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@tenkayshijou I force myself to play a dps just so I have to at least mostly respect things

@envinyon this is how i do OC

get rid of Vuln stacks man make everything Ruins please god

some fights are better than others at this but some like the carbuncle feel like you're doing one single mechanic for 8 minutes straight

they're designed like this cuz like eventually once a lot of people are level 40 and have a lot more phantom jobs leveled they'll die a lot faster but some of them are real fucking slogs early on

Okay I have a gripe about how some occult crescent critical engagements are designed A lot of them follow like a pattern mechanic A, mechanic B, mechanic C, sometimes mechanic D after C or D, they just do A and B on repeat

@tenkayshijou It'd definitely do a lot to deter cheesing certain things

@envinyon At this point i think everything past the free trial should just use Thrice and then when its harder content like EX or even Advanced it should be Twice

I don't really care, but I'll still mock people that skip the story, as any civilized person should

@tenkayshijou twice/thrice come ruin would be such a good idea for the new raid difficulty, perfect way to introduce people to harder mechanics without being super punishing

@tenkayshijou I've been saying since EW I wish they'd use different forms of punishment than vulns/damage downs there's like 10,000 status effects that can all be more interesting/punishing than just taking marginally more damage

@Hisoka_Ophion I had concerns when they said this was to combine the best aspects of Eureka and Bozja cuz like they're pretty different and it ended up in a weird middleground it doesn't have stuff like CLL or Dalriada cuz I guess Eureka didn't have those but like they were a lot of fun!

@Hisoka_Ophion and having that extended length of time between CEs to just sort of do whatever did a lot to make hitting up the next CE not just feel like going through the motions

@Hisoka_Ophion yeah I'd agree with just about everything here I honestly think the pace and which CEs and fates spawn is part of why it feels not great to do a lot on repeat. I remember occasionally farming clusters in bozja in-between CEs

Putting some prelim thoughts for Occult Crescent and FTB /FTM (Yet to do FTM Ex but basing on seeing reaction of friends who have cleared) Pretty sure these won't change after clear of FTM.

@StickmanSham I saw someone talk about "versus xiii creators" and like how do you create content about a game that genuinely did not exist

versus xiii and missing link fans are just larpers who havent played the games

This last relic step is actually quite good imo, I appreciate it requiring doing a lot of different things rather than a lot of one thing I know relics are changing in some capacity in evercold, but I hope they keep this aspect

@tenkayshijou doesn't*

@tenkayshijou meanwhile DRS lets you queue in like a normal duty and has its difficulty tuned up, which doesn't feel bad because its fairly forgiving otherwise OC just does go enough in any direction to appeal to either side so its just in an awkward middle ground of "this is fine"

Oh okay forked tower magic (extreme) actually looks pretty reasonable glad there doesn't seem to be any stupid body checks

@Actually_Tina the most insane thing is the right wingers that bang on about censorship and its like bro most of the censorship is because of your own people!! developers don't want to give puritans any reason to come down on them so they try to play things safe

My main frustration with the anti-censorship people on here is they are quick to call out everything but the government ratings agencies that actually have more impact on media censorship then any internal agency the developer has.