What worked & what did not in FFXIV Megathread Discussion

[Kaliesto]

I thought I try something a bit experimental here if people want a mega discussion thread for all aspects of this game so far.

Basically what did you like and what did you not like? What could be done to improve it or it simply does not need a improvement?

-Gameplay
-Story
-anything else

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

By the wording, Im a lil confused if this is about the other Megathread, or is this is a NEW Megathread....
Regardless...

Well, no matter what you play, or just ANYTHING in life, can be improved. Nothing is ever Perfect.
Many people could like something, and many people can Dislike something. There is never going to be a 100% complete Consensuses the X thing is Perfect. There is ALWAYS a Flaw....

I very much Loved and Enjoyed my Time with Endwalker. Im pretty satisfied with the Conclusion with the 10 year Story and VERy excited to see where we go from here......
But at the same time, Endwalkers Story does have alot of issues with Pacing and some details, I whole-heartily agree with alot of people that: As much as I like the Endwalker we got...it DOES feel rushed.
We Should have gotten either 2 Expansions, or perhaps they could have structured the story differently: where our Journey to the Endsinger could be the Post Arc, with a Minor arc leading into 7.0 where have our current story with Golbez. And the 1st arc could have expanded on Garlemald.

And Personally, Im a fan of Hildibrand, and I love that its tied to this expansions Relic.
But ill admit, I do hope the final steps will have some tasks not just 1500 Tomes for 3 items. We had 2 explore zones back to back, I think its good we had a more simple Grind, but its not quite a "Grind" I think this could work ONCE. I dont think they could do this type of "grind" again. Even I might be kinda...meh about it again.

I also love that this expansion they have really tried new things. Granted they are flawed, but I have hope that this is just the beginning and they will improve on it in the future.
The New Deep Dungeon though......just...c'mon. Why did they do the stupid 30 floors thing they did on HoH. I was really hoping and excited for 100 Floors like PotD. Very Disappointed in that decision.

These are just some of my thoughts off the top of my head.
If I understood the thread correctly.

[Kaliesto]

You're good, you're on topic.

Basically everything about FFXIV so far at this point whether that is PVP, Deep Dungeon, the story etc.

I also wanted to see if we could clean up the english forum a bit and try the JPN approach by trying to stick to one topic about various things (I know that would be kind of hard to do thus experimental).

[kidknee]

Eureka orthos.. supercool. Hardcore players don't like it but i enjoyed the hell out of it. My first deep dungeon solo. I think this is more midcore friendly.
Not as extremely tough as HoH where you just cant attack certain mobs at all. Makes it frustrating with bad rng.
I hope they keep it that way.

Savage: not a fan of the direction in which it is going.

Extreme trials. Barbariccia best ex trial ever. Love the dodges. Love how you have to react to stuff rather than know everything before hand and do as per macro.

Island sanctuary: meh. Outdoor furnishing is good. Everything else is just checklist. I like that i get a lot of crafting materia for free as well as hi cordial.
Other than the rewards the content is not very inspiring , unless there is an event on my island with lots of guest players.

Dungeons are dull. i don't find willpower to even do the roulettes.

Criterian: just a savage raid but 4 man. Didn't try it because too burntout from abyssos. Lack of rewards made me not want to do it anyways. Don't wanna do math and study mechanics. It feels like doing homework but not getting any reward.

Ultimates: looks kinda hard and discouraging to do. Don't have time. I have a daughter so it's difficult to find time n clear ultimates.