FFXIV OST Holminster Switch Theme ( To Fire and Sword ) 

Do not seek mitigation, for it will not ease the burden. It weighs as it should.

Stack up with tank

@@holmesholmes.8784 now you and the tank can be traumatized together! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

@@optimaltt6070 ;(

Bear weakens it, and therapy heals it.

The Trust System is a really nice addition and I wasn't expecting them to add some dialogues and all to the characters it's really well done. Not only you can now discover the story dungeons without running after the tank and the thousands of enemies he pulled but you feel more closer to your friends in the game. And even if it rarely fails, the AI is pretty good.

@@nah1557 I wanted to keep Exarch as a mainstay if I could, but alas, I think having him and Y'stola together BLM'ing it up would have made it too easy.

@@Waffersforever fun fact - you can make that combination happen at the Grand Cosmos :)

huge agree, such an incredible touch

Whoa, I didn't know there was additional story. I did this last night with a party, I'll have to give the trust system a try.

Believe it.

It feels like it should the final dungeon, not the first.

@@eggman02 Let me tell you the final msq dungeon theme of this game is a fucking masterpiece. It will knock you out of your seat.

No surprise. Traditionally, "first stage" music are always made to be catchy. To list a few, Super Mario Brother theme Final Fantasy VII - Bombing Mission Little Big Planet - Garden Contra - Jungle Theme Doom - At Doom's Gate You get the drift... Obviously you wanna put good music at the beginning to capture your players attention.

@@Darkfortune629 Yeah... beyond amazing.

Sounds like a certain floating giant head and his Law Faction from SMT

that feels like a yoko taro innovation ngl

That's what light is in the extreme perfection at the cost of individuality erasure of self for uniformity to a cause. We naturally fear obviously evil things or things associated with evil but anything to the extreme is evil, balance in all things.

That's how Christianity used to work few hundred years ago. If people gave up their individuality and devote themselves completely to the church, everything will be forgiven. The Light bound in WoW present the same forceful assimilation, although without the grotesque mutation.

@@LunarRaff1essia Ahhh. Good old *record scratch* . What a prick.

All games are scripted, a way or another. Plus, these "people" are pixels.

@@lucianofinn7304 why bother play video games than. These pixels are all fake, how do you get enjoyment out of them if you cant attach to anything.

@@brianchen3964 I'm a deep video game lover, It happens to me to feel great bonds with video games characters. I'm not bothering anyone. But I do know how to keep it real tho. Some people can fall in love for some pixelized characters, I think this kind of behavior is ridiculous, people have to know how to make the difference between reality or life. Anyway Holminster has an incredible Ost 😁

Guilty of feeling like shit for ingame characters. But for spoiler reasons all i can say is Damn you old man.

@@Shadowtheheartbroken1. You real first name is not Higetsu, 2. your real last name is not Namikawa either. 3.You must certainly have feelings for Minfilia. For the 3 reasons above sir, I have to put a term to this discussion

Right? I said the exact same thing myself. They just get better with each expansion.

Did this dungeon like five times already just for the music alone 🤣

Desperate Steer sure as hell beats Stormblood

This expansion IMO beats Stormblood in every way im having a blast

The SB virgin vs. the SHAD

Catherine J.G if i remember correctly, the sound is so different because the dev team wanted to write the story of the warrior of darkness and not the continuation of the warrior of light’s one. As we go to the First, Souken wanted to express the new step that we take as a character, in ARR our sole objective was to save Eorzea, in Heavensward we had to end a 1000 years old war that had nothing to do with us where the « villain » just went trough tragedies after tragedies, in Stormblood we take part in 2 revolutions to liberate 2 countries from the empire, and now we must save not one but 2 worlds. The sense of urgency kinda went crazy all of a sudden hence the change in music.

Ikr? The first time I heard it my jaw dropped!

Here after doing the first post MSQ dungeon. Had to come back here.

My first thought was "Goddamn why does this music go so unnecessarily hard!?"

The drums mixed with the piano which the guitar riff is so goood!!!

When I got to that part, my breath was taken away.

“The sunless sea… The Warrior of Darkness has come!” His reaction still gives me chills.

The dungeon also has that 'Cresting the hilltop' moment where you can actually see the damage all of this is causing the world. How some Sin Eaters can descend on a village and its land and absolutely just DESTROY things. For the average people there it look so utterly *hopeless.* Because not only do the sin eaters kill and devour peoples Aether, but aside from that, if you take the wrong kind of hit even in killing a Sin Eater, you may end up infected, only to be sent to Amh Arang most likely... If even that. It's a very sobering moment in the journey, showing you what you're fighting against in this world, and letting you know what you're *really* fighting for.

@@rednova2212so is the warrior of light/darkness immune and does that have to do with Hyadalin blessing them?

thats how I felt, especially seeing the 2nd boss battle. Legit had fucking shivers running down my spine

misafan4u so did Alisae. Even Alphinaud had to ask if she was alright after that fight.

Yes it is.

...oh 🥺

The way Alisaie says "Ah, I was wondering where you went..." gives me the feels )':

Enemy: *low health* Alisaie: ThErE'lL bE nOtHinG leFt of yoU beSidEs a SmoKiNG CraTeR

like this... its Heavensward quality.... im gobsmacked....

Right?! Stormblood had been meh with only the Hingashi quests being somewhat interesting, so I had low expectations. And SE didn't just prove they could do better, they fucking annihilated me with possibly the best storyline I had seen in a looooong time.

