So how is everyone feeling about Occult Crescent now that it’s been a few days?

I've found it decent. Fun fights that take time to learn and improve at, doing the content with lots of other players, things to grind out and work towards over time. Pretty much what people had been asking for, for ages. Things to work towards: notes, gear, Phantom Job levels, mounts, the raid, atma, relics, etc.

Yes, most of it doesn't continue out of it but rewards such as mounts and gear do. If you get nothing for 12 hours, there's lots of other things you're getting anyway.

So far, I am on the okay side

The good:
CE/FATE Spawn rate is quick, so little idling. Leveling feel much more comfortable than old Field Exploration.

Mount available at the beginning, enough teleportation point and mob density is spread out enough. So going to CE/FATE at lower level is not a death wish, and it also less frustrating travelling between CE/FATE.

The map, it is not like DT where there are lots of hill/peak/cliff, it doesn't feel so tedious netvigating the map. The scenery also much prettier than Anemos and Bozja.

CE, most fight are fun, so are little frustrating due to very tight timing.

The Bad:
The currency grind is not the most fun experience, especially gold. However, I believe their might be some buff at end of expansion/life cycle.

CE mechanics, some very quite tight time and I am feeling FFXIV seem to struggle with high players count and the connection become a bit of issue. See a few times players/my character got hit even way outside the AOE marker.

Forked Tower, don't even need to say much.

The Meh:
Phantom Job, it lack flexibility like lost action. DPS need healing job or the team need a healer, needing to buy potion for Chemist is not fun.

The Relic grind, grind isn't bad but RNG really could leave bad taste. This go for the soul stone drop in CE as well.

I've been grinding here since the launch, and I just got the Light Blue atma from only doing CE in OC after 4 hours. So far, still missing the Yellow ones, and I need 2 more of everything except Dark Blue.

Also, I'm at KL 18, so I'll need to work on getting canoneer up to gold farming, which sounds p boring, but I want to get the gold PJ done. Also, I haven't gotten the other PJ soul shards from drops despite running them 3-5x now, so yeah. Then I have to deal with farming 20k silver coins for alt jobs, and life is hard.

The one positive part is that leveling KL is fast, and when I play tank, I can solo join CE or Fates, since you're able to sustain yourself along with any PJ healing skill, it's fun. I do admit to doing it every day, and getting nothing from each session is depressing. The few chests I found gave me demimateria for 1k or a useless item, along with ribbons ofc.

I'm not into FT now or later since I find the reward mount to be deeply creepy, and I'd just not spend more time farming silver coins. So far, I've bought the new OC items from MP and am still waiting for some items to drop in value.

I find it fun, the only complaints I've are that fate scaling can be really bad at times and make gold farming more viable for all classes and not just warrior. That's it, but that is also a big part of the Occult content.

Also the amount of stuff that drops from silver/bronze is crashing the markets, so that wasn't very smart.

It's not too great, it gets old pretty fast actually.

The entire gameplay loop is do 2 fates then a CE, there's no downtime between them because mobs don't drop anything apart from gold pieces and aren't required to spawn the regular CEs so everyone sits at the base camp aetherite and waits for stuff to spawn, which is pretty much required if you want to get to a fate in time because the scaling of those fates seem to be based off how many people were there when it died the last time. I've had an instance with 4 people in it try to take out a fate that was clearly scaled for 20+ people.

Phantom jobs were a huge missed opportunity, why can't I take actions from my max level monk and put them on my freelancer? the variety feels limiting I just realised I don't really care and no one will read this so im going to stop here lmfao bozja was better why is there no cll/dal?

It's fine, but forked tower being this way is confusing. Seems more like content streamers will praise, while average joes won't bother with due, to how much of hassle it is to join

Be honest, I found Bozja more enjoyable than this, the story was more engaging, for one, I just preferred the way it was handled in Bozja. The only thing Occult Crescent has over it is how the island looks compared to Bozja. Getting into the raid in Bozja was handled much better than this and I can see not many people getting into see it.

It is ok to pass the time. Me and my partner have been goldfarming with 7 cannoneers and a thief and oh boy that went quick, got all the glampieces I wanted and now moving on to the pieces I need for FT. We vary ourselves by doing CE and fates and then "resting" while going for silverchest/pothunts. We are not stressing about getting stuff done immediately and still gotten pretty far. Several phantom jobs up and while he got lucky with atmas I am still missing 3 or 4. I feel like this is the best of eureka and bozja and I like the content. But I get that it isn't for everyone. We went in with two friends yesterday and one hated it and the other was happy and enjoying it. But there are other things to do ingame if you don't like this :)

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Originally Posted by CNitsah

Especially since there are hints part 2 will be gated behind the fork tower (Fork tower is central in the story, I don't see how they can continue the story without people clearing it).

