Quote Originally Posted by Lium View Post
The bold part sort of invalidated your point because it comes off as a dig to "filthy casuals". For the record, I'm not upset about the new direction of this game, I just found it interesting.

If you read my OP I even said I've voluntarily gone back and done all the old raids just for fun. It's just odd that they would start requiring raids to advance in the MSQ, if they do indeed do more of that in the future.
Doesn't invalidate my point at all just because you dislike the way I phrased something. I'm also one of those 'filthy casuals' you claim I was talking about, as I'm no longer raiding Savage.

If you aren't upset about it, you're certainly coming off as such. Continuing to cite a statement SE made about 'only a small % do raids' also gives off the impression you dislike any possible 'direction' they're going in (they're not, btw) to making moderately more difficult content non-optional.

The only reason CT is required to advance this is because they made the decision to tie in one of the NPCs to the MSQ. They gave people plenty of time to do the raids as an optional thing, to enhance their ShB experience (while not forcing it, since there are options in dialogue for people who have not completed CT). Understanding what will come next in the MSQ is very likely to need some understanding of the original story in the CT raids and knowledge of who [redacted] is.

That decision is by no means pointing towards a future requirement to do optional raid content, though. And before you cite Bozja requiring the Ivalice raids - that is entirely optional content. Relic has been and will continue to be optional content.

There is very little possibility of the Mhachi raids tying in later unless we delve into the Void or need to learn about the Great Flood. Yorha is also not likely to be required for any MSQ in the future, as it was guest content (the same as how the Great Hunt is permanent guest content, but not required for anything). Ivalice is not required for the MSQ, only for an o p t i o n a l questline.

So stating that the raids are becoming forced content is more or less stating a lie. One raid out of the many, many 'raid' content we have is not all raid content becoming forced.


Quote Originally Posted by Adrameliya View Post
I miss the old Steps of Faith, I loved firing the cannons and dragon killer harpoons. It was fun and very chalenging, i'm still very disapointed they nerfed it so much.
I do as well. It wasn't even difficult content, it just required a fair amount of organization and communication - two things of which this community seems to avoid like the plague at times. The requirements of competency for it made the trial actually feel fairly stressful and epic, something that I think fit the 'end' of ARR and pulling us into Ishgard and its Dragonsong War. Nerfing it the way they've done has all but eliminated that feeling, which I feel has soured the experience overall. Same with how brain-dead CT is now - it wasn't ever 'hard', but it required some attention and communication before whereas now you can basically alt-tab to Netflix the entire time and no one will notice. (Granted this is due to ilevel creep, not nerfs. Still something that should be fixed all the same.)