Thread: feedback on patch cycles and .55 downtimes

ffxiv dawntrial 7.0 is my first proper expansion
so, id live to give feedback based on my experience as a newer player getting into ffxiv with 7.0 being my first expansion launch i will go on and update this in the comments as patches go but since its .4 i feel like it's a good time to drop my feedback personally on patch cycles
expansion launches aka .0-.05: i feel it's nearly perfect just a slight touch of content and it be perfect nothing major just something small like a new golden saucer activity like queens blood or something a bit more content focused on endgame outside of crafting and extremes hard dungeons is nice, but they often get ignored almost right after its first done i feel
7.1 aka .1 to .15: from a non-raider perspective OUTSIDE OF MSQ this whole patch cycle is a total disaster i feel there's nearly nothing to do for the non-raider outside of a few quests and i feel it shouldn't be like that heck even .15 even though it's a nice addition i feel the Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) should of been released in a .35 or a .25 patch because fru was added in .11 which means not only did raiders get a ultimate but they got a whole new tier of raid (chaotic) in the same patch cycle NOT THAT CHAOTIC IS BAD it's just poorly placed i feel from a casual perspective its quite sad and feels kind of missing the mark on the non-raider pov don't get me wrong i love the normal raids but i feel outside of normal raids there wasn't all that much content we can grind and have fun with I liked the allied quests but often wished there was something a bit more to do for the non-raider during .1 cycle
7.2 aka .2 to .25: actually, perfect nearly nothing wrong with .2 patch this cycle had a vast number of things to do from cosmic to Occult Crescent it was nearly perfect
i got barely any complaints with this the only thing i can mention for feedback is .21 should have been occult i feel and .25 should have been cosmic and here is where my biggest complaint of .2 was i really do feel savages should be dropped on .x1 ill dabble on this when i get to talking about just standard .4 as well
my feelings on savages releasing a week after normal raids i feel it should be released on .x1 reason being .x1 would NOT ONLY add content for the raiders but it will add content for the crafters in this case to crafters will still have a whole month or so to get geared up sell and make food potions etc etc but it will also put less pressure onto the raiders to get geared for savage (if they use the raid gear instead) and it doesn't make people who may feel hey why are they only releasing content for raiders why can't i get something to by pushing this to .x1 it will get rid of the idea of releasing content only for raiders and push more towards content for everybody.
p2 in comments to many letters lol

7.3 aka .3 to .35: this was a good patch cycle .3 had a nice set of quests a fun trial a dungeon nothing crazy but enough to satisfy me i absolutely loved the deep dungeon and wish se did it kind of like the planets and in .4x or .5x add more floors deep dungeons are probably my favorite content in this game its causal friendly it has some hard appeal to it and it would be fun to have added floors let's say .35 we have 100 floors well now .41 .45 we add another 50 to 100 floors or even in .51 .55 my only issue with cosmos planet 2 was the activates was Moreso the same as last planet just reskinned to look different the fates was Samey the crafts/gathers was Samey and it honestly made me unmotivated to do the new planet at all especially when i can't take part in some developments because I'm not online when the developments are happening that exact moment in time its prob my biggest complaint with cosmos is i would of loved it to have the ability to kind of combine the pacing of island sanctuary with diadem fates activities and stuff to ultimately be able to build it alongside of others for future reference im hoping we can do group crafts to kind of unlock quests to build the planet kind of combining allied tribes with island sanctuary and diadem for 1 big group activity.

