Something I really like about this boss battle, other than the fact that it is fanservice, is after the boss does their desperate attack, Thordan absolutely loses it. He's running at you swinging his sword like a novice instead of his regal fighting style from earlier. He's not even focused on the tank anymore. Thordan is the only boss in the game who became terrified of the Warrior of Light on the last 10% of his health.

doing this fight for the first time oh my fucking god man. oh my FUCKING god man. Shit blew my mind.

I love how, after you survive his ultimate attack, he resorts to those clumsy, awkward sword flails. This was a powerful moment for me--in a game were we routinely fight gods and demons, backing the most powerful foe we've faced into a corner, making him panic and attack in desperation was exciting.

Despite Thordan's Knights being called the Twelve, it didn't click in my mind until they all started swarming and performing their attacks one by one. Then it hit me. THEY MADE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND A PRIMAL BATTLE! As someone who started with FF7, I shed a tear at the end of Thordan's ultimate attack.

I like how his entire composure in this fight just breaks right after his ultimate attack. Like "that was the best I had! Who.....what are you?!"

I love the moment Thordan just goes nuts like a desperate maniac after realizing that his strongest attack barely hurt you. Storytelling... outside of cutscenes... in an MMO. Fuck, FF14 is so damn good.

I love how both Thordan and Nidhogg battles include variations of Dragonsong in their theme. Thordan's has the "chorus of man" which makes it sound more heroic, triumphant, and holy. The dravanian horde's version is more Gregorian, wrathful and ancient sounding. Makes sense because both Thordan and Nidhogg are powered by the same source of aether, eyes of a wyrm. Also shows that both sides of thr war are corrupt and blinded, and ties in the theme of an eye for an eye.

"Okay, primal-infused god-emperor. Hard to beat. What's gonna be next, a city-sized mecha primal?" "Weeeeelll..."

"This shall be a Mercy."- King Thordan "FOR HAURCEFANT!" Literally EVERYONE playing the game

The first thing I thought when I saw the Heavens' Ward turning into Primals, was "Oh god we're gonna fight Knights of the Round". I was not mistaken. That was an utmost epic ending.

"Just hit them and dodge AoE" "Mmmkay" Most useful tip ever.

I felt goosebumps during the whole fight. The effects and atmosphere felt like a spectacle, and the OST building up at each phase, until the end. I love it so much!

Knights of the round, this is one of the most epic battles in the game.

Ngl I cry every fucking time I get this in a roulette or reach this fight on alts, the song, the planet, the glass shattering effect with the end of the ultimate attack and then him going insane at the end is just so fucking badass

When I first did this fight, it was with a friend of mine, a Scholar. I was a BLM. We were both unsynced to avoid queue times, but both lvl 60 (the proper level for the fight anyway). It was one hell of a battle. We got about 50% of the way first try, then we both died. The Echo boosted our power, and we formulated a basic strategy, then revelled in the absolute fucking marvel that is this fight. It was **so** challenging, and SO fucking satisfying to get to the next stage. I could actually feel my heart pounding and my adrenaline building as we got closer to about 30% of his health, then he went into his desperate ultimate attack phase and we thought it was all over. We survived through amazing synergy, teamwork and co-ordination: abusing the everliving fuck out of manashift, manaward and galvanize, Eos on max healing and the scholar just constantly healing me as I tanked as a BLM. Without all the randoms there to mess up mechanics or spoil the experience, this was by far the best experience I've had with the game since I got it. We almost screamed when we finally defeated him: the scholar had died on the very last leg of the mile, I was on my last slivers of HP and the boss was flailing his sword about hopelessly. We traded, and I nearly died (1k out of 20k total HP) but I out-DPS'd him. After it was over, we both had to sit down calmly for a few minutes while the adrenaline wore off and our hearts stopped beating like mad. There was such obvious satisfaction. The whole fight was just extremely epic. The awesome music, the theme and tone of the boss, the story behind it and everything leading up to it. It was stunning, and I really hope there's more content like this coming with Shadowbringers - but with Okabe and Yoko Taro on the team, I know it's going to be an abolutely legendary experience with music that rends the heartstrings asunder. I still listen to Wretched Weaponry a year or two after completing Automata and it still makes me yearn for more, sometimes it makes me cry. No other game has wrought such raw emotion from me and that's why this fight alone is why I've cemented Square Enix as my favourite videogame producer, ever. Final Fantasy 14 is just amazing. The community is awesome and friendly, always willing to help with anything be it crafting or dungeons, the content is fantastic, it's constantly updated and everything is just satisfying in the purest sense of the word. God bless you, SE. Never change, please.

