
Originally Posted by
strawberrycake
The content given as replacements, has been mediocre at best and shallow at worse, the Firmament made beast tribes moot, you spend more time outside of Bozja then in Bozja for your relic and it just makes you do older content over creating new content within Bozj, those are two examples.
It would have made more sense to increas exp gains along with the streamline process of the crafter and gatherers and the systems they interact with thus making it more accessible you have a reason to interact with the world no matter how small, the amount of gil needed is now reduced, its not so daunting, thus encouraging new players to learn lore if they want, explore more and see the world designs more outside the msq, and encouraged people to get their aether currents. Not every zone needs it and that would make people care for them more.
One of the biggest issues with the Firmamament is the fact that it removes the players from the world, thus making player interaction between older and newer players lower throughout the games world, anyone who cares about gathering and crafting will be there now or in the diadem, no long populating and dotting the areas of the world like before. It makes doing beast tribes moot outside of hair and and emotes and glam, and if they wanted to they could have put that in the firmament as well. It essentially is just repeat content, so were the beast tribes you may say, but they at least had the bonus of a uniqe story and player interaction within the zones.
It would have made more sense to take a look at Eureka, and its flawed designs, how older steps were made more difficult and how content like BA was yes, directly made for the hardcore audience, with casuals who may have wanted to try feeling intimidated and left out, missing out. Eureka was very exclusive to many who were not max lvl when Anemos came out, it was hard for people who were too busy at times, and in the end will probably be one of the harder set of relics to obtain.
One of the biggest issues with Bozja is how it essentially repeated all of that part ofr part, they've made many changes now, but those thigs should have been there from the start, thats not also mentioning how we dont really even spend time in Bozja for the relic, you dont need Bozja for the relic, outside 2-3 (i may be wrong) instances you need story progression, and I think it truly only counts for Delebrum for the current step. They could have taken all the feed back and made Bozja into Eureka 2.0, more inclusive, more accessible, and with the additions of Castrum Lactus Litore, and Delebrum Reginae, it would have trumped so much of what Eureka was.