5 BIG reasons i'm HYPED for Dawntrail! || FFXIV 7.0

[@sfox85]

Not DT specific but i’m most hyped to experience the new soundtrack while exploring the new areas and taking it all in, before unlocking flight. Arriving at a new town for the first time and speaking to NPCs feeds my nostalgia for classic FFs. You only get those moments once.

[@SamsonGrey26]

Yep that initial sense of exlporation is awesome, looking forward to it!

[@darkwinter8]

Dude, I'm looking forward to using your straight to the point guides.

[@SamsonGrey26]

Looking forward to making them! :)

[@Asmodean1111]

I feel for 24 mans and dungeons being built close to the Stormblood level of diff is what I want to see, as they felt like they wore hard enough you didn't just shut your brain off and power through.

[@natebroadus8474]

EW AR's will get there when people get far enough out to unlearn the mechanics. Even Ivalice is fairly simple when you do it enough to learn the mechanics by heart. It's just that people have moved on and don't remember every single mechanic, anymore.😁

[@DevilSeiji]

I always forget about Beastmaster xD I hope they show a bit of that in the next liveletter

[@SamsonGrey26]

I'd love that but will avoid getting to excited as I'm guessing we won't see any footage for a while yet, maybe a year! 😢

[@DevilSeiji]

@@SamsonGrey26 yeah, but at least Dawntrail will entertain us for a while in the meantime

[@SamsonGrey26]

For sure! :)

[@LittleMissLanna]

I think that the easier stuff, the simplification, the solo/trust things are all wonderful specifically for players who need accessibility options. I have friends who get easily overwhelmed, but still of course want to play! And I think Yoshi-P and the team have done a great job making this MMORPG accessible as possible to its players. And I believe in the latest live letter, he said something about up into 7.0, everything was about updating and streamlining. And then heading into and thinking about 8.0, they're working towards differentiating jobs again. I think make sure the bones of the MMORPG are strong is so important, since remember they had to do a lot of remaking when it came from 1.0 to 2.0! Now that the bones are updated/solid, including the updated system requirements and graphics, we're going to see a lot more gradual amp up in difficulty. I feel like the NPCs/Trusts can MAYBE do more complex dungeon mechanics, too! They've had enough time to develop those at least. I wish they would bring back job quests, even if it's just 1 extra one with my job NPCs. But who knows? We're pushing new territory here and the devs are clearly listening; it just takes time. Sooo excited for Dawntrail!

[@pres002]

Then don't play an mmo lol

[@stormkeeper1741]

@@pres002 not everything in an mmo needs to be hardcore sweaty content. Chill man, having an easier to access mmo is better for the games longevity. Wider playerbase means more income which hopefully means more diversity of content. If everything in game is savage difficulty then you'll chase away part of the player base bringing in less money and less new shit. This obsession with everything being absolutely as hard or punishing as possible is ridiculous. If that's your kind of mmo, WoW is still around.

[@cj_skywalker]

@@stormkeeper1741 Well for me, I am sort of between the fences. To be honest, I don't like hardcore content, but I know that an MMO cannot just keep making things easy. Having played many MMOs, I can quote that one I used to play, Wizard101, has been trying to make difficulty progression steady. The first five worlds of the game have the monsters follow the same rules of magic casting that you follow, but starting with world six, the enemies start getting free pips so they can cast high-level spells out of the gate and do tons of damage to you(and since Wizard101 is a turn-based MMO, you can't dodge mechanics, you just have to endure damage), and then with the 10th world, normal enemies and bosses start getting Shadow Pips that let them cast uber-powerful one-shot-kill spells. They did fix the Shadow Pip system to give a shadow meter that grants a shadow pip every time the meter fills but it is still pretty brutal in boss fights. Even though I left Wizard101(mainly because their cash shop triggered my Yu-Gi-Oh self and cost me a ton of money to buy their cash shop currency for a chance to get a new spell which never happened and reminded me that they are monetization fiends), I respected them for keeping the difficulty scaling steady. FFXIV needs to do the same thing or people will complain no matter what. Dawntrail may be a new era of story but you are now a literal god, you need to fight gods, not just kill rabbits ten googol times. ;p

[@Gareth-vk7or]

You did well doing the presentation on camera man, great job and keep it up! Looking forward to your videos for Dawntrail :)

[@SamsonGrey26]

Thanks, that's appreciated! Need to work on it a bit but will do more of it in the future!

