For those unaware, the liberation of Doma in FF14 was a huge epic moment that was built up perfectly over the stormblood story and zoneS. When it happens it’s epic and every important character from Storm blood, Heavensward, and ARR (that’s still alive and able) shows up to help you liberate Doma Castle. From fighting in the background, securing spots behind and before you, and even helping out with setting up some of the boss fights.
I guess Siege of Ogrimmar or the Legion finale could fit that bill but I did miss a few expansions so I dunno.
What moment in WoW would you feel fits the Doma feeling and made the fan base happy/smile when it all came together?
Trust me, they did not compare even in the slightest.
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probably killing the lich king. it felt like the culmination of warcraft 3 and wow
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Honestly, Stormblood was my least favorite story in the time I spent in FF14. There was so much filler in between the important bits…It just felt really slow. The feeling of the ‘liberation’ of the region was just lost to me.
It was extra frustrating because, as I mained a (T)Highlander the story of Ala Mhigo was very important to me as a character! And it got not even a quarter of the focus. I was frustrated.
Anyway, honest answer, “DRAENOR IS FREE” from someone who enslaved most of Draenor I guess.
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You mentioned another MMO in a WoW forum. Shoudln’nt have done that.
For me, it would have to be the start of Legion. The very start. Felt like we were finally going to finish the story.
Nothing.
Legit, nothing in WoW compares to the slow-built story of FF14.
WoW takes a whole year (or at least a couple months for a patch cycle) just to get something to happen in the narrative.
All story progression in WoW is also tied to dungeons/raiding. Everything that you don’t see questing, you’ll see there.
I guess the closest thing I can think of in terms of “lore hype” was the end of Legion, when we trapped Sargeras. He’s been a longtime pain for Azeroth, and supposedly he’s sealed away now. Also was the end of Illidan’s arc.
Either that, or the fall of the Lich King, which happened when WoW was still at its peak.
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Only Illidan and the Lich King had the narrative rizz to compete with FFXIV. They tried to recapture that with the Jailer and failed miserably.
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Millhouse Manastorm has a stronger story than the Jailer.
I am not even being sarcastic
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Nothing because WoW fails horribad at story telling for the most part. I play ff14 for story. I play wow for end game.
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The worst part is that it’s not even the Jailer’s fault. They focused so much of the story on Sylvanas that both her character and the overall narrative just fell apart.
It’s funny to me that the very moment she stopped being a part of the narrative, things were vastly improved narrative wise.
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It also didn’t help that there wasn’t much environment variety in Gyr Abania, and the entire underwater thing with the Kojin made me quit the game for a few months lol
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I actually forgot about the underwater sections? Those were really bad. I think I just blocked them out of my mind…
The highlight was the Au’ra questline, though. Fun NPCs and a fun arc in general!
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This, I love FFXIV but stormblood is a hate it or love it type expansion it seems. Too much people and politics, not enough fantasy.
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WoW doesn’t really have meaningful storylines slowly built up over years leading to the culmination of dozens of hours of lore…
…except for Zhovall the Jailer!
Widely considered the worse addition to WoW’s story, it’s Danuser’s answer to 20 years of well established lore and addressed the fanbase directly by lighting that lore on fire and placing it into a dumpster… and then setting the dumpster itself on fire for good measure.
WoW is great at some small stories, zone stories, and a few character arcs… but Long and built up stories aren’t something it tries to do, and fails at terribly when they do.
So here we are!
The Darkspear Rebellion was pretty epic to me.
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Are he and Millie still on their second honeymoon?
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WoW doesn’t really have comparable story content. FFXIV is just in a tier alone there. I honestly think the most comparable questline would be the campaign in Suramar. You literally start with a traitorous bit…elf on the cusp of losing her mind entirely to helping to rebuild an insurrection and free a major city from the clutches of a tyrant which led to major canonical events shaping expansions to come.
And it had amazing moments. Like finally getting the Arcan’dor producing fruit and seeing it restore them. The entire arc with the shady elf costing you obscene amounts of mana just to find out she was giving it to his sister and trying to build a future for her as well as his sacrifice to the cause in the end. Plus, initially, the campaign took a long time to do as it was all timegated and you were doing stuff in the zone and in the city in the meantime (plus you couldn’t just fly).
But like no way would I say the stories are comparable. WoW has its moments but just that…moments. FFXIV is quite a narrative masterpiece if you let yourself get into it.
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But as Alliance this hurts cuz they hate us…
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