The tonedeaf Live Letter LXXXVI 86

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

It's actually really close to the Bozja/Zadnor scheldule, except they advanced the first part.

5.35 Bozja + lost actions.
5.45 DR + DRS + new lost actions.
5.55 Zadnor + new lost actions

I think this is more akin to Eureka because Anemos was released in 4.25.

[Dante131]

i dont know how tonedeaf it really was i mean when i wrote whats with healer changes or something the yoshi P cult instantly responded with leave or go play wow or cancel your sub XD after reading the chat in this pll i know who this guy is catering and its neither raider or casuals perse its people who will follow this man without thinking of any critique.
There was one guy / girl Aurina i think who constantly gave the devs shit and pointed out this is copy pasted this is thesame yadayadayada. well instead of think about it this person got hate over hate. I agree it was much after a time but hell people been like insult them or tell him to quit finally ( which always yoshi been very alergic against best community ) So when i tryed to talk to some of them about how player numbers dropped people are unhappy and just here because they are traped with a house there only real response was quit i want your house. So yeah it doesnt matter what posts people may do which youtuber will destroy 14 they will do what they want. On the other hand you have a game which tryed this failed and now started to listen and guess what its healthy and with this i will end my post with a funny meme and the countdown for 14 to go down even more:
https://x.com/i/status/1900089744366719451

[Luca_]

So... what's actually in 7.2? The new raid tier? Is that literally it for another month? And then we have to wait until May to finally get something else to do that's also kind of just more recycled content?

Holy shit lmao

[Raim]

Looking pretty grim bros...

[Daralii]

So... what's actually in 7.2? The new raid tier? Is that literally it for another month? And then we have to wait until May to finally get something else to do that's also kind of just more recycled content?

Holy shit lmao

March - Arcadion
April - Cosmic Exploration
May - Crescent

You might notice that this conveniently means that each chunk of content coincides with the monthly subscription fee, but that's surely a coincidence.

[AvoSturmfaust]

But why is the solution always to stifle creativity and gut everything across the board? Why isn't it to find better ways of teaching players?

And why is the game so afraid of chasing off the "casual" players lol? There is already easy mode for the entire MSQ. Why don't people ever ask "are we chasing off players seeking excitement and challenging by dumbing down everything?"

Because sadly the "Casuals" are still the biggest Majority, idk if its still the case but in the past iirc it was around 2-3% of the playerbase which was involved with raiding content so 90%+ wasnt now ask yourself which playerbase does square want to keep? 1-10% or 90%?

and teaching players is always a matter of the willigness of the the player, because i played so many mmos none of them teached you your rotation or anything that was stuff which was always based on the community, the only thing square could do is literally pin the balance discord on the lodestone, that would already be a big change

[yesnt]

March - Arcadion
April - Cosmic Exploration
May - Crescent

You might notice that this conveniently means that each chunk of content coincides with the monthly subscription fee, but that's surely a coincidence.

Considering that you will have that content for the next half year with nothing else to do, you can blissfully ignore the content drip and pause for a few months with zero consequences.

[TaleraRistain]

Im not a white knight with all means but i need now to be honest, people expect improved encounter design while still 95% of the playerbase is to dumb for easy stack/spread mechs in a raw? i guarantee you the left right left right chariot donut thing will 100% wipe half of the party everytime, cant improve anything if people refuse to improve first.

Had to raise like half a party recently including my co-healer because they got caught by starboard/larboard. I think they're maybe trying some baby steps. The side arena hit multiple times isn't something we commonly see, nor the final hit going to the other side. So they can make a small adjustment like that and see how it goes.

[Valence]

Im not a white knight with all means but i need now to be honest, people expect improved encounter design while still 95% of the playerbase is to dumb for easy stack/spread mechs in a raw? i guarantee you the left right left right chariot donut thing will 100% wipe half of the party everytime, cant improve anything if people refuse to improve first.

Obviously you'll find as many definitions and expectations for what they meant by "improved encounter design", but my copium with this has always been about variety and engagement rather than difficulty. But this PLL only shows more RIGHT or LEFT cleaves and more of the same regurgitated DDR so... I'm not totally sure yet what this improved encounter design is supposed to be and where to find it (guess we'll see when 7.2 releases), but since they explicitly promised this to us 6 months ago and specifically mentioned 7.2, and have yet to say a single word about it since then, I'm starting to feel lied to. Or am I paranoid?

[Jeeqbit]

It really wasn't a good demonstration when the very last Arcardion raid he showed off like this did the exact same thing (a right/left cleave). When he showed off M1, it wasn't a good demonstration either when the whole thing with this expansion is that they're meant to be shaking up the battles.

They really don't consider how the first mechanics are what we see when Yoshi-P streams it. They need to make those give a good impression.

It's also ironic how there's been people unhappy with the concept of fights always being a dance, so they made it a literal dance boss.

I do think it will be interesting in practice though. It will probably be where we have to pay attention to the number of dance steps aka cleaves in the cast name and if we misread them, we get cleaved.