>Redditstack moron doesn't even like lalafells
Every time.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
And?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Redditstack gays don't belong in XIV.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Here, let me pretend to care about your gay opinion.
Uhh... damn, I am so moved by your words. What you like and don't like matters so much to me. It might make a person want to shed a tear.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
All lalas are reddit though
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Reddit is appalled at the thought of sexualizing a lalafell in her natural form. They're fine with redditstacks because they worship obesity.
Here, let me pretend to care about your gay opinion.
Uhh... damn, I am so moved by your words. What you like and don't like matters so much to me. It might make a person want to shed a tear.
I'll never understand people going out of their way to waste their precious time with these things. You know who else has impulse dysregulation and just has to make themselves heard? morons.
Learn to ignore you troglodytes. I dislike Lala's as much as the next lifeless sperg but I'd be damned if I'll waste my time on plugins such as that instead of coming here to call people stupid.
Talk about obsessed, this is the very definition of it.
>redditors
Dickgirls of all forms are a chan fetish, fren. All the meme related to them originated here and one of the most famous shemale porn stars started out posting here. You're the one out of place here, fag.
I turned my damage numbers off ages ago and I can't say I've noticed any difference in how the game feels. When the boss doesn't have a health number anyway it's not like seeing how big your number is really helps.
If true (it isn't) this would just make parsing literally required to raid at all. It'll still be there in the network data to display casts, boss hp, etc. Literally just hiding it from casuals.
>It'll still be there in the network data to display casts, boss hp, etc.
You just won't get the actual damage numbers. I don't know if they're also changing the mob to an HP% system to further mask things, given the game currently just sends the raw current HP vs. total HP, despite vanilla clients being unable to see the actual number.
>It'll still be there in the network data to display casts, boss hp, etc.
You just won't get the actual damage numbers. I don't know if they're also changing the mob to an HP% system to further mask things, given the game currently just sends the raw current HP vs. total HP, despite vanilla clients being unable to see the actual number.
yes anon i'm sure they're making the battle log completely useless
I made a female character because I couldn't make a male character I was satisfied with the look of. Plus big lady.
I have played as a lala before and it's fun.
protect + shell then using platebearer and bloodbath l lets you solo spawn basically anything in pyros and hydatos. right now you get about 95% dmg reduction total and 6.4 will be about 85% total.
I hate lalafells because every single time, without fail, when people leak new equipment, they always use a lalafell model and you can't ever make out the full details. And every time this happens, they always get complaints to use literally any other race to show off what the gear sets look like. But they keep doing it over and over again. Like some kind of comedic skit that nobody finds funny yet is still allowed to air on national television in front of millions repeatedly.
cults have a unifying belief behind them and, as a rule, exclude others. i've been in many lala shells and none of them excluded talls so long as they loved lalas. the lala mod discords could be considered cults.
lalas do get treated differently than other races, for better or worse, so its unsurprising that some people use it as a personality and as a unifying banner. as a lala myself most contact i have with people outside my friend group are other lalas
Dont get me wrong but you are either barely a fit in here or genuine austitic/sperg. Obviously they get an archetype just as any other race, how true is it will depend on how much of an NPC your personality is
i don't really fit with the typical lala crowd yes. not that that makes me special, as i am 100% the type to avoid discord by principle. this alienates me from most socialization. i have a few similarly minded friends and they don't have their in game race as part of their personality. so there exists outliers for every group
>GC rank system came out in 2011 in 1.X >Areas marked red were how far you could get on its original release >It's been 12 years, rank only went up twice since then
They may as well scrap the system, much as I like it when NPC in the know address you by your current rank.