@@kaimango7012 to be fair, none of the expansions were "meh" or bad. I loved them all.

I wasn’t really going to get it until less than a week ago I realized I needed something to do. I am much more enthralled in this story than in the rest of the game.

@@kaimango7012 Stormblood was kinda good, had it's nice moments. It's handicap was that it came after Heavensward... And it couldn't outshine it.

When I crested that hill and saw those open fields filled with sin-eater cacoons and the smoke & fire from the town in the distance I literally said out loud, "Holy shit!"

too bad most of them are pretty awful

DanteWahou just hearing this sounds fucking intens. Glad that you and your party had so much fun :)

Why

@@saladmancer4802 why not

I see what you did there, but you reached pretty far for it. Gonna have to give it a 5/10.

@@CodyRockLee13 Wow I didn't know we had a professional master Commenter in here oh geez roll out the carpet

Are you a yoga instructor because god damn youre really stretchin it.

That cutscene is the stuff of nightmares.

@@Roanan. idk man, titanias awakening have me serious spooked chills. Tesleen was just sad, and I always blamed the child

they died knowing no matter what there always hope for the future

Top 10 conspiracy theories

I'm waiting on them to really eff with us and post these videos playing a clone of the other person's character.

Have you gotten to the last MSQ dungeon? That one is ungodly

Surely you mistyped 0.00

@@jellydamgood they did

absolute bank

That piano/violin/guitar combo is my favorite!

The boss theme for the first 2 bosses was re-used from previous fights, I don't remember the 3rd well enough because I was too focused on the fight.

I love how for the most part, the enemies don't just appear or are just waiting for you, but you get to SEE what they were and how they became what they are now. A little disturbing but I like it. And the bosses...

dodododo DOOT DOOT, DOOT dodododo DOOT !

Especially seeing Alisaie take it as well just the sadness in her scrip when you face her tells you all you need to know

Ugh, true. Tesleen was so pure.

@@penelopecaswood3565 So pure, she wasn't even given a sin to be forgiven of. Just "the Forgiven."

Omega Storm Stormblood isn’t that bad, just not as adrenaline inducing.

Stormblood isn't bad it was just the tone of the story was different. If anything, it was more political intrigue than the other expansions. Out of SBs dungeon, I really loved Doma Castle Dungeon and its theme. Favorite zone has to be Yanxia HW was more personal in tone, people felt it more because it was more of the WoLs story along with the happenings of Ishgard and the Dravanians. Dravania Forelands and Slumber Eteneral was my favorite theme of that expansion. For ShB, although I havent finished just yet To Fire and Sword is difinitely my favorite them thus far (at level 75 atm) anbd my favorite zones so far has to be Lakeland or Kholusia. what makes ShB is that player and the WoL feels a strong sense of urgency finding out that if a particular element becomes overwhelming in a shard, it has direct consequences on the source by bringing all that element/non-element into a calamity on the source.... and the First was getting really close to that calamity.

Doma castle is still my favorite.

aldashin but does it gouge?

Rips and tears our guts.

The Trust System. Reminding the Warrior of Light why they just typically did everything themselves outside of the cut scenes. It's still fun playing with the Scions, even if they act like Namazu following a late 90's AI script. Which, honestly, might make it even better somehow...

@@davidyaconis7002 The thing I found funny about the trust system is that I found it easier to tank this with the npcs than I did with actual players.

@@Suutashi ... ... My guild's co-leader is Sutashi... Small world.

@@davidyaconis7002 lmao trusts are faster for me because they don't fail outright simple mechanics

@@theguyacrossthetable They'll fix that in a later patch, probably near the end of March.

Forgiven Vanity maybe? Or Forgiven Burden...

Forgiven Greyparse

For those we have lost. For those we can yet save.

Yeah. Good thing I went in there with trust system to start with... #1 to take a second to grasp that we were getting closure to this detail of the story, #2 to see how Alisaie was going to handle it.

It's what she would want. Remember the nectarine.

I saw it as putting her out of her misery.

In trust if you bring alisae, an npc will mentioned that her face is pale after the 2nd boss. If you didnt bring alisae, lyna will said YOUR face is pale instead of alisae

Thuban word!! This entire OST has had the best basslines.

*cries* Honestly, another great thing about SHB is that they've actually made me care about the fate of seemingly pointless side characters. That's something that they haven't been able to do for a looong time, at least for me.

By being conceited ("Forgiven Conceit"), duh.

Apparently he can fill ANY role. Tank? Paladin. DPS? Black Mage. Healer? White Mage. Support? ASstrologist. I think. He can only be used in holmister switch tho. Iirc

He fills the gap for what you're lacking. I main AST, so he was healer to me too.

He was tank for me. Gutted hes not able to be in the trust now I've finished the game. Holminster Switch is my favourite Shadowbringers dungeon. The music is awesome.

Shows how long it takes before you get to your first dungeon

late reply and while i agree with you that this was amazing, I wouldn’t call sohm al a bloody bore tbh haha. imo

@@levi26448 Sohm Al was the level 53 dungeon (I agree though, it is fun). The level 51 one was Dusk Vigil.

I love doing this dungeon when I hit 71 on a new dps class. HYAAAAH!!

as long you dont give me ARR dungeons or doma castle for the millionth time where im reduced to nothing but ashes on all my healer jobs 🤣 @@leezpunkbrooke