[@MissTayzha]

Currently, tomestone weapons are only available to savage players. Some of us with disabilities cannot do those. Are you proposing a change to that for relics? If not, what's your solution? Also, harder content means different things to different players. I do not look forward to being dead most of the time in dungeons, trials, or raids or sitting them out because the content is tailored to savage players. My money is worth the same as theirs.

[@SamsonGrey26]

Sorry if I was unclear, I'm not referring to the current tomestone weapon in any way. Instead an entirely separate weapon which is simply brought with uncapped tomes.

[@stormkeeper1741]

Tomestone weapons are absolutely available to everyone now aren't they? You can get the upgrade item from doing the 3 tiers of the alliance raids. Other players get access after savage but eventually all get access and generally at this point your relic weapon is stronger anyway if complete.

[@AuntSally1]

I totally agree. At the onset I would say that I don’t expect the game to be made to suit me and there should be plenty of difficult content for those who are capable of, and enjoy it. I don’t begrudge the fact that I can’t do all the high end content but I do want to be able to continue do the ‘basic’ game without it becoming a chore. As an older player, with slower reaction times, I have really benefited from playing dungeons with NPC’s as I can take my time without holding other players back. Unfortunately I have also come to absolutely dread Trials which are becoming so mechanic intensive that I just try, unsuccessfully a lot of the time, to stay alive and throw out the occasional damage. This certainly isn’t fair to those people whose group I join Thus I thought that the comments about the game being too easy so it could be done whilst watching videos was a little harsh. I certainly can’t. I do hope that the Devs provide an avenue for players who are not the best in the game to continue to get good ‘loot’ and have enjoyment. I suppose we can only wait and see

[@1011skarn]

To be afraid that dungeons are going to be made into Savage tear is ridiculous. Some tanks can solo dungeons if they want to. That's far too easy. As far as the tombstone weapons, if you're not doing Savage rating and hard content, you don't need those weapons. Not every player should have access to the highest levels of gear, that's where this game fails. Catering to people like you and ruining the entire system. You should have access to the tiers that are appropriate for the level of content in which you participate. Let me repeat that, you should have access to the tiers that are appropriate for the level of content in which you participate. You're also wrong, you can casually participate in hunts and buy the upgrades you need for the tombstone weapon. Or you can do alliance raids and by the upgrade for the tombstone weapon. Which will make you completely overpowered for casual dungeons.

[@stormkeeper1741]

@1011skarn bud, you need to chill all the way out. It's not that serious, it's a fucking video game. Savage raiders get priority on tomestone weapons and gear upgrades over everyone else. They don't get made available to all players via alliance raids until a couple of weeks before the next tier or a couple of months before the next expansion. Not to mention, casual players NEVER get access to raid gear so they never get true best in slot. Buy the time casual players can access upgrades most raiders already have their best in slot. I don't know where your weirdo anger is coming from but please put it back. You are in no way being harmed or inconvenienced by them getting access to something after you. Also, while they can increase the difficulty of dungeons, there is zero need for them to get anywhere near savage tier. They should still be approachable by the majority of the player base. If anything, they should increase the rewards of the criterion dungeons or put out an equivalent with each patch that introduces dungeons for those who want greater difficulty but expecting regular dungeons to be made that difficult is ridiculous.

[@Darkdestro]

Im on the heavensward dark knight relic wep grind now atm, alongside with Eureka. the Elemental fending armor in black looks sick with the drk sword, Tho i bloody hate Pagos of Eureka, such a damn grind if solo.

[@spectreshadow]

I'm honestly excited for Summoner. I know how people feel about the lack of changes but I'm excited to play it.

[@DevilSeiji]

Before I watch this: PICTO!!!!!! and redmage melee aoe combo finally 50 mana T°T

[@SamsonGrey26]

Nice! I was actually surprised that picto peaked my interest, looked pretty cool!

[@Scerttle]

0:20 TBH I feel like he probably had that realisation late last year, well into DT's development. I wouldn't expect a course correction until maybe 7.1 or 7.2. I reckon 7.0 will be as easy if not easier than 6.5 content.

