Unenthused About Dawntrail

[Supersnow845]

I would love to see meteor actually be a caster for once

Square likes to use the excuse “oh we can’t really make them feel as dynamic” but that more just feels like an excuse so they can put the melees front and centre every single time or otherwise they just don’t know how to make their own jobs feel interesting

SMN is a god awful class from a design perspective but it’s a visually interesting class with a lot of unique casting poses (unlike SCH that gets one) and it has a lot of artifact armour that’s less “robey” than most casters why couldn’t meteor be a SMN this expansion

[Miggy_Bandit]

Secondly, there are a lot of references to FF9 and if you have played FF9 you know it is one of the best Final Fantasy games ever, and they will most likely borrow things from it.

I haven't ran the benchmark, or done anything really to look into Dawntrail yet (heck, I'm just starting, and still figuring things out), but... FFIX you say!? It's in my top 3 favorite (tied for number 1) FF title ever. Now, I think I'm going to have to look more into Dawntrail...

[Arkdra]

I would love to see meteor actually be a caster for once

Square likes to use the excuse “oh we can’t really make them feel as dynamic” but that more just feels like an excuse so they can put the melees front and centre every single time or otherwise they just don’t know how to make their own jobs feel interesting

SMN is a god awful class from a design perspective but it’s a visually interesting class with a lot of unique casting poses (unlike SCH that gets one) and it has a lot of artifact armour that’s less “robey” than most casters why couldn’t meteor be a SMN this expansion

They should've made meteor the pict and Krile the Viper, but they are cowards!!!

[xxmiamorecadenza]

They should've made meteor the pict and Krile the Viper, but they are cowards!!!

if only. smh.

[Ascended_Demon]

I would love to see meteor actually be a caster for once

Square likes to use the excuse “oh we can’t really make them feel as dynamic” but that more just feels like an excuse so they can put the melees front and centre every single time or otherwise they just don’t know how to make their own jobs feel interesting

SMN is a god awful class from a design perspective but it’s a visually interesting class with a lot of unique casting poses (unlike SCH that gets one) and it has a lot of artifact armour that’s less “robey” than most casters why couldn’t meteor be a SMN this expansion

They literally could have made meteor in Stormblood Red Mage/Samurai and they still would have satisfied their desire to represent jobs from both Ala Mhigo and Doma but oh no...that clash with Lyse wouldn't make as much sense...even though it happens in game regardless of what job you are. No but for real they could have made red mage work for that scene.

[ReynTime]

Speaking as an "Endwalker hater" I'm actually more excited for Dawntrail than I was for Endwalker.
I know the MSQ will be garbage, half the Scions will be overstaying their welcome like usual, the writers will continue to contradict pre-existing lore to get themselves out of dead ends, ethics and negative parallels with what is frowned upon in the real world will be completely ignored whenever it favors the "good" characters in the eyes of the storytellers (such as colonization), and they will rehash character arcs for sake of justifying certain characters still being active participants in the MSQ... But Dawntrail is being advertised with the non MSQ content being more group focused, which already makes it better than the past 3 years of the game.

[Boblawblah]

I'm...cautiously optimistic I guess? Just finishing up the 6.x MSQ finally and ready for something new.

I'm a bit nervous that we're going to get another Stormblood in terms of story though, which I didn't like. I hope they don't split the focus too much and develop a single, strong storyline. As for all the other stuff, I'm curious to get into the field content stuff while it's fresh, I missed out on the older stuff, and while it's still doable, it feels out of place for some reason.

Artist holds no interest for me in the slightest, but viper could be fun, hopefully it's not a bunch of positionals.

[Platinumstorm]

I'm not really going into this expansion excited, but I also don't really care. It's a new story and it needs some time to develop.

I do have disappointment in the Viper. I don't really know why it was needed.

Stormblood was an expansion I wasn't excited about at all, didn't really care about the storyline, but the patch content might be the best of any expansion.

[Moqi]

It looks like the same stuff we get every expansion. It's going to be fun because it's been fun so far but also not particularly excited about it because... well, we already know everything that's gonna be in it and what .x patch it's gonna come out almost, it's just a matter of what paint they slapped on it.

[Taranok]

For me, I hated Endwalker's gameplay and encounter design. The extremely precise, fast, "Literally breaks the game because of internet infrastructure fast," mechanics combined with Summoner turning into an rphys has effectively killed the way I prefer playing this game. I long for the days of stormblood where every job was challenged, including rphys-unique mechanics, forced melee downtime, and casters having to really work their butts off just to maintain cast bars during the comparatively few mechanics where they had to move (compared to now.)

That, combined with the 2m meta, addle/feint turning into basically tacticians and also being made mandatory for some mechanics (You know what's better than 1 tactician? Needing 4 of them! ~SE dev, unlikely,) massively homogenizing everything in every possible direction and I'm just tired of it. None of the fights were particularly awesome, the ultimates were exhausting instead of invigorating, and, well, Dawntrail will be the make-it or break-it expansion for me where I finally take a break from this.