The US Fanfest has come and gone! During it We got the Dawntrail reveal! Let’s give my thoughts on the expansion, new jobs, and the actually hype reveals!
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I can't wait for the free trial to be expanded!~
Coming from a country in which the prices are so expensive for mmos with a sub, it fills me with joy that i'll finally be able to experience more of the story/content of this game, Samurai here i come-
If you think One Piece is nothing but an 1000 chapter beach episode, then you haven't read One Piece.
I felt disappointed with the melee announcement. I played FFXIV almost everyday for hours and since last year I did a pause in the game and didn't comeback until now, most related with the reward system of EW and range dps feeling worst than SHB where it wasn't good. Or the roll feel pointless because range doesn't do anything in how the boss battles are designed or because they feel like the support jobs that are worst in support than ninja, that is a high dps melee, while feeling that you only be accepted in party finder for the 1% extra status, and also being treated poorly from the community mainly machinists. I wish they did reworked the job role to fill a unique role in the dps landscape, but while they allow support leaning job existing outside range dps or they are afraid of put range base combat or making range have a similar dps than caster or melee, the job roll will feel pointless, without a new rdps job to evenly out between support leaning and dps leaning range dps. it feel that will repeat the same problems, I still hope that this mean that they will look upon the role and rework to be more desirable, I remember when I switch to be a healer only player, range dps was the roll that take more time to fill in the party finder
Hey it's Wesk, the guy that killed hunts! Lol. Great recap!
I don’t do alliance raid roulette because it’s always Crystal tower. Now in 6.5 I won’t do alliance roulette because it might be a 45 minute nier raid. Happy for the people that want variety and better queues tho
My favourite thing about the AR roulette change is seeing all the cheesers crying and trying to validate their cheesing.
Meanwhile I'm gonna celebrate not running Snooze tower every day again.
Another melee dps wasn't surprising to me because it's been one melee and one ranged each expansion since stormblood, when you include healers and tanks as ranged and melee respectively, and the dev team was pretty obviously more interested in the option of balancing scouting gear than disrupting the 4 tanks 4 healers balance.
8.0 could easily be the expansion where we move to only one new job with one final phys range rounding out all of the roles to 2 per melee gear, 2 for each healer type, 4 tanks, 4 spellcasters, and 4 ranged.
I've always considered the Veldt more like the interior of Australia. Possibly hot but not particualry tropical.
I get more Black Lagoon but One Piece never got my attention.
Honestly I never really had issue with the raid roulette. I was fortunate enough to get a large variety. Sucks some people were stuck just doing Crystal tower due to others being selfish. I enjoy quite a bit of the raids.
Doing stromblood ultimate with duty finder will be hard.
I'm really hoping for a lot of ffx references. It's one of my favourites. If they include Sin in the game it would be awesome. Maybe the setting for the next raid?
I've also called new expac a "beach episode", but it was a term of endearment, and I suspect it's the same for a lot of people. I really appreciate that the team didn't go for silly shonen manga infinite power scaling when the big threat is always followed by the bigger threat.
Also yes, finally some justice for Alliance raid roulette. I'm sure CT will still appear more often than not, but at least when I'll be getting it I would know it's not because of some lazy fuck trying to cheese it.
Not sure if I like "beach episode" filler (and the music is grating, so I personally DO hope they change it – that kind of "nasaly robitic boy band obligatory beach song" is probably my single most hated type of music in literally all of the universe of types of music that exist), I've never been able to get into One Piece (FMA? Bleach? Naruto? All of those I could get into, but of the "Big Three/Four", One Piece is the one I haven't gotten into). I just don't want an expansion of "funny" humor attempts about different characters eating different things and Estinian having trouble being a nany. <_<
If it's more back to ARR where we're building/learning lore for a new area and there's political intrigue and stuff and a lot of new lore to learn, that I'd be cool with.
…I…dislike Island Sanctuary. I REALLY hate the sweatshop spreadsheet thing, and while I like a lot of grinds – one of my most rare achievements is reaping ARR (doing all the BOT gather thousands of stuff achievements for all the original city-states) – but IS doesn't do it for me. I think it's because the gathering nodes are so spaced for the most part, and gathering isn't…interactive? It's right click and that's it. At least with BOT and those achievements, I was hitting the button to gather (auto-gather didn't exist then), and the nodes were GENERALLY closer together. And the WORST part is, I can't even make the handicrafts MYSELF. I can't go gather the rare materials MYSELF, they only come from the expeditions. So the content actively not only discourages me, it doesn't even allow me to try the stuff that actually COULD be fun and engaging to me. 🙁 I want to like it, but I just can't…
Agree 2 dye channels is cool. Agree X-Box support is huge. Agree free trial expansion to SB is amazing. I like Crystal Tower…I like the other raids as well, but I actually really like all three of them (Syrcus the least, but I enjoy the rest), so…I'm neutral on that one because I really do like those raids as well as the rest. Honestly, NieR I like the least, but more because the bosses are HP sponges a bit too much rather than anything. The fights themselves I think are fun enough. And maybe it's just the luck of the draw, but I get Dun Scathe and Void Arc (not the other one, but I also kinda dislike Void Arc, too) and Orbonne somewhat commonly. Lately, been getting EW ones, and got Puppet's Bunker recently as well (which….honestly WAS a breath of fresh air, so I do like those raids themselves, just they take so looooong because of the massive HP on the bosses…)
I'm okay with Hilde, but I'd like more epic/grind to my Relics, and I REALLY hope we get Exploration Zones (Eureka/Bozja) back, as I loved those and still do those because I still like them. Though I did find the big reveal about the Hildebrands to be interesting. While it's kinda throwaway lore for humor on the one hand, it actually IS canon lore (arguably) now, which has some interesting implications.
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Thanks for the video, as always. See you in the next one, man!
I CAN FINALLY QUEUE FOR ALLIANCE RAID ROULETTE 🙏
I'm still coping for Rune Fencer or something similar for the Melee job, I know it kind of impedes on the identity of Red Mage but I just want a melee job that focuses on supporting the team more than just a raid buff and or a little help for mitigation and with runes you can easily do something like that.
Could somebody elaborate on the alliance raid queue stuff that was mentioned? I may be a little dumb lol
Thanks!
Totally agree with alliance roulette thing! I took it upon myself to start specifically queuing for Stormblood alliances because they basically don't exist otherwise. I STILL see people instaleave on zoning in to Orbonne which is just bizzare.
the thing about the Araids is that you're still 99% of the time gunna be stuck in the tower, if one guy is leveling something from 50-60? tower
if someone doesnt have any other Araid unlocked? tower
maybe they have the nier raids unlocked but they are level 50-70? tower
it'll def make the queue more diverse but not that much
Im still in heavensward…lol