Problem is that they've stated they don't know what kind of rewards to add to it that would be meaningful. Being a captain makes sense with our recruits, but being a commander would have to have something larger than what we have, contextually.
speaking from a practical standpoint, captain is pretty much the last rank where you may routinely see combat. everything above that are desk jobs. you don't want one of the best fighters in the world stuck doing paperwork
>could have fleshed out squadrons for 60+ dungeons, new venue for current materia, etc. >instead they went out of their way to add trusts to older dungeons, making squadrons even more fucking useless except for gathering spiritbonding scrolls
speaking from a practical standpoint, captain is pretty much the last rank where you may routinely see combat. everything above that are desk jobs. you don't want one of the best fighters in the world stuck doing paperwork
>Let you use them in the overworld instead of your chocobo >Allow them to be used in all the fancy new duty support they've added, instead of using a story npc and a few jobbers >All sorts of customization, allowing them into the island, combine them with the retainer feature
FFXI has a better trust system, why won't they open their eyes.
They have enough AI to be useful for musou styled content I think
If the war with garlemand wasn't wrapped up or bozja was still on going you could have actual military stuff involving GCs in the game where you take your whole 12 man or whatever squad and move them around in groups of 4+1 in battleground style content
>non-azdaja dragon
Nah, that sounds beyond asspull tier. >Lunar Primals, but not Fandaniel's
But they've already established what lunar primals are in this game, why would they put others now? Either we just meet new vanilla primals from elsewhere or they'll just be called something different. >Y'shtola sucked into a portal
That's just a repeat of ShB. >Twins petrification
I feel like we're waaay past that. If it was gonna happen it'd have been earlier I think. >Thavnair gets more punishment
Those poor fucks.
>FF4 easter eggs only 10% of the players recognize
That is being EXTREMELY generous. I'd argue only 10% of the playerbase has played another FF game, including 7 or one of the newer ones. The amount of players that actually played the classic FF titles are significantly lower. You'd be hard pressed to find a player that isn't a bandwagoner using the game as second life, a wowfugee or some normie.
I unironically don't see the problem with the billboard >Its a waste of money!
Hey, if some oil baron wants to waste money on this go ahead >It uses the ffxiv logo without permission!!
Who cares?
it offends me as someone who has an interest in marketing. its far, FAR too complex for a billboard. this is something you'd put in a magazine or at the top of a website
>uses modded outfits in a game with a fairly firm "don't modify our fucking game" stance >gives the impression that the game is something other than what it is - a fantasy/sci-fi hybrid MMORPG >openly advertises a discord server that, according some reports, engages fairly openly in RMT and sexually explicit services, in a game with a (in the US at least) rating of T, indicating it's suitable for teenagers >event itself was likely full of sexual deviants and actual groomers
Gee anon I don't know, what could be the problem?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
least the community as a whole seemed pretty put off by it. kinda funny actually
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Only because it exposed the majority of the US playerbase for what they actually are: deviants, degenerates, groomers and scumfucks.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
no need to start sperging out
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's TOO LATE, ANON
I'M ALREADY SPERGING
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
damn
it's ogre
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
yeah. there are just some things you don't say out loud
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I unironically don't see the problem with the billboard >Its a waste of money!
Hey, if some oil baron wants to waste money on this go ahead >It uses the ffxiv logo without permission!!
Who cares?
These are just NA problems. Meanwhile on EU we had a yuge rejoining party with no drama.
After looking at this billboard for only a second time, I realize just how shit it is, and it's because of one major flaw that doesn't have anything to do with the actual product or service being advertised.
There's way too much information on it. WAY too goddamn much. People driving by this will glance at it for a second or two before they pass it, and there's no way any normal person is gonna absorb everything it's trying to say.
I can't imagine anyone driving by this and having any clue what they're even looking at.
You have to keep these things simple for a billboard ad. For something with this much detail, you'd have to stop in the middle of the road in order to read all this shit, and if you're on the road to begin with, ain't nobody got time for that.
How does socially retarded degenerates have this much money to throw around? I refuse to believe that they are all savant programmers or well known/respected smut artists, it just makes no fucking sense. The only conclusion I ever reach is that most of them are deep in dept from pretty much borrowing all of the money they have, have inherited most if not all of it or are deep into RMT/some actual illegal activities to fuel their 'tisms
>I'd argue only 10% of the playerbase has played another FF game
This was the case for me with a ton of people I've met in XI, XIV1.0, and ARR. Those guys don't care for single-player shit, they just want their social w/ basic gameplay addiction.
