Non-MMO Player REACTS To Final Fantasy 14 Cinematics For The First Time! 

I’ll be starting the game first week of May. Streaming it here: www.twitch.tv/afroblazeaken

In order of trailers: 1.0: - This was for the original version of the game that later got scrapped. - Those cards they were choosing between are essentially job listings for adventurers. - No, the player character doesn't talk, that was just a one off thing they did in this trailer. ARR: - When they scrapped 1.0 and transitioned to ARR they did it by spending the final months of 1.0 building up to one of the world's two moons getting closer and closer until eventually the events of this trailer happened. This came out the moment the 1.0 servers went down as a final send off before becoming the trailer for ARR. - The elezen mage that tried to hold off the dragon, Louisoix, is also the narrator for the in game intro to ARR. When you first start the game a lot of npcs will talk about the calamity 5 years ago and the warriors of light that fought valiantly against it, and how for some reason no one can remember their names or faces anymore. Those warriors of light are the players characters of 1.0. Heavensward: - Not gonna touch on any questions about the flashback sequence as that entire part is *MASSIVE* spoilers for ARR and really shouldn't have been in the trailer. All the trailers since this have been very good about avoiding story spoilers and only teasing at pretty early plot points for their respective expansions. - Dragoons were already in the game before this expansion, but every expansion has a poster boy class that the placeholder main character that represents the player (lovingly referred to as Meteor or Derplander) changes to for the expansion. In the 1.0 trailer he was an Archer, in ARR he was a Warrior, and for Heavensward he switches to Dragoon. Stormblood: - The woman at the beginning is actually a Monk, as is Meteor for that portion of the trailer. Dancer is also a playable class and does match that aesthetic but wasn't added until Shadowbringers. - In the second half Meteor is indeed now a Samurai, one of the two dps jobs added in this expansion and generally the highest damage melee class in the game when played well. Shadowbringers: - Yes, the player character is a warrior of light, just like the player characters of 1.0 are referred to as in ARR. It's hardly a spoiler to say that the "future sight" thing is called the Echo, but at least as of ARR onward it can't see the future and rather let's you see the past, usually through others' memories. - When Meteor is switching classes throughout the fight, yes it's representing what we can play because that's what he's there for, but it's specifically transitioning through all of his previous classes in order and one by one they are all defeated by his enemy until he switches to Dark Knight. Like Dragoon in HW, Dark Knight was not new to this expansion but was the poster boy class for reasons the title makes obvious. Also the way he changes class is almost one to one of how that works in the game since you can level every single job in the game on a single character and freely swap between them by switching your weapon out. You just can't do it mid combat like he is here. - You are not tripping, that is a gunblade, and there is a gunblade class. Gunbreaker is a tank class with a gunblade that got added in this expansion along with Dancer. - DO NOT skip through the story to get to the expansions! Every expansion builds on the previous ones and skipping the story will make the expansion story fall flat for you and ruin the whole experience. There are callbacks constantly. Endwalker: - They went in on the trailer for this one because this expansion is the climactic finale of the overarching story that runs from ARR through all the previous expansions. Throughout the trailer it actually transitions between theme music from previous expansions in order. Dawntrail: - Dual swords since when? Since now lol. It's Viper, one of the two new dps jobs coming in this expansion, the other being the painter they showed called Pictomancer. - Saying this has summer update vibes isn't far off. They've called the trip we're about to go on a summer vacation for the WoL, and since this is the beginning of a brand new story arc after Endwalker ended the last 10 year story they seem to be starting things on a lighter note. - Regarding the buff cat lady, she's a Hrothgar and the thing that's new is that we're going to be able to make female Hrothgar now. They were added in Shadowbringers as a male only playable race, as well as the bunny girls (Viera) being a female only playable race. In Endwalker we got bunny boys and with Dawntrail they're finally completing the set. - The graphics thing you probably heard people complain about was the benchmark test they just released so that people could run a sample of the upcoming new graphics update on their computer to test their hardware. There were a few small oversights with scene lighting and slight character model bugs that people want sorted out which SE have already made a statement apologizing for and saying they'll update the benchmark. As a whole the upcoming graphics update is going to be a major positive and looks fantastic.

"Yo, The Warrior of Light is in this game?!" My Brother in Hydaelyn, YOU are the Warrior of Light.

46:02 "Final Fantasy x Monster Hunter, when?" This is actually already a thing! In FF14, you can fight Rathalos, and get it as a Mount, as well as some MHW Gear. In Monster Hunter World, you can fight the FF14 Behemoth and get some Dragoon gear.

