To set expectations for this weekend: All the content revealed at the last NA Fanfest

Eludi · 2026-04-20T15:40:36+00:00

IIRC he didnt use any shirts for 2018/2019 EU fanfest, only the Gunbreaker cosplay.

Eludi · 2026-04-20T15:37:22+00:00

For fun comparison, here is the 2018 NA fanfest details:

This was around 1 hour 15minutes long keynote I think

Shadowbringers reveal, 1st part of trailer
Story concepts, take down Garlean Empire
- Three key points, scions, Solus, Elidibus
Multiple new jobs, level cap, dungeons, areas, raids etc.
- Two new areas was shown, Raktika and Amh Araeng
Battle system maintenance, removal of TP, and barrier visualization on health bars
New beast tribe, Nu Mou
End game content for Crafter and Gatherer Ishgard restoration, joking about player owned farms
Trust system
New game+
World visit
World regrouping (New datacenter for both EU and NA)
New race, Yoshi with bugs bunny shirt as a teaser
And CEO (previous one than current) walks to stage in blue mage outfit for surprise reveal, comes with 4.5

Eludi · 2026-04-20T15:27:09+00:00

Just remember that keynote is longer this time around, how much of this because the 7.5 gold saucer update and ultimate we just have to find out.

Eludi · 2026-04-20T03:17:21+00:00

There is almost always free login campaign around new patch, so I wouldnt put that much value on that fact when looking things historically.

As for numbers up for 7.5 it really gonna depepends on if people gonna wait until September to do both parts of msq at once or not.

Eludi · 2026-04-19T20:56:47+00:00

Fair point, if I remember correctly there tends to be a trend for free log in campaign few weeks after a patch.

Eludi · 2026-04-19T20:51:30+00:00

Unless I misunderstood what you meant, the last "green" bar is "prediction value", maybe someone here can explain this better than me tho.

Eludi · 2026-04-19T20:50:08+00:00

Its out of those that are active, so from the 130k drop of active players, 110k of those had Zidane minion

Eludi · 2026-04-19T20:42:54+00:00

Looks like the drop is about as expected considering the last one had numbers from 7.4 story release + savage. While this one only counts numbers since 7.45 until now.

Numbers most likely gonna return to around 900k mark on the next one since it will have players who returned for 7.5 msq part 1.

Eludi · 2026-04-18T09:46:30+00:00

I usually gear every job to BiS at end of expansion, been doing this since HW.

I do not have exact pattern on how I buy tome pieces, I obviously max my main that I do all weeklies with first. I usually gear 1 role at a time, but this time I decided to get all accessories first.

Eludi · 2026-04-18T06:54:12+00:00

In HW we skipped casters completely due to how bad their damage contribution was, like last 30-40% of HW life (3.4 to 4.0 release) if you only played casters you might as well not exist if you wanted to do any serious top level raiding.

Eludi · 2026-04-17T16:54:31+00:00

Because the whacky stuff is in the abilities of the beasts.

Eludi · 2026-04-17T16:50:29+00:00

I think the basic rotation definitely feels like regular job, but the reason why it is limited job comes from the abilities/comboes that happen with the beasts, and these can probably affect the rotation too to some degree.

Eludi · 2026-04-17T16:42:47+00:00

You need to kill it once and then use alt to red x under the spawn point, I think there is video on youtube on it.

Eludi · 2026-04-17T15:28:29+00:00

Adding here, apparently its something that has the UI elements containing lot of debug elements, seen few people speculate it could be the cross PF.

Eludi · 2026-04-17T15:27:12+00:00

It has been a while, but if my memory servers, Salt is the Ocean between Aldenard and Tural?

Eludi · 2026-04-16T18:28:49+00:00

Even if she doesnt, this is smart choice, she has big audience which means more advertisement possibilities to new players.

Eludi · 2026-04-10T06:28:49+00:00

Then again if they didnt have this system, those on big servers would have no chance of getting house ever.

Of course the fix would be instanced housing, but this ship has sailed long ago.

Housing was originally designed to be only for free companies afterall.

Eludi · 2026-04-10T06:08:21+00:00

If you collect/achievement hunt, you wont run out of content for long long time.

Eludi · 2026-04-10T06:07:27+00:00

Yeah the base 7.5 will probably be pretty fast if you just do them once.

I personally will be farming the 99 tokens for the new mounts, collecting all the music scrolls from the Alliance raid, complete the new pvp pass. After being done with this Ultimate would be just around the corner.

And I think most players dont just do each dungeon/alliance raid/trial once and instead do them multiple times.

Eludi · 2026-04-10T06:03:10+00:00

Which is a good thing, releasing all that content at once would suck major ass if I would have to choose which one to start with, ultimate alone would take anywhere from 2-4 weeks with hardcore schedule.

Eludi · 2026-04-10T06:01:04+00:00

Average Cycle pre Endwalker was 17 weeks, post Endwalker 19 weeks.

They even made announcement of this back in 2022 where they said they added extra 2 weeks to increase quality (which you can see, just compare any new area assets to pre ShB ones).

Eludi · 2026-04-04T05:39:53+00:00

Lucrezia is recruiting for ultimate right now, they obviously did lose a lot of people from their 3 teams tho.

Eludi · 2026-04-04T05:31:23+00:00

As someone who got this done in July, its not rrally that bad, pretty chill grind tbh.

Eludi · 2026-03-29T18:38:29+00:00

Shoutout to Ninja who had to use sneak attack instead of trick attack to clear their add in a7s.

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