I thought that the games weren't narratively connected so you didn't need to have played VII to know what VIII was about and so on.
I mean with that, and with the fact that most of the other FF games play substantially differently to XIV, I don't see why that's such an issue if someone hasn't played the others before.
>P9 and P10 ain't beelzebub. >P11 will most likely be related to Sabik. >No FF2 Pandemonium theme remix.
The only thing I can see is Athena going full Emprah.
Man, I know FF2 is shit but even 13 gets some fanservice here and there.
>It's been established since Stormblood - maybe even sooner, I didn't do a lot of side quests - that Lahabrea's zodiac equivalent is Mateus >We already got a Lahabrea body double, they weren't Mateus
The writing for EW is a fucking catastrophe, whether it's the MSQ or the side content. They constantly miss these obvious slam dunks only to substitute some lackluster nonsense instead.
>they constantly miss these slam dunks that 3 people out of 100 would recognize and 1 would care about
Yeah remember when they referenced Emet-Selch's esper parallel by naming a fish and a server after him? Fucking retard
No, worse. I am everything Ganker hates. >male character >bunnyboy >healer
and come next patch I'll be healing your useless ass with a carbuncle. Or not, haven't felt like playing the game, Endwalker sucks.
>Why do you always play as a female character? >Why not play as a potato?
Some jobs just.. don't look right as a male >Why not play as a potato?
I hate how low the camera is in relation to the world
Not going back there. I might start actively playing again then. If I do that it will be costly. I really easily get addicted to idling and just observing the people who check me out for hours while replying to the occasional whisper. God I love attention.
>Why do you always play a female character.
Nah, Women are cute, but lame as fuck. I'd never want to play as one. >Why not play as a potato?
Because my character is the warrior of mother fucking light, I want him to look as cool as possible, not make him a fucking midget that literally looks like a potato and has a nickname to reflect their chubby asses.
I can think of no more pointless an addition, especially when it runs contradictory to Zenos's character for him to even want to come back and when his death is confirmed by Zero's tie to him being cut and returning her to the Void
>XI hit 21 last week >It's officially going maintenance mode in July
Think ARR's going to last as long, given the frequency of new assets/production values its content requires? It's a decade old already, more if you include 1.0.
If we're going up to 10.0 then there's only 3 more major updates after the next expac
Wouldn't be surprised if more of them are just freebies like later XI stuff too, since they could easily just add horizontal endgame content after reaching whatever they decide is max level instead of constantly moving the base level you have to reach before you are actually playing your job up by 10
If anything ARR/1.0 should get rewrites and content before level 50 should get a difficulty overhaul before we reach a wholesale maintenance mode unless the game will just have an offline adaptation in the future
I'm kinda excited to see what we get in 8.0 for horizontal content since they mentioned wanting to stop at either lv. 99 or lv. 100 for series traditional purposes. I would personally hope for lv. 99 for XI parity
I just expect XIV to stay at 99, introduce some BS like an expansion introducing some means of new unlockable traits as your "New toys", similar to how 1.0 had it. Otherwise it's same ol' same ol' with the iLvl creep.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Either they keep going to 100, 110, and so forth or right here and now going into 7.0 they do a reset of sorts and send us back to 50.
XIV will go until it's no longer lucrative. And even when it's not selling gangbusters, it'll probably be maintained for a while as they work on a new MMO in the background.
When XiV came out it was the first time I ever mained a female and it was Lalafell. I stopped playing before I hit level cap. Fuck chud MMOs. WoW included. Goodbye.
Reminder you gain more stats in like one patch at level cap than the entire fucking expansion leveling at this point, which considering you just have to grind those to get the abilities to make up for the ones they deleted renders the leveling process entirely just a way to make you waste time.
