What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Lauront]

EW made it worse because you *have* to talk to xyz people while an npc was accompanying you in some quests. You can't teleport or use mounts because the npc will lose track of you and then you'll have to start from the begining with them.

While I don't think they need to get rid of the feature since it's nice to see what some of the npcs have to say, I don't think it should be mandatory to complete a quest.

Certainly not in the way it's been implemented.

Also, I'll say, although some people may have not liked it, I was glad they went with trusts for a trial. Mainly so they can section this off as the option for people who struggle with normal trial levels of difficulty/want more breathing room to take in the surroundings, and make the normal DF modes a bit less braindead.

[RobynDaBank]

I hope the escort system is improved on, wish they'd follow me when I use an aetheryte within the same location (like Old Sharlayan).

[EmpyreanHelios]

I wouldn't mind the specifics if you have them written down somewhere.

Oh, the usual. The biggest issue I have is that there's not enough room to grow in the Healer Role. Once you get all the timing and know your abilities like the back of your hand, you get to the stage where you sit there like a duck casting glare/broil/malefic/dosis until someone graciously step in some bad as a form of petty for their healers.

Your activity stagnates the better your group is, the better geared they are because they take less damage, and the better you are. It's bad design, plain and simple. I should not get punished to wear out my 1 Key because I'm getting better at the game. I had to replace my keyboard once already and I only started at the tail end of Shadowbringers (so a year of gameplay). I can't even imagine those healers that have been playing longer than that. Honestly.



But to be on topic , I was disappointed on the portrayal of Sharlayan's The Forum. I feel like the writers totally forgot about the AST questline they wrote in Heavensward which I thought was pretty darn good (with the usual quirkiness they had going on back then). We find out that the isolationists were ruthless and actually orchestrated a murder of a prominent Sharlayan astrologian as well as hire bandits to kill off people who received training in Sharlayan astrology (People like, you, the WOL!). So Sharlayan almost killed off the WoL, basically. The Forum is shown to have some serious cloak-and-dagger stuff going on in the background, but we never see that part even after snooping around the place. Maybe you could say they had more pressing matters to attend to, which could be understandable. Maybe we will see some of that in the patches.

[TaleraRistain]

I hope the escort system is improved on, wish they'd follow me when I use an aetheryte within the same location (like Old Sharlayan).

I can't recall where now, maybe the radio show, but I remember seeing recently that's one of the improvements they want to make with the escort system.

[van_arn]

Certainly not in the way it's been implemented.

Also, I'll say, although some people may have not liked it, I was glad they went with trusts for a trial. Mainly so they can section this off as the option for people who struggle with normal trial levels of difficulty/want more breathing room to take in the surroundings, and make the normal DF modes a bit less braindead.

I like it simply because it made sense. Imagine running the 87 dungeon for your first time through df instead of trusts; disgusting.

[LunarEmerald]

It's called subverting your expectation. Everybody expected Zodiark to be the final or close to the final boss.

[Amon-ster]

It's called subverting your expectation. Everybody expected Zodiark to be the final or close to the final boss.

That's a classic misuse of subverting expectations. You could easily say that the ending of Game of Thrones was just a subversion of expectation, when in reality it was just a really bad ending. People think that subverting just means doing something different than what people expect, but it's much more nuanced than that. The subversion has to actually lead somewhere -- a good subversion of expectation in XIV would be Emet Selch. Up until meeting him, we were under the impression that Ascians were just maniacal villains bent on destruction, so we expected Emet to be much the same. He was not that. In fact, all of the Ascians actually had more complex motivations than we expected (minus Fandaniel). That's how you subvert the audience.

Zodiark wasn't subverted, because nothing became of him. He was mostly just treated poorly. But I guess that's what you get when you are created to save the world.

[Stachiko]

EW made it worse because you *have* to talk to xyz people while an npc was accompanying you in some quests. You can't teleport or use mounts because the npc will lose track of you and then you'll have to start from the begining with them.

I honestly don't mind leisurely running around to get to new a location. I even liked escorting missions. It's the run to this person > then run to that person > then run back to the previous person > etc etc that aggravates me.

Just teleport me around or something. Streamline it all together into one quest. It's so moot to make us run to someone for them to have 2 seconds of dialog then run off.

Your activity stagnates the better your group is, the better geared they are because they take less damage, and the better you are. It's bad design, plain and simple. I should not get punished to wear out my 1 Key because I'm getting better at the game. I had to replace my keyboard once already and I only started at the tail end of Shadowbringers (so a year of gameplay). I can't even imagine those healers that have been playing longer than that. Honestly.

I started as healer coming from WoW and this was my first complaint. Especially as AST.

The worst of it was I started zoning out. I was so bored pushing 2 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 that my mind would linger. I stopped paying attention to health bars, mechanics, everything. I became a worse player over time.

[Lauront]

Oh, the usual. The biggest issue I have is that there's not enough room to grow in the Healer Role. Once you get all the timing and know your abilities like the back of your hand, you get to the stage where you sit there like a duck casting glare/broil/malefic/dosis until someone graciously step in some bad as a form of petty for their healers.

Your activity stagnates the better your group is, the better geared they are because they take less damage, and the better you are. It's bad design, plain and simple. I should not get punished to wear out my 1 Key because I'm getting better at the game. I had to replace my keyboard once already and I only started at the tail end of Shadowbringers (so a year of gameplay). I can't even imagine those healers that have been playing longer than that. Honestly.



But to be on topic , I was disappointed on the portrayal of Sharlayan's The Forum. I feel like the writers totally forgot about the AST questline they wrote in Heavensward which I thought was pretty darn good (with the usual quirkiness they had going on back then). We find out that the isolationists were ruthless and actually orchestrated a murder of a prominent Sharlayan astrologian as well as hire bandits to kill off people who received training in Sharlayan astrology (People like, you, the WOL!). So Sharlayan almost killed off the WoL, basically. The Forum is shown to have some serious cloak-and-dagger stuff going on in the background, but we never see that part even after snooping around the place. Maybe you could say they had more pressing matters to attend to, which could be understandable. Maybe we will see some of that in the patches.

As an aside, but still relevant to healers, I was a bit disappointed that they went with Venat as yet another WHM. I'd have liked to see them utilise an ancient form of AST or SGE; the former would potentially be complicated by the fact that the constellations back then were associated with the Convocation seats, but in the end it is star power AST draws upon, so it's not an insoluble issue.

I honestly don't mind leisurely running around to get to new a location. I even liked escorting missions. It's the run to this person > then run to that person > then run back to the previous person > etc etc that aggravates me.

Just teleport me around or something. Streamline it all together into one quest. It's so moot to make us run to someone for them to have 2 seconds of dialog then run off.



I started as healer coming from WoW and this was my first complaint. Especially as AST.

The worst of it was I started zoning out. I was so bored pushing 2 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 that my mind would linger. I stopped paying attention to health bars, mechanics, everything. I became a worse player over time.

I genuinely don't understand how people enjoy it. I like healers (esp WHM) in PVP, but in PVE in anything that isn't one of the harder game modes, it seems utterly braindead. Not sure if it's any better in the harder content.

[DevonEllwood]

Has anyone who submitted the Elpis moon as a bug? It being rejected won't mean anything but if it's accepted as a bug, then we know for sure whether it was intentional.

Also I'm looking for interviews in regards to the Endwalker story if anyone has them. I can't remember which one Yoshi P was talking about the changes in Endwalker but if anyone who collects them has them I would be grateful.