4.1 Positive Points

Thank you for Ivalice raid and this new lv70 dungeon, i love the areas and all the efforts, the creativity you put in it SE team :)

Gameplay is fun and those places are just awsome!

I'm happy about the new tribal quests too, the new design you added to the housing sectors and the diffrent jobs adjustments.

I was curious to see how the main story line would continue but i'm not disapointed just a bit short imo :p i want to discover the next chapter!!

I tested the squad system and i find it fun, it's not perfect but i'm sure you will improove it later. I hope we will be able to equip them with some better stuff for example, and the tank IA could be arranged a bit ^^

Ho and thank you for all those new emotes!

I haven't specified all the content you added but i wanted to underline some positiv points to me cause we were all frustrated concerning the housing content and totally forget the rest......it's good to say when we aren't happy but it's better to do both.

I can imagine if i was in your shoes how demotivated i would be by reading only some negativ comments, so thank you for the new patch!

ps : sorry for my bad english

I want to say thank you for the new sightseeing log outside the Kugane tower...you know, the "Watch me fly and pray I land on it" one(and I'm being serious, it was fun to work my way up the tower, and fly off to try landing on it...took 5 attempts the first time, and once the second time to show FC people where I jump from).

Edit: And I guess thank you for all the additional content of things for me to do. The more stuff there is for me to do, the more likely I am to log in most days.

I agree with just about every single point here. I'm very pleased with this patch.

I wasn't expecting SE to be *that* evil and place that vista right below Kugane Tower. It took me several tries to climb it, but I thankfully one-shot it when I jumped down. Truly evil.

Truthfully, I'm only here for the squadron updates & the progression of the story. I've never enjoyed doing the 24-man raids, so that's squared off for me, but for what I have done, it's extremely well done.

Loved the 24 man and hope for more instances that require swimming and diving.

I like squadrons. TBH this patch had everything in one. Except for DRK fixes but I will stay positive.

Enjoyed 24 man so far (not cleared it yet) due to nostalgia to FF Tactics. Chocobo Meteor!

However rest of it is very meh to me, i unlocked Skalla for Expert roulette but im not hyped to finish MSQ.
I hope 4.2 will bring me joy with the new content, in the meantime i just do what i love in the game... Crafting

I've been having a lot of fun in this patch. There are many things I love about it, especially the fluff content (>w<) (of course the raid/dungeon content is a lot of fun too, without mentioning how awesome I found the main quest! Too many things to list).

-i'm loving the dungeons with squadron , even if i have a war 68/69 i never tanked in a dungeon stronger than Hauke , now with this thing i leveled DRK and PAL to 41 ....and they will be 50 soon or later to start the HW quests
same with healers , i only got a SCH cuz i'm a former SMN but i never healed anything higher than hauke

-i love the 24 players raid , FFT is my favorite final

-no problem with housing for me , as i think Lavender is a better zone

-beast tribes to level my war and later my other heals/tanks

just one thing : as we only get one dungeons each patch now , i would have prefered a slightly harder one
oh and : i dont even think the Alchemist master 5 mount is craftable atm , but i'll just have to wait ^^

so far so good

Additions to Lost Canals are great but also kinda disappointing - did like 10 maps yesterday that procced Canals, only got one thief map and it booted us out on the first floor. Still, I'm always heartened by updates to old features instead of introducing them then forgetting about them, and maps are a pleasant diversion from primals and raiding.

Story was good but not a fan of the redemption arcs for the attractive women with tragic backstories, if I'm allowed to be so blunt. Hoping the story has a bit more nuance than that in future developments, most notably with Yotsuyu. Also hoping some serious attempt at reconciliation with the beast tribes is attempted at some point, since we haven't had much in that area since...3.4, I think, and the theme of coexistence with indigenous peoples with different belief systems is kind of compelling from a narrative viewpoint. Still, overall I liked it and am as usual looking forward to more.

24-man raid is excellent, though a little on the easy side for me. Still, Void Ark was also easy and later on Mhach/Scaith were some of the best fun I've ever had in XIV, so I'm not letting the difficulty color my enjoyment just yet. The last boss in particular introduced a few new mechanics that, while in need of tweaking, are syicide refreshing and fun.

Shinryu EX I think is lackluster. More pushback mechanics on narrow platforms and only the healable head adds are a relatively unique mechanic. I can appreciate that the fight is visually impressive and satisfies on the immersion front, but in terms of gameplay I think it's a somewhat weak entry to the EX primal library. I actually think the 24-man raid had more unique mechanics than ShinEX, and it'd be great if one day we got harder 8-man versions of those or something in the future.

Beast tribes are beast tribes, not much to say there. Do enjoy that the scaling exp is continuing from HW, making it easy to do multiple tasks like farm rep and level alt jobs at the same time.

New dungeon was meh, but most of them are to me these days. Standard speed pull n AOE fare here. I doubt they'll ever be interesting mechanically with the way gearing is structured in this game.

Just my quick thoughts on stuff popped off while bored at work.

