Goodbye Shadowbringers

[Gemina]

They changed divination to just be a button due to its inconsistency and maybe some people struggling with a speedy opener? But they then added that inconsistency to your personal dps buff instead. The luck of the draw means a lot less now the cards all do the exact same thing, and it's only going to frustrate people that are trying to do as high dps as possible. Put that damage buff from the third diff seal to the second one and move another non dmg giving buff there. So you can keep your luck but not have the bad luck be as punishing to deal with. Either let me mitigate the bad luck a bit or make my horrible luck less punishing. I can get 9 of the wrong seal in a row when I will just redraw endlessly out of sheer wonderment in how bad my luck could possibly be xD

Also 2 stacks is plenty

Nah, devs couldn't care less about healer burst windows lining up with the rest of the party. I would say it had more to do with acknowledging that ASTs card mech should only affect them, and as you pointed out, that inconsistency just transfers over to Astrodyne.

The seal system needs to work the way I laid out. You should not be able to get the best result from the easiest to obtain seal configuration. Again, it just defeats the purpose of having that mechanic. You get a damage increase no matter what with the haste buff being guaranteed. It should be very rewarding to get that third wanted seal considering the RNG that gates it.

I'm a bit tossed between two and three stacks of Draw. With redraw completely gone; it should be three. Leaving stacks at 2 can potentially penalize the AST if healing takes their focus from the cards. If the devs want healers to heal, then don't penalize them for doing so.

I also thought about Sleeve Draw consuming all 3 charges to give you your seals straight away. This would allow for Astrodyne to be used during openers. Astrodyne would need to be made conditional though and taken off the CD and given a 1s recast, with its only requirement being that the AST acquires three seals.

[shao32]

Decent history only on the ascians revelation part, great music as usual and stuning art desing are the only good atributes i grant to SHB.
Destroying DRK unique gameplay to become a WAR rip off, destroying SCH gameplay, oversimplification on the tank role, the oversimplification and poor downtime gameplay of Healers, several cut content like dungeons, tribes and relic with no improvements on the new ones as they said, simplification of savages and extremes more easy that ever, no last ultimate, add 2 new races that have get absolutely no updates during the entire expansion while the rest gets updates like normal, no deep dungeons and the deceived of becoming the Warrior of Darkness being just a matter of semantics without practical effect makes Shadowbringer for me the worst expansion i ever had.
Yeah yeah smooth release and such but content wise and Tank-Healer gameplay wise apart of customization on the new races has been just terrible and im glad this charade of expansion ends, i will see how Endwalker handle it but for now in terms of DRK, SCH and Healers in general looks like the same lack of care from Yoshi-p and Kei Sato.

In resume goodbye Shadowbringer, i hate you so much and you aren't going to be missed for me, good riddance.

[Vahlnir]

anyways think its safe to prepare a fantasia before it?

Yeah, it usually is. I've never heard of anyone losing their fantasia this way. I will be doing the same. They are finally giving me the Midlander face I've wanted for 2 expansions now. lol

[Novae]

Goodbye ShB. 5.0 was a blast, I'll miss the First a lot.

ShB ++:

- 5.0 MSQ, characters, music, art, mood, everything really except for the trolley. Innocence theme was brilliant.
- Shb wasn't about that boring Empire. It had amazing lore and really changed the way we see Ascians.
- Eden
- Glamours
- SoS trial
- The very first time I stepped in Amaurot ( both city and dungeon).
- Bozja and Zadnor

ShB +-

- Ishgard resto ( I enjoyed it but I think it was a bit overtuned XP wise)
- Nier (great glam, music, a few good fights but overall, way under Ivalice)
- Beast tribes ( Qitari bored me to death, loved the Pixies and Dwarves tho)
- Relic weapons (Way too late, first weapon was too cheap and easy to get, questionnable finale designs coughSCHcough))
- Delubrum ( great doom mechanic, but painful without essences).

ShB --

- Expert roulette (2 dungeons /patch is the real mindkiller)
- EX Weapons (design and fight only, I really enjoyed the story)
- Fandaniel and Graha Tia reborn.
- 5.4 MSQ (I couldnt care less after all we've experienced in Norvrand)
- 5.5/55 MSQ ( not because of the narrative but because it failed to hype me for EW)
- The Amaurot dungeon ( I know, it was in my ++ section, but I haven't touched the 80 roulette in months because of this dungeon. AoE fest, level synced, terrible players, I just can't do it anymore).
- No love for my Viera.

[Lunalepsy]

Bye... let's suffer another cycle of random stuff!

[juicybug]

still sad we got NO ff8 inspired armors or accessories just a few nods here and there

[Kozh]

Goodbye shadowbringers, the first expac I genuinely despise.

I was actually throughly enjoying it until I reach the moment where my favorite character was done very dirty. Hmm actually I might have suspected it since the start because of how obvious (and forced fed) the "self sacrifice for the next generation" trope is, but I tried to lie to myself.

That being said, I still really appreciate the devs works. Music and art are phenomenal as always. Weapon storyline amd Bozja are my favorite, along with their fights too.

Not a fan of tanks and healers being homogenized though.

[HyperSMB]

Goodbye ShB. You absolutely WRECKED healers and took away one of the things I genuinely enjoyed. Your storyline was weak (SB was worse I'll grant you that) but your raid was pretty dope. Not Alex good, but certainly passable. Nier raid sucked unholy wind. Never again.

All in all, you will not be missed by me. May the First rot where I don't have to interact with it again. Also, Holminster Switch can die in a fire.

[_Pigzig]

i cant do it i cant finish these patch quests its too many words words words
go on without me im gonna play sage