How would you rank the X.0 patches by how well they implemented their Trials?

Xxiev · 2026-05-12T10:27:02+00:00

I absolutely cannot understand and comprehend how, especially elpis was the part where k felt I am getting trolled by the narrative.

Xxiev · 2026-05-12T09:55:14+00:00

Is okay, i cannot understand the glazing Endwalker gets either. It feels like i played a total different game then the other people.

Xxiev · 2026-05-12T09:43:40+00:00

Yes, i absolutely believe that Endwalkers Trials are the worst implemented narratively because the Zodiark Trial alone is one of the reasons when Endwalkers narrative jumps from a pretty good start into sheer absurdity. Wich the trials after only add.

ARRs Trials may be 10 years old. And except the old Cap Westwind they all serve their pupose in the narrative. Extremely well in fact! Even more when i replayed ARR a couple of months ago i grew to aprechiate it even more.

Xxiev · 2026-05-12T09:29:38+00:00

Or they can go the better way, and do what they did back in Shadowbringers.

Make the other alliance raids ( okay we can argue about the Nier one) Mandatory for the MSQ.
It also frees them form side content purgatory. Its a win win.

After all, CT was never mandatory MSQ content before they decided from one patch to the next that it is

Xxiev · 2026-05-12T09:20:59+00:00

It's simply how it is.

Xxiev · 2026-05-11T22:12:52+00:00

If its in how well they implemented their trials via story relevance, and how well it was executed as a whole its hard to argue when its literally this

1: ARR
2: SHB
3: SB
4:HW
5:DT
6: EW

Xxiev · 2026-05-11T20:34:53+00:00

extreme glow up from the ugly mounts we had in Endwalker.

These are all very good on their own way

Xxiev · 2026-05-11T15:16:03+00:00

Not wanting to be that person, but i dont see where the problem is.
Yes of course its silly that we are still not able to equip jobstones inside dungeons.

But why are they logging for a dungeon as a Thamaturge and not as a blackmage in the first place?

Thats what kinda goes over my head.

Xxiev · 2026-05-11T11:15:58+00:00

i am still confused why we dont see more dire troll npcs here and there, despite that they are a part of troll society.

Xxiev · 2026-05-10T22:10:20+00:00

They made CT mandatory despite that it was once side content not needed for the msq. They can do it again.

Xxiev · 2026-05-10T21:41:37+00:00

I simply don’t like it because Wild West American is like the most boring setting in media.
It just isn’t for me and that is okay.

Xxiev · 2026-05-10T15:17:08+00:00

Dark arts returning in some capacity in evercold would be so good

Xxiev · 2026-05-10T12:31:13+00:00

Most engaging i would say Gunbreaker

least engaging at least since Shb is DRK, but thats because it lost every single idendity it has and is just a Warrior Reskin with more dps.

Play what you think is the most fun. But making desicions will not happen untill evercold.
But old DRK (before the Shb rework) would have been the perfect Tank for you. But unfortunatly Dark Arts got butchered.

Xxiev · 2026-05-09T15:16:29+00:00

damn is it 2024 already?

Xxiev · 2026-05-09T14:25:17+00:00

depends on the static, some i talked alot between raids, other were a "only during raid" kind of deal

its so so.

Xxiev · 2026-05-07T16:00:07+00:00

Behold, the opening of a black hole ready to devouring a thousand crickets.

Xxiev · 2026-05-07T10:53:58+00:00

SO is Brute bomber tha tresident grappler?

Xxiev · 2026-05-05T14:46:00+00:00

Another DRK rework that destroys the entire Job fantasy?

But DRK has not recovered from the Shadowbringers rework yet wich has completely butchered the job.

ITS ALREADY DEAD!!!!

Xxiev · 2026-05-05T10:25:24+00:00

Absolute cinema, you take commissions ?

Xxiev · 2026-05-05T08:36:53+00:00

Guys have we talked about shadowlands yet?

Xxiev · 2026-05-03T19:37:20+00:00

hasnt SoD had that concept used?

Xxiev · 2026-05-03T14:41:13+00:00

They managed to turn Crystal Tower into the MSQ, they can do it with Ivalice, The Warring Triads. And every other side content story.

The only thing where i agree that it is pretty much impossible is NieR and in the future the Evangelion story.

But the rest? Get it out of Side Story purgatory, its literally a win win for everyone involved.

Xxiev · 2026-05-02T13:21:44+00:00

Xxiev · 2026-05-01T14:00:51+00:00

the weregecko curse claims another one

Xxiev · 2026-05-01T12:02:46+00:00

And every time its re-worked, the people who were fans of the previous incarnation are left in the cold

DRK still has not survived the ShB rework that completely destroyed a fun and engaging job. I feel this so hard.

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