One thing that's really cool that you probably couldn't catch solo: during the Ultima cast, the LB bar would transcend and grow into 3 bars and you'd be able to get your first ever LB3 (in the story), even if you're in just a party of four!
Man, that was something I wasn’t aware was added to that trial, and it was seriously amazing. Post Endwalker especially just because it’s such a major ‘oh shit’ moment, and one you know exactly _how_ it happens
Literally both ways if you got to a boss chamber and didn't have enough motes to summon the boss. You had to go down another corridor to get more motes and the run back.
When I first got Prae after the update I was genuinely SO hyped that they back-ported some of the mechanics from phase 2 Emerald Weapon to the Gaius fight. It just makes so much sense!
I never knew that gaius had terminus est in his arsenal, even before the 6.1 changes Nobody ever saw him live long enough to use it, after all But now he's legitimately emerald weapon 0.5 and it's perfect
I hope im thinking of the correct mechanic being terminus est Yeah noone did which made a certain eoleplaying duty ...hard to realize who is there with you. He was able to show that back in 2.x, but i dont think anyone was aware of the name (showing only if you were hit by it or in the battle log)
i love that with the other two main scenario dungeons reduced to 4 players, Ultima is the first LB3 new players can actually activate, really hype story moment
back in my day if you wanted to be a dragoon you had to level up both marauder and pugilist. and melee dps had their own mp bar called tp that would drain to 0 any time you used sprint
Something you didn't put in the video: My favorite update in Prae is that the WoL is sad now when they have to leave their Magitek behind! You see them have their /sad expression, then they put their heads down (like they're doing /payrespect without the hand motion), then when they look back up, they get a determined expression on their face! It's a very cute scene, and it makes it all the cuter when, after the Ultima fight+Lahabrea solo, you're reunited with your Magitek again to get the heck outta there, and you get it as a mount at the end of 2.0!
I got my first wipe in the Ultima fight two nights ago because both DPS were new and hadn't used Limit Break before. So that was fun. More generally: I like that they make all the fights in ARR endgame meaningful now. Cape Westwind is a solo duty with three phases including an enrage, the Livia fight in Castrum introduces new mechanics for sprouts, Hydaelyn helps you in the Ultima fight and has to *rez* you in the Lahabrea solo duty because he one-shots you halfway!
Lahabrea solo is fantastic. And the fun part of him 1-shotting you is it’s a DPS check you’re meant to fail. I can imagine sprouts panicking when that happens.
@@Zomby_Goast Yeah, compared to Emet or Elidibus he looked very weak before while they were meant to be at the same Power Level (maybe Emet is slightly more powerful in pure magic because he's like the most powerful mage who ever lived)
I will say that I'm pretty sure Coincounter had telegraphs added before the 6.1 reworks, because I remember that being a thing people were talking about in Shadowbringers patches?
Yep. Originally it didnt, but 5.x shadowbringers was current emoved them entirely, idk why as it was the first boss that required you to look at its wind up animations than look at the ground for aoes
I just ran Totorak yesterday to see the changes, and said something I never thought I'd ever say about that dungeon: "Wow...this is really pretty!" o.o
i havent revisited ARR stuff but i remember doing the gaius fight my first time. i was so underwhelmed. he was built up so well in the story and we just nuked him easy. im so glad they revised all these fights :D
I really dig what they did to Ultima Weapon. Ultima's Bane was my first EX (because I didn't realize what that was and queued for it...) and we had a nice group of panicking first timers in there that did just great (2 pulls!). I love that fight. I think of it fondly and the rehash captures that vibe well.
All of the fights had to be changed so the npcs could do them. I miss some of the more interactive mechanics, but I guess they didn't want to have to program npcs to have to run over and click and aim cannons or something. The new lighting in Totorak and Copperbell and fresh coat of paint on a lot of the other ARR dungeons is super nice, though.
The NPCs are definitely not why they changed the mechanics since we've been able to run them with GC squadrons for years. I think the main reason they changed them is because, like, where else in the game do you need to shoot a cannon at a random dragon that's not even an enemy in the fight? They got rid of a lot of the gimmicks and replaced them with recurring attack types (stacks, busters, flares, gazes, etc) to try and effectively ease new players into basic mechanics. Whether it is, in fact, effective remains to be seen.
