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

[Alahra]

3. The devs have very clearly stated the entire Artifact system exists only for Legion and will be abandoned in the next expansion, returning to the original weapon system. There will be no follow up. As unsatisfying as the FF14 relic quests are to a lot of people, at least the continuation credited you for what you had done with relics in the past.

I didn't know this. That turns me off even more (not that I would have ever touched WoW with a 10-foot pole again, though).

Of course for me the biggest issue with legion is I cant stand Blizzards storytelling.

I can't either. I've always felt that Metzen basically had one good idea: the rise and fall of Arthas. It was that story that cemented Warcraft as a modern fantasy powerhouse (and I've always felt, a huge part of why WoW's success was so meteoric up through Wrath of the Lich King). The story has been a mess ever since then (and it was honestly a mess at a lot of points prior to that, with the space pirate blood elves and shoehorning Draenei in, and so on).

After the video from the letter of the producer, what are everyone's thoughts? I myself did not see it, but I read the notes, and am in a wait and see approach with 3.2, but there is nothing that's really grabbed my attention.

It has dyable Allagan and High Allagan gear. That's...honestly all I need until 3.25 when the next Anima stage is released. >.>;

I wish they would have talked a bit more about the item level structure and Midas (Savage) in general, though—ultimately, outside of content drought, reward structures and difficulty are the root of many of the game's problems right now, and it would have been nice to have more concrete ideas of where they were taking things.

I'm happy about the tank change, which was long overdue, but somewhat sad that it seems we're going back to multi-job sets for Tomestone gear (at least, judging by the pictures they showed in the Developer's Blog).