Asmongold Becomes a Dark Knight in FFXIV & LOVES IT!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- HEAVENSWARD BEGINS! Asmongold has just unlocked the Dark Knight and begins his journey for one of the most exciting jobs in FFXIV, enjoy the full questline so far and an incredible surprise at the end! FINAL FANTASY 14 - DAY 12!
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His favourite non-catgirl character in the game is literally his own edgier alter-ego. This surprised no-one XD
maybe spoilers..?
Let's be honest. Everyone's favourite character is also Fray
@@Doublejho the "spoilers" you were talking about is right at the end of the video
I wonder when it's going to hit him that everything Fray was yelling at people was Asmongold all along.
@@k33mal oh, that's my bad, i genuinely didn't get all that far into the video and forgot asmon saved all of his DRK quests to do at once for the viewers, thanks
Reminder that the person who wrote the dark knight job quest line went on to write Shadowbringers. She's awesome.
She also wrote Coils of Bahamut and Crystal Tower. And the Doma side of Stormblood. And more. After Shadowbringers, we can't give her ENOUGH credit.
@Jay Bee she wrote the Shadowbringers scenario too. You are seriously not giving her enough credit.
@@cnkclark Ishikawa has a talent for punching all of us in the feels and it hurts so good.
@Jay Bee I'm sorry, but if you think fight club was an original concept, you're... an idiot.
There are Greek parables about men having to face dark versions of themselves as manifestations of their guilt. I have no doubt the concept goes back much further than that, too. There isn't anything wrong with tropes. This is one that's rarely used and rarely done right. She happened to do it right, and that's definitely worth praising.
@Jay Bee black ops 1 did it too lol
"Aren't you tired of being nice?"
"Don't you just wanna go APESHIT?"
🤣🤣🤣
Fray is a true homie.
@@ArchieGamez Ofcourse he is. Only you yourself know what's best for you.
The entire job in a nutshell.
Is that an actual line in the quest? I must've missed it in the video then.
The edgy darkness job in the game is literally about self love and compassion and I am here for it.
Yeah, just wait until he founds out where a Dark Knight's *true* power comes from... XD
Yay! I’ll have to play it myself then!
They're fucking powered by Love.
THEYRE MAGICAL GIRLS
Yeah Fray is your selfcare ghost. Even more so in the Japanese script.
Like, in English, he basically gets fed up with you doing all the thankless chores for everyone and by the end wants to take over your life to stop that. In Japanese he fights you trying to get through to you so you'd put yourself first every now and then, but there's no mention of him wanting to take over. At least if I remember correctly, been like a year or more since I read the JP script.
Everything has eluded Asmon so far thought
Fray and sidurgu are like the friends others say are a bad influence on you.
But they're the most based ones that care the most about you in their awkward way.
For those who doesnt get it... when Fray scolding the NPC, it was your character scolding the NPC and that is why those NPC were afraid of you instead of Fray when you talked to them after the in-game cutscene.
Fray was only truly manifested in front of NPC at Lv50 DRK job quest.
WoL was casting Living Shadow before it even got added to the game :P
I think that even at the lvl 50 quest the wol was actually disassociating hard there too. What was PROBABLY happening was the WoL flailing around trying to regain control of their body:D
*[BIG LEVEL 70 DARK KNIGHT QUEST SPOILERS]* He does however manifest (we can assume due to Sidurgu's reaction) in the all awesome lvl 70 quest. God I loved that quest.
@@Faircraft3 I don't think so, no. The knights were actively attacking Fray, while saying words of encouragement to you. If they wanted to calm you down, I don't think they'd have been swinging their swords at you. Also: the knights in the courtyard were already wounded before you arrived: Fray manifested due to the BS of being forced to help another group of loser knights, and was taking out his rage on them while you were doing the helping.
@@kedolan4992 That sounds possible too yeah! I just think that at that point, "manifesting your shadow" wasn't in the developers' scope so the whole disassociation thing makes more sense to me at least. Plus I just think of the knights fending you off while you're..in-between modes? I guess:D
Regardless, it's a really cool scene and both situations rock!
"Given the circumstance we must part ways for a while. Think of it as an opportunity to hone your skills in my absences."
Asmon: Hits level 50 off stream.
Well he did stream it on zackrawr channel, basically just ran dungeons cuz instaqueue as tank
I thought he already did that in ARR?
Count Edmont: Granted, my decision will have raised eyebrows...
