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Ready for next Tuesday deep dungeon \ MH trial!

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Note to self: don't just jump into a new trial after 45 days unsubbed. Game wouldn't recognize my controller so I had to troubleshoot in real-time during combat lol. Vaguely remembered my rotation on keyboard but I was panicking :messenger_grinning_smiling:

Anyway, I'd love to grind out the cart mount (99 totems of course, because these devs love to keep things fresh) but I don't think I have the time or patience for it right now. Too hooked on Ghost of Yotei, and then Battlefield 6 will probably steal me away this weekend as well. Here's hoping it's not dead content whenever I'm ready to grind it out.

Also did the first set of floors of the new Deep Dungeon and I appreciate that they made an effort in making it look and feel different aesthetically... but when it comes down to it, it's just another flavor of the same ol'. If you enjoy DD then I'm sure you'll enjoy this as well but if you're like me and got bored of DD back in Stormblood, then this probably won't revitalize your interest.
 
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New trial is fun enough, but yeah, 99 totems or mad luck in normal mode for the cart mount is tedious, but not a lot else to do I guess. New deep dungeon is def more of the same. It's completely trivial up til about floor 60, then you have to pay a slight bit of attention. Def not enough scraps to last a few days let alone til December. Ah well, I too will jump back into Ghost of Yotei lol
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Got my floor 100 clear finally in the new deep dungeon. . . only to figure out they made it take EIGHT floor 71 through 100 clears to get the chandelier mount, plus another 2 more for the profile plate, and maybe a few more after that for misc stuff... Quantum boss only gives a title at hardest, and other than that only drops the same RNG bags you get from weekly challenge logs. Will prob take another week to clean it all out. Solo clear will be trivial as well compared to the other deep dungeons. The normal mode final boss is pretty easy, but only drops phoenix downs or pilgrim potions with a tiny chance at giving you the RNG bag.
 
Got 8th clear of 71-100 for 4 accessories that give the achievement mount. Working on Quantum 40 and 2 more clears for profile plate before doing a solo run to finish off... the entirety of the patch outside of the dumb 30k hoard achievement that got added because FUCK THAT

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7.4 Live Letter Part 1 was last Friday but the only thing of note was that they broke some emergency glass and are unlocking glamour restrictions across all jobs.
Only a matter of time until they break the FFVII Alliance Raid emergency glass.

Anyway, the reason I'm posting today is because it seems our new pink hair localization lead Kate Cwynar has been replaced after just one expansion. This YT channel was given the chance to tour CBU3 and when they met Koji Fox, he introduced a new guy as the localization LEAD:

Honestly I haven't really been paying attention, but I've heard that she's been saying dumb and political stuff on Bluesky so I wouldn't be surprised if that was a factor, along with the reception to Dawntrail's writing of course.
 
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Was an interesting look inside the studio. Sorta frustrating they invite people that don't really play the game though. I guess it keeps the intrusive questions at bay that way though.
 

This one is pretty good. It kind of explains why we don't see Koji during live letters anymore. Good for him, but at the same time I really miss his live translations and interpretations a lot. It's great that the fan community does some live translations, but it isn't remotely the same and is kinda lame of SE to not provide considering there's more English players than Japanese ones.

Got my solo clear of Pilgrim's Traverse taken care of, so that's all of 7.35 dealt with. Started working on more of my mentor roulette achievement. Just about at 500\2000 runs done.
 
Latest census is out and it seems we're back to Stormblood numbers. All that progress lost over the course of a single expansion. And we've still got a year+ until the next one...


Honestly it feels worse than Stormblood did, though. Thanks to DC travel, Primal PF is basically dead and visiting Solution 9 is like walking through a ghost town at off-peak times. In Stormblood, I would see people in Rhalgr's Reach at any time of day.
 
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I started an alt on a whim to see how fast I could get to 100 on a preferred world (halfway through stormblood apparently) and noticed a marked increase in queue times even on Aether during peak hours. It's going to get ugly.
 
I wouldn't worry too much. Ain't no way it'll ever get Endwalker launch queue ugly ever again. That shit was awful. I would remote queue from my phone while at work hours before I got off, and still be waiting when I got home. That's if I was lucky and didn't get an error and booted from queue.

