Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[Avoidy]

It's been so long since I got an alliance raid that I actually wanted to farm for glams.
Guess I'll have to keep waiting, because this just doesn't appeal to me at all. Even seeing the dye variations was like, what even is this aesthetic. It's just the edgiest thing they could find, with white swirly lines on top. My friends who played 11 were all gassing this up and telling me we'd definitely get some cool and colorful glams as a tribute to the 20 years worth of outfits that game has, but we literally just got some mall goth looking stuff, like come on man. That gacha crossover in the cash shop came out with a better outfit, assuming they don't go idiot mode and make it all one piece.

I'm stuck in copium mode, hoping that the outfits look better in game, hoping the gameplay in this alliance raid (as opposed to the last one, and the one before that) is actually engaging and fun. As someone who didn't play ff11 in its prime and doesn't care about it now, the scenery pics from this raid look gorgeous. But good scenery isn't enough. Please tell me they learned something from how hard euphro and thaleia bombed.

[Fawkes]

Not a fan of the shoe-horning ultra fan service content. It's one thing to have easter eggs and cool references to the FF franchise but just using a crowbar to push content that makes no sense lore-wise is annoying. Golbez then Alexandria et al were complete nonsense and I suspect this will be more of the same (even if from a fight and spectacle perspective the raids might be completely enjoyable).

Just pretend you don't know it's a FFXI raid and it's like Mhach or something where there's just a humongous city with a giant pyramid and a disco ball on top that nobody noticed until now. Why should it bother you if the disco ball is a reference to another game or how well the reference is done? It's nonsense that you have to suspend disbelief for either way.

It's been so long since I got an alliance raid that I actually wanted to farm for glams.
Guess I'll have to keep waiting, because this just doesn't appeal to me at all. Even seeing the dye variations was like, what even is this aesthetic. It's just the edgiest thing they could find, with white swirly lines on top. My friends who played 11 were all gassing this up and telling me we'd definitely get some cool and colorful glams as a tribute to the 20 years worth of outfits that game has, but we literally just got some mall goth looking stuff, like come on man. That gacha crossover in the cash shop came out with a better outfit, assuming they don't go idiot mode and make it all one piece.

I'm stuck in copium mode, hoping that the outfits look better in game, hoping the gameplay in this alliance raid (as opposed to the last one, and the one before that) is actually engaging and fun. As someone who didn't play ff11 in its prime and doesn't care about it now, the scenery pics from this raid look gorgeous. But good scenery isn't enough. Please tell me they learned something from how hard euphro and thaleia bombed.

Yeah, I think most FFXI players probably would've preferred gear that they actually wore back in the day. Lots of people have posted gear they wanted to see in this thread, but I don't think anybody said the Ark Angel gear. I mentioned earlier it was just added as glamour gear to FFXI in the last couple months, nobody has fond memories of wearing it (yet?). I don't think it's bad but there were better options for sure. And also I think we all wanted them to drop the rigid way they reuse gear for different jobs and actually have at least 7 different sets. FFXI gear is going to be pretty samey anyway so it'd probably just be different textures, but we didn't get that either.