Asmongold: WoW-Style Stat Change For FFXIV

TwitchBeat - September 18, 2021
Asmongold: WoW-Style Stat Change For FFXIV

Well- known World of Warcraft streamer on Twitch, Asmongold has recently expressed his concerns about the upcoming FFXIV: Endwalker “stat squish,” which he compares to previous negative experiences in World of Warcraft.

Twitch streamer Asmongold’s Asmongold’s adventure into Final Fantasy XIV has been thrilling. His debut FFXIV stream, on July 4th, earned him over $30k, and his FFXIV streams have received insane viewership since then. Now, with the upcoming release of the Endwalker expansion, Asmongold is expressing concerns on one particular modification.

During his recent live broadcast, Asmongold was watching YouTuber Zepla’s “Things To Do BEFORE Endwalker in FFXIV!” video in which the youtuber were describing what players should spend their time doing before the expansion hits live servers. She mentions the upcoming “stat squish” in which all numbers in FFXIV will be downscaled across the board.

Youtuber Zepla also mentions that FFXIV will give players a buff to compensate for the stat squish. In response while watching the video, Asmongold stated; “This is exactly what happened in WoW and WoD (Warlords of Draenor), they scaled everything down and they added a buff, and then sometimes the buff wouldn’t work. It was so… Some fights got harder, some got easier. It was just really, really f**king dumb. I hope that doesn’t happen with Final Fantasy.”

Then when one of his chats comments saying “Disaster incoming”, Asmongold quickly responds simply saying; “Yeah, we’ll see.”

Twitch streamer Asmongold who has been playing and streaming World of Warcraft for a long time now, has had previous experience with stat squishes, as he mentioned in Warlords of Draenor, which likely contributes to his skepticism of the mechanic. Hopefully, for him and all FFXIV players, Square Enix handles the squish correctly so that players don’t have a bad time when Endwalker launches.

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