Quote Originally Posted by Lustre View Post
There was quite a lot in there that I liked, but my chief complaint is Hydaelyn's "remnant" still being around somehow despite Yoshi P saying that she was literally destroyed. I thought this was a new thing, forge ahead blah blah. But I guess not... or at least not yet. :^)

I love the look of most of the armour introduced but I am slightly puzzled by the decision to make the raid sets so glowy and over the top when traditionally that's always been a relic/ultimate weapon thing. Maybe they foresaw lower savage participation this time around and needed to add extra incentive, who knows?

I also think that the rat mount for the Variant dungeon is a bit of an odd choice considering the backstory of Sildih and how dark it is. But, I'm also well aware there's a significant % of the community that probably had no intention to touch this content (enter dark souls strawman take), unless a new fat ca- uh, I mean, elongated rat was added. So eh. I can see why they did even if I don't like it.

Soundtrack was a1 as usual, soken knocked it out of the park with that classical/harpsichord song, and I am very much looking forward to Panda pt2. The carbuncle fight looks like it'll have some cool mechanics. Hopefully the plot there will have some semblance of nuance, because that's been sorely lacking in 6.0-.1.
Isn't this just the crystal that Hydaelyn used to map Meteions journey across the universe though, as opposed to part of her herself? - Something that given the circumstance is likely to play significance into shard hopping.

This whole "forge ahead blah blah." as you so wrote still needs to be done gradually and not just an on-off switch (Had enough of that with them suddenly pulling a personality change for Elidibus out of the hat). So there are still more than likely going to be references to Hydaelyn in the story, most especially with that of the 24-man raids, just as there might be references to Zodiark. That doesn't mean the story is going to be all about them again, so it's not really alarming.