Alright. Let's talk Airship explorations.

[Phireblast]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...XDRxjDt3YI/pub

ctrl f "exploratory" without quotes on the document

On paper, it looks good so far.

-Content that compliments all three class types(dow,doh(indirectly), dol) in the game
-Encourages FC activities
-Features that make it relevant for a while(giving tomes, providing rewards such as mounts and materials)
-It doesn't ****truly**** gate the population with the difficulty levels.
-Can be done fairly often with how the cooldowns are handled
-It emphasizes exploration rather than clearing, so the amount of work you have to put in to things is completely up to your group.
-Allegedly, the enemies you encounter aren't braindead which require some effort to beat, and you can't get lazy either since that affects your loot drop.


So far, this looks pretty good, but i'll try to be cautiously optomistic.

[Derio]

I like that it includes both battle classes and gathering.

[RiceisNice]

If there's an advantage of going in with an alliance rather than a party, then it'd be ideal to get people/friends outside of FCs to join you on hard mode explorations.

[Dualgunner]

I'm also cautiously optimistic about this. It will be awesome to essentially have open world playtime for once in the game; I'm excited both as a gatherer and a dragoon. I wonder what I can fish, mine, or botanize on the islands

[Mug]

I love the whole concept of it, it looks very good on paper. SE has a tendency to underwhelm when it comes to these things, but I'm cautiously optimistic. I wish the actual airship was incorporated more, though. Imagine how fun it would be to have actual aerial combat on board your airship. Would be all kinds of awesome.

[Dualgunner]

I love the whole concept of it, it looks very good on paper. SE has a tendency to underwhelm when it comes to these things, but I'm cautiously optimistic. I wish the actual airship was incorporated more, though. Imagine how fun it would be to have actual aerial combat on board your airship. Would be all kinds of awesome.

Would be cool if part of the Void Ark Raid was an aerial assault from several FC airships allowing the main group to hop on board or something, with like mammots autopiloting our airships while we're gone.

[Mug]

Would be cool if part of the Void Ark Raid was an aerial assault from several FC airships allowing the main group to hop on board or something, with like mammots autopiloting our airships while we're gone.

Yes! It saddens me that they made this entire expansion centered around flying, yet it's only used for transportation and we're stuck on the ground as usual for everything that involves any kind of fighting (and judging by the trailer, it's the same in the Void Ark). I hope and pray that they add something like what you suggested, though. ^^,

[Gardes]

I love the whole concept of it, it looks very good on paper. SE has a tendency to underwhelm when it comes to these things, but I'm cautiously optimistic. I wish the actual airship was incorporated more, though. Imagine how fun it would be to have actual aerial combat on board your airship. Would be all kinds of awesome.

I was gonna point out stuff that already underwhelms me but Yeldir has already pointed most of it out. But what really gets to me is people's eagerness to ignore these things or do get bothered about it but then be distracted with SE's superficial offerings like glamours, selfie cameras (don't bother replying to me about how important those things are to you please) and then forget everything else and then continue to praise SE. It's crazy.

I'm already doubting the longevity of this content and the status it will have as a content type. I have a feeling that once 3.2 level cap increase, they will do nothing to exploration and let it stagnate and then at 3.3 just throw in a small amount of rewards to get people to flock there again without actually updating the content of the content. Like hunts. Call me pessimistic but I can't really be anything else when SE is so predictable (already called ships being just cut scenes as soon as it was announced before HW releases).

[Airget]

I was gonna point out stuff that already underwhelms me but Yeldir has already pointed most of it out. But what really gets to me is people's eagerness to ignore these things or do get bothered about it but then be distracted with SE's superficial offerings like glamours, selfie cameras (don't bother replying to me about how important those things are to you please) and then forget everything else and then continue to praise SE. It's crazy.

I'm already doubting the longevity of this content and the status it will have as a content type. I have a feeling that once 3.2 level cap increase, they will do nothing to exploration and let it stagnate and then at 3.3 just throw in a small amount of rewards to get people to flock there again without actually updating the content of the content. Like hunts. Call me pessimistic but I can't really be anything else when SE is so predictable (already called ships being just cut scenes as soon as it was announced before HW releases).

Honestly, if red scrip mats can come from this content it will last for quite a while. There are a lot of pieces of crafted items that are blocked because of the weekly craft feature I could honestly see Crafters using island exploration as a method to obtain the mats needed for crafting rather than using their scrips to obtain said mats.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3389394

Depending on the cost of trading in the items I feel like people may prefer this method of obtaining red scrip mats compared to the current method. Even if that's not the case then the other fact remains that because of island exploration items that were once precious and harder to obtain now have a means of obtaining that aren't restricted to weekly tomes.

[Dualgunner]

I have a feeling that once 3.2 level cap increase,

Wait, 3.2 is bringing a level cap increase? o-O