We is likely to be devoting numerous column inches to the nice, good boys of Final Fantasy XV as of late, however let’s not overlook that its quick predecessor continues to be some of the profitable MMORPGs on the block.
In-between expansions, Final Fantasy XIV is supported by large episodic updates, every one successfully a small enlargement. The second episode of the present season was so huge, they needed to cut up it in two. The first half brought cackling clown-god Kefka back for an encore performance, and the latter half (on account of hit servers on March 13th) guarantees a brand new, bigger form of endgame expertise.
The Forbidden Land of Eureka is a brand new zone coming in Patch 4.25. A 144-player occasion geared round large-scale cooperative play, dwarfing even the recently-added 48-player MOBA-esque PvP mode. In this unusual new land (primarily based on a location from Final Fantasy three from waaaaay again within the day), even the common monsters hit like vehicles, and the roaming bosses might go a pair rounds with Godzilla earlier than chucking up the sponge.
Just to complicate issues, all the things in Eureka has a particular elemental affinity, giving it benefits far past even the highest-level monsters. In order to interrupt by way of the defenses of more durable creatures, you’ll must attune your self to a conflicting component by looking smaller monsters of an opposing sort, successfully including a brand new form of levelling. Just to make issues much more intense, you may lose attunement ranges should you go and get your self killed out within the discipline and never revived by one other participant inside ten minutes. This is just not a spot for lone wolves.
For the much less intense adventurers, you’ll even have an opportunity to satisfy again up with bumbling would-be detective Hildibrand on his newest nonsensical caper. Slapstick motion, references to earlier video games and pointlessly silly and explosive options to advanced, refined issues are order of the day. Also mustaches…?
As for me, I’m slowly catching up on the sport. When I final unsubscribed, I used to be about midway by way of the second episode of post-Heavensward content material. Without repeating something (not a single dungeon returned to) I’ve simply sunk 20 hours extra into the sport and I’m nonetheless some methods from even starting the most recent enlargement, Stormblood. This is a really giant sport.
Eureka will simply have to attend somewhat longer for me. Don’t hunt all of the monsters earlier than I get there, alright?
Final Fantasy XIV is accessible from all main sport shops, however for these curious I highly recommend the free trial, which brings gamers all the best way as much as degree 35 – a key level within the story. Unlike different MMOs that supposedly ‘don’t get good till endgame’, this trial consists of at the very least eight co-op dungeons and two main god-slayings, in addition to entry to the roguelike Palace Of the Dead.
