Ah I see what you're saying now. Yeah, I'd much rather play anything on PC. PS5 is a literal dust collector and Xbox ain't got games. Incredibly disappointing to play FF16 at 4K30 or 720p/60, and it really put a sour taste in my mouth lol.

Also very funny to me that it's still on PS4, doesn't support Xbox One, and also is gonna be on the Series consoles.

I think I skip the next expansion. The second raid tier killed me. It was so bad man. P5S and P8S were the only good fights. This tier I barely have the will to go into P11S. Need a break from this game. Loved It alot but bruh. I am done. Over 2,5k hours in 2 years...

I'm so hyped for Dawntrail after I read the famitsu interview where they said we'd be getting more group stuff. I hope we see something about at the fanfest keynote in a few weeks.

I've been spending a lot of time in Bozja again lately and I think this and Eureka are the most fun things in the game.

@redtruth how you feeling about Dawntrail?

Need to play most of Endwalker but don't feel like it because I genuinely forgot how to play and all my rotations and s***.

I honestly haven't played XIV in like the longest time so I'm really behind on the post Endwalker story (I think im on the .3 story right now) and haven't been caught up on the Dawntrail news.

Solution Nine looks really interesting though and just completely left field from what I would expect from the lore so I really do need to catch up at some point.

Its unfortunate that this is right next to SMTV:V and Elden RIng DLC, honestly this year has been too overwhelming with the amount of video games dropping

Okay I'm catching up

Reached Lv 92 quests and I think this might be the most bored I have ever been during the start of an expansion.

The sucession plotline is somewhat interesting but the characters competing in it are just so one-dimensional that I'm struggling to take it seriously, the Fourth Promise is especially so comically evil that I have to question the age of the writing team. I'm hoping he dies somewhere down the line because I really don't like being reminded of how juvenille the writing team is every time he pops up on the screen.

My bigget problem so far though is that its following the exact same format of story telling as the previous expansions. This being a new arc, I feel like this was the chance for the team to try out new things and take more risks with the story telling, I know the story will get more interesting later on but I would really appreciate it if we could stop the Shadowbringers: "Pick location X or Y, complete menial tasks and now go to location Y or X" at the start of every expansion.

You have validated my decision to just not play it lol. Think my biggest issue with this game overall is I just really do not give a s*** about the characters whatsoever. The story in the moment is generally pretty good and I'm excited to see where everything goes, but I have no attachment to any character. Kinda hard to get really invested with that being the case.

You still on DRK?

edit: seeing that quite a few people are saying the story is boring as s*** thus far Like you said though, I imagine most people are still pretty early on, but still not great to see.

the expansion is exactly what everyone SHOULD have expected. A slow burn setting up the next 10 years of story. I'd imagine the people who find it boring either a) had the wrong expectations of what was gonna go on with the story, b) expected a complete overhaul of quest design (get real lol), or c) don't care about the newly introduced region's history/characters/customs/etc.

Personally I'm into all that s***. Sometimes I gotta remember a lot of people joined FFXIV late when you always had Shadowbringers/Endwalker to "look forward to" and now those people are caught up. Really, this expansion is no different from Heavensward and Stormblood lol

Everytime i think of playing this i remember how anti co op it is

Yeah still on DRK, all my ultimate weapons and glam are on DRK and I gotta look flashy during the cutscenes

Unfortunately there hasn't been any interesting characters added in Dawntrail so you are stuck with the same crew. Slight spoilers but what's funny here is that during the lead-up to Dawntrail CBU3 kept saying about how there would be some "conflict" that would divide the group. I don't know why they bothered making such a big deal out of this because by Lv 92 you are basically working together again

I just beat the first trial and my opinion hasn't really changed that much. If anything, the bosses in the dungeons have been pretty good; lv 93 bosses were especially fun

A lot of people will try and tell you that it's the start of a new arc so they are setting things up without telling you how terrible the execution of the setup has actually been. Wuk Lamat (The Promise you are assisting in the succession competition) is a very important part of the story, it's reminiscent of Stormblood with Lyse and if you don't care about her you are going to have a horrible time with the story in this expansion because there’s some rough balancing between world building and building Wuk Lamat’s character

Personally, I hate the "positive character that needs uplifting" archetype because I have seen it done so many times before in other media and its just not that interesting, as a matter of fact I feel like I have seen this exact same character arc done multiple times in this game already. Wuk Lamat's competitors are also overly obnoxious in order to make Wuk Lamat's positivity and helpful nature stand out more, its all just so tiring man

are we talking about the same game lol

idk i played it three times over a decade and i felt like the main story quests didn't allow ur friends to join those story fights/scenes

obviously dungeon runs are as normal

could be misremembering

the fights you're talking about are like the extreme minority of fights (duties)

yea and i think the job quests too played a factor

its been a long time since i did a job quests but iirc those are solo stories.

honestly this game bends over backwards to make it so that even the highest level players can play with their low level friends due to roulettes and s*** like that

I do think it's some of A, but I've mainly been seeing C. Ton of hate for the new "main" character, following previous expansions beat for beat (and doing a worse job at it). You can still have a fresh start and have it be engaging and have well written characters.

Again, this is all from me just looking at different opinions and not really having any of my own since I have no interest in DT. All opinions anyways so it really doesn't matter lol.

If I were to hop back on at some point, I'd prob go with Pictomancer. Been primarily RDM for like half a decade now

Yeah, this is basically everything I've seen. Lyse is/was absolutely abysmally written and to see someone be a worse version of it AND be the driving force behind the story does not bode well lol.

I have seen that the trials and dungeons have been great, so that's good to hear.

I wont lie i am on 6th area and i am bored as fuuuuuuck

Yes shes worse than lyse idk how they made that possible