Limited Expansion

[Imuka]

Personally I didn't find Eureka to be that bad of a grind with the exception of Pagos, which SE learned from and made Pyros and Hydatos much more pleasant. Hell Hydatos may have been the easiest of the four regions if you stay out of BA....

I think a few tweaks though could make it much better if they do something similar in ShB.

For starters, make things besides NMs more rewarding. Add some variety to things so that everything doesn't just revolve around chaining mobs until NMs spawn. You chain mobs to farm light, chain mobs to get lockboxes, chain mobs to spawn NMs, chain mobs for challenge log...too much of Eureka comes down to just chaining mobs.

Use the bunny fates as a starting point here. Add a wider variety of fates that spawn throughout the map with different objectives and give them good rewards. Find ways to diversify gameplay so there isn't so much chaining mobs for everything. Maybe add some NMs or FATEs that are chained little min i stories, with one fate leading into another, with some variations isntead of all of them being big bosses.

Please don't understand this as an aggressive way, okay.

How many Minutes did you need to come up with this? 5, 10? Maybe a few Hours of Gameplay?
Why can't the Devs come up with some of those Ideas in 18 Months with hundreds of hours of playtesting by QA Workers?

I like your Ideas and I wished this whole Content would have been more than just "Punch Mobs in the Face till the NM pops up...punch the NM in the face till he drops dead. Move to the next Area and repeat those 2 Steps for hours.", "Punch Mobs in the face for Lootboxes", "Punch Mobs in the face for the Log".

They could have easily put in Dailies Quests inside.
Put in some daily Hunts for the Players.
Searching for Treasure Chests and do some research Quests around the Monsters and the Landscape for Krille, like searching for Crystals or something like that.
Gatherer and Crafter Quests.
And they implemented this First Person View Feature...so they could make a Daily Quest to take Photos of Mobs for the research Workers.

Let the Player pick what they like and get EXP.
Make Photos of the red Slimes in Pagos or the Cows...or anything, with a recommended Level next to it.
The Players could even help each other by doing the Hunts together.

I wanted to like this Content but the Idea of everything geared around "Punching Trash Mobs in the Face" was just utterly boring from my View.
And I do nit dislike "Punching Monsters in the Face", but I want them to do something outside of a random AOE and just Auto Attacks.

I played some grindy MMOs in the past, like Phantasy Star Online so I played some grindy Games, but they were fun, because they were build around the Idea of being Trash Mob Grind. But the Combat of 14 was not build around this Idea and for some reason I fear that the Combat changes with ShB are supposed to make this work on cost of the feeling of Bossfights in this Game.

[Freyt]

People are missing that although Blue Mage originates in (the tail end of) Stormblood, it's updates within Shadowbringers will further cement it as a Limited Job.

Lets just word every sentence so we can throw "limited" on it to get a point across.

My warrior is limited, he can't use a dark knight sword.

My mounts are limited, they can't swim underwater

My blacksmith is limited, he can't cook food.

See what I did there?

Might be impressed if you managed to come up with anything clever.

[Alucard135]

Might be impressed if you managed to come up with anything clever.

He's right, though. You're complaining about things being limited that are not the core of the expansion and then labeled the expansion limited. So because you can't play a certain race or gender, nor do those specific races can wear headgear for now and because BLU is limited, suddenly the entire expansion is now limited??

I have no idea how you even decided to nitpick on the weather part, even though they explicitly stated that there are new weathers that we didn't see before. And you don't like that there's not night time??? Do you know how easy it is to add that if they wanted? (The royal menagerie is the best example). But nooooo, the expansion is now a limited one because of the weather....such a core feature we're missing /s.

[Freyt]

He's right, though. You're complaining about things being limited that are not the core of the expansion and then labeled the expansion limited. So because you can't play a certain race or gender, nor do those specific races can wear headgear for now and because BLU is limited, suddenly the entire expansion is now limited??

I have no idea how you even decided to nitpick on the weather part, even though they explicitly stated that there are new weathers that we didn't see before. And you don't like that there's not night time??? Do you know how easy it is to add that if they wanted? (The royal menagerie is the best example). But nooooo, the expansion is now a limited one because of the weather....such a core feature we're missing /s.

How do you know what I do or do not like?

[Alucard135]

How do you know what I do or do not like?

I might have misunderstood you then. You might like the stuff that you labeled limited in this case. But I'm afraid that I have to tell you that they do not make the expansion a limited one.