Come on MAY 24 & JUNE 28...This dry spell of information is killing me..lol

It seems like forever & a day for May 24th & June 28 to get here.:rolleyes:

I'm looking forward to the LIVE LETTER for the Battle Maintenance information among other things.

I believe the Stormblood's LIVE LETTER was almost 4 hours.

It would have been great for SE to split the ShB Battle Maintenance LIVE LETTER into 2 parts. Part 1 could have been this Friday (10TH) & the Part 2 on the 24th...just a thought.

Someone brought up a suggestion from one of the twitch streamers, regarding those who have pre-order ShB. The suggestion was to get the bonus of unlocking DANCER & GUNBREAKER several weeks before ShB officially comes out on July 2. I thought it was a good suggestion. We will have to take both jobs through Stormblood dungeons & what not to leveled up to 70 anyway.

Just a thot! I hate dry spells...lol

Just play something else while you wait. They didn't add Samurai and Red Mage before the early access, no reason they will do it now with Dancer and Gunbreaker.

Data miners would have a field day if anything got released early, it's not long to go now anyway.

Yoshi-P has said it himself, play other games and spend time with your family. It will ease the lull, trust me.

I remember the dry spell from HW to SB being just as bad although this one feels worse for some reason. Little content released, little info or updates and people telling you to go play/do something else or do old content like you haven't been playing for the last 4 years. Even the popular Youtubers I follow seem to be having a hard time finding topics for content.

And that's not saying I don't have a life either...I work 9 hours a day, train in Muay Thai, I'm part of a car club, I go see my family on the weekends, I have a GF...But my relaxing time is sitting down and enjoying this game that I've invested a lot of time into. And when there's nothing in the game that sort of excites me anymore, it just kind of leaves this empty feeling. It's hard to explain. lol. There aren't many other games that hold my interest like FFXIV.

On top of that, the benchmark was pushed back. I could see it being released a week before the Live Letter to renew some kind of excitement. I'm honestly surprised SE hasn't put out SOMETHING to keep players excited about the upcoming expansion. We've gotten this far with the Live Letter coming in two weeks but I completely agree with you. This has been brutal.

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Originally Posted by Rosentretter

Just play something else while you wait. They didn't add Samurai and Red Mage before the early access, no reason they will do it now with Dancer and Gunbreaker.

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I'm playing other games that I have back logged but the dry-spell if info is annoying...lol.

Again it was a suggestion.

I was hoping the benchmark would be out now, guess we still got time to wait yet.

Interested to see what the battle changes will be as well. Anyway the 24th will be here before we know it :)

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Originally Posted by Gula

Yoshi-P has said it himself, play other games and spend time with your family. It will ease the lull, trust me.

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Trust me, I have been playing alot of back logged games...starting with RAIDEN V DIRECTOR'S CUT on PS4.

Just the lack of info...sucks! lol.

Splitting up that 4 hours LIVE LETTER into 2 parts, different dates would have been a good way just to spread out info.

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Originally Posted by Gula

Yoshi-P has said it himself, play other games and spend time with your family. It will ease the lull, trust me.

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Stop trying to keep people grounded in reality- just stop! :)

Super excited to see the job details though :3.

Play other games to pass the time. I just got re-introduced to ESO and I've been having a lot of fun playing with a friend. If anyone is currently bored I would definitely suggest giving ESO a look. Warframe isn't bad either, though I tend to play that in spurts.

I know that at least the EU media funsies is the 15th. The Same thing where they got to play with the new jobs and the second dungeon of Stormblood. So hopefully we will be getting videos if not more interview info soonish.

OP, I had this same sentiment last night an hour before bed.
Out of nowhere my brain got all hyped and I wanted to play through Stormblood again as a refresher but couldnt bring myself to do it knowing New Game+ is coming. So instead I sat there making random characters in the current creator, wishing we had the benchmark lol

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Originally Posted by Renato

I remember the dry spell from HW to SB being just as bad although this one feels worse for some reason. Little content released, little info or updates and people telling you to go play/do something else or do old content like you haven't been playing for the last 4 years. Even the popular Youtubers I follow seem to be having a hard time finding topics for content.

And that's not saying I don't have a life either...I work 9 hours a day, train in Muay Thai, I'm part of a car club, I go see my family on the weekends, I have a GF...But my relaxing time is sitting down and enjoying this game that I've invested a lot of time into. And when there's nothing in the game that sort of excites me anymore, it just kind of leaves this empty feeling. It's hard to explain. lol. There aren't many other games that hold my interest like FFXIV.

On top of that, the benchmark was pushed back. I could see it being released a week before the Live Letter to renew some kind of excitement. I'm honestly surprised SE hasn't put out SOMETHING to keep players excited about the upcoming expansion. We've gotten this far with the Live Letter coming in two weeks but I completely agree with you. This has been brutal.

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Thanks Renato.

I'm glad you understand where was I coming from. I'm like you, have a job, a life, etc. I have tons of PS4 games that I have back logged which I'm playing now.

We all know that the Battle Maintenance Live Letter will be at least 3-4 hours, splitting it into 2 parts, several weeks from each other would have been a great way to spread out information.

I know they are on their media tour, one will be coming to Los Angeles soon. The media & streamers that go to that event are not allowed to put out any information until SE tells them to.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Play other games to pass the time. I just got re-introduced to ESO and I've been having a lot of fun playing with a friend. If anyone is currently bored I would definitely suggest giving ESO a look. Warframe isn't bad either, though I tend to play that in spurts.

