Expectations for Occult Crescent?

[BunnyBrat]

Yeah field ops is my favorite content. I also liked the stories, especially bozja. I'll do the content regardless but but I am hoping the story is better than dt msq.

[Thurmnmurmn]

I also hope they don't do duels in the same form. But for me it was more the fact that you had a huge audience. Stressed me out so bad.

[Reimmi]

I also hope they don't do duels in the same form. But for me it was more the fact that you had a huge audience. Stressed me out so bad.

I wouldn't care about this if we could queue for it over and over to practice. the amount of time you had to wait to even have another attempt was really dumb, which added to that stress and pressure

[SkankyRoe]

I wouldn't care about this if we could queue for it over and over to practice. the amount of time you had to wait to even have another attempt was really dumb, which added to that stress and pressure

This is why I'm hoping it'll be more like CLL/Dalriada; those were "first come first serve" just like BA, but they occurred much more frequently, didn't require extra annoyance for entry(Ovni and Portals), and weren't "claimed" by discord groups. They also weren't Extreme/Savage difficulty so people could just join up randomly as they popped and have a decent chance of clearing.

[Daralii]

This is why I'm hoping it'll be more like CLL/Dalriada; those were "first come first serve" just like BA, but they occurred much more frequently, didn't require extra annoyance for entry(Ovni and Portals), and weren't "claimed" by discord groups. They also weren't Extreme/Savage difficulty so people could just join up randomly as they popped and have a decent chance of clearing.

The wording makes it seem like everyone needs to congregate to one location that they need to coordinate and pop the lottery ticket, but as far as I'm aware that information was spoken and not part of a slide, and I'm far from fluent in Japanese. I also don't think they said anything about how common the lottery tickets(sanguine ciphers) are.

[Pip_Chick]

I'm somewhat excited for the upcoming Occult Crescent patch update! I love FFV and the phantom job really got me hyped for it, plus getting a new way to play with others in an open field environment is neat!

So I was curious to hear other people's thoughts on it (either what we know so far or speculations)!

What are your expectations for it? Will it be good? Will it be bad? What part are you excited for, if any?

I am actually very hyped for this content! I love the idea of phantom jobs, I like the one which is just throwing unicorns at my enemies, in true girly pop fashion.
I wonder if it would feel more like Eureka or Bozja. I have tried both and while I never finished Eureka, I enjoyed Bozja lots!
I can't wait for all the new glams and possible different playstyles, nit all that is left is choosing which base job to "main" since there will be no help to lvl up alt jobs. Since you have to be lvl 100 to enter.
And as a lover of "The war of the magi" and everything Nym, the architecture and story already has me making grubby hands at the screen. Give me the Nymian secrets SE!!!!!!
Come hells or high water!

[KageTokage]

I think the biggest question I have now is whether or not you can mix/match abilities from different phantom jobs because finding busted combos was a significant part of the fun in Eureka/Bozja, but being locked into a single job's abilities would kinda deny that.

[BokoToloko]

I think the biggest question I have now is whether or not you can mix/match abilities from different phantom jobs because finding busted combos was a significant part of the fun in Eureka/Bozja, but being locked into a single job's abilities would kinda deny that.

So far, that doesn't seem like it's going to be a thing at release.

However, the system is inspired off FFV job system, which allowed 1 cross-class ability in the action menu for each job from jobs you had mastered and then had Freelancer and Mimic, which gained the biggest stats modifiers out of the mastered classes, their support abilities and allowed to customize their action menu even further. All in all, it wouldn't be that crazy if they decided to also include cross-phantom job gameplay.

[SkankyRoe]

I'm just hoping Forked Tower is more "casual" like CLL/DR/Dalriada.

[Saraide]

IMO the real question is if those phantom abilities will meaningfully affect your baseline abilities or if it'll be just 5 additional oGCDs that you press on cooldown.