When you thought the game couldn't get better and then Zenos pops in O_O

Second half of this fight: Meteion: 'wait, this isn't my boss theme.' WoL: 'No, it's mine.' *Confused chirping*

average despair fan vs average hope enjoyer

"We will stand against this fate." "No matter the cost!" "This is Thancred."

The Endsinger had to face Our Enrage Timer.

To sum up the whole MSQ since ARR until now in canon? Venat/Hydalen sent us on a quest.... to fucking Kill Twitter. The End.

You know what I love? zenos popping in during the fight before this one and just casually going "what is this creature? you can beat this bitch EZ lol."

Fun Fact: paladin can hallowed the move requiring the tank lb. If everyone is dead besides the tank, the "power of friendship" cutscene revives all dead folks to full health, with no weakness.

WoL: Let the hope in! Meteion: But what if I won't? WoL: I will beat it into you

The chorus of hope rings for you too Meteion.

Titan popped up at the scream on the right time kekw

Wol: CALL AN AMBULANCE... also wol: but not for me...

i still cant fucking believe the wings of hope was fucking Zenos

fun story: when me and my friends got to this part of the fight (the four of us), people from our FC who'd already finished the story joined in for this trial. our resident tank requested to be allowed to main tank the fight, bc he has main character desires and needed that serotonin from being The Tank of the final trial. as we were zoning in, i jokingly said "haha, make sure we all put limit break on our bars, we might need it" well, the part where our tank needed to use the limit break started up. i realised what was happening and glanced in the party chat to see our co-tank, the one who'd already done this trial, say "it's all yours" my friend didn't realise what that meant at all. i thought it might click for him, give it a few seconds. the timer counts down to 5. the words "transcend your limits!" was popping up on screen. the three of us in discord started YELLING HIS NAME over vc because he STILL HADN'T HIT THE BUTTON. the party chat was LIGHTING UP with "PRESS THE BUTTON, OH MY GOD" you hear him go "AGH WHAT" and the frantic scrambling as he was trying to locate limit break on his hotbar. he did hit it in time. we were fine. we were laughing so fucking hard afterwards.

9/10, lyrics weren’t full caps as you scream the lyrics during the fight

Not OP enough to easily defeat one red Chocobo apparently.

Meteion made a HUGE mistake deciding to fight WoL in a place literally influenced by _emotion_ of all things

I cannot wait for this Extreme Trial. It's going to be such a banger

Didn't expect to ride Zenos in this expansion

The way Titan's attack syncs up with "NEVERRRRR" is gucci af, dude.

"Tumbling down to the never" is Zenos interrupting because he's peeved that you get to sing Maker's Ruin and Blue can sing Footfalls when he's the one carrying you through the encounter.

That thumbnail will ruin a lot of people's day that only just met the Harpy girl.

Meteion: can you please die? Wol: No Meteion: can you please die? Wol: No Meteion: *chirps (basically speaking in bird backstory) Wol: ok I believe you

Guess Endsinger failed her Reflex Test.

Oh look we got to the enrage of the boss battle. Endsinger was too weak for that DPS check.

The fact that Zenos carries you into the battle playing an audible testament to all the calamities you ended prior to the Endsinger was badass. That it then gets followed up by a remix of the main Endwalker theme as the Scions give you that one final push is brilliant.

“She dances on the wind higher.” , Meteion on her first flight into the stars. It’s our theme song, but it’s also hers. Gotta take this kid home from this bad place.

Phase 1 WoL: “why do I hear boss music?” Phase 2 Endsinger: “why do *I* hear boss music?”

Damn if only I could beat depression this easily in real life 😔

Phase two gave me constant goosebumps. Especially with Garuda flying up there. I hope that part makes it into a full song eventually.

My god, I just realized during the prayer scene that Thancred and Y'shtola's shots are an almost exact duplicate of their prayer scenes when summoning the 12 in the ARR trailer. I think even the timing of the transition between their shots is the same. Alise and G'raha have close poses to Yda(Lyse) and Papalymo, though not exactly. I love seeing callbacks like this!

ngl, when that black screen happened? Since I was playing during early access. I was despairing, waiting for "You have been disconnected from the server". So when the crew popped up, the amount of hope, happiness and serotonin I felt was immeasurable.

I had a hillarious run where no one knew you could LB the add before using tank LB and everyone was panicking

I like how you made me emotional only to end it with that "youre op" with the silly music xDD

Just before the last line you can faintly hear "one brings shadow one bring the light"

Me, an entelechy, feeling the sour vibes the heat death of the universe is giving off:

Ah yes, the final mechanic of the fight. Turn up the music

WoL: You're not the Final boss. I'm the final boss, and you just hit my enrage timer."

Endsinger after dunking a second planet on the WoLs : why do i hear a boss music ?

Alright so this was a few years back, so I apologize if I'm remembering this incorrectly. But there was a beast tribe quest you can do for I think the Qitari (Can do it right now I imagine. It's one of the randomized ones and not story-related), where they mention how there are certain people who can hear the ancients singing and playing music as they travel the land. I remember thinking to myself "Oh this must be the LAHEE lady". But then I realized that it could very well be literally everywhere. Every song sung by these supposed "ancients". Here's another thing to ruminate about: The dev team is "canonically" in universe, because we were able to meet them during one of the seasonal events a few years ago. They're very, very vague about how they're connected of course, but they did give small hints of things to come, like Blue Mage if I remember correctly (This was even more years ago lol. Though I'm sure there are vids of it on youtube) This leads me to believe that the "ancients" the Qitari are talking about are in fact the devs themselves, and they're creating the soundtrack for our journey. We, the WoL, are LITERALLY hearing this music as we go on about our adventures. Not just us the player, but the WoL themselves. ...Of course, the Qitari that spoke of this also mentioned something about this being impossible and that the people hearing this stuff are probably insane, so there ya go. Either we're listening to the voices and instruments of beings beyond playing music just for us, or we all belong in an insane asylum.

in three months the WoL kills an insecure lizard-man and awkwardly stands to the side as an overgrown cat harasses a techno ghost.

