Post-Honeymoon SHB thoughts?

[Delily]

Ehhh... yeah, kinda. The whole thing about ending all life in the multiverse except for themselves is a bit of a non-starter.



I don't think the Ascians would be OK with that.

Actually a certain Ascian mentioned once they accomplished their goal of rejoinings they would sacrifice the Source as well for a certain primal to remake everything.

[SerLuke]

Actually a certain Ascian mentioned once they accomplished their goal of rejoinings they would sacrifice the Source as well for a certain primal to remake everything.

They were just talking about the ones that were sacrificed in creation of said primal, the new life would be gone for good.

[Camiie]

Actually a certain Ascian mentioned once they accomplished their goal of rejoinings they would sacrifice the Source as well for a certain primal to remake everything.

They only care about recreating the world as it was in their time. All life they don't consider worthwhile, which is everything post sundering, would be forfeit.

[Enla]

They only care about recreating the world as it was in their time. All life they don't consider worthwhile, which is everything post sundering, would be forfeit.

The irony being it's kinda sorta hinted at that their ways might have caused the star to begin dying in the first place. Or at least that's the interpretation I took away from the whole mess.

As for how I feel about ShB as a whole, I'm still very much as in love with it now as I was before. There's still aspects that bother me on a class design and game design level, but I don't think I could have asked for a better expansion coming off the heels of SB. Then again from a story perspective, almost anything would have been better then that expansion...

[Nariel]

The irony being it's kinda sorta hinted at that their ways might have caused the star to begin dying in the first place. Or at least that's the interpretation I took away from the whole mess.

Yeah, as much as I can undertand the point of view of Emet or Ascian in general, if you take all the info as they are... Well, they f*cked-up their world, created a life hungry primal to patch it up got in an intestinal war against that "god" creating another one that won fair and square but split the original world in the process, worlds that got to a certain balance they now want to disrupt because they can't accept their time is long gone and life don't need them anymore.

To me they kinda are a bunch of spoiled kids that can't accept the world changing without them being at the center of everything.

[SerLuke]

The irony being it's kinda sorta hinted at that their ways might have caused the star to begin dying in the first place. Or at least that's the interpretation I took away from the whole mess.

The notes in one of the post game dungeons confirm that they did it to themselves and they knew it.

[JisKing98]

What honeymoon?

What i mean by honeymoon is the initial 2-3 weeks of a release where everyone who has interacted with the content is going "ooh!!" and/or "ahh!!" where their joy and happiness is blinding them to whats really going on around them. as you described and what others have said, theres still alot of issues with the expansion like story issues, job/class issues, gameplay issues, etc.

[JisKing98]

It was the same with Stormblood areas lacking Garlean occupiers, and it's unfortunately for the same reason: after you complete the MSQ and boot out the Garleans/get rid of the light, the enemy spawns would have to change completely.

True but im reminded of when legion did the same thing. sure you needed to have beaten the raid to see the changes but it was there and soon eventually everyone got to see them. same with the sword being stabbed in the world. its possible to do but the devs are never thinking about stuff like that.

[Nariel]

True but im reminded of when legion did the same thing. sure you needed to have beaten the raid to see the changes but it was there and soon eventually everyone got to see them. same with the sword being stabbed in the world. its possible to do but the devs are never thinking about stuff like that.

Maybe they do, because they're professionnal you know. But maybe they don't have neither the time nor the ressources to do it or they decided to not do it for design reason.

[Gula]

Lali-ho/10, would recommend to all my friends.