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I'm so glad you _finally_ understand what we've been talking about.

Natsuko Ishikawa received a standing ovation for this, and she completely deserves it!

Speaking of Ardbert's voice acting, I just remember the extremely angry/sad "We did everything right, everything that was asked of us and still it came to this!" done so well back in 3.4, and then it was so huge to find out what that everything was. Also when it dawned on me when he was like, "Oh god you can hear me", I was so sad. That would really suck to just be a ghost in a world you tried so hard to save

I knew I loved this game, but something about sitting in the alien DMV, and talking to a ghost while waiting for my number to be called, made me realize just how insanely talented and dedicated the team behind it was. I can't tell you why, it was a surreal moment

This was SUCH an enjoyable watch - you really hit the nail on the head with your comment that FF14 has such a voice, a strong identity. This dev team has "it" & have honed their techniques over many expansions, learning from mistakes and always listening to their players' desires. FF14 has been a refuge for me as well in dark times, so to see you echo that sense of appreciation...:) its very wholesome, i honestly can't help but smile:) it's one of the things that binds this community together, this shared experience of story that we're all (well mostly all ;) ) so invested in emotionally. to me that sort of deep immersion, the kind that can make you happy when everything else is wrong, well what gaming's all about. thanks for keeping me company in my 2000+ server queue xD off to watch that patch reaction now! Btw, if you get stuck in a queue, consider watching the FFXIV Official channel's video about the 'making of SHB'. its big spoilers for those who didnt finish but of course, you're safe to watch it now)

When a World of Warcraft player experiences something written by competent people who know what they are doing.

I really liked how they made Dulia Chai such a likeable character, and didn't turn her weight into a punchline

There’s one major character you forgot to discuss: The Warrior of Light/Darkness themself. Shadowbringers did something that I have never seen in any other MMO before, including XIV up to that point. It made the player character the protagonist of the story. In ARR and Heavensward Alphinaud is the protagonist of that story, the WoL is just along for the journey. Lyse (and Hien to a lesser extent) is the protag of Stormblood. But ShB is, at it’s emotional core, about what *is* the WoL, what makes them a hero, and what beyond that makes them special in this world? And the exploration of that theme continues through the patch content in a brilliant way, to the point that there is narrative justification as to why *you*, the player character, are the most important person in this story.

Shadowbringers is an experience that is going to stick with me for the rest of my life. Decades from now when I think back fondly on my most cherished gaming memories, Shadowbringers will be at the forefront. I am not an emotional person by any means, but the last bit of content in Shadowbringers had me crying like a little baby girl who just had her lollipop stolen. I genuinely feel bad for people who don't get to experience this. Man . . . Just amazing.

Loving how he's pointing at both Vauthrey and Emet, screaming "SEE? SEE? SEE HOW YOU WRITE A VILLAIN! THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING" to Danuser et al Emet only got introduced at the tail end of the SB patches, but by the end of ShB we all adored him, what's Zovaal's excuse

Now for Mike and the Comments to appreciate that Ahm Araeng is Thanalan rotated 90 degrees, all the zones are. So that Trolley path going down to Nabath Araeng is the tunnel between Horizon and Vesper Bay. She prayed you would return to Vesper Bay, to the Waking Sands, one last time.

"If you had the strength to take another step, could you do it? Could you finish the patches before maintenance?" Bellular: *Grabs axe*

There's a reason we say that Shadowbringers isn't just the best MMORPG story ever told, it might be one of the best Final Fantasies. Period.

When you challenge Emet and the floor glows 7 circles around you. You queue for the Hades fight with your friends And they show up in those circles. Fuck me I have never felt as moved by a video game before. My friends, my real life friends, being CANONICALLY there for me for this momentous battle. I'm not ashamed to admit I cried a bit through the whole thing

"We Ascians know because it is our history. Our story." “This world is not yours to end. This is our future. Our story.” I loved the poetry of those lines reflecting one another.

To be honest, when I started this game, I couldn't understand why everyone was praising and talking up Soken, like I get it, he wrote some good music, but god damn. After actually playing through the entire game, he isn't praised enough. The man enhanced the game experience almost two fold simply with the amazing music. I never gave music much thought in my 20 years of playing games but he made me pay attention. He made me see how important the music is to the gameplay, and how big of an impact it can have and how much it can improve the epic moments you experience. he is nothing short of a genius and truly a master of his craft.