You've summoned the fandom. We enjoy watching other people react to the story. There's some pretty emotional moments.

"It was like a big reset" is so accurate. They took down the servers and remade the game from almost the ground up. Yoshi P came in and was like 'nah, I can't fix this. Burn it.'

right after he sees primals blasting out of the sky, he asks "Did he just see into the future?" you have no idea

Here's one specific advice if you ever start playing... DO NOT skip the story, it's arguably THE most important part of the game and believe me... once you'll reach the end of your journey, it'll pay off, Tenfold. Other than that, just enjoy the game and do not hesitate to ask for help, people in-game are SUPER nice and will always try to help newcomers, in fact FFXIV is known for its ridiculously friendly community, while WoW's is infamous for being Toxic

WoW is an MMORPG - A multiplayer game with some story content. FF14 is a RPGMMO - A narrative focused RPG that can be played co-op.

- "What is that thing called?" - "Lalafell."

this was one of the best "blind" trailer reacts since you have ff knowledge, your joy over seeing the gunblade was so precious. i hope you may one day give 14 a try, it's truly an amazing experience.

Blaze... the best part about FFXIV? You can play ALL JOBS, ALL CLASSES, ALL CRAFTING CLASSES... on one character. It's just a matter of changing main hand weapons and tools.

Fun fact the dude that died in trailer is pretty important and will be mentioned throughout the series and you’ll meet his grandchildren. The whole moon falling was basically a bad event called a calamity and also was the ending of 1.0 that characters will also constantly mention. So in a way the world did end as 1.0 was scrapped and recreated into 2.0. And 1.0 became the worlds past!

fun fact: ffxiv has a monster hunter collab!!! You have to get to a certain point in game(stormblood) to do the quest! I love ff14 and a big part of why I love it is the community. They are very welcoming and I have made some life long friends out of it. I have social anxiety and would have moments where I freak out/ have an anxiety attack and the people I was playing with were so understanding. They allowed me to take my time and helped me with moments I was stuck at (stuck meaning waiting for other players). Even though I've now done most of the content I still log on daily and help others in the same predicament. I defiantly recommend playing it.

As someone who has played since ff14 1.0, the biggest hurtle, in my opinion, is getting through a realm reborn, but it's 1000% worth it to take your time getting through the story.

Listen, if you play, I'm absolutely following your journey. I've been playing for nearly 2 years and I'm always finding new things to do, lore to dive into. In general, my experience with the game and the community has been great. My only advice is to go at your pace and really take the story in.

Glad you're checking out the game. As someone who played Final Fantasy games, you are going to ABSOLUTELY enjoy your journey. There are so many references. Please do not skip ahead. Considering you say you're very much into story in games, you need the experience of the beginning in order to enjoy the end.

FFXIV story is absolutely amazing, but keep in my it still has all of the trappings of an mmorpg. Don't be afraid to skip a fetch quest here or there, but do watch all the cutscenes and read the major dialogue. Payoffs can extend across multiple expansions and guaranttee you that cathartic feeling you're looking for in a story. Once you get rolling you won't want to stop. In the end, you'll be able to look back fondly on your adventure and say that the journey was worth it :)

Ahhhh, my beloved FFXIV! I started the game about 2 years ago, and I loved it from the moment the game opened up! Fun fact: the second trailer is actually an in game event that happened before they shut the servers down. Players that were on before the servers shut down actually saw that moon descending closer and closer down to their world. And when the servers shut down, that exact cinamatic played. They shut the servers down because they completely re worked the game, and then FFXIV: A Realm Reborn came to be! Edits as I watched the video 28:18 yes! There is a Dancer and Samurai class! Both are DPS with dancer being a ranged support DPS and Samurai being a melee high damage class. 31:32 yup! Your character is the Warrior of Light and Darkness(Darkness coming after the Shadowbringers expansion) 32:10 yup! Every single expansion is a continuous story, with the saga ending in Endwalker. They made a story pretty much out of resetting the game! Dawntrail is the new expansion that will be coming out in June, which will introduce a new one! 34:42 yup! Same person 35:10 yes, siiiiir! 😄 35:24 yup! There is a gun blade class which is a tank class called Gunbreaker 37:42 no! Don’t skip any of the story, because as I said before, it’s a continuous story. If you skip any of it, you’ll be lost when you get to later expansions 47:47 yes! That is a new class coming out in Dawntrail called Viper. It will be a melee DPS class 48:28 yup! That is another new class coming out in Dawntrail called Pictomancer! Which will be a ranged magical DPS class! 50:52 that’s very fair, something I also really appreciate about WoW is how anatomically different each race is. It really separates each race from each other. But it is also a cultural thing. As FFXIV was made in Japan, there is a trope called Kemonomimi in Japan that is used for any human-animal hybrids. So while WoW goes all out anthropomorphic animal like races (I.e Worgan, Tauren), FFXIV sticks to humans, but with cat ears and a tail or bunny ears. While WoW was made in the west, where that kind of trope is not very common in western media.