@@titaniumvulpes to be fair, the GC dungeons used to be absolute dogwater specifically because none of the npcs knew how to interact with the mechanics, so if you didn't baby them the entire time they'd all eat shit
@@titaniumvulpes They literally said in the patch note reading that the Duty Support was the reason for the dungeon changes. Yes, we could and can do it with the Squadron, but the Squadron is a bunch of brainless people who do no mechanics and are just not getting serious damage from standing in stupid and stuff. (Though it's been a while I went in there with my squadron as a tank, where I can't just go over to the Berthas without dragging the dragon with me, no clue what happens with the cannons.)
I am kind of sad about what happened to Praetorium and especially to Cape Westwind. New players will never understand the rite of passage of watching Rhitatyn drop in 40 seconds while they're getting ready for a crazy hard fight.
Now it is up to us to uphold that meme's legacy. We have to educate the sprouts from now on how millions of voices suddenly cried in laughter and memes and were suddenly silenced by the "Duty Complete" and "gg".
My first time was hilarious. Both Tanks started talking about swapping halfway, people put down markers, the other healer assured me that it was fine to wipe in this dungeon. I was sweating and frantically checking online for a guide, only for everyone to bumrush Rhitatyn and demolish his health bar before I could blink
@@Shiirow Well, I suppose he wasn't a meme during ARR, but I could imagine this changed pretty quickly with the first expansion, and every expansion afterwards added to that meme. (Also, I played it on minimum item level shortly before 6.1 came out, he hit a lot harder and you managed to see mechanics for once, but we still managed to clear that trial fairly quickly. It was nowhere near that new fight with several phases and a short in-trial cutscene and plenty of mechanics.)
@@momintim I’ve been proven wrong before, but it feels like every year more younger players join. Although my experience can be biased. In SB I didn’t know anyone younger than 22. And one time while running Prae, 2 dudes where sharing which prostate medications they used, lmao. The game felt more mature, in a way.
Tbh I'm a bit sad about Toto-Rak. While I don't miss the collecting of photocell batteries or whatever, I very much liked the claustrophobic feeling the dungeon had. I felt that it added to it, being a prison and all. While I do like the new lighting changes, I could've done without the WIDE OPEN spaces. It's no big deal but eh, I'd say most of the changes were for the positive.
Qarn is actually changed slightly. You no longer have to collect the items for the scales, and you can completely skip opening those last two side rooms (with the heads) before the last boss. Overall, I like most of the dungeon changes. Yes, some of them have less character, but I think they do a better job of teaching you some of the standard boss dmg patterns, rather than just being filled with annoying gimmicks that you'll never see again.
Uh... Qarn was always like that. You never had to open the side rooms. And you could always trigger the scales without any items to open the boss room. Using the proper items in the proper scales gets you access to a bonus treasure room, though.
@@GayLPer Using the scales properly also means you don't have to fight the adds that appear once you tip the scale. (Considering you have to fight adds to get the right stone thingies though, it probably doesn't make much of a difference - unless you pick up all stone thingies and then place them wrong.)
the lighting got better on all platforms even in cutters cry I noticed it in the tunnels before the chimera boss the lighting is just amazing now in all the old dungeons.
you should new game plus your way into the solo fights for Arvina and Lahabrea. they honestly get crazy for low level fights. Arvina heard everything said about cape westerwind and is PISSED
Okay these changes are great and all yeah but dude The solo instance for cape westwind? Absolutely god-tier now Possibly top 5 in the game, new players are in for a treat The meme may have fallen but westwind ain't dead
I ran Prae solo when they first changed it, and let Gaius' bar get to full to see what would happen |D So good news if you have 1mil hp you will live...
After running toto-rak so often to level my GC squadron, I immediately knew something was off with how open the start of the dungeon was when I rolled it in a daily leveling roulette.
of course they dumbed down the game. man im not gonna lie 2.x was the best time for ffxiv. The yeti snowball fight change also upset me. Seems they replaced all these mechanics with jsut generic telegraphs and stack markers. What a shame
It's so upsetting to slowly see this game lose all nuance over the years. Mechanics in dungeons taught people how to play, even if some were annoying, now every dungeon is the same two pulls, boss, repeat three times formula.
