February 5th Announcement, Realistic Expectations Thread

Realistic Expectation.

Screenshot of a new female boss/NPC that is stepping on the WoL!

I expect the standard stuff. They'll flaunt sub numbers, tease us about the story, etc. Though I think they won't delay with revealing a job; or two, and will generally just have more of the normal stuff we've come to expect from a keynote on show since there's only two events this time.

Also... Seeing a lot of comments about how this is "budgetbringers" or that content is being lost and nothing put in its place, and I feel like people are just drastically undervaluing the things we have gotten this expansion.

Content is being lost, make no mistake about that, but the resources aren't lost (which is what matters) and are being repurposed for things that simply take more time and effort as a whole.

The budget isn't lower, lets just get that language out of out vocabularies as its painfully inaccurate when you look at the expansion as a whole—I was listing everything "new" we've gotten, content or otherwise and exceeded 6,000 characters here listing it all out compared to what has truly be lost. Further, purportedly this budget is the highest the game has had so far, it's just being funneled into things that take too long to actually get out each patch, that aren't readily apparent to us while playing daily, or that we do once, think "wow that was cool" then forget it exists (G Warrior or the Bozja solo instance to name just a couple....)

Shadowbringers has added a lot of casual and roleplay things while ignoring battle content, but to say any of the resources freed up were lost is just foolish.
This is coming from someone who is bored as hell with what we have gotten, hates exploratory content like Eureka and Bozja, and would prefer it to be axed altogether in favor of more engaging, repeatable things.

SEKRIT!

That's my realistic expectation we will hear. Lot of hype, no content about what's to come whatsoever.

Unrealistic?

Ishgard housing announcement

Engine upgrade

Improvements to inventory
- Not have the materials on your character, but you could also have them on your retainer and it would pull automatically from those inventories - SWTOR does this from your storage)
- Give us a button we can push every time we have a retainer inventory window open that would move items we have in inventory to the retainer if they already have it, so we don't have to hunt and separate items out to put them on the right retainer.

Glamour expansion slots

Housing item expansion

Reduce the timers on roulette penalty

Do something about the MSQ roulette. I don't mind helping people, but sitting through so many cutscenes is, and was atrocious in the middle of battle. I don't bother going anymore.

For the love of God, take Lab and Syrcus out of the alliance raid roulette. This is all I ever get. Put the three raids in their own category.

I know some of this is a pipe dream, and JP won't ever change anything like this, but that's why it's on the unrealistic board.

What I think is gonna be revealed:
-6.0 title with a well-hidden hint to beastmaster on the side
-5.5 nier and ultimate raids (ultimate I'm not 100% sure honestly)
-new and final trial (+extreme version) of shadowbringers
-the firmament completion+explanation on how the new houses will be distributed to the players (if we get some sort of priority system for those who contributed the most?)
-probably new stickers and other stuff for the gpose

that's it, if we see more I'll just take it as added bonus

There's 2 events one on Friday and the other Saturday (atleast in my timezone) the first is the announcement showcase which is going to be roughly an hour long and cover about JP and NA fanfests if I have my info right and the one on Saturday is the part 1 of the 5.5 live letter. So I would assume that we'll see quite a bit depending on how much time the usual info dump will take and every expac has a new feature touted with it that they will inevitably announce on the 5th but that's my most realistic take in this.

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Originally Posted by Vyrerus

Realistic Expectation.

Screenshot of a new female boss/NPC that is stepping on the WoL!

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New boss is reminiscent of the RE8 Lady and we're all supposed to not mention it.

A tease for the Alliance raids in 6.0 - hopefully original to XIV instead of a crossover this time, just for a breath of fresh air.

Showing the/one or both of the new jobs - I'm sincerely hoping for Geomancer, regardless of role, but I get the feeling they'd feel the need to show a new healer as most important for people.

A reveal for BST likely as a limited job - I'd be more than down for it being based on a certain ShB villain (who's clothes I hope ends up on the Mogstation someday) but this just makes the most unfortunate sense.

Unrealistic Time!

A reveal that, yes, they were working on femhroth and maleviera behind the scenes the whole time, and even if they have nothing besides a screenshot to show, the announcement would do so much for so many people

Announcing that a Deep Dungeon would be added after-the-fact for ShB level content, because imo it's very weird to have that type of content just... Disappear or have a level hole around that point if a new one is brought in for 6.0 - not to mention the missed opportunity to explore more Ronkan style designs (which I feel would make the most sense for a DD in ShB) as well as the potential for solidified aetheric darkness as weapons (think reverse-padjali weapons)

It's talked about to death and beating the dead horse, but I'm hoping for news about expanding the healer role. Even just a little more to do during downtime would be a godsend.

I just wish they remove that god awful click yes to open this door, portal etc...

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Originally Posted by Reksanden

Announcing that a Deep Dungeon would be added after-the-fact for ShB level content, because imo it's very weird to have that type of content just... Disappear or have a level hole around that point if a new one is brought in for 6.0 - not to mention the missed opportunity to explore more Ronkan style designs (which I feel would make the most sense for a DD in ShB) as well as the potential for solidified aetheric darkness as weapons (think reverse-padjali weapons)

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Bozja is the level content for ShB. It'd be better to just make a new deep dungeon for the next expansion only instead of making a second leveling content for shb.

Also lyon does wear clothes so idk why you would want his outfit Kappa

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Originally Posted by Rymi64

Bozja is the level content for ShB. It'd be better to just make a new deep dungeon for the next expansion only instead of making a second leveling content for shb.

Also lyon does wear clothes so idk why you would want his outfit Kappa

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I'd meant Ran'jit there, but that's a very fair point on Bozja being the intended level content stuff.