Now that all of the patches are done and Dawntrail is on the horizon, we felt it was time to take a long look back at Endwalker as a whole - the good, the bad, the progress, the mistakes - and where it sits at the end of this 10 year journey which started in A Realm Reborn. As we look ahead, will Square Enix embrace change, or play it safe? P.S. Yes that footstep scene was as much of a pain in the butt as you think it is.

The intro is really high effort and appreciated.

When I saw that graph of 2 minute burst DPS, I... motherf... 🤣

A fair and balanced take on the expansion. It was wonderful seeing you get to enjoy your time with Endwalker, and I'm looking forward to enjoying your Dawntrail coverage too!

I stopped playing after the 6.0 MSQ. I first started back in Heavensward and played pretty much nonstop for the best part of 6 years. Endwalker wrapped up the story so well that it just felt like a natural stopping point for me, a great place to hang up my bard bow and retire from saving the world. It was really fulfilling to walk away from a live service MMO with nothing but fond memories, not feeling burned out, not feeling like the game overstayed its welcome. Now I'm enjoying following your journey through the new story!

What an intro! What a review - production was off the scale . WELL DONE EVERYONE!

12:50, you knew what you were doing

I don't think there's really a reason that the number of jobs has to influence the relic grind due to completionists. It would be fairly simple for SE to make a system that made the first jobs you do take a long time, but as you have more jobs completed, the speed you finish the grind at increases. It could be a level/buff thing similar to Bozja resistance levels / the buffs you get from that that just makes killing things quicker, or just a drop rate increase, or whatever. That way, the average player still gets a long relic grind, but the completionists don't have an unrealistic grind for the rest.

One thing that shouldn't be overlooked is, in addition to FFXVI, there were other behind-the-scenes strains on development resources like: finally integrating Duty Support for all MSQ dungeons (a much bigger task than they expected it to be), the graphics engine update, and the port to Xbox. The good news for Dawntrail is: FFXVI is out, Duty Support is completed, the Xbox port is live, and the graphics engine update will be finished upon the expansion's release. A lot of huge strains on CBU3's workload will be off their plate, and I think that's reason enough to look forward to what's to come.

Endwalker made me buy more and more boxes of tissues. There was a big increase in tissue economy during Endwalker

As someone who start FFXIV in Nov of 2022 after playing WoW since 2005 I LOVED EW the story and everything is so amazing and having a story that is actual cohesive and building and not retconned every 2 expansions felt amazing. I know some veterans dislike parts of it but for me it is a great expansion and i cannot wait to venture into Dawntrail day 1.

Actually, the story element of the trial series was spread across more than just Tataru's, there was some also in that side quest that went into the fiends' backstory, *and* there was more story in the patch MSQ than is typical.

Man it really was a journey now wasnt it? I dont know if i would have tried 14 if it wasnt for you tbh but so glad i did. Thank you so much.

I really think lots of players feel the "Endwalker got no reason to log on" specifically because they joined during Shadowbringers. After 2 or so years of playing through all of content that has piled up over 10 years of mmo development these players now reached the point where there is no more old/new-for-them content to go back to during a lull. And FF14 does get new content slowly, at least if you consider that there is no new timegated system to grind each patch. It's like reading a book series that has been going on for decades with an almost endless catalogue you can read through. Even if it feels like you will never catch up with all of the content, if you keep being interested it will happen eventually and then you are suddenly confronted with the drip feed that has been filling up an ocean.

OH MY GOD I loved this video so damn much. Not only did Preach offer his own fair take on Endwalker, on which most things I agree with, but the attention to details, the intro and the outro were AMAZING. ESPECIALLY the outro, I just LOVED it. Great job team! This was one of the best you've ever done, REALLY can't wait where you guys go next!

I think there are definitely things to criticize EW for that previous expansions handled better with story & systems, but I’m also very confident that 5-10 years from now, people who played EW will look back on it fondly for being an expansion that did a lot of boring busy work to update FFXIV into a “modern MMO” standard, and I believe a lot of the systems introduced here will pay off in the future as they are iterated upon. I think EW has been a great jumping-off point for Dawntrail to continue upping the ante for FFXIV - a fitting end to one story and the beginning of a new one.

This was well done. I hope the effort put in is reflected by the engagement. I'd love to see a behind the scenes view of your green screen setup.

