Your FFIX inspired expansion, bro.

>>715116131 (OP)
And here's your lead lore expert and localizer, bro.

>>715116131 (OP)
7.2 has been great so far, looking forward to .3.

>>715116268

This expansion just need more Big Black Roegadyn if Wuk Lamat was a big dark skinned male Roegadyn the story would unironically gave been better received.

>>715116441
Nothing to cope about. Wuk was written out of the patch, Sphene got good characterization, the raid was fun and the raid story was well told. OC has been pretty good, haven't tried the tower yet.
Only complaint I have is that the phantom jobs should have more abilities and unique animations.

>>715116720
>Nothing to cope about. Wuk was written out of the patch
Why do you lie, she was still heavily involved as she will be in 7.3

>Sphene was better written
I don't care, anything involving that blight upon the lore that is Solution 9 is irredeemable, id unironically prefer if the story focused on fleshing out the severely underdeveloped Tural that that hideous modernslop city

>Occult Crescent was good
Took all the worst aspects of Eureka and Bozja and now its dead

>Haven't done Forked Tower yet
Convenient ad not even you would be able to defend what they did with it

My advice to you is to play other games and see how dogshit FFXIV compares u it'd current state and stop being a monogaming slop eater who's coping hard or simply doesn't know better

>>715117196
>she was still heavily involved as she will be in 7.3
After Sphene woke up, Wuk was noticeably being removed from the scene.
>Quest to give Sphene tour
>oh there's this random civie she needs to talk to

>Quest to heal electro sickness
>oh the mom has questions about immigrating to Tuliyollal
iirc the only time you're with her is before you get zapped by Calyx.

>Solution 9 is irredeemable
Disagree, Solution 9 is the only part of Dawntrail I'm interested in. Tuliyollal was too perfect and boring imo. S9 is a eutopia at first glance but a total dystopia beneath the surface. The story there being more interesting even during the shitty 7.0 story.
>now its dead
Works on my DC, and honestly the only thing I miss from Bozja are the duels. Though I may be corrected when I finally give Forked Tower a try.
>Convenient ad
?
I haven't done the shit yet, I'm not trying to shill or defend a piece of video game content I may not like.
For example, I didn't mention Cosmic Exploration because after I capped out my crafters I was pretty much done with it. Only pop in every once in a while to make small steps of progress on my goldsmithing tool.

>monogaming
XIV isn't even the only game I played today. I play when I feel like it and log off when I'm done. I don't know who you think I am, but I'm not him.
I just play a game you don't like.

>>715116220
xivvies are cucked

>>715116131 (OP)
And FFXI too.
The monkeyest of monkey paws.

I will never understand how the team manage to not only miss so many open goals, but to then actively shit the bed, too.

>>715116131 (OP)
Keep FFIX out of your dirty mouth.

>>715116220
Does she not understand the nuance? You can be a hard worker and still make mistakes or be validly criticized for doing things in a formulaic, slow way. These two conditions can exist at the same time. Yes. Just yes.

Kan-E Senna for Scions

>Play non-stop since mid ARR
>Stop playing for 1 (ONE) month
>They add a TT card that's only obtainable from a timed event
$42 glamour and fomo cards, I have zero hope for the future of this game. This shit is adding up and it sucks cause the core game is still decently enjoyable after all these years

World of Warcraft.

>>715125637
ZAMN

>>715117196
>blight upon the lore that is Solution 9
What's the issue lorewise with S9?

>>715126573
it doesn't fit the game's aesthetic. which i base solely in early heavensward only

>>715126624
That's not lore

was thinking about what we discussed earlier today, about the MSQ should be requiring all side content, that it would improve the quality of the MSQ as they could include all events that happened in those.

i'm not convinced. especially since the quality of writing fell off so badly in dawntrail where they forgot about Krile's empathic powers

>>715126573
Have you seen how unimaginably huge Solution 9 actually is? They basically doubled the population of the entire planet. Plus the consequences of introducing modern electronics and transportation and the internet.

