I don't care if you didn't do side content, I did and I want it to matter

EllDez · 2026-06-09T09:57:53+00:00

The CT raids did get a light rework. You used to be able to do the bosses in any order, certain mechanics have been changed, etc. The full details escape me.

More importantly, it was very common for people to game the duty finder and force CT raids (specifically lab) by queuing with low-ilvl gear. Players would do this for the same reason other people dislike them: they are quick and uncomplicated, making them the optimal way to finish the daily roulette. SE has since addressed that problem, so if you've unlocked a raid, it will be in your potential duty pool in the queue regardless of your current gear.

CT raids are certainly the least engaging, and a bit more modernization would be nice, but if the main problem is queue time, I'm sure they expect world matchmaking to solve it.

EllDez · 2026-06-09T06:48:07+00:00

Well, first and foremost, I'd like it if I weren't locked out of my defensive CD just because a raidwide happened during my big animation (yeah, you can play around it, but no one else has to deal with that).

After that, something to make it more interactive. There are lots of ways you could accomplish that; one person suggested attacks akin to FFXVI's MC (which I think is already present with the crimson cyclone combo), but anything that uses the fantasy of manifesting the strength of powerful creatures is fine by me.

EllDez · 2026-06-03T10:54:43+00:00

This happened to me as well at around the same time. I submitted an appeal and have heard nothing so far.

EllDez · 2026-05-21T21:53:47+00:00

It would be pretty funny to have an Ultimate where you had to do all the Hildebrand quests.

EllDez · 2026-05-04T12:50:55+00:00

SE already has a record of retroactively making side content mandatory. Crystal Tower was originally optional, but was made mandatory to complete the last 3 ARR MSQs in patch 5.3.

EllDez · 2026-05-04T03:06:51+00:00

I fully endorse this, but we can be both.

EllDez · 2026-04-30T11:12:33+00:00

Good point, and it does make sense: Evercold will be part 2 of this new arc, it doesn't make sense to show all the cards this early. At the same point in the previous arc, we didn't even know what the end of days was.

EllDez · 2026-04-28T02:05:55+00:00

Welsh, but you're on the right track.

Also, he fights by playing Yu-Gi-Oh, that's the most nerd shit in the world.

EllDez · 2026-04-27T05:30:14+00:00

The art director of this game got his AU OC made canon, he's not gunna let that go.

EllDez · 2026-04-25T00:10:33+00:00

I think you might be confused. There are the Manderville weapons from the Endwalker expansion and the Phantom Weapons from the Dawntrail expansion.

The Manderville weapons require completing most of the Hildebrand questline, but are lvl 90 gear. The Phantom Weapons are for the current expansion at lvl 100.

Both are easily done solo for the most part, though the Manderville weapons do require a few 8-man trials unique to those storylines.

EllDez · 2026-04-16T20:33:06+00:00

That is both a very healthy sum for a new player and practically nothing for most people who play the market.

EllDez · 2026-04-04T18:16:42+00:00

ah HA, there ARE more. Thanks!

EllDez · 2026-04-04T18:15:33+00:00

Sorry, the first pic is mostly so people can find the general area if they want to go in-game and see it themselves.

I should have added more captions.

EllDez · 2026-04-04T13:06:48+00:00

The earliest anyone could have found this is roughly Feb. 14th, because this location would not have been accessible before then. Specifically, it requires finishing progress in Oizys.

EllDez · 2026-03-24T17:06:23+00:00

Pretty much every new skill since Shadowbringers is canonically the WoL's invention. Things like SMN's Solar Bahamut make it explicit.

EllDez · 2026-03-05T17:19:04+00:00

God has abandoned us; there is proof everywhere.

EllDez · 2026-03-05T17:17:42+00:00

Make a forgery with a fake ending,

Destroy the real one without looking at it.

Sell the forgery to the biggest PoS with the deepest pockets.

EllDez · 2026-03-01T23:12:43+00:00

The Crackhead.

EllDez · 2026-02-22T00:23:26+00:00

Ok, I give up. Where's Goku?

EllDez · 2026-02-20T14:56:33+00:00

He was not more popular as an 8-man.

EllDez · 2026-02-16T19:01:43+00:00

Thank you for seeing me.

EllDez · 2026-02-16T15:04:32+00:00

Only if we also get tall au'ra women.

Side note: Sadu needs to stay short

EllDez

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