Asmon: *raises eyebrows*
Its like they put on inside joke after another for him in the game 😅
...all the way to the moon
@@Shikori_Tsuru people who give timestamps are just built different,have my like
And people say Asmon ain't a roleplayer.
@@kaiderhai86 they didnt
24:55 I was worried this might happen. It's the same thing that happened when Markiplier played Undertale.
The fans have given him a delicious cake, but instead of sitting back and letting him enjoy the cake, they now want to hold his hand and make him pick up the correct fork, hold it in the correct way, chew in the correct way, swallow it just right.
The fans have given him a wonderful gift, but now they need to stfu, take a step back, and quietly let him enjoy the gift.
If anyone didn't know, Frey's amazing line about killing their family and burning their house down is a Clint Eastwood reference, its from Unforgiven
and also quoting Tyler Durden from Fight Club during lv 45 quest
@@k33mal Frey and the Dark Knight is basically an extended Tyler Durden/Fight Club reference
I was wondering why it felt so familiar, thanks for pointing it out.
who cares
@@Userdoesnotexit your mom
asmongold: "god fray is a dick"
*fray is asmongold*
me: "well well...how the turn tables"
they never turned, lol. Asmon always regards himself as a dick
... turn".
@Muad'Dib underrated comment right there
Does anyone else find it ironic, that the class that in the end made Asmongold decide to switch from WoW (Which, lets be honest, is the MMO equivalent of a toxic relationship) is the class whos story is all about learning to respect yourself and your value?
An idea done poorly doesn’t lower the value of the idea. Just proves there’s a wrong way to do it.
@@unrelentingdoom1390 tf you talking about?
I wouldn't say ironic. I think coincidental, fitting or poetic could be better words to describe it.
You know peoples ability to enjoy the game while interacting with a lot of people and constantly being followed on game by a crowd of people probably trying to talk to you is a very underrated talent everyone just take a moment to appreciate content creators if you like them or not
Dont need to lick there asses, follow me around if it means im a millionaire
On his alt stream he's pretty chill and not as energetic as he is here on his main stream.
Half the people the follow him around don't even have good gear. I'm glad he turned off animations for others.
@@MWMTEE envy is poison, my dude
Someone should tell him about the Retainers his inventory is almost full 🤣
Seriously, seeing Asmon's eyes light up playing this job is a wholesome treat
I kind of want him to dancer, it’s incredibly fun
@@wolvo5441 He must change to Asbungold first then XD
@@ArchieGamez xD
It's actually his eyebrows getting so strong they pull his eyes up
@@lancevance6346 The way he lit up with the heavensward trailer starting as warrior is a preview
This is what I thought hero classes would be in WoW.
What is that and what is wrong with them? (I don’t play wow)
@Anton 2.0 but it’s not overpowered
@@Mounthuapleb5890 DRK is insane dude, he got the best invulnerability from Living Dead and best mitigation from Blackest Night.
EDIT: Im going to put here because everyone need to say LD is the worst invul like their lives depend on it lmao.
Living Dead is the worst invul on normal content, but on high end content its arguably the best invul. Think about it, the invul period only started when they die.
So, the invul period is effectively longer than other class where they probably wasted 1-2 second from casting it.
Dark Knight effectively got 2x times the lenght of invulnerability than any other classes, from his not death (6 seconds) and Im death, need full healing period (6 seconds). Its also more time efficient than any other class, because you don't need to wait for the tank buster and wasting invul timer.
On normal content where you don't know your healer, its the worst. But on high end content where you knew your healer and have voice chat? Its the best.
Compare it to Paladin where they need to press the button, and then wait for the tank buster, wasting precious second of invul from just waiting. Dark Knight just press the button and they don't waste any seconds on waiting for the tank buster to happen. Effective invul time for any tank is 4 seconds, DRK got the full effective duration of 6 seconds.
@@user-zq4pb8qh5n in wow the “hero” classes and Death Knight and Demon hunter. Basically they start out much higher level and stronger.
In FF the hero class the Op is referring too also start out at higher level
@@blushingralseiuwu2222 'best invulnerability' 'only invuln in the game that requires healer resources to prevent death regardless of situation'
Incase some of you don't get it, Fray/darkside is the self insert of how you feel when helping those damn NPCs.
Always loved that bit of self-awareness the game has about all the various shit you go through as the 'hero'.