There was a time the game did not physically gate you and the fact you would get your level 5 boipussi gaped by level 40 mobs was all that hypothetically kept you out of areas you weren't supposed to be yet. Not that I didn't make the Ul'dah to Mor Dhona level 2 or whatever the fuck the game forces you to be before it stops stuffing tutorials down your throat run to pick up my swimsuits on a test character.
Honestly I wouldn't even go autism on this if leveling was literally just a prerequisite to wearing better gear and not presented like a normal FF where it actually matters. Like why even have both a minimum level and minimum ilvl requirement on duties, when a fully geared level 85 character is going to be stronger than a level 88 still using Crystarium gear or whatever.
hence i'm fine with the incessant red tomestone grind of the manderville weapons tbh
i don't mind eureka and bozja as a relic grind method either when it's *not* doing the fate farm shit, only having to put up with that obnoxious crap the once and every thereafter relic was much easier was a pleasant surprise
Regardless of your thoughts on Endwalker, and considering the ARR through Endwalker as one "arc". Do you guys think it would be possible for the next arc to capture the same level of story quality again?
And as far as gameplay goes do you think they will every throw us a curveball with talents/traits/tree or any other unique change to the core gameplay or will they continue to keep is safe but polished?
i think it'll be very easy for a second arc to be able to hit the quality of this one since they aren't going to be fumbling about with half-discarded plot threads from 1.X and taking some 6 years just to find its own bearings the way the first arc did
safe but polished 100% but they're gonna have to figure out some kind of lateral shift eventually just because they can't keep tweaking jobs up to lv. 99 or lv. 100 forever
I mostly concerned because the characters we know have felt like we've fully explored them at this point. I guess it'll be the marker of good writing if they can give us new plot threads or development for them I guess. Realistically they should give us a whole new party to get attached to, and I know that would be narratively the best option, but I don't want to at this point >safe but polished 100%
Shame, but I'm still hoping. >they're gonna have to figure out some kind of lateral shift eventually
I'm hoping thats the push needed to Hispanice some shit up.
The biggest chance we will ever see any of the two are in 7.0, if we don't see it at that point then it is safe to say that the devs have decided to just coast along on the "safe side" and the game will either die out before the next arc is over or there will be a handful of whales that keeps the game alive forever
I agree the best chance is now in 7.0 since its literally a new beginning. However, I don't think the game will wither and die before the arc ends. FFXI is still running afterall. Far smaller team now, but they gave that game new content long long after I had assumed it dead.
Regardless of your thoughts on Endwalker, and considering the ARR through Endwalker as one "arc". Do you guys think it would be possible for the next arc to capture the same level of story quality again?
And as far as gameplay goes do you think they will every throw us a curveball with talents/traits/tree or any other unique change to the core gameplay or will they continue to keep is safe but polished?
YoshiP did say in an interview (with famitsu I think) that the current increase in levels are unsustainable and that the team is very much aware of it. He also hinted at what they were experimenting with when he said something along the lines of "Anyone who knows me will know that I am very traditional when it comes to Final Fantasy" and "We are always listening for feedback from our community and this is one of the cases where they will play a key part in what direction we take in the future" to my ears that sounds like the permanent max level will be either 99 or 100 but everything else about endgame is just complete speculation until they show us gameplay during the next media tour
I think we might know a lot sooner, when they show off the next expansion teaser trailer in 2ish months it'll spill the beans. They are really pushing the thought of some sort of rejoining or major happening shaking everything up and if that does turn out to be the case then I'd wager we get some sort of level reset rather than moving up to 99.
They will never do a level reset for the same reason why they apologised when they changed the EXP and DMG numbers around in EW, they know that there are a lot of people who will have an irrational reaction to it happening and the devs have avoided shit like that since forever with the only time they actually defended themselves against this sort of negativity being when they removed Kaiten.
The furthest they will go with a reset is what I've said in many other threads before, they will make a split in the MSQ around level 30ish (or whenever the players have unlocked all the city states for the first time) and allow players to pick between the "Hydaelyn saga" and the "New World saga".
