Who else is bored? Same Content and Formula...Was SB a waste of money?

[Felis]

I'm also disappointed that they didn't add (yet?) a single new gameplay mechanic with their 2nd expansion.

Diving
Blowgun attacks

In SB, there is no growth....all there is once you have done your raids for the week and capped for the week....

Only if you limit yourself to raids

[Fonkyama]

Diving
Blowgun attacks

I do hope we'll see blowgun attack makes it return in reputation quests!

As for diving, can we really say it added something new? I was happy during my first dive session, however not only undersea areas are way too empty, the fact that they didn't add undersea combat quickly made it kinda useless. I enjoy being able to dive, but now that's it's here, they need to make something with it. Are you truly happy simply diving and... doing nothing but gathering/swimming?

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

swimming?

Add it to the Mist and yes.

[Sarynth]

Am bored of the same stupid formula SE seems to love clinging to, but then again that's why I hardly log in anymore. When the 40+hr work week is done I've got Diablo 3 and overwatch for entertainment since 14 has been the same shtuff since 2.0

[Ryaz]

I admit, my playtime dropped drastically for a couple weeks after they added Omega. I'd do the raid and then log off for a week. Now that Creation tomes are added, I'll be on once a day to cap tomes basically, but I don't see myself doing much else. I absolutely despise the crafting system in this game, so I rarely do anything with it (I much prefer being able to explore the world and level a battle class while leveling crafting and not sitting in one spot staring at a bar... That's why I don't play a healer). So, the only other option is to level other jobs (I just hate having yo constantly go through the crappy inventory system to find gear or even room for gear).

I have to wonder, though... Is there a way to level a battle class and a gathering class? Like using cross-class skills to identify nodes and then a macro to quickly switch jobs to gather and then switch back to killing things. It would make leveling botany and mining less mind-numbing.

[Felis]

I have to wonder, though... Is there a way to level a battle class and a gathering class? Like using cross-class skills to identify nodes and then a macro to quickly switch jobs to gather and then switch back to killing things. It would make leveling botany and mining less mind-numbing.

Before 4.0 that was possible.
But now with 4.0 the skills that identify nodes are DoL role skills, not crossclass skills anymore.

[Dark-Saviour]

Disregarding everything else, I will say that Diving gets 0 credit for me unless they revamp the mounts and either separate flying/diving mounts or put some effort into the animations when having birds/clouds dive and a bloody sea-serpent flying.

Since it doesn't even really yield anything new either, it just feels like a lazy, less-interesting rehash of flying. :-/

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Disregarding everything else, I will say that Diving gets 0 credit for me unless they revamp the mounts and either separate flying/diving mounts or put some effort into the animations when having birds/clouds dive and a bloody sea-serpent flying.

Since it doesn't even really yield anything new either, it just feels like a lazy, less-interesting rehash of flying. :-/

My only issue with diving is I can't dive anywhere I'd actually want to dive. I don't want to dive in the Ruby Sea. I have a house on the damn beach, let me dive there! I'm at the Mist because I love it!

[Bourne_Endeavor]

My only issue with diving is I can't dive anywhere I'd actually want to dive. I don't want to dive in the Ruby Sea. I have a house on the damn beach, let me dive there! I'm at the Mist because I love it!

You... may actually get your wish. I forget which live letter it was, but they mentioned wanting to add swimming to the Mist. The only reason they haven't yet is it wouldn't be fair for The Goblet or Lavender. So they talked about potentially adding spots for them.

[Ryaz]

Before 4.0 that was possible.
But now with 4.0 the skills that identify nodes are DoL role skills, not crossclass skills anymore.

Well, that sucks. Why does SE always insist on making everything as tedious as possible?