Edit: Oh you mean dungeon queues? I thought we're talking about login queues. Yeah that's probably pretty bad right now.
 
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7.4 Live Letter pt 2 was this morning

Summary:


Also the trailer:


I have to resub to keep my house so I'll be checking it out. New frontline map looks like it could be fun but the 100 win mount is a reskin so I doubt I'll grind it out like the others.
 
Also got announced in the live letter that they're doing a collab with the lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine for one of the raid tracks, here's a preview:

 
I'm on the second quest of the 7.4 MSQ and had to pause because there's something weird going on with Graha's voice. I'm thinking he may have been recast. Some people are gonna lose their mind if so
Edit: His voice gets better as the MSQ goes on, so maybe he was just rusty when he got back into the recording booth

Edit: Lost connection 3 times in the new dungeon. Feelsgoodman
 
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Yeah there is not a lot here to tide anyone over past the first 4 hours, especially with OC closed due to bug. Since they added the Ruby Weapon minion back for crystals I now have EVERY minion, all 557 unique minions.
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MSQ was good, and I'm liking the direction that we're heading in. Now that Tural (and Wuk Lamat) are firmly in the rear view mirror, the story is free to focus on the best parts of Dawntrail: all the 9th lore and worldbuilding, which allows Krile to get more time to shine.
 
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7.4 MSQ was decent, though it almost feels like cheating when the whole thing revolves around lalafells being adorable. I still think they could have done a lot more with Krile's character arc (it should have been a main plotline in 7.0), but it was nice to see it finally addressed here. Not sure I'm on board with the ascians returning as the primary antagonists, considering how 6.0 was a pretty definitive conclusion to their story.
 
Raid tier was pretty fun, but the music was a mixed bag. They really hyped up the Tom Morello song but as someone who grew up listening to RATM and has no idea who or what a Beartooth is, I think the song is kinda corny. Maybe it gets better in Savage but eh...

IMO the best song of this tier is Sinister from M9, and the best song of the entire raid series is still Give It All from M4.
 
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Raid tier was pretty fun, but the music was a mixed bag. They really hyped up the Tom Morello song but as someone who grew up listening to RATM and has no idea who or what a Beartooth is, I think the song is kinda corny. Maybe it gets better in Savage but eh...

IMO the best song of this tier is Sinister from M9, and the best song of the entire raid series is still Give It All from M4.
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I'm partial to The Mirror from M10 myself; really nails that "90s surfer dude" vibe. But yeah, the Morello collab track is just kind of okay....I wish it more thematically connected to the opponent like the other raid tracks are. Also agree about Give It All....best track in 7.x so far in my opinion, though the FF9 remix tracks are pretty great.
 
Zephyranthes said:
I'm partial to The Mirror from M10 myself; really nails that "90s surfer dude" vibe. But yeah, the Morello collab track is just kind of okay....I wish it more thematically connected to the opponent like the other raid tracks are. Also agree about Give It All....best track in 7.x so far in my opinion, though the FF9 remix tracks are pretty great.
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I'm more of a fan of the M11 song, but I'm an old fart and that song sounds like it's from my childhood.
 
So what's everyone's thoughts on the daily "DDOS" problem?

These have been happening for far too long and too often for me to believe it's just some disgruntled people paying for a DDOS.
 
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So what's everyone's thoughts on the daily "DDOS" problem?

These have been happening for far too long and too often for me to believe it's just some disgruntled people paying for a DDOS.
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Honestly I would be more impressed if they just straight up admitted they have no idea what they are doing and have no idea how to prevent DDoSes any more.
 
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Just in time for ilvl 780 weapons from weekly normal arcadion runs too weeee
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It's funny how worthless the relic weapon is for nearly an entire expansion. The only time it's good is near the end of an expansion, when nobody cares anymore. It's basically tiered glam item.
 
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Sevyne said:
It's funny how worthless the relic weapon is for nearly an entire expansion. The only time it's good is near the end of an expansion, when nobody cares anymore. It's basically tiered glam item.
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Not necessisarily true if you're keeping multiple jobs geared. Relic weapons make a nice second-tier option for non-main jobs if you're not crafting.
 
