Final Fantasy XIV 7.0: Dawntrail - Summer 2024

[octopus]

if the schedule is like previous media tours, the embargo date should be this Wednesday.

[Lokus]

The lighting on the new benchmark is waaaay better, and that basically solves a majority of the issues people had (OF is still inundated with complaints). Model wise, nothing really changed between benchmarks, at least for my character, so I'm still gucci.

edit: I lied. My character now has bags under her eyes no matter the lighting and I can't unsee it now that I noticed it. I'm a sunglass main now.

[Lokus]

Media embargo lifted a couple hours ago. Engage doomposting.

[Gokulo]

Oh man, time to spend hours on YT watching all the impressions, lol.
To start the doomposting: dungeon finall boss theme is pretty disappointing to me ;( ShB was so great, EW was pretty good too, this feels very generic.

[The Stig]

ShB was ok in that they remixed the dungeon last boss theme for it, but I rather something new
EW normal boss theme was nice, but the dungeon last boss i prefer less

As for the embargo uplift, I don't expect much but I will predict it now as i can't see anything until I get home from work:

- each job probably has like 1 new button, and like EW probably 1 button that is locked away with a long (2m+) cooldown
- usual traits which changes your base rotation/moves
- other stuff that doesn't make much sense and things are still relatively the same with a different shade of paint lol

[Anoat]

I enjoyed the EW final boss theme a lot and was kinda disappointed they dropped in completely in the patch series for the FF4 boss remix but maybe I’m in the minority on that.

Kinda related but man I remember the first day or so of EW running Tower of Zot thinking OKAY WE ACTUALLY GOT SOME CHALLENGE, like the final pulls were kinda spicy and the final boss against all three sisters was a big step up in difficulty for an MSQ dungeon and then the rest just fell off hard, which was really disappointing. Looking back now, I think it was because most tanks didn’t have their super mitigation move until level 82 and maybe that’s why Zot felt more challenging. I’m hoping Dawntrail at least gives us a bit more challenge in that regard.

[Anoat]

Watched the first dungeon and yeah boss themes are pretty mid although the dungeon theme itself was pretty nice. Also disappointed the first boss is a giant manatee. A manatee?! They are like the cutest most gentle creatures on the planet. How could they?!

[Anoat]

Seems like the general consensus among media tour attendees is that Viper seems very fun but extremely brain dead, just press the lit up buttons kinda playstyle. And most people seem to think BLM mains are all switching to Picto.

[octopus]

Definitely see a lot of doomposting about BLM. I guess we'll see if people are right and not overreacting

[arus2001]

Doubt Yoshida would murder his pet job, so yeah, probably overreacting.

[The Stig]

There's an apparent healer strike going on too lol, on the official forums

[Lokus]

1) The vast majority of players don't visit the OF.

2) That thread has a lot of repeat names.

3) Do they fucking think SE can change 4 jobs in one month?

4) I would bet that a good chunk of the same people complaining about a healers' dps rotation being 111111, also wanting DPS jobs to consolidate their 123 combos into 111111.

All that said, if SE increases outgoing damage from dungeons on up so healers have to use more of their heals, you'd have a good chunk of the playerbase also dreading to heal in content. I remember early EW where healers hated to heal DRKs cause they had less self heals so that meant Healers had to... do more healing than dealing damage. You still have healers having anxiety about wall to wall pulls. The second raid tier had a healer shortage for a bit cause raidwides were more potent.

[Lucavi]

People have been asking for a healer revamp from 1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1, since 4.0 and it hasn't happened. Its never going to happen. People need to understand that if you don't like what a Japanese company is doing, complaining solves nothing. Quit the game and come back if it changes down the road (the only metrics a company cares about is sales/engagement), but these people can't give up their addiction, so it is what it is.

[Prothescar]

Definitely see a lot of doomposting about BLM. I guess we'll see if people are right and not overreacting

The strength of the job is still there. People are whining because they can't do their 99x Tony Hawk Pro Skater nonstandard combo that makes them feel big brained and very special anymore.

[The Stig]

3) Do they fucking think SE can change 4 jobs in one month?

This made me snort haha, as it was always a funny comment I always hear or read from people coping (oh hopefully they'll fix it by release etc). Everything in the job actions trailer is basically cemented (and probably the media tour build too), there is no way they can adjust anything except potency usually. Even minor adjustments (i.e. PLD's mid expansion mini change sometime ago) took like 2? patches to roll out which didn't change that much overall.

I unironically enjoy healer at the moment as is because I can be lazy. DPS rotations isn't too fun for me. So spamming 1111111111111 or 22222222222 is actually quite ok for me haha.

[Gokulo]

Yeah, pretty much the same - playing healer for me means lets me shut my brain off actually

[arus2001]

First rule of OF is realizing 90% of the people posting there probably hate the game and should unsub, but they don't because of sunken cost fallacy and thinking they're smarter than everyone else.

[Lucavi]

Preach. Facts, all of it.

[Gokulo]

Watch out, the video has some spoilers, which people might not want to know beforehand. I know I kinda regret watching it now, lol

[Lokus]

Yea... I def regret watching that now lol. It probably happens early enough in the story that it won't sting too bad, but I def could have done without that knowledge. Thanks SE.