On a scale of 1 - 10, how happy are you so far with Stormblood news?

[Belhi]

Overall? Probably a 7. Doma was a real curve ball for me and honestly at the moment I am hungry for more details cause the picture of what to expect feels incomplete for me. If I have any disappointments it is primarily the Jobs since I don't really play dps roles much outside questing and with so many people trying to lvl them I think it will be overcrowded trying to join in with the surge of dps levelling.

Really I need more details. I feel we currently have some good looks but we are lacking the meat of the info.

I don't know why so many people think Othard will take something away from the Ala Mhigo part.
From what they showed about Ala Mhigo i was afraid Stormblood was going to be a really small expansion, but now it feels like it's going to be rather large!

Probably because its hard to connect Ala Mhigo to Doma conceptually and we have seen a lot more of Doma than Ala Mhigo. They have only actually shown us one zone in Doma and it looks to be the starting one with Rhalgr's Reach in it. Ala Mhigo's story has been building since literally 1.0 so there is a fear it might get glossed over, particularly after the anticlimax to the 2.55 events that we got in HW.

It doesn't help that the character art they showed at the end showed at least 4 characters who were clearly Doman and only 2 we are sure are related to Ala Mhigo.

They have said it will be 50%/50% but the way they have presented information makes it look skewed towards Doma.

[Arutan]

6, I'm eager to try the RDM and see the new raid, but I think something is missing. I still wish they would do 2 raids instead of 1, WoW has so many raid for one expansion, I envy them. Here we can just do the same raid every week until 2 patch later for 4 more bosses, whereas WoW has many raids of 5-6 or more bosses each.

[ShinMetsu]

6, I'm eager to try the RDM and see the new raid, but I think something is missing. I still wish they would do 2 raids instead of 1, WoW has so many raid for one expansion, I envy them. Here we can just do the same raid every week until 2 patch later for 4 more bosses, whereas WoW has many raids of 5-6 or more bosses each.

They have mentioned the possibility of adding a real Savage mode in the past, like Second Coil Savage, on top of what we currently have.
And they brought it up again in FanFest's Q&A.
"Content is too easy, can you make it more difficult?"
"Maybe people who beat the last turn of raiding content will get access to something new, but don't complain if it's too hard"

Can't tell if it's just a single additional fight or a savaged version of the whole raid.
However, there's hope for something to be added at least!

Probably because its hard to connect Ala Mhigo to Doma conceptually and we have seen a lot more of Doma than Ala Mhigo. They have only actually shown us one zone in Doma and it looks to be the starting one with Rhalgr's Reach in it. Ala Mhigo's story has been building since literally 1.0 so there is a fear it might get glossed over, particularly after the anticlimax to the 2.55 events that we got in HW.

It doesn't help that the character art they showed at the end showed at least 4 characters who were clearly Doman and only 2 we are sure are related to Ala Mhigo.

They have said it will be 50%/50% but the way they have presented information makes it look skewed towards Doma.

Well.. Ala Mhigo is tiiinyy on the map, i don't see why people would be so excited and expect that much out of it :|

[Belhi]

Well.. Ala Mhigo is tiiinyy on the map, i don't see why people would be so excited and expect that much out of it :|

Ala Mhigo was one of the core city states of Eorzea and was at one point strong enough to take on an alliance of all the others. It's also a major part of the ongoing story and the very core of Yda and Raubahn's stories. More to the point, they promised that Ala Mhigo would have a deep story in the expansion at the first fan fest.

That is why.

Doma is a distant background thing. Honestly currently I think visiting there will be interesting and it looks beautiful but narratively it holds far less interest to me than Ala Mhigo. The only significance it has is that Yugiri is from it.

[ProfVukasin]

9/10 for the classes - Samurai, from what we have only learned so far, sounds similar to ninja, so its tempering my hype for a little, but not much. Want to learn about it before making my ultimate decision on whether rdm or sam will be what I level.

10/10 for the world - I don't even know what is going to be in the world, but if heavensward only gave us another slice of Eorzea, I can only imagine how much more space we are getting from this expansion and its patches.

[xbahax92]

I still wish they would do 2 raids instead of 1, WoW has so many raid for one expansion, I envy them. Here we can just do the same raid every week until 2 patch later for 4 more bosses, whereas WoW has many raids of 5-6 or more bosses each.

I wish more people would realize that actually. They accept the Fan Fests immediatly and take what they get. Yes, new and more content is coming. New zones, new maps, swimming, 2 new jobs. But are they even thinking of what will happen in the next 2 years? What will happen if it turns out again with the same Roulette and Tomestone farming? What about the maps, will they remain useless after finishing all quests there? What about swimming and diving, will it only make real use for fishers? What about the crappy cutscene quality? Will it remain with nodding and smiling from the emote-tool?

Its always about "You salt here, you salt there". No its not. Its about thinking about a game and the players future. After seeing the same things for now 4 years, it's getting annoying at some point. And to think that next 2 years might remain the same, is the shocking truth.