#edit: ah btw for anyone curious - i think i got like 1.5k blue tokens for normal crafting/fate during this

[neriyon]

Okay did like 3h of cosmic exploration with fc and uhh, have to say I'm not a fan (some rambling (= me complaining) under the cut)

It feels like.... more scuffed Ishgard resto? Like the difficulty balancing is all over the place, rewards (aside from like. the gacha ones) are kinda meh, no mounts is weird (why tf can't we use mounts when the gatherer points are on the other side of the damn moon?) and the tools feel like a joke (sacrifice your stats to make slightly more paper scraps for gacha)

Fate thingy is kinda fun, but iirc you don't get exp and at least for the support group (didn't try the mech yet) rewards were pretty bad. Red alert was way better, both on balancing and rewards, and my only regret is that I didn't think of equipping the relic tool for extra rewards until after it finished.

Ah and if someone's thinking what I mean about balancing: I have pentamelded goldsmith on Yulan. I had to really focus and sweat to make some of the D rank stuff hq. After swapping to lvl 70 culinarian (no melds, barely lvl 70 gear) I could pretty much roll my face across the keyboard and I'd still get hq crafts in C rank. I'm not complaining about that part, it's good that it's not too hard on lower level crafters, but why are crafts marked "lvl 10+" so damn hard if you dare use jobs you put some effort into before? It just feels like I'm being punished for spending time and gil on that one job.

With gathering idk if the scaling is as broken, I don't really have any DoL jobs under 90 to try, but the ones I tried with lvl 94 botanist were pretty bad. Some I could kiiiiinda do with some effort, some (fuck them aetherial reduction ones) would fail every time. Fc members were cursing fishing a lot, so I guess that's not too fun either. Without mount you'd be left running around on foot, then sitting doing nothing waiting for gp after a failed try, while crafters can just chill in base and craft away with no worries.

Anyway uhhh tldr is "tf is wrong with this balancing?" and "idk what I expected but I'm still dissapointed by this"

As a fun way to end this rant, look at this gacha wheel option I got before I logged off:

"Fuck you there's no gacha, just take your cordials and go"