Starlight Celebration 2024

[Basteala]

This might be a hot take but I hate how instant gratification the quests are, too. Like you do maybe one or two quests in the seasonal questline to get the goodies, and that's it. It's treated like an aether currency questline and I'm kind of not a fan.

Lmao isn't the chocobo kinda almost obsolete content that they abandoned? They need to give the chocobos some love......

I think it was the valentine's event that had 2 players do puzzles together that was actually cute...

I don't think I ever got to do that one and now I'm sad.

[Rinoa_353]

This might be a hot take but I hate how instant gratification the quests are, too. Like you do maybe one or two quests in the seasonal questline to get the goodies, and that's it. It's treated like an aether currency questline and I'm kind of not a fan.



I don't think I ever got to do that one and now I'm sad.

It was almost two years ago that came out and it really was cute when I went with my partner. I hope they bring it back this upcoming Valentine's Day.

[VeyaAkemi]

Lmao isn't the chocobo kinda almost obsolete content that they abandoned? They need to give the chocobos some love...

The Chocobo is one of the most consistently useful features in the game, due to the usefulness of Bicolor Gemstones, having a pocket Healer makes FATE farming substantially more bearable solo, and gives some jobs something to bounce off of , like a DNC will be able to Partner their Chocobo and make their skills work properly in otherwise solo situations. I do think Chocobos could afford to be buffed, it doesn't operate well at all roles like it is supposed to and Tank Chocobo is completely useless due to its enmity generation being far to weak to hold aggro of a level 100 DPS, but it's hardly "almost obsolete".

Oh, and also the fact that the Company Chocobo is the only customizable mount in the game and all Bardings apply to it as a mount is great to some people.

[Rueby]

The Chocobo is one of the most consistently useful features in the game, due to the usefulness of Bicolor Gemstones, having a pocket Healer makes FATE farming substantially more bearable solo, and gives some jobs something to bounce off of , like a DNC will be able to Partner their Chocobo and make their skills work properly in otherwise solo situations. I do think Chocobos could afford to be buffed, it doesn't operate well at all roles like it is supposed to and Tank Chocobo is completely useless due to its enmity generation being far to weak to hold aggro of a level 100 DPS, but it's hardly "almost obsolete".

Oh, and also the fact that the Company Chocobo is the only customizable mount in the game and all Bardings apply to it as a mount is great to some people.

So, the only functional job the chocobo has is just healer and you can only play dress up with it? I feel like when they did the stat squish in EW my chocobo felt abit weaker in terms of heals, but it could be just me. It would be nice to see them revisit the chocobo, give it buffs and/or more skills/levels beyond 10. I've never seen anyone using the chocobo as a mount so it feels the dress up is really niche unless you're grinding gemstones all the time.

I think chocobos are adorable but it makes me sad that the only content they get is just dress up.

I guess I meant obsolete in terms that they're not getting any buffs/abilities and their useage is pretty niche, in my opinion I guess. Perhaps obsolete is improper.

[CVXIV]

So, the only functional job the chocobo has is just healer and you can only play dress up with it? I feel like when they did the stat squish in EW my chocobo felt abit weaker in terms of heals, but it could be just me. It would be nice to see them revisit the chocobo, give it buffs and/or more skills/levels beyond 10. I've never seen anyone using the chocobo as a mount so it feels the dress up is really niche unless you're grinding gemstones all the time.

I think chocobos are adorable but it makes me sad that the only content they get is just dress up.

I guess I meant obsolete in terms that they're not getting any buffs/abilities and their useage is pretty niche, in my opinion I guess. Perhaps obsolete is improper.

I like using my chocobo, though I typically stick with the motorcycle because it being faster by default until I get riding maps

I believe it's only tank that is really useless in terms of the stance it can have
You almost always want it to be attacker or healer
Whenever I am a healer I have it attack, otherwise it heals
It can be helpful in some of the open world content when you don't have a reliable way to heal, especially if you make its favorite food the mimett gourds

I do agree that the dressup part is pretty niche, and I would like to see them look back at the companion and see what can be done with making it more useful but it still has its uses as is

I was pretty happy I got mine to level 20 finally, it helped with shared fates in Tural

[Khryseis_Astra]

This year's Starlight celebration has a new area called Starlight Stalls and it's pretty cute for gposing and more. I would say it's an improvement from the typical quest they have for events :3

They made a whole area? Like Sneaky Hollows?

I can’t wait to get home and do the event!

[LaylaTsarra]

The new space is really nice. The rewards are pretty typical fare. I'll do it on my main and some of my alts not all of them. I don't really use my chocobo that much.

[Ephremjlm]

It's cool that it's an instanced area, but like again it's ALL aesthetic based. Where is the gameplay loop? This would have been awesome to incorporate some kind of fate system or roaming notorious christmas monster pop, or idk random item pop hunt of some kind. Like SOMETHING that involves actually PLAYING the game. This is just fetch quests, albeit prettier.

Also, im gonna keep harping on this because its kinda garbage, but where are the actual holiday items that people want for housing like Christmas Trees. They are already made assets, just put them in the game for these events. The only ones they have are from 2014 and 2015, and apparently one from 2018 which are obviously now on the store, and the handful you could maybe find on the marketboard from then are 20mil a piece. Same with the other holiday items. And did you notice? On the item text this year it says "marketboard prohibited" meaning that they are trying to maximize the cash shop roi by gatekeeping content for the game. That's utter trash considering that this constantly updated content is supposed to be what our sub is paying for, meaning that they're double dipping with our subs to create limited time cash shop items and labeling that as content. Like wtf man, this is why people who aren't afk'ers, or RP'ers are leaving. Even then apparently RP'ers have their gripes but idk the ins and outs of that.

[MsQi]

Lmao isn't the chocobo kinda almost obsolete content that they abandoned? They need to give the chocobos some love......

I think it was the valentine's event that had 2 players do puzzles together that was actually cute...

Not sure how it could be considered obsolete or abandoned unless they said there would be more to it. Sure people have wanted more. Sure it could be improved, but the bird functions and is consistently useful. They keep giving us new outfits so that aspect is not abandoned. It’s not like Grand companies where there are several ranks that aren’t available. There may have been the intention of more companions, but the chocobo seems to be what they intended it to be.

They do seem to have given up on group and repeatable content for holidays. I don’t recall any dungeons or FATES this year. This little RP area could be something if they actually expand on it.

[Shikiseki]

I really liked the extra area they included this time, with the vendors and all ^^ . I think it would have been cool to include some stall mini games but I guess that's really pushing it haha