Recent reviews by 《FRU》 ~Fructis Norva~

After playing a long time I'm going to edit the review (was more likely for one of those steam achievements-event earlier i guess.).

Started (mid-end heavensward?) with 2 of my friends (lately 1) progressing trough the story as PLD on Phoenix, so I even took the time to watch the dungeon & trial guides before entering the instances since I'm hardcore silence about groupchatting etc.

It was interesting to have a point system to spend your attributes into or that cross-skill between classes (likely Whm cure on PLD) but also bit annoying to fulfill requieremts to gain your Access to the job-crystal (If im not wrong, you needed a lvl 30 PLD and a Lvl 15 Conjurer (WHM's Pre-class.) which got removed by the time.

ARR took really a long time to get trough it (Which is shorten now anyway and the dev still takes their time to make some adjustments (They announce a livestream about incoming updates for patches, adjustments etc. japanese language but they are using a likely powerpoint presentation with english subtitles)).

Heavensward and upwards played more and more with my feelings but hyped me more because of exploring the new areas from tile to tile plus you gain more access to explore more after unlocking flying in those zones etc. All the new Backgroundmusic in cutscenes, dungeons and fights but sadly, since I had no idea what now, never did any expert roulettes, had no idea about 8 man raids (Alexander), touched 24 man raid onced and was mostly afk in
Ishgard so no Best-in-Slot there (plus some leveling on alternative classes) but some random person gifted me some HQ armor for my PLD which was nice.

Stormblood was okeyish but the first time that I joined (after worldswitching from Phoinix to Louisoix for free with rewards) a free company where I met new guys to talk (via voice chat) every day. It was a chance to get into raiding; current trials, raids, lately savage aswell. The expansion also gave me my main job; Redmage. For me it was an amazing support class; rez people (especially healer, there was a nice skills where you were able to give the healer some of your MP, really miss that one). Since I was likely endgame I even had more options for stuff to do: Finishing missing quests / Instances, hit max level of each job, became mentor (sadly nobody is asking questions about RDM.), finished all relics of Eureka (only RDM weapon has stats, you had to reroll most of the time your stats to get the best-as-possible stats.) and got a Large House.

Shadowbringer was a ticking bomb about feelings and enjoyment, you had no idea what will happen next, what could be the next plan or enemy, etc. After hitting all 80, we focussed next to raiding about achievements and collectibles (Mounts, Armor, ...) and getting more into the mainjobs; getting more DPS. Plus there were that amazing part about rebuilding Ishgard; All those events of gathering and craft stuff to turn-in to fulfill the steps to get into the next one after finishing a special fate where you have to break rocks and bring the leftover to an another spot, clean the stage, etc. You were rewarded with some goodies but the best thing, the stage changed everytime. There was also a rankingsystem for crafter and gatherers for special ingame-titles to use (Made it to top 11 twice, took a break on the last one). Raid was also nice and lately the pick of music was great but alliance raid (all of three YoRHa-Raids (Nier Automata)) is my favourite alliance raid. Finished also all relics there, all 2000 Mentor runs but sadly missing Cerberus from Delubrum Savage.

Endwalker's Story was really long but enjoyable (Liked that final battle), but feels a bit empty after finishing it, going to edit the experience later in there in the future. Raid is sadly meh for me, no Idea but it's getting boring to hear in three of the first battles the same music. Still focussed on achievements and collectibles, hit already all jobs on 90. Any Ultimate won't sadly happen I guess.

Ist auf jedenfall etwas für Leute, die halt oft mit Freunde etwas unternehmen, anstatt für Einzelgänger wie mir.
Da ich alleine bin, renne ich das Clockwork bloss auf und ab, für den Loot, den man in Energy sofort umwandeln würde.
Auch hier hab ich mir Ziele gesetzt, die ich derzeit verfolge.
Ab und zu verbringe ich meine Zeit auch mit Freunde, wobei dies nur ab und zu der Fall ist, ebenfalls Clockworkrun oder spezielle Missionen fürs grinden (Vana...).
Auch Minispiele wie PVP umgehe ich bloss.
Hab zwar meine 5 Sterne Ausrüstung fertig, aber trotzdem fühl ich mich für sowas ungeeignet und unerfahren.