I love how they're the perfect mix of common (yet opposing) sentiments straight from the community, made to match the presidents perfectly.

I would have put endwalker in S, though I admit I’m a bit biased. I lost my girlfriend of 2 years a few months before it came out, so that last zone and hydaelyn’s trial probably hit me harder than most. The story was a satisfying ending to a decade long epic. It explained a lot of the mysteries we didn’t even know about until the expansion trailer and gave us a glimpse into pre history, which left open so many options for storylines down the road. The only parts I didn’t much like was going through Labyrinthos due to it feeling really slow and felt unnecessary, as well as Zodiark feeling like a throw away boss. He was built up for so long, as this all powerful super evil being and instead of having a super climactic battle with him, he was dealt with in a trial and more or less forgotten about.

Holy shit this is the content I subscribe for. Biden makes some good points on HW. Obama makes good points on SB. Trump being chaos incarnate.

>ShB >perfect pacing lol lmao

Stormblood hands down has some of the best end game content. Sure the extremes were not the most fun to grind out but they had some of the most unique mechanics in the entire game. Not to mention the Savage content had that perfect approach of Difficult but fun. We also got the first ultimates in UwU and ucob. Which showed that they team knew how to challenge the players.

I genuinely feel like I'm on crazy pills sometimes for liking Stormblood and thinking that Zenos is one of the best antagonists in the game.

There is a 2 parter for the same tier list that I really enjoyed, Its shorter than this but hilarious also.

The music, the memes, the Soken, the LAHEE, the bunny girls...OHHHH the bunny girls! Classic

Stormblood is not anywhere near as bad as ARR was. I would rather replay Stormblood than ARR again.

the lack of chat in the video is a let down

The devs can't let Haurchefant go because they don't have the balls to kill characters anymore, so they'll milk that death to oblivion

The Yotsuyu story was enough to bring SB to a B for me.

Shadowbringers and perfect pacing? Well…

I always think the quality of post MSQs is so much better than main expansion MSQs that judging them in the same category is unfair. Especially when many are made by a new team for the next expansion to build the new story. Like Stormblood MSQ is not to many people's taste, but the post MSQ is on Shadowbringers level IMO. ARR is similar, the post MSQ is significantly tighter in design, whilst the main MSQ is almost entirely just worldbuilding with weak/side characters. Even Heavensward MSQ feels like ARR sometimes, lots of returning to town and long walks in massive zones, but the post MSQ is where the drama really ramps up hard in the game for the first time.

This is straight up funny as hell.

Maybe I’m a simpleton but everything from the final long sequence of cut scenes in ARR to the end of Endwalker, I thoroughly enjoyed all of the MSQ. I started playing ARR almost 2 months ago and finished Endwalker last week. HW will forever be my favorite. Let’s be real, the music upon entering Ishgard for the first time is something we’ll never forget! Same for ShB is just a tiny nut hair below HW but it has my favorite dungeon (Mt Gulg). Also, Stormblood wasn’t nearly as bad as people made me think it was gonna be.

Honestly if it wasn't for RR (end game) I wouldn't been playing FFXIV 9 years ago. I actually when I started it, the story at first seemed super dull and uninterested, and I even began to skip until someone told me not to, and to pay attention. I even started anew toon just to see everything from the beginning and holy shit, it made a whole lot difference. I am not saying RR is that good, but end-game RR is mindblowing (if you fancy this kind of story). Ppl do the mistake listen to others by saying "nah mate, it's bad", and then ppl skip like there's no tomorrow. They barely pay attention, even end-game RR which is huge mistake. It has it's moments, and again, if anyone plan to play this game just because of "gameplay", you will disappointed. The selling point of this game is THE STORY (along with so many other things), but the main point is the story. Don't skip it, even it seems at times uninterested - RR that is.

The song at the end of SB was basically L'internationalle lmao

Heavensward and Shadowbringers are both equally deserving of S tier imo

Damn they really going to do "The Measure of His Reach" dirty like that? I honestly loved that it was not sung by professional singers and it was just random staff people.

ARR as it used to be had the entire second half with you re-fighting the primals on hard, and I think Preach even played a trimmed version past that. It's good they put the expansion so low. It was just some obvious padding. Lol, imagine Donald Trump trying to play the game. Good thing an AI (?) is talking instead

You DIDN'T want to see Emet again?!

People have a bad habit of only ranking the story and not the actual content. Because the content itself has only gotten better with each expansion. Some people might not like the content we're getting with the most recent patch because they don't want to do another tower or think the relic weapon step is too easy, but everything before this patch in the expansion has been amazing. If you think about each expansion in terms of actual content it would literally go step by step each one getting better and better.

what is a cut scene? you mean a skip scene?

