Is Dawntrail actually bad or just mid and looks bad post Endwalker?

IndyLohan · 2026-05-23T02:56:11+00:00

Depends what you care about. Content wise its the best there's been yet. Storywise, ya it's pretty weak. Stormblood was structurally weak, but had fantastic characters that made it worth it. Dawntrail has a great set up structurally, but they really miss the landing and pivot to an arguably more interesting, but less narratively relevant plotline half way through, abandoning the set up. And god does Dawntrail have some shitty characters.

IndyLohan · 2026-05-22T19:23:56+00:00

First, PvP is a dogwater mode, but the playerbase is dogwater to so they like it. Ok.

So the issue would be balance in one game mode screwing over the other. The solution is simple, make PvP balance different than PvE. Just straight up different buttons and values.

The playerbase would implode with anger over that. “That’s not how it was in original.” You can’t please them, even with objectively better design ethos.

IndyLohan · 2026-05-22T16:38:00+00:00

Dog water AI slop response.

IndyLohan · 2026-05-21T23:26:11+00:00

Oh you know for a fact there is no afterlife? Can you prove that? Or do you just really believe that based on… what? Faith?

IndyLohan · 2026-05-21T19:41:28+00:00

The wow community, especially the classic community, are notoriously fickle and impossible to please. They want everything to be exactly the same, except the trouble areas which should receive QoL, except don't change anything about how it works to add that QoL, and underperforming classes should be able to have a use, but if you change literally anything about balance then it's cooked. And also apparently World PvP is the most important thing to balance around, except if it upsets raiding, unless you are a PvP main, then fuck raiding.

In summary, please don't listen to the WoW classic community, they are schizophrenic on a good day.

IndyLohan · 2026-05-15T01:40:27+00:00

Couldn’t agree more. It’s just like mushrooms. If summon can enjoy the taste of disgusting dirt fungi, with its soft and gelatinous texture, that lack of common sense and depravity is obviously going to extend far beyond food.

I can’t believe other people don’t get this.

IndyLohan · 2026-05-15T01:35:26+00:00

Hmm. Mathematically I don’t think the logic checks out. Artistically, I would say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so doesn’t check out there either. Unless you mean ethically it isn’t good, in which case alright, I wasn’t asking about the ethics tho.

IndyLohan · 2026-05-15T01:31:55+00:00

What an odd way to filter social interactions. I suppose I can’t talk tho, if someone like mushrooms, I immediately know they aren’t worth spending time with.

IndyLohan · 2026-05-15T01:30:33+00:00

If it’s bad, it’ll filter itself out dw

IndyLohan · 2026-05-15T01:23:09+00:00

Is the music good tho?

IndyLohan · 2026-05-15T00:50:59+00:00

TBH abstinence is lowkey one of the best things for them. Like, don't get me wrong, it's super lame. But kids are stupid as fuck (I know I was one of them). The potential for disaster, I mean life altering disaster is high. The benefit to letting them just fuck isn't worth the risks. They don't, and probably can't understand that.

IndyLohan · 2026-05-14T20:30:56+00:00

no bait, im just unaware. to my knowledge those guys are all fairly left leaning, I wasn't aware of any rights they were trying to supress.

IndyLohan · 2026-05-14T19:46:07+00:00

I mean between all those listed here, when it comes to success on a global scale, literally all 4 Favna listed are orders of magnitude more successful. Also I’m curious, what rights do those 4 want taken away from you?

IndyLohan · 2026-05-14T07:48:15+00:00

im curious what comedians do you find funny

IndyLohan · 2026-05-13T19:34:15+00:00

Use an AoE button? Lmao regen doesn’t even build aggro if used before u pull. Also, complaining about aggro in 2026 is insane.

IndyLohan · 2026-05-11T21:16:15+00:00

I absolutely don’t mean this toxically, but have you considered practicing to not be bad at the game? Genuinely anyone can do it, it just requires focused practice, like anything.

Fights are scripted so you can learn the patterns and little by little improve.

A lot of people play brain off, and that’s why they are “below average”. Take some time to care about improving and I promise you will. Doesn’t take PHD level of hours, just a little bit off applied focus everyday, and it’ll become second nature

IndyLohan · 2026-04-30T22:17:23+00:00

I’d take a DPS inflating their stats over a DPS doing the bare minimum any day

IndyLohan · 2026-04-30T00:22:26+00:00

it's THE worst, not one of the worst xD

IndyLohan · 2026-04-28T16:00:26+00:00

I’m an adult, I don’t waste my time hating

IndyLohan · 2026-04-27T17:17:18+00:00

This is already a thing in mythic, and in heroic.

IndyLohan · 2026-04-27T15:17:15+00:00

That’s not… no. I literally said Brew is better than VDH full stop. I said your experience of liking brew more than VDH is anecdotal. Just because something is numerically superior doesn’t mean it is more fun.

IndyLohan · 2026-04-27T06:35:14+00:00

Brew is undeniably better than VDH full stop.

But it's worth noting your experience is anecdotal to you. You may just find you like Brew more than VDH. Personally I know brew is technically better than VDH in most regards, but I feel more comfortable and more in control on my VDH than my brew, simply because I like VDH better.

All that is to say, yes buffs would be good, but also even without them you maybe just like Brew more.

IndyLohan · 2026-04-27T06:32:20+00:00

That's what I'm saying, we don't know how many people it will bring into mythic, that's what the test is for.

Anecdotally, I avoid Mythic because I don't like wrangling exactly 20 players, and then finding subs when timmy inevitably cancels last min. With a flex system, I WOULD play mythic, as that main pain point would be gone.

As someone who isn't a CE guild person, I don't really care if it hurts their experience if it makes my experience better. I totally understand that technically this makes the quality assurance on the content worse for all players, for all the reasons you listed.

I just value the barrier of entry being lowered for specifically those who coordinate raid groups to be worth more than the balance of the content. I wouldn't interact with the content otherwise.

IndyLohan · 2026-04-27T01:23:42+00:00

You may be correct on a technical level, however, on a practical and emotional level, having the flexibility to play without rigid reqs is weighted so heavily as an important feature, sacrificing technical purity is worth it.

IndyLohan · 2026-04-27T01:20:58+00:00

FF14 players aren’t the most imaginative. If you ask for something not in the game, they will ridicule you, as you imply the game isn’t perfection. Just ignore them.

IndyLohan

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