I think some of the other issues with the 2 minute window (besides dictating raid planning) are: - It means all jobs have the same basic gameplan: stock resources/sync cooldowns to line up with 2 minutes. That makes jobs feel more similar and like there is less gameplay variety across the game as a whole. Paladin had to have a rework mid-expansion because it had a more sustained DPS playstyle that didn't play well into burst windows, so they changed it to be another sync-and-burst job like all the others, actively reducing job variety. - It HEAVILY punishes falling out of sync with your raid. The idea of the 2 minute window was so players don't have to worry about having bad synergy, but now since all jobs synergize by default, they are balanced around that synergy, meaning if you fail to sync your rotation with your raid (which can happen quite easily), you are losing HUGE damage. Particularly because jobs have also been designed so that all their biggest attacks also fall inside these buff windows.

13:00 Oh come on Preach, you knew what you were doing there.

Eh, i absolutly loved endwalker and how it did things. But im also not one who looks for a forever game anymore. I get my fill and then move on, come back later when there is something new and go away again.

I wasn't a fan of the last zone of the Endwalker MSQ. It had some very good moments but right after that section with Estinien, it became obvious how the story in that zone would unfold. It was obvious as well that none of the sacrifices actually mattered, so the story lost a lot of weight. Also felt like they didn't know what to do with Zenos so they jammed him in at the very end. There's so many great moments during EW's msq, even more than in Shadowbringer, but it was more inconsistent.

I'm surprised it wasn't touched on, but Deep Dungeons were dead on arrival because they offered little incentive to do as well, with very small exp gains.

Love how they completely revamped PvP into something that is legitimately very fun and then basically completely abandoned it for the rest of the expansion.

People who hate post MSQ will pretend they loved it all along when Lightbringers comes out

it's a shame the Alliance Raids are so under tuned that you have to be a streamer doing minimum item level just to see Nald'thals scales and many other of the bosses full mechanics.

Can always count on Preach to put a lot of effort into the hows and whys and sprinkle in his own personal opinion, rather than simply regurgitating the same tired old lines everyone's throwing around ad nauseam without elaborating. Great video.

Wow amazing editing done in this video. Well done guys!

Been waiting sooo long for this that I had honestly given up hope!😅❤ what a wild intro too! S TIER!!!🎉🎉

That was awesome! I can tell you guys put a lot of work into it. The outtakes at the end were great xD

banger of a video. great editing!

Beautifully done, Preach and crew. Thank you.

That was a really great video. It looks like a lot of hard work went into it. That made my day. 😊

Bravo this is one of the best immersive vid ever hot damn well done PG team

Everyone keeps ignoring the main issue I have with field operations like Eureka or Bozja. When you're arriving late to that content by an order of a few years - it is a lonely god damn ghost town. Those places are pure misery for new players and I did not enjoy grinding Eureka with like 5 people on the whole map or Bozja with maybe 8 people in the entirety of Zadnor. And don't get me started on how joining for Baldesion Archive or Delubrum Reginae Savage requires you to go get a group through specific discords. The content might be great for when it's fresh and new, but for people arriving late is pure dread. I'd like maybe something a little more interresting than what we got for relics this time around, but I'm for sure glad theres not a third god damn instanced zone a new player will have to slog through at some point in time.

WELL DONE PG! Thank you Mike and team ♥

I love this. GOOD JOB. Well Researched and informed. Looking forward to more FF videos!

Holy f*ck... Just the intro, when the music rolls in, gave me the chills. I freaking loved the whole journey it was and, even before watching the video, thanks for making a part of it not just for me but to soo many players out there.

I'm going to put myself out there and say: Relics being 'easy' to get is relative in a lot of ways. Something people seem to forget is that most of the relic questlines send you back to old content to gather things. Heavensward relics saw you doing nearly everything 50-59. So the new folks had people in their areas doing the thing. Bozja went in the opposite direction. There are bits and pieces that send you back to old content, but for the most part... it's a new area that no one goes to anymore, making Bozjan relics a real pain to work on for a new player. Enter 'gather 6k tomes'. Which you get from doing old content. Any old content. Every new player has people to play with for as long as we're hunting those relics. And when 7.0 comes out, we're going to have other things we want to spend those tomes on. But the weapons will still be there. Easily attainable for new players, just by clicking to do old content that's new to them, joining new players yet to experience all the story that they've seen. It's honestly *really* effective, and a great design choice looking towards the future.

Dude this video was 10 out of 10! The information, conveyance and OMG the effects with the intro and ending, so GOOD!

