Is 7.2 the last patch to even save Dawntrail at this point?(SPOILERS AHOY)

[OliverQ]

I think they have to be willing to recognize the flaws of the game in order to salvage it, and as far as I can tell, they still aren't willing to do that. My FCs on multiple characters/servers are mostly dead these days because everyone is bored. The MSQ is not good, the classes keep getting dumbed down and homogenized, there is a distinct lack of content to keep people busy other than Ultimates/Savage, and even those get boring. They need to speed up the patch cycle with more content - rework the jobs so they're fun and not clones of each other - and get better writers for the story.

[Lorika]

for me overall
Classes- ok

Oo
Healers and Ranged Physical, still screwed up and complety forgotten.
half of the magical screwed up or completly forgotten.
1 melee screwed up, 1 made braindead at 7.0, another one one patch later and another one 3 patch later.
Tank are never been this OP
1 job just completly OP.

So hmmm... Where is jobs ok?
DT is the worse we ever got jobs wise.

[Valence]

Despite promises made to make the jobs and encounters better, nothing has changed last patch and in fact, more jobs got butchered down (like DRG), showing that the devs are dead set continuing to drive into the same wall until collision occurs.

Therefore I feel justified in my expectation that Shade's Triangle is gonna be a handful of areas functioning like normal map areas with boring fates to farm and tedious, bland mobs to grind with little to no gameplay behind, in order to finally access a potentially good instance or two once players reach max level, but most of the gameplay otherwise will ultimately go back to farming fates. Oh and we'll maybe get Critical Engagements where it's some variation of a previous boss regurgitating the same mechanics in the middle of a circular arena. Please look forward to it.

[Kahnha]

I mean they refuse to reinvest into the game, instead of dealing with known security issues they put out C&Ds and ask people with poor character not to do poor character people stuffs.

Instead of adding housing or instancing it they keep limited housing and demolition so peps that own those homes will stay subbed.

Instead of fixing the glamour system they keep all the glams on one chara so you will have to spend extra time to grind in game or go to mog station and buy the outfits and hairs multiple times if you really want the glams.

instead of making a fun battle system they dumb down the existing classes to appease people that are not good with remotes, to help the balance of the 800 people that will clear ultimate raids and to give flavor to the new classes. why doesn't Drk have mp regen why can't war spam fell cleave as much as they have skill speed why does war have as much health as the other tanks? it used to have way more than drk and pld!!

back to the remotes we already have a good way of fixing button bloat look at how pvp stacks buttons that could easily be an option for controller plyers with limited hotbar space. we play video games to be entertained and have fun.

The director knew that reception to the xpack would be mixed why would you sign off on something you know won't be well received? They're just not hungry like they were back in 2.0 back in SHB.

getting to a point where I'm questioning if the homes are even worth keeping... CBU3 is getting lazy. 5 months between updates with little to no content in the updates and sub mid level writing 5 months is 70 usd the price to value is pretty low...

You can't put out poor product and expect to keep collecting a paycheck...

[Momo_Kozuki]

In terms of story, I don't have much hope cuz 7.1 proves that DT story, while the ideas are okay, has serious problem with execution. I was fine with 7.0 but still admitted there were plenty of hiccup. But 7.1 story blew my mind about how bad the execution is (have to watch a kid listening to his mom simping his Dad, have to watch the cringe calf-protection scene). That couples with a single very short Hildabrand quest, a forgettable society questline, and the final quest of badly-executed humor-fueled Role quests with very lacking of QA (some Japanese text still remains). I don't think 7.2 or 7.3 will be able to fix anything if the story execution continues to be this bad.


Content-wise, I think 7.2 will be serviceable for a while. The continuation of a 8-man raid that proves to be engaging both combat and story. Cosmic exploration for crafters/gathers. Field Operation content for relic grind. Maybe the first Variant dungeon. It would be enough to keep grindaholic to be busy for a while.



So yeah, 7.2 may have the story dies, but its content will keep players around.

[TomsYoungerBro]

easy.

Classes 9/10, Fights 10/10, Msq 6.5/10. Final= 8.5

Meh doesn't mean 0 and okay doesn't mean 5.

Fights where partner stacks can be lived solo by dps/healers easily on day 1 objectively makes the fights not a 10/10. The pictomancer balance issue objectively makes classes nowhere near a 9/10.

[CaedemSanguis]

you guys are really out of your mind if you think that SE is gonna change something in small patches

They barely do something for an expansion release

[DoubleEcho]

I stopped caring about Dawntrail awhile ago. I’m just waiting to be able to buy a Story Skip and forget I ever wasted the couple hours I did it on (and that’s with skipping cutscenes).

Nothing can save this hot garbage pile xpac.

[ViinaS]

oh my god, what if they attempt to retcon the whole "erase all the memories in Living Memory" because most players had some serious issues with the writing in that zone, and instead of dealing with the consequences of that happening and/or trying to move on to something else so we can just forget this whole Dawntrail thing ever happened like a bad dream, they instead go, "Look, it's okay, we found a way to restore Sphene all the memories! Hooray! Everyone is happy!"

It sounds outlandish, but everything about late Endwalker and Dawntrail compared to what came before has been pretty outlandish in how stupid things have gotten, so...

While I think we need to restore that map cause it was one of the very vew interesting places I do think there need to be consequences.
Cause what we did was so un-WoL and un-Scions due to the author wanting to hamer forward his bad story.

However that means acknowledging that it was a mistake and dumb as it had not yielded any results in regards to dealing with Sphene.
Cause we should have ways to solving the issue or alternatives as WoL and our Archon Scion friends.

There's the issue tho. That idea was, as everything in DT, Wuk Lamat's and we all know the writer is allergic letting her play second fiddle or have flaws.
So by that aloone I think they'll either ignore the zone or just snap it back and everything will be a-okay in Disneyland that is DT yet again.

Seriously this writer is so terrible.

[Derio]

Dont really care for 7.2

There is no saving this MSQ. At this point I am just waiting for 7.25 for the exploration content to have a reason to not cancel my sub.