Reworking the way primals work in StormBlood

[Arutan]

So I just had a thought when talking about what we wanted for 4.0 with some peops and I realised that I should share what I had in mind.

For people who have been playing since the beginning, you are aware that the game started with NM primals, whose only purpose is the story. Then at 50 we had the HM primals, whose purpose was weapons and relics. Then at the 2.1, they added extreme mods. Starting 2.2, NM primals disappeared, or we thought so. HM primals are the difficulty of NM primals and has the same purpose: story. And EX primals replaced HM primals, with the same purpose too: weapons. But not only, they also added accessories in EX primals. Accessories who disappeared in Heavensward.

All of this is a bit non-sens to me, and I thought that there could be a little rework over this, since they have 3 times Heavensward's budget.
- Normal mode would be back, with its always purpose: story.
- Hard mode would be a middle difficulty, with mechanics from which you can recover, like the fall in Sophia. It would loot accessories, and share a mount between all the expansion's primals.
- (REAL) Extreme mode, with hard mechanics from which you can't recover (Titan/Sephirot's fall) or not without being pro-gamer. Would loot weapons, and specific primal mount.

I think that would be a good way to keep people entertained a bit longer between each patch.

[Ragology]

Do we have savage primals yet? I want to fight a Titan that can do a 5 way landslide without floor indicators.

[ErryK]

We are probably no longer getting the normal/hard/extreme trifecta anymore since they clarified a few years back that the "normal" story mode is the "hard" mode, and that extreme is extreme, nullifying a third version. I prefer the system the way it is now and they should only add more rewards, not more modes.

[Arutan]

Do we have savage primals yet? I want to fight a Titan that can do a 5 way landslide without floor indicators.

Yeah with something to understand where it aims like A12S, would be cool

[Paladinleeds]

Do we have savage primals yet? I want to fight a Titan that can do a 5 way landslide without floor indicators.

Give me a 16 way landslide without indicators... that'll be Savage.

[Frowny]

I'd rather them drop the NM/HM in the name period. Causes confusion and doesn't serve much purpose.

[Madepossible]

Give me a 16 way landslide without indicators... that'll be Savage.

Point on! ♡ ～('▽^人)

[tymora]

They could just do it 1.0 style, completely unscripted.

[Kazrah]

I like how it is too, but honestly wouldn't mind minor loot drops from normal modes just so players who wind up there for trial roulette go "nope, not here" and take their penalty.