4.1 - The emptiest patch yet.

[ShinMoon]

I agree. Renewed my sub yesterday in anticipation for 4.1 and am wondering what possessed me to do so. I aswell regret buying Stormblood lol

[ErryK]

but there's a lot of stuff pushed back again!

Huh? Since when was the relic-type weapon "a lot of stuff"?

[Rufalus]

Yes but they said we are trading a dungeon for "new" content. We are getting the same stuff we were already getting.

Rival Wings might be successful new content. Eureka is going to be a new kind of upgradable weapon experience instead of the relic/anima model of being directed around old content, so there's heightened effort being put into that area with a possibility of customisable armor too.

I don't really know what to say to people who are tired of all kinds of content. If anything that could be categorised as a pve trial/raid or pvp is considered not fresh enough, then what should they divert resources into making? It would be risky to do another 'reborn' of the game fundamentally changing everything. It's already successful now.

If there is another game doing a better job of drastically revamping itself while providing a steady content pipeline then maybe people could give examples of how that is done.

[Lambdafish]

Huh? Since when was the relic-type weapon "a lot of stuff"?

On top of that, I massively support the relic weapon being pushed back, it makes far more sense for it to be introduced at the beginning of the gear cycle rather than at the end when everyone already has a better weapon than the one we are being asked to grind for. I got my lost allagan in 2 months, why would I want to grind for a worse weapon a month before the end of the gear cycle?

[Khalithar]

There is no such thing as “enough” content. I hope the folks complaining do understand that. It will never matter how much they put out, it will never be enough.

This is an mmo issue, not so much a square enix issue.

[Khalithar]

I got my lost allagan in 2 months, why would I want to grind for a worse weapon a month before the end of the gear cycle?

Cant edit on mobile but I wanted to reply to this. The answer to this question sort of depends on if you’re a savage mode raider and/or if you really care about stats. If you’re not a raider but want to try for the best stats possible, it might be worth your time if they let us customize the secondary stats like with the 240 anima weapon.

Now if you don’t raid and just want whatever weapon you can get? Then yeah, I agree with you.

[blindfoldedkaos]

Also people one of the reasons why they had trouble with 4.1 was stuff like the concert they recently had, among other things, and apparently yoshi-p tried to push the concert back but nope, so the dev team pushed out what they could for the 10th of the 10th or you would of had the patch pushed back a month or two with eureka being added, which would of made people complain more because they had to push back the patch.

TLDR: To small a team, not enough time.

[Lambdafish]

Cant edit on mobile but I wanted to reply to this. The answer to this question sort of depends on if you’re a savage mode raider and/or if you really care about stats. If you’re not a raider but want to try for the best stats possible, it might be worth your time if they let us customize the secondary stats like with the 240 anima weapon.

Now if you don’t raid and just want whatever weapon you can get? Then yeah, I agree with you.

Even if you aren't a savage raider, at this point you still have far better options. You can get the tomestone for the lost allagans weapon from o2s (which even non raiders are clearing), and in 4.1 you will likely be able to get this from hunt logs too. From there I can see the upgrade item being added in 3.15 or 3.16, at which point the relic grind is pointless.

Also, customising stats won't likely be until much later in the expansion cycle, if at all.

[Altena]

Not sure what you people were expecting.. It looks to be about the same as the other x.1 patches..

[Vahlnir]

Not sure what you people were expecting.. It looks to be about the same as the other x.1 patches..

Aside from Eureka, which had to be pushed back to 4.2...yeah, basically.