Zepla: Endwalker is the Worst FFXIV Expansion I have played

[ChrysOCE]

I don't disagree at all with your points, though I think the beginning of a new expansion is when you need a new bozja style area the least as that is when you are most likely going to be leveling all of the classes and trying out the new classes. I am in the bandwagon of SE needing to give variant/criterions a purpose outside of do it once for the story/mount and it would have been a great place to tie the relic into. Crafters and Gatherers would be nice to have a new restoration and diadem zone to give them something to do, but at the same time it's not something I think about too much as they are just my jobs I do enough on to make gear or make a little money on the side. I never really got too deep on diadem and Ishgard.

Yea, still. It's a long time to wait, for some actual... i don't know.. MMO activity, without it being solo or the usual dungeon/trial/raid stuff. and that's still not a definite on the exploratory zone. My single biggest gripe is just the direction - the solo stuff and the super casualization of regular content, the inbalance in ilvl sync (being way to generous). Well, that and communication (hello, Yoshi, what are your plans to help Materia?? we do exist, you gave us a DC, but just left us isolated)

[Amenara]

Yea, still. It's a long time to wait, for some actual... i don't know.. MMO activity, without it being solo or the usual dungeon/trial/raid stuff. and that's still not a definite on the exploratory zone. My single biggest gripe is just the direction - the solo stuff and the super casualization of regular content, the inbalance in ilvl sync (being way to generous). Well, that and communication (hello, Yoshi, what are your plans to help Materia?? we do exist, you gave us a DC, but just left us isolated)

I am with you on the critique to making the MMO more solo oriented, but that is the path that SE has chosen for FF14 and I really don't see us being able to do anything to change that with all of the resources that have already been spent on changing the leveling experience to accommodate it. We can only hope that they pull the trigger on cross region DC travel as I remember SE saying it is possible but they aren't sure if they want to do it as Materia is struggling, though I don't know how excited I would be if more DCs started congregating on Aether to do things, though part of me doubts to what extent that would even occur.

Even after EW I am still cautiously optimistic about DT being able to keep me motivated to play with what has been hinted at so far.