So, how is Pagos?

[HyoMinPark]

I'm sorry, but I don't need to convince you.
But If you want to judge the content before completing it, go ahead.

I don’t need to complete Pagos to see that it’s a copy-paste of Anemos. With elements from prior relics (e.g., Light Farming) thrown in, and the aspects that made Anemos bearable (the NM Train) needlessly made more difficult.

At the end, they are all level 20, and are here complaining again.

I’m actually level 22. I gave Pagos two lockouts yesterday; all I got out of it was a sore wrist. Poor first impressions are difficult to change, and probably not the image SE wants to sell for their newest content.

[MomomiMomi]

But If you want to judge the content before completing it, go ahead. I saw a lot of fus and BS about Eureka Anemos in the first day that were a lot exaggerated. Saying that the content was empty, nothing to do there, just mob grind and bla bla. At the end they are all lvl 20, and are here complaining again.
Guess what? They will be 35 at Logos.
Enjoy your time here judging content that you didn't complete know anything about.
I'm loving pagos, it's something to do, long term based.

But did those people enjoy it, or simply do it for the rewards? From what I've seen, the majority fall into the latter. They begrudgingly did the content because they wanted their dyeable relic armor.

People were saying the exact same thing about Anemos, "you haven't even completed it yet, so you can't judge it." Well, they completed it, and guess what? Nothing about the content changed since their first impression. There was nothing new to discover. Everything was the same as the day they first entered.

[Claviusnex]

But did those people enjoy it, or simply do it for the rewards? From what I've seen, the majority fall into the latter. They begrudgingly did the content because they wanted their dyeable relic armor.

People were saying the exact same thing about Anemos, "you haven't even completed it yet, so you can't judge it." Well, they completed it, and guess what? Nothing about the content changed since their first impression. There was nothing new to discover. Everything was the same as the day they first entered.

Or we begrudgingly did it for the mount and minions. Once I had those I quit as did other players I know of. Not even sure we will see any of those in Pagos for those of us more into collecting than glamour.

Well, if I'm not mistaking, the player base had some request that has never been granted.

Free Company content, harder 4 man content, and surely others things that I forgot.

I wouldn't mind seeing some instanced stuff like ESO with Delves/Public dungeons or WoW with scenarios. They could be runs as part of the MSQ then run anytime you wanted after that.

[Tsumdere]

For those that are interested - there is a whopping total of 2 pages on the Japanese forums about Pagos. The only posts worth mentioning is that people seem to agree that Pagos is... too bright. And that the Happy Bunnies are stupid.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...%82%AB/page118

Something interesting to note is that while browsing other random pages in the thread, there seemed to be quite a few people who actually never liked Eureka in the first place. So much for the Japanese just being goo-goo gaga for mob grinding.

[Liam_Harper]

Hopped in for another hour and 15 mins. 1 NM spawned the entire duration. I'm at 14% of a single level after grinding the same rotation on auto-attacking mobs for over a full hour.

Realized it's just for a glam weapon. Won't be going back there.

[CoolCat]

I find it really hard to get into the mood for it. Got to lvl 21 and I don't feel like going back. Which is terrible, because I want to go through the story for it.

[MuseTraveller]

I find it really hard to get into the mood for it. Got to lvl 21 and I don't feel like going back. Which is terrible, because I want to go through the story for it.

Predicting "the story" - you will get short cut scenes of odd aether/corrupted aether or something like that until the final installment. Probably flashback of Gulf and co being heroically killed off by Ascian ™ as final scene in Pagos. Tsunjika will eventually get into trouble near the end and Krile will save him with the two getting in better terms before they part ways. The sealed thing will be probably the Ascian we saw in first cutscenes or something Allagan ™ that the Ascians wanted. At the end it will be destroyed or left sealed by Krile and Tsunjika holding hands forward with magical beam of aether coming out. We get a thank you and we'll go our merry way.
The End

I really hope I'm wrong and there will be something more engaging and interesting in the story but if the effort they put into designing the battle content mirrors the story content, I'm not going to hold my breath for finding out whatever happened to the isle of Val.

[Brill_]

I wish they'd do away with the entire level grind in eureka. It was ok for anemos. Instead of repeating anemos, Pagos should still been 20, but have tougher NM's. Build the relic quest around getting things off certain NMs and such. Could have added more interesting things to do in there in place of the level grind. I enjoyed anemos more once I got to level cap. I liked the zone, the danger in it, just wasn't much to do. The level grind is not fun, replace it with more interesting things to do and they'd have some half way decent content.

[Conando]

I just think it's hilarious that they doubled down on the grind and seemingly made NMs spawn much less often. I don't know what they're thinking with it, unless this is all we have to do until like November (which is possible).

[Rufalus]

I just think it's hilarious that they doubled down on the grind and seemingly made NMs spawn much less often. I don't know what they're thinking with it, unless this is all we have to do until like November (which is possible).

For eureka content yeah it may be all we have until November if not October for the next zone. Before then we do have a major patch in mid September though for the usual content like MSQ and raid. November is also Vegas fan fest where the first details of the 2019 expansion will be revealed.