7.1 Preview Update - Chaotic Alliance & Custom Deliveries Reward glamour

[Arrius]

Something to show off.

[Arrius]

Based on this image, the Chaotic Set preview showcase shown above are (from left to right) : Casting, Aiming, Fending, Maiming, Striking, Scouting and Healing.

[DynnDiablos]

Based on this image, the Chaotic Set preview showcase shown above are (from left to right) : Casting, Aiming, Fending, Maiming, Striking, Scouting and Healing.

So once again, aiming gear looks nothing like aiming gear. As a dancer, we get such CRAP.

[SkankyRoe]

So once again, aiming gear looks nothing like aiming gear. As a dancer, we get such CRAP.

When they showed off the two sets in the LL I was excited because it seemed like it was gonna be split into DoW/DoM and we'd get that sleek sexy Diabolos armor for Dancer. Instead we suddenly have this hideous "demon-moth" set that wasn't shown in the LL and of course Aiming gets the ugliest of them. All my interest in this raid down the drain in an instant, I don't care about the mounts and I'm not expecting the hairstyle to wow me nearly enough to incentivize bothering with it.

[Iscah]

This game has an overabundance of "room with boss" level content with a certain difficulty that is "remember where to stand". that is okay. I think it's nice that people who enjoy that kind of content have things to play. Truly. I'm happy that they are happy.

It is equally okay for a player to be frustrated when the only player group getting fun things to play are those that enjoy "room with boss" level content with a certain difficulty that is "remember where to stand".

Ultimately, this is why it's a recommended thing to play multiple games. If you don't like the style of fights that this game centres around, there will be other games that do it differently and may give you the combat style you want. Come to FFXIV for the parts you like about it, play other things for challenge.

A car racing game doesn't need more platforming levels, a fast-paced shooter doesn't need more turn-based combat, so why is it a failing of this game to not provide other styles of battle?

[Iscah]

So once again, aiming gear looks nothing like aiming gear. As a dancer, we get such CRAP.

When they showed off the two sets in the LL I was excited because it seemed like it was gonna be split into DoW/DoM and we'd get that sleek sexy Diabolos armor for Dancer. Instead we suddenly have this hideous "demon-moth" set that wasn't shown in the LL and of course Aiming gets the ugliest of them.

I don't think it looks that bad for dancer? Besides the self-stabbing pauldrons anyway. It feels much more dancer-suited than the Diabolos outfit and I'm not really sure why you'd think that would be better for it.

Personally my criteria for a dancer outfit are mainly that it has long-but-open skirts that will fling around dramatically in motion, a preference for long loose pants and light shoes. They've certainly made some disappointing style divisions on that front previously (Palaka shoes, Zormor pants) but I think this top will do the dramatic twirling part nicely, although it's a bit revealing for my taste. The mage sandals would have been nice dancer shoes for my Viera though.

[ovIm]

Ultimately, this is why it's a recommended thing to play multiple games. If you don't like the style of fights that this game centres around, there will be other games that do it differently and may give you the combat style you want. Come to FFXIV for the parts you like about it, play other things for challenge.

A car racing game doesn't need more platforming levels, a fast-paced shooter doesn't need more turn-based combat, so why is it a failing of this game to not provide other styles of battle?

Counterpoint - when a game used to provide a different variety of content in the past, why is it wrong for players to ask for that kind of content again? This game used to be more than just "room with boss" stuff, and has slowly removed other avenues of content, or pushed them backwards in their content pipeline.

Lets take your analogies. Imagine Need for Speed Underground 2 - it featured (iirc) circuit (looping tracks), sprint (get from A to B), drift (slide sideways for extra points while racing), Drag (straight line acceleration race), and free roam game modes.
Now imagine NFSU3 came out, and it only featured Drag races, with the promise of other modes maybe coming a year (or longer) after release. Would you truly ask people to just play NFSU2 until said patch releases, whenever they complain about only being able to play Drag?
How much fun would Quake be where you, instead of playing CTF, King of the Hill, InstaGib, Deathmatch, TDM on a plethora of maps its only InstaGib on one singular map? Welcome back to Smash Bros Melee - "final destination no items fox only".

In terms of the chaotic raid - most people I have talked to have asked for an actual harder 24 man instance in the vein of what we got in Bozja or Eureka. Square is more than capable of doing good creative content like that, they have proven that they can. Instead, its another room with boss, because those are easy and cheap to make compared to other content.

I am sitting here wondering why people are okay with this game giving us less variety instead of more every patch, and playing apologist to a multi billion dollar corporation instead of holding them accountable. Why is it that in the forum, people are openly antagonizing players asking for different game modes that we used to have?

And lets not forget that Yoshi-P himself has figured this is an issue, to the point of actually asking people not to retire from FF14.

Been playing since 2.0, and I really don't want to retire, but if the game decides that this is the only content that we will get going forward, maybe I will.

[ovIm]

Its a shame that the cool armor and mount for chaotic will be primarily obtainable by savage level raiders.

Though the custom delivery armor does look nice, definitely something cool to work towards to.

[Reimmi]

Its a shame that the cool armor and mount for chaotic will be primarily obtainable by savage level raiders.

Though the custom delivery armor does look nice, definitely something cool to work towards to.

It won't be like ultimate, so you can probly steamroll it next expansion unsynced

[AnotherPerson]

Let me take a guess, the Custom Delivery hat is not compatible with Hrothgar and Viera?