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Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood in review – the trials
First and foremost, I freely admit that the title for this one is a bit of a misnomer, since we're covering a lot more...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood in review – expert dungeons
For all that dungeons are a core part of the Final Fantasy XIV experience, this expansion was the lightest on top-end dungeons. Where Heavensward wound up...
Wisdom of Nym: Where is our last area for Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers?
There seems to be something we haven't learned yet about Final Fantasy XIV's next expansion, and if you know anything about me, you know that makes...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood in review – leveling content
One of the things that I really do love about Final Fantasy XIV, from relaunch to now, is that it is indisputably a game that...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood in review – side stories, part two
If I'm being entirely honest, I could probably stretch this series out even further from having two columns on side stories in Final Fantasy...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood in review – side stories, part one
Those of you who don't remember the last time I did this particular column series (which is understandable, it was two years ago) should...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood in review – The main scenario
All right. It's all over but the waiting, and that means it's time to start picking apart the Final Fantasy XIV expansion we're now...
Wisdom of Nym: Why Final Fantasy XIV may have needed Hrothgar and Viera now
All right. It's been three weeks, but yes, I do actually have a theory about why Final Fantasy XIV is adding two gender-locked races to...
Wisdom of Nym: A measured response to Naoki Yoshida’s mystery project
Well hello there, news on April 1st. I really have a tendency not to put much stock in anything revealed on April Fools' Day because...
Wisdom of Nym: Thoughts on the end of Final Fantasy XIV’s 4.x story
So now we've gotten the ending. And... gosh, sometimes these patches really do not merit splitting up, which is kind of the case for Final Fantasy...
Wisdom of Nym: All of the shards in Final Fantasy XIV
Look, the date of this article is a complete coincidence. Obviously, we're going to the First in Final Fantasy XIV's next expansion. We know that...
Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to the Final Fantasy XIV Tokyo Fan Festival
So we've now had our final fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV, and for heaven's sake we managed to get one big hype-derailing moment...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on the Tokyo Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival
This one feels as if it took half of forever. Combined with the leaks, the lack of hints, the speculation, and the general lack...
Wisdom of Nym: The rotating rewards of Final Fantasy XIV’s seasonal events
I'm not going to lie here: I'm really pretty disappointed with the rewards on offer for Granblue Fantasy's anniversary event. An event summon that functionally...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers overhaul jobs, part two
It's a testament to how well the balancing on Final Fantasy XIV works that none of the jobs discussed this week or last week are...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers overhaul jobs, part one
There are four jobs that we know of which are getting some major reworking in Shadowbringers. For a game with fifteen jobs, that's not so...
Wisdom of Nym: The system changes I’d like to see in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
We don't yet know everything we're going to learn at the Tokyo fan festival about Shadowbringers, but we can be reasonably confident that it...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s mysterious Hrothgar text has no good explanation
It was just supposed to be a minor patch for Final Fantasy XIV and it's touched off a huge flurry of confusion. Someone in the...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s pre-Shadowbringers roadmap
We're almost done with the fan festival hype cycle, and to be honest, that's kind of a relief. Not that I don't enjoy looking...
Wisdom of Nym: Impressions from the second Final Fantasy XIV fan festival
The experience of a Final Fantasy XIV fan festival is a distinct one, a strange beast that sort of creeps into your existence even...