>>715126919
The MSQ should require all side content so they can feel free to weave those elements in however they like. The game should be made for those who actually want to play it, and do play it, rather than catering to people who play it as little as possible.

>>715126984
we don't have population numbers for anything. and i imagine the birthrate for alexandria is really, really low

>official website art
>a minute later
>anyway here's the ragebait i wanted to post but i'll get banned on sight if i make that the OP
RETARD
RETARD
RETARD
RETARD

>>715127069
what counts as side content in this situation? the 8 and 24 mans? literally everything?

>>715116131 (OP)
Dawntrail has been so bad it destroyed my 25 years of love for FFIX.

>>715126624
nta but S9 got from me the same reaction as Esthar in FF8. Kinda like "cool, i guess. Moving on."

>>715127130
>we don't have population numbers for anything.
No, but we can guess. At the start of the game Eorzea is considered a dangerous, uncivilized shithole where people are regularly killed by monsters. Gridania has a strict population cap enforced by the Elementals, Limsa Lominsa has very limited living space, Ishgard is in the midst of a famine and permawinter that most likely killed a good chunk of its rural population that used to work the farms. Ul'dah would have the largest population in Eorzea, but it's only a fraction of the size of Solution 9. Just go there and look off into the distance, it's MASSIVE.

>>715127210
8 and 24 mans at the very least, role quests on a case by case basis as they're needed. ShB role quests at least should be mandatory.

>>715127405
>At the start of the game Eorzea is considered a dangerous, uncivilized shithole
garleans are retards

>>715127069
>>715126919
I don't think it should require doing side content, but I think it should be developed with the expectation that players have done the side content. Have a little notice on quests that reference back to something you haven't done to tell you which quest you haven't done for it.

>>715127405
i don't doubt the scale of solution 9. i just know that post scarcity humans don't tend to breed often and that given how many turalians are present in soultion 9 that maybe there wasn't that many to begin with. they're refugees from a near dead reflection that had a world war that was aimed at triggering a calamity. i'm still of the mind that outside living memory's dome is just a lightning scoured wasteland, kinda like heritage found but worse

>>715127534
Eorzea is literally the Africa of the world. They don't even have roads. And if you go around and do FATEs you'll see normal people constantly struggling just to get through their daily lives without being killed by bandits or roaming monsters. The whole concept for the setting from the start was that Eorzea was relatively backwards.

>>715127638
iirc towards the beginning of solution 9 they mention they've got a pretty low birthrate but characters spitball it's probably because they keep eating souls instead of returning them to the lifestream

>>715127405
i could agree to 8 and 24 mans, but the role quests i'm not a fan of. in addition to requiring more onto the MSQ it also requires doing a playstyle you may not like

>>715127405
Solution 9 is huge, but remember that it's birthrate is incredibly low, the children are born with lightning aids, and they've been culled twice since the WoL arrived. Both times the people of S9 were protected by the Scions, who were only on the one layer you visit.
Realistically, Solution 9 is a fucking ghost town.

>>715127538
i'd see this as a happy medium. but that would also require two versions of every cutscene which i don't think they're willing to do. they ARE doing trusts for non MSQ dungeons so maybe i'm reading it wrong

>>715128162
Oh no, I'm not saying have a second cutscene. I'm saying have the normal cutscene act as though the player did the side content.

>>715128317
kinda like estinien? doing dragoon quests after heavenward must be bizarre

>>715127672

Nanamo get ipad

I'm feeling it.

The urge.

The urge to grab lalafell buttcheeks.

>>715129902
there are no lalas here anon

Oh, shit, the relic rapier is really good.

>>715130162
Yeah, it's really nice.

>>715130162
I'm surprised at the quality of the initial relics.
With a couple exceptions they're really good looking imo. Really clean.

this lala is resting

>>715131081
I think the only ones I'm not super wild about are Gunbreaker's and Viper's. Gunbreaker is a second try at Flame Saber from FF8, already done by the artifact armor's own weapon Chastiefol, while Viper's too similar to the basic swords you get and to the Sargatanas swords with the artifact armor. Neither are bad, but they're just do-overs of the artifact armor weapons.