I didn't even occur to me what I was fighting until I got to phase 2. Then... wow. Amazing fight.

I was expecting throwbacks esp for this expansion but for Square to pull off one of the most well known summons and turn it into a boss fight, use the same designs while retaining the aesthetics we've come to love AND incorporate the boss's Ultiimate in the same manner. Kudos. This was very well played

S.E. has the best fucking composers in the industry.

"who......what are you?!" i love the ending CS for this fight and how your char is shrouded in the shadows as thordan looks at you

FFXIV is the most "FF" feeling in an FF in a long ass time

He has 12 powerful knights and, instead of releasing all of them from the start, he releases them in pairs only. What a silly king.

I love how this game builds things up. Ascians were supposed to be OP, but then you struck two of them down at the same time, then Thordan comes in and kills them himself. Then you defeat Thordan and he wonders who, no.. WHAT you are. Epic. I really do get this mental scale of "holy shit how OP am I?" lol

Just done this fight today. My mind...has been officially fucking blown to smithereens! I've never seen 'glass shatter' effect before in a MMO...my gosh! The epicness! Thanks for uploading!

If you've ever did Hallowed Ground or Living Dead and that 10 more seconds granted your team enough time to finish the boss. Your the real mvp.

I lost my mind at the 7:31 part my first time through. FC buddy and I were going ballistic in teamspeak. Have to hand it to SE, they know how to make one hell of a final boss.

Remember that you can right click on the screen and select "loop" if you want more of this, people. =)

*reaction to King Thordan after fight* "YOU BROUGHT THIS ON YOURSELF, TRAITOR!"

My favorite aspect of this fight is how it felt like the whole expansion, the fights and all you've done up to this one, was training for you this fight's mechanics. Good stuff.

This is the best boss fight ever in my gaming experience Thanks for upload this man And thanks to you Square Enix !!

Saw another KZfaqr comment something similar, but while this entire fight was amazing, it felt so satisfying to put 'For Haurchefant!' in the chat right at the end of the fight as I activated my limit break, which ended up as the final blow.

The Title should be Knights of the Round. I seriously did not expect the Knights of the Round to be a Primal Fight in this game.

I didn't realize the first knight that cast that room ride AOE that we can never seem to kill is Zephirin! I promised I get his heart...

The extreme mode of this is going to be sick.

Amazing track, definitely has that "final boss" feel to it.

Woulda been hilarious if Thordan said "Have at you!!" at the end like the black knight when he was flailing his sword around like in national lampoon.

One of my favorite soundtrack and battle so far!

What I like about the Heavensward themes is... each theme goes with the area. Churning Mist(Soft version), The Aery(Full version) or Sea of Clouds(Soft version), Neverreap(Full version). A better example would be Ishgard(Heavensward Theme), The Vault(Heavensward theme played on an Organ). What's interesting about the Vault's theme is... every time you go to a different floor or section, the take a key out from the organ. I hope I didn't confuse anyone? LOL!

Y'know, looking at Thordan fight, I notice a lot of his animations are repurposed from Dark Knight job actions, with his model being roughly based on the one they used for Phlegethon/Acheron (difference being that those two hold their sword outward, like a Paladin would, whereas Thordan holds his inward, similar to how Dark Knights do). For example, Dragon's Eye uses the same animation as Darkside, but is an AoE stun. The animation for Ancient Quake uses the Unleash animation, but has longer reach and is Earth-aspected. And Dragon's Blood uses the Shadowskin animation, but is simply the stance he enters to enable use of Dragon's Eye. Something tells me that these bosses might actually work on a system similar to player characters - maybe one day we'll get a mode or something to play as Primals (or simulacrums of them, rather).

It fucking blew my mind that this fight combined the mechanics of nearly every primal, raid, and boss fight into one. However, I felt it was too early for a fight like this to exist.

THORDAN EX IN TEN DAYS BOYS HE'S GONNA LIMIT BREAK THE SHIT OUT OF YOU

This fight and theme kicked me in the face, it blew my mind. SE did an amazing job with Heavensward.

Totally makes me remember of the Kingdom Hearts songs. And its epic.

This is my favorite song and fight in the entire game so far. Absolutely love this.

This is the theme that gets stuck in my head all day.

The beginning... oooooh the beginning! It's so amazing that it excites me like CRAZY for the battle!

This fight made the grind worth it, the first time you do this battle, its level of epic is well over 9000!! The music... THE MUSIC!!!

was waiting for this song so bad! :D epic trial

Insta-like! I love this theme, and this fight too! I've dreamed of a fight against these for some time now, and to have it actually happen, dream come true. My favourite fight ever! I really hope there's going to be an extreme version of this fight.