Having spent YEARS on WoW, I absolutely fell in love with FFXIV. Both are great in their own ways, but the story of 14 is just so captivating as you progress further into the story.

"man Final fantasy need to do a collab" Yeah they did it, in 14, you even face rathlos "like a whole game" oh.

Ive never clicked a video so fast in my life! Holy shit, I'm so happy youve taken the time to watch these trailers! Lore in FF14 is suuuper deep/heavy, like deep fried chocolate shake heavy, all of the events in the trailers become more clearer as you play through the story so dont worry about being confused especially with Shadowbringers and Endwalker! If you are to stream the game, i recommend it its pretty fun and exciting. Although if you do, have follow/sub mode on to prevent people from spoiling anything. Yes there are people like that unfortunately. Yes Samurai and Gunbreaker classes are super dope! And hell yes! The music and trailers is top tier! Tbh theres a lot of content to go through and its a super good time! Can't wait to play with you my dude! I'll be in the Cactar server!

It's always so nice to watch someone who has experience with the series watch these.

FFXIV and MHW did a crossover. In FFXIV you get to hunt Rathalos, and in MHW you get to hunt a behemoth. They both did an excellent job of incorporating aspects of the other game into the event

You had me laughing, each time you kept saying 'that's the last expansion' but it wasn't 😂 I'm happy you're going to try the game

One very important thing to know about FF14, and why I love it so much: YOU are the focus of the game's story. You're the Warrior of Light. (Yes, every PC is the Warrior of Light, but when you're doing group content it's "The Warrior of Light and their friends", which is a bit silly). It's not like most MMOs where "Here's the story, you're kinda taking part, but off to the side". It's "This is your story. YOU are changing the world."

The end of the first cinematic always gets me so hard. Watching Louisoix save everyone, and then turn into the blast and smile, brings a tear to my eyes every time. Incredible game.

I have just finished the Shadowbringers expansion. I was very late to the party. I played WOW for years, then Elder Scrolls Online for a few more years. FF14 has the best story of all three. If you decide to play FF don't rush through the game. Enjoy the story progression. It will have you laughing one second, then a tear rolling down your cheek the next. The community has been fantastic. They are very helpful with mechanics and general questions. Hope you get sucked in like I did.

The story is the game. Everything you do has a story element to it, so if you do play, pay attention to story. Side quests can be done if you wish, but are there for flavor. The Main story quests and the blue+ quests are must ( the blues unlock other content). If you like story, this is the game for you, comedy , tragedy, high adventure, and everything in between.

don't worry about the classes too much, you can play all of them in a single character. you can be all of them if you want.

'Listen to that music. It feels like I am in the combat' - *sips tea* That's just how hard FFXIV's boss battle music hits

I know Im not the only one chocking up every time I see ARR trailer. See the world eviscerated while everyone is still caught up in that pointless war. Seeing Louisoix protecting everyone and ultimately making the ultimate sacrifice to save the adventurers. The finally the new world gleaming with life and joy. Never gets old

I've played this game since the Beta of 1.0, the first iteration of this game that eventually got crashed and burned. This game does story the best but you should not fast foward through the early stuff untill the good stuff comes along. The 2.0 A Realm reborn story sets up all the dominoes for the expansions to use if you skip early events and story in a rush to come to the "good stuff" you will miss out. The story they weave starting with 2.0 goes all the way through the expansions building up and will reach a great climax in Shadowbringers and Endwalker. But the big moments and reveals will not land if you've missed something. I also recommend to take your time to do raid content at the end of each expansion. Every dungeon raid and piece of content has some story to it. Some of it is standalone, some of it is tied directly to the overal story. If you're trying to figure out which MMO to play between the two big ones. Jesse Cox has a 36 minute video called "15 years of wow versus 1 year of FFXIV" , it perfectly lines up the big differences between the two without spoiling. and will help you decide on where to start.