Gonna be eligible for the free login campaign next weekend so I'm going to use that to refresh my housing timer and grind out the new Cosmic as much as I can. Hopefully my server has the hoverboards and aetherytes set up by then.

Also next Valentione's has two outfits:
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WAR relic done, all crafting\gathering relics done, all new mounts\minions grabbed. Pretty annoyed they added another 2 recolors of the mech, including one that is way too close to the achievement mount. The new glams are kinda nice to mess around with too.

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M12S done! Welp I guess now it's wait several months for 7.5 for the final EX mount and several more for next expansion. Back to the achievement grind.
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Revolutionary said:
Latest census is out and it seems we're back to Stormblood numbers. All that progress lost over the course of a single expansion. And we've still got a year+ until the next one...


Honestly it feels worse than Stormblood did, though. Thanks to DC travel, Primal PF is basically dead and visiting Solution 9 is like walking through a ghost town at off-peak times. In Stormblood, I would see people in Rhalgr's Reach at any time of day.
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Old post I know but keep in mind that there's a lot more hubs now than there were back in Stormblood ( also memberberries bias ).
If I go to Old Sharlayan there's still A LOT of people there even tho it's last expansion.
S9 is also way bigger than Rhalgr's Reach is.

I dunno tho I hear so much about this and people love to throw Census around ultimately tho no one has access to accurate numbers other than SE.
On my end we've had a surprising amount of new recruits in our FC even I am surprised by it and a ton of people are playing the game quite actively who otherwise almost never played.
I sorta feel like this '' discourse '' surrounding players happen every expansion lol, I've played since ARR and I really don't think anything has changed in that regard.
It's especially funny because I definitely don't think the disappointment towards the 7.0 MSQ is anywhere near what it was with Stormblood, remember we had a ton of hype and setup going into it from Heavensward and Lyse was the secondary protagonist but everyone thought she was Yda which was very controversial too.

DT in general really just reminds me a ton of Stormblood and I think will be remembered more fondly in hindsight much the same.
Heavensward definitely got much more hate for its content which was absolutely awful while DT's content has overall been awesome and Stormblood's MSQ I still think got way worse reception.
DT was sort of a blank slate story wise.

The game has definitely been in better spots but I also think it has been in significantly worse spots.
And I think there's a lot to by hyped about for future content and updates and that they seem to be listening to feedback pretty well.

Edit: On DC travel afaik they're actually working on a solution to it ( like merged PF or something ).
 
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All relics done. Hunt trains for the win.

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Running through a bunch of hunts I realized I was pretty close to finished on most of my A rank achievements. Unfortunately my S rank counts are abysmal. I joined a discord for those and might start trying to tackle those but I doubt I have the patience for it. 2k S ranks just feels insane.
 
Valonquar said:
All relics done. Hunt trains for the win.

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Running through a bunch of hunts I realized I was pretty close to finished on most of my A rank achievements. Unfortunately my S rank counts are abysmal. I joined a discord for those and might start trying to tackle those but I doubt I have the patience for it. 2k S ranks just feels insane.
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Saw your post on Reddit, seems you've upset a lot of people :messenger_grinning_smiling:
 
9 phantom jobs mastered
I've got plenty of aetherspun silver but I haven't been doing any of the stuff that requires gold coins, but I need to for the +1 gear. Maybe it's time to start grinding gold coins...

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Celcius said:
9 phantom jobs mastered
I've got plenty of aetherspun silver but I haven't been doing any of the stuff that requires gold coins, but I need to for the +1 gear. Maybe it's time to start grinding gold coins...
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Just do the pot fate every time it's up, the pot chests can give 1600 gold sometimes
 
Seems 7.45 is slated for "early March" because that's when the current CC season ends


Valonquar said:
Just do the pot fate every time it's up, the pot chests can give 1600 gold sometimes
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To add to this, make sure you're also in a party for the pot fates because they die quick. Being in a party ensures gold rating and a better chance at getting a pot
 
I did a thing.

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All A rank achievements done. Focusing hardcore on S rank counts now. Got 1k S ranks earlier this week, but that was about 925 over a span of 10 years, and then like 75 in the last 2 weeks lol. Getting the next 1k for tiger mount and about... 900 more for each of the 3 expansion mounts will take months though.
 
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