The Thancred vs. Ran'jit fight is a masterpiece of storytelling. If this had been the WoL/D vs. Ran'jit, it would never have worked, because this was set up so beautifully to be Thancred's fight. They made the stakes for this fight personal. Both of these are father figures to Minfilia, current and previous. Both of these men feel guilt because they feel they let past versions of her down. Ran'jit is broken by probably decades of war, and wants to see Minfilia safe and happy in what he sees as the final days. Thancred wants to see Minfilia be her own person, to see her grow, to see her prosper, even though he knows that doing so will mean his Minfilia will be gone forever. Resolving that inner conflict and letting himself finally grieve is just a part of what makes this fight great. The fight itself is between these two fathers of the same young girl. This fight is personal. The stakes are personal, and their goals are fundamentally incompatible. No words or compromises exist that can prevent this fight. One will walk away with what they want, and the other will have nothing. The fight is inevitable, and they will both give everything to see it through. It's a masterpiece.

What I really love is how the zones in Shadowbringers mimic the zones in ARR but with slightly different twists. The Rak'tika Greatwood is Gridania and the Black Shroud. Kholusia is La Noscea. Ahm Araeng is Thanalan. They're familiar enough (forest, ocean, desert) to make us go "Hey, this feels familiar!" but different enough that we can instinctively tell it's a completely different world that is connected to the Source. They perfectly nailed that feeling of being on an alternate world, and it helps sell the whole story just because they went for that "similar but different" feel.

What's interesting is that Square-Enix didn't really have a plan when they wrote the Crystal Tower, nor did they have a plan when they wrote the Warriors of Darkness in Heavenward. Natsuko Ishikawa talked about this at PAX West in 2019, she took some dangling plot threads and managed to weave it into the story masterfully.

The showdown with Emet is one of my favorite gaming moments ever. Masterfully written and executed.

“If you had the strength to take another step, could you do it? Could you save our worlds?”

The Ardbert + WoL teamup bit gives me chills every time I see it, no exceptions. I have helped SO many friends through that 80 dungeon and trial and it never gets old

Ascian DMV got me in tears, not only because how ultimately sad the whole story is but also just crying because we got such a TREAT... mostly being able to explore what it was like for them in the days before the sundering, to walk this city, to talk to the npcs there and casually learn about their lives and worldview. I did not expect at all to get such a big serving of lore and when Our Old New Friend was talking to us I was beyond elated and moved.

Crystal Tower released December 14th, 2013. Shadowbringers released July 2nd, 2019. Imagine the shock if you were there at the start.

I started FFXIV due to you guys discussing it, big thanks to Matt. I just finished all MSQ last weekend and glad you're almost there. Keen to see more FFXIV content since WoW just isn't what I want to consume any more. You're gonna fucking love the patch content.

Ah yes, the near incoherent ramblings of someone recently completed Shadowbringers - love it! Being more serious though, I doubt there is many people who followed the story and didn't think that moment where Ardbert passes you his axe and the guitar kicks in was just absolutely perfect. Been over two years for me now, and while a lot of the more minor stuff is no longer clear in my memory, the final part after arriving in the underwater city will never fade. The patches since have kept this high quality, when you think for sure it has to get worse...so can definitely understand why hype for Endwalker is so high. Good luck to YoshiP and his team, and hope it is as good as we all hope!

**5.0 Spoiler Warning for those who haven't done it** There's a couple neat details they pull at the end: Emet-Selch stops slouching at his end. Up until the time you fight him, he's always hunched over (to the point of earning a nickname 'Emet-Slouch'). After that fight, before he fades away, he's standing upright. This is because he has judged you worthy of carrying his burdens, and thus dies at peace. Ardbert's axe loses its bloodstain during that sequence, after he merges with you. This is also Ardbert moving on from his past--he no longer has figurative and literal blood on his hands for what happened to The First and to his friends. Ardbert blamed himself for the Flood, and moreover, when he and his friends travelled to The Source, they did so by giving their lives...and Ardbert was the one who killed them all, then himself. The fact that the dev team and writers have the thought to put in these little pieces of symbolism shows how much they actually care about even the little things, and yes, NOTHING in FF14 is irrelevant. If it came up in an MSQ, then...it's important. Expect loose threads as far back as ARR to come back in Endwalker.

"What? Never heard of an immortal being cry? Rest assured, if your heart can be broken so can mine."

Imagine if seeing Zerith Mortis had half the awe that Amaurot has. The game does such a great job balancing spectacle and gameplay, plot development and character development. So excited for Endwalker to begin.