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That's the part that got me. How the heck are we going to find out who the big bad is since they seem to have this tied so closely to Forked Tower? Even if they don't lock north horn access to clearing it, I don't see how you'll be able to get to a final boss of any sort without it with the way they have the story set up.

I was always under the assumption that Bojza was built on the feedback of Eureka. But apparently in SE's infinite wisdom they see them as entirely different entities with how they outright ignored just about everything that made the reception to Bojza better than Eureka.

People coped about how DT was gonna be amazing because it'll be packed with content, but if mediocrity is the trade off for a reasonable amount of content over an expansions lifetime then I think we need another Dalamud.

Genuinely can't wait for Yoshi-p and the devs to not understand the feedback they'll receive about OC.

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

That's the part that got me. How the heck are we going to find out who the big bad is since they seem to have this tied so closely to Forked Tower? Even if they don't lock north horn access to clearing it, I don't see how you'll be able to get to a final boss of any sort without it with the way they have the story set up.

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The way things were worded in the scenes I thought implied that instead of a two-pronged, singular tower like in FFV it's a pair of towers, one each at the end of one of the horns of the island(if you look real closely when Forked Tower weather it active you'll noticed Forked Tower:Blood seems to be situated at the end of the South Horn point). My best guess is that we'll get Forked Tower:Magic as a regular story-difficulty dungeon like CLL/DR/Dalriada, and Forked Tower:Blood will remain as the hardcore raider dungeon, likely with some changes to the entry situation after all the negative feedback.

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Originally Posted by Interitum

I played it day one and after 6 or so hours I had three atma. I took a break because honestly I thought it was quite boring. Nothing you do in there carries over outside of OC so I have no interest in knowledge level or phantom jobs. I just wanted the relic for glam purposes. Today I had a lot of free time and after 12 hours and no atma to show for it I’m just going to sit this relic out. The thing I like about Cosmic Exploration is how you can see your progress, there’s no RNG involved, I don’t know why they didn’t do something similar. How is everyone else feeling about OC?

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Discouraged. I wanted to like it, but between the absolutely abysmal drop rate for Atma and the CE and FATE content heavily favoring Tanks (at the moment at least), I haven't found much to enjoy about it.

Atma drop rate / system - could use some improvement. No one likes non-existent progress to the grind. I rather have 1 atma variant instead of 6, and make that atma variant much higher to compensate for guaranteeing 1 atma drop per CE and being able to buy atmas at an exorbitant cost in the shop.

Soul Shard drop rate / System - could use some improvement. Having to rely on RNG without any form of guarantee is still a terrible system, especially when it entails unlocking a job to play with. I'm fine if completing the CE unlocks the Soul Shard up for purchase on the shop but at a far higher price than the normal available Soul-Shards from the Shop.


Forked Tower - Blood -- a bit more complicated on unlocking it and waiting for the time to go into the instance. Not possible to set-up 24 man groups joining the same instance to tackle the tower without lots of rng. This could use some work. Having a smaller group per zone (72 as opposed to 144) also hinders this attempt.
Forked Tower - Blood's difficulty is relatively higher than what I suspect most people thought would be on release - (something akin to CLL / Dalriada, but what we got was like DRS/BA ) ... which didn't feel appropriate on its release period since it felt like people had to max out their phantom jobs no matter what to tackle this content. It would have been better if this content was tuned down or released at a later date and let people tackle a large-scale difficulty instance while learning their jobs.


Simply put, it felt like they rushed the process of meaningful progression in these zones and focused too heavily on the result.

It's simply not for me - and that's fine. I am doing fates in the DT zones for relic atma. But in terms of rewards, gear and gameplay, OC is just not my cup of tea.

So tired of fate farms. So so so tired of fates. Seriously after 15 years, this is still all they can come up with....

Great! Its lovely to finally set some goals like a typical MMO, honestly wish FFXIV had more of this kind of grind to it. Got most of atma from OC after day 3, off and on 4-5 hours each day. Then had to fate farm last 3 cause not one dropped for me in OC. Fate farm wasnt too bad, about another day worth, managed to catch up on gem rewards, umbrella & frames. Now ive been prepping Forked Tower, farming for gear while mastering some PJs, 4 mastered so far.