If you play ff14, please dont story skip, even though a realm reborn can be a slog, a good amount of story bits continue in future expansions (its a continous story) so quite a bit of context can be lost if skipped, a realm reborn does have its moments, not to mention learning about a lot of characters and world building. I would say ff14 is pretty heavily backloaded with its quality content but that doesnt necessarily mean the early stuff isnt important.

2 things to note: 1. If a duty is too hard to complete, you can make it easier if you fail, with it unlocking "Easy" and "Very Easy" mode for said duty. 2. If you're looking for a quick start, choose a "Legacy" server - they give boosts up until Level 80

Since you seemed to really take a liking to the classes specifically, here is the full list of classes, including the two coming in Dawntrail in a bit over a month: _Tanks_ • Paladin (sword, board, and holy magic) • Warrior (greataxe) • Dark Knight (greatsword and shadow magic) • Gunbreaker (gunblade) _Healers_ • White Mage (standard holy healer with staff) • Scholar (book and fairy familiar) • Astrologian (“astrolabe”; basically a spinny globe thing, and tarot cards) • Sage (“nouliths”; basically four floating gundam type laser things) _Melee DPS_ • Monk (fists/gauntlets/brass knuckles/anything fisty punchy) • Dragoon (spear, high jumps, and dragon power) • Ninja (daggers and jutsus, naruto style) • Samurai (katana) • Reaper (scythe and voidsent avatar) • Viper (dual swords that combine into darth maul style double blade, comes out in Dawntrail) _Physical Ranged DPS_ • Bard (bow and music) • Machinist (gun, shotgun, drill gun, chain launching gun, flamethrower, bio blaster, chainsaw gun, auto crossbow shooter, timed explosives, mecha queen summon, literal missile barrage, and just about any other thing you can think of that shoots) • Dancer (chakrams and sick dance moves) _Magical DPS_ • Black Mage (staff and magic revolved around fire ice and lightning) • Summoner (book and various summons) • Red Mage (rapier and floating thing that combine into staff, uses combination of white and black magic) • Pictomancer (paintbrush and palette, comes out in Dawntrail)

10:37 you nailed a good portion of it all JUST from a few seconds of the trailer. You love to see it. 12:15 The last patches of 1.0 is the WoL trying to stop this very event. And no matter how hard they tried, and succeeded, there was just no stopping it. This was how 1.0 Died, and 2.0 came in, using this very battle as the launching point for what has become an MMO powerhouse. 23:54 Chorus: "Guide us, Oh mighty Fury!" "Guide us, to victory!

@5:16 the monster Morbor is a shout out to one of the early Final Fantasy programers. The monster is known for its bad breath attack, the programmer was a chain smoker. Morbor (monster) = Marlboro (cigarette brand). @11:30 there has been at least one artificial moon as part of the plot in a FF title. @32:20 yes they brought the lore from FF14 1.0 to 2.0+ there is a mention from an NPC about The Great Goobo Wall. That was in the last months of 1.0 when they knew they were going to nuke the servers. The GMs and Dev's got to spawn really high lvl monsters into the starting cities. Back then mounts took up physical space so a line of them could block players / mobs. The biggest rideable mounts were Goobo. High lvl player characters lined up to block the monsters getting at low lvl characters so the newbies could get out of the cities and start adventuring.

the clip with Bahamut destroying the world was actually worked into the story of the game when they re-released ffxiv, thats why its "a realm reborn". when the servers were shutting down before the world was "reborn", everyone in game could see the big sphere in the sky, then when the servers started back up you had that cinematic and you were in the new world, this is where the characters in the cutscene were teleported to

"I can be SQUALL? There's a gunblade class?!" There sure is buddy, I'm glad you caught onto that.

I love FF14 immensely, I didn't play much FF games before this but it was such an immaculate experience. The friends I made, the adventures we had, I don't think anything could ever replace it for me.

Seeing him piece together the GENIUS of them literally destroying the old world, in game, for it to be reborn, was *chef's kiss*

Watching people enjoy this story for the first time is one of the community’s favorite pastimes since we can’t enjoy it for the first time again ourselves

"Kind of reminds me of cataclysm." My brother in Christ, Deathwing would get absolutely *EVISCERATED* by Bahamut.

yes we have gunblades, also the new class Viper and Pictomancer in the new expansion.

