could be.

Finally cleared floor 50 in the Palace of the Dead! I made the poor decision of switching from Lancer to Red Mage before finishing up the post Heavensward quests and needed to grind to level 60. Didn't expect the PotD queue times to be so bad. I must have sat in queue for floors 41-50 a combined total of four hours (one sitting was three hours) this weekend before deciding to use the party finder. And even then, I only found people willing to do a full clear from floor 1 up through 50 so I had to start all over and do em in one sitting.

Here's hoping the 51-60 queue times won't be so bad.

I have finally finished all the post-patch Heavensward content. I added 5 hours to my playtime because a house in Lavender Bed's was available and I WANTED IT MORE THAN ANYTHING...

I did not get it.

Total Play Time: 11 days, 14 hours, 16 minutes

With my 64 hours to beat Heavensward base and now 62 hours to beat the post patched content... I am marking Heavensward as completed at 126 hours total.

• A Realm Reborn + Patch: 160 hours
• Heavensward + Patch: 126 hours

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The patched content was another great addition to the MSQ and I can't wait to keep going!

I just finished the base game of Heavensward but won't be marking the expansion as completed on here until after I get through all the post patch MSQ quests. I lost some of my attachment to some characters and got confused on some plot points because of my long break but near the end, it all finally came back together and I had a BLAST! It was a definite improvement over ARR MSQ (which I still really enjoyed!) I am looking forward to making my way through the patched content so I can hopefully save somebody dear to my heart! Those who know... know!

For reference:

It took me 9 hours to finish the last 17 quests of the MSQ. I am at a total of 9 days, 8 hours, 38 minutes of playtime which means took me 64 hours to complete the the base game of Heavensward compared to my 160 hours in ARR... not bad.

I guess writing about it here that I was frusturated about not having played and been caught up is the kick in the pants I needed? Had a good 6 hours session yesterday and am taking a quick smoke break after having played for two hours today. I will be jumping right back into it, here in a moment!

I am mostly just focusing on MSQ right now. I played for a few hours with an old friend that I met via the Novice Network back in March to catch up on side quests I had and could barely remember. I got my combat rotations back in my head for my Bard and am just having a great time!

I even drank a Fantasia potion! Due to my break, my attachment to my little Lala decreased a bit and I wanted to use the new race introduced in Shadowbringers!

Super frusturating!

WHOA!

I went on vacation all of April and when I got back, I could only muster the energy to play the FFXV event and get all those items. I was SO EAGER to be fully caught up by the time Shadowbringers came out (I had early access!) but it was not to be the case. I will definitely be picking this back up shortly but for now, I guess I am taking an extended break.

Got pretty well burnt out by playing the base game and patched MSQ so have only been casually jumping into Heavensward until my engine gets recharged but as with ARR, the game is still amazing! I have got a vacation coming up and hope to have this expansion finished before so that when I return from my vacation I can then knock out Stormblood and spend a month or two getting myself fully prepared for SHADOWBRINGERS!

Great MMO!