4-month patch cycle was a lie. It's almost 4.5 months now.

[Atelier-Bagur]

"We" are not comparing any standards, but if you mean me, then it's tricky to make comparisons with ShB, because it was affected by Covid. Since covid is irrelevant now, but we still have same patch cycles, I would expect EW to be noticeably better than ShB, yet we don't even have trial storyline, relic weapons were implemented in the least creative way possible, we have no relic armor sets, we have job design and balance issues, and all 3 new varied contents have serious design flaws.



TL;DR: Don't keep your hopes and expectations up, settle with mediocrity.

We had 2 Ultimates, Trial series being integrated into the MSQ, a new Deep Dungeon, 2 new pieces of content that's constantly getting updated, PvP rework, old msq dungeons being Duty Supported for new players.

Tell me where the mediocrity is? Oh the fact that Bozja and the Shb relic had you waste so much of your time in many of its steps? Bozja's saving grace was its 2 raids. I'm not counting DR because that boss gauntlet became a snore fest in how long and boring it gets once you know the mechanics and made even longer if parties don't take advantage of essences. Also the fact that you had to run it 7 or so times for a single relic killed any satisfaction and fun the raid had, which thankfully wasn't the case for CLL and Dalriada where you didn't had to run it as much.

Let's also not forget the dreaded memory grinds with spamming Antitower, having to farm specific items from fates in specific sections of each zone....which gets worse because 90% of Zadnor players congregate in z3 instead of z1 or z2. And then ofcourse having to spam old raids too.

Grinds are such an outdated and terrible design that KILLS the fun of these content systems. If they lessened it, then these steps would've been fun.

Stop promoting grind as if they're of quality. This is the same argument over dunderheads arguing over how 100+ hours in a game is considered quality when all of that time is just padded out mindless garbage. You're the one supporting mediocrity here friend.