>New waifu boss
>Amourotine armour sets from new dungeons
>New NieR Automata raid
>Conclusion of Shadowbringers story
>Sapphire Weapon
>Relic Weapon upgrading begins
>New zone
>Fuckton of new side content
>The tittymonster qoutient has significantly increased.
How can World of Transcraft even compete?
Is this the patch where they are cutting some fat off the main quest? Might check out the game if so
Just start right now. Otherwise you're gonna be a month behind everyone else.
i thought i was on Zig Forums, not /vg/.
Main Quests
>Patch 5.3 is the conclusion arc of Shadowbringers' story
>The volume of cutscenes and voices for this patch is by far the largest for a single patch release
>Pay attention to Ascian Elidibus
>While there maybe no elements like "99% of the story from Shadowbringers will end in Patch 5.3 as we enter patch 5.4", this is not to say that there are no such possibilities either.
>There will be no resolution in why Zodiark and Hydaelyn exists, and what will happen to them. However there will be few things to note:
>>a) We are now heading towards the conclusion portion of the Hydaelyn-Zodiark arc.
>>b) There will a little portrayal and a pinch of "Oh wow, things are getting real bad" elements written in once Patch 5.3 story ends.
>You will also get to learn the direction where Garlemald is heading in Patch 5.3 as well.
Save The Queen and Southern Bozja Frontlines - Unforgiven, Unforgotten
>Scheduled to be released 1.5 months after Patch 5.3, which is Patch 5.35
>It's a large scale content which has a bigger starting line than Eureka
>You will have a separate leveling system called the "Resistance Rank". You can level up them easily solo. There is nothing that forces you to have a party for it
>There will be actions that are specific ONLY to Southern Bozja frontline available for use, based on the feedback from Eureka. The actions are called the "Lost Actions"
>You have a specific goal this time. "Destroy the Fort"
Is crafting fixed? Then who cares.
>You get to join "skirmishes" or "critical engagement" and each skirmish will net you battle reports. Depending on how you perform you get more rank points per skirmish.
>The skirmish has the same system as FATE, which everyone can freely join to gain battle points. The trigger rate is high.
>"Critical Engagement" is something different and is developed specifically for Southern Bozja Frontline. It's a type of event battle.
>>A) You have conditions to trigger them, and it's mostly about the Garlean Empire launching a siege at your allies.
>>B) You can queue for it from anywhere (doesn't specify the limits of "where" however) and if over the capacity, players will be selected randomly by the >>system
>>C) There are items that allow you to obtain them for priority purposes, and players who contributed to the item obtain within the party will be given priority to enter as well
>>D) Once all conditions met, the group will be brought into an instance and conduct battle from there.
> Objectives can range from "Destroy the large type Empire weapon" to "Defeat the large scale army"
>Think of it as a content that allows a group 24 to 48 large scale boss battles
>If you score excellent results throughout the "Critical Engagement" event battle, you get to deal with "the enemy general" in a 1-to-1 duel style. Only one who scored the top will be able to participate. YoshiP described that as "Like a one man Ultimate instead of one man Savage?"
>Since it's a one-on-one battle, the other players can only cheer.
>The one-on-one battle may be easy for players who are extremely battle oriented
>Baldesion Arsenal type large scale content will be implemented on patch 5.4. Taking in opinions from the players, the dev team aims to create a new system that makes it more accessible. Two difficulties are planned for that content. There is no need to prepare anything for that content, and it's a large scale content where everyone gets to participate.
Very nice.
Misclicking is a common problem.
Yes ARR is almost entirely main story with the 'collect 8 boar butts' gone to get you to Heavenswardkino super fast.
Based and seigepilled.
>>There will be no resolution in why Zodiark and Hydaelyn exists, and what will happen to them. However there will be few things to note:
>>>a) We are now heading towards the conclusion portion of the Hydaelyn-Zodiark arc.
Fucking seriously?
Please be real. This sound fucking sick.
Heading towards Return of the King doesn't mean the ring gets destroyed in The Two Towers.
It's real, it's a summary of some random JP-exclusive interview
b-but Covenants are pretty cool allods online nostalgia..
I can't stomach this game anymore. I finished 5.1 stuff and I don't think I'll ever be able to launch this game again.
is FFXIV finally on the decline? Their boss designs were one of the few things to look forward to, what is this anime trash?
Its only growing more powerful. Nothing can stop it now WoW is having to take the transpill and everything else but ESO is fucking dead.
Sweet. The 1vs1 general thing got my blood going. I really enjoyed what I did of Eureka, so this sounds even better.
>S-goth coomer nun
THANK YOU YOSHIDA!
...wintergrasp? home?
