But the actual scene isn't even in this yet. No menancing whisper in your ear, no distorted screen, no impending doom. Welcome to Endwalker is when Endwalker starts proper, this has just been the appetiser
@@Nikzzza while I don't completely disagree with your point. To me, it's the moment you realize Zodiark isn't the final boss. Which they did in this clip.
@@Lordoftheapes79 I'm more surprised how many people THOUGHT Zodiark was the final boss. Everything that happened in Shadowbringers pretty much guaranteed that I thought Zodiark wasn't even going to be close to being the final boss.
The moment you say "Wait we're doing this now?!" is probably the most "Welcome to Endwalker" moment early on. Also I love that Hythlobro wasn't just a defective droid that became self-aware, he always was that cheeky dude to say that kind of thing: "Fare you well, my new old friend"
For added context in the lead up to EW, they showed screenshots of Anima out of context of the dungeon so everyone thought he was the first trial. Imagine everyone's thought process after his fight and the reveal of the actual trial
That made me so disappointment, I was looking forward to an Anima trial, only to be relegated to a minor boss in a dungeon. It always has been so strange to me that FFX doesn't get more representation in XIV, considering it's one of the most popular mainline games in japan.
29:10 Yeah, a lot of people forget when they get here that Zodiark is only 8/14 of his original self (the Source + 7 Rejoinings). That's only about 57%. So he was this strong... at about HALF power!
@dakotadoyle7573 I mean, we really don't have any ideas about the population of the ancients. Beings that live possibly thousands of years probably don't have a super high birthrate. All we know is they lost a lot of people to the final days, half their surviving population to zodiark to stop said final days and another half so 3/4s of what had survived to that point to restore the world. That could be millions it could be dozens, we really don't know.
Consider this: You knew we were going to the Moon, Thavnair, and probably Garlemald. Now you've been there. _Where else can you go?_ Find out next time...on Final Fantasy Z, I mean XIV.
So, fun tidbit. Every expansion's launch trailer has ended on one of the final songs of the expac. ARR ended on Ultima. HW ended on Imaginaton, the Aetherochemical Research Facility theme. SB ended on The Worm's Tail. ShB ended on Invincible. EW... ended on Endcaller. Zodiark's theme. Literally every piece of media promoting EW wanted you to think Zodiark was the end.
Welcome to *literally* *everyone's* reaction to the trial. I had the bonus of going '...Did we get played into checkmate?' in the middle of the trial during the first few days and wiping.
you say everyone but whilst i fell for it too, Emet pretty much explained in Shadowbringers they summoned Zodi to delay the end. which should have translated to us that we needed to get rid of him early.. yet somehow it didnt.
This was the most WTF moment of all of Endwalker - there are ones that top it in scale and emotional impact, but this was the moment where the devs made it clear that we hadn't seen a damn thing yet.
The launch week experience wasn't really any worse than this, at least not from what I experienced - day 2 all blind, wiped once to mistakes accumulating, then got through a bit messily. Their rdms just meant they had the recovery power, so rather than wiping early on they could just continue.
@@Elendrial Mine was. It was the first time in thousands of hours that I have ever seen a trial timer reach 1 hour and kick everyone out. The falling constellations would hit at least 4, then he would do the shot across the whole platform from the corner like Shinryu where you have to get to the safe edges and that would hit a few. Then he follows with his Akh Morn and we would have 5 - 6 people alive, 3+ of them with more than 1 vuln stack and the repeated hits would just beat us to death. Every time. They just didn't learn.
This is 100% a dorito fight. As long as a few people know where to go, everyone else can generally follow. Week 1 endwalker there were not nearly as many who knew the fight!
Endwalker seems so long ago when i did MSQ. Great to relive the experience thru them. For months, I had a great time following various streamers’ journey thru MSQ.
Everyone I've ever watched play this expansion has said, at the point where you face Zodiark, "We're doing this NOW? We're only level 83!" Literally everyone, without fail.
@@Lordoftheapes79 I'm not sure I'd call it a big bad misdirect. with the unsundered dead, no more rejoinings were going to happen, so we always knew Zodiark would never reach full strength, and that he wasn't exactly sentient in his own right and was thus not really 'final boss' material. but we still fought him way earlier in the story than most would have expected.
Dark gods are what you raid Walking on the moon I hope my gear don't break Walking on the moon We could play forever Walking on the moon We could stream together Walking on, walking on the moon
Sage is also the only one that has their multi-hit mit at that level! I'm always twitchy to use Macrocosmos/Liturgy here "action not learned" DAMMIT. Panhaima FTW.
