MaulusRS: Story skippers got the best expansion
DrForester: The theme park 100 dungeon was great. Also hilarious that they reused Emet-Selch's Hades rig for a clown boss.
Myrtneough: I love how the dungeons in general can and WILL kick you in the face if you're playing with your brain in a haze.
zakashin: The tankbuster from EX1 really feels like the boss is trying to kill the party. The fact it doesn't just aim at you from the front, but actively moves side to side to get just one hit in feels different from other bosses. Love that they are now account for invuln cheesing and the perma burn is great for healer involvement. If they can stick the landing with the raid tier this will honestly be my favorite expansion gameplay wise
tkute7059: One thing I really liked about ex1 was the timed marker above your head for the fire/lightning/ice debuffs. I enjoy that much more than watching my debuffs or party list for the whole fight and I hope to see more of that going forward. If something like Wroth Flames utilized a similar idea, I think you could keep the core mechanic intact while also eliminating the utility of Automarkers.
Th3Crazy: Bakool is the perfect person to put on the thumbnail excellent work
15ironreaver: A neato trick with the giant turtle in the 99 dungeon is pull it to a wall and when it does the giant out just stand between it and the wall. The knockback won’t knock you out of melee range and it’s simple enough to just heal the party through it. Learned that lil trick from a tank yesterday in roulettes and I like it.
herebejamz: I really liked the story. Definitely not sure why a lot of people didn't like it, but boy howdy are some people acting like skipping the story is some sort of unforgivable sin.
jonnygadfly: Me: Wondering why, in his opening, Rinon was gushing about Dawntrail.
Rinon: "Full disclosure: I skipped the story."
MissKashira: It's hilarious how story skippers are the happiest people in DT right now.
Jahkrel: The 2 dolls doing the living liquid bootyclap aoe non stop until they die is my fav part of these amazing dungeons.
1337penguinman: Truth be told, the story is really the only part of DT I didn't like. The problem is that the story is one of the most important parts of 14 for me. It's the thing that really sets it apart from other MMOs for me.
cina9218: absolutely fantastic content so far, and while there are a lot of story critics, I loved that too.
Sllandre: So, the story alone is like a 9/10 for me. It hits tropes that I LOVE.

The dungeons and trials on top of that? Makes DT a contender for my favourite expansion, even with the rather lackluster job design, and I've been playing since Stormblood.
Bismarck9871: Seeing how downtrail story is makes me look back at stormblood and am like maybe i treated you too harshly lol
MorryOnTheFence: The story itself had potential, but the execution was bad. It's slow when it doesn't need to be with multiple hours of walking/cutscene simulation, and makes you sit and watch exciting set pieces that should have been solo duties.

The dungeons are pretty great.
Glennkabob: Fights were fun, but the story felt like it was done halfway through and then suddenly landslid to a world ending threat very rapidly
prismmirrorsis: It really is Stormblood 2: awkward storytelling alongside strong encounter design. Hopefully it'll also follow Stormblood in having better patch content than the base MSQ.
xela4854: The story was so insufferably boring the first half. I enjoyed the second half a little bit. I've enjoyed all the dungeons, trials, and all that content.
astrum_remi: Currently skipped story, don't care for it. Wuk lamat is a boring character. Haven't done any LV100 content yet. But the combat stuff I've done so far was really fun
phbaum6186: as a lore nerd i loved the msq, we learned so much about the different races living in Tural (different Viera and Miqo tribe, Hanu, Mamool Ja and so on), the zones are the best in the game in my opinion, music is great through out and the fights feel super fresh, did ex1 yesterday with clear and it was so much fun, only thing i didnt like was the last zone, it had even more lore but i think we didnt need Wuk to be there, her part was over after the rite, but i dont hate her as a character, just wished we had a bit more Koana or even Bakool Jaja instead of her in the last part.
Jinxyoutoheaven: For me the hype about adventure and vacation was all false. We are pretty much a world ending boss killer reduced to a chaperone. This is Wuk Lamat vacay. I’m at MSQ 97 and I’m not happy with the story. I was excited at first about exploring but I was let down hard. My biggest problem is not voice actor, it’s with whoever wrote these cringy lines and story and delivery. Just not good. Better than ARR for sure but not better Heavenward.

Jul 11 2024

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