Revelations from Patch 3.56

[Remus]

So... What happen to learning more about Silvertear in 3.x? Didn't they say we would learn more?

Overall I think the only highlight of this story patch was seeing it was Shinryu and the fight between him and Omega. Everything else felt like it was just dragging on... Even Nero was wondering why we haven't gone to Omega yet. In my opinion 3/4 of the story was just running around then the last bit was the only important part. Honestly it feels really rushed from what I played.

There wasn't much that surprised me this patch, the ending to this expansion was just meh and didn't really make me feel excited for what will happen next.

[CyrilLucifer]

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Sums up my thoughts entirely. It felt like a flashy action movie. Pretty and enjoyable in the moment, but without a lot of content to get me hooked for the sequel - or next expansion in this case.

What I'm most excited for in Stormblood isn't the MSQ, but the Omega raid and Ivalice.

[Belhi]

Sums up my thoughts entirely. It felt like a flashy action movie. Pretty and enjoyable in the moment, but without a lot of content to get me hooked for the sequel - or next expansion in this case.

What I'm most excited for in Stormblood isn't the MSQ, but the Omega raid and Ivalice.

Well to be fair, 2.55's story only really served as a reason to get us to Ishgard rather than being a major part of the HW story.

For me, I need to chew on this for longer and let it digest but my initial thoughts are that it raises a lot of questions. Without a clear time scale its hard to be sure exactly when Lyse took over the identity of Yda. Was it before 1.0 (apart from the flashbacks) or was it post calamity? 2.0 started 5 years after the calamity and it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that at least a year has past. The other questions I have are in regard to Shinryu. There are a few aspects of the primal that don't quite fit the traditional model and I hope we can learn exactly why.

Honestly I would prefer the Ascians take a back seat role for a time. We have been bumping them off pretty fast lately and I would like to wait a while before the next one drops.