Thread: 4.1 - The emptiest patch yet.

Originally Posted by Mature

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You want to know what's funny? Boredom with content is exactly right. I'm going to show two different examples of two of the same genre of MMO, but in different lights. Gonna bring FFXI around too, even though it's discussed many times and while not everyone wants it, it's the fact that content has since changed at its time. While everything in XI is now recycled and getting to that point of recycling, let's take a look at FFXIV and FFXI as expansions released and 10+ years had passed for that mmo.

FFXIV since ARR:
1) Housing. Hasn't changed. Gonna get it sometime in a later patch.
2) Relics
3) Relic weapons, but they shine now! (ooooooooooooo the crowd goes mild)
4) Raids story mode
5) Raids savage/hard mode (except coil, as that's the ONLY content that was story AND gear driven content. weekly lock out of content loot).
6) 24 man raids (oh man! another weekly lock out piece of content!)
7) Primal story mode
8) Primal extreme mode (ilvl below current tome gear and raid savage content. no lock out)
9) Dungeons (loot below ilvl and mostly for tomes)
10) Hildibrand (same agent, different zone. Mama hildy still best though)
11) QoL (most being necessary for raid, and every day things)
12) Fates! (whoo! more stuff nobody asked for, but we're getting in every part of the mmo!)
13) More minions!
14) Crafting stuff for crafters!
15) More tomes on later patches
16) Tribe quests for beastmen
17) PVP (new game modes but nobody will do outside the bots and win trading pvpers already in pvp lol). Also leveling purposes.

Now, most, if not all these can be combined together. Primals, normal raids, dungeons as one. Savage content and 24 man raid for gear has weekly lock out. That's a second.

Not much else has really been "new" or what devs idea of "cool" is the worst. Diadem was absolute garbage and was basically a random generated loot with generic rng stats and fates of the different zone. NOBODY and I mean.... NOBODY. ASKED. FOR. VERMINION. NOBODY. EVER.

If anything, I'd rather they just bring back Hamlet defense. THAT, at least, was fun and required a lot of players both casual and hardcore to enjoy the content at all fronts without any issues outside the normal glitches you ran into.