For me, the issue with the post game MSQ is that they didn't take the Realm Reborn approach. ARR's post-game presented us with diverse adventures building up the world as a whole and introducing a ton of characters and ideas that would be elaborated on all the way into Endwalker. In the ARR post-game, we had our dealings with Ishgard, Ysayle, and the Scions Disappearing which led us to Heavensward, and many other plot threads. We had Yugiri and the Doman Refugees arrive, as well as the Ilberd's introduction and Ala Mhigan motivated betrayal, which were both halves making up Stormblood. While it wasn't originally MSQ, we had the Crystal Tower and G'Raha which were insanely important to Shadowbringers. We met Elidibus who would play a huge role in Shadowbringers' post game, and in Endwalker. We met Krile and Moenbryda, both of whom would be important some way or another for the next few expansions (Krile seems to be finally getting her big moment all the way into Dawntrail). And we learned about the additional powers of the echo in the Leviathan quest, and we learned how to kill ascians, things which became very important in general. Because the EW postgame focused solely on the void, with a final hour leading into Dawntrail, the scope that they built their world up was WAY smaller. We've only met 4 characters, Zero, Golbez, Azdaja, and Wuk Lamat, and we have pretty much 4 story threads: Fixing the Void, Azaja's return possibly leading us to Meracydia, Y'Shtola still exploring inter-shard travel, and the final bits and bobs leading us to Dawntrail. However, the focus is primarily on the void and we know next to nothing about the other things, whereas we got a lot more meat and setup for ARR.

People forget covid messed with production all the time

The issue is the Post Shadowbringers MSQ was a slight lull in the action but still had us all on the edge of our seats because Endwalker was a direct continuation of that story. Shadowbringers hit so hard and was so much better than what we were used to in a game that it had use stunned and on the ropes. After Endwalker MSQ was completed, it felt like a big sigh. The story was over. We hit a reasonable and well-done conclusion to everything. The Meteion thing was kinda telegraphed but the early Zodiark kill and some of the other elements still very surprising and emotional. Just like the Lead-up to Stormblood was slow and kind of a yawn-fest I was expecting the same from Endwalker post MSQ. I think that the MSQ in Dawntrail can redeem it or make it feel better, but we won't have that perspective until we play Dawntrail. I agree with your thoughts on the relic "grind" the reality is you can never win. People who want shiny items complain it's too hard, and people complain it's too easy when you make it more accessible. Yoshi-P has always said he wants you to enjoy FFXIV but doesn't see a need for you to invest all your free time into one game. That doesn't resonate with a certain section of the gaming audience, but we should accept that any development is going to be done with those lenses. Finally, thank you for doing it justice in your retrospection. I think it's hard to be everything to everyone, but they do a fairly good job adding a lot of content to try to appeal to many folks. I'm glad to see that you can say you still enjoy the game for what it is, because we have enough whiny voices complaining about what it isn't.

preach forgor the biggest game changer new feauture on endwalker... adventure plate/portrait

Sick intro. Man’s used a default text on the blender moon foot stamp text. Great vid❤

"It was good, and then it wasn't." That basically sums up my entire expirience with all parts of endwalker.

First can I just say: absolutely incredible editing, graphics, and production values. This video in and of itself is so well-made, and it deserves to be talked about on its own merit. The opening and end sequence tie-ins to the Endwalker trailers was stunning. The bit with the Mothercrystal was excellent, as well. S tier work, fellas. As for the topic at hand, I can only say that I have nothing to say because I 100% totally and unequivocally agree with ALL of your takes. You might as well have taken all of my thoughts, feelings, and overall opinions on the entire expansion straight out of my head. So I can't comment except to say that I agree with you all across the board. Not every piece of new content introduced was a smash hit, but I'm glad they took some risks and tried some new things, and I'm hopeful they will perfect these types of content in the future if they continue to listen to feedback, which they typically do. And while change is scary, so is the thought of having things go stale and become too predictable, so this shake up... trying all the new pieces of content. Things like criterion and such...I'm quite glad they did it in the end.

Awesome video and great review! Well done 👍🏻

What an amazing video! Great job!