[@Scerttle]

4:30 I knew it was copium to expect more primals, but holy crap Solar Bahamut is worse than no change.

[@SamsonGrey26]

Yeah if I force myself to set all copium aside then your likely right. Fingers crossed in time for the 7.1 24 man alliance!

[@SamsonGrey26]

And I now fear 8.0 will simply add solar phoenix!

[@SamsonGrey26]

And I now fear 8.0 will just add solar phoenix!

[@Scerttle]

11:50 I wish there were multiple routes to getting the relics. Early on I had better things to spend my tomestones on, but after I dedicated myself to the grind I didn't mind. If you could spend tomestones OR do something else... I would probably end up doing both.

[@VizerPS]

i agree with the video and these are hilariously backhanded compliments "i'm excited for the update to x because it's in a really bad state right now"

[@SamsonGrey26]

😅

[@ekkeith1]

Can already get max level gear with sack of nuts. Make the relics a grind and a half to get

[@SamsonGrey26]

As in upgrade mats for gear and accessories? But yeah grindy relic for the win!

[@thevoxdeus]

Grind with something interesting to do is good. Grind that's just acquiring the same thing over and over is pointless. I obtained every single Shadowbringers relic, and enjoyed doing it, because I liked the variety of content, and I accomplished other things in Bozja like leveling alt jobs, grinding titles, rare drops, sellable items, etc. I might someday accidentally wind up with all the Manderville relics just for lack of anything else to do with poetics, but I'll never seek them out deliberately because what could be more boring?

[@ekkeith1]

@@thevoxdeus I'm loving the shadowbringer relic grind. End walker relics are just a byproduct of doing hunt trains. I'm hoping for a big grind with the new zone

[@pres002]

I agree as blind run dungeons were let's be real, shit.... I blind ran the and never wiped. Was too easy

[@anteprs7908]

They are meant to be easy they are casual content .

[@Tashiro64]

"wipping once on a dungeon when blind" THANK YOU! That's all i'm also asking.. that when you don't know what's coming, you WIPE, then you come back and you change your approach and you get it (or not) .. I remember having a blast with day one alliance raids in shadowbrinders with lots of death and healers shitting themselves.. so I wanted to get the day one experience with the last alliance raid in Endwalker... men... what a disppointment... barely anybody died, all mechanics are wayyy too straightforward you dont even have to think everything is way too obvious. It is FUN yeah, but so easy that it just doesnt feel like you're beating [SPOILERS] ... I'm 100% sure Yoshi-P dsoesnt mean that everything will be like Extreme difficulty lol, but at least.. surprising ! With probably one wipe per boss in dungeons, new mechanics that you just cant get directly so you DIE... you have to DIE... stress free is just boring honestly.. when you reach Endwalker+ .. you know how to play, you want challenge ! not spamming 1 1 1 1 1 1 until the boss die while watching youtube..

[@SamsonGrey26]

Well said! :)

[@anteprs7908]

No ty most ppl dont like casual cintent to be hard or to wipe .

[@Tashiro64]

@@anteprs7908 and most ppl dont like to be able to clear everything while eating with the other hand. Im not asking for EX difficulty anywhere, but at least some challenge. If you want to clear everything without effort, i guess you just lack skills and dont want to improve.

[@anteprs7908]

@@Tashiro64 then dont do content like that and most ppl dont have your lv of "skill" if you dont like casual content simple dont do it stop telling dev to ruin causal content . if you not a casual player you got no right to say how content NOT MADE for you should be same way casual have no right to speak or demand about savage raids.

[@nightstrider15]

Personally I am growing tired of the hallway-to-boss formula for dungeons. It’s the same thing each time, wall pull>wall pull>boss>repeat x2

[@cj_skywalker]

