Thread: 3.0 Launch Predictions

Why is everyone acting like base FFXIV ARR is some deadweight boring piece of gobbue dung you have to deal with before you get to the nice and shiny Heavensward? If new players had the ability to completely skip it most of them would do it just to be with their friends faster or they would be pushed to do it by community. I think that except the filler quests FFXIV has a nice story and I also believe that atleast half of the players here love Final Fantasy series especially for the story.

Expansion comes from word expand which doesn't mean to delete original content, but rather enlarge it so.. if people don't understand that, they should stop buying expansions.

I expect a ton of bad tanks upon release. Mostly from people who don't like/want/know how to tank, but want to lvl a DRK because they just want to take "le epic screenshotz" with their new Au Ra (or their old miqo'te) holding their shiny new greatsword. I expect the other two classes/roles will have similar problems, but not to the degree of the DRK.

Aside from that, I expect just normal launch problems that are usually the result of too many people.

Originally Posted by Whocareswhatmynameis

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I never sad there weren't already bad players and I never said people shouldn't play what they want to play. DRK seems to be the most anticipated class (I could be wrong, but that's just the vibe I'm gettin as I browse the forums, reddit, and whatnot), even for people who don't normally tank, so it would follow that if many people do in fact pick it up, sure, there will be some people who do great, but there will also be some who don't do so good and I expect the latter to be the majority in the first week or so of release. Yeah, I get it, it's a new class and people need time to learn and I could end up being completely wrong, but this thread is literally about making predictions.

Originally Posted by Whocareswhatmynameis

It seems every class is getting overhauled with new rotations, abilities, and gear so im sure we all gonna suck for the first month or so.

Not exactly. In general we'll only be receiving about 5 new abilities each I wager. 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, since they said the new job quests start at 52.
it's quite a few, but I bet that includes traits so in the end it won't be that many.

These responses are pretty funny, and sadly I'm sure many of them will be true regardless of how satirical, genuine or purposely idiotic they are...


But in all honesty, I actually look forward to the new life that should be brought in to lower populated worlds (like Goblin...) when the influx of new/returning players can't create on the big servers, and will take any amount of asinine forum whining as compensation for actually feeling like I'm in a world again, not a forgotten civilization. SCoB era destroyed Goblin. Static fights (many), people leaving from Hunts (nothing else to do; no static)...I watched a lot of friends switch servers or never come back because of one thing or another and it just hasn't been quite the same since.


I'm hoping to revitalize my FC as well with new/returning players and hopefully give people a reason to stick around this time :\

I foresee a lot of topics on the forums from people who took the week off work, complaining to SE that they took the week off work and they can't even login.