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Also hoping some serious attempt at reconciliation with the beast tribes is attempted at some point, since we haven't had much in that area since...3.4, I think, and the theme of coexistence with indigenous peoples with different belief systems is kind of compelling from a narrative viewpoint.

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That sort of thing is more prominent in the Beast Tribes' own story lines. Amalj'aa shows a faction that couldn't care less about fighting you; Sahagin shows a faction actively interested in co-existence. Sylphs elaborates on what was already established in the MSQ, etc. And as someone who's completed all the Beast Tribes at the time, I was pleased to see Minfillia comment about that on more than one occassion, how on top of everything I was working to help bring humans and Beastmen together.
The content is there, it's just optional.

The MSQ was fan-freaking-tastic. I really enjoyed doing boss mechanics with NPCs.

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

That sort of thing is more prominent in the Beast Tribes' own story lines. Amalj'aa shows a faction that couldn't care less about fighting you; Sahagin shows a faction actively interested in co-existence. Sylphs elaborates on what was already established in the MSQ, etc. And as someone who's completed all the Beast Tribes at the time, I was pleased to see Minfillia comment about that on more than one occassion, how on top of everything I was working to help bring humans and Beastmen together.
The content is there, it's just optional.

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I've done all the beast tribes to completion save Moogles. That still doesn't mean I can't want the MSQ to have a broader focus on inter species harmony, since it's a theme I'd personally like to see brought to the forefront.

MSQ was rather awesome, love the 24man and new dungeon is rather great. Squadrons i also do not mind.

I enjoyed the new MSQ very much. There were a few points where I almost cried, I love the character development of the Sultana as well as Fordola. She's my favorite new Stormblood character. I really feel like the story is starting to lead somewhere now, and I can't wait to see what's next!

Thank you for Shirogane, I'm enjoying it so much since I was one of the lucky ones who got a house. I do hope you have good plans to increase housing and allow everyone else to enjoy it as well. After all, housing is one of the great pulls of this game as opposed to other similar MMOs. More than a handful of people should be able to enjoy it!

Thank you for M'naago custom deliveries, and making them give exp! Now I have another way to finish leveling all my crafters to 60 with Zhloe. Then at max, it gives yellow scrip too! Just wonderful.

Thank you for all of the quality of life changes, like allowing chocobos and minions out at the same time and being able to separate buffs/debuffs on the UI. All of these things are great additions to an already great game, and I hope there are more to come!

Bun hair + having cats out at the same time as my chocobo.

I love the 24 man raid. Squadrons are a good time sink, an alternative to PoTD at least. The devs killed the story for me at the end of ARR into mid HW. I skip all the stories now. The rest was pretty much the same as always.

Alliance roulette gives a lot of exp and is good for leveling dps jobs.

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Alliance roulette gives a lot of exp and is good for leveling dps jobs.

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100% agree. 5 minute or less queue compared to 30+ minute wait otherwise. SE really needs to fix the DPS queue time problem. Or, at the very least, as a band-aid fix make alliance roulette be able to be run multiple times a day since every other quick queue is either now dead / just as long as a dungeon (PvP) or not worth doing above 60 (PotD).

Now this is a positive post unlike the other one. Don't worry too much about your English OP, it's good enough for us to understand what you're trying to say.

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Alliance roulette gives a lot of exp and is good for leveling dps jobs.

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I can't believe I forgot to mention how awesome this is. The exp gain to time investment is excellent and I've been queuing it every day on my DPS.

I wish I could add positive points, but I'm very disappointed with 4.1. The main story made everyone act like idiots to enable conflict, and tried to redeem the secondmost least likable character in SB. The squadron update is pointless; it's just another beta test of features with no real application for players. We're just testing their AI for them. Shinryu is tuned more for savage players, and doesn't seem to be done as much as susano or lakshimi. Royal city is good, but tiring, and they still made the only worthwhile rewards once per week. Come on, at least let us get multiple pieces of gear from it. The beast tribes...look, by now many of us have done 4-7 of them, we can't keep doing the same stuff over and over again. Especially since you HAVE to do the BST tribes every day to make progress.

About all that's good is a feast 4v4 practice mode finally, and the QoL stuff. But there really isn't much to do that you weren't doing before or weren't tired of before.

Best parts of 4.1 for me are Raid Roulette and Beast Tribes.
All that XP for my few remaining DPS classes is just phenomenal and Raid Roulette also gets my Wonder Tails done so much quicker since before I typically avoided the CT raids for lack of motivation.

Royal City is alright, I guess, albeit a bit trying on the nerves when you watch half the alliance crushed under towers or some such nonsense for the 10th time.
Shitryu can crawl back into the aether it came from. I'd like to see add phase but god if I can even see Diamond Dust before any PF I've been in ends up wiping and that was only when I was healing; if I DPS or Tank, we barely make it past 1st Hellfire/Judgement Bolt.
Haven't touched Squardons since I severely outlevel everything they can do that I don't see the point in it. I'll just continue sending them out as glorified retainers that bring me scrips if it's all the same to everyone.