Praetorium. I'm slowly working through the 2.x content. Just did Good King Mog the other night. The story is good for MMO standards, which isn't saying much, and is miles ahead of the nonsense that's been emblematic of WoW for forever.
One of the best things about it vs WoW is that it takes its lore seriously and there are basically no hard retcons. You're rewarded for actually paying attention and almost every story beat you encounter later on will have some basis in ARR.
Just wait until the Wiping City of Mhach and Orobonne MonasteREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE become required for MSQ as well. You don't think they're really going to leave the 13th and the IVth Legion plot hooks hanging once 7.0 rolls around, do you?
Don't tempt them, for they'll twist the knife further and make the Nier raids a requirement too.
they'll nerf every single boss in those instances to the point where you can take 'em down with a motley crew of no-partner dancers, freeze mages, and freestyle
crafted gear is good enough for me, and I'm so, so close to getting a samurai to bozja level so I can just ignore everyone because being unable to be the tank in pugs is suffering
No, that's for 8.0 when Nomura finally takes the wheel and has the entire MSQ take place in a Data World accessed via Nier macguffns. The entire plotline will be about you helping a new Warrior of Light and Darkness named Sora.
What the hell type of runs do you get? My runs are 20 minutes if I get WoD and 15 if I get the other two.
I would give up on this plot so damn fast if Nomura gets put in charge of it. This game as almost as much parallel cosmic light vs dark bullshit as KH yet it actually makes a decent degree of sense and is cohesive with its rules. Which would be ruined by Nomura's tendency to do off the wall bullshit for the fuck of it and then conclude it all like the wet fart that is KH3. Stormblood already nearly lost me 4 years ago for how much it just went on about "Empire bad" for about 40 hours straight.
I've gotten to the point where LotA is now on my 'Duty Abandon' list if I get and I'm in a sufficiently bad mood. Seeing a ton of wipes against the three atomos even after telling everyone in alliance chat to wait until everyone's arrived to pull has got me seriously tilted. I think I'd rather run Copied Factory or Rabanastre than Labyrinth of the Ancients these days.
LotA is a joke for me and all my runs go generally well, everything just dies so fast. Once when one group lost half their group due to early pulling the atomos, they just held out until the other two parties finished so they didn't have to stand on the pad. I can't even fathom how LotA goes bad unless people legit AFK or something.
I've only ever seen King Behemoth frequently go sideways in Labyrinth runs, and that's just because nobody wants to be the one holding the Colossus and everyone forgets that the Colossus can destroy meteors. Syrcus Tower and World of Darkness are usually braindead affairs in my experience. Could very well be a Crystal thing, or Fcret is just incredibly unlucky with queues.
I saw it on primal as well. I think it's more of a late night problem (which is usually when I run roulettes) where people just aren't reading alliance chat. It's not something that happens very often, but if I'm in a bad mood (say, after fishing for Praetorium and instead getting CM four times in a row), a bad LotA run kills my desire to continue playing for the rest of the day.
the types of runs where if you're playing the RIVETING ACTION of a level 50 paladin going 1-2-3, you're beating out about 12 of the 15 DPS in damage with maybe 1 healer actually doing damage rather than standing around
My DC is crystal and I've never had this problem. The Crystal Tower dungeons are almost always free experience for alts with no brainwork involved except for maybe doing one thing on a couple of bosses. I'm not saying I don't believe these stories but I guess I'm really lucky.
The Wiping City of Mhach has lost a lot of its teeth as of ShB imo. The last three times I did it; the PUG party cheesed through it no problem. Even Ozma.
Funny you mention that, but Heavensward almost made me requit the game after I just replayed all of it for the opposite reason: surface level grey morality. The number of times perfectly good arguments were shut down with "BUT FRENCH CATHOLICS RAN A TRAIN ON MY SISTER MILLENIA AGO!" made my blood boil. Had other problems too, like having so little involvement in the plot you dont interact with the final boss until 10 mins before you kill him or the Uldah storyline abortion, but the above seems to be the crux of most of it.
WoD is a coin flip for, either we wipe to the 1st boss somehow (doom killed people, tanks pointing the eye ball at half the raid, or some other dumb shit) or it dies in 20 minutes. I'm on Primal and I never run into any problems in LotA or Syrcus.