I personally really liked the storytelling in Stormblood. I feel like a solid B tier for Stormblood would be on my list. Everything else i agree with Preach on. I was about a minute into the video when i typed this fyi.

One would think that Trump would place endwalker on a higher tier because that expansion was when PvP finally got good. Though not quite 6.0, but still close enough

I came in at the start of stormblood, and I think it was PRIME. I didn't play HW endgame, but I know that SB was a step up in overall quality of content pre-endgame. And tbh, I'm kinda stuck on the little part where we talk to Allisae with the gobbo. That was the best emotional scene IMO, I think she still owes us a tart. All-in-all, I think SB is equal to HW.

i agree with ai trump on endwalker

Endwalker is S-tier, and fuck anyone for suggesting otherwise. Fight me.

Ngl I agree with Joe on Heavensward lmao

F**K! Man! Shadowbringers and Endwalker was so good, holy sh*t! And I love Emet so much. I am glad to have played this game in English, because honestly, as a guy, I would be gay for Emet's voice. He's so f*cking cool.

9:26 --- I mean, he's right, if you ask me... Zenos returning was lame af in the first place, even if he got proper developing time later and became a proper villian and anti-thesis to our WoL. Still... I've had my fill of him after Stormblood... Sure, Elidibus using his body was an interesting part but then his soul kept hanging around... Nah, me not like. 11:03 --- Me neither. Just because Emet was a great (written) villian doesnt make him a good man with whom I would want to hang out with... Though I admit it was interesting to see how he was prior to the Sundering.

Trump saw right through the hype of Endwalker and was right to call it for C or a low B. It just couldn't match up to HW much less ShB MSQs.

Man I think I have to agree with Trump at 7:04. Zenos was boring and I think him and Fandaniel are two of the worst characters ever put in the entire Final Fantasy franchise.

Stormblood was B tier damnit.

The irony of Trump being upset about Zenos but not complaining about Rahn'jit. lol

Trump doesn't enjoy Zenos? I don't believe it for one second

Heavensward above Endwalker? NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

I never thought I'd agree with even a fake trump on anything, but here we are. Zenos should have stayed dead at the end of 4.0.

ngl i agree with this list. also Biden is based af here

My gripe with these sort of discussions about the expansions is that they put a LOT of emphasis on the story, and while the story is great, it doesn't make or break an expansion. Whenever you hear discussions about Stormblood they always talk about the story and how that alone makes it the worse expansion, but completely disregard the fact that it had the BEST and highest QUALITY content of any expansion so far. Everyone i know loves the Ivalice raids, the omega raids are the peak of raiding so far (esp alphascape) and Eureka is still THE BEST explorable zone content that people STILL frequent because of the rewards, sellable items and the raid. Lastly, it was the BEST expansion for class design, it perfected what they were going for in ARR and yes, balance might've been a tad worse than expected it wasn't so bad you couldn't clear a raid tier, hell i played samurai when it was considered complete grief to play it in savage because it wasn't as bad as people made it out to be. I do imagine that a majority of players playing right now came into the game during the 6.3 - WoW exodus and only know ARR - SB content as MSQ only because a lot of the discussion when ranking expacs is ALWAYS story. I started playing very late HW going into SB so i didn't have much time to enjoy the at level HW content but i will always take that into consideration when i personally rank the expansions, a lot of others just look at story. I'm also a long time WoW player and i like the equate the expansions between the two and what the provided, and i think Shadowbringers is the Legion of ffxiv, for good and bad reasons. Shadowbringers had decent content, probably just below Stormblood in that respect but it also has set the foundation of what the game moving towards, and if you know Legion you probably know where im going with this. Legion was the building block for both BFA and Shadowlands, and i feel that Shadowbringers is the building block for at least EW for now. There are a lot of problems with Endwalker, while the story is still being told phenomaly, a lot of the MMO aspects of the game are being phased out. No explorable zone, very short lived content (variant dungeons and spreadsheet sim, i mean island sanctuary) that are very one and done. I'm quite doomer about the game atm and this patch just made it worst tbh, was very excited to see what multiplayer content the new relic would make us do but for it to be literally the same step as the first.... euch.

Too many focus on the MSQ alone when discussing an expansion. The Stormblood era was the best era in the game tbh.

Endwalkers weakness is when it tried doing Shadowbringers again but I loved the rest. I really feel like every expansion has extreme highs and lows. Lmao 😂😂😂 Preach did you forget how you were losing your mind and flipping desk all throughout Shadowbringers.