It's a pity that some dungeons now look a bit less challenging or at least had some unusual stuff taken out (like the Berthas and the lasting ice puddles in Stone Vigil), but if the Duty Support AI can't deal with that, there is little to do about it. I think the things they did to replace those mechanics were neat as well though. :)
Best part is that they've added mechanics and indicators you'll frequently see throughout the game now. Instead of hitting level 70 and seeing your first tank buster or stack indicator lol
@@Levolpehh Oh god yes. Unified markers are a bliss. Can't wait to see this in Sohm Al or what it was, where the stack marker looks very dangerous, making people run away. xD
@@nogz01 Well, I certainly won't miss.. basically everything in old Thousand Maws. Though the new look of the later area with all the more "authentic" spider web cocoons now actually gives me the creeps. xD But this is really more of a "me" problem.
Im sad that the area after the drake fight in brayflox changed. My fav spot was the arch tree you can walk on in the water, but alas its just background now
tbh i miss the old slime boss battle lol jumping in place as a scholar, letting Selene heal the tank while i watch the newbies try to kill wonderful memories
only thing i like about these changes is that we can now do them with your grand company easier. and that the new Main Scenario's arnt Maze runner + Cutscenes + Moshpits anymore.
I was surprised with how well the last two dungeons and porta played out after the patch, now doing MSQ Roulette feels kinda fun and not a "aight gonna watch some Netflix" for over an hour
i did totorak last night with my squad (remember those guys???) and the bosses are the same, just can't esuna the poison on the ochu-coeurl :") also, squad tanks still have the old role actions lol
I want to thank you Mr. Larryzaur for getting me into FFXIV I appreciate all your videos. Keep up the hard work and perservere ❤ on that note, where can I submit my sugar baby application 👀
... It's like an old recipe went simplified into an easy way to make them with just egg, flour and butter... But the taste is not the same anymore... Same goes with the old dungeons.😔 Even though with new mechanics. I miss with bombing slimes. That was fun.
It may not taste the same, but it's lighter, faster to make, and not as unhealthy, and not *nearly* as rich, so it's not as painful to have more often.
I'm currently doing the story on my Aether alt (now that I stopped procrastinating in making her) and it's been something. I can spot a lot of changes in just the early quests
I just started leveling an alt a couple weeks ago, didn't even know about the changes to ARR dungeons. I remember asking the party if they nerfed the slime boss.
Can you even call it a "Game" if you don't have to do anything? I'm talking about the "game" you're being sponsored by.....Like seriously, how...WHY?! If you don't have to do anything, it's not a game, it's...I dunno, a movie? A cutscene?
So the earlie Game is more Casual then before i loved the old Game where u died when u didnt pay attention. But this is just tooooooooo Casual all Mechanics that made the Dungeons unique where just thrown out of the window just WHY!!!!!!! Why do they kill everything that made the Game different from WoW except for the marvelous Story.
But Larry! you didn't newgame+ ARR chapter 4 to do the new Cape westwind, and the new Lahabread solo duties! They're fiiiiiire. so much fun. worth the hours it took to rush through from the church in east thanalan >.>
I only started leveling alt classes after beating EW, so I don't have much memory of the old dungeons... but I DO remember Thousand Maws. And how awful it was.
Kinda sad in a way, new players can no longer suffer like we suffered. Toto-Rak looks more like I remember from 1.0 now, grassy. The heavy goop was an ARR thing.
Can’t believe we now actually need to use more than 2 brain cells in ARR, how could they do this to us? Jokes aside, Ultima is actually really cool now.
Back in the days, where you needed to get a key for your magiteck armor and if you missed it you needed to go back while everybody else was already running ahead... Or you would just run with them in shame without any mount
One thing that's really cool that you probably couldn't catch solo: during the Ultima cast, the LB bar would transcend and grow into 3 bars and you'd be able to get your first ever LB3 (in the story), even if you're in just a party of four!
i can imagine the glee that some infant dragoon got when someone told them to LB and they realize they're summoning a whole ass dragon
Also fun to use LB immediately at the start of casting because it refills no matter what. Double the LB fun!
