Please bring back Exploratory Zones in Dawntrail

[Moebious]

Agreed.

They could probably make use of Bozja/Eureka to make the current content drought less terrible, simply by giving these zones latest tomes(causality/comedy) from objectives, NMs, skirmishes/CEs, and their respective raids.

Exploratory Zones is what keeps the game alive, SHB felt pretty decent, even when not much content, because of the Bozja/Zadnor zones and raids, when it was present content. It looks making it possible to get the materials for the relics outside the zones, killed Bozja in regards to doing objectives and its raids, when compared to Eureka still being well and alive, having its NMs spawned and raids done, because it relic aren't gained from outside.

If they simply tied EW relics to Varient/Criterion, or even put them in past Exploratory zones, could have solved some problems, like how fast variant/Criterion dies shortly after.

Over all they really need to bring back zones like Eureka and Bozja.

[Raikai]

EDIT: According to Reddit (see here), Exploratory Zones could still be on the table for Dawntrail.

That gives me some hope but we should not stop having our voices heard so that the devs understand loud and clear that this content is good for the game and that there's plenty of players that want it.

So feel free to keep liking and commenting on the thread for visibility!

Honestly, there's still 2 chances for them to announce this. I'd get worried if we didn't see that after JP's Fanfest, as we typically won't get major features like that outside of expansion selling point beacons (Fanfests themselves).

I'm happy that they're considering a revision on the Deep Dungeon formula as well. Maybe they really saw that one of the main points of complaint about Eureka Orthos was it being almost a copy paste of the previous ones.

[Derio]

I will be fine if they dont add a new deep dungeon in Dawntrail. Or if they do then it would be great if they do it in the 7.1 patch or 7.2

With no exploratory zones this expansion and poor rewards from other content, this expansion has the content but the content doesnt have meaningful value to keep players engaged.

[Raikai]

I will be fine if they dont add a new deep dungeon in Dawntrail. Or if they do then it would be great if they do it in the 7.1 patch or 7.2

With no exploratory zones this expansion and poor rewards from other content, this expansion has the content but the content doesnt have meaningful value to keep players engaged.

That's indeed truth. The biggest feature could be the V&C dungeons - if the reward system was well thought, it could have potentially the same value as the Savage raids.

Imagine in 7.0, they could keep the pace of 3 V&Cs, however... they could change the reward structure with dedicated item sets and put them in the odd patches. .1 / .3 / .5, it would evenly fill the raid lull times.

[Koros]

They already said it coming back, was in the Q/A on Day3

This is ultra copium lmao they throw out quotes like these all the time and you won't see it until half a decade later if at all

[Aco505]

Honestly, there's still 2 chances for them to announce this. I'd get worried if we didn't see that after JP's Fanfest, as we typically won't get major features like that outside of expansion selling point beacons (Fanfests themselves).

This is the reason why I made the thread. Since there's still around two years before they'd release a new Exploratory Zone, my hope is that if they hear the feedback now, they will act upon it.

Yoshi-P's reply in the Q&A is a bit hopeful but he could just be talking about 8.0 and having two entire expansions without this kind of content is too much of a loss imho.

[aceeko]

I'd personally do something that is similar to Eureka's zones (landscapes/diversity-wise) mixed with Bozja's action system.
The only thing I'd like to be changed about Bozja's action system is the viability of some actions. Many actions ended up not being very viable in Bozja so it'd be great if we could have even more builds/viability to make a good use of all the actions we collect.

[TheNight]

I'd personally do something that is similar to Eureka's zones (landscapes/diversity-wise) mixed with Bozja's action system.
The only thing I'd like to be changed about Bozja's action system is the viability of some actions. Many actions ended up not being very viable in Bozja so it'd be great if we could have even more builds/viability to make a good use of all the actions we collect.

Why must everything be viable? Nearly everything in Bozja actually has a purpose, even Dynamis Dice, which you can use for fun. Developers should not sacrifice fun just so everything is viable. It's OK to put weird things like Dynamis Dice in the game.

[Renalt]

The entrance to Eureka is in...Kugane? Right? It's been ages since Ive been there. I don't think I've stepped foot since it first came out. I wanna check it out again. I remember something about elemental plates?

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

The entrance to Eureka is in...Kugane? Right? It's been ages since Ive been there. I don't think I've stepped foot since it first came out. I wanna check it out again. I remember something about elemental plates?

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