@@Xadaj127 That bit at one of the limsa towns(you know the one) really hit hard when I first saw it
@@PervertedNovaxc3 yeah the first time I saw it I was like “damn ! you’re not wrong but chill 😭” bc as a waitress irl I’m used to thinking bad stuff about my clients while being absolutely adorable in front of them (I also complain about doing side quests that are optional while being chill when I actually complete them XD) so that really called me out when fray/we snapped at the guy 😂
59:38
>"I'm gonna random my trial, ok?"
>queues for a chocobo race
Dark Knight in FF14 has raised my expectation for any 2h sword class in any MMO now, and future MMO's it's so insanely dope. My best memories playing an MMO was my time main-tanking with Dark Knight on Final Fantasy.
@Anton 2.0 They already did when they gutted the class to make Gunbreaker
The animations for dark knight are pretty freakin good
@@1un4cy Levequests are an awful way to level combat classes, just FYI; the fastest XP comes from roulettes and dungeons, and the most braindead (watch Netflix and play) XP comes from Palace of the Dead- but both are better than Leves.
@@1un4cy Just spam the highest level dungeon you can do to level, as a tank you will always get instant pops.
@@1un4cy Levequests are only good for leveling crafting/gathering classes.
I love how Asmon is enjoying himself, such a serotonin boost haha
The best kind of Boost
He's like a different man
@@GregorioStyreco Not exactly sure what your comment is trying to say. Him leaving wow is hypocritical how?
Cringe.........
@@benblack1180 if u think he is playing it to have fun u havent been paying very much attention
32:00 A person runs past them
32:02 A mob is running after them
My fking sides
Mmo. Mmo never changes
I affectionately call Dark Knights the emotional intelligence job in FF. Your power comes from emotion, raw emotion, it isn't drawn from the void like Reapers or Black Mages, it's something much more primal.
Dark Knights are like Sith who are able to control and use their emotion for good, all while practicing their dark arts.
And, spoilers for future job quests, but it's ironic that the edgy job in game is all about self love, and acceptance of one's own flaws.
Not so different from warriors using rage, but DRK is way cooler. And it's not just about self acceptance either. You have to remember that Frey is an unreliable mentor, he wants you to embrace the darkness and turn your back on the world. He's trying to teach the WoL that the victim doesn't matter, and all that matters is that the DRK gets to enjoy bringing justice down. He doesn't care if innocent people get hurt along the way because he just wants the WoL to go over the edge and be consumed by darkness (Which would be extra bad for the WoL because they care about every person so much). A DRK NEEDS someone else. For the WoL it's the whole of Eorzea and needing to save literally everyone and that's a good canon reason for why they can be so powerful as well. As they say during the quests something like the brighter the light, the greater the shadow it casts, for Sid it's the little elf girl. But they need an anchor to keep them grounded. Doesn't matter how much they give in to their emotions, because they always have something to bring them back after all the bloodshed.
I love DRKs but I hope they add more lore for them because there is next to no lore. If you can't take the stuff Frey says seriously (Which you probably can't since he's literally darkness incarnate.) Then there's only a handful of lines you you get from Sid and his mentor and the spoilery character from the 60+ quests who is also not reliable. Its like a few lines in total and half of it is just backstory before DRKs even got aether powers and was just the one dude fighting without a shield.
You just mean Form VII lightsaber combat users. Jedi that can use dark side abilities without being corrupted.
ok
I couldn't help noticing during the RDM class quests that one of the antagonists did such crazy shit to pull off things that my DRK could just do from the start (Souleater). That's what playing with Voidsent gets you.
DRK is hilarious, because despite being the edge job, it's the only job that seems to go through (magical) therapy.
I will never cease to applaud the job Natsuko Ishikawa did in many portions on the narrative in this game including:
- The Dark Knight questline.
- The Rogue / Ninja class /job questline.
- The MSQ in Shadowbringers.
- The Azim Steppe MSQ in Stormblood.
- The story in Endwalker
Hold up, she wrote the Rouge quest line too?! I actually thought that one was better than the Dark Knight quest line.
Scout: oh god it’s happening asmongold is becoming a dark knight
37:24 I love how when chaos is mentioned, the chat just starts spamming that they need to kill chaos
i know only thing is kill CHAOS !
@@thevoxdeus “It’s like a hunger. A thirst.”
Wait till alphascape
Oh it feels so much better to hear the modern Alphinaud VA in these episodes at last.
It was just a nice reminder that he's grown in SOOOO many different ways lol.
It took some getting used to. But in time I grew to like Alphinaud's new voice. He sounds more like a young boy who are still diplomatic but inexperience which suits him better (Nothing against his previous voice actor).