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I would give ESO another shot if it wasn't for the "craglorn graphics bug". That's one of the reasons I switched to FFXIV - Square Enix actually knows how to fix bugs, unlike Zenimax.

The Media Tour starts on the 15th. We may have some information then.

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Originally Posted by Kaedan

The Media Tour starts on the 15th. We may have some information then.

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Not much sadly because there is kinda n.d.a in these Media Tour until after the live letter

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Originally Posted by Nighthawky2010

Someone brought up a suggestion from one of the twitch streamers, regarding those who have pre-order ShB. The suggestion was to get the bonus of unlocking DANCER & GUNBREAKER several weeks before ShB officially comes out on July 2.

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It's called "Early Access" for those who have pre-ordered the expansion, and starts on 28 June. The servers will not be ready for the next expansion before then, so "unlocking" content that isn't in the game already would be difficult.

Don't login for a week or two xD . I would not worry about capping weekly tomes as in 5.0 your probably going to be able to buy all that ilvl400 gear using poetics lol.

I'd rather they release the entire thing at once. Splitting it up is kinda meh especially in the case of things not being finalized or finished so you can sort of get how each of the roles interact with each other and the jobs in each role interact with the new battle system changes instead of only getting half of it and people losing their minds. Of course, it won't be 100% finalized since they are going to tweak all the way up to EA but getting the big picture all at once I think is preferable IMO so they can explain all at once why they are making X changes instead of saying well uh wait 2 weeks, stay tuned. In the end you are going to be waiting until end of June to play anyway.

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Originally Posted by RareItems

Don't login for a week or two xD . I would not worry about capping weekly tomes as in 5.0 your probably going to be able to buy all that ilvl400 gear using poetics lol.

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I dunno I'm already sitting at 2000 Genesis and plan to cap all tomes and both scrips the week before Shadowbringers launches, I probably won't do much in game the week of since I want to save all my challenge log stuff for the Friday it comes out.

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Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld

I would give ESO another shot if it wasn't for the "craglorn graphics bug". That's one of the reasons I switched to FFXIV - Square Enix actually knows how to fix bugs, unlike Zenimax.

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i have both ESO & Elder Scrolls V. I hate the way the characters run..lol

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

It's called "Early Access" for those who have pre-ordered the expansion, and starts on 28 June. The servers will not be ready for the next expansion before then, so "unlocking" content that isn't in the game already would be difficult.

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Yes I know what EARLY ACCESS is..I'm plan on doing it. Again it was a suggestion.

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Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld

I would give ESO another shot if it wasn't for the "craglorn graphics bug". That's one of the reasons I switched to FFXIV - Square Enix actually knows how to fix bugs, unlike Zenimax.

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No game is ever perfect, tbh.

While I may not always agree with SE's decisions regarding this game they are usually quick to squash any bugs that turn up and aren't afraid to take the servers down almost immediately if something significant rears its ugly head. I think a lot of companies could learn from them.

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Originally Posted by Nighthawky2010

i have both ESO & Elder Scrolls V. I hate the way the characters run..lol

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By comparison, the bug makes a bad running animation or two look like nothing. 3D assets like trees and rocks flicker, disappearing and flying all around, blinking before your very eyes. It's bad enough that, should they refuse to keep fixing the bug, they should be obligated to post seizure notices for the affected zones.

Also, the bug has been around for several years now, and every thread made on the bug report forums for that game are completely ignored by the mods.

I'm usually generally interested but okay waiting. However, as a healer, I am VERY interested in getting more information on whether my class is going to play the same or massively change.

Awe man, this thread bummed me out. I just started and I definitely don't want to do PoTD, but I guess I will have to so I can do HoH for gun breaker. Huge bummer.

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Awe man, this thread bummed me out. I just started and I definitely don't want to do PoTD, but I guess I will have to so I can do HoH for gun breaker. Huge bummer.

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You could get by on just dungeons

Just do roulette till 61 then just spam dungeons with aetherite earring its probably better than Potd/HoH

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Originally Posted by Duskane

You could get by on just dungeons

Just do roulette till 61 then just spam dungeons with aetherite earring its probably better than Potd/HoH

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After the dust settles anyway. For the first few weeks a lot of people will probably be trying Gunbreaker or Dancer, making tank queues longer than dps queues by a slight margin...if Heavensward was anything to go by. I was getting insta queues while leveling MCH but DRK usually took a few minutes.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

After the dust settles anyway. For the first few weeks a lot of people will probably be trying Gunbreaker or Dancer, making tank queues longer than dps queues by a slight margin...if Heavensward was anything to go by. I was getting insta queues while leveling MCH but DRK usually took a few minutes.

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I think Dancer ques will probably be much worse just due to its popularity
Already it overshadows GnB hype and Mch in general,
But i guess ill see for myself i will be leveling Gnb day one to see which ends up more effective way of leveling.

I'm a dry dude.

I can see it being hard on new players right now. The queue times for anything way to high now and could see new players could quit from it. Heaven on High use to have instant queues now have 5 to 10 minute queues for it.

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Originally Posted by Duskane

I think Dancer ques will probably be much worse just due to its popularity
Already it overshadows GnB hype and Mch in general,
But i guess ill see for myself i will be leveling Gnb day one to see which ends up more effective way of leveling.

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Depends on the amount of people leveling each class, but the "two DPSes per tank" party composition might work in dancer's favour.

(Healers, get ready for infinite "player in need" bonuses...)

Well...we got a little info today with Letter from the Producer-62. And a time & date for the LL-51. Will definitely leaving work early.