Post-Honeymoon SHB thoughts?

So now that what I consider the honeymoon phase is over, what are your honest thoughts about shadowbringers? Yes I know I could’ve waited till 5.1 but I personally feel like this is the best time to ask.

I... uh...
Is it bad I'm rooting for the Ascians now? As long as I can keep my collection of buddies, let natural selection decide the rest?

Want to play through the story again. Sad ng+ won't include 5.0 at the beginning.

Dungeons were all fun. Raids are fun. Exs were good. Currently leveling my crafters slowly, while easing up other combat jobs.

Aside the story being amazing and WAY better than SB.

At the moment, the endgame is the same as SB. Ex primals, leveling, tome grinding and savage.
Same ol' ffxiv but that's why I still play.

Have to see how things change in 5.1 though. With the new gameplay thing, hope its not a train wreck like how eureka was on the start.

I am in this dilemma. I only log in 1 time or 2 times a week now.... and I blame Fire Emblem for that. But I am really that I can feel like I log in, do raids, ex trials, or whatever during that time and still feel like I am progressing my character. I just wish I can have an app to send my retainers on ventures while I am at work.

Story was super amazing and wish I can experience it again in NG+
Music was absolutely phenomenal.
GNB my favorite class so far.

I am over all super happy with it. I keep in touch with my FC in discord so I don't appear to be just someone who randomly logs on. But unlike Warcraft I do not have this absolute feeling that I need to keep up with the current times and I like that.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Want to play through the story again. Sad ng+ won't include 5.0 at the beginning.

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My feelings exactly.

Overall feels like a rehash of past expansions with different colored monsters and tomes. Same formula. Story is better, but the gameplay seems to be just another endless cycle of grinding.

In terms of story, dungeons, soundtrack, and trials/raids at this point I have to say overall I'm relatively pleased with what we've gotten so far this expansion. This is honestly starting to shape up to be one of the best FF games we've had in a while in those regards imo. As far as gameplay goes, some jobs definitely need some tweaks, some more considerable than others. I'm hoping 5.08 and 5.1 will take the appropriate steps towards these though, but only time will tell.

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Originally Posted by Windsun33

Overall feels like a rehash of past expansions with different colored monsters and tomes. Same formula. Story is better, but the gameplay seems to be just another endless cycle of grinding.

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I felt there was less grinding than usual, but I'm not sure how you can develop a game story, while using a leveling system, without some form of grinding though..? It sounds like it'll be eternally cursed simply for being a hybrid game like this, but overall, I felt the story was well worth any grinding I had to do, but it definitely felt more minimal than usual.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Want to play through the story again. Sad ng+ won't include 5.0 at the beginning.

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awww. Seems I've missed a lot of info from that last live letter. I was really looking forward to re-running the story.