It is WAY to grindy. You will have to spend half a lifetime in there to get a Set to +2

Forked Tower is at best malicious with those mixed up Entry/Player/mechanic requirements.

Only one Fate is up at a time... so the ENTIRE instance runs them over in seconds.

The only positive thing for me is that the Area looks beautiful, just a shame it is so underutilized.

I do enjoy Occult Crescent but not sure if it is better than Eureka/Bozja. (Only KL18 so haven't tried the tower yet)

The Phantom Jobs - great idea, look forward to seeing them expand it with new jobs in the future. Though personally I don't think they should be drops - keep them as purchased items only. (RNG is NOT my friend!)
Atma/Relic - I like having something other than "Get 1500 tombstones, buy items, speak to vendor" but the drop-rate on the Atma needs improving (especially when asking for several of each).
FATEs - don't mind them, but for the love of Yoshi P make it so they can't be cleared in like 30 seconds. The number of times I'll see a FATE pop on the map, immediately teleport to the nearest aetheryte, mount up, run over (with riding map) and by the time I get there it's either dead or at 1% is mental. I seriously don't know how other players get there so fast (especially when some just don't want to wait for others). Maybe scale HP based on number of players in instance?
CE's - lot of crazy fun but also a bit infuriating with some of the mechanics, especially with a little bit of lag. Also would have preferred a Bozja style queue up rather than have to physically get there - especially not fair for lower ranked players trying to reach it, get killed by a mob, and have to sit out because nobody could reach/res them in time to get them to the CE.
Storyline - love it, I mean a Tonberry getting sass from a fairy? What's not to love?
Setting - love the scenery and setting, much better than the blandness of Bozja.

I would have personally liked it to be a possible levelling option for 91-100 jobs same as Bozja was.

I like it so far. l can just chill at spawn, playing my phone While waiting for ce to spawn. Perfect for me to find opportunity to finish infinity nikki's story

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

chains in FFXIV are a perpetual grindfest that will give you hand cramps from spamming your three cannon buttons for hours with no breaks.

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So essentially like the rest of the content which is about rushing from one fate to another crossing your fingers it won't die before you tag it? :o

I love the content, but I have no idea why three Phantom Jobs only cost 1000 silver coins while three others cost 1600 gold.

Silver is incredibly easy to farm in the instance, whereas gold requires farm parties that are at least thrice as hard to get going.

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Originally Posted by SkankyRoe

The way things were worded in the scenes I thought implied that instead of a two-pronged, singular tower like in FFV it's a pair of towers, one each at the end of one of the horns of the island(if you look real closely when Forked Tower weather it active you'll noticed Forked Tower:Blood seems to be situated at the end of the South Horn point). My best guess is that we'll get Forked Tower:Magic as a regular story-difficulty dungeon like CLL/DR/Dalriada, and Forked Tower:Blood will remain as the hardcore raider dungeon, likely with some changes to the entry situation after all the negative feedback.

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I'll need to go back to my screenshots but it did sound like the two towers were going to be important to discovering just who the architect of Occult Crescent is. If that's true and Blood just remains some hardcore premade only thing, then we won't be able to finish the story without joining a Discord. Which is not awesome.

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Originally Posted by Andevom

I love the content, but I have no idea why two Phantom Jobs only cost 1000 silver coins while two others cost 1600 gold.

Silver is incredibly easy to farm in the instance, whereas gold requires farm parties that are at least thrice as hard to get going.

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Especially since people don't want to party up for gold in the instances since there's a far superior solo option. I foresee that getting nerfed hard.

Spent an hour there today, in fates group. This is not for me.

Manically running all over the map to maybe be fast enough to land two shots in a fate. CE every 5 min, way too chaotic for my old brain to enjoy (I don't mind dying, but sheer chaos is just not fun for me). Story is whatever, so not really a hook to progress.
I'd rather try getting those atmas via DT fates.

Fun but awful and non sense caveats to it, forked tower (same as DA, DR, CLL and Dalriada) should be treated/reworked as a regular duty like chaotic, occult crescent should be an off duty area like cosmic exploration where you can que in for regular duties and stuff, it should be lvl 90 like bozja was, and needs way more fates or scale the amount of fates depending on how many ppl are in the instance, i just see ppl all standing around the aetherythe and as soon a fate pops everyone teleports and melt the fate in seconds its annoying/boring. I still think bozja was way better in that sense. Also gold and silver items discrepancy is weird. i dont really feel a progression system like bozja this OC is just go here and talk the tomberry

I'd say it's by far the worst implementation of exploratory content we've had. Which is ironic considering they put so much emphasis on wanting to build off the strengths of Eureka and Bozja yet seemingly missed the mark on both.

