4.3 is amazing

[FelixDaCat]

It's a pretty decent enough patch. Most of the stuff is enjoyable that I have done thus far.

[KageTokage]

The new trial was probably my favorite part of 4.3.

I'm impressed at how many different songs they blended together in each phase's theme, and while the fight was largely a mash-up of previously used mechanics, it was exciting nonetheless.

Visual presentation really goes a long way in making an encounter memorable.

[Coratanni]

I've really enjoyed the content this patch. The Raid, the dungeon, and the trial.

Having said that, I am still fuming over a certain cutscene. It once again showed one thing I have hated about this game since the beginning. The way SE just makes us stand around(or be saved by someone else) time and time again as if we're some bystander who can't do anything, while things happen around us. It's so unbelievably out of character considering all the things we HAVE accomplished while playing, and just... throws it all away in certain moments.

[Theodric]

It's the best patch so far, in my opinion. A satisfying conclusion to a number of plot points that have been going on in the background, some very intriguing new lore and one of the most aesthetically pleasing and tragic battles in quite some time.

[Kahnom]

I like new primal.
The fight can describe as “Dancing with the Moon”

[Lunaxia]

Honestly, I was left a bit unimpressed by 4.3. Doesn't feel like there's much to do outside of the MSQ and even that seemed to stretch a bit before getting interesting, nor did I like the ridiculously long raid quest line or the raid itself. I wanted to, because I love XII, but it's not my cup of tea I suppose.

That said, Emissary of the Dawn almost single-handedly saved my impression of 4.3, and the new trial fight is visually stunning and a lot of fun. The build up to it was pretty good too.

tbh I would have liked the MSQ more if the WoL got to slap Asashi but oh well

[Lunalepsy]

Is it? It feels like they need to add more stuff.

[Penthea]

You do realise that it can be said the other way around, right?
That some of us have seen enough of this same "rinse and repeat" cycle that the dev feed us since years.

Welcome to playing mmos. If a formula works the devs are not going to switch it up too much in a short space of time. Every remotely successful mmo does this. Yes, even WoW. In fact WoW is far more guilty of not providing new types of content than XIV. For over a decade the vast majority of WoW's patch content was aimed only at raiders. Players are spoiled for choice in this game and most don't even know it.

[Ilenya]

Yeah, you have to get him to add phase and then pass it, but even then its still a very long fight.

To be fair,

it's a perfectly hilarious way of referencing the original Yiazmat.

[Asiragan]

Welcome to playing mmos. If a formula works the devs are not going to switch it up too much in a short space of time. Every remotely successful mmo does this. Yes, even WoW. In fact WoW is far more guilty of not providing new types of content than XIV. For over a decade the vast majority of WoW's patch content was aimed only at raiders. Players are spoiled for choice in this game and most don't even know it.

Sure, I did quit Wow for a reason after all.
But to say that Wow is the same from an expansion to an other is not true. At all.

And on this, FFXIV fail absolutly, since SB is just a reskin of heawensward. There is no new feature at all (Well, there IS swimming, but let's be serious here).

And even Wow players got bored of the formula when Warlords came out, Blizzard had to innovate for Legion.

But I really don't like the way you say most people are spoiled, just like the other post that said to an other player that he would never feel satisfied. It belitlle to much the rising concern for the game.
Especially when we had better during the 2.x patch cycle (just go look at the patch note, see for yourself).

The Msq can be done in a hour, same for the 24 raid. The dungeon ? 30mn top. What is left to do with the patch after that?
Some daylies, and weekly locked content? Maybe some crafting ? Kinda sad, I say.
It's especially sad when you heard your team mates saying, after barely 24 hours of patch, "Patch's done, now waiting for 3.35". Is this something I should really heard one day after the patch? Really, I don't think so.

Compared to that, the Argus patch, or the broken shore patch are absolutly massive. Sure, that's the same formula. But the patch give the players new zones, and new stuff to do. Even few improvement here and there.

And that's coming from someone who really dislike what Wow have become. Plus, it's not because it's worse elsewhere that here is good either.

So, yeah. The game is great when you start it, and still have stuff to do. But when you have done most of it, and waiting for the next patch like a guy in the desert waiting for the rain, you get a little deseperate when you get a few drops.

I lost hope for 4.x content-wise, I'll wait for 5.0 anxiously, wishing that they can shake things up.