Out of touch? PLL

[Supersnow845]

I physically don’t know how to explain to you guys that tacking on artificial pointless grinds to the functional end of life of a piece of content doesn’t constitute more content in most people’s eyes and going “but have you completed POTD solo blindfolded on AST using a DDR controller” just isn’t content to most people

For most people who enjoyed Bozja Bozja ends at dalriada, not 10/10/10 (and I have 10/10/10 so don’t even go there), same as eureka ends with BA , not all elemental armour Cassie, the speed belt and the optical hat (again I have all these I’m proving a point), IR ends with the completion of the firmament and its use as a levelling tool, not when you get the pterodactyl mount

And let’s go beyond that and say these pointless end of life grinds are content, EW still sucked at providing them, about the only one it had was that mount from IS that’s unlocked from FF and that you can’t even force, you basically have to AFK to let it fill itself over time

So dismissing lack of content criticism because of the tacked on end of life grind is bad by itself but then EW was also terrible at even providing that

And that’s from someone who’d rank pretty highly on the “I’ve done most of these weird pointless grinds anyway”

[Miki_L]

Instead of asking for more content that can be done with minimal upfront investment (the actual definition of casual content, not difficulty) in addition to the midcore content (extremes are midcore, deal with it), we are saying that the devs hyperfocus on raiders when casuals for the longest time have not been clear what they want from this game. When raiders called EW mid, toxic casuals called them farming negativity because they liked the 6.0 story. Now we are in Endwalker 2 and the story sucks and toxic casuals are saying the same thing that was said in Endwalker.

The game should be fun for everyone and should be designed for people who actually want to play the game. Ask for MORE content and not content at expense of someone else, because you can't be bothered to put in the effort to do it.

[SeriousPan]

Sometimes I wish they just gave us a relic weapon grind at the .1 patch and made it progress with every major patch afterwards. Nice grind for people to do and you get a cool weapon that can be relevant for each patch. Maybe not the BiS weapon or anything. Make it the best weapon you can get by the end of the expansion perhaps? Just something to do between patches for people who are looking for something to do that can also increase player power.

[Stasya]

Even "savage" alliance turns out to be JUST ONE BOSS (with recycled models/mechanics). 95% this is yet another criterion like instance with materia reward.

Devs out of touch? You hear alliance you might think it's like 3 bosses in one instance separated by trash (it can be irrevelent, but still). No, this looks like oversized extreme ...

7.1 should drop bozja asap or it's going to be no content patch unless you are going to do ultimate (which is probably end of November lol)

[CuteBucket]

[me, a person who plays everything from mega-casual to hardcore and everything in between]

I just want all the new content, of whatever level, to be good and fun. That was a problem during the Endwalker patches. I had fun with the Pandaemonium raids for the hardcore side of things. But the new casual content they added with Island Sanctuary wasn't very good or fun, and the second and third Alliance raids were notably lackluster with very boring mechanics even for casual content and pretty much everyone I've talked to hated the story. Midcore content? lmao, where?? Grind the EX trials for ugly mounts I don't want, apparently. EX trials may be midcore, but if that is the ONLY midcore thing to do all expansion, that hurts. I wanted something to do besides log in for raid night twice a week, and they gave me nothing.

[KageTokage]

For ages I've really wanted them to add proper hard modes for dungeons with a difficulty level akin to the stuff you encounter in the exploratory zones.

Higher difficulty that is not overly reliant on body checks and precise positioning like what Criterion offered would be the optimal middle ground to me IMO. Something that is easy enough to jump into without reading guides, but still difficult enough to require you to have your brain turned on and make full use of your job's kit.

[Asari5]

For ages I've really wanted them to add proper hard modes for dungeons with a difficulty level akin to the stuff you encounter in the exploratory zones.

Higher difficulty that is not overly reliant on body checks and precise positioning like what Criterion offered would be the optimal middle ground to me IMO. Something that is easy enough to jump into without reading guides, but still difficult enough to require you to have your brain turned on and make full use of your job's kit.

this. exactly my opinion.
i'm bored of the dungeons (including a-raids nowadays) we have while savage content doesnt really appeal to me with their mechanic design

[Sotaris]

For ages I've really wanted them to add proper hard modes for dungeons with a difficulty level akin to the stuff you encounter in the exploratory zones.

Higher difficulty that is not overly reliant on body checks and precise positioning like what Criterion offered would be the optimal middle ground to me IMO. Something that is easy enough to jump into without reading guides, but still difficult enough to require you to have your brain turned on and make full use of your job's kit.

That's something I miss from the ARR-HW era. When we got "hard mode" variants of dungeons. At the time, it was different even if we outpaced them quickly with tome upgrades.

[CKNovel]

For ages I've really wanted them to add proper hard modes for dungeons with a difficulty level akin to the stuff you encounter in the exploratory zones.

Higher difficulty that is not overly reliant on body checks and precise positioning like what Criterion offered would be the optimal middle ground to me IMO. Something that is easy enough to jump into without reading guides, but still difficult enough to require you to have your brain turned on and make full use of your job's kit.

I really want WoW Mythic dungeons in XIV.
Basically the dungeons have levels, from level 1 bosses have additional mechanics, from level 4 they get an extra buff and so on...
On top of that, there's a timer that gets reduced by the number of KO. If you fail the timer, you still get to finish the instance and some reward.

Criterion Extreme was good but the savage difficulty is so annoying barely anyone wants to engage with it.

[kinslayer-]

I like to collect costmetic and glams stuff from all the expac but DT has been disastrous to give me something cool to farm or invest time, and for the record:
*I'm 10/10/9 with the Al-Ikill (i had to sit HOURS farming the MDK fate) i could go 10/10/10 tonight if i wanted to.
*Don't care about trusts, i like to play with real people.
*Done with Eureka and BA, got Ozma, got elemental and fending sets +1, not a fan of the other sets looks.
*Level 25 in island, every gear set (i'm not sure what was the dificult on those) got the two bikes doing the riveting gameplay of clicking nodes.
*EW relics literally complete themselves by doing just roulettes every day, i just finished 8-9 by just doing roulettes.
*7.0 MSQ?, we better not talk about this one, it's pretty hard to take it seriously and by the look, it will be more of the same.

So the only thing left for me it's either complete a 4th ARR relic or farm EW mounts (not interested in those DT wings) while i wait for Field Operations, it's one of the few contents that make feel this game a mmo. And it's funny, lets say yes, you have all the cards, all the secret pets in IS, all spells/gatherers whatever, all the hunts mounts i can bet all my gil that your answer would be the ol' reliable "well, dude touch grass or unsub lmao".

And cheking people's lodestone profiles for a "gotcha" is very weird btw