The new very cool Aulus Mal Asina Mount!

[Branthar]

Is it time to "Initiate soul extraction?" Is this a dead mount already as only 600 people will get it from PVP tournaments, or will it be available for purchase later on?

[Sylvina]

Yeah I'm not a fan of super exclusive items only avaliable to a tiny fraction of the playerbase, Feast is dead whenever I queue for it so its not an option to just go play and try and earn it.

[Nihility]

It's already been advertised as a pvp season reward exclusive so best you can hope for is a recolor or altered variant as a mogstation item

Kind of feels like this game has an investor or something pushing for them to promote the feast super hard lol
as far as i can tell it's been on life support for years and they just keep throwing more exclusive rewards at it trying to bribe people to do it

[Sylvina]

Why are they making Feast rewards when feast is dead?

[Theodric]

Why are they making Feast rewards when feast is dead?

Worse yet, it's largely dead because a lot of PvP enthusiasts - myself included - are deliberately avoiding it to due to questionable design decisions such as the removal of the chat function, the disproportionate amount value of the healer role and the lack of action against known win traders who have risen through the ranks of multiple seasons.

[Sylvina]

I don't mind no chat function, it makes the experience far far more pleasant without the regular salt. I mind win trading of course, and I think dps needs help in pvp to compete with healers (who have already been nerfed twice)

[RiyahArp]

Worse yet, it's largely dead because a lot of PvP enthusiasts - myself included - are deliberately avoiding it to due to questionable design decisions.

It was dead even before that, those questionable decisions were designed to try and get people playing the mode. Think around season 3 or so people started to complain about queues due to lack of healers. Only difference was back then many matches could end in the first minute or two instead of being drawn out.

[Theodric]

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It wouldn't surprise me if they made healers so powerful in an effort to lure people to the role. Yet coordinating DPS with random people to the extent that is required to eliminate a decent healer is way too difficult for the vast majority of players...especially when seasoned veterans can be thrown into a ranking match against beginners.

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The decline may have begun back then though it was still fairly healthy. I used to see a lot of familiar faces hanging around the PvP hub waiting on queues and chatting with each other. That hasn't been the case since Heavensward, sadly.

[Sylvina]

All you need to do to QUICKLY kill a healer is have a full team focus fire on it, you can even mark the healer. How hard is that?

[Theodric]

All you need to do to QUICKLY kill a healer is have a full team focus fire on it, you can even mark the healer. How hard is that?

Fairly hard. Which is why the lack of a proper chat function is so frustrating. When I play Overwatch, I tend to slip into the 'commander' role and offer guidance and propose plans to my team. It works out well often - sometimes tunnel vision is shattered and people begin playing more effectively. In FFXIV, however, I can't chat in real time - I have to rely on predetermined buttons that don't often convey the nuances of what can turn a game around. Worse yet, I've made a lot of friends in Overwatch simply by being able to chat properly. That isn't possible in FFXIV.