I am sorry you have disowned Summoner now, Samson, but you should remember the lore in the Level 50-60 job quests. Y'mitria clearly found out that SUMMONERS CANNOT SUMMON MORE THAN THREE EGIS WITHOUT TRANCE. "But we're gods now!" NO. If the f**king HIGH SUMMONERS OF ALLAGAN WHO WERE GODS OF GODS could not hold more than three egis, then is it just plain impossible, give up on that dream and just accept that all we can summon for the rest of FFXIV's life cycle will be Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, Bahamut and Phoenix. I wish we could have used Leviathan and Ramuh to complete the beast tribe set, but Bahamut stole all the glory. (To be honest, I wish they could have added a snippet of dialogue to the dialogue Y'mitria gives when she goes about the plan to have you acquire Bahamut if you had completed the Final Coils of Bahamut. "Oh really? You actually fought and defeated Bahamut? Then you have more than enough aether from that elder primal!") I'm not saying you should stick with Summoner. If you truly utterly despite Summoner from the job action trailer and want to play a physical DPS class, then go right ahead. You do you. But don't treat Summoner as unclean just because we didn't get Ramuh-egi, Leviathan-egi and Shiva-egi. :(

[@zaboolovescodex]

I appreciate the lack of FOMO in FF14. I can take breaks for MONTHS at a time and come back and just pick up where I left off. Even now the last time i logged in was like February and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything at all. See ya'll in DT.

[@gentianae]

Yes but this is also because there is nothing interesting to do, especially during this expansion.

[@kaganstrayer9309]

Aglaia week one was a wipe fest, but that was the only one of the series.

[@clintonwilcox4690]

Graphics don't matter. At all. I mean, yeah. I love games with bad graphics; I came from the NES era. And I love many of those games. Many NES games will withstand the test of time because they're just great games, even with archaic graphics. There are many games today which look beautiful but are widely regarded as terrible games. Graphics don't matter when it comes to how enjoyable a game is and what its staying power will be.

[@SamsonGrey26]

Absoulty agree on an individual enjoyment/preference level. I guess to take my point to an extreme (and unrealistic) end, I firmly beleive that if FFXIV had the exact same gameplay but FF16's graphics then it would attract more players. Nothing would sway me that wouldn't be the case! :)

[@1011skarn]

Final fantasy 14 does not need to get rid of all the easy mode stuff, and it doesn't have to do anything to the Savage hardcore content. What final fantasy 14 needs is a ton more mid-core content. It needs to stretch out ilevels and ignore people who think that they should be able to have access to all gear. You should have access to the tiers that are appropriate for the content in which you participate. You can keep dungeons as they are for people who just want to do story mode. What you can make hard mode dungeons and extreme dungeons by tweaking. How much HP the mobs have and how hard they hit. You can slightly adjust the pads of the dungeons, kind of like they used to back in 2.0. And if super casuals can't clear that content, then it's not for them. I'm tired of the game being catered to the lowest common denominator in terms of skill. No, I'm not a hardcore raider and I don't have time for it, but I'm really good at the game and I don't want to run dungeons that can be soloed by a warrior. They've already ruined tanks and healers by making them completely homogeneous and brain dead. They already cater to these players who think one class is too hard to play. So they dumb it down. Final fantasy 14 should make a great game, and make people understand that not every class is meant to be played by every player. Some classes are and should be harder to play. Maybe they do slightly better DPS as a reward. Some classes should be easier and more accessible to play, again. Doing slightly less DPS but maybe they help buff the party a little more easy. I don't know, they're smart enough to figure it out, but they are alienating the majority of players and catering to people who just want to play dress up.

[@anteprs7908]

"Lowest common denominator "no they cater msq content to casual players you are clearly a midcore player who hate that casual content is casual freindly . You also have ton of midcore content ew was only lack long grindy midcore content but you get that in dawntrail.

[@anteprs7908]

The waste mayority of player are casual and solo players about 80% midcore are 15% and 5% hardcores so it not isolating the mayority is isolating you. Also ever expantion had to much midcore content at the cost casual content ew was different and most ppl aka casuals live it

[@boredbales12345]

They will likely tie the relic weapon to the new bozja-eureka area. That's a huge downer for me, because those areas blow. They are awful, and I'd rather not have them. This has been the first expac where I can do the savage content I love, and still get a relic weapon without having to go into those zones and grind pointlessly just to parse, if I did such a thing. It's been so nice to be able to enjoy the game my way. I'm really hoping they tie the relic to the criterion dungeons too. That would be acceptable, because those are fun, and then I wouldn't be forced to do awful content just so I can do what I enjoy in the game. I play to have fun, not be so bored that I consider paying my girlfriend to do it for me.