Time travel was introduced in Heavensward. That's why certain optional raids and side content are actually quite important even when they're not mandatory.

I still think that finding allies--the essence of an mmo--as the players special power is genius.

I cried when Heavensward sent a javelin through the shield, the aftermath, and the final confrontation with Nidhogg. I felt triumphant when you kept on gaining ground in Stormblood. Shadowbringers made me do both through just amazing setpieces and a banging soundtrack. The ending cutscene after the Emet Selch fight was just precious. I want to give these characters a fucking hug. They're in dire need of one.

The way this game has periodically improved on itself has been so special to experience. I really hope Endwalker can cap it off with their best performance.

The best japanese storytelling I've seen in games or anime usually focus a lot on character development and the death of a character isn't just in vain, they choose who to kill based on which character "needs" that death to "grow up", Lyse and Papalimo being the example on this, but a lot of other JRPGs and animes also use this plot device (Naruto and Jiraya, Asuma and Shikamaru, Edward/Alphonse and their mother, the list goes on) Also, Bellular seems like a person who's been imprisioned in a padded room for a decade to the point his senses were numb, now he has been released and became another man after feeling the smell of fresh air, tasting good food, etc. "What a present to be alive!" instead of "Oh God Blizzard stop stepping my source of joy".

Amaurot just blew me away. This Big City under Water...the Music... the Story..

emet selch is one of my favorite villains of all of gaming. he's written in such an amazing way that you empathize with him greatly, learn that he isn't some harbinger of evil bent on world destruction like we originally though. no, he's just a man trying desperately to reclaim the lives of his loved ones, lost to a fallen civilization long ago. in a way, he could be the "hero" of his own game and it would be a great game.

I was just thinking "Damn, what is Bel's thoughts on Shadowbringers? Did he finish it?" Fantastic timing as always!

Tesleen's story is straight up nightmare fuel and that's the moment I realized ShB was gonna be quite good.

As a longtime player of Final Fantasy XIV, there is something about the game that makes you wanna share it. To see people's first time reaction to these big moments. That kinda started with the end of ARR, where they kicked the story off the standard fantasy story rails, scooped it up and sprinted for the deep dark woods and never looked back, while we were trying to figure out what the hell just happened. All of these new players from WoW have been such a massive hit of that, and especially all of these incredibly talented and passionate content creators that came to give our game a try. It's been a joy to watch you all share these moments, and to see that you 'get it' too when you get there. Thank you for giving our game a chance, and I'm really looking forward to going through Endwalker with you all.

In case it wasn't completely clear, Thancred's "thing" for Minfilia is non-romantic, the devs themselves have stated that his relationship to Minfilia was that of a surrogate parent, or more specifically of an older brother. Without the 1.0 context, a few players sometimes miss that.

I was in the hospital after being diagnosed with cancer about 2 months before ShB launched. I was able to play once ShB launched. God damn this was an emotion experience for me, and something I needed to feel like life was normal still. 5.3 is amazing, but all the patch MSQ for SHB was really good. I hope we see a 5.1-5.55 thoughts video before Endwalker, and hope you get to experience it day one as well. These have been great to watch, can't wait to see what you have in the future.

You're going at Sakaguchi speed!

From the moment Alisaie says, “By the gods…” to the end of the game, Shadowbringers is as perfect a game as you could hope for. No qualifiers needed-it’s not good “for an MMO” or “For a Final Fantasy game “ or “as good as a single player game”-it’s better and it makes your heart soar into the stars. Congrats on finishing 5.0!

I picked up the game a few weeks ago and just finished Shadowbringers yesterday. Everything about this game is absolutely phenomenal and I can not wait to dive into the next expansion in a few days. Love your content broheim!

So one fun thing, Amaurot is also a literary reference. It's the city from Thomas More's Utopia, and Hythlodeus is a major character from it. Just to really hit home if you get the reference that just like Utopia this isn't actually a place that's as perfect as it pretends to be.

@5:05 They did EXACTLY what I wanted. I wanted them to not use the trailer music in-game until the climax. Climax arrives, bam, trailer music. So freaking perfect.

22:55 - This... This is why I've been a Final Fantasy fan for about 19 years. I had a rough childhood at school and a bit at home. Kingdom Hearts, FFX, FFXII, FF1-9... These are the games that allowed me to be inspired, creative and emotional. I wouldn't be an artist, animator or a musician, if it wasn't for these games.