Man, that was something I wasn’t aware was added to that trial, and it was seriously amazing. Post Endwalker especially just because it’s such a major ‘oh shit’ moment, and one you know exactly _how_ it happens
@@nonemitigation as if an infant dragoon would even know what an LB is and have it on their bar
If your LB bar is filled when Ultima starts casting, you can use it before it grows to three bars, resulting in two LBs used back to back.
Larry: "I wonder how the cyclops changed?"
Bahamut: *"Keep wondering bitch."*
Coincounter is the only boss he showed that didn't change in the most recent patch; he got his telegraphs sometime last expansion.
Just go back in and don't kill him like you did.
@@boobah5643 The telegraphs where added in 5.3
Old man Larry telling the youngings how things changed. Back in my day, we did toto-rak in the slime, up hill, both ways.
Literally both ways if you got to a boss chamber and didn't have enough motes to summon the boss. You had to go down another corridor to get more motes and the run back.
"And dont even get me started on the spider-lions we had to fight"
sure granma/granpa let's get you to bed 🤭
I love how Larry has turned from meme lord to historian dad just noting changes.
We are all just puppets controlled by something greater! THE MEMES, JACK!
But I like the memes.
everyone press F for the stupid photocells that everyone wall-to-walling would forget to pick up, so you'd awkwardly have to run back to get them all
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That "I don't have to tell a newbie to hit Return anymore" got me LMAO
This is like one of those history episodes except I actually remember what the game was like
Saaaaame.
When I first got Prae after the update I was genuinely SO hyped that they back-ported some of the mechanics from phase 2 Emerald Weapon to the Gaius fight. It just makes so much sense!
I never knew that gaius had terminus est in his arsenal, even before the 6.1 changes
Nobody ever saw him live long enough to use it, after all
But now he's legitimately emerald weapon 0.5 and it's perfect
I hope im thinking of the correct mechanic being terminus est
Yeah noone did which made a certain eoleplaying duty ...hard to realize who is there with you. He was able to show that back in 2.x, but i dont think anyone was aware of the name (showing only if you were hit by it or in the battle log)
The best change is for Ultima, during his final cast, it gives you an LB3 despite being a 4 man party!
i love that with the other two main scenario dungeons reduced to 4 players, Ultima is the first LB3 new players can actually activate, really hype story moment
what?!
@@ryutheslayer123
sounds like you gotta run it, homes
@@ryutheslayer123 a four player instance has a desperation LB3 activation.
As a new player, I can't wait for the "back in my day" stories from veterans :')
Back in my days we had no Vesper Bay Aetheryte Tickets. And no flying in ARR zones after ARR.
back in my day if you wanted to be a dragoon you had to level up both marauder and pugilist. and melee dps had their own mp bar called tp that would drain to 0 any time you used sprint
Back in my day, there were no party finder. We all sat in front of the dungeon and shouted for party.
Back in my day I had to make sprout actually follow me in totorak or they'd somehow get lost
@@Nobrev as a sch from sb we also had tp but it never did anything lol
I only knew about the Brayflox changes. Had no idea about the others.
"Oh hey Gaius hehehe..."
Best ending ever.
Something you didn't put in the video: My favorite update in Prae is that the WoL is sad now when they have to leave their Magitek behind! You see them have their /sad expression, then they put their heads down (like they're doing /payrespect without the hand motion), then when they look back up, they get a determined expression on their face! It's a very cute scene, and it makes it all the cuter when, after the Ultima fight+Lahabrea solo, you're reunited with your Magitek again to get the heck outta there, and you get it as a mount at the end of 2.0!
Counterpoint: Cid no longer calls it “Maggie.” Now it’s just “the magitech walker we borrowed in castrum blahbliblahnum.”
Smh no respect for Maggie
Yes but I'm sad they took out the bit where it recognised you
@@obviouslykaleb7998 Well, Cid is prejudiced against machines, aka a Machinist.
I got my first wipe in the Ultima fight two nights ago because both DPS were new and hadn't used Limit Break before. So that was fun.