[@anteprs7908]

so dawntrail will be fuck causal and solo players

[@andreamarques8328]

Not really when Trusts still exist, its just expanding on other areas, casuals and solo players will not have less content to do

[@anteprs7908]

@@andreamarques8328 yes they will in ew we got content outside post msq now midcore players will get their exploration zone we get once agsin NOTHING.

[@andreamarques8328]

@@anteprs7908 As I said, Casual and Solo players (the group with the largest amount of content available) will not get LESS content, at worst they will get THE SAME AMOUNT of content while midcore players (the group with the least amount of content) will get MORE content than before, hardcore will also get the same amount of content as before probably same as casuals

[@anteprs7908]

@@andreamarques8328 in ew we had relic snd island in dawntrail it will be tbe same as shadowbringers,strormblood and hw it simple msq and daily roulette that NOTHING casuals and solo players make 80% of the game and get nothing after msq but roulettes+ some side and beast quests that bad,while midcore players who are 15%playersbse at tops has ext trails, variant+ crit dungs,deep dungs,exploration zone ,depend on expention but allaince raid... If you think that the msq is enough for casual you are beyond lost ppl will finish the msq easy in a week or 2 but will be stuck with nothing then a tome grind for gear and zero casual content while everbody else get a ton of content.we get no relics to grind in casual way no island santuary that real casual content we get nothing post msq it and if you cant see that problem that on you but 80% of this playerbase is that what keep se runnin and deserves a ton of content not less then hardcore raiders .

[@AuntSally1]

I am predominantly a solo player and was happy with the state of the game so the comments about ‘difficulty’ also have me concerned. I don’t think any of us know what the reality will be and it’s just a guessing game at the moment.

[@1Mrstephen]

Ok 2.0 dungeons AK and WP were legit hard for the whole cycle of that expansion. There was people wiping all the time back in the day. Dungeons need to be harder like those were back in the day. To many cry babies in this community have changed the workings of the game so much.

[@stormkeeper1741]

They weren't all that hard tbh. I sped run WP all the time in smn burn titan parties and don't remember any difficulty with AK. Never thought I'd see nostalgias rose colored lenses changing peoples memories this much.

[@1Mrstephen]

@@stormkeeper1741 bro, you can’t judge it if you only ran it with premades lol… they were much harder back in the day than they are now. That’s the whole point of the comment.

[@stormkeeper1741]

@@1Mrstephen that's fair, I did generally only run with fc mates.

[@SamsonGrey26]

They were a blast! Very fond love/hate memories of being scared and utilmatley wiped by that big tonberry mf in WP!

[@pres002]

I just hope it's hard. Get rod of this solo play nonsense

[@anteprs7908]

No ty you and the irellavant minority who think like that would kill ffxiv

[@chestercarter6081]

I couldn't stand eureka and I fn hate Boreza so heh i enjoyed EW relics 😊

[@anteprs7908]

Me too finally casual friendly relic grind

[@GrumpyRook]

I have to vehemently disagree with you. The ONLY good Alliance Raids were the Endwalker ones. The rest are completely terrible. And dungeons should never be challenging content unless there is a separate challenge mode for them. They should be a quick and easy means to an end. The ones that take forever now are already not fun. Challenge in MMOs should be optional. Never forced

[@HyouVizer]

The fact that LV81 dungeon Tower of Zot is literally (not figuratively) the hardest Endwalker dungeon still is quite sad...

[@ProfessorBuckz]

seeing how hard that was for a dungeon i got excited that other dungeons wil be the same but NOPE

[@HyouVizer]

@ProfessorBuckz yeeeep had the same expectations, all tho I guess LV85 dungeon Vanaspati is pretty close to being some what difficult.

[@SamsonGrey26]

Always happy to get vanaspati in the leveling roulette!

[@anteprs7908]

Yes and that dung is hated by most casuals for a reason same with the first shadowbringers one

[@HyouVizer]

@anteprs7908 LV71 dungeon W2Ws are pretty rough ngl especially in leveling gear. I recall anytime drk & sage were paired for it, always had a wipe for it lol.

[@VainEldritch]

One of the reasons I came to FF14 was to have a less stressful gaming environment. I hope they don't screw that up.

[@anteprs7908]

I feel they will