Thread: JP interviews [pre-6.5]

Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

Yeah that's my conflict on the subject, too. I love the relics. They were my favorite content in ARR and especially HW. But part of the draw was that you had specific things to do to accomplish them.

Maybe they could consider offering relics for tomes after the first one is completed through a variety of specific steps. And not that we completionists need a carrot, but maybe you only get the achievement if you do it through the grind route. That way those who want the glam can get the glam with tomes and others can go the route with more involved steps and get rewarded for their effort.

I'd be okay with revisiting an ARR route, even Heavensward.

I'd also be okay if we had to do at least one through specific steps too, then it was made easier after.

Let's say for example that for the aether crystals for the anima, you did it once but afterwards you can get one of each for X amount of tomes, depending on if they use poetics or the prior tome currency.

Same thing with the memories in Bozja, instead of having to collect 20 of each every time, you could get them through the cluster exchange after completion. That way you could still interact with the environment and progress with other relics at the same time. (alternatively it could be relegated to poetics as well, for those not wanting to join cluster farms.)

This sounds harsh but I don't think they did a good job. The raids were very, very bland, and Euphrosyne in particular is the most boring alliance raid, possibly even more boring than Syrcus Tower in terms of mechanical complexity and innovation.

Honestly, alliance raids have been bad since after Orbone Monastery. I don't what happened between Stormblood and Shadowbringers, but boss mechanics in general started having way too much focus on animation cues and arena cleaves while not caring that there are 23 people in the group, they almost never use that fact to create mechanics.

• They settled on tomes due to looking at data for how many weapons were made by players in past relic content. Yoshi acknowledges though that: "However, there are some people who say that this reinforcement method is ``sloppy'', so it's difficult... Some people may dislike doing elaborate things like the old weapon enhancement content, while others may feel that the enhancement methods like this one are not enough. I think this is probably not compatible."
  
• They settled on tomes as these days playing multiple jobs is much more common, and they think tomes being something that naturally accumulates as you play makes it best suit your individual playstyle.
  
• The Manderville Relics have the highest completion rate of any relic so far. The more elaborate they make the relic content/grind, the fewer people make one.
  
• There is an inherent conflict between people that "enjoy weapon enhancement as content" and people that "want a system that makes it easy to obtain weapons". Satisfying both is very hard.
  
• They will take feedback into account for 7.x's relic series.

I'm not surprised it's tomes for the last step given Endwalker. I'm just going to get straight to it because this infuriated me.

I'm not sure how somebody wouldn't expect far, far more relic acquisitions with it being this way. There is literally ZERO extra effort involved. Do your roulettes, gg.

Our own methods? Like what? Do your daily roulettes or run the same easy msq dungeons hundreds of times, and no, the job design currently does not make up for it. The other content released in Endwalker doesn't give enough to justify doing them, and no one is running them outside of friend groups because there's close to no longevity with criterion as of current patch, and deep dungeon does not give enough exp to make people queue for it except for completion.

We already have what's supposed to be considered tome weapons. If there has to be a weapon obtainable through tomes this easily, make it that one. Tome cap or no tome cap.

If you really want to have a path like this available for players who don't want the grind. Simply make it an option. Not the only option, but an option. There's many of us who enjoy the grind to get them. If there isn't any sense of accomplishment from getting them, then it feels like there's no point other than it just being some weapon that glows.

• There's "more stuff" planned for the gap between 6.55 and 7.0 than they covered at NA Fan Fest. They'll talk more about it at the EU one. They need to spread out announcements and stuff since there are 3 Fan Fests again now.
  
• They have adjusted the rewards of Alliance Raid Roulette to be consistent with how much time you'd spend in a given instance to make up for the ilevel-cheese removal.
  
• The last Alliance Raid might be stronger than usual this time.
  
• Their data says a huge number of people have engaged with Variant Dungeons in their own way.
  
• The 6.51 Criterion dungeon will receive an increase in rewards compared to the past two. They will consider feedback on this before determining the 7.x Criterion rewards.
  
• There will be a title for clearing all 3 Criterion dungeons from 6.x, but they are considering how else they could reward that to see if they can get it in in time.
  
• PvP iteration will continue into 7.x, including CC, Frontlines, and Rival Wings.
  
• The Fall Guys collab will be limited time, periodic content and not a permanent fixture.

These, however, are good to hear.

I'm interested to see what's in store between 6.55 and 7.0 to hold us over, especially knowing the trial will be released sometime after JP fanfest now.

I hope the new alliance is more challenging than Aglaia, at least. Please don't release an alliance raid as easy as Euphrosyne again.

I've been waiting for the exp rewards being adjusted in alliance raid roulette for what feels like forever, I'm happy with decision. Thank you for removing IL cheese as well.

Criterion feedback being noted and seeing that the feedback is actually being heard, considered worked upon is wonderful, I've been enjoying the details on these subjects regardless of if I'm happy with the statements or not. The insight is invaluable and I'd like it to continue.

I'm happy that the pvp changes are here to stay, I've been enjoying it much more since they launched. Please add crowd control resist in frontlines, though. I don't mind when jobs have quirks to them like DRK's pull, but if I literally do not have the resources to survive because they can just abuse it and delete my entire alliance in a fraction of a second due to pre-mades, it becomes unfun.

I'm a little disappointed the fall guys collaboration isn't going to stay, but I can understand why it won't be.