I will forever be grateful for this expansion to have been released at the perfect time. No doubt when this was released everybody in the world in one way or another was dealing with hardship in one form or another, and the pandemic certainly did not help. Endwalker most definitely exceeded my expectations with how the FFXIV team wanted to end the Hydaelyn and Zodiark Saga. I'm glad that they managed to stick the landing. To quote of my favorite NPCs in this expansion, "It's been a gripping tale. Unbreakable bonds and noble sacrifice, sprinkled with moments of levity to counterbalance the pathos."

Lol the intro goes so hard, extremely well done editing.

wow that was a really great video, thank you PG

Really great stuff. Thoughtful discussion on both sides. Thanks!

Great video. You can tell there's a lot of effort put it, and it really pays off imo. 🎉 I think this arc was a near perfect gaming experience for me personally, and it's something I'll remember for the rest of my life. I never had the expectation that the patch content would meet that level of story telling, though I enjoyed it enough. I'm looking forward to how it comes into play later, for sure. I thoroughly enjoyed both raids and the variant dungeons, and I'm very much looking forward to how the latter progresses in DT. Island Sanctuary was a nice idea, and although mine is fully maxed out and self sustaining at this point, I don't feel like it hit the mark for me overall. I don't always agree with Mike, but I certainly agree with his EW sentiments overall. EW definitely stuck the landing.

I F LOVE IT, I was hooked from second 1 the intro is world class and the content is to die for :D

Further issue with the relic grind is that it's exclusionary to levelling alt jobs. Doing the daily roulette is is a fast way to get XP but now you lose out on your relic progress if you do them with a job that isn't at level cap.

one of the biggest problems with the 2 minute meta is that if you even slightly drift your cooldowns, you're completely screwed. there's no smaller buff window to use them in instead. they unintentionally made the the raids harder

Such a good video! You really covered the points. There is plenty of room for improvement, but they did take risks, and that is commendable! There's room for the game to keep growing and I hope they can do so. I'm looking forward to Dawntrail and whatever it brings :)

My issue is value. The game, once you are caught up and playing it patch to patch, just does not offer enough of the content I enjoy for me to pay 15 a month for it.

Wow that intro was so good

Very well done. So glad you got your studies back

The team just gets better and better with every project. Absolutely amazing production from start to finish! And I really appreciate the discussion and perspective given in this video. You guys are one of the few creators whose opinion I trust currently, and for good reason.

I personally love it. Best story telling of all the games I've played. I also enjoyed the post patch story and look forward to Zero's return. There are so many good games to play recently that I am thankful for the chance to take a break and play them. Didn't even end my sub. See you all in Dawntrail!

such a polished video. great work over there!

Oh the editing is so good wtf DAT INTRO THO

"XIV is stale! We want change!" *CBU3 changes things* "Wait! Not like that!" My only real axe to grind this expansion was Criterion. I wanted it as a 4-man Savage option, but it was more for those who had completed Savage already, not for those who wanted to start playing Savage with a light party. I do still miss Exploratory content, though.

You guys put so much love and effort into this video and it shows

Amazing video with amazing intro and ending. Thank you.

This was such a great review, thank you team Preach for all the hard work you put into this!!

I'd like to add a point regarding the trial series. I don't believe it's not only because people weren't doing them. I think that because the Four Fiends and Golbez are so iconic within the FF community, that there was an expectation that they should have been trials and given their flair. Since they were tied to the MSQ, that's what they decided to go with. It's always important to remember that FFXIV also works on the basis of the expectations that it IS a Final Fantasy theme park before being an MMO

I gotta admit, i'm new to your content Preach, You just never really came up on my radar, but my GOD, this video was incredible. So detaled, so deep, and just yeah. I love the breakdown and I'll certainly share this with my FC and friends!

What a video. Thank you for the content Mike and team see you in Dawntrail o7

Really great production. Thanks for this. You choosing this way really cemented you moving forward

LOVED this piece of content, Preach! Fun to watch and spot on analysis.

Seeing such an optimistic take from Preach is a heartwarming thing. Looking forward to DT with everyone.

Preach im so happy you are having fun again, i have been fallowing you for many years for wow and watching you get more and more frustrated. Seeing you happy and having fun again has been amazing for me.

This is so good! Thanks for all your work Preach!

My biggest gripe with Endwalker-base is that it felt rushed and stalled. Like it was supposed to be two expansions but they had to make it one. So some areas were flushed out and others were super rushed. Garlemald being a single zone still irks me. Yet we spent almost 5 times more time on the dang moon with the lopporits doing menial tasks. Such a whiplash in vibe, feeling and pacing all over.

