Positives

[RinaB]

I know a lot of players have grievances with healing or DRK or Wuk but I wanted to hear what the community likes about this expac. I'm a DRK main so yes it's a struggle but aside from that and the horrible wuk story here's a list of what I love in DT:
- the music is better then ever
- the graphics upgrade is really awesome
- the new class armor seems really good for all jobs
- the new zones are beautifu, we can all agree S9 is awesomesauce
- the dungeons are great
- the raids imo are more fun then ever.
What do ya'll think?

[Carin-Eri]

I know a lot of players have grievances with healing or DRK or Wuk but I wanted to hear what the community likes about this expac. I'm a DRK main so yes it's a struggle but aside from that and the horrible wuk story here's a list of what I love in DT:
- the music is better then ever
- the graphics upgrade is really awesome
- the new class armor seems really good for all jobs
- the new zones are beautifu, we can all agree S9 is awesomesauce
- the dungeons are great
- the raids imo are more fun then ever.
What do ya'll think?

Agree on all points.

- The music is amazing: I absolutely LOVE the 'Alexandria' dungeon music and 'Interphos' boss music (though actually prefer the music for the first half of it), and 'Give it All' from Arcadion is an absolute banger! And I'll confess, as unpopular as it may be here, I find 'Smile' easy listening too.
- Pretty impressed with the graphics - I enjoy how it makes my character look very slightly more mature than she previously did.
- I've liked what I've seen of the class armour, but haven't unlocked too many of them yet.
- Zones are gorgeous and there are a lot of backdrops that lend themselves very well to Gpose.
- Dungeons.... well, I'm a low skill player and find them challenging. But that IS a positive in my book! Same applies to the Raids, for me at least.

And I'll add the two new jobs to my list; whilst have only just really started Pictomancer, I levelled Viper to 100 and am really enjoying it.

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[RinaB]

I agree with you completely. As soon as I saw Alexandria theme I smiled

[Uncle_Jafar]

I like the visual upgrades of older content, especially raids and dungeons.

[hynaku]

Only positives I liked are graphics update and the free fantasia.

[DubiousDisk]

The music is incredible, I was so happy when I first heard "Give it Your All" cause as a fan of her music, I immediately recognized it was Chrissy Costanza.

The current DT dungeons are also imo the best they've been since Stormblood, a great mix of variety and challenge, just enough to keep a new player engaged.

[aTanpopo]

Pictomancer is incredibly fun

[Sorimachi87]

Graphic update in general, big fan of density with fog, steam etc.
MSQ had a few headscratchers but it was fine as it is.
Music is amazing
Dungeons are nice
Also pictomancer and the new skills <3

I am excited for space exploration and continuation of the MSQ. It could go anywhere from now on really.

[Midare]

Lalafell just keep winning at lore.

[Jeeqbit]

I thought the MSQ about traveling the land and retracing the sort of steps Gulool Ja Ja took was good. I really enjoyed going up through Urqopacha, and I think when the giants discussed their dreams that's when I was like "that's the fantasy that had been missing up until that point". Oh, and actually meeting the person we thought might be long dead.

The earlier zones were great - Kozama'uka, Urqopacha, Yak T'el and Shaaloani.

I think the music isn't "better than ever" but rather "just as good as usual". There are very few tracks in this game that aren't amazing and deserving of historical reverence. Then again, perhaps most people who make music lack inspiration (ie. they only know relationship breakups) whereas Soken has all the events of the story to draw inspiration from.

The content is fun and I'm glad some things have been walked back like smaller hitboxes and allowing tanks to position more. I'm also glad to see a continuation of trying to make new tank busters like they did in EW. The new hunt mechanics are great too! If you fight them with a low enough turnout, most people just die to the mechanics and that's fun to me. There are some new dungeon mechanics that are annoying (like the enemies running around constantly), but this is what people asked for (removing the obsession with uptime and making things require more attention) so it is what it is.

Beside the hunt mechanics being better than ever, I also like the spawn conditions are not just tedious kill hundreds of enemies or gather 10 people type conditions or farm 200 times for a minion you can't buy.

The super FATE mechanics seem more threatening than almost any we've had - frankly, many of them have been kind of a joke before. Some people could die to Chi and the mechanics were a step up from prior expansions, but to me it wasn't really much threat. Diavadipa was threatning but relatively simple and easy. Formidable was only a threat if you didn't figure out the hitbox was safe. Every other FATE was kind of a joke with simple in-out-conal type stuff except Odin and Archaeotania which had extra mechanics that left most people dead. But with the new ones you can have it "on farm" all you want but if you lapse on the memory or attention in the slightest you're probably going to get killed.

The graphics update, honestly, isn't spectacular or anything, but it's nice to see the graphics not flickering anymore due to proper anti-aliasing and the newer areas look good, so I look forward to the revamp of older areas/content in the patches. I also like the new faces not being blurred due to low resolution anymore.