The sheer cost of everything is such a blatantly obvious stopgap to keep the zone alive because we're essentially not getting much of an update until next year. Now that wouldn't be inherently bad if the loop had any real staying power. It doesn't. Within a day, you'll have experienced pretty much everything OC offers, and very likely experienced it several times, in fact. I don't dislike the content, but I'm just struggling to see its longevity. CEs have far too much HP relative to their mechanics so they end up looping through each one 5-6 times, coffer loot tables seem all over the place and both currencies are completely separated from each other. Another complaint I'm starting to see is the pace of everything. You basically never stop moving because everything spawns and dies so fast.

Then we get to Forked Tower which is downright baffling on how poorly implemented this is. The portal system from Eureka was widely criticised though JP seemed to make it work. Shock of all shocks, SE only pay attention to one demographic again. Ironically, even they're complaining because a 72 instance makes it challenging even for them. The cherry on top is going in with less than 24 people is an instant wipe. Just... how does something like this get past any sort of testing? This is early Heavensward type mistakes not five expansions later. It's decisions like this that genuinely make me feel like a B or even C team is working on XIV nowadays.

On the whole, OC actually has a decent enough foundation, but there's just so many misfires that drag it down imo

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Originally Posted by CNitsah

- Fork Tower
There is the whole fiasco about making all the party of a premade enter the same instance : it's a nightmare for organised runs, and seems to difficult to do in pick-up : the content needs organisation and planification. I'm not sure not having a normal version and more difficult one was the right choice. Most people are just not interested in doing more difficult content. There is an argument that it will be easier with time, when people get the zone gear upgraded, but did you look at the cost needed for that? Most player won't do it, and we all know how it will turn out : people without the gear will be gated out. I feel they should have gone the Delubrum Reginae way, with one Normal and one higher difficulty. Especially since there are hints part 2 will be gated behind the fork tower (Fork tower is central in the story, I don't see how they can continue the story without people clearing it).

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Unless it was translated wrong, they said in the live letter that it isn't necessary to the story. In fact Forked Tower doesn't seem to have any story, it's just a thing that is there, challenge content for people who want challenge content (and who have a high tolerance for the BS entry requirements). I don't like the way it was implemented but I don't think anyone will ever be required to do it

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Originally Posted by FuturePastNow

Unless it was translated wrong, they said in the live letter that it isn't necessary to the story. In fact Forked Tower doesn't seem to have any story, it's just a thing that is there, challenge content for people who want challenge content (and who have a high tolerance for the BS entry requirements). I don't like the way it was implemented but I don't think anyone will ever be required to do it

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Has that demographic not got enough "challenging" content recently, or by rule does SE have to provide streamers with something new to use for clicks?

I'd argue that if an element of new content has no reason to be there, then the resources devoted to it would have been better spent elsewhere.

Here's a wild thought: if SE is going to throw in a random raid or dungeon that is dislocated from the story and apparently pointless, how about construct it so that the majority of players can enjoy it, rather than the same minority who were handed other "high points" of this expansion like CAR?

Underwhelmed.

The entirety of the game-play loop is getting in a party, looking at the aethernet window, and scrolling through the list waiting for FATES and CEs to spawn.

Mobs in the world feel completely inconsequential. I don't really understand why they're there or if I should be killing them or not. It doesn't seem like grinding them is any better than doing FATES and CEs.

The FATES die too quickly, there isn't enough of them (if you're trying to farm Demiatmas), and getting to them is a pain (even with the riding map). It doesn't feel good to run from a teleport point to a FATE only to have it die as soon as you get there. If I don't teleport to the location immediately I'll miss it. This means I have to spend all my time looking at the teleport window during downtime. The FATE-grind loop has already been done countless time in this game. This isn't hard, just let me fly already.

CEs are fine, but they feel repetitive after the 4th of 5th run. Overall I really like the added mechanics on the FATES and CEs... But, due to the lack of variety among their CEs and the high HP, I find myself checking out about half way through most of them (player fatigue is a thing). I usually finish them dead, because my contribution doesn't really have any impact on the rewards I may or may not get and a raise at the end is guaranteed.

I don't really understand what the point of the job system is, beyond the 30 minute buffs. They don't really seem to synergize with my job (MCH) at all. If there's something I'm supposed to be doing with them other than Number Go Up, the game doesn't make it clear.