I kinda liked the old VA, because it's Sam Riegel
@@kelnhide yeah, I have a bias for Sam Riegel too
The Admiral voice over suck now though ! 😬🤔 I like her voice acting in ARR, that's the reason I join the limsa grand company becuz of her voice over is awesome.
Dark Asmongold: "Open your eyes and see the truth"
Asmongold: "Damn bro, where can I get your fit?"
it's unreal how the normal questing looks so fun with Asmon playing it.
That speaks for how good a content creator he is, then. Making something usually seen as boring seem fun is a talent for sure.
certainly, but drk quest line by itself is pretty good. its very nice though that he held of for the stream to do it in 1 sitting, so seeing the quest again and from his pov made much better.
@@Raan-Shi I didn’t say it’s boring when I was doing the quest line I enjoyed it but he take it to another level.
If you take your time and play, normal questing is fun. The problem is too many have a mindset of rushing through them
4:21 “That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.”
As a DRK main, I can now say: One of us, one of us! : D
The Bald One has joined our ranks
One of us! One of us!
Come to the darl side :D
DRK gang DRK gang embrace darkness
@@trial_with_an_error9687 the Bald Knight rises!
Oh man I'm so excited for him to play through all the DRK quests, that story is fucking incredible.
i like the part where the edgy knights learn from a bunch of flying cuddle toys that the power of darkness comes from love and friendship
The first quest was even too hard for me so i stop. I don’t play second time if i can't past. After all im too fucking old for video games anyway.
@@JohnnyRaven69 no such thing as too old for video games. You can do anything you set your mind to.
@@JohnnyRaven69 You're setting your own limitations that way.
@@SeanTheShinigami Sometimes i do. When i really wanna do it. FFXIV is really good game tho. And i don't need to do every class. Maybe some day i give second change to Dark Knight class.
12:03 you are going to have to enter Blizzard to retrieve that girl.
a wretched den of scum and villainy
Blizzard LUL
It is fitting that he was on the shadowbringers title screen going in to this episode, considering the class on the logo.
The birth of Count Dripula and unlocking Dark Knight. Heavensward is off to a great start. =D
Heavensward is shaping up to be really interesting for Asmon. It'll only get better, I'm sure of it.
I like how 80% of Ishgard is dark knights and that citizen is still acting like he never saw anyone with a two handed sword
Most people don't have jobs. Think gladiator and paladin
plausible deniability. best way to avoid being called a heretic. or as Sgt Schultz in Hogan Heroes would say " I know _nothing_ , I see _nothing_ "
Barely anyone in the setting is any actual job. In some cases, the player is the ONLY known living person with it (like Scholar). Dark Knights, White Mages and Black Mages are all highly illegal and actively hunted and persecuted, either for being homicidal vigilantes or for being a risk to the entire planet (in the case of WHM/BLM).
Think OP meant 80% of players are DRK.
@@TheMaxCloud The Temple Knights are lancers, marauders, conjurers and Thaumaturges as well.
PAL: I have a shield for protection.
DRK: It’s so big I have to hold it with two hands. 😏
It's not the size, it's how you use it. Case and point: PLD does more damage =p
@@Aeonknight87 When you know your story quest sucks and the only thing you can do is proving yourself through performance.
I still have to remind myself every now and then that this is real and Asmongold is actually playing FFXIV and enjoying it.
I really applaud him for keeping his cool while his supporters/detractors (it's kinda fuckin hard to tell, at this point, given their actions) are so damn annoying and making his experience harder.
THIS GAME IS EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE BEEN ASKING WOW TO BE.
Which is why I'm so excited to see all these WoW players give the story a chance. It's long, and there are side plots, but it just gets SO good. If you thought the Dark Knight quest line was primo, the entire main story thread in Shadowbringers is even fucking better. And reading the whole story will make the payoff SO fucking juicy.
All these years, FF14 hasn’t changed, but 90% of the WoW players always belittle our game and wouldn’t even listen to our players, boy has the times have changed. I really doubt WoW will change, don’t you feel bad wasting 10+ years on your life? I’m glad I start FF14 on the ground floor.
Fuck that, all I see in this game is quest text... boring
The funny thing is Square-Enix made FFXIV as a WoW clone because the execs were jealous of WoW subscription numbers. SE ended up making a better WoW than Blizzard. I played FFXI before WoW was released, and I still say FFXI is the best MMO ever made. It just wasn't as accessible due to the amount of skill and teamwork it required. Anyone who thinks anything in WoW or FFXIV is hard has never fought an HNM, or bosses like Pandemonium Warden, or Absolute Virtue in FFXI. It literally took years before Absolute Virtue was finally defeated, and only after Square-Enix dropped enough hints.