Been waiting for this moment. We're gonna kill WHO? NOW? But what do we do from here? Enjoy the ride, that's what! And what a ride it is! Oh, and Welcome to Endwalker. Have a seat. Oh, and remember the dog...
I like how everyone who got there got baited and switched so hard. "Wait? Why am I fighting Zodiark at Lv.83???" Well, remember that Emet-Selch and the Final Days of Amaurot makes it clear that Zodiark was summoned to stop a disaster from happening and it make sense that he might not be the biggest threat here... and also, Fandaniel clearly said that he wanted to die... so you just gave him what he wanted, right?
THE Big Bad that they have been building up since ARR, that you've heard his name and dreaded the whole time as you played through the entirety of the MSQ and CBUIII is like "Nah, he's just a standard x3 trial." lol. I always thought the bait and switch was awesome. You got the 89 and 90 trials left (this isn't a spoiler, because they use this formula in every single expansion, trials at x3, x9, and x0), so perhaps just sit down and ponder sometime, just who they're gonna be.
It would've been nice had Zenos done anything during the trial. After all Fandaniel did just interfere with his hunt and I was told those who do so won't do so twice.
zenos respects the killing part of the hunt too much to "take another hunter's kill from them", he probably regards zodiark and by extention fandaniel as being "our kill" for two reasons: 1. the WoL, being everyone in eorzea's favorite champion, is bound by duty to find and attempt to kill zodiark. zenos recognizes this, but feels he must respect the kill regardless of if he was the one in control of the primal or not. 2. He only tolerated Fandaniel's presence so long as fandaniel helped his plans. fandaniel is no longer of use to him with him inside zodiark about to die at the hands of WoL and friends. to Zenos, this probably is a "good, rid me of that nuisance, would you? i'll find another god to consume and fight you with." kind of situation.
I'm more surprised that people actually thought Zodiark would ever be the final boss. Did people just fall asleep during Shadowbringers? Nothing about what was hinted at during the big revelations even hinted at Zodiark being the final boss. If anything, him being the final boss would be the ACTUAL surprise.
"We're on the precipice of 'The Martyr', and they're making jokes?!" You have surely noticed by now that your WoL is kind of losing it mentally (in a comedic sort of way). You've been through a lot.
![FILMMAKER REACTS: WARFRAME | [ALL PRIME TRAILERS!!]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4dRMf0axoLY/mqdefault.jpg)
If there is ONE welcome to Endwalker moment, this is probably it. 😂
But the actual scene isn't even in this yet. No menancing whisper in your ear, no distorted screen, no impending doom. Welcome to Endwalker is when Endwalker starts proper, this has just been the appetiser
@@Nikzzza while I don't completely disagree with your point. To me, it's the moment you realize Zodiark isn't the final boss. Which they did in this clip.
@@Lordoftheapes79 I'm more surprised how many people THOUGHT Zodiark was the final boss. Everything that happened in Shadowbringers pretty much guaranteed that I thought Zodiark wasn't even going to be close to being the final boss.
52:40 "Where are we going from here?!" As it turns out, you were going to Fall Guys next. Not the twist ending most were expecting I'd bet!
Actually, Garrett called it a while ago. Like most of us, he's wrapped up in the moment and forgot.
The moment you say "Wait we're doing this now?!" is probably the most "Welcome to Endwalker" moment early on. Also I love that Hythlobro wasn't just a defective droid that became self-aware, he always was that cheeky dude to say that kind of thing: "Fare you well, my new old friend"
25:25 Garrett: "How is this not the end?!"
FFXIV Veterans:
Load-bearing monsters really should be labeled properly.
Zodiark really wasn't up to code.
@@WhatKindOfNameNow I'm gonna have to file a complaint with the Bureau of the Architect.
It was. The label was basically "The entirety of the character of Emet-Selch".
For added context in the lead up to EW, they showed screenshots of Anima out of context of the dungeon so everyone thought he was the first trial. Imagine everyone's thought process after his fight and the reveal of the actual trial
and the promotional material had anima where normally the trial boss would be
That made me so disappointment, I was looking forward to an Anima trial, only to be relegated to a minor boss in a dungeon.
It always has been so strange to me that FFX doesn't get more representation in XIV, considering it's one of the most popular mainline games in japan.
29:10 Yeah, a lot of people forget when they get here that Zodiark is only 8/14 of his original self (the Source + 7 Rejoinings). That's only about 57%. So he was this strong... at about HALF power!
And we have 8 rejoinings thanks to the Adbert! so we are at %64 power! Sort of... If we dont consider our 'other' power.