Embarrassing. It's 2020, not 2002. Why do Japanese devs always have to sex everything up?
>the 1vs1 general thing got my blood going
That's the part I'm most anxious about to be honest
It sounds like a cool showdown but it's going to suck if it's an entire Eureka map's worth of people trying to snipe whichever object lets (You) be the one to fight the general
what you just said would be analogous to the thoughts people were having at the beginning of WoW's decline
even if FFXIV were to emerge at the head of a (temporary) MMO monopoly, it would be only be the beginning of the end
Well no shit but that goes for anything.
Gathering/Crafting & Item Related
>There will be 8 new Umbrellas. Obtainable through Ishgard Restoration and Southern Bozja Frontlines. Some of the umbrellas are eastern (Japanese) themed too.
>Skysteel Tools upgrade will be implemented on patch 5.35
>New Crafter and Gatherer equipments will be implemented for Patch 5.3. Purely ilevel increase.
>At patch 5.3, the pentamelded equipments will be superior to the Skysteel Tools.
>There will be a new category called "Fashion Items" and the new items (attachments) will be added like how new Umbrellas are implemented. Though currently still at the planning stage, you get to, for example, hug a teddy bear while walking. This is meant to be a new system made for Role players to enjoy.
Deep Dungeons died for this
STOP MAKING THREADS TRANNIES. FUCK OFF. HOW MANY THREADS MUST THE MODS DELETE. GO AWAAY
>no shit
you say that, but here I am, having to explain it
>There is nothing that forces you to have a party for it
>Only one who scored the top will be able to participate.
>Baldesion Arsenal type large scale content will be implemented on patch 5.4. Taking in opinions from the players, the dev team aims to create a new system that makes it more accessible.
So they learned absolutely fucking nothing from Eureka and are going to ruin the one good piece of content they had planned for ShB. This dev team is made up of absolute retards.
I can see that being a problem as well, but I hope the items are common enough that it'll be mostly determined by how well you do. Regardless, having some sort of competitive spirit is nice in content like this, since Eureka can become kind of a snooze.
wait what
no new raid tier?
When Tokyo announced the COVID-19 lockdown, S-E had to halt the development for 2 weeks (or is forced to, considering the emergency). During the first 2 weeks, Devs who are savvier at PC were first given laptops and attempted to work from home, and controlled their work PC through remote desktop but due to their network spec at home being not as good as their office equivalent, and when using DCC Tools (graphics type tool for development use) to develop their game, they managed to only get around 5 - 15 FPS when working, making the development really hard to conduct - like how the mouse reaction speed being awfully slow or rotating the model will cause them to freeze a bit and ended up over-rotating the model, causing massive irritations and so on. The difficulty of development through laptops and many other issues prompted them to bring their development PC (from office) back home, which the company agreed after further discussions. Some devs had to call for delivery to have their work PC delivered to home throughout the process, but there are also other companies doing the same thing by requesting delivery service to help moving work PC to home, and this created delays because of the demand, taking a lot more time than it should.
After setting up work PC at home, they'll need to use VPN that is created specifically for S-E development use. The FFXIV infrastructure team had to spend time setting up a specific VPN system due to token restrictions and set it up to allow access only for those who are involved in FFXIV development. This whole process took them about a month to settle, and most of the time they couldn't work on the game even if they want to.
>what people think will happen
>wow cool ill 1v1 the general!
>what will actually happen
>ishgardian restoration mk2 where everyone constantly gets locked out of the fight due to server hoppers
Odd patches never have raid tiers, shadowbaby.
And yet you said nothing of worth.
hey Zig Forums which race should I roll Thighlander or Chocolate bunny
its been 9 like months since last raid tier
dead game i guess
brohx...home....
did you even read the posts bruh
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Retard.
imma keep replying
This sounds nice. I thought everyone screamed here that there will be no new content except minion farms in 5.3? What happened?
>still no femhroth
I sleep.
Yeah the 1v1 sounds great but limiting it to the top ranker is fucking stupid. If it's based on damage then nobody will want to play tanks or healers, if it's based on stats then BIS will run roughshod over anyone else. Just imagine if in Ishgard restoration the first place person got a special reward and you can imagine the butthurt and frustration by everyone else. And if it's based off damage alone then everyone'll beeline to BLM or whatever has the highest DPS.
>LITERALLY OCTOBER FOR THE SHB VERSION OF EURKEA WHICH IS JUST ONE ZONE COMPARED TO EUREKA's 4 AND BA
>LITERALLY OCTOBER FOR ANY MMO CONTENT
HOLY FUCK THIS GAME IS ON SUICIDE WATCH
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TIME TO FARM AZYRITE XISTER!