This was a really enjoyable review! And I agree with you, the post MSQ storyline has to be a setup for something that comes later. I myself found the (current) conclusion of this ark refreshing, since Zero and Golbez are the ones fighting for *their* world, it's not us intervening... for now. I belong to the camp of people who missed the relic grind a lot - but more than just the relic grind, it was the open field and grindy aspect oft it. I'm curious to see what comes in dawntrail.

I've been a vigilant fan for a long time, and I can't help but feel nostalgia when looking back at your "History of the Rogue, Paladin, etc.". You've seemed to keep that same energy of how much love and thought you put into your videos. But this time around, you've got a backpack full of experience to give a real treat of a presentation.

Brilliant review and presentation well conducted Chris and Mike :)

The relic issue could've easily been fixed if they made each role require a grind but the rest of the jobs in that role dont require the grind. For example you play as a warrior but want the relic on both drk and war? just finish the warrior grind (get the items required from fates/dungeons/quests/whatever) and then the items you require will be available for purchase on other tank jobs for just tomestones

The problem wasn’t necessarily a lack of content. It was the fact that the content they released was catered to solo players or small groups. At the end of the day, this is an MMO, and I want to experience content with large groups of other players. Shadowbringers did better in this regard, with Bozja and Firmament bringing the community together

dude the preach intros are always so damn good but this one even was a step above

Production is getting better and better!

Endwalker was good (I wouldn't say 'great,' Shadowbringers is what great looks like) until the most recent 3 or 4 post-MSQ story patches. Then the writing fell off hard; and I hope it was just because they were trying to fill it out with what is basically an elongated intern-written trial series, while the real team worked on Dawntrail. It was the closest I ever came to wanting to skip dialogue just because of how poorly parts of it were written, the stupid decisions, the tell-don't-show they HEAVILY relied upon in the latest additions, and the literal coin-flip of Golbez from bad to good over the course of a 3 line conversation.

Ive said it before. Endwalker had the same, if not more, content than any other expansion. What it didn't have was MEANINGFUL content. Nothing felt like it was worth doing more than once. There was no replayability in any of the content added, where as in other Expansions, things like the Relic Grind actually gave you a reason to go back into older content and keep it active. No exploratory zone and no relic grind made the current content dull, and extremely boring. We have been doing current (6.4) content for 23 weeks now, i have zero incentive to step into a normal raid, trial or even roulettes. I have played more Eureka and Bozja in the last 2 months than current content... Why? Because the content is replayable. PvP is basically all that keeps me subbed to the game right now, because its the only meaningful content that the game actually has right now.

Endwalker was everything i wanted it to be as a casual player, Love the story, the zones, the music, the gameplay I will say though, I can understand people who do higher tier content not quite being satisfied, I think they introduced some decent new content as well but it still needs a lot of work. I am hoping for future expansions, they are willing to keep trying new things, breaking the mold a bit more, You won't see massive changes to the already established structure of the game but I would personally like to see more variety, I think they could take a few things from other MMOs as well like WoW does, Dragonflying for example etc.

I loved it as a whole. Made me cry and the way it ended was super satisfying. The only dip was def Zero’s story in post-MSQ which dragged a bit but I still enjoyed certain moments. We didn’t really get that vacation we wanted. Also, we got some of the best Hildy moments in EW. I was happy with it overall.

endwalker is my fav expansion just because of the story. even shadowbringers doesnt come close to it for me

Yep, Endwalker truly is better than Shadowbringers.

The editing is very crisp, props to chris!

