Unpopular opinion on island sanctuarys.

[SamSmoot]

All it is for me is another source of gathering and crafting materia (an alternative to scrips). I have 32K blue coweries at the moment, and haven't spent any beyond iland maintenance. I did spend some time collecting rare animals, but just caught the last one today, so that bit of content is finished as well.
So, now

[sagacious]

I'm glad i'm not the only one who noticed.
Everytime I go to my island its dark and stays dark until I leave.
It really got in the way of enjoying the place...

Why don't you stay long enough to enjoy it? I see beautiful days and star lite nights I love it.

[Reap00]

Just think of all the time and resources that went into making this.

Instead of instanced housing.

If they gave you instanced housing you would complain about that too. It doesn't matter what they do. You will complain. This forum should be renamed to complainers anonymous.

[KurohNeko]

At this point IS is akin to a cheap mobile game brought to life in an MMO. Not all grinds are created equal.

This

Eureka, now that was a good grind. Spent months playing it and it felt like a entirely different game from the element board system to ACTUALLY unique abilities which should be in the main game rather than just shields and damage go up (something WOW actually has) and the unique drops from some NM's and a emphasis on both fates and comradery. Sadly Bozja never succeeded it and is dead.

[KurohNeko]

I'd personally sacrifice all the inhabitants of these islands to a primal if it meant getting a new Eureka

[Avidria]

I hate to say it but it really does remind me of garrisons, but without the stupid broken gold payoff lmao

Fun enough but not, like, something I actually have any interest in doing after I get my hairstyle and outfit from it. Doesn't feel like a sanctuary at all. What am I working for other than more efficient resource production? Supposedly proving random people can be self sufficient on their own islands but.... I dunno. The farm in Pandaria felt more chill to me, which is weird because that actually involved combat, and more... Fulfilling isn't the word, but like, it felt like I was working toward something at least. I dunno.

[Vahlnir]

I hate to say it but it really does remind me of garrisons, but without the stupid broken gold payoff lmao

Fun enough but not, like, something I actually have any interest in doing after I get my hairstyle and outfit from it. Doesn't feel like a sanctuary at all. What am I working for other than more efficient resource production? Supposedly proving random people can be self sufficient on their own islands but.... I dunno. The farm in Pandaria felt more chill to me, which is weird because that actually involved combat, and more... Fulfilling isn't the word, but like, it felt like I was working toward something at least. I dunno.

The MoP farm was wonderful, even if there was basically nothing to it. I loved that thing. I loved MoP in general, but the farm was the cherry on top. Island Sanctuary isn't perfect, but I still find it fun enough. Will it keep my attention forever? Probably not, no, at least until they release new content for it. But I enjoy it for what it is, flaws and all. I do hope they add to it and improve it regularly though, which is where my main concerns lie.

[Adamantini]

I really didn't expect much from this island, and yet I found myself wondering why people were saying so well about it...

Next, I will write my experience

The island was meant to be casual content, made for relaxing. Well, more casual than that is impossible, but does anyone here relax collecting items? That's all there is to do on this island, collect... collect... collect...

If I'm not mistaken, it was said that professions would not be necessary, but whoever had it would have something more. Seriously? Like what? I have all the professions up, and I don't see anything else to do with them.

The theme was "sanctuary" and "a place for the WOL rest". Well, I love nature, and the more I leveled up my island, the more and more the trees were cut down and the buildings became industrialized. I was happy when I saw that I could return the buildings to what they were before, but why the hell do I have to spend a glammor prism, made exclusively for the island, when I didn't ask them to change shape?

I don't know if that was the intention, but was it supposed to be a tropical island? If so, who was the design that found it interesting that instead of people, rabbits, macaws, even morbol, idk, it would be interesting that our workers were robots? It just doesn't match the place, and it makes everything weirder. Besides, they're spread all over the place, and wherever I look there's one of these spoiling the view, looking like I'm in a mammet town, not in my island.

The idea of ​​being able to drop minions on the island was a good one, and I'm very grateful to the person who listed minion by minion to make them have custom phrases. But they are so small, you can barely see them walking around. I would be much happier if I could unleash my mounts instead of minions. They're a lot bigger, and besides, I've used my chocobo during each expansion, I'd like it to be on my island as well, at the very least.

When I started the island, I thought to myself "I'm going to take on the challenge of catching only rare animals". I thought this would lengthen my tasks on the island, since I'm the person who complains the most around here about SE releasing content like a dropper. My mistake. There is no difficulty in catching any animal, rare or not. No minigames, just approach, click and wait. So there's no prestige, there's no grace, there's nothing I'm proud of, it's empty and tasteless.

1/2

[Adamantini]

I've seen threads about how some people got lv 10 on the island on day one, but frankly? I don't know why the fuss, as the island is VERY easy to level up. I didn't try, because I wanted to drag the content as much as possible, and in a week I got level 10. I could get it in a day, if I wanted to and I had nothing to do.

And since the island is based on gathering, lets talk about it? Well... it's more interesting to go to Diadem, or even collect items around the world, than on the island. The craft and gratherer systems are inferior to the system we already have in the game. Anywhere I can get 5 out of 5 items, using the skills of gatherers, except on the island, where each click is equivalent to 1 item. Want 100 wood to stock up for your mammets to craft things for you? Then cut down 100 trees. This is horrible, mainly because we don't have a single mount in this game that can collect items without dismounting you. This makes things even more annoying, since the "sprint" skill doesn't have a CD, but even so, you are forced to keep renewing it, because it has a duration, even if it doesn't make any sense (in PVP we have eternal sprint... IN PVP!!!!!! IN CASUAL CONTENT, NO)

Apart from QOL problems, such as having to put item by item to be crafted in each of the workshops, and it could have a "copy to the next" button. Same thing for when you want to hire someone to take care of plants or animals. And speaking of taking care of animals, it's not the first time I've entered the forum and there's someone complaining that they left the animals being taken care of, and couldn't catch a rare animal.

Lucky for those who liked this kind of content, I would like to have half the fun you guys are having, so I have something to do besides savages.

2/2

[Vahlnir]

If I'm not mistaken, it was said that professions would not be necessary, but whoever had it would have something more. Seriously? Like what? I have all the professions up, and I don't see anything else to do with them.

Water Otter Fountain parts. You exchange them (2 of each part) for a permit which lets you build a fountain. They are apparently pretty awful to craft. The fountain itself is pretty big though. Much bigger than I was expecting, but it's nice.