@@sethrougen8968and Zodiark was summoned using millions of pre sundering souls
@dakotadoyle7573 I mean, we really don't have any ideas about the population of the ancients. Beings that live possibly thousands of years probably don't have a super high birthrate. All we know is they lost a lot of people to the final days, half their surviving population to zodiark to stop said final days and another half so 3/4s of what had survived to that point to restore the world. That could be millions it could be dozens, we really don't know.
Consider this: You knew we were going to the Moon, Thavnair, and probably Garlemald.
Now you've been there. _Where else can you go?_ Find out next time...on Final Fantasy Z, I mean XIV.
So, fun tidbit.
Every expansion's launch trailer has ended on one of the final songs of the expac.
ARR ended on Ultima.
HW ended on Imaginaton, the Aetherochemical Research Facility theme.
SB ended on The Worm's Tail.
ShB ended on Invincible.
EW... ended on Endcaller. Zodiark's theme. Literally every piece of media promoting EW wanted you to think Zodiark was the end.
And none of us predicted where we'd end up next. They kept the last two zones SO well hidden.
Pretty much everyone' reaction: "What?! This is happening NOW?!!!" 😂
I mean it was mine at release. I had zodiark at 87 and something else at 90. I think I was expecting Anima to be 83.
Welcome to *literally* *everyone's* reaction to the trial. I had the bonus of going '...Did we get played into checkmate?' in the middle of the trial during the first few days and wiping.
Not everyone. If you grew up with early FF games, the big bad misdirect is par for the course.
you say everyone but whilst i fell for it too, Emet pretty much explained in Shadowbringers they summoned Zodi to delay the end. which should have translated to us that we needed to get rid of him early.. yet somehow it didnt.
As I said in my 12-Month Member Chat:
You are Level 83.
The first trial is Zodiark.
Welcome to Endwalker. You are in for a [bleep]ing _ride!_
"THIS IS LEVEL 83!? WTF is left!?" - I think everyone goes through this. Welcome to Endwalker.
"What a delightful meme that isn't a shit post" is the best way to describe this moment XD
Quest: "Follow the lustrous dog"
Stream snipers: "Look ma, I'm on tv!"
Re: Intense Stack Marker
The community term for it is "Akh Morn" from the move commonly used among draconic bosses, as Garret twigged on.
I always loved the reveal of the rotation mechanic
This was the most WTF moment of all of Endwalker - there are ones that top it in scale and emotional impact, but this was the moment where the devs made it clear that we hadn't seen a damn thing yet.
I love the universal reaction of "NOW!? WE'RE ONLY AT LEVEL 83!!?"
It bothers me that they did better against Zodiark than Barnabus with his magnet mechanic. The struggle was real on launch week.
Double red mage and a healer lb3 doesn’t exactly scream doing better.
The launch week experience wasn't really any worse than this, at least not from what I experienced - day 2 all blind, wiped once to mistakes accumulating, then got through a bit messily.
Their rdms just meant they had the recovery power, so rather than wiping early on they could just continue.
@@Elendrial Mine was. It was the first time in thousands of hours that I have ever seen a trial timer reach 1 hour and kick everyone out. The falling constellations would hit at least 4, then he would do the shot across the whole platform from the corner like Shinryu where you have to get to the safe edges and that would hit a few. Then he follows with his Akh Morn and we would have 5 - 6 people alive, 3+ of them with more than 1 vuln stack and the repeated hits would just beat us to death. Every time. They just didn't learn.
This is 100% a dorito fight. As long as a few people know where to go, everyone else can generally follow. Week 1 endwalker there were not nearly as many who knew the fight!
Endwalker seems so long ago when i did MSQ. Great to relive the experience thru them. For months, I had a great time following various streamers’ journey thru MSQ.
"Where do we go from here?" The eternal question.
I'm really glad they have finally finished Endwalker, THERE'S NOTHING AFTER THIS OF COURSE THIS IS THE LAST TRIAL RIGHT?
It's the second trial. The first one came at the end of the Labyrinthos section
Wdym? The first trial was the body swap!
Glowstick trolling gets me every time.
Everyone I've ever watched play this expansion has said, at the point where you face Zodiark, "We're doing this NOW? We're only level 83!" Literally everyone, without fail.
You just fought the final boss... and still have 7 more levels! :D
Kyle: leave it to me astrologian, stars are my speciality!
5 seconds later
Kyle dies😂😂😂
THE GREAT "LEVEL 83!?" REACTION, FAITHFULLY RECREATED.