7.4 current patch (this is pending updating I will update with feedback in comments but i will give feedback on what I can give at this point in time) so this patch was kind of nice it added a trial some quests the typical i adore when se adds trials to the msq because i feel trials are some of the best parts of the msq however I'm going to go back on my complaint with 7.2 i feel especially with the delay pushing savage especially a week before .41 is just bleh i feel it's not considering the fact of people who don't raid i was so excited to do .41 content today on 1/6/26 I totally forgot it was only savage day
when i logged on and seen it was only savage, I got a sour taste in my mouth and was very unhappy it's not fun seeing raiders get content but the people who just so happen to not raid the only thing we do is sit and watch them go have fun with what they enjoy
i feel by pushing it to .x1 my argument remains the same it will not only give raiders stuff to do but give people who don't raid stuff to do as well I get people who raid wants to do all the content but the content will always be there and I feel by patching in savages or even ultimate's without giving the casual player something to do like cosmos etc etc totally ignores the casual player I adore that golden saucer got some love in 7.4 and would LOVE to see it continue in further patches with new content jump maps etc etc not just in 1 patch but in multiple .x patches heck even 8.0 I'd be happy for activities to be added golden saucer could always use the love
a little fun statistic this isn't 100% accurate more than likely but I still want to drop what's been said in reddit and a few other places according to ffxiv collect which gathers data off of loadstone only 1 percent of players have last tiers mount so let's assume roughly 5 to 15 percent of players actually does the savages meaning attempting to prog all 4 of them as well as get bis well that's leaving 85-90 percent of the player base left watching people who raid have new content and we have the stuff a lot of us probably already done leaving us to craft or watch or even do old content that technically isn't new anymore because mostly everyone did it and savage is the "new hot thing now"

this isn't to say get rid of anything savages ultimate's chaotic etc etc all should stay i just feel it could be better managed not only for casual players but it will help the confusion I often see and I sometimes even have "is tomorrow just savage or will other content be added to" or the patches is bad this is my honest feedback on how I feed the 7.0-7.4 patch cycles has been handled like i said I will update in the comments or update this post as patches go this post will likely receive a update around .51 .55 but i feel since we are close to the end of the expansion dropping my feedback on the patch cycle now would be nice content has been solid minus a few issues i have with it which I mentioned honestly just wish it was a bit more/reworked heck a loadstone update post would even be nice saying "savages release x day" and it be on the launcher to help clear up confusion between savages and .xx patches overall I feel bringing it to .x1 would be the easiest thing but ultimately if that's not possible I would honestly at least love some clarity on the launcher and loadstone with savage live patches in particular because it's like i said above often frustrating/confusing expecting content to be released example today 1/6/26 forgetting that the patch your thinking of with the content isn't until 1/13/26 and you logging on and getting met with the content you wanted to do not being in the game and only savages being live patched into the game instead of a live patch happening with barely any news just a ".4 website been updated" and I'm like where's patch notes isn't there a patch today? I feel by pushing it to .x1 OR bringing more clarity on what's coming out when would be the ultimate solution (my pref is .x1 but at least clarity helps)


but i will also mention .55 cycle since i played in endwalker

I wish ffxiv would take notes from wow how they are doing their version of .55 is around the expansion downtimes they do events like they had a battle royal and a remix event I think it would be fun around this time when we wait long for an expansion to have a remix like activity where we level to let's say 70 stormblood and get to do a brand new event that takes stormblood and kind of remakes it into a newer style expansion heck don't even need to touch msq you can increase xp up to 70 and rework the expansions dungeons and msq to be more like the newer msq dungeons and trails and raids with special abilities kind of like occulant classes that would be neat that might be overthinking or a little too much but the idea is to take old content and during those .55 downtimes give us optional events to do so we the people who want to play 14 but don't want to sub back until 8.0 because there's NOTHING TO DO during the long .55 downtimes this gives us something to do and t make the content seem new and fresh kind of like wow remix or wow plunderstorm don't give to many exclusive items and make sure it rotates on .55 cycle and i feel its golden.
and i also feel you guys should add a way to earn shop currency like wow gw2 etc etc

apologies mods for the 3 posts back-to-back to back I just want to drop my feedback on where I can i will probably update as I go with the rest of .4 and .5 at a later date I just wanted to drop my feedback and with that I had to make comments because it was to long LOL