Ultimate Delayed, Now What? – FFXIV



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29 thoughts on “Ultimate Delayed, Now What? – FFXIV”

  1. I mean im preferring having the raidseries start in 6.0 as the same team working on ultimate is working on pandæmonium. Of course i am dissapointed, since its the first ultimate i wanted to jump in on day one. But i think it is also quite undestandable that they had delay it to 6.1.

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  2. I made an alt and working on that. Helping a MC group progging e12s – we beat Eden once so hopefully I can teach em Gaia fairly quickly. Might try UWU after since I never cleared but working on gearing the alt has kept me busy

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  3. Well, first I’d like to commend you for the respect you showed the devs regarding the delayed Ultimate. It’s unfortunate to be sure, but a possibility in the middle of this pandemic. The rest of the raiders, not so much. But ok. Regarding content. I believe Shadowbringers beats Stormblood pound for pound in quantity and quality. Only things missing were the deep dungeon and the 2nd Ultimate. One aspect that Shadowbringers has failed is the reward system. Content that dies on arrival as there are no rewards for it. Examples: the extra extreme fight, Bozja 5.3 (died in 2 weeks), Castrum Litore (also died in 2 weeks) DR will probably die too soon enough. One aspect that has not been addressed (hopefully in 6.0) is giving hard core raiders something fun to do in odd numbered patches. That remains a pending subject.

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  4. I guess less content is relative depending on the person. As far as battle content, it is lacking in this expansion but for side content like crafting and gathering and even fishing, this has been great for them.

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  5. Well, guess I'll do Delubrum Savage and get Blue Mage O4, O8, and O12S knocked out.

    I'm of the opinion I woulda rather have Ultimate instead of Delubrum Savage but, I'll live. You're also right, basically canceled, if this one got moved, that effectively means we lose one in the long run.

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  6. The way I see ultimate being delayed is ok I rather see the new expansion this fall over it being delayed till next year. Also I heard Japan is getting hit by the new covid variants and I could imagine the impacts on play testing the new ultimate and content that is coming in endwalker. Something nice I found was after you finish your first relic for the new steps is you don’t have to do hw and sb 24 man raids again just gotta do 15 CT and 15 DR runs. my complaint tho is how they are just putting more people into CT when it doesn’t need it why not Mhach and have your choice in raid vary by giving different amounts of memories depending on which one you do to compensate for the time

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  7. I'm gonna let my sub lapse and take a break. Covid or no it still feels shitty that literally every sector of player other than hardcore raiders of player got something to do over the last year and change.

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  8. Now what? Nothing lmao. Hardcore raiders cleared the old ultimates and tea while waiting for 5.4 savage raids. Patch 5.3 itself was long enough for people to do things they haven’t done. Now we are going to the last odd patch number and after 2 weeks to a month, there will be nothing to do but wait for the expansion. And unfortunately ill be one of those who will go to hiatus.

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  9. I mean I can understand why the ultimate was delayed. COV-19 effected everything including content for video-games like this. At least we know what were gonna face in the next raid..dragons baby I can't wait. I'm also excited to see Diamond Weapon in 5.5 along with the end of the yorha 24-man raid trilogy. Besides that..gonna play some games and just relax. Sometimes a break is good to calm your nerves and such.

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  10. Personally I finished MSQ just after SHB was released so learning Savage and grinding it made the game fun for a long while; after that I got into a group and cleared TEA. Unfortunate to hear the new one is delayed by so long but that motivates us to go and get a clear of UCOB and UWU, its kind of a grest opportunity to do so before 6.1

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  11. To me Shadowbringers after beating savage and TEA feels kinda empty, I'm kinda disappointed and more when we are not getting the new ultimate, I was really hyped for the new ultimate but we will have to wait, of course they thought more about the casual base players than us the high end raiders something really unfair, I hope they could find some free time to work on a third ultimate in the next expansion but like you said we won't be getting it.

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  12. 1million percent agree that covid affected them more than they made it seem. With yoship being literally the most straight forward and communicative producer in the industry we all took his words for granted. im not saying he lied, but.. i think it just added up into more issues than they anticipated. Him stating in the recent live letter that testing and balancing was severly affected makes alot of sence, because i feel there is a lack of general balance and testing in Emerald weapon and Matoyas relict. Delibrum is pretty good tho!!! Compound this with the nier raid being worse than the ivalice raid, leveling dungeons not being as good as stormblood, edensverse was sort of a bust (e7 and e8 were not very fun..) and other things missing like deep dungeons (replaced with blue I guess).. this just.. was simply a feels bad expansion and theres kind of no way to remove the stigma. Therefore, I wouldn't be shocked if the dev team just simply said "let's close out 5.x story, give them a bit more fun content, give them the relics, and just move on to make 6.x the expansion we meant to make in shadowbringers".. the quality was here in shadowbringers though. Patch 5.3 was very good IMO, one of my favorite patches in the game

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  13. My team is going back to do Ucob, the only one left for us to complete.
    And since everyone actually wants Mecha-Bahamut, we are currently using our 2nd and 3rd raid nights to farm for dragons. Really a 1st for this team.
    I managed to convince 5 players to join me in doing Blue Mage raids for the Morbol mount, as well. Lucky enough, I know enough people that want to do that to, so I've already filled out the 2 empty spots. 😀
    Other than that, the Delubrum Reginae Savage is something I want to clear, just the once for the mount. I'll figure that one out soon enough.

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  14. It’s hard for me to say this xpac wasn’t good because A. The story was amazing B. I started savage raiding and C. I have SO MUCH content still to do like the three old ultimates. I am sad the new ultimate got delayed because even if I wasn’t going to be able to get to it, that title had me hyped and I would have loved to watch people prog it.

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  15. Yeah none of this is the developers faults for sure. The pandemic absolutely destroyed the patch scheduling and they had absolutely no control over that. It's a shame for sure but I hold zero ire for the team and ultimately just wish for their health and well-being.

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  16. As a raider whose static chooses not to do Ultimates and who has progged UWU to end of Titan phase, and TEA to Wormhole, the loss of another Ultimate is disappointing but for me there is a bright side in that I have much more time to finish the Ultimates I've already progged and maybe finally tackle UCOB. It takes some time to pug or join an ultimate prog group and now I have that breathing room.

    I also want to beat DR Savage, BLU Savages and finally work up the will to find a PotD / HoH group to do some runs to the final floor.

    As a player since ARR beta, if the patches disappoint you then I feel like you either unsub and play other games or you make do and find content you haven't done, whether that's crafters and gatherers or (god forbid) trying to get PvP top 100 rewards.

    Hey maybe I'll get those hunt achievements?

    Yeah, probably not…

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