THE MARVELS OF (people playing through) SYRCUS (and thinking that was the pinnacle of boss battles and lore) WERE BUT PLAYTHINGS.
"This is happening already?!" - Endwalker in a nutshell.
Welcome to endwalker guys
"THIS is the level 83 Trial???" -- Everyone's reaction during Endwalker's day 1/2
25:54 --- This: the reaction of every and all players XD
Not everyone. The big bad misdirect is a common trope for FF.
@@Lordoftheapes79 I'm not sure I'd call it a big bad misdirect. with the unsundered dead, no more rejoinings were going to happen, so we always knew Zodiark would never reach full strength, and that he wasn't exactly sentient in his own right and was thus not really 'final boss' material. but we still fought him way earlier in the story than most would have expected.
I think the best meme was that one with Meteor saying: "what an expansion" and someone replying: "wol, it's just lvl 83 msq" 😂
Congrats on beating endwalker
Idk about anyone else, but whenever I get to the part where he breaks the mask I think "Show me your true form!"
Cheer up everybody, you beat the bad guy. - Sweet
Congrats on beating the game. :P
Dark gods are what you raid
Walking on the moon
I hope my gear don't break
Walking on the moon
We could play forever
Walking on the moon
We could stream together
Walking on, walking on the moon
37:56 that casual 1HP Sage. What a chad
Sage is also the only one that has their multi-hit mit at that level! I'm always twitchy to use Macrocosmos/Liturgy here "action not learned" DAMMIT. Panhaima FTW.
The first time I did this trial, we wiped at least 3 times. When we finally beat it we had about a minute left on the timer.
I am terrible at spatial reasoning, so this trial is my personal hell. I live in terror of it popping up in my roulettes, lol.
Been waiting for this moment. We're gonna kill WHO? NOW? But what do we do from here? Enjoy the ride, that's what! And what a ride it is! Oh, and Welcome to Endwalker. Have a seat. Oh, and remember the dog...
36:50 😂 Garrett... I CAN'T WAIT to see zodi EX😂 this'll be a vuln feast
Props to _redacted_ for releasing the lab animals :>
good morning all o/
I like how everyone who got there got baited and switched so hard. "Wait? Why am I fighting Zodiark at Lv.83???"
Well, remember that Emet-Selch and the Final Days of Amaurot makes it clear that Zodiark was summoned to stop a disaster from happening and it make sense that he might not be the biggest threat here... and also, Fandaniel clearly said that he wanted to die... so you just gave him what he wanted, right?
A fun snappy expansion if a bit short.
Love it~!!
THE Big Bad that they have been building up since ARR, that you've heard his name and dreaded the whole time as you played through the entirety of the MSQ and CBUIII is like "Nah, he's just a standard x3 trial." lol. I always thought the bait and switch was awesome. You got the 89 and 90 trials left (this isn't a spoiler, because they use this formula in every single expansion, trials at x3, x9, and x0), so perhaps just sit down and ponder sometime, just who they're gonna be.
It would've been nice had Zenos done anything during the trial. After all Fandaniel did just interfere with his hunt and I was told those who do so won't do so twice.
I think, Zenos was a little stunned that he got outplayed... and, as he said himself, Zodiark fell short in his expectations.
zenos respects the killing part of the hunt too much to "take another hunter's kill from them", he probably regards zodiark and by extention fandaniel as being "our kill" for two reasons:
1. the WoL, being everyone in eorzea's favorite champion, is bound by duty to find and attempt to kill zodiark. zenos recognizes this, but feels he must respect the kill regardless of if he was the one in control of the primal or not.
2. He only tolerated Fandaniel's presence so long as fandaniel helped his plans. fandaniel is no longer of use to him with him inside zodiark about to die at the hands of WoL and friends. to Zenos, this probably is a "good, rid me of that nuisance, would you? i'll find another god to consume and fight you with." kind of situation.
Psshkoh! You know he's cursing up a storm off screen.
I'm more surprised that people actually thought Zodiark would ever be the final boss. Did people just fall asleep during Shadowbringers? Nothing about what was hinted at during the big revelations even hinted at Zodiark being the final boss. If anything, him being the final boss would be the ACTUAL surprise.
"We're on the precipice of 'The Martyr', and they're making jokes?!"
You have surely noticed by now that your WoL is kind of losing it mentally (in a comedic sort of way). You've been through a lot.
To the edges of the universe.
I love trying to spot my wol in the vids when I joined them going thru the story
Self own of "I ignored the entirety of Shadowbringers" to be confused by thinking beating Zodiark would EVER be an end to a story?