God I loved this fight. And at the end when you withstand his best attack like it's nothing. "Damnable fool! I've *destroyed* your kind a dozen times over!! A thousand years past your wretched deceitful kin started this war. And here is where it will all end! Let us finish this rotten business, here and now, once and for all. For Haurchefant, Ishgard...for Eorzea!!"

Dare I say "almost as good as "One Winged Angel" without getting MURDERED??? LOVE the theme...

i have to say when i first did this fight and they used LB's i sat there for a second and just thought...... did they just... limit break... us?

In the last moments of his life he did see a glimpse of the truth. *What* are you indeed. If you haven't finished ShB then... have fun!

Such an epic feel to the battle...and yes, quite beautiful to behold. I do hope they consider making a harder version of this fight. I can just imagine!

OMG I remember when I first did this my heart was going so fast cause of the song had me jamming out

the music at the begining is too awesome :O

THIS THEME IS BANGING! Damn, makes me want to head back into eorzea and complete the main scenario quest to maybe then play heavensward just to get here.

The work 'majesty' comes to mind when hearing this song

This song is majestic

My inner FF7 Fanboy was fangasming hard this entire fight. I was nearly incapable during the summon phase.

I'm getting some VERY distinct Kingdom Hearts vibe from this...

The Warrior of Light. The sword that cleaves evil!

Thordas : _"Feel my power... Feel my divine power miserable human !"_ Ultimate End !

Now, this is how a final boss theme should be made. This song is incredible and it really adds to the adrenaline when you do this fight

one of the best fights with one of the best original music for the game.

I just fucking love how many fights in this game go with the music

This was so awesome. ;_;

One of best music themes

damn the beginning of this song gives me goosebumps

I can't begin to imagine the hard mode of this fight that we're about to get..

Now THIS is what I call a final boss song.

Such Bliss.

Currently playing D&D as my Paladin faces down a small army of corrupt paladins.....perfect background music

cry everytime I hear this..

Now give us a proper Minstrel's Ballad: Ultima's Bane version of this one.

Good king Thordan mog, good king mog!

Man I will never forget the moment this shit started and I heard it for the first time in game. Shit is too epic. This and T13. Just that opera at the beginning. "KREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" I was like o_o o shit this is boutta be epic

I really hope they make a The Singularity Reactor (Hard) like they did with Ultima in 2.1. I'd love a more challenging version of this fight, since it's so damned epic.

I feel this fight was perfect in every single way. I don't think the fight was the point of the fight, it was the experience. Like it was meant to be done in one go, but it was just enough to make it semi hard for all new players, but keeping the super hype level by not making it so crazy that you would wipe at the best part.

The history of dragons in Eorzia is fucking sad. Always dragged into these earth shattering wars over power and control. Scores of them enslaved and imprisoned to suffer for eternity. The scope of the abuse and torment they've suffered at the hands of the Allagans as revealed in the coils of Bahamut is just heart wrenching. I have the Twintania mount and I cant even use it. Just the very nature of the neuralink device around her neck is too grusome for me to bare.

Absolutely freaking *love* the chanting in the refrain, reminds me of Nobuo's best works (mad props to Soken and his team) and when I'm just not feeling it (XIV will never be as good as XI was in my eyes) little things like this remind me why I still like XIV.

Dreamsssss really do comeeee trueeeeeeeee

This song reminds me of Bhunivelze's final boss theme from Lightning Returns

G-damn I love the intro to this.

Wow, this fight looks intense...

The music is frikkin amazing through the whole of HW

The opening is awesome.

That fucking Blade Dance LB though. XD

I really hope this guy gets an Extreme Ballad. It deserves it, imo.

Every time I get this in random trial, I smile

The string instruments at some parts here give me a FF8 feel.

This battle was so epic... Only thing that can make it better is more epicness

This fight alone made me feel the same way I felt playing final fantasy 6 in 1993... For that moment I felt like I was fighting... Kefka all over again... Basically .. Even though it was a ff7 reference for me this fight was woke my FF spirit up

According to iTunes, this theme is called "Heroes"

god like fight

god damn it

Cloud and Noctis would be like: Cloud: That's not King Arthur. Noctis: That's not my dad.

Amazingly one of the best fight in this game! Just wish it was more challenging if they were to add extreme mode for it. But great nonetheless :)

Cant wait to see what they will do with this in ultimate

peak final boss theme

nobuo uematsu is a God..... He did beastly music in ff6 and ff7 . basically all of them but I love ff6 and ff7