I finally won't have to raid to endgame!Follow

Exploratory Voyages: Looks like a FFXIV rendition of Sky, with it's own variable challenges, unique craft-able gear, and capacity of getting 210 gear with luck and high-tier chests.

I'm absolutely thrilled right now. I've been rooting for an expansion on possible endgame and this seems it.


I do have concerns on how FC runs work, whether or not you need a full party or full alliance to participate with FC, or if we can invite non-fc members into a FC run. However I'm not too concerned on those details. I'll do this stuff with PUGs if I have to.

I'll swallow the RNG and the possible competition, as we have alternatives to build upon that are more certain in raiding. But from the looks of things, they're limiting participation within these zones and scaling the difficulty so that co-operation is far more profitable than competition. We'll see how the loot system plays out.


A sidenote, for me, this solidifies my theory of Heavensward = Zilart, in terms of development progression. I'm going to speculate that we're not going to get a new major raiding/progression function until after Heavensward, aside from the usual updates to accommodate the rise in ilvl as Void Arc and Alexander seems to fill the role of Raiding updates.

I would like to see some sort of Roulette to make Crystal Tower and older raids valid content to go back to, but this incoming feature is a major step towards resolving my concerns for the game. I'm stoked.

Here's an image dump for those who missed the letter last night.

Anyone else have something they're excited about from last night?

Edited, Sep 19th 2015 9:57am by Hyrist

Edited, Nov 10th 2015 7:52am by Thayos Lock Thread: over.

It does seem like zilart, just without the tangible content for most level ranges :p Nothing particularly excited me from the letter, the launch date of the patch being delay was expected (even said that and proceeded to get torn apart for it.) Just seemed to confirm that nothing realistically will happen that shows this is an expansion in terms of systems until 3.2/3.3. Also further confirms that they're mostly doing 'raid' content out of obligation for the genre rather than wanting to actually do it. Since even the voyages seem they're going to have an interesting restrictions from what it sounded like he talked about. It's honestly the only hope for FC based content.

The voidark armor reskins look decent at least though. Considering they're steering from raid updates till the next round, hopefully they actually tune Voidark to be a challenge since this and the EV obsoletes the need to do Alex Norm/Savage since there will be more readily ilvl200+ gear and by november you should be more than done with i190/200 gear progressively.

Did they have to release this the same day as fallout 4?

"new major raiding/progression function until after Heavensward"

that would be obvious even with out the Voyages i mean in 2.0 what major raiding and progression did we get aside from Coil and Crystal tower? its always been two, no reason why anyone would think HW would bring more than Void Ark and Alexander before next expansion

and yay NMs and HNMs.. finally the open world wont suck and Ill have a reason to continue playing the rest of the week after capping eso, and finishing alex Normal every week

Edited, Sep 19th 2015 3:32pm by DuoMaxwellxx

FFXIV uninteresting patch VS. Fallout 4.

Fallout 4 wins.

I'll agree that Sky was a great place for experience. You could solo as BLM or BST there and the drops actually made the camp rewarding beyond experience. Sky was considered endgame content and that's what most people were doing there. Camps were usually available because most people were either farming triggers or using them or they didn't even have access.

The difference here is that Sky took a much larger investment of time to get that access. Things in Sky took more time in general than I expect them to take in XIV, but Sky was meant to be more than a gap bridge or filler content.

Those damn weapon camps. Would take everyone 1 hour to gather. Someone in the party wouldn't have the direct tele from Mea/Holla/Dem. Then you would get to the first camp, it would be taken. Half the party would get lost because of the doors, you'd finally manage to get together at the new camp only to have someone leave 30 mins later. You know what though? I would do it all over again.

Pretty sure there was a late level 60 bird camp up there too was there not?

If you do gathering of any kind, you get some real boots on the ground time in the new zones. For example, The Eddies in Sea of Clouds is a unique fishing-only island.

Nope. Sorry.

http://i.imgur.com/FWuhyJs.jpg

I'm trying to remember some of the higher level exp camps prior to the release of CoP and Bibiki Bay Dhamels and Anglers (among other places).

I know Kuftal had some raptors and Cockatrices further in along with Sabertooth tigers. Some people did lizards in the Den of Rancor, the Boyahda Tree had the high level Goobbues, Ro'Maeve had the golems. I also want to say Cape Terrigan had the Perytons. I know most of these were 60+ and not 70+, but still brings back memories trying to remember all these camps.

In the era I'm talking about, those warps didn't exist. *Everyone* got to sky via Hall of the Gods, every single time they went.

Once CoP came about, most people seemed to want to go to Bibiki Bay (whereas the particularly masochistic ones would go to Lufaise Meadows instead), but that place didn't support very many camps until they expanded the area at which the higher leveled mobs roamed.

Edited, Sep 20th 2015 8:08am by Fynlar

well from what I read you can go on those voyages solo using public airships

And hopefully the fc ship is player controlled?