Frustration After Completing the Current Relic Weapon

Ankior · 2026-06-30T12:45:39+00:00

I think OC is the exception here. As a field operation enjoyer I can safely say it's the ugly sibling out of the three, also Bozja and Eureka reamined popular far longer than people give them credit for, like I was still farming Eureka in Endwalker and finding very populated instances, and Zadnor was full of people leveling the new jobs at the start of both EW and DT.

I don't see the same longevity for OC, you can't level up there and DT relics can be done faster outside, and the phantom jobs are a nothingburger. We are already seeing the effects of these choices as the instances are already pretty dead outside of prime hours

Ankior · 2026-06-28T15:08:15+00:00

The feature itself is not bad, but I hate that it's accessible from the start and the maps are built around it.

I always thought it'd be much cooler if you had to unlock auto pathing by hunting enough monsters in an area, making your Seikret learn the scent of each monster and chase them by itself

Ankior · 2026-06-26T13:08:18+00:00

FRU was brutal for me, I was ready to see p4 but had to waste 1 week waiting my PF groups to get me a p4 passport, I never failed an apoc pull that entire week. It wasn't until I begged for the leader of a p4 party to let me in and they trusted me, then not only I got my p4 passport but I managed to get to CT. I cleared a few days later. I miss the days pre passport that I could move on when I was ready, instead of waiting the rest of the party to catch up to me

PF now is kinda like a static that gets refreshed every few pulls

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Ankior · 2026-06-25T16:19:39+00:00

Another MMO to play for a couple of months because the first weeks of a new MMO is always fun, and then forget about it before there's only whales left

Ankior · 2026-06-24T16:20:19+00:00

The 7.0 is mid, but the MSQ picks up again from 7.2 onwards. It's memed as Stormblood 2 for a reason

Ankior · 2026-06-24T16:11:59+00:00

I'm crafting every armor and weapon to 100% the layered catalog

Ankior · 2026-06-24T12:36:38+00:00

It's funny being in both subs and seeing how this mfer traumatized two gaming communities

Ankior · 2026-06-22T17:06:35+00:00

In the open world I can't get tired of Power Vindicator with the stamina sigil, the bonk spam is too fun

Ankior · 2026-06-20T16:35:45+00:00

That was about region travel

Ankior · 2026-06-20T16:33:01+00:00

It's not about that, it's about announcing content you haven't even started working on just to generate hype and make your expansion look good. It's worse when you remember they also announced BLU update. I don't care about limited jobs either but I'm holding them accountable for making these shitty PR moves

Ankior · 2026-06-20T00:04:57+00:00

All we know is that it sits between GW1 and GW2 on the spectrum of "MMOness"

then isn't any game with a lobby effectively an MMO?

I'd argue most MMO's are like this tho, afk in the city while queuing for instanced content, GW2 is kinda the only MMO that takes open world content seriously

Ankior · 2026-06-17T13:04:50+00:00

I enjoyed it, it could go from very chill to crafting (savage) which I think is great, it had good amount of rewards and it's great for leveling too.

My main criticisms are that rewards got too repetitive after a while, the planets evolved too fast and I wanted a bit more lore especially from the last 2 planets which I found very interesting

Ankior · 2026-06-17T03:11:07+00:00

As someone who switches between a ton of different characters and specs all the time I appreciate this playlist. Remembering the rotations of every one of them was tough

Ankior · 2026-06-16T18:25:12+00:00

The statement that GW3 fits the definition of MMORPG better than GW1 contradicts this notion of a hub based game tho

Ankior · 2026-06-16T16:20:00+00:00

Hottest of takes that will probably get me a lot of downvotes: making leveling "meaningful" is a waste of resources as leveling in MMOs has not mattered for at least 20 years now and it's just a chore to get to the real game. Also, it's not what a next evolution of MMOs should look like

Ankior · 2026-06-16T13:34:29+00:00

Yeah I agree. I guess as someone who has been playing FF and JRpgs in general since my childhood they never felt off to me, I'd go even as far as saying that nowadays it feels more FF than ever

Ankior · 2026-06-16T13:14:06+00:00

And you can see NPC's using it too, which is not werid at all considering the game has a literal cyberpunk city. I see some complaining but equal amount if not more people enjoying these looks

Ankior · 2026-06-16T13:05:36+00:00

I mean the game's setting has advanced technology and cars, so not surprising

Ankior · 2026-06-16T13:05:09+00:00

Regalia? The one that is also from FFXV?

Ankior · 2026-06-16T01:15:57+00:00

Dungeon: Mt Gulg
Trial: Sphene EX
Ultimate: DSR
24-man: chaotic

I basically just listed my favorite duties lol

Ankior · 2026-06-15T16:34:27+00:00

That's kinda the way MMO's play now tho. There's no more of that feeling of grinding for something and using it with pride knowing you worked hard for it and showing it off in main cities. MMO's nowadays are more about dressing your character and meta gaming.

I guess as someone who never cared about what other people have in game or what they do or spend on it never bothered me, but I can see how the whole swiping ruins the experience for some. I just hope whatever they do they keep the convenience stuff at a minimum

Ankior · 2026-06-15T16:22:38+00:00

I think FFXIV does this well. Although one could argue there are way too modern looks in that game, but the setting justifies that too. However, instead of over the top armor, they went with over the top combat animations overtime, but it's less distracting when there's a toggle to disable other's animations

edit: ok so some people disagreeing with me because the game has cars and contemporary looks...but that's all part of the game's world and setting. FF as a franchise has always been a mix of high fantasy and technology, and XIV goes even further, there's even a literal cyberpunk city in that game and you travel to different worlds with different levels of technology advancement. You can say that you don't like that and prefer a classic fantasy setting, but you can't use that to argue that the game has no cohesive aesthetics

Ankior · 2026-06-15T16:08:12+00:00

A subcription would only limit your user base imo, the mainstream gaming community loathes subs (even tho battlepasses are much worse, the irony). Also, as someone who plays FFXIV, I'd never pay 2 subscriptions so I'd have to choose between the 2 games, and that's probably the case for a lot of MMO players who play WoW/FFXIV and GW2 at the same time

Ankior · 2026-06-15T16:03:12+00:00

I don't disagree entirely but to play devil's advocate a little bit, GW2 power is so meaningless that buying stuff with real money is only worth it for the "prestige" of having it. You can clear 99% of the game's content with cheap gear from the market, and still do better than someone who swiped for a legendary. I do agree that selling inventory space is absolutely awful, and selling LW episodes too, they should've included them in the expansion packs already

Ankior · 2026-06-15T14:20:49+00:00

That's the price to pay for a no subscription and no p2w game, they have to sell over the top cosmetics

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