As someone who recently have caught up on the main story, I think its worth a try. You're free to try the free trail until you think you really want to commit to it. The only tip I have though is, it might be more fun to run it with some friends, especially in A Realm Reborn (the base game). A Realm Reborn will be quite long, depending on how fast you're willing to go trough it. But, I will say... It gets better. The story is good that it did keep me playing. So if you do plan on playing, I hope you can enjoy it! ^^

I really enjoyed your commentary, and you're very perceptive. I hope you enjoy the game and I'll try to catch some more videos. Thanks for this!

"What's your favorite line in XIV?" *guitars begin playing in the distance*

Fun fact, if we compare Death Wing from WOW to Bahamut from FF14.....Death Wing, who is hailed as a natural disater and provoked the Cataclysm.....is as big as 1 of Bahamut's HORNS

The cat lady you saw in the end isn't actually from a new race, but she is the tease at the un-gender locking of her race, as previously the Hrothgar (her race) were exclusively comprised of males... basically fixing what was a glaring issue for both people who may have wanted to play them, or from a lore standpoint. Though I wouldn't blame you for not knowing that as someone new to the game's specific lore AND because unfortunately 2 races in the game are kinda left to the wayside storywise unless you elect to play them so they get representative. The Hrothgar and the Roegadyn

So glad you decided to check this out!

Dawntrail is set to be released July 2nd 2024 with a 4 day early access (starting June 28th) if you pre-order the expansion. It is said to basicly be the "beach episode" expansion after all the world ending we had the last couple years. Its also the start of a complete new storyarc. So right now is a great time to get started, you basicly experience the new story with the rest of the community.

yes, dancer job, yes samurai job, yes gunblade job, all on one character too...

If you decide to stream this I will be seated here for however long it takes you to go through the story 😂❤

Found this vid in my recommended. I started playing this game just under 3 years ago and I love it so much. I love watching new players play through the game for the first time, so since you're planning on playing through it, I'm absolutely going to tune in and watch. Enjoy the game and everything it has to offer!

32:08 The writers are *_exceptionally_* good in FFXIV of finding ways to connect new story beats and lore connect back to elements previously established when they couldn't have known at the time where they would taking the story. The continuity of the lore in this game is sublime.

Really enjoyed the apex reaction series, maybe you could react to finishers? You also missed out a couple trailers (Kill code pt 3 and 4) on the trailers video.

So, really cool thing: that "split the sky" noment from the Shadowbringers trailer _actually happens_ and it is awesome both cinematically and lorewise.

The trailer songs usually get brought in as a song for an important boss fight too, and if you have a keen ear you can also hear their motifs throughout other songs in each expansion. I highly suggest that you watch each expansions trailer as you get to its starting point and see it with the eyes that players would have at the time, and maybe even again after each expansion, and events become more clear. Others have probably said, but each trailer was represented with a different main class for the warrior of light, an archer(/bard) for 1.0, warrior for 2.0 ARR, Dragoon for 3.0 heavensward, both Monk and Samurai for 4.0 Stormblood, Dark knight for 5.0 Shadowbringers (and also the warrior of light cycled through each class in the trailer fighting their foe until getting to the dark knight), Paladin for 6.0 Endwalker, and for 7.0 Dawntrail he became the new class Viper that has the dual sword-twinblades as seen in the trailer.

Your enthusiasm was so contagious i almost stopped the video like 3 times to go play haha.

I'm ngl I was eagerly waiting for you to react to these, I hope you enjoy it if you do get into the game bro, some of the best story I've ever experienced

24:40 - Dragoons had been in the game since launch, but their lore heavily tied them to a particular country that was only briefly touched on during A Realm Reborn. Heavensward takes place in said country, so they were the "mascot" job for that expansion.

so glad to see you're gonna play it!! you'll definitely enjoy it

Also still can’t get over how the dawntrail logo looks like an imperial star destroyer silhouette

Excited to see you're about to play this! I love seeing new people still coming in, I'll have to catch some of your playthrough. Please don't give up on the early game too soon, I promise it gets better really fast! You can story skip if you want, but you'll miss out on a lot of what makes this game great. The story is the reason to play.

The Dragoon job was in the game in A Realm Reborn, but in Heavensward we were travelling to Ishgard, the part of the world that the dragoons were from, hence the emphasis in the trailer.