More generally: I like that they make all the fights in ARR endgame meaningful now. Cape Westwind is a solo duty with three phases including an enrage, the Livia fight in Castrum introduces new mechanics for sprouts, Hydaelyn helps you in the Ultima fight and has to *rez* you in the Lahabrea solo duty because he one-shots you halfway!
Wait, Lahabread one-shots you halfway? That's so wild
Lahabrea solo is fantastic. And the fun part of him 1-shotting you is it’s a DPS check you’re meant to fail. I can imagine sprouts panicking when that happens.
@@vavakxnonexus Yeah, he kills the WoL and Hydaelyn uses what's left of her power to bring you back for the second phase
I love it. It turns Lahabrea from an absolute joke in to a legitimate threat.
@@Zomby_Goast Yeah, compared to Emet or Elidibus he looked very weak before while they were meant to be at the same Power Level (maybe Emet is slightly more powerful in pure magic because he's like the most powerful mage who ever lived)
A Realm Reborn: Reborn
There’s also the solo duty with lahabrea. That was pretty fun
What is the fastest way for me to replay the Lahabrea part in game?
@@firewoodloki NewGame+ maybe?
@@bakacdaz Can I jump to that quest or have to do it from the start of that chapter?
i ran it with min ilvl and broken gear, to see how challenging it'd be, and it was actually really fun. i actually got one-shot by the laser 😂
I will say that I'm pretty sure Coincounter had telegraphs added before the 6.1 reworks, because I remember that being a thing people were talking about in Shadowbringers patches?
Yep. Originally it didnt, but 5.x shadowbringers was current emoved them entirely, idk why as it was the first boss that required you to look at its wind up animations than look at the ground for aoes
It sounded like Larry was gonna mention that, too, but Bahamut said no
I was shocked how they simplified them. The years of struggle gone just like that. I wanted to keep sharing the pain with the new blood.
The dungeon maps have been simplified, but the mechanics are 100% amped up
dw the hard mode dungeons have plenty of bullshit to make up for it
I just ran Totorak yesterday to see the changes, and said something I never thought I'd ever say about that dungeon: "Wow...this is really pretty!"
o.o
i havent revisited ARR stuff but i remember doing the gaius fight my first time. i was so underwhelmed. he was built up so well in the story and we just nuked him easy. im so glad they revised all these fights :D
I really dig what they did to Ultima Weapon. Ultima's Bane was my first EX (because I didn't realize what that was and queued for it...) and we had a nice group of panicking first timers in there that did just great (2 pulls!). I love that fight. I think of it fondly and the rehash captures that vibe well.
I did Ultima's Bane for Tails the otehr day and got so confused when all the suddenly Titan showed up and and immediately fell dead to the floor
All of the fights had to be changed so the npcs could do them. I miss some of the more interactive mechanics, but I guess they didn't want to have to program npcs to have to run over and click and aim cannons or something. The new lighting in Totorak and Copperbell and fresh coat of paint on a lot of the other ARR dungeons is super nice, though.
The NPCs are definitely not why they changed the mechanics since we've been able to run them with GC squadrons for years. I think the main reason they changed them is because, like, where else in the game do you need to shoot a cannon at a random dragon that's not even an enemy in the fight? They got rid of a lot of the gimmicks and replaced them with recurring attack types (stacks, busters, flares, gazes, etc) to try and effectively ease new players into basic mechanics. Whether it is, in fact, effective remains to be seen.
@@titaniumvulpes to be fair, the GC dungeons used to be absolute dogwater specifically because none of the npcs knew how to interact with the mechanics, so if you didn't baby them the entire time they'd all eat shit
@@titaniumvulpes They literally said in the patch note reading that the Duty Support was the reason for the dungeon changes. Yes, we could and can do it with the Squadron, but the Squadron is a bunch of brainless people who do no mechanics and are just not getting serious damage from standing in stupid and stuff. (Though it's been a while I went in there with my squadron as a tank, where I can't just go over to the Berthas without dragging the dragon with me, no clue what happens with the cannons.)
I am kind of sad about what happened to Praetorium and especially to Cape Westwind. New players will never understand the rite of passage of watching Rhitatyn drop in 40 seconds while they're getting ready for a crazy hard fight.