What? Story is great but FF14 has many cons:
1) Zones are bland and boring
2) Combat is clunky (GCD is too long even with oGCD). Fastest WoW class has 20+ apm more than fastest FF14 job
3) Combat is not reactive - when I taunt/take aggro as a tank mobs react after like 1s (they are taunted instantly/they take damage instantly but they react after 1s thats game design)
4) not much challenging pve content (4 bosses every 6 months). In WoW its 8-10 raid bosses + usually a dungeon (like now with 8 bosses)
5) PvP doesnt really exist
6) PvE fights are scripted - you can literally memorise whole fight, mechanics gonna happen in the same time. FF14 players call it 'a dance'. I personally dislike this but maybe there are people who enjoy this so it's not really an objective con
WoW is way superior game in terms of doing PvE/PvP content just with very bad time consuming designs. It is improving however and I guess now, when some people left, they will get to work.
FF14 is superior game for casuals/people who mostly enjoy some social events, fashion, housing etc.
I enjoyed FF14 really much but when I finished all MSQ and did some pve i realised how much I like that reactive WoWs combat (also „clean” fights without many particle effects and shiny boss mechanics) and dungeons (in FF14 dungeons are boring and easy)
Ironically, a dark knight may be more of a paladin in this game than the actual paladins. Especially if someone *ahem* that Asmongold knows really wants to play a ret pally.
@@Zantetsudex Yeah! Same core, different flavoring.
@@Sorrowdusk We don't really know, outside of knowing they're the Sultana's top bodyguards, since the Paladin storyline tries its very best to not give us any information or job history/characters, since we're explicitly called Free-Paladins, AKA shiny white-gold mercenaries. The entire job's story is basically just a footnote that gets more Gladiator story than anything else.
@@Valanway And from what I understand they are not even really called Paladins in the original Japanese language and are rather referred to as something closer to Knights.
@@TheTriforceDragon In Japanese they are literally just called Knights.
@@Sorrowdusk Paladins in 14 are far closer to the historical Paladins of Charlemagne which were just an order of Knights trusted beyond all others in service to their Lord.
Its why in 14 they are also called he Sultansworn, sworn to the house of the Sultanate aka Monarchy.
So the Japanese name of Knight is also fitting
This was such a good stream, glad you enjoyed the DRK quest line story!!
To be fair, the DRK storyline is fucking great
@@CooleyHigh20 Very true!! :) It makes me happy to know Natsuko Ishikawa’s storytelling is being appreciated and honestly, it’s so well deserved because that woman can write her way out of hell lol.
It would have been so easy to just make an evil you as your darkside. But they didn't go that way. Your darkside is everything you've repressed. All the things you want to say or do but choke down. The side that's had it with all the crap, with the fetch quests, with all the abuse. The side that's, to be honest, looking after *you*, rather then the rest of the world. And it's all brilliant.
"Fray's dead, Asmongold!? Do you hear me!?!?!? He's dead!!!"
Chat be pulling out those BO1 references.
The HW music is just so amazing.
Communion
I'm working my way through DRK myself as well, just did the Level 60 story quest and... my gods, it's such a great and well written story, just fantastic dialogue and it's so compelling. I think part of what makes DRK so alluring, is that it's such a stark contrast to the usual "you're the warrior of LIGHT" that you're so used to. You're given a chance to just feed a bit into the darkness, and to learn to wield it for good. usually it's all about the morally correct choices for the greater good, while dark knight is all about the morally ambiguous for immediate, tangible results that benefit you, whether it be seeking justice or punishment for those who deserve it.
i dont play FFXIV yet , but i just love its community so much
I would get started on the trial! I only have 1-2 hours a day to play and I’m still having a blast steadily working through A Realm Reborn.
2 weeks in for me and glad I tried the trial out! Purchased it not long ago :)
I’ve been a Dark Knight main since Heavensward. I only wish Asmongold could’ve played the og version. It wasn’t as strong but you had to manage your MP a lot more. It was a bit more engaging. Still DRK is a really fun and cool class!
Compared to war playing drk is a lot more engaging. Warrior really needs it’s gameplay loop looked at
@@inuclearpickle8628 I haven’t really played WAR since the beginning of the expansion. I got it to Lvl 80 and haven’t touched it since really. From what I remember though it seems like it’s DPS phase is similar to DRK.
