So how is everyone feeling about Occult Crescent now that it’s been a few days?

[ZephyrMenodora]

Really enjoying it, as someone who also really loved Eureka.

Love the lore and having rewards to grind for outside mindlessly doing dailies and then logging off. Getting a lot of gameplay out of this. I am enjoying levelling Phantom jobs and am getting a enjoyment out of some of them like Oracle.

I like the aesthetics and lore as well which is nice after not liking Bozja's environment very much.

I have my relic already but still a lot of other things to grind out, so I'm happy for sure.

I haven't gotten involved in the raid zone, but from what I read they should make some changes there for sure.

[KarstenS]

My issues compared to Bozja:

- Combat classes cannot be levelled.
- The 48 player content at the end looks very savage.
-> Would have been better to at least do it like Delubrum. One version for normals and one for those who want to know.
- Apart from seeing the Fates and CEs and doing the story, I can't think of any real reason to enter the zone.
- Even the Atmas are better farmed in the normal Dawntrail areas, because the types are firmly assigned to the areas (and you can level up along the way).

[Rayne6665]

I like it so far so ill probably go back and have fun in there leveling up phantom jobs and knowledge after I finish with the relic. I'm almost there getting the demiatmas from dt fates to finish my first main ninja relic and ill be freeeee lol its been day 6 and I still haven't finish it yet xD (been off and on taking breaks in between lol)

[Hallarem]

Got the airship with the grind system. Dropped it

[Fawkes]

It sounds like Forked Tower is difficult content. I'm casual as heck so I would've strongly preferred a Castrum or Dalriada to a DRS/BA. Maybe I'll try it once I max all my jobs and gear, but I don't know. I don't want to join a discord.

I kinda miss the progression of earlier zones, but I assume the point is so new players coming to the content late aren't immediately left behind not being able to use their mount and missing every FATE/CE.

The treasure chests are much better than lockboxes IMO. Even if the stuff inside is still the same garbage, it's nice to have a reason to sneak past some high level mobs and it feels good to find one. And I love that you can open them up while mounted.

I'm enjoying the phantom jobs and some of the abilities are neat. I hope the North Horn adds more, but also gives more opportunity to use the max level ones we have.

Gold farming seems dumb. I wish SE would stop trying to make exp chains a thing. It's nothing like FFXI, this game isn't capable of recapturing that, FFXI is a million times slower so you had the opportunity to chat and have fun, chains in FFXIV are a perpetual grindfest that will give you hand cramps from spamming your three cannon buttons for hours with no breaks. I can't believe this is the intended way to get three of the jobs and upgrade the gear. There should have been a Castrum that gives a bunch of gold for clearing it.

[Infindox]

So I stand corrected on gold farming. There's a solo strat you can do that's pretty good if you don't want to deal with the PFs. I kinda like they have that as an option.

[kyyninen_kirahvi]

I think the content is good and enjoyable, but... I have problems with lag as PS4 player when there are many players around. The critical engagements are fun but I'd prefer to see the attacs to go off before I take leathal damage. At least I get the rewards after the fight and now I can (with low success) evade some of the attacs. These same problems have been for the whole expansion but now it's more of a problem. Haven't tried the tower yet but I can't see myself clearing it if the game is still like this... I think there should be more action interaction with the stones.

There should be more than just South and North imo. Bit weirded out there are no suggestions to heal/change Archive back.

And before someone comes yelling "Just buy a PS5 or new PC", not possible at the moment.

[Cilia]

Obnoxiously low Demiatma drop rates, difficult to see what I'm doing in CEs, FATE bosses tend to die before I can even get a hit in for credit...

It's about as good as I expected it to be, which is to say not at all. A 3 hour session today yielded 4 Demiatmas... one of which I don't need. RNG is atrocious, unenjoyable content and no guarantee of progress for time spent is not a good way to keep people invested. As a very objective oriented person running around killing things and praying for RNG to bless me is not my idea of fun. Feelies are cool and all but when I'm looking for diamonds finding cubic zirconia along the way does not make me happy.

[Evermomo]

I'm having a lot of fun so far, though I can see the fate/CE core loop getting tedious down the road, and the grind might be a little much for me. I've been doing 2-3 hours with friends on a couple of weeknights, and we've really loved the zone itself. Sneaking around, finding survey points, experimenting with new phantom jobs, it's all been nice. I wish there were more story content, and I'm concerned about how forked tower is going to go once we get there, but all in all there's pros and cons. I will say I greatly appreciate the QoL designed into the phantom jobs vs other battle content systems, which felt cumbersome to deal with without offering a lot of meaningful impact on gameplay.

Oh, but the snapshotting on that one boss with the rotating AOEs.... I'll admit that has my fc flustered.

[Tatiana]

i thought i liked it but when i realized im locked out of gold coin farms bc i haven't leveled warrior or sage in a long time i got the ick and i feel left out unfortunately, sucky feeling and now im starting to think this game isn't the game for me anymore.

i understand that people will always move toward the most meta compositions for efficiency when a game allows there to be such a thing, but it kills the fun and sense of belonging for me especially now that im an adult who can't commit the time to level all my jobs every x-pack anymore so i stick to the ones i want to play to maximize my enjoyment in the time i have to play, which has shot me in the foot for this content..so now I have to either mindlessly grind mobs by myself slowly or give up entirely. This might be the last expansion I play this game for at this point :/