So glad to hear you liked the cinematics. A few things from a FFXIV vet to a new player: 1. It is up to you if you skip cutscenes or not, but since you expressed interest in the story, especially the later expansions, I recommend not doing so. The beginning can feel a bit slow to people, but it's because it has the unenviable task of trying to set up the story going forward, as well as trying to weave in 1.0 references for people who weren't there. 2. Definitely have some twitch mods that know the story and are able to remove spoiler messages or are able to put twitch in emote-only mode during big story beats. The FFXIV community gets very excited about people hitting those big moments, but can get a little overzealous and spoil things. 3. One character can be all classes, so while it's important to pick a starting class you think you'll like, don't think of it as the end-all, be-all decision of a lifetime. You can max out all classes if that is your wish. 4. Some dungeons are required for the main story. You can do them with people if you wish, but if you are the type of person who wants to not have to rush and be able to look around the dungeon and read any literature that lies around in some dungeons, you are able to do those dungeons with a group of NPCs. Entirely up to you. 5. You mentioned you played FFXVI. Well, much of the same team that made FFXVI made FFXIV. So for instance, Soken is the composer for both games, Yoshida is the director and producer, etc. (Creative Business Unit III) I will definitely try to catch these streams, I love people coming to explore our world!

Pretty solid that you picked up the lore implications of the realm reborn cutscene. That was actually the cutscene that played when the 1.0 game was cut off. The last thing people saw was Bahamut razing the earth and then the servers were shut down. You could actually run around and see the meteor in the sky when it got close. Then when ARR came out we got the rest.

I highly reccomend not skipping ARR. A lot of plot is set up in ARR that pays off in the expansion, and introduces you to all the people you need to know. You said that once the plot is done you tap out. Stories continue in every raid and dungeon, side quests, skill classes, etc. There will be no shortage of story and plot to play through.

Love your Reactions and the Hype behind them!! You got a New Follower and eager to see your reactions if you play the game.

Some information regarding classes (or as they're referred to : Jobs) : - While you pick one class to start the game with, by the time you complete your Lv.10 class quest, this unlocks the ability to visit the other class guilds to go and unlocked them. As such, your character can unlocked and level ALL classes and jobs on the same character. Alts are pretty much if you want a different character altogether but if your interest is only in the jobs themselves, then you only need one character. - After completing your Lv.30 class quest, your next 'class' quest will unlock the corresponding "Job", which is an advanced version of your class and enables much more advanced abilities. This goes for every class that you can start with including the Rogue that you can unlock in one of the cities. However, future Jobs do not have a base class and once unlocked, you immediately get their job stone as well. - Jobs that were added in later expansions have prerequisites before you can unlock them, usually having at least one Job at a given level, in case of Heavensward, you need to have access to the new city hub and the other jobs tend to be available at the start of the previous expansion's level cap that they were introduced in. It may sound complicated but really, a rule of thumb is "reach the next level cap tier from one expansion to unlock two new jobs in either of the three starting cities". - Classes and Jobs are role-locked. This means that, for example, the Samurai is a DPS job and can only assume a DPS role. Unlike WoW which has specs that let you have a given class assume one or two roles depending on the one you use, FFXIV have their jobs hard-locked. - The Tank classes / jobs are : Gladiator (which becomes Paladin), Marauder (which becomes Warrior), Dark Knight and Gunbreaker - The Healer classes / jobs are : Conjurer (which becomes White Mage), Scholar (which is unique as it branches from the Arcanist which is a Magic DPS class), the Astrologian and the Sage. - The Melee DPS classes / jobs are : Pugilist (which becomes Monk), Lancer (which becomes Dragoon), Rogue (which becomes Ninja), Samurai and Reaper. Dawntrail announced the Viper as a new melee DPS job. - The Ranged DPS classes / jobs are : Archer (which becomes Bard), Machinist and Dancer - The Magic DPS classes / jobs are : Thaumaturge (which becomes Black Mage), Arcanist (which becomes Summoner but also Scholar) and Red Mage. Dawntrail announced the Pictomancer as a new magic DPS job. - There are also 'gathering' and 'crafting' classes which, unlike most MMORPGs, are their own, full-fledged classes with their own questlines. Those too, you can pick up after Lv.10 and they all have their own actions, passives and possible recipes. Crafting involves a lot more than just selecting a recipe and waiting on a progress bar as you actually need to balance between increasing the quality of a craft while also making sure you finish it's progress before the durability of a craft runs out. - Crafting classes also unlocks QoL features like being able to meld materia by yourself instead of paying an NPC to do it for you (which are slotted into gear to increase their stat) as well as the ability to repair your own equipment, allowing to increase it's durability over 100% so it requires maintenance less often. The Culinarian and Alchemist also allows you to make food buff items and potions that can give you an edge in dungeons and content.

I always get so emotional when re-watching all of these, this game has had a huge impact on my life and has helped keep me afloat.

