+ New (original) PVP content.
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I hope so because the combat's a bore.
In terms of Diadem, I think they grossly overestimated how much we'd tolerate randomness. The "fixed" rewards after objectives were complete were underwhelming and unreliable, and waiting hours on end for the emergency mission to spawn only to fail was a complete waste of time and yes, yes I am bitter about that. XD
Then again they did the whole randomness thing again with certain jobs this expansion so I'm kinda worried about Eureka. Especially if the rumors are true about it having open world long timed NMs tied to Relic progression because Ixion. Remember Ixion.
Considering Deltascape reward system is literally a cut and paste of Alex, even the shafts, springs, etc are the same - I wouldn't hold my breath.
Personal responsibility is what created "problems" with Ozma, as it does for many 24-person raid bosses.
DPS checks or adds? A few people can slack while others pick it up. Intercepting bombs? Someone will take care of it even if there are some who have no situational awareness. Damage splits? Enough people will gather together to save them.
But when a single player is targeted and they must take care of it him- or herself, that's when you start having problems when the under-performers are targeted. Scylla caused a lot more problems with the elemental targets than most of the rest of the Syrcus Tower bosses, and Ozma similarly causes more problems with the meteor markers and player-targeted AoEs than most of the rest of the Weeping City bosses.
Of course, if you end up without any of those players or just get lucky enough that none of them get targeted for the mechanics, then they tend to be on the easier side because the bosses have weak normal attacks not tied to those mechanics.
I would imagine they are playing it safe and not risking so much with new ideas. I say this because lately it seems they care a lot for marketing. I hope i'm wrong, though, else stormblood will be very bland...