As someone who will immediately tell you about The Award Winning Critically Acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV with free trial up to Stormblood… it was a bit surprising that I didn’t jump into Dawntrail right away ! :D;;; And that was due to …well summer was hot and my laptop gets hot. I don’t like when the two are combined. I was also rather busy just as DT came out so… I waited for the weather to cool off and as September rolled… it was time to slowly chip away at the new expansion!
No Spoilers (so far!)

I’m barely pass the first batch of quests, I reached the level 91 quest batch last night. It is going to take me a while. I wasn’t super excited about Dawntrail but I waited to get hungry for FF14 in general before leaping back in. Endwalker really and I mean REALLY sapped my soul (in a good way but ow, my emotions!) I wanted to go into DT with very open mind and zero expectations.

And my first experience in DT was … having a huge load of names thrown at me right off the bat. xD;;; It just made me blink and nod through the first hour or so. I get it though – it is a whole new world and a whole different place. But with other locations we had the names gradually being introduced and here it was bombardment of really difficult names, at least to me. It’s a small complain but… I won’t remember a thing till probably near the end I imagine.

So we have like Papa Ja Ja, Bad Ja Ja and some Ja … and that’s all the names I could remember xD;; Locations and city names? It’s going to take a long while xD;; Wuk Lamat of course being such a bean is joy to experience. I do appreciate that we’re not really swaying anything with our presence, so far anyway but rather help her on her journey. I had concerns about our WoL’s involvement in completely different country’s political climate… but so far… not bad? :D;;; It is a game and I super duper try to be open about the experience!

I don’t currently have any strong feelings and I find myself going back to finish side quests in other regions while leveling a DPS on the side, going into DT as a healer feels really weird, especially with how my WoL is dressed xD;;
I’m very very early in the game to feel anything and I’m aware it’s new place and like starting anew rather than the emotional whirlwind that was Shadowbringers + Endwalker wombo combo so … I hope I get new attachment to my potato sized Azem :> He’s been through a lot! Even though I have some alts I wish to play as, I don’t think I can juggle more than 1 character anymore… ‘_’;;;; so I’ll see what I can do… maybe I too will become a fantasia addict.
Well, more to come as I play along! I will give spoiler warning later on just in case :>