Shadowbringers of course is and will always be the best

I will say that I have been seeing big criticisms of the expansion and everyone's opinion and voice matters. Positive and negative voices are needed so the Dev team can better serve the community in the game we play. I wanted to share some of my highlights of things I have enjoyed so far!

Battle content

The raids, dungeons, trials and chaotic has been a massive improvement from Endwalker's battle design. I was so disappointed in the endwalker alliance raids, some EX trials and all the post 6.0 dungeons feeling very basic and boring. I am quite impressed by the combat design team and the amount of improvement that has been made for everyone and want to thank the dev team for doing such a great job! It is great that the devs are making more multi target bosses and actually fun engaging adds phases that challenges the players in unique ways.

Story

Look there was plenty of issues to be discussed here with the villain Zorall ja and Wuk Lamat, the lack of focusing more on Krile /Erenvile ect. however, I think the majority of the player base didn't quite understand the concept of the overall story. If endwalker was a story about what it means to live and the joy of life then Dawntrail was a story of what it means to let go and die. This story is really turning into a gripping saga of the concept of life and death and most people who are college age and younger than me have not experienced great loss of someone they love and might have missed the deep meaning of the regulators or turning off the terminals in living memory. Overall I think the story is finally fleshing out with 7.2 and I am so hyped for 7.3!

Graphical updates

There are plenty of areas in the game that look so much better, I remember stepping into places like Sycrus Tower and Shiva's battle arena to be really impressed with the lighting/ coloring of the zones.

PVP Balance

For Crystaline Conflict it looks like they really have the jobs balanced near perfectly, sure some tweaks can be made but for the PVP enjoyers out there , every job feels viable in CC. Finally we will be able to queue with a friend for casual matches and this will allow a greater audience of people to engage in PVP and play with a friend!


Issues I have seen
I have plenty of issues with job balance ( looking at you pictomancer for 2 patches !) MCH/SMN feel underwhelming , The awful forked tower launch
I feel the devs are not doing that bad of a job compared to previous expansions I went through like the Gordias tier or the initial launch of Eureka in Stormblood. The game has seen much worse moments but I am loving the expansion and want to put that good positive vibes into the day!

- Skylar Spirit Excalibur