How to Make The New Field Content Fun For All.

[Valence]

Essences in concept I have nothing against, but in eureka they were an absolute nightmare to get for a lot of them at release, and the scarcity felt like I had no choice but to spend millions on the marketboard to counter my bad luck at stupid bunny fates that only accepted 8 players out of the 150 in the instance at a time. I legit spent so much money in pyros that I still have nightmares about it. Everything legitimately felt like gacha mechanics to me.

Anyway, they can do whatever they want with field content, I never liked it even if eureka had a great vibe, because it is essentially designed to be a huge grind, and I hate grinding with a passion. I hate fates, I was bored of Eureka's NMs or Bozjas encounters after having done them once each, duels were so gated it was only realistically possible to get into them the first days when everybody was failing at CEs. It's the bottom of the barrel of game design and I'll die on that hill. On the other hand, if our reptilian brains like it, then great for them, and I won't argue against SE to invest resources into that part of the game.

The only thing I wanted out of those field operations were two things:
- story, because I like stories
- relics, because SE has so far never been able to come up with a fair system where you either can grind them inside those field operations, or casually outside with tomestones by doing roulettes and other types of content you actually enjoy.


In short, and while I don't dismiss the thin possibility to have fun gameplay in field operations that isn't boring fate grind or mob grind where the only joy I have is actually listening to the history of rome podcast in order to stay awake (praise be to that podcast when I went through pre nerf eureka in SB, you saved my sanity), all I'm asking is to have a story progression that's not longer than Bozja to go through (and it was already long enough, but compared to the literal months of eureka for almost no story whatsoever, I'll take it), and relics that I can realistically get from side content that I actually enjoy, I'll be fine I guess.