Protesting Frontlines

[Nalien]

Hilarious that they think people will do Wolves Den anymore. They may as well delete it along with Morale.

Wolves Den was meant to be a training arena (remember the quest?). It made sense in that regard. If the grind wasn't ridiculously bad, it would even have been something we could tolerate.

You do your time in the Wolves Den, then you get to enter the Frontlines. That works. That's how I saw it, that's probably how we all saw it.

Instead, you just jump right into Frontlines. Wolves Den fades into obscurity and nobody ever queues there again. If Morale wasn't locked behind hours and hours of grinding, the issue of people being underpowered in Frontlines would be no where near as bad. They could even have added some i80 crafted PvP gear; would that make i70 PvP worthless? Not if you make it so you can't meld the crafted stuff. Instead we have a PvP zone with no purpose other than to make Crystal Tower gear more relevant...

I can actually understand why they did it, if a certain rank was required, nobody would be there, certainly not 72 people under the current state of PvP. But doing this is like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound... That you got months ago and never treated..., actually they treated it a few weeks ago by splashing some water on it and letting everyone use moves from the start, but that's besides the point. If Wolves Den wasn't a ridiculous grind, people might have enjoyed it, people might have tolerated doing it to get to Frontlines. Instead they left it to fester over time, and now something that could have been great has to be sacrificed as a result.

Perhaps it is fitting that they set Frontlines in the crater of Dalamud, because that is equal to the force of which they've dropped the ball this time. Frontlines was descending from the heavens of E3, then out popped the details and completely annihilated all hope for there actually being a reason Wolves Den or Morale was ever there. Yoshida sees Wolves Den as this games "real" PvP, and its content that nobody has really enjoyed since launch... For someone who claimed to love PvP, he seems extremely disconnected from the state of PvP in his game...

Christ, they could have just changed how Morale works. Make it has a cap based on your opponents Morale; if you're in full i90 and your opponent is in PvE gear, your Morale does very little, but it still gives you an advantage, someone in i100 woudl have the same advantage over your and them. If you're in i100 then you'll always have the highest Morale, you'd have earned a small advantage against people in any gear. That would have kept the sense of progression without completely shitting all over new players. Instead it's a non-stat, and PvP gear is potentially worthless outside a vanity piece (another case of SE locking vanity items behind ridiculous walls).