4.2 - the densest patch yet

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Originally Posted by Alash

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I enjoyed the patch. The raids had a lot of work put into them artistically, and they are fun. Perhaps play more than one game.... or pick up some other hobbies?
Five days till we see what Eureka will bring to the table as well.

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Originally Posted by Iromi

I'm still waiting to see what content we get each patch that is "Brand new" and the reason we lost TWO dungeons now per patch. All I see is glamour, QOL, mounts etc. No actual new battle content (i dont include the dungeons, same ol 4 raids etc) Eureka isn't out so...

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QoL changes use up the same resources that would of made those extra dungeons. You might think Squadrons, Inventory increase, increasing Housing limit and Glamour Log don't use those resources, but they do.

They need active people looking for ways to manage in-game resources and make sure when content is added the servers can handle it.

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Originally Posted by Rinuko

Yes i can see that, the problem is we going to be stuck with 2 dungeons for 3+ months for Expert roulettes. 2 dungeons is really meh but having 3 in the roulette at least there is some difference.

I don't know how long you've been playing but we had same problem when 4.0 was released and most of us got sick of getting Ala Mhigo every day.

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I used to run Ampador Keep (with some rarer WP) every day multiple times a day, when there was no roulette and the only tomes were from the dungeon itself. So I know something about repetition. Personally I don't mind, I like getting the mechanics perfectly. And with all these roulettes now it's not just always the same dungeon, that roulette has 2 but still there's all the others as well. So from my point of view it's still a good diversity.

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

6/10? Far more positive than most other people on the forums would give it. >_>

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Might be a typo for -6/10

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Originally Posted by Iromi

I'm still waiting to see what content we get each patch that is "Brand new" and the reason we lost TWO dungeons now per patch. All I see is glamour, QOL, mounts etc.

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I completely agree with you.

There's not even that much QoL, either. As far as I can tell, server checks/delays are still very long, a 3 digit ping still hurts your dps and ability to dodge, macros are still unusable, the cross server linkshell feature isn't here yet, and you still can't send tells in instances.

But we have a chocobo saddle since we couldn't get actual expanded inventory so now there's yet ANOTHER menu/window to clutter the screen, and we got some clunky glamour dresser that doesn't even work well... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Originally Posted by Rasikko

Might be a typo for -6/10

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I assure you that I did not err when finalizing my review score. I took not only the amount of content in the patch but also its quality relative to previous patches. Although I do not think that the story is as interesting as Heavensward's it is at least presented with the same level of quality, and some of the MSQ battles are quite enjoyable as far as those go, with a lot more AI scripting for the events. Since the raids, primals and dungeon are all meeting a consistent level of quality I cannot fault the game on that front. However, given that the content roll is exactly the same as it was in Heavenward despite being promised more, I cannot give the patch a score above a 5/10 which by my metric denotes an average game. A couple highs here and there will never raise it above that score if I am doing the exact same things to advance my character that I was doing 4 years ago, no matter how well polished it is now.

Where did that extra point come from? Snake waifus.