I'm not excited about the future patch at all. Just one dungeon?

[Shurrikhan]

The fact is that it's not other games in general, but just one.

Probably because it's the game most similar to XIV, by Yoshida's and the dev team's own explicit intent. What flak WoW takes for just being WoW, other games get in discussion just because they're too different and their advantages not as easily applicable. Heck, if any game so much as diverts from the holy trinity, any and all part of it are plague to these forums.

Many here will complain about the game giving us just more of the same, not taking enough risks, or so on, but then refuse any ideas that can't be immediately integrated into a game that' is, by their own admission, overly constrained...

[Shurrikhan]

During 2.0 and 2.1? Yes, actually.

Agreed on almost all these points. I miss having dungeons challenging enough to warrant talking to one's allies even when not particularly social. Granted, I don't think XIV's really accomplished that save in a two or three instances (pre-nerf Amdapor and especially Pharos Sirius come to mind), but still, I'd love to double down on that and other factors that make dungeons feel less like something we have to speedrun through. (And to be clear... I like speedrunning dungeons, if only because that's now the only way I won't be bored by them now.)

Simiarly, I've been trying to think up a way to provide that kind of various but deliberate goals to spice up normal content similar to what Anima books and Wonderous Tails did but going further, ideally into post-cap progression. I hope to have the idea readied by next week if I can avoid working too much overtime.

[Omymy]

I don't Bot for one, 2 you obviously haven't crafted Max lvl then because you have to do Max lvl crafting manually, macros will ruin them, and What does turning off War Mode in main cities have to do with gathering Mats, stop making none answers.

also yes I did Mythic all tiers, I enjoy a challenge.

Edit: Without Warmode gathering was/is/will be a slog, the 10-30% buff was to good to not have War Mode on when gathering. To which again, people would PK, which again Made it an even bigger slog

All crafters at lvl 80, trade mentor and made several high-end crafter achievements. But thanks, keep going, you are making this fun.

I still dont know why you put WorldPvP while farming mats when the bonus doesnt apply then. I dont know man, if you are mythic raider im Napoleón Bonaparte.

Right, the retconned version to explain why we're allying with him again in Legion.

Because they definitely had that planned all along, and it was all well told within the game's story and not something people had to put together over time. Which is why Illidan was trying to destroy Shattrath because... reasons. And why Akama wanted to rebel against him.

Which is really all just to explain why his character got destroyed between TFT and BC in order to make him a raid boss because he has name recognition.

You are more than welcome. And thank you for your prove that you have zero idea about the lore you are trying to teach. Unlucky for you tho that im the one who actually knows and can explain it at the momment.

I'm not even sure I'm reading fFXIV anymore, since people lately seem so dead set of talking about other games. If someone think another game is better, nobody's stopping them from leaving and going to play that eh.

You are talking about childish when your main argument is: if you dont like dizzz dont talk about it or move oooon.

Snip.

I want to thank you for helping to clarify my point and for developing it instead of putting the troll sticker on me. You've done a lot better than me and you've been helpful because my use of language doesn't allow me to move as freely as you do.

Thank you.

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And as it has been said here: I have never said that it is a better game. That's the fault of your childish vision that doesn't allow you to criticize a game or see how to improve it because that would make it imperfect.

[MOZZYSTAR]

I agree with OP. They really need to add more full-time people to the team (without taking some out) to help delegate so we can have more content without sacrificing any content. It's a big, successful company that's been running for like... 30 years or something even with the occasional financial blunders it has had over the years. They really need to invest more money into FFXIV. Not necessarily time (because Japan legitimately has a word for "working to death," it's a thing there and I don't want anyone to work themselves to death), but definitely money. The budget for the game needs to increase if it's to keep its integrity in tact while maintaining interest by experimenting and exploring new paths.

[Silverquick]

Sad thing is, they got this right in 1.x with your Job gear and Relics. Once upon a time you had to go into Cutter's Cry (and other dungeons) as part of the quest to get your Job gear, it wasn't a case of "Clear Cutter's Cry" to finish the quest, you had to actually find the gear in the dungeon and interact with it or a chest (I forget which). That made dungeons a whole lot more interesting to do, IMHO.

Now, I get why they removed that kind of gameplay, but I completely disagree with the reasoning. This is an MMO. Part of that means socializing with random people. If "Can we go down this route so I can get X?" is too big an ask, or heck just using the Party Finder to organize a specific run of a piece of content... Well, I know that's too much of an ask for people these days, that's a large part of why the MMO genre is a stagnant mess. Still, SE could easily work in a system that encourages helping such people. We already have the first time bonus, right? Make something similar. Someone has a quest where they need to do an optional path in a dungeon? Clearing that for them earns you all extra rewards..

In truth I'll agree with that,

Doing things that way makes dungeons more of an adventure and not just a going through the motions type of activity.

Don't get me wrong I do actually enjoy the rush of dungeon mob spam, but at the same time, that does make it feel more like a video game than an adventure.

[Sated]

They're adding so many things that I'm more excited for this patch I keep forgetting there even is a dungeon.
Having more would of course be great, but honestly "my daily EX will have a little more variety" doesn't excite me nearly as much as anything else listed in the patch features - especially considering how much other instanced PvE stuff they're adding. I think they struck a great balance of content.

[Derio]

Hopefully they can use those resources to expand on new open world content. Possibly bring a new dynamic levequests. Anything to mix up the open world.

[Vahlnir]

Possibly bring a new dynamic levequests. Anything to mix up the open world.

So to them it'd be...levequests with Fates. Because everything is better with Fates, and Fates for those Fates.

[Rasikko]

I just wonder... how many years remaining I have in this game, til he turns it into a game I don't love anymore and end up unsubbing for good.

[Deceptus]

I don't Bot for one, 2 you obviously haven't crafted Max lvl then because you have to do Max lvl crafting manually, macros will ruin them

Clearly neither do you because crafting macros came out day one of the new patch.