Regarding Firmament Titles For 5.3

[Vahlnir]

NOT AGAIN NO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Juicymama]

i spent on avg 12 hrs a day to stay top 12 on Sargatanas's carpenter board. 12th place was like 400k.

this includes crafting during work.

will not want to live that live again

[Canadane]

I'm kinda worried about the fact that they saw the backlash during the livestream and haven't made any announcement about it at all.

[Espritduo]

They probably never will. SE's MO when it comes to backpedaling on incredibly stupid design decisions is to say nothing, own up to nothing, and apologize for nothing. Look at the Diadem - they screwed the playerbase with a sudden removal of content and achievements without any warning, and have to this day not said a word about what they did. Best case scenario is a quiet fix in a later patch, like when they decided to make 24-man loot greed only, got huge backlash, then immediately changed it back. Honestly, I expect 5.3 to roll out with new titles like he said regardless of player feedback and then if we're lucky fix it with the next season returning to the old title and the season after that being the ascendant title, and alternating between them. But hey, I hope Yoshi-P proves me wrong and mans up and does the right thing before 5.3 launches.

[KageTokage]

Have they even clarified what's happening to the "phase 2" restoration achievements and when?

I've been trying to grind those out before 5.3 drops as I'm assuming they're going to get axed as soon as the third phase of the restoration starts.

[Commander_Justitia]

I'm kinda worried about the fact that they saw the backlash during the livestream and haven't made any announcement about it at all.

It is kinda big topic in JP forums too. https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/421803-
But JP players aren't so direct with their opinions as NA/EU playerbase.... They can't decide what they want. So devs can do what they want ...

Have they even clarified what's happening to the "phase 2" restoration achievements and when?

Maybe they will 3 days before patch again, as last time they removed achievements. Then claim it was obvious they get removed.

[WhyAmIHere]

I'm kinda worried about the fact that they saw the backlash during the livestream and haven't made any announcement about it at all.

I hope they at least address it before the servers go live for 5.3.

[Jojoya]

Have they even clarified what's happening to the "phase 2" restoration achievements and when?

I've been trying to grind those out before 5.3 drops as I'm assuming they're going to get axed as soon as the third phase of the restoration starts.

They haven't mentioned those at all as far as I know.

It's possible they're going to leave them in place since they're Expert specific. They could leave the Artisanal materials on the nodes each patch, replacing the rest with the new materials. We've currently got 5 items per node. That would give us 6 per node in 5.31, 7 in 5.4x and 8 in 5.5x.

Definitely they would be removing the Skyward Points from the old Artisanal materials so they aren't a factor in the leaderboard rankings. They'd also likely remove or greatly reduce scrip rewards so the only reason to work on the old Expert recipes would be the achievements.

I went ahead and got mine out of the way already. That way I'll have all of 5.3 to work on the new ones I would assume they'll be adding and not worry about the old. The crafting achevements weren't bad, I only spent about 4 hours on each one. The gathering achievements were terrible. Those were 30 hour grinds on BTN and MIN, and about 20 hours on FSH (took me a while to figure out the best way to get count compared to points, otherwise it would have been about 15 hours). I'm hoping they reduce the item count down to 10k on MIN/BTN and 75 for FSH to make the time investment more comparable to the crafting achievements.

[Canadane]

Well the translation of the live letter is out.
More than ever I’d like some kind of response.

[Barraind]

I know someone who did the top 12 for my server who did it on the grounds we were told the titles would not change

This is the reason I -didnt- bother to do it. I play more than I should as it is without having to dedicate an additional 12+ hours a day for unchanging temporary titles that are apparently neither of those things now.