The dialogue delivered by Lahabrea at the end of Prae still makes sense. Three expansions later.

If you look at the shadowbringers theme lyrics it fits with the story, it starts with "one brings shadow and one brings the light" mean you(wod) and ardbert(wol) and at the end of the song it is "i am the shadow, i am the light"

The post 5.0 content is incredible because it wraps up everything, and I mean EVERYTHING perfectly. From the Twinning explaining the time travel, to the fight with MISTER FINAL FANTASY himself, it perfectly wraps up a story that was already tied off perfectly.

The fact that you meet a traveling merchant just like you do in the beginning of ARR, is just a sneaky way of writing your feelings for the Source's people and places to include the First. It's just good writing; setting up the player's expectations and feelings about a place by alluding to previous experiences and feelings.

Thancred doesn't "have a thing" for Minfilia. His feelings for her are more along the lines of a father or older brother, due to him feeling responsible for looking after her. He has feels guilt for being unable to save her father's life which in turn left her with no family. After that happened he took it upon himself to look after her and is even the one who gave her the name Minfilia, in order to protect her from Garlemald. Krile even refers Minfilia as his "beloved" which Thancred responded to by saying "Minfilia is dear to me, it is true-but not in the way you think."

What I find interesting is it's very interesting the personal interactions between the Cultures of the 1st has developed without the interference of the Ascians the 'beast tribes' aren't beast tribes at all.

Just wanna say, everybody memes on "La-hee!" because we all love it! Also, fun fact, La-hee actually means something in ancient Rhonkan! I'm not gonna spoil what, but it's mentioned in a beast-tribe quest!

Seeing Mike going from dabbling a little bit at a time in ARR to cannonballing Shadowbringers in a race to make it in time for Endwalker has been one hell of a satisfying journey.

This was my favorite story in any jrpg. I broke down several times, just from the stories being told invoking emotions and reflecting on things in my own life. I’m grateful to have found this game

A friend of mine went through all of 5.0 without ever doing the Crystal Tower. I was curious if that changed the impact of the story for them. I think they actually liked the Exarch even more than I did. So even then, before it was required, it still worked wonderfully as a story. I do understand why they made it mandatory when they released 5.3.

The character moments between the scions are great too, you see more of the twins interacting with each other (anything happens to them in endwalker....) but the moment that felt the most.. like these people are a family from differnet places to me was in the greatwood, where y'shtola asks uberdanger to describe the sky to her because, of course she can't actually see it. It really kind of reinforces these people aren't just collogues, these people are family. The scions as a larger organization may change but these ones are the core of it, and they damn well better not hurt them in endwalker

Seeing his love for the twins, I can imagine how he's going to feel when he gets to that scene where you say hello to their family member.

Emet-Selch has a great one liner about (paraphrasing) "In war the conqueror must embrace the conquered with dignity. And you have succeeded so effortlessly." It's moments like this that really make me appreciate the brilliants of the story tellers behind this game.

Literally never clicked on a video so fast in my LIFE

Watching reactions to people playing the ending of Shadow Bringers has become a hobby of mine. I love that moment with Ardbert and the sudden guitar riff leading to the most badass showdown I have ever seen in any game. Just amazing.

Someone was tabbing out during thancred and krile in heavensward.

I love how he got so attached to the twins. Don't you hurt our kids, SE!

You went through that so fast XD Hope you enjoyed! :D (Edit: Watched the vid, just wait until you get through the patch content! :D) (Second edit since I finished the video now: Listening to this makes me feel all the things about Shadowbringers all over again)

At this rate, he's gonna finish Endwalker before all of us

The slow planning is key to good MMO storytelling. That horrible moment with Tesleen when that white goo covers her face? They shock that into your mind to make you remember how excruciating it is to be converted to a sin eater. Then at the lowest point of the story, right before the climax, your character is overwhelmed by the Light. What does he do in that last moment? He spits up that white goo onto the ground. The player automatically thinks of Tesleen and is panicking because the subconscious part of their brain that is repulsed by things like body horror is actually scared for their character. It's the closest you'll ever get to fearing for your avatar's existence in a MMO. Not more than a few seconds later, you get the Ardbert's question and then the climax of the story. It takes you from Nadir to Xenith in less than a minute and it's perfect. Not just "good for video games" either.

