Thread: It was a huge mistake to not give experience in Occult Crescent

It's already a flop but at least I'd have reason to do OC if I could level my real classes (not phantom jobs) with it.

I agree. I thought OC would be similar to Bozja, but it seems the devs have no idea what they're doing.

They're not confident their 7.3 DD would stick well to their playerbase, so they had to 'downgrade' something else in the same expac to make sure it's not dead on first month lol.

Originally Posted by Aidorouge

Which doesn't even make sense when you consider that, with over a year into the expansion, the majority of people are going to have most of their jobs at 100 anyway so they "held back" the content when it was too late to matter anyway[...]

I think you're overestimating how much people actively levels their non-lv100 jobs. Anecdotally speaking from my PoV, I've seen more people who are happier to just not touch jobs they generally find unfun and thus missing out things like Amaro achievements if it means they have to run roulos or daily dungeons. Alternative ways of leveling helps these players to work on their less desired jobs outside mainline content where they'd otherwise not touch + give them some sense of side progression than just 'farming silvers/golds' in OC. I personally think they could've just give both OC and new DD job experience, & maybe have them rethink their approach instead of cannibalizing older content in order to shove people into their newer content (at least that's how it looks like to me).

That being said, my initial post was a half jest lol.

Originally Posted by Aidorouge

Which doesn't even make sense when you consider that, with over a year into the expansion, the majority of people are going to have most of their jobs at 100 anyway so they "held back" the content when it was too late to matter anyway.

The take you're responding to doesn't make sense because it's the usual jaded, bitter cynicism from this negative echo chamber that doesn't actually connect to reality. As you pointed out, most people will have leveled most of their main jobs by the team OC released...because it's not meant for leveling at all. It's meant as content for people to do on their lvl 100 jobs, while DD is intended as an alternate way of leveling jobs people haven't done yet (alongside the challenge of completing the entire DD perhaps on a job one is most comfortable with and has already leveled).

Originally Posted by Striker44

The take you're responding to doesn't make sense because it's the usual jaded, bitter cynicism from this negative echo chamber that doesn't actually connect to reality. As you pointed out, most people will have leveled most of their main jobs by the team OC released...because it's not meant for leveling at all. It's meant as content for people to do on their lvl 100 jobs, while DD is intended as an alternate way of leveling jobs people haven't done yet (alongside the challenge of completing the entire DD perhaps on a job one is most comfortable with and has already leveled).

This would have been more reasonable had the OC capstone been accessible/non-savage content.