Nicely into heavensward, some thoughts.
  • Very pretty.
  • Interesting main story.
  • Raid needs work -- not enough build up, not enough pressure
  • Crafting & gathering needs to have this awful system scrapped and reworked. After someone actually explains what they were thinking when they designed it.
  • Black Mage needs completely reworked. If it's only useable by the best of the best, the changes are bad. If you have to go down to 50% dps while you are learning the fight, and will only make it back up to 80% when you do .. why even use the new abilities?
  • The attitude that crafting gear should be on par with law needs to go away ASAP. If crafting gear is going to be gated 3 times, with one of them being a ridiculous RNG, it needs to be comperable to Savage. Otherwise there's no point in it and you might as well delete the battle recipes and save the book space. If it's supposed to be law comparable only then the gates need to go away outright.