>>715127405
Don’t forget about the region with dragons pissed at Ishgard and humans at the time. And how there’s a completely abanonded city (New Sharlayan) there too.

>>715127405
Honestly, I think part of that conception of Eorzea being super dangerous was also in part of Koji’s localization wanting to make things darker than JP actually says.

>>715131274
I can understand that, but I personally like when weapon designs get a new spin on them. Like Sphairai and the Manderville Knuckles that are the same design but replace coeurls with dragons.

>>715132161
I actually really like the spear for that reason, it's a second go at Kain's spear after the Moonward Bident really, uh, fucked it up. Still obviously not *quite* the same spear, but it's pretty blatant what the inspiration is.

>>715130162
As someone who only really likes the base ARR relics this one is pretty nice.

I like more understated relics that look like functional but embellished weapons, like the relics in XI. I really don't like the usual style of relics which just look like a mess of random impractical forms glowing with inexplicable neon lights.

>>715130162
The MCH weapon looks like garbage. So does the gunblade.

>>715132097
Nah, Eorzea was much darker in both JP and EN during 1.0. The Eorzea you know from ARR is Disneyfied compared to 1.0 even with Koji still maintaining some of the original feel. It was supposed to be a very gritty place compared to the rest of the world outside it which was much more advanced because of Garlemald's influence. The highly dense aether from Silvertear also resulted in bigger, scarier monsters than anywhere else. And the Elementals were a lot more active, making ventures into the Shroud which is almost a whole third of the map almost suicidal.

>>715132613
The only reason the MCH one looks bad is because they don't let you actually hold it properly. If you could put your hand on the front grip instead of holding it like a fucking pistol like every other MCH weapon, it'd look fine. This is a constant problem with MCH weapons.

>>715132613
I hate the mch weapon because it's just too much.
Looks more like a demoman weapon than anything belonging to mch.
Like a double barrel shotgun with the same overall design would be better than the stupid quad barrel design they came up with.

>>715117196
Sex with brown cats. Also, I need the full image.

>>715132549
Based actual weapon enjoyer.

I was rping a bit and I gotta say the people who make their characters garleans are very fucking vile.

>>715134107
don't let them near horses

>>715134107
Excuse you

>>715134435
Why? am I in your way?

>>715134435
don't worry margaret i can barely notice that pimple on your forehead

>>715127405
> but it's only a fraction of the size of Solution 9. Just go there and look off into the distance, it's MASSIVE
The Everkeep is massive but the residential district(Solution 9) is only the 9th floor. Also they were entirely self sufficient in the time bubble for 30 years so it’s not like the increased population is going to wreak havoc on the planet’s resources

Speaking of relic weapons, what about the reflection of Gerolt who stays in the backrooms? He's going to come into it at some point, isn't he?

>>715135089
He's involved in the crafter relics from last expansion.

>>715135172
not the one from the first. the one in solution 9. gives you the gay energy drink

>>715135089
>he didn't do his DoH/DoL relics

ffxiv is wasted potential the mmo

>>715116220
This is one of the least offensive twitter posts I have seen posted on /v/.

>>715135446
Oh Jesus, I hope he stays far away. I don't need cybershit plaguing my kino weapons again like last expansion.

>>715135573
I only ever see it when the guy posting it is completely losing his mind about dangerhairs and just wants a reason to drag FFXIV into it

>>715135791
Gonna try Pagos today bud?

>This is one of the least offensive twitter posts I have seen posted on /v/.

>SJW in disguise says blueboard_1.jpg

>>715135825
No. Just no.

>>715135819
try finger but hole

>>715116268
>quit the game soon after first tier of Arcadion released because everything was shit
>read this

Holy shit it's been a whole year with only 2 patches? Surely no one can defend this glacial pa-
>>715116220
>

>This is one of the least offensive posts I have seen posted on /v/
Ok listen up, you talk like a fag and your shits all retarded.