Imo, ARR was fine and got better as it went. HW had okay class design, a fantastic story, and the worst endgame in FFXIV history, with only the final tier of savage being good. SB was a good story and a mediocre story combined, but the classes were fun jank messes with lots of individuality, and the best savage to date. My favorite period to play. ShB had the best story easy, but... ngl i hated the job changes to tanks and especially healers. Also the hidden heal potency nerf (by adding vit on accessories you had around 35% more health but heals stayed the same potency, meaning instead of healing 60% you healed around 35%). The savage was... Fine? Better than HW's first 2 tiers. EW has a great story, better gameplay than ShB, and the healing is in a dumb place where you dont need healers in most content. The savage is garbage, and... yeah EW is a super mixed bag to me. It made me not want to heal despite enjoying healing in every other mmo. So... Good job? Also made me not wanna raid.

SKILL ISSUE!

Babies say reborn was bad because they never played the actual launch of the game. They literally released and forgot the game.

IMO, Stormblood Trials and Dungeon, is the best compare to the other Expansion 4 Lords, MSQ Trials blew my mind of how fun and enjoyable it is to watch with every transition to 2nd phase. The Dungeons also very refreshing and have beautiful Environment, most of Dungeon have 3 parts different looking environment

Stormblood is an S tier expansion just because of the content.

arr still has some of the best zones in the game imo

Stormblood was better than Heavensward Atleast Stormblood didn’t drag your ass back to Ul’dah every other quest just to retcon ARR’s epic ending

ARR has the best music imo.

Can't believe I'm agreeing with Donald Trump about endwalker. As soon as I realised Zenos was back I nearly rage quit on the spot. He didn't get any better in Endwalker. He is still more insufferable than the Jailer.

Switch Stormblood with a realm reborn and put Endwalker in low S Tier and i agree with the list

mad because bad

Stormblood's MSQ was pretty weak, but everything else, especially job design, was better than ever before or since. And SB has the best post MSQ of any expac. EW is B tier at best. The story hit all the right emotional beats but there were terrible pacing issues, Hermes, Meteion, and Dynamis were obvious asspulls and not particularly compelling, and combat in EW is an absolute snoozefest. Nothing more fun than pressing 1-2-3 for a minute and a half then facerolling your keyboard.

I liked Zenos a little more because he clearly had disdain for Lyse’s self importance. He clearly checked out because he knew the singalong was coming.

i agree with trump, endwalker should of been B at best

I liked the EW callback thing BUT they should have skipped the 4th wall part. I get their fear but I think it was actually not needed going into detail there - it took away from the urgency.

Depressed emo Twitter bird lol.

I don't think Endwalker was bad, but I also feel like it could have been a lot more. It feels like the Cataclysm of FF14, basically just sticking with what worked in Shadowbringers because it's safe, rather than really changing the game. I would have put it in B at best.

I'm actually a big supporter of Stormblood. I loved Lyse and hated Zenos. Needed more of one and not the other. I'd personally place Endwalker in S and ShB in A.

This video turned me into a Trump supporter

Hard disagree with preach take that main characters should have died in endwalker

I think the problem with Endwalker is with advertising and interviews they built up Endwalker so much that it could never live up to the amount of Hype it had. I would say it is A tier. It was not a bad expansion at all.

Totally agree on Whoshifant, literally a useless side character died and they milked his death for 10 years now, he was irrelevant to the plot why does this community like him so much i don't understand.

Bringing Emet back takes away the impact of the 5.0 ending

To me, FFXIV is both overrated and underrated at some points. ARR isn't nearly that bad. I enjoyed playing through it. On the other hand, I don't think Heavensward/Shadowbringers were THAT great. They were good, sure, but best storytelling in the RPG genre? I don't think I would even put it in the top 10 of Final Fantasy games.

In my opinion Heavensward is Overrated. there were some cool moments but thats it. oh and the 1st big zone was really nice and chilling. And the dead of one of the side characters ( you all know who im talking about ) is just Overblown he barely did anything to get players attached to him its just a meme lol. Enjoyed Storm blood waaay more. even tough Stormblood starts VERY weak but it gets really good after the 1st Half.

Stormblood weakest expansion? Y'all are smoking, it had by far the best content, endgame and class design, who cares about story lmao (even that was really good in the patches though)

They should have left Emet in Shadowbringers. Bringing him back just makes it seem like SE also forgot what genocidal fascist psychopath Hades is like the community does. But, if that's the price we pay for Hythlodeus I guess there's no choice then.

As a whole, the non-story moments of the game have been mid since the end of Stormblood. SB was the best expansion when taken as a whole and the gameplay and content have taken a complete nosedive since.

Shadowbringers to this day is the most overrated expansion