The RNG on the demiatmas feels broken. Some drop all the time, others never drop, and demiatmas beyond 3 are completely useless (please AT LEAST allow us to exchange these for tomes/currency!!!). Devs seem to understand that this is either purposely bad/thoughtless design, based on my characters cut-scene reaction. The relic grind seems openly disrespectful of my time as a player, and I will probably not bother with it any further.

Overall, I will probably get to level 20, finish the story, and then forget it exists.

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Originally Posted by Mawlzy

Has that demographic not got enough "challenging" content recently, or by rule does SE have to provide streamers with something new to use for clicks?

I'd argue that if an element of new content has no reason to be there, then the resources devoted to it would have been better spent elsewhere.

Here's a wild thought: if SE is going to throw in a random raid or dungeon that is dislocated from the story and apparently pointless, how about construct it so that the majority of players can enjoy it, rather than the same minority who were handed other "high points" of this expansion like CAR?

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Originally Posted by Mawlzy

Has that demographic not got enough "challenging" content recently, or by rule does SE have to provide streamers with something new to use for clicks?

I'd argue that if an element of new content has no reason to be there, then the resources devoted to it would have been better spent elsewhere.

Here's a wild thought: if SE is going to throw in a random raid or dungeon that is dislocated from the story and apparently pointless, how about construct it so that the majority of players can enjoy it, rather than the same minority who were handed other "high points" of this expansion like CAR?

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I think this game's developers genuinely believe that players wanted harder content, and lots of it, and I think they misunderstood the real complaints that things like the Endwalker alliance raids were too easy. They have overshot the mark obviously

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

Especially since people don't want to party up for gold in the instances since there's a far superior solo option. I foresee that getting nerfed hard.

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You get less gold doing it solo compared to that strat everyone does, but you're able to get decent gains with any tank, so long as you know your pull limit. Better then having to deal with PF, at least. I sure hope they don't nerf it.

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Originally Posted by ForteNightshade

Then we get to Forked Tower which is downright baffling on how poorly implemented this is. The portal system from Eureka was widely criticised though JP seemed to make it work. Shock of all shocks, SE only pay attention to one demographic again. Ironically, even they're complaining because a 72 instance makes it challenging even for them. The cherry on top is going in with less than 24 people is an instant wipe. Just... how does something like this get past any sort of testing? This is early Heavensward type mistakes not five expansions later. It's decisions like this that genuinely make me feel like a B or even C team is working on XIV nowadays.

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Not even the Japanese players like how Forked Tower was implemented and are just as baffled as we are. I'd say they were listening to the more hardcore crowd, but even they don't like it because it's extremely difficult to get a whole group into an instance.

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Originally Posted by FuturePastNow

Unless it was translated wrong, they said in the live letter that it isn't necessary to the story. In fact Forked Tower doesn't seem to have any story, it's just a thing that is there, challenge content for people who want challenge content (and who have a high tolerance for the BS entry requirements). I don't like the way it was implemented but I don't think anyone will ever be required to do it

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There's still notes and TT cards attached to it, which is ... Beyond frustrating for collectors. Other then the one card in Eureka Orthos (I can probably get it, just haven't attempted it solo) it's usually not too difficult to get them. One can *hope* they do it like Eureka and put the cards on an NPC you can get later. Don't know about the notes though in the future...

People intent on collecting every item ought to be used to having to do high-end content for their habit though. How many people had to do Memoria Misera Ex for a TT card? That's just how it is if you want everything

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Originally Posted by FuturePastNow

People intent on collecting every item ought to be used to having to do high-end content for their habit though. How many people had to do Memoria Misera Ex for a TT card? That's just how it is if you want everything

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MM EX wasn't difficult to get into, can now be unsynced to beat faster, and even on content was doable for most players.

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Originally Posted by Infindox

Not even the Japanese players like how Forked Tower was implemented and are just as baffled as we are. I'd say they were listening to the more hardcore crowd, but even they don't like it because it's extremely difficult to get a whole group into an instance.

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I meant JP was more okay with the Portal system in Hydatos compared to NA and EU. What I suspect happened is due to the criticism of Delubrum having no future proofing their solution was to go back to "what worked." Except not only did it not work for two regions, but even in JP it remained divisive with a 144 player instance. The fact they cut that in half and never thought it might exasperate the issue is absolutely mind-boggling.

