The disapointment that is Alexander

[Malevicton]

The most annoying thing about Alexander imo is Mide. She seems to just be a collection of the most cliche possible tropes rolled into one. Her scar has more personality than she does at this point. She shows up out of nowhere, we accept her help for really no reason except because the narrative demands it, she's obviously got the "mysterious past" thing going on (pretty obviously related to the illuminati and Alexander). Her whole character felt forced from the beginning, and then every time I tried to give her a chance I immediately regretted it.

[Lyrinn]

They should have released Alexander story and Savage at the same time, because a lot of the boredom is coming from the fact that most of the mechanics were figured out weeks before and the fights themselves have been farmed to death. Making story mode be a stepping stone in progression was a mistake.

[MisterLucie]

They should have released Alexander story and Savage at the same time, because a lot of the boredom is coming from the fact that most of the mechanics were figured out weeks before and the fights themselves have been farmed to death. Making story mode be a stepping stone in progression was a mistake.

I don't agree with this. WoW has used the normal before hard system for a very long time and their hard mode encounters never suffered from it. It's purely a flaw in A1's fight design.

[4gotmypassword]

I don't agree with this. WoW has used the normal before hard system for a very long time and their hard mode encounters never suffered from it. It's purely a flaw in A1's fight design.

You're right there. The prerelease of story isn't a problem (for me) for floors 3S and 4S, but is a humongous problem for A1S and to some degree A2S. Having said that, many people would find the aesthetics and such very boring because of the timing, so it's still a problem for some.

[Arkune]

I am not going to talk about the difficult, because Alexander Savage doesnt interest me at all. If seen alexander normal, while the atmosphere is great couze of the steams and stuff, all the mechanic items, it still doesnt fit the role of a "Raid" not even Close to a "Dungeon".

Every floor is his own instance, and every floor feels just like a Primal Battle, but the Encounters not even feel that scary like Ravana or Bismark, atleast for me.

Raids doesnt automatical mean "lots of Players" for me, they just could have splittet alexander more like the first part of the Crystal Tower. Where i may also just go 1 way like in the dungeons, but atleast i feel like i would "exploring" a new whole zones.

i probably enjoy the medicore Content even more, if they going to release another "Crystal Tower" like Raid, which acutally feels like a raid.

[Lyrinn]

I don't agree with this. WoW has used the normal before hard system for a very long time and their hard mode encounters never suffered from it. It's purely a flaw in A1's fight design.

How similar were the hard fights to normals? A1S and A2S are nearly identical to the story mode fights and are complete excitement killers. A3, at least, has some differences and from what little I've heard of A4 it sounds like T13 levels of pain. Granted, SCoB wasn't much better but with the exception of T9, it had enough differences to be fun for a short while. I wasn't expecting anything revolutionary but at least give us something different instead of rehashing the fights with bigger numbers. Some of the EX primal fights did a better job than A1/2S.

[Lone-wolfe-02]

I think the goblins need to be replaced entirely or have less attention focused on them, it ruins any hope that Alexander could be taken seriously and maybe show the impact of his presence on the enviroment.

[Kazama]

Dead on in nearly every aspect. Compared to Coils, Alexander's Aesthetics are terrible. But, good graphics and pretty art an MMO does not make. I think the OP nailed a lot of the issues, especially the fact that adding some difficulty mechanics to make it raid progression content and changing nothing else was very poorly planned. If you're going to create duplicate content for the casual and hardcore crowd, you need to do it simultaneously and find another method besides gear/dps checks to do it. Otherwise it's just a blatant repetition of content not dissimilar to what already happens with dungeon recycling. It's really the only way they can sustain it in the current model however. Creating truly new content and assets in a vertical MMO is self defeating effort when nobody will touch it 3 months later.

That's not even including the fact that Alex is nearly identical to Coils. Generally speaking, when an expansion adds new endgame content it adds something different to the pool along with more dungeons and raids similar to the previous. At least that's how it has gone in my experience. When XI added expansions it vastly changed the mechanics of it's "Raid" as well. Dynamis, Limbus and Salvage were 10x the size and scope of XIVs raids and they made up only about 10% of the endgame content for their respective expansions as opposed to XIV where the raid is nearly 100% of it.

End of the day, FFXIV is not designed for endgame players nor do I think it ever will be. They have taken vertical progression and made it as linear as can possibly be done and taken content recycling to the extreme. It's one of those MMOs you will play for maybe a year or two at most and then realize you're doing the same thing over and over to no end. I know this is standard for vertical progression MMOs but even in that there can easily be more unique and original content than we have seen.

[Sessurea]

yh im not hyped too much on the design of alex. But I think the fights themselves are what matters and they are great. I don not like a2 savage, I think it's boring endless trash raid wtf were they thinking but oh well a3 rekts us all, seems like best fight ever. he is the gatekeeper rip everyone.

Also I don't like th music in a1-3 but I LOVE the a4 music so I guess that's k.


I sort miss the allagan themes....but oh well, far superior mechanics and difficulty make up for it.


Probably we have those lore filth ppl who cried that coil locked away beauty and story from most players, so therefore, alexander looks meh aesthetically and is void of any storyline whatsoever so one would assume no more qq, but oh well.


tbh I'm kinda annoyed that people actually complain about alex hm, se didn't ven have to make it and could have just made savage, but no ppl gonna cry anyways.

[myahele]

I'm not a fan of the story, nor the characters. But hopefully we're really just in the 1st part of the Alexander plot, it might turn into a tragedy by the end of it all. But for now I can't quite view Alexander as a threat as it should be ... nor those illuminati as a semi-comic relief.