Quote Originally Posted by Volgia View Post
Right but here we are again, Dawntrail's treatment to job design is just Endwalker's treatment to job design, you can critique (and i'll agree with you) that DT didn't add anything exciting to the jobs, but that's coming out of the worst expansion in FF14, and not on Dawntrail, the expansion which at least gave us, so far, better content.
Currently, I would give DT 6 instances, and a few bosses of "better content". The two Trials and their Extremes, the Raids, and a handful of interesting fights in Dungeons. The rest of it is NOT any better. The dungeons themselves are still the same slog they always are, and use the same boring mechanics, outside of some notable improvements. The final Trial, regrettably, as cool as it very much was, immediately hits negative points with "sphene." and everything after that.

Graphically, the instances are very well done. I do like the LOOKS of the dungeons. But judging an MMO by how things look isn't going to get you many points in the good column. But as for other non-combat content? Even the open world feels more lacking than usual. Oh, there's plenty of style, but zero substance. They're wide open expanses with literally nothing in them. The FATES basically function like open world bandit camps. If this was an actual open world game, I'd say those are the places you go to get your randomly dropping greys, or more realistically, those are the places that annoy you as you try to drive past them in your vehicle.

I cannot think of a single thing DT actually does better than any other expansion, if I'm being completely frank. Because everything they are currently doing still actually pales in comparison to the offerings of other expansions. When you compare the EXs to something like Thordan, Nidhogg, or Shinryu, they don't surpass them. When you compare the Raids to some of the fights in Alex, or even Eden, they're equal, but not superior.

So even the very best parts of this expansion still aren't better than the previous expansions, and the worst parts of this expansion drag it down HARD.