So, how is Pagos?

[Keridwyn]

The Bunny Fate is terrible & everyone is avoiding it like the plague. What were they thinking 0xp 0Rewards RNG Treasure Bunny for 1 person even if grouped only that person gets RNG Bunny gets the reward.

...what?

People aren't going to do this out of the kindness of their heart, needs to drop something for the folks that didn't get a bunny.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Extremely dull and repetitive. I may write out a proper review in a separate thread, but suffice it to say Pagos is just... boring. The sheer number of mobs you have to kill for NM feels absurdly high. My hand literal hurt from spamming the same buttons over and over and over again. I can't believe I actually miss some of the more daunting Anima steps, but at least I chose the content I wanted to do for poetics or light. This just grind the same mobs by the hundreds and try not to fall asleep while doing it.

[HyoMinPark]

Not sure on the chest rewards but the bunnies seem to be random, not sure if it's so many per fate or just a random chance but with an 8 man party (plus how many others did the fate) only 3 people got bunnies

Admittedly dunno what they were intending with this mechanic. Just out of interest I tried seeking out my own treasure one time, and with a bit of luck, after much time faffing about I found it near the level 20 mobs. Though imagine my disappointment when it just turned out to be a Quicktongue Materia. I guess it's free loot, and if you're in a premade party that don't mind hunting down everyone else's.. No, even then it still sounds excessively tedious. Would have to wait to see what else they can contain.

I guess we’ll have to see what other rewards are in there, but if only so many bunnies spawn per amount of people that do the FATE, and there’s a chance that the majority get nothing from it, I don’t see the bunny FATEs being worth anything at all. If it’s seriously just a couple people get lucky enough to get the same things you get from lockboxes... Idk. I want to hope that it’s going to actually be worth it, but, sadly, I won’t be surprised if it’s not. :/

My understanding (as it is currently, probably to be updated) is that it's pure RNG if you get a bunny or not (and, yes, more than 1 per fate), anyone who has a bunny can loot the chest. Not sure yet if the chest loot is RNG, I get the feeling it might be, but we're only touching low level ones so far?

I just wonder if whoever gets lucky enough to loot the chest is the only one who receives rewards from it, or if they will be similar to Treasure Maps were everyone at least gets something.

[Ayer2015]

more engaging, amazing, enthralling content from the infallible SE..... /sarcasm

[MomomiMomi]

more engaging, amazing, enthralling content from the infallible SE..... /sarcasm

But weren't you the one who made a thread complaining about the game's content, only to change around and say you were happy once Anemos was released?

[Cidel]

It's literally just Anemos with the small benefit of the challenge log from the start. I don't think the devs really understood any of the feedback about Anemos or that they were too far along in designing Pagos after Anemos launched that they were beyond the point of (wanting to) adjust anything.

The earliest FATE with the bunnies (which will be a newbie-trap "Where's mah EXP!?" for the days to come) in these early stages feels pretty lame because it looks like more players are wanting experience points so that they can interact and participate with more of the zone rather than have a small chance to get to run around no man's land (of death) looking for a coffer that will probably give the Grade VI (so I've heard, besides crafting things) materias that the game has been spitballing at us all year. Beyond that, my party was just killing mobs of corresponding elements for the challenge log and getting a few exp chains going trying not to fall asleep doing the same DPS rotation ad nauseam.

I admit that Anemos gave people some preconceptions about what they'd get in Pagos (like them being able to be on a 'FATE train' on day 1, or being able to use a mount right off the bat and outrun everything), but I don't feel like the devs took any criticism and learned from it. Starting this new zone leaves me feeling like this is another long, drawn-out chore with little to no (productive or interesting) distractions, and if there somehow ends up being more later on in the zone/ higher level, then it's just exhausting that we have to put up with the lackluster start.

[Ayer2015]

But weren't you the one who made a thread complaining about the game's content, only to change around and say you were happy once Anemos was released?

opinions change

[Theodric]

On one hand, I didn't really expect anything different. On the other hand...I'm worried. For various reasons it feels like the EU and NA community is an afterthought in this game. That isn't the case with WoW, which is arguably FFXIV's biggest rival at the moment. It is also about to launch an expansion very soon. Quite a few people I know have either stopped playing all together or are taking a break from FFXIV. In many cases, they're trying out WoW.

FFXIV's developers are playing it very safe. The content cycle continues to be predictable and we keep being thrown 'content' that revolves around mindless killing. Some people will do it - reluctantly - for the carrot on the stick that is glamour. Though I haven't seen many people state that they actually enjoy Eureka. Most seem to, at best, tolerate it.

[Souljacker]

I didn't expect a LOT to be different, but they couldn't' even be arsed to remix the zone music. Anyone who thinks this team is taking the players seriously must have rocks in their head.

Eureka is definitely the least compelling content, and as the player above me stated - Blizzard is rolling out a massive xpac that you better believe is going to smash records. I had cancelled my sub to come here and play with my friends, but unlike the days when I played XI - that's not a good enough reason on its own for me to stay. I'll just talk to them on discord.

[SugarBunz]

After spending all day there I feel like they need to look into the timers on the NM fate spawning. They seems really off