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[Valonquar]

Cleared all 12 paths...for a fucking fashion accessory version of the sleep mask W T F Yoshida???
1 mount locked behind 25 full clears of Advanced, 1 mount locked behind 25 full clears of Criterion (assuming you get unlucky on drops and can actually clear this shit...)
The Advanced mode bosses do not fuck about. Cleared the first one before gettin a bit tired of it for the day.

 

[Revolutionary]

FanFest mount and minion have been datamined. Potential hint at 8.0?

We do seem to be dealing with the planet's life force withering so I can definitely see the parallels already...

That said, we did get a few FFVII minions for Shadowbringers' FanFest that had no relevance to ShB, so who knows...

 

[Sevyne]

I could see this being the expansion to remove that fog off the map from Ilsabard and Blindfrost. Throw a Northern Crater over in Blindfrost or something, and Garlean tech isn't far off from that of FFVII (hell, they even had the "Weapons" for the ShB trial series), so it could be a reason to bring them back into MSQ in some form.

 

[Valonquar]

Advanced\Another cleared. Overall good fights, but still lame how they did rewards. They are really alienating the casual crowd that compromises like 80%++ of their subscription base.

Def expecting to see Sephiroth show up in some form in 8.0. Though they have done FF7 minons for fan fest previously so no telling.

 

[Revolutionary]

7.5 confirmed for April 28th, titled Trail to the Heavens

Tentative schedule:

Edit: Beastmaster finally revealed

No BLU update because they focused on BST lmao this fucking dev team

 

[Valonquar]

So trickled out slow as fuck over the next 9 months, for $117+Tax assuming cheapest sub:

2 new story dungeons (TT Card & Minion) (2 hours)
1 new trial & EX ver (TT Card & Mount & Chocobo Barding + Collect all wings mount) (2 to 5 hours)
Cut\paste delivery NPC & beastribe quest (2 hours cummulatively)
Hilibrand (30 minutes to an hour)
a level 50 BST job with achievement 4% of the population will do (let's say.... 5 hours, more if you are an achievement person)
final 24 man (weekly locked Glams & 780 to 790 upgrades, TT Card, Minion) (1 hour + maybe 4 to 6 of weekly repeats)
final copy\paste crafting planet leves (copy\paste relic tool steps) (6 to 8 hours)
2nd OC zone & Tower: Magic normal\savage (6 hours or so to max new handful of OC jobs, 3 to 12 hours for Tower normal\savage not counting achievement grind)
Easter, summerfest, rising, Halloween, Xmas 10 minute quests. (1 to 2 hours)
1 new PvP mount\minion\Glam set (5 hours of CC spam, or daily frontline queuing)
...and maybe more cash shop glams, 2 minions, 2 mounts

NEAT less than 40 hours of content if I'm being generous, and it's likely FAR LESS than that, especially if you skip cutscenes, or do not care about grinding out achievements, or can just buy rewards off the AH.

 

[MagiusNecros]

7.5 confirmed for April 28th, titled Trail to the Heavens

Tentative schedule:

Edit: Beastmaster finally revealed

No BLU update because they focused on BST lmao this fucking dev team

2 years and they are forcing Dawntrail Expansion(because the data is in a 7.x patch update) purchases to play a Limited Job that is locked into only playing ARR content all while delaying a BLU update because all their "resources" were on Beastmaster and you won't see BLU updates until 8.x.

Small indie company.

My thoughts are as follows

 

[Revolutionary]

It doesn't even make sense. Yoshi-P claims that Mr Ozma himself worked hard to bring Beastmaster to life, but then they don't have enough resources to work on the BLU update... is Mr Ozma the only person working at the studio? It almost feels that way lol

Also, the amount of people defending this decision on Reddit and Twitter because "I don't play BLU so I don't care" isn't particularly surprising, but it's a reminder of why this dev team gets away with underdelivering...

 

[MagiusNecros]

It's the cult like status and overwhelming Toxic Positivity that has long infected FF XIV so that's unsurprising.

Yoshida was glazing Ozma but let me tell you the battle design and the 2 minute meta have led to very streamlined and garbage encounters so him working on BST Crucible doesn't fill me with much confidence.

It's all looking like a retread of BLU launch. Which I think the discourse with BLU being lvl50 and everyone else being lvl70 was acceptable.

But classes being lvl100 and you are capping a new class at lvl50 and locking them down into ARR only content. Like BRO WHAT. And I know part of it is them being lazy and only making one AF gearset for BST.

And the last BLU update was PATHETIC. Lackluster rewards, excluded from Ultimates(can't even do it as a bunch of BLUs), largely pointless spells outside of like 6 of the 20+. Could have at least raised their level cap by 10.

I don't foresee 8.0 changing much so I don't think I'll be playing this for the foreseeable future.

They are really burning the goodwill big time here to the point all that's left is Raiders, players who invested too much or big time shills who will preach to the choir that the game is perfect.

Oh well it's been like 6 years of disappointment and it's very tiresome to not see much positivity to talk about.

 

[Zephyranthes]

Yeah, I'm probably unsubbing until 8.0. Not enough going on here to justify the cost of staying in, and none of my friends are playing anymore.

 

[Revolutionary]

I still have a weird attachment to my house so I can't unsub for longer than 45 days, sadly.

But what I will say is that I've noticed a lot more houses going up for grabs in my neighborhood over the past year. One of my dickhead neighbors that glitched housing items onto the street is finally gone so that's nice.

Anyway, the Live Letter memes have been pretty funny, so there's that.

 

[Celcius]

hmm, I'll resub when the OC North Horn and next relic grind are available
I don't see the point of making the beastmaster if it's only max lv 50