One thing to note is the story from 1.0(first trailer) to Endwalker is all one interconnected story arc. Dawntrail which comes out in a couple of months is the start of an entirely new story arc. Enjoy the game and please don't skip through the story.

Your reactions are a joy to watch. I can't wait for you to see what's in store. Welcome to Eorzea. ^^

Didnt know you posted this but these cinematics are so fun to watch. I will be watching the end walker trailer when I finish shadowbringers but maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I love your reactions to these trailers.

That first trailer with the world ending as you called it hits so hard after having done the full story. I only just started playing a year or two ago and after 800 some hours finished the base story up through Endwalker, still finishing up all the leveling and unlocking other things. A Realm Reborn is super hard to get through in my opinion because a lot of it doesn't seem to matter, but as someone else commented, it all makes sense WAY down the road. Only Storm Blood seemed kinda not related but some people still love that expansion. I cheated and bought a character boost in the beginning of my play since I just wanted to get through the story, even then it still took me forever to finish. Hope you enjoy it though! I love that it's great for solo or group play and I don't have to make 20+ characters to try all the classes out.

Several of these trailers still bring me to tears just hearimg the themes.

If it's too much or slow it's fine to pay and skip ARR to save time, skip dialog or cutscene, then you can just watch the recap on youtube ;) but it's better to experience it yourself with your character or skip and experience later with new game+ for each part of the story.

Samurai, Dancer, Gunbreaker, Sage, Viper and Pictomancer are the main player classes that were unveiled as part of the cinematics; however any time you see Meteor/Derplander, the recurring midlander, using a class that class will receive extra dialogue within the expansion that it appears in the cinematic of.

24:41 To answer the question: No Dragoons had been in the game since launch Heavensward essentially gives the Lore for the Dragoons at least for the world of FF14: Eorzea. I’m unaware of their lore prior to HW, but essentially Heavensward is the dragoon show / title job of the DLC This applies to the rest of the DLCs Samurai / Monk for Stormblood Dark Knight for Shadowbringers Paladin for Endwalker Viper (a new job to the Game) for Dawntrail

I have been playing FFXIV for a little over 3 years, came over from WoW, which I played for about 13 or so years...your responses came very close to mirroring mine when I first saw these cinematics...I CANNOT WAIT to watch you experience Endwalker...dude, you are in for a ride!!

Just another twist about the whole Warrior of Light making the appearance is that.... in every FF mainline game, you are the Warrior of Light as the WOL is just another synonym for "Hero" or "Zodiac Brave" or of the many other titles given throughout history to one who rises up as a hero of the land. The same could also be said about the Warriors of Darkness.

I've been playing 14 for many years now, but the Shadowbringers and Endwalker trailers still give me goosebumps. I absolutely adore rewatching them.

Omg, loved your shadowbringer reaction 😂❤ Yes we are THE warior of Lhite, BUT THEN!

the thing with the lighting system change was in the benchmark test you can run to see how well your pc will run the new expansion. the lighting issue was causing some characters to be very flat i would say. so the devs are redoing the benchmark to fix the issue. usually each expansion brings in new classes and races. heavensward brought in the Au'ra for a new race and 3 new classes, the astrologian (healer), dark knight(tank), and machinist(ranged DPS). stormblood brought in red mage, samurai, and blue mage(limited job) as the new classes. shadowbringers, brought us the bunny people race, viera( females only) and lion race hrothgar (males only) as well as gunbreaker (tank) and Dancer(ranged dps) class to the game. gunbreaker being the gunblade class. endwalker brought in reaper and sage as a class and male viera into the game. dawntrail is bringing in female hrothgar and 3 new classes with it which is the Viper( dual sword wielding class), Pictomancer( painting class) and another limited job class that we don't know about yet.

The sound tracks from this game and expansions are just the best in any MMO. There are so many bangers its crazy. Plus the ability to swap to any job whenever you want on the same character is amazing.

That trailer with Louisoix was not the full one. There's one where it shows him actually attack the dragon at the end. It's so epic!

Dragoons were already in the game, each expansion kind of focus on a class, whether new/existing or both. Heavenwards was Dragoon with three added new classes DarkKnight (tank), astrologian (healer) machinist (DPS, all yeah Guns)

Totally subbing! You seem fun to watch!

i started playing about 2 years ago and it has become my daily play. The story is amazing. even ARR. it is slow to start with but think of ARR like building a house. your building the foundation of everything that is happening after. you cant build the walls without the foundation in place first. the story is the reason i started and the reason i am here today. its cutscenes alone are like watching tv series. enough for nearly 20+ seasons. We are about to hit the new expansion in 2 months now is a great time to jump in.

