Occult Crescent Pros and Cons

[Miguel85NYC]

My pros and cons on Occult Crescent

Pros.
Coming from FF 11, The relic grind is quite enjoyable.

Find random chests around the map is cool. Wish we had that in the open world as well.

CE and fates - they are actually fun for once.

Cons.
The zone - The zone it self feels flat and boring. I get no danger at all. Doesn't feel special at all

Phantom jobs - I personally find them to be a wack gimmick.

Our companions - what a missed opportunity to make our companions feel useful for once.

Not a single voice acting... come on yoshyP you guys add mad stuff to the cash shop and make millions and you telling me you can't afford more voice overs?? Something fishy is going on

[Supersnow845]

I feel like the zone itself is fantastic in terms of aesthetics and organisation (the amdapor and mhach regions in particular are fantastic) the only problem is that knowledge levels so damn fast only the deep skalan caves and the ascent of Karnak are ever dangerous for more than 10 minutea

[Espon]

Zone needs random level 30 sleeping dragons laying in thin pathways and huge drops off cliffs to access caves. Put some sleeping dragons on those ledges too.

[Bellsong]

The zone is like a watered down eureka made by devs who had nothing to do with and were told nothing about bojza. That's it's biggest con.

[AvoSturmfaust]

The only downside i personally see is the fact it cant be used like Bozja to level Jobs, thats a straight up missed opportunity and really sad

[PercibelTheren]

Pros: The zone is pretty and the Critical Engagements, on the whole, are quite enjoyabe.

Cons: No XP. I will never stop complaining about this. It also means the moment the first big wave of players get their first relic, it's going to be dead content. The Phantom Jobs feel mostly quite underwhelming. Demiatma RNG is dumb - I don't mind a grind, I hate an unfair grind.

[Xenoviastar]

How exactly are the Fates "fun" when they don't exactly last. the only time you see any mechanics for a Fate are when there is CE going on, then it's roughly 10 people struggling to kill something with trillion HP.
I can't bring any of my friends to this place now because they don't have riding map yet and they never make it to the Fates on time. the whole community is gate keeping new players because they refuse to wait 1min, for what?

[Arohk]

Zone needs random level 30 sleeping dragons laying in thin pathways and huge drops off cliffs to access caves. Put some sleeping dragons on those ledges too.

hope that is sarkasm

[VeyaAkemi]

I can't bring any of my friends to this place now because they don't have riding map yet and they never make it to the Fates on time. the whole community is gate keeping new players because they refuse to wait 1min, for what?

Three things:

One, you can always build Silver Coins through Critical Engagements, and you can always make to them in time.

Two, multiseat mounts are a thing, in fact OC gives one which is also, in my opinion, the best airship mount they ever done, and with macros for joining making the process quick, you can pretty handily carry them around.

Three, I get that even with those points it can be frustrating, but it is also very rarely "the whole community", if 3 people out of 72 are assholes, then they will drag the rest along, it's the same deal with one person in an Alliance Raid being too impatient to let a newbie watch a 30s cutscene, and the one asshole is able to pull 20+ people in, because people aren't able to think why the fight started, only that it did.

[SophiaDL]

The only downside i personally see is the fact it cant be used like Bozja to level Jobs, thats a straight up missed opportunity and really sad

This, leveling was for me the biggest part about Bozja.

OC having no leveling makes the entire area pointless for me.