>>715135869
>he was really so mad at the accuracy that he made this
lmao

>>715136164
It's really telling when you check what threads those were posted in too lol

>>715136164
>he was really so mad at the accuracy

Oh, he baited himself and used that as an excuse to start sharting, I see now.

>>715136228
>>715136294
Are you okay?

>>715136556
your trolling game would get elevated so hard if you'd fake attack your own posts alongside the ones that make you cry

>>715136617
Are you okay?

can you really call yourself a shitposter if you get baited so easily?

>>715136741
also this just don't respond if you can't think of anything, everybody and their grandmother is doing the whole huh? wha? who? wha? i don't understand? thing when they've got nothing, huh? wha? who? i am a newborn child and i have never seen anything in this thread before? i am zygote and what is this? huh? you okay?

>>715136294
>Off brand, chinese fake pepe and wojak
It really is SEAmonkey hours

>>715136886
Are you okay?

>>715137263
silence, potato

>>715137379
That's a labubu...

>>715136109
Might still be shit depending on what you enjoy.
However everything I complained about was improved on during 7.2
>Wuk went from the only character to a background character
>Zoraal Ja not even mentioned
>Sphene is cute
>second tier was great, especially the savages
>Cosmic Exploration seems popular with the crafters idk
>Occult Crescent is flawed but serviceable depending on how much you liked Eureka
>trial was ok, extreme was kind of lame

why can't they just give relic weapons unique abilities or stats?

>>715131274
Really not sure why they didnt just have the artifact weapon itself go through a series of upgrades like in ARR. Makes you feel more attached to that weapon and also avoids the issue of losing the unique name e.g. Girdarvoir ---> generic phantom rod

>>715140993
That's against the "always the same patches every expansion" formula. Also having close to no RNG on the gameplay.

>>715116720
>Wuk was written out of the patch
Patently incorrect. She's prominently featured in patch art and makes several voiced appearances in the MSQ cutscenes.
>Sphene got good characterization
She's the same passive and boring bitch that Minfilia was. It's laughable that she's meant to be the Garnet parallel when she's so lethargic and meek.
>The raid was fun
For two weeks until gear let you skip all the mechanics like every raid tier. There's no reason to do it because of no ultimate, the gear is worthless.
>OC has been pretty good
It's literally the worst of Eureka and Bozja, plus some extra shit downgrades from even those.

should I main SAM or RPR

>OC is with old FF abilities
>there's slow, quick even the fuckin throwing zen
Is it fun as it sounds???

>>715142897
It sounds cooler than it turned out to be. Gil Toss is an extra GCD you slide into your buff window because it's on a two minute cooldown. Quick is cool. The only thing Slow is really good for are trash mobs in Forked Tower since it can't land on bosses, not even FATE bosses.

>>715143007
What a shame. I actually thought they made like a mini game where you play a more FF style game but it's just regular FFXIV with some shitty abilities in top of it. Welp guess i won't come back.

>>715143102
Yeah, I was extremely excited for the phantom jobs but most of them ended up missing the mark. Like Chemist doesn't even use Mix, it just has a GCD X-Potion, X-Ether, Revive, and a Megalixir that costs 30k gil. Berserker and Oracle are a lot of fun though.

>The virgin Forked Tower Thief
>Takes one step, detects traps, takes another step, detects traps
>Waits for party to pull, detects traps

>The chad Forked Tower Thief
>Knows every possible trap spawn, sprints up to each one and detects them
>Sneaks past the line of sight of packs of 4 mobs that will oneshot him if he takes one wrong step
>Detects the second half of the hallway before party even pulls the first pack
>Finds and loots the secret chest without pulling
>Finishes and opens the sprint room before the group reaches the hallway
>Activates the end of his hallway side while avoiding the manticore, moth and trap at the same time
Take the thiefpill

>>715143701
>Massive Explosion
Oh shit Dissidia reference!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C93rZkcKRME