Occult Crescent
The initial zone of the Occult Crescent - South Horn has already been much improved based on player feedback. So let me quickly mention the things I thought about OC here:
In general, I really like the zone and the phantom jobs. The quality of the encounters in FATEs or Critical Encounters are very high in my opinion. Certainly worth doing each of those a few times at least. I've already leveled all my phantom jobs to max there, and been trying to go through the Forked Tower here and there. Only managed to get to boss 3 (did not clear boss 3) and no farther than that as of yet
Visual Aesthetics-wise, this zone is a significant improvement over Bozja! Especially with the new setting we can use in 7.3 to increase the render distance for characters and objects significantly (on PC version of the game). I can see creatures roaming much farther into the distance, it feels more alive!
Bozja was too good at replicating trench warfare aesthetics, but one thing I miss from Bozja is duels. Duels were so cool and I thought it had a great design to where it encouraged other people to watch and cheer for the player dueling the enemy! This was tons of fun. I wish we had that in OC too!
A strange feeling I had about OC is that I felt like it was missing a dungeon. It already has a difficult 24-48 player raid, but I feel like it would be cool if it also had a 4-8 player dungeon. (A Spooned Tower! :O) This dungeon would have the cipher-entry system (along with the special FATE boss spawning outside when certain conditions are met inside the dungeon), while the big raid would simply be queueable similarly to Delubrum Reginae.
Maybe this hypothetical dungeon would work sort-of-kind-of-like Variant dungeons? But you can backtrack and take any path? And instead of Variant Actions, we'd of course have our Phantom Actions in there.
Of course this first zone of Occult Crescent is already finished, and I don't think the developers can add a dungeon to it at this point, but maybe this can happen in the next zone? I think it would be cool if it did!
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The initial zone of the Occult Crescent - South Horn has already been much improved based on player feedback. So let me quickly mention the things I thought about OC here:
In general, I really like the zone and the phantom jobs. The quality of the encounters in FATEs or Critical Encounters are very high in my opinion. Certainly worth doing each of those a few times at least. I've already leveled all my phantom jobs to max there, and been trying to go through the Forked Tower here and there. Only managed to get to boss 3 (did not clear boss 3) and no farther than that as of yet
Visual Aesthetics-wise, this zone is a significant improvement over Bozja! Especially with the new setting we can use in 7.3 to increase the render distance for characters and objects significantly (on PC version of the game). I can see creatures roaming much farther into the distance, it feels more alive!
Bozja was too good at replicating trench warfare aesthetics, but one thing I miss from Bozja is duels. Duels were so cool and I thought it had a great design to where it encouraged other people to watch and cheer for the player dueling the enemy! This was tons of fun. I wish we had that in OC too!
A strange feeling I had about OC is that I felt like it was missing a dungeon. It already has a difficult 24-48 player raid, but I feel like it would be cool if it also had a 4-8 player dungeon. (A Spooned Tower! :O) This dungeon would have the cipher-entry system (along with the special FATE boss spawning outside when certain conditions are met inside the dungeon), while the big raid would simply be queueable similarly to Delubrum Reginae.
Maybe this hypothetical dungeon would work sort-of-kind-of-like Variant dungeons? But you can backtrack and take any path? And instead of Variant Actions, we'd of course have our Phantom Actions in there.
Of course this first zone of Occult Crescent is already finished, and I don't think the developers can add a dungeon to it at this point, but maybe this can happen in the next zone? I think it would be cool if it did!
Continue reading...