@@Drunklotus drk has more ogcds to work with where warrior it just feel like just click fell cleave
Wow, he leveled the job off stream so he can stream the story content. Asmongold is a beast
@@DreamingVoid or you could just do PotD
@@DreamingVoid he could have also done lower level dungeons which doesn’t require those skills since you don’t have access to them.
he did the leveling on stream, but on his second channel. so no camera
@Jay Bee He's hardly handicapped by waiting to do his quests. You spam unleash a lot in leveling dungeons, so you don't really miss blood weapon (only works on single target) or edge of darkness (single target version of Flood of darkness). These are tools you want to use higher level, but there isn't a make or break quest skill from 30-50.
@@TheGerrok unleash works with blood weapon though
Dark Knight seriously has the best job story., it gets emotional at times too
Lvl 80 quest by itself could easily be a motivational movie's plot
A close second (for me) is the Red Mage story.
For sure. The end of the level 80 quest is some actual tear-jerker stuff. Never had an MMO teach me how important loving and accepting myself is before.
I just hope Asmongold reads the journal entries for dark knight as they are -completely- different from the normal journal entries, and, spoiler alert, are effectively written by Fray.
41:45 Holy cow what an amazing meta break. Considering Fray is your self insert who voices thoughts players themselves have about NPCs, he’s literally saying you can quit FFXIV and play a new game. Getting serious Chara vibes.
I love this guy’s stream. He makes the story so fun.
As someone who's been playing FFXIV for 4 years, he makes it fun to re-experience the story through his streams. Been having a blast watching him.
31:36 A Max Max reference. God, I love this game.
No lie, when he came out of that cutscene and all those Dark Knights did their weapon draw that was pretty bad ass
I can’t wait until he reaches level 70 and says the LINE.
Oh. THAT line.
The line?
Serve… Save… Slave… Slay… I’ve sins aplenty, aye, but regrets? Not so much
@@bfeldz1023 its what the original commenter was eluding to. this particular line.
@@bfeldz1023 It was a line spoken during the events of the Lv30-50 quest chain. And when its spoken during the lv70 quest. The outcome is FUCKING BADASS!!
I don't understand how you get anything done with all those players around you. Props to you for keeping your composure
Dude I haven’t played an MMO before but this looks fkn sick… if I played I’d like someone to help me out or at least have a fun group to play this game with
Edit: SO MANY NICE PEOPLE OMG 0.0 thanks everyone yall deserve something nice
When you start playing, there is a chat you are instantly invited to called the Novice Network where there are players who will literally hard carry you through everything just to make you feel comfortable.
If you have questions on what to do, classes, gear, lore, dungeon runs, guilds(called free companies here)literally anything, someone will likely answer you and/or aid you.
you can easily find a random FC to join and most will probs have a decent amount of sprouts to group up with
us the community finder for your server and youll be golden
Beware, it's a very time consuming hobby
Get on the Crystal server, world Zalera. You can join my FC :)
find an FF discord dedicated to the server that you're gonna pick. You'll probably find a guild there that will welcome you
Asmon has been getting good with this oGCD timing
Yep. I’m an MMO casual despite slowly working my way through FF14 for a few years, I’ve only recently worked out maximising oGCD stuff. Asmongold obvs a veteran of a genre but it’s cool seeing him do things it took me ages to work out myself
Is that like using skills that aren't on the same cooldowns as basic attacks and weaving them before you can use the other ones again?
@@LightSkinJedi1920 probably talking things like last second weaves for buffs like blood weapon to maximize affected GCDd
@@rukrawczyk ahhhhhhh okay I'm working on getting that weaving down!
I'm not gonna lie, when he was talking to Count Edmont at the beginning, I clicked to progress the textbox and just paused the video.
I cant wait to see Asmon do the Rathalos fight on max difficulty. He's gonna lose his mind.
I never knew ff14 had monhun colab, i thought only the mhw do the collab with ff
@@rakhmathadita3917 Yeah you can even have a palico pet.
@@rakhmathadita3917 Not to mention you can ride Rathalos himself as a mount
so that is still around and not a temporary thing? I'm still in Heavensward atm
@@hungryb4dinner it’s permanent, same with the Nier raid
Welcome to the ranks of the Dark Knight, man. Glad to see you're enjoying it! And yeah, despite certain people in your chat nearly spoiling you, glad to see you didn't get the "Fight Club" connection until it really came around. DRK storyline is fantastic. Maybe the best in the game.
