7.3 Hopefully the end of talking to Wuk Lamat

[Auro_Seldaris]

I mean they have a lot of work to do, but my opinions on what needs to happen to make that happen typically go against the complacent userbase. I think 8.0 needs to be a 2.0 level re-imagining of entire core systems in addition to a compelling story. Tomestone farming needs to give way to scaling equipment from dungeons with variable difficulty (mythic+, etc), the game needs to stop being 'Boss Fight Simulator', no more ..|..X..|..X..|..Z - lots of things. But this is mostly a story thread, so sticking to that I mean yeah. They need to figure out how to hit a home run, but I still haven't made a personal determination on likelihood we're going to Meracydia or through that big glowing portal for next xpac yet. Sphene and her development is a potential interesting point to me. I'm not in the 'Wuk Lamat hater' club personally.

I'm not a fan, but I also just really don't care what happens with her. I'm really more in the camp that the constant complaining about Wuk Lamat has reached the point of being far, far more annoying than going through the MSQ with Wuk Lamat at this point. They've either gotten the message or they have not... complaining about the character has long since played its course for being relevant. If any adjustments were going to be made, they've either been made. If not, I sincerely doubt current day complaining will have any impact on future patch plans.

Edit: I'd add that how people feel about Wuk Lamat is basically how I've felt about Alphinaud for about 3 expansion packs, even with him mostly being shoved into the background.

Edit #2: And don't even get me started on how Graha has just become 'food meme guy' and it will not surprise me in the slightest if in the buildup to 8.0, 80% of Graha conversation is just people caring more about what oversized food item they're going to meme him eating, because that's become more important than the character himself.

Other than the fact you're talking smack about my adopted son, Alphy, I completely agree with you on all points. The changes you point out to the combat design and reward structure would be wonderful, but again it would fly in the face of those who are content for the game to stay exactly the same for eternity. I would love it if there were no tomestones ever again, no Dance Dance Revolution, adding horizontal job and gear progression... but this community would have an absolute meltdown over it. I agree it should be a total rework from the ground up. In fact, I'd argue that DT should have been, it felt like a good time for major changes in many aspects both story and gameplay, but they just... copy/pasted the same things they always do. Dungeons, and trials, and raids, and tomestones... dungeons and trials and raids and tomestones...

Llama Tea to me is just the canary in the coal mine for DT. I've said for a while that once the outrage over her finally ended, people would see that DT's problems are a lot deeper than just Garfield. Just shows that the MSQ really was the "load-bearing poster" of FFXIV.



Also, yeah Food Cat is insufferable, please let this meme die. If I'd known that this is what he would become, I would have rather he just stayed a fancy paperweight in the Crystal Tower on Norvrandt.