Now it is up to us to uphold that meme's legacy. We have to educate the sprouts from now on how millions of voices suddenly cried in laughter and memes and were suddenly silenced by the "Duty Complete" and "gg".
My first time was hilarious. Both Tanks started talking about swapping halfway, people put down markers, the other healer assured me that it was fine to wipe in this dungeon. I was sweating and frantically checking online for a guide, only for everyone to bumrush Rhitatyn and demolish his health bar before I could blink
I remember of a time where my party wiped on Cape Westwind...... It was sad....
he wasnt always a meme but people have selective memory I suppose.
@@Shiirow Well, I suppose he wasn't a meme during ARR, but I could imagine this changed pretty quickly with the first expansion, and every expansion afterwards added to that meme.
(Also, I played it on minimum item level shortly before 6.1 came out, he hit a lot harder and you managed to see mechanics for once, but we still managed to clear that trial fairly quickly. It was nowhere near that new fight with several phases and a short in-trial cutscene and plenty of mechanics.)
I like how you forgot castrum meridianum, I don't think anyone remembers it lol
I got that in MSQ roulette and I didn't want to do it again :)
Honestly, Castrum is the weakest change imo
Aurum Vale is the healer right of passage. If you can’t take the pressure and the toxicity, you’re not a real healer. Lol
Lol I remember when ARR launched it turned us all into real MMO adults
@@momintim I’ve been proven wrong before, but it feels like every year more younger players join. Although my experience can be biased. In SB I didn’t know anyone younger than 22. And one time while running Prae, 2 dudes where sharing which prostate medications they used, lmao.
The game felt more mature, in a way.
You actually get to use lb3 against ultima weapon in the dps check, it’s super cool
AND it's the first time a new player can see an LB3 because none of the 2.0 lvl 49-50 content is 8 player anymore!
5:50 he starts with just dive bombs but as the fight progresses he drops dive bombs and circles on the ground.
Always a good day when Larry uploads a video ^^
Tbh I'm a bit sad about Toto-Rak. While I don't miss the collecting of photocell batteries or whatever, I very much liked the claustrophobic feeling the dungeon had. I felt that it added to it, being a prison and all. While I do like the new lighting changes, I could've done without the WIDE OPEN spaces. It's no big deal but eh, I'd say most of the changes were for the positive.
oh my the ARR fight music makes me feel nostalgic as hell
Qarn is actually changed slightly. You no longer have to collect the items for the scales, and you can completely skip opening those last two side rooms (with the heads) before the last boss.
Overall, I like most of the dungeon changes. Yes, some of them have less character, but I think they do a better job of teaching you some of the standard boss dmg patterns, rather than just being filled with annoying gimmicks that you'll never see again.
Uh...
Qarn was always like that.
You never had to open the side rooms.
And you could always trigger the scales without any items to open the boss room. Using the proper items in the proper scales gets you access to a bonus treasure room, though.
@@GayLPer yeah I like getting new players and showing them the cool treasure room with the disappearing wall.
@@GayLPer Using the scales properly also means you don't have to fight the adds that appear once you tip the scale. (Considering you have to fight adds to get the right stone thingies though, it probably doesn't make much of a difference - unless you pick up all stone thingies and then place them wrong.)
the lighting got better on all platforms even in cutters cry I noticed it in the tunnels before the chimera boss the lighting is just amazing now in all the old dungeons.
There’s one last change you probably missed! Laha and west wind are now solo duties and they’re actually really fun!
Why do I feel so sad at the game getting better? The lights might have been shit, but I’ll miss missing them. It was unique, to say the least.
you should new game plus your way into the solo fights for Arvina and Lahabrea. they honestly get crazy for low level fights. Arvina heard everything said about cape westerwind and is PISSED
now time to do the 2.0 Final Boss with Lahabrea which has actually changed to be a real Final boss fight.
I feel like they're also experimenting with new lighting, since that's part of their plan for 7.0, in these revamped dungeons
True especially since soon we will be getting graphics overhaul
ARR content was (and still is in some places) complete garbage. It's actually moderately enjoyable to do MSQ roulette and older dungeons now.
but where is Cape Westwind and Lalabread fight? they re pretty cool now
Okay these changes are great and all yeah but dude
The solo instance for cape westwind?
