In the meantime before Heavensward

[Tauu]

Good points. A new primal fight that drops i130 stuff would be fun. Ultima EX maybe? I wonder if SE is scrambling to come up with some content to hold us over. 3 months is a long time to have nothing new besides a card game.

[Gunspec]

Maybe I'm just getting too old, and had my hopes crushed as a child too frequently, but when a company says "spring 2015" it means business quarter. And if a company is saying the season rather than the month, that means the game is still too soon in development to lock it into a specific month, which USUALLY means the very end of the quarter mentioned. I don't know how many times as a kid I heard "Summer 200X" and was excited to play a game during summer vacation, only for the game to be released September 15th.

As for what to do in game, I would expect late April or early June to be the arrival of patch 3.0. MMO companies typically put out the new patch a month before the expansion, so that class changes and stat tweaks can be experimented with before the new stuff is accessible. If Final Coil and WoD lockouts haven't been removed by that point, they will probably be removed then, relic item drop rates will probably be boosted again to ease the farming process and maybe there will be a relaxing of the poetic cap. Don't expect any new content, but there will probably be such small incentives to start luring people back so they are ready for Heavensward.

[Raiya]

Tbh so long as they remove the poetics cap and lockouts on the FBcoB and WoD so we got stuff we can do to complete between 2.55 and Heavensward I would be happy enough. Nerfing the atma books from 9 to 4 as well would be nice too.

[Ooshima]

Technically speaking, SE only said that it will come in Spring 2015 with no months ever mentioned.

While June is a little tad late, but SE might not have flout the "Spring 2015" claim:

http://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-seasons

Summer starts at June 21, 12:38 P.M. EDT, oh well.

[Kiara1]

If they aren't releasing new vanity gear for me to get next patch I'll probably cancel my subscription and wait for expansion because I feel I dont have much to do right now and im just waiting for new content.

[Skeith-Adeline]

I dislike how everybody agrees that stopping your subscription is a reasonable idea lol. it should never be a logical idea.

[zandervont]

they did say spring but during the PAX east they gave a reason why they pushed back the date. I believe they said the goal was to have 3.0 in May but they decided to polish it up a notch.

Still, I dont worry about it, I still got a lot of stuff to do:
-Finish up big fishing (82/112)
-Work on Fenrir (164k/1m)
-Sell some stuff in the meantime
-Finish up 2nd zodiac (4/12 mahatmas)
-Max out pvp rank (44,5/ 45)
-Farm 4 more ponies
-get 4 more craft-luminaries

There are lots to do and I already am at 11/11 lucis, 2 DW weapons, lv50 all classes, full 110 gear or better, r20 companion, 101 minions...

[Jamein]

I imagine between now and the expansion they will unlock Peotic cap, remove loot lockout from WoD, put FCOB in Duty Finder/remove loot lock and add echo, nerf T9 and nerf previous Zodiac stages further.
Along with this you'll get the final part of the story as well as the 'battle of ishgard' global event that they said was coming, whatever that will be.

So there will be plenty to do, many MMO's go for a lot longer with no new content.

The only people who may suffer are those who have had the FCOB on farm for a long time now, but you have to remember, those people are in the minority of the playerbase so it's not like EVERYONE will have nothing to do, most people are going to have plenty to do.

For me personally, I'm just on T11 at the moment, I want to reach T13 before echo, hoping I can.

[HaiHai]

I'm genuinely curious when I ask this to those who are saying they have nothing to do until heavensward.

Do you have every job at 50? Have you completed FCoB? Do you have all of your jobs geared? All the vanity you want from 2.0? You have Zeta relics for your main jobs? You've finished with all of the beast tribe reputations? Do you have a personal house or guild house already fully furnished to your liking? Do you feel comfortable with the amount of gil you currently have? All the mounts from 2.0? You have everything you want from Gold Saucer MGP? All the triple triad cards and a max rank racing chocobo?


I dunno about everyone else but I feel like I'll never finish in time for June 23.

[HrumHrum]

I'm genuinely curious when I ask this to those who are saying they have nothing to do until heavensward.

Do you have every job at 50? Have you completed FCoB? Do you have all of your jobs geared? All the vanity you want from 2.0? You have Zeta relics for your main jobs? You've finished with all of the beast tribe reputations? Do you have a personal house or guild house already fully furnished to your liking? Do you feel comfortable with the amount of gil you currently have? All the mounts from 2.0? You have everything you want from Gold Saucer MGP? All the triple triad cards and a max rank racing chocobo?

Most of this pointless or boring or both.