Good Morning Friends! I apologize but you are likely not going to get a proper blog post from me until I have spent some more time in Dawntrail. With a new expansion comes a bunch of spoilers information and it would not do well for me to be part of that problem. So I am going to be careful what I do share. Suffice it to say I am having a lot of fun already and I am enjoying the vibe of the new lands. The new coffer gear is 645 so 5 points ahead of the base level of the highest crafted gear from Endwalker. It makes me extremely glad that I did not go through a lot of effort trying to grind up my item level much higher.
While my friends who attempted to log in as the servers went online faced queues in the 2000s… by the time I got up and around at 6 am CDT Cactuar was down to a 45-player queue. I am sure this will not hold as the day goes on and as more players join the fray. I am pleasantly surprised at how well things appear to be working. I do wonder how many folks Data Center Transferred to Dynamis in hopes of lower congestion. I am very happy that it is an option nonetheless if things do end up getting a bit busy.
One thing I will say is that you are probably going to want to avail yourself of the new feature to push player models away from Quest NPCs. This can be found under Character Configuration > General Tab > and towers the bottom under Quest Progression Settings. I’ve turned it on and the entire experience of questing through the zones has improved greatly. No longer do I need to try and hold my camera angle just right to click on the NPCs.
I wish you all a fun journey in Dawntrail, and I will see you again once the weekend is done and I have more that I feel like I can say.