So how is everyone feeling about Occult Crescent now that it’s been a few days?

[SkankyRoe]

That's the part that got me. How the heck are we going to find out who the big bad is since they seem to have this tied so closely to Forked Tower? Even if they don't lock north horn access to clearing it, I don't see how you'll be able to get to a final boss of any sort without it with the way they have the story set up.

The way things were worded in the scenes I thought implied that instead of a two-pronged, singular tower like in FFV it's a pair of towers, one each at the end of one of the horns of the island(if you look real closely when Forked Tower weather it active you'll noticed Forked Tower:Blood seems to be situated at the end of the South Horn point). My best guess is that we'll get Forked Tower:Magic as a regular story-difficulty dungeon like CLL/DR/Dalriada, and Forked Tower:Blood will remain as the hardcore raider dungeon, likely with some changes to the entry situation after all the negative feedback.

[Carin-Eri]

I played it day one and after 6 or so hours I had three atma. I took a break because honestly I thought it was quite boring. Nothing you do in there carries over outside of OC so I have no interest in knowledge level or phantom jobs. I just wanted the relic for glam purposes. Today I had a lot of free time and after 12 hours and no atma to show for it I’m just going to sit this relic out. The thing I like about Cosmic Exploration is how you can see your progress, there’s no RNG involved, I don’t know why they didn’t do something similar. How is everyone else feeling about OC?

Discouraged. I wanted to like it, but between the absolutely abysmal drop rate for Atma and the CE and FATE content heavily favoring Tanks (at the moment at least), I haven't found much to enjoy about it.

[AnotherPerson]

Atma drop rate / system - could use some improvement. No one likes non-existent progress to the grind. I rather have 1 atma variant instead of 6, and make that atma variant much higher to compensate for guaranteeing 1 atma drop per CE and being able to buy atmas at an exorbitant cost in the shop.

Soul Shard drop rate / System - could use some improvement. Having to rely on RNG without any form of guarantee is still a terrible system, especially when it entails unlocking a job to play with. I'm fine if completing the CE unlocks the Soul Shard up for purchase on the shop but at a far higher price than the normal available Soul-Shards from the Shop.


Forked Tower - Blood -- a bit more complicated on unlocking it and waiting for the time to go into the instance. Not possible to set-up 24 man groups joining the same instance to tackle the tower without lots of rng. This could use some work. Having a smaller group per zone (72 as opposed to 144) also hinders this attempt.
Forked Tower - Blood's difficulty is relatively higher than what I suspect most people thought would be on release - (something akin to CLL / Dalriada, but what we got was like DRS/BA ) ... which didn't feel appropriate on its release period since it felt like people had to max out their phantom jobs no matter what to tackle this content. It would have been better if this content was tuned down or released at a later date and let people tackle a large-scale difficulty instance while learning their jobs.


Simply put, it felt like they rushed the process of meaningful progression in these zones and focused too heavily on the result.

[DynnDiablos]

It's simply not for me - and that's fine. I am doing fates in the DT zones for relic atma. But in terms of rewards, gear and gameplay, OC is just not my cup of tea.

[MicahZerrshia]

So tired of fate farms. So so so tired of fates. Seriously after 15 years, this is still all they can come up with....

[Hanayumi]

Great! Its lovely to finally set some goals like a typical MMO, honestly wish FFXIV had more of this kind of grind to it. Got most of atma from OC after day 3, off and on 4-5 hours each day. Then had to fate farm last 3 cause not one dropped for me in OC. Fate farm wasnt too bad, about another day worth, managed to catch up on gem rewards, umbrella & frames. Now ive been prepping Forked Tower, farming for gear while mastering some PJs, 4 mastered so far.

[Araxes]

It is WAY to grindy. You will have to spend half a lifetime in there to get a Set to +2

Forked Tower is at best malicious with those mixed up Entry/Player/mechanic requirements.

Only one Fate is up at a time... so the ENTIRE instance runs them over in seconds.

The only positive thing for me is that the Area looks beautiful, just a shame it is so underutilized.

[Casti_EL]

I do enjoy Occult Crescent but not sure if it is better than Eureka/Bozja. (Only KL18 so haven't tried the tower yet)

The Phantom Jobs - great idea, look forward to seeing them expand it with new jobs in the future. Though personally I don't think they should be drops - keep them as purchased items only. (RNG is NOT my friend!)
Atma/Relic - I like having something other than "Get 1500 tombstones, buy items, speak to vendor" but the drop-rate on the Atma needs improving (especially when asking for several of each).
FATEs - don't mind them, but for the love of Yoshi P make it so they can't be cleared in like 30 seconds. The number of times I'll see a FATE pop on the map, immediately teleport to the nearest aetheryte, mount up, run over (with riding map) and by the time I get there it's either dead or at 1% is mental. I seriously don't know how other players get there so fast (especially when some just don't want to wait for others). Maybe scale HP based on number of players in instance?
CE's - lot of crazy fun but also a bit infuriating with some of the mechanics, especially with a little bit of lag. Also would have preferred a Bozja style queue up rather than have to physically get there - especially not fair for lower ranked players trying to reach it, get killed by a mob, and have to sit out because nobody could reach/res them in time to get them to the CE.
Storyline - love it, I mean a Tonberry getting sass from a fairy? What's not to love?
Setting - love the scenery and setting, much better than the blandness of Bozja.

I would have personally liked it to be a possible levelling option for 91-100 jobs same as Bozja was.

[Eastwall]

I like it so far. l can just chill at spawn, playing my phone While waiting for ce to spawn. Perfect for me to find opportunity to finish infinity nikki's story

[Valence]

chains in FFXIV are a perpetual grindfest that will give you hand cramps from spamming your three cannon buttons for hours with no breaks.

So essentially like the rest of the content which is about rushing from one fate to another crossing your fingers it won't die before you tag it?