I've decided I like where my lara is currently and probably am going to save mesos for when I lib in a month and make my gains on my gene weapon along with saving a bunch for next ssf to push 20* on everything

Also boomed my Slime ring as i said 22 or trace and boomed it on the first tap for 22* (it started out at 17* today). Was able to get it back to 17* after booming though so didnt really lose anything

I think my favorite encounters are in order are:
Bridges (coolest fucking encounter, its always scary)
Magitaur (really cool design, I love it)
Lockwards (Cool Design space, wish there was more things like it)
Marble Dragon (just how fast paced the fight is)
Demon Tablet
Dead Stars

As for forked tower, it was honestly one of my most favorite encounters rn. I really wish something like fireballs doesnt wipe the raid instantly for one singular mistake but that also goes back to the waiting around for 30 minutes issue.

Instance prog can be fixed with alliance queuing but well they arent going to do that shit for southern horn (and we all know it).

I really wish they do something to address these issues cause otherwise I probably wont be doing much more forked after my learning group ends

Go check out the reddit post!
www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comm...

Thanks to Stoik Harlow for making the group photo of all the hosts who hosted an event as well

Also absolutely huge thanks to @volkaru.bsky.social for putting the entire event together! Without you I do not think I can be doing drs the way I am doing it currently

Playing on dynamis myself, it also feels REALLY BAD to not be able to progress while all my friends are progressing (huge fomo).
But honestly, I think the content is fun. Working on second relic today, hopefully finish before i have to go to aether today for raid

But yeah my biggest issue so far is the development progress bar. Every server on NA/EU/JP and Ravana on OCE have at least one bar of progress, while every world on Dynamis has not been able to progress at all. I do think that the progress bar is extremely overtuned for low population servers

I do think there are legitimate problems with cosmic, FOMO and dynamis/oce servers STRUGGLING to get past each phase, and their progress on their bars being VERY SLOW. Maybe expert crafting multiple items in a time limit is also stupid and unfair, but also its really funny

I am confused why there is an int requirement. It’s a one handed sword so where’s the strength requirement