Absolutely god-tier now
Possibly top 5 in the game, new players are in for a treat
The meme may have fallen but westwind ain't dead
Hello fellow early birds
HELLO
Oh snap, Toto-Rak looks nice now. I'll miss the old dungeon designs, but I'm glad they improved them.
I ran Prae solo when they first changed it, and let Gaius' bar get to full to see what would happen |D So good news if you have 1mil hp you will live...
You missed the fact that the trust system is now in ARR for the dungeons AND the trials
Just to reclarify its only in the 4 man trials not the 8 man ones
i thought the same thing about the leaden heavy, i was actually happy they kept it at least in the boss room as memento xD
Seeing ARR changes makes me feel like those veterans from "back in the day things were more green"
After running toto-rak so often to level my GC squadron, I immediately knew something was off with how open the start of the dungeon was when I rolled it in a daily leveling roulette.
"oh... heyyy Gaiuuss 👁️👄👁️" *proceeds to ride him* lmao
Larry ending the video teabagging an unconsc- I mean, SUPER DEAD Gaius. >_>
of course they dumbed down the game. man im not gonna lie 2.x was the best time for ffxiv. The yeti snowball fight change also upset me. Seems they replaced all these mechanics with jsut generic telegraphs and stack markers. What a shame
Larry thinking he got Gaius but got uno reversed. Gaius died with a battle chubby and Larry is just... you know.
It's so upsetting to slowly see this game lose all nuance over the years. Mechanics in dungeons taught people how to play, even if some were annoying, now every dungeon is the same two pulls, boss, repeat three times formula.
FINALLY, an "Old Gamer Reminisces about Old Expansions" video that i ACTUALLY GET!
Holding aggro on the first boss(and adds) in brayflox was never hard? Use overpower or flash 3 times and easy game?
It's a pity that some dungeons now look a bit less challenging or at least had some unusual stuff taken out (like the Berthas and the lasting ice puddles in Stone Vigil), but if the Duty Support AI can't deal with that, there is little to do about it. I think the things they did to replace those mechanics were neat as well though. :)
Best part is that they've added mechanics and indicators you'll frequently see throughout the game now. Instead of hitting level 70 and seeing your first tank buster or stack indicator lol
No, it's a good thing now, no stupid "challenging" useless mechanics just to slow you down for no reason.
@@Levolpehh Oh god yes. Unified markers are a bliss. Can't wait to see this in Sohm Al or what it was, where the stack marker looks very dangerous, making people run away. xD
@@nogz01 Well, I certainly won't miss.. basically everything in old Thousand Maws. Though the new look of the later area with all the more "authentic" spider web cocoons now actually gives me the creeps. xD But this is really more of a "me" problem.
Im sad that the area after the drake fight in brayflox changed. My fav spot was the arch tree you can walk on in the water, but alas its just background now
These changes make new game + exciting
Who wants to break it to Larry that the NPCs in Satasha always said that? (What? I was bored one day.)
tbh i miss the old slime boss battle lol
jumping in place as a scholar, letting Selene heal the tank while i watch the newbies try to kill
wonderful memories
Yeah, same - three explosions was maybe too much, but it's a shame there isn't any remnant of the mechanic left anymore.
@@vavakxnonexus The mechanic is still there in the hard mode with the Dustbunny boss.
Larry just had to backhand Gaius a little, show him who the real Ultima is.
Larry, I have received my chicken nugget and I love him
only thing i like about these changes is that we can now do them with your grand company easier.
and that the new Main Scenario's arnt Maze runner + Cutscenes + Moshpits anymore.
The bigger stack markers fighting Xande made me sad.
Okay, I noticed that on my last run and went "were these here before?"
@Larryzaur they changed Castrum Meridianum too. ;) go and check it out
I was surprised with how well the last two dungeons and porta played out after the patch, now doing MSQ Roulette feels kinda fun and not a "aight gonna watch some Netflix" for over an hour
i did totorak last night with my squad (remember those guys???) and the bosses are the same, just can't esuna the poison on the ochu-coeurl :")
also, squad tanks still have the old role actions lol
I like that he said the canons are broke from overuse. Lol
Larry powerbottom for Gaius confirmed!