I would agree with those saying not to skip, but also, I always advise new players to do it all! All the raids, the class, job, and role quests, the tribal stories, the side missions, just do as much as you can before tackling Endwalker. It's not just the last expansion so far (at least until they release Dawntrail), it is the culmination of EVERYTHING up to this point, from 1.0 onwards, and the more you've put into the game, the better your payoff will be.

23:00 there was a monster hunter / FFXIV collab: in the stormblood expansion there is a bossfight against a rathalos and in monster hunter world there is a behemoth hunt 31:03 you, the player, are the warrior of light (or more like become him)

i love watching new players watch these cinematics, because i can chase the high of having first experienced it myself.

"I can be Squall in this game?!" My main is a gunbreaker (the gunblade class) who is not only named Storm Leonhart (the closest the game would let me get to Squall's name) but also is glammed (transmoged) to look almost EXACTLY like Squall Leonhart, from his weapon to his clothes and even his trademark scar.

53:00 - The debacle about graphics is due to the fact that they've begun upgrading and modernizing the graphical engine, and we recently got to try out a test build of the character creator to show how characters look with the HD textures, new shaders, and lighting. It was sorta bugged due to being a beta build, and people got really scared that it would look like this in the final build. The developers fairly quickly responded to that though, and promised us a new build that would take as much of the feedback into account as possible, and attempt to fix the problems. It'll likely all be fixed by release, so no reason to panic (for now).

Something that people havent mentioned was, yes. You can play on one character only and still play as all the classes (or jobs in xiv terminology) on that one character. This free you as a player from making multiple alts to play different roles. You can still make alts btw

You love story, don't forget the side stories, job quests, do all the jobs, they all have amazing stories...my personal favorite is Dark Knight's job story...they honestly knocked this game out of the park in general.

Dunno if you're looking into comments off this video anymore, but I will afford a tidbit here: as something that frankly should be included in the game now and should be as part of the intro for everyone, and I'll try linking it. If it don't work, I'll give the exact title. The Waning of the Sixth Sun. Narrated by Louisoix Leveilleur. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TXc0loyuq9I.html : Final Fantasy 14 FFXIV A Realm Reborn Story The Waning of the Sixth Sun

Since you wanted some info from veteran players! FFXIV is very much story focused. Each expansion is a continuation of the story, basically a new chapter. Endwalker was the closing chapter of the story arc started in ARR, with Dawntrail being the start of a new arc (hence the tone shift. It's a new beginning and it's exciting.) In contrast, as far as I'm aware, it seems that WoW (since it was a big comparison throughout the video) scraps large parts of their own story (if you can call it that) with every expansion. In XIV you can play any and all classes (which upgrade to jobs), with no restriction. You can switch jobs at any point by changing gearsets, which is same animation as the gear changing in the cinematic. (In WoW, I believe it's only one class per character? So if you want to try other ones, you have to make a new character for each.) There are: 4 tank jobs, 4 healer jobs, 11 dps jobs (split between melee and ranged), and Blue Mage as a limited job (kind of a side-class that has it's own thing going on) with 2 more dps and one more limited (Beast Tamer) coming in Dawntrail. As well as 11 crafter/gatherer jobs. You are s p o i l e d for choice. In XIV you have the main storyline, called the Main Scenario Quest (MSQ), and a plethora of side content such as big battle trials (8- to 24-man parties), PvP, huge battle-content areas with their own storyline, the Gold Saucer (Triple Triad, their own version of Majong, Chocobo Racing, mini-games, etc.), crafter/gatherer specific content areas, housing, the list goes on. There is A LOT you can do in XIV to pass the time if you need a break from the MSQ or even when you get caught up. Speaking of, take your time with the MSQ and please do watch and read all the cutscenes. The story is the main driving force of the game, and it will be far less enjoyable if you're goal is to just catch up and skip through story to do end-game content. Oh and there is so much music with so much variety. Some actual bangers honestly. On a slightly ranty tangent, Hrothgar (Ronso from FFX) were introduced alongside the Viera (bunny people) in Shadowbringers and not once are they shown in the cinematic trailers until Dawntrail with the release of playable female Hrothgar (yes, it took 2 entire expansions). Both races are still locked behind the purchase of the Shadowbringers expansion.

Also, as a matter of record, PLEASE come back and rewatch every single one of these when you're done with the expansion. :) And of course, again when you're ready for the next.