Hildibrand content cut to ONE quest

[Daralii]

I loved the quest, but yeah... where is the rest? What am I supposed to do until the next patch?

Forum says casuals are too stupid for Chaotic raid anyway, but even if I tried that content, what else am I supposed to do now? Run treasuremaps for 290491st time?

I feel content-starved.

The next patch isn't until late March or early April, so either do what Yoshida said and play something else(but please don't retire) or run FRU/chaotic with PF groups for the better part of 4 months.

[Jeeqbit]

I recall this Hildibrand thing being a thing the "Fans wanted more of" and they graced us with more of this. I would really want to know if its because of a huge outcry from the fanbase or because the devs just want to push this on us.

I absolutely, thoroughly guarantee you it is because most players want more Hilidibrand.

I've been around a long time. People really, really liked Hilidibrand and wanted more of it. The developers stopped making it, because from their perspective it had run its course and they were running out of ideas. But people kept asking for more of it and wondering where it had gone in Shadowbringers. It was a popular selling point to sprouts as well, who were often recommended to also complete Hildibrand.

So they indicated they would continue it with the camero in The Heroes' Gauntlet and said how they just needed to gather more inspiration for it. They actually said it's very taxing for them to produce it (probably as much in terms of animation as in having to find fresh ideas), so they wouldn't keep doing it if it hadn't been heavily requested.

[Remarus]

I absolutely, thoroughly guarantee you it is because most players want more Hilidibrand.

I've been around a long time. People really, really liked Hilidibrand and wanted more of it. The developers stopped making it, because from their perspective it had run its course and they were running out of ideas. But people kept asking for more of it and wondering where it had gone in Shadowbringers. It was a popular selling point to sprouts as well, who were often recommended to also complete Hildibrand.

So they indicated they would continue it with the camero in The Heroes' Gauntlet and said how they just needed to gather more inspiration for it. They actually said it's very taxing for them to produce it (probably as much in terms of animation as in having to find fresh ideas), so they wouldn't keep doing it if it hadn't been heavily requested.

People were *very* angry throughout ShB that we didn't have a Hildi questline.

[ZephyrMenodora]

After having to do the entire Hildebrand questline for EW Relic....I would be fine if that storyline never returned. I hope it never becomes necessary again as I'm going back to ignoring it.

[Absurdity]

After having to do the entire Hildebrand questline for EW Relic....I would be fine if that storyline never returned. I hope it never becomes necessary again as I'm going back to ignoring it.

Same here.
The original ARR questline was okay, it was a novel thing at the time, but that novelty had already run out by Heavensward for me. I had to force myself through the, in my opinion, incredibly unfunny HW and SB questlines and after it returned in Endwalker I just decided to skip everything to save myself from actually cringing every cutscene.

Hot take but the best part of Hildibrand was the spin-off Scholasticate questline that didn't even involve the two bumbling idiots.

[Doki]

Patch 7.15 Supplemental, Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) release date: Dec. 24, 2024
Patch 7.16 release date: Jan. 21, 2025

Guestimated releases after that:
Patch 7.2 release date: March 2025
Patch 7.3 release date: July 2025
Patch 7.4 release date: November 2025
Patch 7.5 release date: April 2026

So yeah, I guess we just do nothing else new til March or more likey later than that with the drip-feed state) NEAT.

[Remarus]

so hildibrand is now cut to just 1 quest? After all the complaints about no content they keep promising us more stuff and cutting it back more and more. what is going on at SE...? are they bankrupt or something. where is our sub money going?! like i have been looking forward to this since DT released and all i get is 1 quest?

The Stormblood Hildi quest for 4.1 was only a single quest, for what it's worth, and then it went back to two each patch moving forward.

[Rueby]

I hope they don't make that awful questline mandatory again because being forced to go through it just to get relics was really cheap and I hated them for it. I wanted to take my time with it because the slapstick humor wasn't doing it for me...but instead I got it shoved down my throat if I wanted to get relics, even skipping it was miserable.

[Jeeqbit]

I hope they don't make that awful questline mandatory again

I doubt it. It was just a thing they probably did once, like making Ivalice required for Bozja, or CT required for MSQ.

The relic area will be Shades' Triangle, so I'm sure it'll be related to that this time.

[Jangles]

You're right, we should go back to dungeon vomit. There was a rationale for that and it wasn't cuz COVID. But go ahead keep talking about something that was already being established and discussed before COVID even hit lmao

Let's go back to the ARR era, because that was peak... Right?

Yeah, sure as shit was better than whatever we are getting now. Them reducing the number of dungeons per patch didn't increase the quality of the single one we now get, I'd even argue to say dungeons were more interesting in general before they dropped the number. Dungeons are more than the bosses in them, which admittedly are getting a bit better in dawntrail but only in dawntrail, way back in shadowbringers when they first dropped it to 1 dungeon or in endwalker the bosses were snoozefests too. The dungeons themselves are still 2 pulls and a boss every single damn time with nothing else going on, they don't even mix up the amount of pulls you do between bosses.

Mt. Gulg and Paglthan are the only two dungeons I can think of where they deviated from the norm and they genuinely are pretty damn good.