Sorry for my ignorance, but that does he mean by "Fight Club"?
@@Chiou404 “Fight Club” is a book/movie with a similar plot twist revealed.
story telling is a huge part of FFXIV, everything, even job quests can tie into the MSQ, even the side quests can have an impact on how you can answer questions when you have that option, sometimes, at least in future expansions, the side quests can be well worth it.
One of the best examples is playing Dragoon when going into the Heavensward story. The interactions with Estinien are so different due to prior interactions and the overall tone of most of the Ishgardians, from what I remember, is far more respectful due to your actions and title as a Dragoon. It is such a nice acknowledgement of your past deeds.
the nice things about side quests and job quests is that the NPCs tend to remember you as well, if you meet them again.
i played the entirety of FFXIV in japanese dubs, but i have to admit that Count Edmond de Fortemps sounds amazing in English Dubs, its so surprising how good this is.. its so good in fact that i might just play it again on English Dubs, thank god FFXIV has a NewGame+ feature that allows players like me to re-experience the story of the game all over again at will, doubt any other mmo would ever do something like that
Fact: If you doing a DRK job quest lv.45 and your faction are Maelstrom faction the soldier will called you with a rank that you have.
If they ever bring out max faction rank it might be fun doing the newgame+ to hear them say that
@@Arfurful That's time my rank still at lieutenant while doing a quest.
Lmao that guy saying that tank stance empowers abilities and chat doesn't know anything about the game and repeating that chat needs to know how to read skill descriptions. It's darkside that gives 10% not the tank stance; tank stance literally just increases your enmity generation you goof. I really hope he's trolling.
It was fitting his favorite character fray is basically and literally himself :)
It's a good thing he probably avoids chat in his TH-cam channel so he can avoid people like you.
@@JustinStrife lol bro do you watch the video or stream and read the story too? the fray character is his favorite and the character is actually just a corpse that was used by the dark side of his own character asmongold bald
The Dark Knight definitely has the coolest story in the game as it's really the only one that shines a light on how you're treated by the world and how you really feel about it. What's interesting is that the 50-60 quests were just "okay" as they kind of dealt with something else but the 60-70 quests were again AMAZING as they further expand your knowledge of the Dark Knight and leave you with the best defensive ability in the game.
Yeah 50 to 60 was a little bit weaker but the level 80 quest ending was my favorite moment in ffxiv.
I can't remember where I saw this but as a DRK main myself I can't help but agree.
TBN: S tier
DRK: D tier
@@flaco9611 misshapen chair's tier list video
And I absolutely agree, TBN is probably the best ability in the game tacked onto the very basic class. Hope they do something with the jankier classes come endwalker
@@pawsouth2897 i honestly feel like the way SE balances the game is pretty fair as it is with the exception of PLD and WHM. They both do way too much damage for how good they are at healing and damage mitigation imo. They either should up the damage on other healers and tanks (my preferred method) or nerf the damage of PLD and WHM specifically which id rather they didn't. Nerfs aren't fun for anyone in this case.
This has been fun thanks for playing the story through.
Dark Knight was what finally convince me to try FF14. Just got to Heavensward :)
Same for me really, I am currently at the Ramuh quest.. I guess I still have some ways to go
This is honestly one of the best quests I have ever played in a any videogame ever. It's just so badass!
Awesome to see Az loving DRK.
First time I saw a Dark Knight, I had to know how to become one. Amazing story & a joy to play.
When I saw the trailer to Shadowbringers I changed my main from Blackmage. Though I've decided to go back to Blackmage for Endwalker; Dark Knight is & will always be, my number one tank class.
I was so happy when I saw him react to my Schlatt meme today, I've never felt so flattered. Asmongold is a treasure.
I loved the fact that I played as an au ra girl when meeting sidurgu and when he tell us the story of au ra and what the temple knights did to their people on first meeting I was like “oh so it makes even more sense to be an au ra dark knight lol I chose well XD”
DK!!! FF14 is incredible beyond words !
Umm no. The story is a cringe fest and tedious.
@@cosmancho2959 Grade A bait right here lmfao 🤣
@@cosmancho2959 sucks to be wrong mate. Shadowbringers' story is one of my favorite of all games I've ever played.
@@zombiesxaliens Good for you. I could not bother to even start Shadowbringers after how terrible Storm blood was. The writing is way too cringe and weeby for me.
