I hope Square doesn't keep deeming certain content unnecessary

[KizuyaKatogami]

Story line: the Warrior of Light is the only one who can traverse bodily to the First. We have to have our Pixie friend act as a go between us and our Retainers. Everyone else we know on the First [Scions] who came from our world is, essentially, an embodied ghost, and it took great power to get that portion of them to the First.

Bringing in Hildibrand? Not gonna happen from a story perspective. In all the other expansions, his presence kinda made sense.

Allied beast tribe single quest? I thought that line of questing was pretty much finished in SB, unless you're telling me that being eaten by a shark(?) is a recoverable feat. I suspect the villain's presence on the First was cut short by a certain flood, or perhaps by starvation since his only source of possible income kinda died with a certain now-dead ruler.



Can't say much about the relic weapon, since I haven't gone for those since Heavensward. However, the use of Bozja and Zadnor for leveling alt jobs (instead of another deep dungeon) is brilliant in that you are encouraged to work toward those things necessary for completing relic weapons AND also leveling from 71-80 to get the basic weapons, all while providing over 100 potential drops of anything from glamour gear to mounts/minions/orchestrion rolls and other items of interest.

Is it different? Yes. Do some people miss deep dungeons? Yes. Did the ability to get everything except haircuts from Bozja mean that a deep dungeon's purpose (alt leveling) was replaced? Yes.

I think that it became so much easier to level alt jobs using other methods than deep dungeons over the years since Palace of the Dead came out. The grind may have done it in, no matter how popular it was four years ago.

Have the squadron members be "shards" of the one you have. There easy peasy. Your Hildibrand lore excuse is funny, considering he literally shows up in the 5.3 dungeon. No the allied beast tribe quests arent done. They easily couldve had him have had a shard on the first. Lore excuses are the least of why we didnt get these things or why they dont make sense lmao. Bozja is no different from eureka in that item drops remark, actually eureka was better cuz 4 zones instead of 2. It got double lmao. Honestly it just sounds like youre trying to make excuses for them. Ive seen this over and over. Instead of people like you actually addressing that theres a problem and there is a loss in content you try to use things like lore excuses of all things. Yoshi p said lore was why we didnt get male viera back at the start of shb. Look what happened. Im tired of seeing excuse after excuse for this.