The way shadowbringers makes you feel ABSOUTLELY hopeless is stellar. You are fighting a loosing battle. EVREYONE at the start says it's not possible. Evreyone tells you to give up and yet you push forwards and you manage to fucking do it....and then...evreything goes to shit after Rak'tika. You see Lyna break down which was such a powerful, yet short moment (I'm shocked you didn't mention it, it's what made Lyna my favorite side character in the whole game). And yet you go forwards. You kill Innonence....and then you know you're the doom. Then you realize your folly. And yet now, after all you've done, evreyone holsters you on their shoulders to push you forwards. Because you can't give up. Because if you do, two worlds are doomed. And yet the depressing atomsphere goes on. You go into Amaurot and finish it. Emet kicks your ass and all truly seems lost, but hope glimmers at the last second and you stand up with the conviction of two whole worlds standing behind you. Shadowbringers was never about playing the hero. Shadowbringers was about fighting because you want this world, and yours, to survive. And in the end, to me, that's what gives you the strength to finish the fight. Because a lose is not an option. Shadowbringers shows you that you, the warrior of light, is not invincible. You're the slayer of gods, ender of wars, and liberator of nations, yet at the end of the day....you're human. Even the music adds to it. The pre-freed Kholusia music is depressing and shows toil. the desert (I cannot spell) shows that these people are scorched endlessly by the blistering sun as they toil and work to stave off the sin eaters. I honestly think the purpose of shadowbringers is to humble you. ARR is about the start, building up a world and setting it all up. Hevansward is about ending a war so that Eorzea can be fully unified again. Stormblood is about fighting for freedom and standing up no matter the odds. Shadowbringers is about showing you that you're human. You're weak. And by doing that, and doing it in a belivable way, they avoid a very obvious video game protanist trap of "You're invincible! You'll always find a way to beat your foes! You know you'll come out on top because you're the warrior of light/champion of azeroth/the hero." But shadowbringers makes you genuinely question that and remebering that....that is powerful.

Bellular pulling away from WoW and leaning into FFXIV is really the best thing he has done for his content in a while.

Being able to revisit the major story beats through all the recent coverage the game has been getting, I've been struck by how hard the big moments still hit. Actually I think they hit harder the farther you go because every past moment becomes even more meaningful as the story continues.

Emet-Selch is my favorite antagonist of any game I have ever played. I deliberately didnt use villain as in his story we are the villains and he is the hero who just wants to reunite the broken souls and world of his people.

Emet Selch is my favorite antagonist. His character was spot on perfect, i loved his mannerisms and his classic off handed wave he does when walking away. It just fit his internal struggle of trying to fix the world while also destroying it. Because even though his goal was his life, he at the same time showed that he cared as well and even respected the warrior of light.

Feeling very confident Eorzea will be saved with all these WoWheads standing next to us.

Wew, you are speeding through it Bell! Glad you are enjoying yourself, looking forward to Endwalker! LETS GOOOOOOOO

Make sure you go back to your job trainer. They'll have a quest for you that looks unimportant but it's a job quest to round out that line. Also, go back to Fortempts manor in Ishgard. There's what looks like a side quest from a servant in the back left of the house. It's not a side-quest, it's the wrap up to Heavensward. And then, go visit F'llahmin where she's sitting in the restaurant above Rowena's House in Revenent's Toll. She offers another game-wide wrap up quest that's kind of quiet, but it it's more than the side quest it appears to be. Just a few suggestions you might have missed while speed-reading the MSQ :)

Leaving the First was incredibly difficult for me; technically, I still haven't "left" because my Home Point is still the Crystarium. Did you notice how the lvl 80 Job quests were all very simple "talking" quests? It was part of beginning to wean the player from "living" in the First and get them reconnected with the Source. I literally felt somewhat disoriented when I started doing MSQs in the Source again. It felt every bit as alien as the First felt those first dozen main quests or so. That is amazing worldbuilding and storytelling.

I think its time to point out that Thancred's relationship with Minfilia is more of a father-daughter sort of relationship.

one of the things wich made me completly respect the work of what the story writers do at square is that i always always always hate time travel stuff because it makes things weird and is in 99.9% just a bad thing in general because i think its lazy to just say lets go back in time and change the usual whatever if that box is opened you can just reuse it all the time. but the way xiv did it just impressed me. the second thing is that the scions i mostly didnt care about alot of them ( thancred, urianger, even ystola) because they were mostly just there i didnt know much about them i didnt feel with them but they grew so much onto me in shadowbringers because you see them really grow and have traits wich change depending on what people they are arround. truly a masterpiece

Huge congrats! Love following along with you on your journey; it’s great to have you guys as part of the community.

