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wokow6 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCMxiSH1Otw It's a cute art style, even if the voicework and script are 100% corporate infomercial.
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"- The weather will change on the island, but it will not snow, since it is located in an area of the world where it doesn't snow. " This is a bummer. I was really hoping for biomes. I want snow Also it's not surprising the island isn't gonna have any real housing stuff, but then I also don't really understand what the point of it is. Can we not customize or decorate our hut/house/tent there or what? It's kind of sounding like the island sanctuary is more like Doman Restoration and Doman Restoration is... nothing. I guess it's cool your pets can hang out there?
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And the relics are going to be ARR/HW-style this time around, apparently.
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Lawful Evil is a stable equilibrium point for healers. The only question is whether you fall into it sooner or later than average.
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Macaluso posted:"- The weather will change on the island, but it will not snow, since it is located in an area of the world where it doesn't snow. " I'm a little sad there's no outdoor housing elements on the island, but maybe it's something they'll be able to add in the future if they get feedback. It's a little silly how frequently retainers bring back housing items when housing is such a sharply limited thing in the game.
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Macaluso posted:"- The weather will change on the island, but it will not snow, since it is located in an area of the world where it doesn't snow. " Didn't they say there would be two islands at one point or another? Maybe that got scrapped, but if it didn't maybe the other island will be at a snowy latitude. Also it specifically says no "housing items" but we know Island Sanctuary has its own dedicated inventory system so I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't still some customization options going on there.
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They mentioned you can customize stuff and let minions run around, the deal is it's all self contained. Which is a shame, giving players a place to dump outdoor furnishings and do gardening even if it has none of the other housing options would do a lot to aleviate housing complaints.
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Regalingualius posted:And the relics are going to be ARR/HW-style this time around, apparently. What does this mean?
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Not tied to a particular type of content like Eureka/Bozja weapons were, presumably (outside of progressing Hildebrand to the current point). Instead of having the grind be limited to or greatly benefit from a specific type of content you'll be able to progress them in from a pool of content types.
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hazardousmouse posted:What does this mean? Quests that have you do a bunch of different things to upgrade your relic as opposed to the Eureka/Bozja "go grind this type of content until you have enough tokens to get your next upgrade" model.
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Heavensward relic was probably my favourite to work on. Most steps had a variety of ways to proceed, be them simply poetics, or obtaining items that were rewards from multiple different sources. Grinding bozja / crystal tower was beyond tedious.
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W.T. Fits posted:Quests that have you do a bunch of different things to upgrade your relic as opposed to the Eureka/Bozja "go grind this type of content until you have enough tokens to get your next upgrade" model. Finally a new poetics dump.
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Chillgamesh posted:Of note is that there's no housing element to Island Sanctuary at all Then I just don't give a gently caress  Lack of housing is souring me. My retainers are filled with outside junk I've collected along the years from rewards and poo poo and I'm just gonna junk it all. I can't use it why have it
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my sigma grindset in bozja was that I wasn't only grinding for relic progress, but aligning it with other goals like farming fragments or resistance honors delubrum is probably the biggest pain point now if you try to do it on your own but speedrun groups are a diamond dozen even today
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Technically Bozja also let you do other content, but it was all "do X for item drops". We'll probably see a comeback of things like light or being able to trade crafted stuff to advance the relic.
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Vitamean posted:diamond dozen Unless there's some pun I'm missing, it's "dime a dozen."
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Vitamean posted:my sigma grindset in bozja was that I wasn't only grinding for relic progress, but aligning it with other goals like farming fragments or resistance honors +if you were grinding long enough you could grind several weapons at once, which is why I have a billion finished tier 1 and Law's Order weapons
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yeah the coolest part of the southern front steps was being able to run all the quests at once with different weapons so farming trash for fragments could also drop memories for step 1 and 2, and then jump into CEs or castrum for the 3rd step.
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 I finally got a small house and honestly what more could I need?
