FFXIV 6.0: Endwalker (December 7, 2021)

[Kaisha]

If they're speeding through the dialogue, too bad for them. This is literally a single-player RPG disguised as a MMO. If you're spamming the button to skip the text ASAP for some fucking tiny sidequest XP and a goddamn set of 2 sammiches, that's on you.

It would help if most of the quests got equal attention. For me, pretty much any side-quest that doesn't involve a banner indicating a quest-tree + has 'some' production value, my eyes tend to gloss over since 90% of the time it's some NPC having too much unrelated dialog just to ask me to grab/kill something.

[Gokulo]

It would help if most of the quests got equal attention. For me, pretty much any side-quest that doesn't involve a banner indicating a quest-tree + has 'some' production value, my eyes tend to gloss over since 90% of the time it's some NPC having too much unrelated dialog just to ask me to grab/kill something.

Pretty much the same

[Prothescar]

Kaslo with those Lulu highlights

[Kaslo]

[Hellfury]

The "Travel with NPC" mechanic is incredibly incompatible with the Frequent DC mechanic!

[Dotsudoku]

I don't think I've DC'd once since launch, servers have been very stable once inside

[Hellfury]

Really? I play like 3-4h a day from around 12 EST to 4 on EST and I get hit by 90002 - 90006 5-10 times in a typical playsession.
With it being weekend I had a little more time today and have played around 4-5 hours and I dc'ed around 10-15 times thus far.
Started with the expansion.

[Kaslo]

I only 90k'd once, and it was on Cloud of Darkness on my Alliance Roulette

[arus2001]

Also been stable when playing, which probably means it's an internet (not specifically a "you") thing.

As for side-quests, I think the problem is a lot of the one-off ones are skippable with nothing of value being lost. I can't even say having a + in the icon means they're good, it just means it has an aether current associated with it.

Spoiler: show

Legit, when back in Thavnair, I just wanted the fucking "Who will take baby?!" line to end because every time I thought I was done with the fucking zone those damn NPCs would continue the chain because they'd rather focus on their work or mourn about their lost spouse.

[Hellfury]

I tried VPN (PIA) with multiple different egress points, though I did always hit NTT on the last stretch.
I considered it being an error on my systems end, but all other services seem stable, from streams to rdp sessions to keeping a steady ping to other sources, so I know it's not my end directly, but it -could- be a routing issue I suppose.
It is still 204.2.229.9 for Aether (lobby) right?

[Uzor]

I haven't disconnected a single time, it's been very stable for me

[Prothescar]

I've disconnected two or three times over the last week and I've been putting in degenerate hours almost every day so it's definitely related to ISP/routing/individual circumstance.

[Lokus]

All my disconnects have been a random directX error here and there and even those I could count on one hand. For the most part, everyone in my friend group has had a stable experience as well once they were actually able to log in.

[Corrderio]

Pretty much the same

Ditto. I missed some of the custom delivery quests because of no indicator/the dialog being boring AF.

[Hellfury]

Going to run two instances on the same computer, see if they both DC at the same time or not. Just need to remember to keep them both alive! My apologies in advance to the 1 person(s) at the time who will suffer for this through the evening!

[Anoat]

Finished MSQ.

Pacing was awful up until after the first dungeon and getting to explore the third area, but it really took off after that. Maybe a bit too much. Dungeons and trials were a lot of fun. The new NPC follow/stealth stuff is annoying as fuck and way overdone. From a narrative standpoint I wasn’t thrilled with how the big bad was introduced/resolved but it wasn’t outright bad, just…eh, not as good as I was hoping for. The final solo duty did give some good closure, I think.

Having completed it, I stand by my earlier statement. Shadowbringers was Infinity War, objectively a better film/expansion in every way, while Endwalker was Endgame, an event that culminated a decades worth of film/content into giant fan service and dopamine hit to make it very enjoyable but ultimately a mess. A very enjoyable mess, but a mess all the same.

I haven’t played Sage yet but everyone seems to be really enjoying it. I got Reaper to 90 and really like it. The burst phase is really fun. Just pop true north and go ham. Sometimes I find myself fighting mobs in the open world just to pop Enshroud and take cool screenshots of my character.

The last Triple Triad card & achievement being locked behind collecting every non tournament card felt like a punch in the dick, lol gotta get grinding those FATEs I guess

[Shenrien]

So Bozja is broken for leveling, 3-4hrs to go from 80 to 90. I'd suggest BSF as shit will melt a lot faster than things in Zadnor.

[Prothescar]

Yeah I found that out right away, really shocked that they didn't stop the XP scaling beyond 80.

[Shenrien]

I was expecting the same behavior as we've seen from PotD and HoH, I wonder if it will remain or get hotfixed in 6.01.

[Anoat]

So Bozja is broken for leveling, 3-4hrs to go from 80 to 90. I'd suggest BSF as shit will melt a lot faster than things in Zadnor.

I’m kinda having more fun doing the quests and FATEs in new zones and new dungeons since I gotta do those anyway for triple triad cards but good to know Bozja is still viable after 80

Side note doing these new trials with a SMN in the party is trippy as fuck because everytime they summon Ifrit or whatever I keep thinking a new add is spawning lol