Shout out to Tesleens moment of "death", cos that's when you get hooked into SHB

I think when you take out the first Light Warden and bring back the night by splitting the sky every player knew this was going to be epic.

We highly recommend doing the Shadowbringers optional Trials, The Sorrow of Werlyt questline!

Bellular what can really blow your mind is when you realize that all the creatures in the Endwalker trailer are ALSO in the Amarout dungeon. The kill the WoL does on the moon is the first boss in the same dungeon, and tentacle creatures that are there when Einstinien appears with Vritra likewise, show up just before the end boss, etc.

That moment where Michael finally tastes a proper Wagyu beef steak after reviewing McDonalds burgers for years.

Good luck getting through 5.56 by tomorrow night! Dashing into the Endwalker Waiting Room just before the door slams shut.

Well *that* was quick! Michael's really tearing through the MSQ! One thing I'd like to see is the Bellular team's opinions on the difference in storytelling between Heavensward & Shadowbringers. In your post Heavensward video, there was a lot of talk about how the Post ARR patch quests took a lot of time laying the ground work for Heavensward, introducing characters, settings, & plots, all so that Heavensward could hit the ground running. But in Shadowbringers, the opposite can be said to be true. With only a handful of exceptions, the setting, conflicts, and characters are all new in Shadowbringers. You don't know any of them till you land on the First. All of this has to be filled in during the MSQ. Somehow, the dev team has worked entire emotional arcs into the expansion, with minimal pre-set up. They make you care about everyone and everything, in a much smaller space of time. And none of it feels any less grand.

I got to this point last week! Absolutely blew me away. It's been really fun watching you follow along as well.

I remember the early access days for Shadowbringers. It was maybe the wildest experience for everyone there. I mean, the server issues were for the first time mitigated enough that it didn't impact the experience wildly, and we were all enjoying this wild-ass story and collectively freaking out about what we were seeing. I mean, people would hang out at various checkpoints to say hello and just listen to the music. I specifically walked around that final city for probably an hour just to take in the sights. I think any expectation that they could top that experience in endwalker would be too much, so I'm hoping that it's half as good, because it'd still be an incredible expansion that way.

Nice, he managed to finish Shadowbringer just before Endlkwalker comes out. Now I wonder if he'll upload his reaction videos. Would like to hear some of his theories during gameplay and his reaction to their revelations.

Woo hoo!! Shadowbringers is such a great story!

Wanna know the best part of all of this, Bellular? You've barely _scratched the surface_ of what the game has to offer. You still need to unlock, and run: 12 Alexander Raids + 3 Shadow of Mhach Alliance Raids from Heavensward 12 Omega Raids + 3 Ivalice Alliance Raids + 3 Optional Trials from Stormblood 12 Eden Raids + 3 Alliance Raids + Optional, Endgame Dungeons from Shadowbringers Not to mention running/clearing all of the Savage and Ultimate difficulty content-- all of which have rich, fully fleshed out stories and AMAZING fights that are _completely, wholly unique_ from the normal mode versions, even offering new/different enemies, cutscenes and music scores.

Great video but I wish people would stop saying the Thancred/Minfillia relationship is romantic... because it's not. He doesn't have a thing for her. He's like a father (or older brother) figure to her.

Grats on finishing MSQ~ Now on to the next chapter! I play on CN server so it won't get the expansion until 4 month later. Have fun and I will be catching up with you guys after 4 month.

I became more emotionally attached to Dulia-Chai than any character introduced in Shadowlands. I check on her every time I'm in Eulmore

The structure of 5.0, the early chapters in particular, are quite brilliant. Alisaie's intro chapter shows (not tells, shows) what the excess Light does to individuals; Alphinaud's shows what it does to whole societies. It's such a great way to explain what the Light is doing to the First, why it's bad, and why you must stop it. Only after those things are firmly established do you properly set out on your adventure to reunite the Scions and put a stop to Emet-Selch's plans.

I hope we can say “it keeps getting better” in Endwalker the same way we did for Shadowbringers

I knew you'd love it. So excited to see your reaction!

I haven’t played WoW in years so I’ve had no idea who some of you guys (wow streamers) were before now, but I’ve really enjoyed watching you guys enjoy a game I’ve loved for years now. I love seeing you get fired up and love the story and characters as much as I do.

I love how you're enjoying the game. I relive these moments every time I see someone going through them, it's always like the first time and the feelings never lessen. Cannot wait to see you press on.