Frontlines sucks Ultra megathread

[Archeron]

I'm not optimistic, even less so with the Dev team. Lets not make excuses for them. They had almost 2 years, and they made sub-par changes to Frontlines, and Rivalwings continues to be neglected.

So since 6.1, we've had more content removed from Frontlines, than they added. Borderland ruins, gone. Old Shatter, Gone. New shatter is only loved by premades. Frontlines had a LOT of issues, that went unaddressed for over 6 months at a time. Some of the changes/adjustments weren't even made because of Frontline specific issues. Some of them were just blanket changes from CC adjustments. Just look at how long it took for melee damage reduction to come into play. It's inexcusable. They obviously poured all of their resources into Crystal Conflict for the vast majority of that expansion, willingly neglecting issues in Frontlines.

I don't doubt they're busy, but the information we have about potential changes is so vague, and beyond additional abilities being added to the game, the "Adjustments to existing maps" (The way I interpret this, we can clearly consider new maps completely off the table.) This may not even be referring to frontlines, but certain maps on CC that have had known issues for quite some time. I suspect they will double down on CC yet again in Dawntrail, until we have more concrete information on just what changes are coming. I would not be surprised given their workload if the alleged 7.1 pvp update is as major as we expect, gets delayed, or split up into smaller patches.

[Taliriah]

I'm not optimistic, even less so with the Dev team.

Yep, one thing that's abundantly clear is that CBU3 is extremely conservative about changing anything about the game's formula. Perhaps they are like this as a result of the disaster that FFXIV 1.0 was compared to FFXI.