@@cosmancho2959 I guess the cringefest of WOW will be good enough
Natsuko Ishikawa, the person who wrote the Dark Night questline, is a God damn amazing story writer. She wrote the story for the Rogue Questline, the Dark Knight Questline, 2.0 Coerthas, 3.2 and 3.4 Main Scenario, the Doman half of Stormblood, and was the lead writer for Shadowbringers. They are also maintaining the position of lead writer for Endwalker. They are very dynamic with their stories and writing styles from Dark and mysterious, to twisted and upsetting, to just down right fun and hilarous. When you hit the ceiling for how far you can go, I would highly advise checking out the other jobs and blue quests, if for nothing more but the stories and extra content.
48:48 I hope someone makes a fanart of this moment so I can use it as a desktop background
As a main tank and fan of DK, he looks so happy with the DK class and I know he will enjoy it!
"So Fray is dead."
Always has been Baldy, always has been.
_Heavensward_ is technically the diary of Count Edmont, narrated at major spots in timeline by himself. nice idea by SE
to future Dark Knights: if your previous class was a tank already and you kept some armor stuff: a DRK is able to use it quite well
>"We have no need for shields"
>has the best shield in the game
Dark knight all consumed with murderous intent
Also has salt and pepper seal
DRK quest line is so good.
man the way he plays his game is downright torturous...constantly swarmed by large group of people flooding his screen.
you know that this was his first few minutes in Heavensward? People welcomed him. The last 50-80hours he played were nothing like this.
Yeah I thought the same... all these clowns running around him for attention instead of letting him play the game normally
I miss redditor’s old voice, that voice grew on me.
''I Edmond de Fortemps, bid you welcome.''
"What up, dude.''
I would love to watch this, but I’m still in the second half of Realm Reborn.
Keep it up bro!!! It gets so good hear the end and HW is so good I finished it in like a week and I'm a super casual.
31:36 lol Fray and his Mad Max reference XD
To see Asmmongold genuinely enjoying a game again makes me happy
I really hope he tries out samurai if there’s one thing I love about the game it’s there rotation
that moment when asmongold realizes he should have played dk in wow more.
I'm a Paladin main but still love Dark Knights.
If possible, I would have started Dark Knight then went Paladin for the Cecil FF4 memes. Would have been fitting considering my best friend and constant teammate is a Dragoon.
Lol my character makes no sense, I named him Kain but now main a dark knight instead of a dragoon. Oh well.
Sounds like a new show on modern Cartoon Network. The Misadventures of Horsefart and Count Dripula.
Damn, didn't expect the questline to go full Persona
IMO DRK is one of the best jobs in the game. It’s in my top 3. Glad he is a part of the gang and enjoying it.
"I'm going to stand in the fire. Actually, that hurts, im not going to do that."
Real tank mentality. You'd make a great black mage.
Asmons favourite character turns out to be himself, typical! XD
i still love how the dialogue between the player and their darkside ties into the player unlocking living dead.
for those that don't know, living dead is the dark knights "oh shit i need to not die" button. it does this by killing the player.
this activates the living dead status and your darkness will take over, you have 10 seconds to be restored to full health and can not take damage. if healers fail to restore your health to maximum, then you actually die.
it's considered the worst one of the tank's "oh shit" buttons, but it is still by far a cool ass concept. also if there's anything that i said that needs correcting then go for it.
Actually, you CAN take damage. You just have to receive enough healing that you would have been back to max.
@@Mongoosesummoner so that's why it's considered the worst. since superboilde and hallowed ground and holmang all make you mostly immune to damage as well. thanks for correcting me
Just wanted to say I appreciate whoever is clipping these videos together from the twitch streams and puts them on youtube for us non-twitch-viewers to enjoy aswell!
32:28 when he said that I felt that after doing some errand quests I got that way with certain npcs lmaoo (I STILL LOVE THE GAME ITS PART OF THE MMORPG EXPERIENCE)
Wow the dark knight story is pretty 👏👏👏👏 defiantly a story I fully expect when I hear square enix
Little sad he didn't read the journal entries as they're pretty damn wild after a bit. Least he can still read them afterwards if he wants, maybe he didn't want to stream just reading stuff.
I randomly saw it calling Gundobald a coward when checking journal/map stuff for nearby quests, I'm glad I did since it typed me off that the journal entries for this chain was going to be special.
Where can you read the journal entries?
@@RijaMo They're talking about the quest journal.
I watched this stream live, and I remember him reading the journal entries.
I feel like he’s missing a bit of the experience. Those quiet moments when no one else is really around. It’s pretty cool and chill sometimes.