I'm not excited about the future patch at all. Just one dungeon?

[Taybat]

First off I want to say how much I love this game. FFXIV has been my home. I hate take a break but, considering the future patch just has one dungeon and a raid. There is not alot content for players like me who don't craft or gather. While I do like the gathering and crafting system. And appreciate how they made it more approachable. It is still not content that I enjoy. And I'm upset that this is the way we are getting our relic gear. It's almost as bad a Eureka. (which is something that I never had time for or enjoyed. If I wanted to play ff11 I would just go play ff11)
I don't understand. Shadowbringers was a super successful expansion it brought in so much money. But it seems we are getting less content for it not more. Meanwhile we still have a healer shortage and the two new races have limitations. While I appreciate the devs for what they do. I feel like the higher ups need to be willing to have more time and money put into the game.
I know I'm going to get alot negative comments for this. But I just want to give out my feedback.

[Valic]

1 dungeon, 1 trial, a new set of raids, more incentive to learn something new and try something different since crafting/gathering has been completely redone. Diadem finally serving a purpose, and more MSQ.. I think that's enough for me anyways, even if I don't craft/gather. More adjustments to pvp could even mean they might return 24 man pvp back since its clearly reduced the queue time significantly. For all we know, they might be reserving resources to work on things like craftable GNB/DNC weps and hey, maybe male viera and fem hrothgar :V

Oh, and a new difficulty on EX's... so there's that.

[purgatori]

1 dungeon, 1 trial, a new set of raids, more incentive to learn something new and try something different since crafting/gathering has been completely redone. Diadem finally serving a purpose, and more MSQ.. I think that's enough for me anyways, even if I don't craft/gather. More adjustments to pvp could even mean they might return 24 man pvp back since its clearly reduced the queue time significantly. For all we know, they might be reserving resources to work on things like craftable GNB/DNC weps and hey, maybe male viera and fem hrothgar :V

Oh, and a new difficulty on EX's... so there's that.

I tried the crafting rework & Ishgard Restoration. For someone who hates micromanagement, it's still a no-go.

Ex trials are already too difficult/frustrating for me. The amount of times I've attempted to PUG Ex Ramuh without success *shudder*.

PVP is a chaotic bore that I only do for the XP & glamours.

I do Normal raids for the story, and then never again, except through roulettes. Same with Normal trials.

So, yeah, from my vantage point if they want to strip away dungeons I'm going to be looking for something else to fill the void, and I don't think that anything I've heard yet is going to qualify, unless the new Eureka somehow isn't terrible, and is viable for solo players.

[Valic]

I tried the crafting rework & Ishgard Restoration. For someone who hates micromanagement, it's still a no-go.

Ex trials are already too difficult/frustrating for me. The amount of times I've attempted to PUG Ex Ramuh without success *shudder*.

PVP is a chaotic bore that I only do for the XP & glamours.

I do Normal raids for the story, and then never again, except through roulettes. Same with Normal trials.

So, yeah, from my vantage point if they want to strip away dungeons I'm going to be looking for something else to fill the void, and I don't think that anything I've heard yet is going to qualify, unless the new Eureka somehow isn't terrible, and is viable for solo players.

Ex trials like Ramuh being difficult/frustrating worries me for you... Ramuh you could unsync and solo, all of the ARR trials tbh. If you're pugging Ramuh EX and unync'ing, just tell people not to put dots on it and kill the adds first, then continue.... PVP is only chaotic if you don't understand what's happening or take the time to learn how to strategize. Tbh, reading through the whole post, it doesn't sound like you really enjoy much of FFXIV as a whole... it might just not be the game for you. They're right, we already have plenty of dungeons and removing 1 less dungeon per patch isn't going to solve your issue with the game if dungeons are the only form of acceptable content you can manage to do or enjoy.

[NessaWyvern]

I tried the crafting rework & Ishgard Restoration. For someone who hates micromanagement, it's still a no-go.

Ex trials are already too difficult/frustrating for me. The amount of times I've attempted to PUG Ex Ramuh without success *shudder*.

PVP is a chaotic bore that I only do for the XP & glamours.

I do Normal raids for the story, and then never again, except through roulettes. Same with Normal trials.

To be honest, if you don't like this much of the game, maybe you should play another game, and I mean that in a nice way.

I've been playing almost non-stop for 6 years, and there's a reason for that. I love raids, extreme, (I would love Savage too if I had a static T^T), dungeons are okay, but they have gotten dull, I love the gold saucer stuff, gathering and crafting, PvP (even if it needs improvement), Heck, I even loved the original diadem.
When I get bored of one thing in this game, I can easily switch to another.
If you only like dungeons, then honestly, you may need to find another game which is more dungeon heavy.

[Averax]

1 dungeon, 1 trial, a new set of raids.

Two trials, actually. One's secret (and also won't be getting an EX version)

[Theodric]

We're actually getting two trials for 5.2, not just one.

[VenKitsune]

We're actually getting two trials for 5.2, not just one.

Well yes...A normal mode, and an extreme. What's new? Thats how its always been.
Not only that but it was marked "(Tentative)" - Does that mean the name is tentative? Or is it not 100% we're even getting a trial lol.

There are currently 73 dungeons in the game. 71 if you take out Praetorium and Castrum Meridanium. That's a LOT of dungeons.

Most of which aren't relevant.
There are currently 46 raids in the game, 97 if you include all difficulties.
So does that mean we dont need any more raids anymore?

No, of course it doesn't. This is a budget cut, plain and simple. And considering well over 2/3rds of the player base is casual in nature, they've basically reduced the ammount of casual content in each patch by 50%

[Mansion]

Well yes...A normal mode, and an extreme. What's new? Thats how its always been.
Not only that but it was marked "(Tentative)" - Does that mean the name is tentative? Or is it not 100% we're even getting a trial lol.

The Ruby Weapon (Normal and Extreme) and a "secret" possibly MSQ related trial: that's 3 trials.

[Kisshu]

The Ruby Weapon (Normal and Extreme) and a "secret" possibly MSQ related trial: that's 3 trials.

Wasn't it presented the same way for the secret trial as Kugane Ohashi was?
Would be nice if we're getting more Hildabrand trials, 2.x had three trial fights in the questline and then we had to wait till Kugane Ohashi for the next.