If they were listening to the hardcore crowd things like the two minute meta would be long dead as that's widely despised by that demographic. Not to mention job changes like Dragoon, and especially Summoner, are changes no hardcore player ever asked for. The problem is they're listening to the wrong players and trying to please everyone which leads to pleasing no one.

If the gear was an alternate path to i750/760 gear, the effort might be worth it. But given that it only has a purpose inside OC, I don't see myself bothering with any of this. To be fair, I think prior iterations of this types of zones were the same way. And I didn't upgrade those either.

I think it's generally alright but there needs to be way more incentive for people to work together. Right now you just mob from one CE/Fate to the next, there's no coordination required and honestly no time to even chat in /shout because they auto spawn so quickly. That's why I liked Bozja less than Eureka and it's sad to see that style continued here.

If they don't want to do the mob prepping from Eureka again past the couple CEs that require it then they should add other fun little objectives on the map for people to work together to complete. Maybe there could be platforms that require certain jobs to stand there to open a door or a tower you have to capture or whatever. Anything more engaging than just a big silent death ball rolling around the map.

I haven't had much time to play, got to about level 15 and just a couple of phantom jobs unlocked, have done every CE about twice so far. I am kind of disappointed, for how long the content was in the oven. I feel like I have seen almost everything *meaningful* in the field zone in less than 5 hours of play.

I despise how forked tower is set up, I much preferred Bozja's CLL or Dalriada system, especially towards the end of the content. Feels like a step backwards personally, the wrong type of content this field content truly needed for the majority of players. I am sure it will have a niche audience, but another niche isn't what the game needed.

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

I'll need to go back to my screenshots but it did sound like the two towers were going to be important to discovering just who the architect of Occult Crescent is. If that's true and Blood just remains some hardcore premade only thing, then we won't be able to finish the story without joining a Discord. Which is not awesome.



Especially since people don't want to party up for gold in the instances since there's a far superior solo option. I foresee that getting nerfed hard.

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There's not really any feasible way to nerf it that will make it any more clearable by the average player, they'd have to entirely rework the fights, something I highly doubt they'll do considering they never did for the Coils of Bahamut. And from what I heard from someone I partied with last night who was in the W2 group the raid has no actual story beats locked behind it. I think it's been set up to remain completely optional, between Ketenramm and Archive pushing us toward the Magic tower and our own dialogue choices regarding the Blood Tower I think it's heavily implied that any foray into the Blood Tower is purely an adventure/treasure hunt our WoL is doing on their own time while waiting for Ketenramm and Archive to update us.

I love the Occult Crescent but there are several issues that should be fixed to make it perfect. This is likely why there's a lot of feedback on it.

A Castrum/Dalriada-like CE is sorely missing, as the tower is for a more organized audience. The tower way of entry should also be addressed, either 144 player instances or being able to queue directly like in DR(S). Hopefully they give us both types of content in the two future updates: a puggable raid and a harder raid. I want to use my mastered jobs on more medium-difficulty content and not just normal CEs!

FATEs and CEs should work more like in Eureka: needing to kill specific mobs or do specific FATEs to spawn the CEs. Some FATEs and CEs can still spawn randomly but the point is to incentivize players to interact with the world.

It should be possible to have 2-3 normal FATEs at the same time, a pot FATE and a CE to counter the current waiting-at-the-aetheryte way of dealing with the content.

Tie silver and gold currencies together in some shape or form.

Some way of combining phantom job actions, or at least to be able to always have one active chosen action from a mastered job. It might perhaps become a thing in future updates with new phantom jobs such as Mime or a feature of Freelancer, though.

Minor gripe but Life Surge and Reassemble should cause a phantom weaponskill to (direct) crit so that there's some interaction there, just like many phantom actions benefit from innate job haste or damage buffs. Additionally, fix phantom actions breaking the DRG (and other jobs') combo.

Let phantom experience gained while playing a maxxed job spill to other jobs, even at a reduced rate, or be stored somehow so that we can enjoy the jobs we like without being forced to change to a new one every time.

There's plenty of feedback in this Reddit post, as well, should you want to check it.


Overall, it's good but it can be so much more. To the developers: please take this feedback as incentive to improve the content and not to cancel it for the following expansion!

I was having a lot of fun with it. I was using it to become more comfortable with BLM since I've taken an interest to it lately. After mastering all the phantom jobs that have a heal, it became really frustrating doing CEs and just slowly dying when I couldn't get an invite to a party or had a party with no healers. After I found out the only way to +2 gear was to do the raid that is incredibly hard to get into at the moment, my motivation took a major hit.