My Review of Pagos: An Uninspired Disappointment

[24spencer]

What bugs me the most about this is that instead of looking at Anemos and thinking "hmm maybe we had the wrong idea if the community doesn't want to play it as we intended" they instead went "HAH, good luck doing the FATE train this time losers, btw 1.0 devs were disconnected from the playerbase".

The badly-disguised light step is nauseatingly slow for a weapon that will be entirely obsolete in a month.

There are so many easy ways that people were able to come up with literally on patch day to make this content more enjoyable and they didn't even try and make the effort to make their gameplay "vision" enjoyable. just sad really.

Do people in japan really enjoy this? I'm finding it a little hard to believe to be honest.

[Elamys]

Is this weapon even a relic ?

The weapon is upgraded to purple quality in Pagos. The first step of the Anima stayed blue too, if I remember.

We say it's a relic weapon because that's what SE told us Pagos was - the new system for obtaining a relic weapon. I don't think any of us expected an awful grind like this.

[Mahrze]

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Counter-points:

* Terpander stemmed from an animated berimbau which was the initial step.
* Outsider, like the rest of the Anemos weapons, will evolve to pagos which will then lead to the "Elemental <weapon>".

You can use whatever semantics that help you abandon this work but you can't say it isn't "relic" tier when the last step of pagos is a purple weapon. Just like the unidentified stage led to the first purple weapons.

[Xion136]

The weapon is upgraded to purple quality in Pagos. The first step of the Anima stayed blue too, if I remember.

We say it's a relic weapon because that's what SE told us Pagos was - the new system for obtaining a relic weapon. I don't think any of us expected an awful grind like this.

And it doesn't even have a cool name!

"Elemental Sword. Elemental Shield. Elemental Katana."

So I go frok Kikuichimonji, one of seven legendary swords of ancient Japan...to what sounds like some gimmick sword in DnD?

[Nariel]

The weapon is upgraded to purple quality in Pagos. The first step of the Anima stayed blue too, if I remember.

We say it's a relic weapon because that's what SE told us Pagos was - the new system for obtaining a relic weapon. I don't think any of us expected an awful grind like this.

Oh... Well I'll put this "relic" in the trash anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Colino]

Yeah, but remember, this is from the group that also gave us Daidem v2 (we all know how that went). Don't go holding your breath.

I had honestly forgotten about that (or rather deleted it from my mind) to the point where when I read your post I had to squint my eyes and actually think really hard what Diadem v2 was. And I must have spent dozens of hours in there.

[Hamada]

I love this game to death but I am really starting to question the dev team at this point. This is anything but fun, it is not casual friendly AT ALL. The other day I was in a farm group and I had to go to the toilet, got yelled at for AFK'ing for a minute (even though I said Brb I need to go to the toilet) and got kicked from the party. I think it's a sad thing that a CROSS OVER EVENT of all things is way more fun than content that was supposed to be one of the main selling points of a whole expansion.

Out of ideas, and out of touch of the community, simple as that.

[Bacent]

Is this weapon even a relic ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ental_weapons/

HEY LOOK ITS PURPLE AT 370!

Just like how the 3.X relic went from BLUE TO PURPLE!

Get your facts straight dude.

[Aexnidaral]

Anemos was annoying at first, but I wound up liking it after some time. After trying to grind out Pagos... holy god do I hate it. I just absolutely loathe it. I will only be doing this once a week for the challenge log EXP and moving on. It is an absolutely mindless grind that just isn't fun-- and any charm Anemos had was pretty much just ripped out from Pagos. I really hope something is done to make this less of a hell slog.

[SummonerSenah]

It shifts emphasis to groups just grinding mobs for ridiculous periods of time. Now your exp is from the challenge log, not from NMs, making the train less a thing.

I can't remember, does the XP from the challenge log scale with your level in Eureka? I mean when you're level 20 and do the challenge log, it's enough to get to 21 (that's what I did). But what about when you're at 25? 30? Is the XP from the challenge log going to even make a dent? If not, grinding is going to be the only reliable way to get any XP once you get to higher levels if you want to get it done without waiting for the challenge log to reset every week.