That's some interesting squat positioning you chose there....
I want to thank you Mr. Larryzaur for getting me into FFXIV I appreciate all your videos. Keep up the hard work and perservere ❤ on that note, where can I submit my sugar baby application 👀
Larry you're so terrible. 🤣
I Love your face 😊
missed meridianum changes, rest in peace
they cut some of the side areas of some of the dungeons too. no more extra little nooks to explore in brayflox etc
... It's like an old recipe went simplified into an easy way to make them with just egg, flour and butter... But the taste is not the same anymore... Same goes with the old dungeons.😔 Even though with new mechanics. I miss with bombing slimes. That was fun.
It may not taste the same, but it's lighter, faster to make, and not as unhealthy, and not *nearly* as rich, so it's not as painful to have more often.
@@GayLPer maybe you're right, taste different, but still delicious. I'll remember that flavour.🥪🥙
I was literally mindblowed from the new MSQ Daily Roulette😂
I'm currently doing the story on my Aether alt (now that I stopped procrastinating in making her) and it's been something. I can spot a lot of changes in just the early quests
So..... A Realm Reborn Reborn? ARRR 2 electric boogaloo?
Wait, where did they do al those changes?! I was doing those dungeons the way you're describing FEW MONTH AGO!
Another shockingly good change you missed - do new game plus cape westwind. Its not just a real boss fight now, its now a really memorable good fight!
Good, these dungeons were a slog, it was so bad.
I appreciate how it’s mentioned in the spiel that it’s a gacha game. More games should do that.
Ultima also gives you an LB3 when it’s about to cast Ultima
I just started leveling an alt a couple weeks ago, didn't even know about the changes to ARR dungeons. I remember asking the party if they nerfed the slime boss.
Castrum has changed a ton too, and the solo Rhitatyn duty finally does him justice. I
Now do NG+ and do the new Westwind and Lahabrea fights! They're actually good now!
wow, an upload on my birthday, thanks larry :)
Can you even call it a "Game" if you don't have to do anything? I'm talking about the "game" you're being sponsored by.....Like seriously, how...WHY?! If you don't have to do anything, it's not a game, it's...I dunno, a movie? A cutscene?
So the earlie Game is more Casual then before i loved the old Game where u died when u didnt pay attention. But this is just tooooooooo Casual all Mechanics that made the Dungeons unique where just thrown out of the window just WHY!!!!!!! Why do they kill everything that made the Game different from WoW except for the marvelous Story.
The women in the Sastasha dungeon have some messed up dialogue. FF14 sure likes its implied sexual assault
But Larry! you didn't newgame+ ARR chapter 4 to do the new Cape westwind, and the new Lahabread solo duties! They're fiiiiiire. so much fun. worth the hours it took to rush through from the church in east thanalan >.>
I only started leveling alt classes after beating EW, so I don't have much memory of the old dungeons... but I DO remember Thousand Maws. And how awful it was.
Kinda sad in a way, new players can no longer suffer like we suffered. Toto-Rak looks more like I remember from 1.0 now, grassy. The heavy goop was an ARR thing.
I never knew you wanted to ride Gaius so bad.
I have alts on Primal and Crystal so I'm excited to play through the reworked ARR dungeons on them... whenever I can afford to sub again.
These history lessons are actual gold!
One day I'll refer to them when I'm telling a newbie how the game was better back in the old days XD
Also,in the first dungeon. In the area with too many mobs around after the second boss. Now the mobs they are way too less. 😆
This...this makes me sad. What if I wanna go and relive the old dungeons? :(
Can’t believe we now actually need to use more than 2 brain cells in ARR, how could they do this to us?
Jokes aside, Ultima is actually really cool now.
Back in the days, where you needed to get a key for your magiteck armor and if you missed it you needed to go back while everybody else was already running ahead... Or you would just run with them in shame without any mount
The biggest change (and worst one) is the succubuses in bukakke manor not blowing their load the instant they see you. 0/10 would uninstall again.
Stopped playing for a few years so decided to make a new character, this video helps me understand why everything has felt off so far