Live Letter XXX Discussion Thread

[Khalithar]

New content all looks good but I must admit that I'm pretty surprised about the moogle tribe being for crafters only. I didn't actually think we'd get a crafters only beast tribe this xpac, but it will give me a chance to finish getting all my crafters to 60 depending on the difficulty of the dailies.

[Yukiko]

At times like this i really like to know the numbers of participants from Square Enix!
Lets say Diadem or Frontline as example (or maps)...
I just ask because what you say here is not as my friends experience it, players just SKIP it and ABANDON the whole content!
Be realistic, you WILL not get a portal more often than just once a week if you dont buy all maps from market board...
The Problem AS ALWAYS is that players are FORCED to do one single content EXCLUSIVE 24/7 hrs a day!

Yoshi likes to compare with theme parks: You do not go in a theme park to try one single thing with waiting a day and paying millions of cash - try to explain such a theme park to your children!

From the few who were doing maps for gear (Thavnairian Leather) i know many who have given up on it at all. Most have bought it from market board. When we were trying to "farm" that, it was pure frustration and huge gilsink. Thats a content made solely for bots and if you are not a bot then you may get it within a year (all gear pieces) depending on your luck.

[Nezerius]

Lets say Diadem or Frontline as example (or maps)...
I just ask because what you say here is not as my friends experience it, players just SKIP it and ABANDON the whole content!

Diadem was abandoned by non-gatherers, because it ended up in a lootgrind for BiS i210 gear, something that hasn't been updated, and is thus deemed useless in the way of gearing up. (due to the ease of getting 220/230 gear) It's not entirely abandoned, as some of the Diadem materials are still useful for glamour/spiritbonding (Sky Pirate's gear) or raid food.
Frontline only ever gets abandoned when there's a new PvP mode added (like The Feast causing Seal Rock to have longer queues), but Fields of Glory will probably see to the frontline queue being shorter. Not that the PvP playerbase is all that large, but it's certainly not abandoned.

Be realistic, you WILL not get a portal more often than just once a week if you dont buy all maps from market board...

There's a 50% chance for the portal to spawn, a player can get 9 maps a week. Getting just 1 portal a week would be quite unlucky.

The Problem AS ALWAYS is that players are FORCED to do one single content EXCLUSIVE 24/7 hrs a day!

Maps really don't take ages to do, and neither will the Aquapolis be something that'll require players to focus on it 24/7.

I also think you're taking the "theme park" description a bit too literally.

[Caitlyn]

New Beast Tribe with Moogles and crafting... welcome to hell!

I think I will sell my dragonskin-maps on patch day : )

[Felis]

Be realistic, you WILL not get a portal more often than just once a week if you dont buy all maps from market board...

Then don't do it solo?
1 map each day in a treasure hunt full party (everyone have at least 1 map) give you already 56 maps each week.

[bass9020]

Then don't do it solo?
1 map each day in a treasure hunt full party (everyone have at least 1 map) give you already 56 maps each week.

Exactly this, maps should be a full party thing now to make the odds better for a portal to pop. If you are only doing ONE map then thats a waste of a map.

3.3 on all maps should be done with 4-8 and never solo or with just one map.

[Yukiko]

Then don't do it solo?
1 map each day in a treasure hunt full party (everyone have at least 1 map) give you already 56 maps each week.

Where did i say i do it solo?
We were farming maps when they were released with 24, after a while with 10, later on just 4, and what is left is not even doing them regulary, maybe sometimes if one is desperate we gather the players to help him but fun is long lost!

History of Diadem is even worse, there we started with 100+
End was same, abandoned content...

Edit: Your calculation is strange, dont you share loot? I dont think everyone is giving their "map loot" too you!

[Xlantaa]

They put Dragonsong finally as final boss music. I hope will be changing fragments like Answers on T13. Each pahse with a different section of the song.

That's what I need, I'm happy. But I wanted a new Warring Triad fight instead of a Extreme version of the final boss. But is ok anyway.

[Katana190]

They put Dragonsong finally as final boss music.

That's what I need, I'm happy. But I wanted a new Warring Triad fight instead of a Extreme version of the final boss. But is ok anyway.

I always wanted a dragon trial on the lengths of an extreme fight since Heavensward was released, being a dragon themed expansion and all >_> Look at it in a good way! 3.3 Nidhogg EX, 3.4 The Demon, 3.5 The Goddess, already figured it out ;o
If I'm correct in my thought process then this time around we won't be played around with in the last patch like 2.5 did, no EX trial which was super disappointing imo, its looking good this time around though!

[Austratus]

Dragonet minion confirmed made my night when I saw it. I want one. ...Not as much as a Living Liquid one, though.


Overall satisfied with 3.3 prospects.