The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

[RiceisNice]

I don't know why anyone who knows step three has a Poetics cost would unsynch the level 50 dungeons, to be honest (though of course on day one, it made the most sense to when we weren't aware of the costs later). I actually created two further Awoken weapons for alt jobs to save on Esoterics and get some extra Poetics (and got several new member bonuses along the way--so they are helping people clear content they haven't done before with that step).

Depends on the person; if they're spamming Alexander to get it done, they have no reason to touch poetic, especially when poetic itself is in a vacuum (your only source of this is 50 roulettes and 50 dungeons) compared to law tomes.

I don't know how it is on Famfrit, but Hunts in general were all but dead on Diabolos before 3.15, which makes getting things like the unique Grand Company gear for glamours and the like a rather daunting prospect (though for the life of me I can't figure out why they haven't reduced the cost of those yet). I'm glad they included them, as the carrot of Clan Mark Logs was never enough for me to bother Hunting, and now I'm accomplishing several goals at once through them. It's a good feeling.

I never liked the hunts, but I specifically do not like the idea of hunts being the more optimal way of getting progression in current content (which has been reoccurring since...well hunting's implementation). It doesn't make any sense for 2.x to be rewarding both allied and centarou seals, while 3.x hunts only rewards centarou seals, on top of the anima items being allied seals only. Hunts always come bck to life because they keep making it relevant (and usually the best/fastest) for getting current gear.

Despite that, you could always get by with 2-4 manning the 2.x A ranks anyway if you went out to look for them. Putting more incentive in the rear end of the content cycle is giving me the vibe that they're running out of ideas for the forefront (which supposedly they have everything mapped out). That's how it was on Famfrit anyway. Now we just have more people killing the hunts without ever calling it out, and the times that it does get called out is usually the off chance.

And honestly, the inclusion of the Beastmen quests for 2.0...doesn't hurt anyone. It's a bone thrown to players who put in tons of their time to working on all of them, and the additional tokens you can get from them aren't really worth spending the time to get to Rank 3 if you haven't already gotten there. There are enough other options available to gather the tokens that it really shouldn't matter all that much.

It hurts the perspective of players who are expecting play 3.x content in a 3.x patch cycle. If redoing content like this is passable (versus things like daily clan hunt bills, large temple guildleves, or even red scrips and eso), then would it be passable if future steps required us to tackle 2.x treasure maps or 2.x guildleves? It significantly downplays my hopes for the game if they can get by with reusing old content to this severity.

Do I think they should have included the CT series in the quest somehow? Yeah. They actually would have fit right in with Stage 2, to be honest (especially since three of the included HW dungeons just feel kind of awkward to go through again Lore-wise, as you mention--but to be fair, so do the CT dungeons).

At least the CT weekly hand weaves it as a "journey through your mind" and "reliving the experiences". Step 2 only does that with The vault, while everything else, apparently the tonberries are still being harassed (by the amaa'jja no less), Madpoor keep is still under void influence, and you're still fighting Midgardsomr,when he's already traveling with you at this point.