dawntrails exploration zone is gonna add so much value to the expansion

I have a lot of gripes with EW, which primarily boiled down to the game becoming boring, and too easy. It's a trend that's been going on for a while, but it really peaked in EW. Expert dungeons are some of the worst content in the game, because it's something you are expected to repeated a lot if you want weekly tomestones, yet they are so incredibly boring and unintesting. Nothing is a threat in the expert dungeons, the fact that it is meta to run expert dungeons without a healer speaks volumes to how much of a joke they are. I stopped doing expert roulette because it was ruining my enjoyment in the game. The EW levelling dungeons are more interesting by a large margin. The EW Alliance Raids while initially cool, showed their flaws quickly. Within week 1 or 2, people were doing meme runs like all healers or all tanks, and frequently bosses are killed so ridiculously fast that they haven't even done half their mechanics. When content is that easy, there's no reason for me to pay attention to what's happening - and it becomes boring. I rarely did EW alliance raids after while, though if I got it in roulette I would still complete it - unlike Crystal Tower raids, which I started abandoning because of how much of a joke those raids have become. Several of the Savage raids were underwhelming, or even annoying/boring. Most of the Extreme trials were a disappointment, and boring to run through - even if there was slight room for failure. I still hold that Storm's Crown is the best trial in EW - even as a black mage, because it's an exciting and lively fight that doesn't feel static. I play FFXIV to be engaged, and have fun - but unless you are doing Savage, Extreme or deep dungeons - there is no need to pay attention or be focused. The gear/power scaling in this game is way off-balanced for both older and newer content, and there's a ton of fights that either need to be reworked - or the power scaling needs to be reworked, for them to be fun again. Even other content suffers from this issue. Treasure maps? Forget about being a black mage or similarly slow jobs, the mobs are dead before you are halfway into your Fire 4. Bozja? You blinked and the train have already completed the skirmish. They really need to rework how the scaling of fates work. A and S rank hunting targets? They really should scale according to player count, because when the trains start- most of the time you have to be lucky to finish a full combo before they whimper and die. There is no risk, and when there's no risk - things are boring. To this day, Odin is still one of the most exciting fates/"hunting targets", because he can still mess you up despite being ARR content. When I finally got around to doing Eureka with friends, and saw how everyone was working together and communicating in the overworld, it felt like I was finally playing an MMO again. But then I completed all of Eureka (even the raid), and didn't find any motivation or reason to return beyond "earn gil/get fashion" - in a game where gil becomes pointless.

Not having a bozja endgame grind element in the game completely killed my willingness to keep playing. I need a long term project in 14 if I'm gonna keep playing. I'll be back for dawntrail for the new one and the story of course, however if there's no long term goals the game gives me then dawntrail will be my last expansion

Production quality for this video is soo good. God damn!

The production for this was top tier Preach! You are my #1 favorite content creator because you genuinly give a crap about what you do and the information you put forth. A genuine gamer who loves the games he plays and loves his community! Keep up the awesome work! -Southwest part of the USA

"Boring." Honestly, farming Bozja relics is more boring than farming tomestones. Skirmishes are fucking boring, except maybe half a dozen of them that only show up once every now and then. The rest are on the level of FATEs. And the critical engagements are just worse alliance raids than all of them except maybe CT and (IMO, though most disagree with me) two of the three YoRHa raids (oooo, slow bullet time, oooooooo, so exciting /s). The thing with tomes is variety... more than you get from either Bozja or Eureka. You can even do PvP to farm tomes if you really want to. The people complaining are just under the illusion that tomes offer less, and that Bozja content was some sort of monumental addition, when the story wasn't all that large, skirmishes are moooostly glorified FATEs, and critical engagements are watered down alliance raids. The only thing that really felt missing was Delubrum, which is fantastic. But it's so hard to get a group for that organically even at peak hours on Aether. You have to LFG of Discord. The story element of Bozja was basically shifted to IS and variant dungeons. Are they as good as Bozja's story? Absolutely not, but I did like IS's and variant stories have potential with refinement in the future. I think the only valid complaint content-wise is that patches came slower and it's a very long time between 6.5 and 7.0. But I kinda get it with the focus adding duty support and on graphical overhauls that CBU3 has been working on.

IMO the story of Endwalker was comparable to Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End. Absolutely bombastic and at a much bigger scale than the previous movies... but kind of a flop storywise. Dynamis was straight up the power of friendship and the ultimate plot convenience that made many parts of the story look pretty damn cheap. Bunnies were cute, but the entire moon part murdered the pace. The End Times were shown in a laughably bad way and all the tension was basically gone after Vanaspati. Elpis was a giant pile of ancient wank that only harmed the entire plot with a weird time loop inclusion. It completely robbed Hydaelyn of all impact she may have had on the story as she was basically following WoL's dummy guide to avoiding birdpocalypse. Meteion had very little build-up, basically a friendship speedrun with a hillariously extreme heel turn, but it's not a wrestling game and it made her a very unsatisfying final boss. Zenos saved the ending with a cool scene and boss fight. There were some great parts in the story, notably the entirety of Garlemald, but there's enough low points that personally I wouldn't give Endwalker more than 6/10.

"Nothing meaningful to do daily but the raids are there." My brothers know exactly which wow xpac this was.

Love to see the production value now brotha