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Pwnstar posted:
A bigger house. The hunger will grow.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Heavensward relic was probably my favourite to work on. Most steps had a variety of ways to proceed, be them simply poetics, or obtaining items that were rewards from multiple different sources. Yeah. ARR/HW was the best. IMHO: HW > ARR >>>>>>>>> StB >>>> ShB for relics. I loving hated Bozja with the passion that most people hated Eureka, meanwhile I didn't mind Eureka as much. For me, Eureka was a chill grind. Bozja was just loving obnoxious. Worse zones than Eureka. Absolute dogshit story. Worse upgrade steps than Eureka. But both are vastly inferior to the ARR/HW model of relic upgrades.
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Yeah, Bozja is the only one I still haven’t finished at least one relic with, since they tried to have it both ways and had multiple points where you can easily just stall out.
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sorry to do it to you, but the final resistance pld sword and the entire eurekan drk line are badass
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Regalingualius posted:Yeah, Bozja is the only one I still haven’t finished at least one relic with, since they tried to have it both ways and had multiple points where you can easily just stall out. I have a friend who's probably never going to finish their first relic because they're stuck on the "gather 180 tokens from either Zadnor skirmishes/CEs or synched HW/StB/ShB 8-player raids" step because they hate grinding in Bozja/Zadnor and grinding the raids takes too much time and effort.
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going back to arr/hw style relic progression is pretty lame, even if bozja had a parallel track for it already
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What's wrong with HW style relics? They gave the player a choice on how to complete most steps, rather than grind this specific set of garbage.
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You only say that now when we don't know what the un-nerfed light farming step will be yet
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:What's wrong with HW style relics? They gave the player a choice on how to complete most steps, rather than grind this specific set of garbage. I would rather do new content than old content
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the thing that gets me for ARR and HW relics in particular are the light grinds. I'd like to think the devs have learned enough to never drop another garbage step like books on us again, but lights at first availability are the second most miserable kind of relic step and I'll own up to pagos lights being the worst part of eurekan weapons, but at least there after your first physeos every subsequent weapon is several magnitudes easier to grind light on.
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Honestly the main thing I'm gonna miss from not having a mass PvE zone is the large-scale raids. Even if it was annoying to deal with leechers after a while tanking a boss with 40+ players at your back is cool as hell. I hope they still do something like CLL/Dalriada this expansion even if there's no open-world zone attached to it. Orcs and Ostriches posted:What's wrong with HW style relics? They gave the player a choice on how to complete most steps, rather than grind this specific set of garbage. Bozja also gave you options for everything on every step I think?
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I was a maniac that loved the concurrent work you could do on ShB stages and did drat near all of them
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ImpAtom posted:I would rather do new content than old content Most of the Bozja relic sent you out for old content anyways. Chillgamesh posted:Bozja also gave you options for everything on every step I think? Yeah, but it was like farm bozja fates at 1%, or farm Crystal Tower. A choice, but they both sucked.
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Bozja loving sucks. Sorry. I would rather do old content for ever than that dogshit. Here, grind this blasted out warzone that is loving boring to look at while Matsuno huffs his own farts for 20 hours.
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hazardousmouse posted:I was a maniac that loved the concurrent work you could do on ShB stages and did drat near all of them correct Mordiceius posted:Bozja loving sucks. Sorry. I would rather do old content for ever than that dogshit. incorrect
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Yeah, Bozja was a cool zone. The critical engagements were fun fights and the story, as all things Matsuno, was good. Southern Front's aesthetic got a little stale after a while, but I thought it was fine.
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Mordiceius posted:Here, grind this blasted out warzone that is loving boring to look at while Matsuno huffs his own farts for 20 hours. Ok.
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Eureka owns, Bozja owns. FF12 owns and Soken basing the music for Bozja entirely off a lady singing for two seconds in a made up language he heard on a random sample album owns most of all.
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Also a lot of mats weren't initially available through poetics if I remember right, that was just something that happened as they gradually nerfed the relic steps in future expansion patches. Like I'm positive Aether oil was literally just re-running Crystal Tower repeatedly, and Crystal Sand was a lot more troublesome without a crafter.
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Chillgamesh posted:Eureka owns, Bozja owns. FF12 owns and Soken basing the music for Bozja entirely off a lady singing for two seconds in a made up language he heard on a random sample album owns most of all. 
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