Lack of content on patch release

[Miyafuji]

For me this latest initial patch has been the most lacklustre patch to date. (not including patch 4.3x) After farming the new trial, getting the weekly drop from the new 24-man raid and doing what feels like the exact same Namazu quest 3 times per day there isn't much left to do within the patch.

I had high hopes for a new frontline as the last frontline we had was Shatter, which was released 2 years ago.

Feels like most of the content of this patch won't be released for a while until eureka and deep dungeon eventually come out which seemingly could be anywhere from 2 weeks time and 2 months time.

[Maeka]

For me this latest patch has been the most lacklustre patch to date, after farming the new trial, getting the weekly drop from the new 24-man raid and doing what feels like the exact same Namazu quest 3 times per day there isn't much left to do within the patch.

Namazu is amazing for people who don't have crafts on 70 yet. I, myself, am loving the addition. Though sadly it's only 10 minutes per day, but the XP is just plain awesome.

They also added a bunch of QoL changes and the like which are always awesome to see. It sounds like Glamour Dressers are far more usable than they were before (though there are certain things I feel they could do to make it even more reasonable to use but meh).

The new dungeon is a nice source of gear for people who don't like spinning their wheels in Sigmascape over and over and over and over again and getting nothing out of 5, 6, 10 runs in a row.

[Magic-Mal]

1). Namazu is amazing for people who don't have crafts on 70 yet cont..

2). They also added a bunch of QoL changes and the like which are always awesome to see cont...

3). The new dungeon is a nice source of gear cont...

1. But Namazu is barely content let's be honest.. it lasts 10mins a day you said it yourself. Maybe 20 if you get a reputation up. Is 10min worth a 3 1/2 month wait?

2. QoL changes aren't content.. they just aren't.

3. People do dungeons for gear? Why do that when you have tome, crafted, Eureka, and Omega gear that is stronger? At most people will do expert once a day until they cap then be done.
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I took a break from this game for 2 whole patches. The story is amazing so far, still completing it. But I'm afraid I'll finish everything from 4.2 and 4.3 before 4.35 within a month with my 2-3hr playtime a day.. there just wasn't anything added to this patch.

Weekly Activities:
-Do 24man(1-2hr)
-Cap tomes(Depends)

Daily Activities:
-Expert if not capped(20min)
-Beast Tribe(10min)

Optional Goal:
-EX Primal(Depends)

[Sylvina]

As someone who's played games which truly lack content in a bad way I can never understand these complaints.

[Maeka]

1. But Namazu is barely content let's be honest.. it lasts 10mins a day you said it yourself. Maybe 20 if you get a reputation up. Is 10min worth a 3 1/2 month wait?

It gets you crafting XP. Yes, it's only 10 minutes per day, but the much more reasonable leveling of crafts was very much worth the 3.5 month wait. Very much so. Now I can finally get my crafts up, meld my own Materia, and maybe have fun making other stuff I couldn't make before this.

Yes, I realize I could have had crafts leveled to 70 but I simply don't like trying to grind out stuff without beast tribes. It just takes too long and I don't have that kind of time.

2. QoL changes aren't content.. they just aren't.

No, but they are quite awesome all the same.

3. People do dungeons for gear? Why do that when you have tome, crafted, Eureka, and Omega gear that is stronger? At most people will do expert once a day until they cap then be done.

Omega? You mean Sigmascape? Yeah, I did 6 runs in a row without getting a single item to drop. Some of those items you need 4 to buy 1 piece of gear. Sorry but I don't feel like fighting the same 4 bosses 100+ times to get gear.

Eureka? Only if you're Level 15+ otherwise you don't get any tokens from NM kills which means no armor. It takes a ludicrous amount of time to build up to where you can actually get tokens, and you're doing the most boring stuff possible (standing around waiting for NMs to pop and doing nothing but casting Raise).

Crafted? Yeah, have fun dropping 150-200k per piece of armor.

Tomes? 450 cap per week. It would only take you what, 4+ months to suit yourself up?

[Miyafuji]

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As Magic mentioned: Namazu beast tribes aren't something you can do for a long time, 3 quests per day taking minimal time and effort. Sure it's good for levelling crafters but what about for those with crafters maxxed out?

QoL is nice, glamour dresser is still terrible.

Dungeons have been the same as they were in ARR there's been literally no variation except for Bardam's mettle's 2nd boss. Again, we've had this reduced from 3 dungeons per patch to 1 providing us no variation.
Also your argument about Eureka is somewhat invalid with the upcoming Eureka requiring lvl 20 to be able to enter as far as I'm aware, so best get grinding! (There's also nothing to do in the current Eureka once lvl 20)

Just seems like they want to drag out the content of the patch over as long a period of time as possible to keep people subscribed, just like with the housing.

As someone who's played games which truly lack content in a bad way I can never understand these complaints.

Well thought out discussion thanks for the input, glad you're content with having little to do.

[Sylvina]

I don't have little to do, this game has a lot to do. unless of course everything is "Fake content"

[CaptainLagbeard]

I've barely managed to touch the content, due to loot in 24-mans being terrible.

[Remedi]

As someone who's played games which truly lack content in a bad way I can never understand these complaints.

I agree on these, especially considering that SE is doing this to space out content release since there was a complaint about lacking content in the late part of a patch. and let's be honest even eureka pagos and HOH are not more than 1 week extra of content at best for most ppl.

[Miyafuji]

I don't have little to do, this game has a lot to do. unless of course everything is "Fake content"

I don't think you've even read any of what has been said, I'm not talking about the game in general I'm talking about this latest patch.