The WoL isn't trapped in the nest with Meteion... Meteion is trapped in the nest with the WoL

Too be honest FF14 was so good to play. I am a grown man that copes well with sadness and hasn't shed many (if any) tears in about 2 years. I literally cannot play the final trial because I am looking at it through wet eyes and cant follow mechanics.

If we rise up through the night on wings of hope then those wings have to bw Zenos. And that’s beautiful

Best damn catjam there is baby.

zeno was the best villain, and i loved this ending when and he literaly was allowed to take power from the mother crystal to take the dragon form and assist you all so he can have his rematch. Im glad the fight was a solo instanced, loved it, its how it should of been. Wont get another villain as good as him

My head-canon after this fight to any and all threats the WOL faces: I like to think in the back of the WOL's mind they are thinking "See, that would be intimidating if you were...well intimidating, lol"

This is the power of plot armor and MC buff and friendship

When Song of Hope started and me and my FC mates were doing this for the first time together we all had very vocal reactions. Warcries. A very earned moment.

It really makes you wonder how they could possibly do anything to top defeating an omnipotent embodiment of despair inside a dead star at the edge of the universe.

“Look at me. *I’m* the final boss now.”

Endsinger: "Why you not die?" Us: "We do a little trollin"

I've not felt compelled to share a KZfaq video to my family in a while. You broke the cycle. Must share the love

THIS STILL GIVES ME CHILLS TO HEAR

Local Titan Screams Depression to Death

Im not joking when I say I was literally crying so much after the phase transition with the scions praying that I couldn't see the screen because i was too busy doing my rotation to wipe my eyes. Monk gang.

I remember playing this fight for the first time when the ost started play my brain went ape mode and I was playing with full force better than I ever have 😂

the moment when the boss takes so long too kill you we reach OUR enrage timer

When phase two begins. The music is our theme. We become the boss. We are the end game boss!

i was too focused on the actual fight at first, but my brother mentioned that the boss was literally flailing at us by the end desperate to finish the fight. Between that and the presence of so many pearls in her design, symbols of tears, the fight just became depressing. Cool, REALLY cool, but depressing in retrospect.

Endsinger: NOOO the universe is cruel and hope is only causing more pain WoL: Y but you hear the mf bange in the background tho? isn't that worth living for?

Hope will triumph over despair as we together can... *healers fall from the arena*

This whole time I'm thinking about zenos back getting completely blown out by aoes

This phase, the music, the buff getting stronger and stronger and stronger, feels like JoJo part 2 when Joseph beats Kars.

Food for thought "on the wings of hope we rise up" as we fly into battle in dark of space on the back of Zenos

The party was unloading on her like mad, but what finally took the Endsinger down was a loincloth-wearing, ponytailed bodybuilder flexing and then roaring at her.

I'll never forget the other party members losing their shit, chat log was filled with 'lets fucking gooooo' ❤🥺 good memories

That is every fight in FFXIV ever not just this one

The Warrior of Light is pretty much a god at this point

Ngl, when the transition happened and the screen came back, I could only envision my WoL doing the anime neck pop thing and look up all cliche like: That all you got?

Any one eles run this regularly just for phase 2 feels?

Literally the WoLs enrage song

When you get there because an Ascian was into a Bird Loli..

I love the way she does the line right after the mini cutscene. "What is this defiance?" She's like surprised, mad and a bit scared.

0:32 WOL: Look at me, Boss theme is mine now.

That fight was so beautiful and badass!

I still have some shards to fuse with. ^.-

THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES!!!

"HOW OP ARE YOU!?!?" wol: am I Mary sue yet? "N... No?" Wol: *then I ain't op enough now am I?*

I love that with each 'prayer' of our friends, we get a buff and our damage is just out of this realm...God this game is so god damn good

How OP am I? HOW OP AM I?! I had a bowl of frosted flakes for breakfast...without any milk 😈

Bro was like: LETS FO!!

Quest 1: Save cat. Final quest: K I L L G O D

"Where lies.... happiness?" Happiness is stored in the balls of course!

the embodiment of the end of all things, not just for the source, but everything vs the boys

Damn you.... Damn you allllllll! This video had me crying and laughing at the same time... or was i laughing and crying? LUL

titan just showing up to yell at em at the end

Never thought endwalker would end with fighting an avatar of Shar

The second phase of that fight is when meteion realised she was never the boss of the trial. It was us. 😁

the best gaming experience of my life :')

The real challenge is seeing the attacks through all the tears.

My favorite fight because here YOU go enrage.

THE SCREAMING COWBOY IM FUCKIN DEAD LMAO

I got to finish the fight on my character with an LB2, and screamed Meteion’s name while it was charging.

Y’all ain’t gonna talk about how the achievements of the MSQ are the lyrics of the song?

gotta love seeing spoilers on my feed :)

Imagine being an FFXIV boss who's about to kill the WoL and then Maker's Ruin starts playing.

I need this fight on Extreme now, the normal one is so good

Just throwing this into the aether, so to speak "This is 50" by 50 cent parody, "This is Thancred" I can't edit that well and feel like that idea is too good to keep. Unrelated btw

The WoL really said "bitch I am the captain now"