If players pick the old MSQ-line the game will play exactly as it has done since 2.0 with the "New World saga" just starting automatically once you reach the end of the old arc, but if players pick the new MSQ, they will either be lvl boosted up to 90 after doing a tutorial-thing or the devs will scale all 7.0 content so that the player can level from 30-99 on the new continent, most likely pulling the same schtick of forcing players to meet level requirements to continue the 7.0 MSQ just like how it used to work pre-ShB/SB
For any doubters who says "but that means that they need two write twice the amount of text for dialogue! One for beginners and one for veterans!" All I have to say to that is: they are already doing exactly that for every event-quest since HW came out, they also wouldn't meed to write twice as much dialogue since it would be easy for them to just make two "start points" in the story for 7.0 and use that to quickly make new players catch up in the story while just shuffling veterans along with a "Oh! We already know this guy! Just put him on the boat then"
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
The game desperately needed a stat squish - numbers were ballooning out of control during ShB, and in the very next expansion we're already seeing some absolutely insane numbers. The problem with the stat squish is that they didn't do it fully and properly - on top of stats and damage going down, iLvl should have also gone down. WoW has gone through multiple stat squishes out of necessity due to having players hit HP in the millions while dealing billions of DPS. If XIV continues down its current path stat-wise, we will see iLvl 1000 soon. At that point, iLvl is effectively meaningless due to being so high. Hell, next tier we're going to approach i700, which is already insanely high.
Big numbers are big numbers; it doesn't matter how many zeros there are in the number, but eventually the amount of zeroes at the end loses all significance. People don't really feel excited when they hit for five billion damage with a big attack vs, for example, landing a 100K direct crit.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's funny that even after the squish we're already back to early/mid ShB numbers.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah, exactly. The half-assed stat squish is going to necessitate yet another one very soon because in 7.0 stats are going to spiral out of control far harder than they ever did in the SB-ShB era. You thought tanks having 200K HP was a bit nuts? Try DPS having 300K and tanks having 750K, minimum.
If they start designing the game in a horizontal manner then players will ever only reach old pre-EW numbers before they are effectively soft-capped. A stat squish doesn't mean that they will touch the level number either since they could just squish the retarded stat growth that has happened in EW and then we will be back to old pre-ShB numbers again.
What they can't do anymore though is rely on ilvl as a crutch for character progression, YoshiP himself has hinted at that himself like how I wrote in my original post
Sadly, XIV's nature as a themepark and the dev team's design philosophy, alongside the current (utterly rabid) fanbase completely prohibits any form of horizontal progression. Also worth noting is that they already did reduce stat growths on gear back in ShB. And if I recall correctly, they reduced defense gains on gear in SB. They've already taken a number of measures to curb stat growth, but ALL of them are half-assed bandaid fixes.
The absolute worst part of the stat squish is that it could have contributed to making unsyncing old duties more difficult because of the lower numbers, but then they went out of their way to add a unique godbuff when unsyncing just to keep them retard easy. Wouldn't want your past 8 years of content to be relevant or anything.
If you want a challenge in old content, you don't do it unsynced. Min iLvl exists specifically for that purpose. Did you forget that the Min iLvl setting exists?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>If you want a challenge in old content, you don't do it unsynced. Min iLvl exists specifically for that purpose. Did you forget that the Min iLvl setting exists?
I know, and no one wants to do it because everyone only ever follows the path of least resistance. Why put in actual effort for that glamour piece or title that you want (like any other fucking game in existence) when you can just get it in half a minute of smashing your keyboard? There is no reason to ever do old content at its intended level range save for bragging rights and that's fucking awful. If people had to actually square up to get old stuff you'd see party finder explode with people running old raids again, instead they just hand all of that over for practically free then wonder when players complain that there's nothing to do.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Most of it isn't really balanced properly anyway due to job changes over the years, hell they don't even tweak old ultimates and those get super fucked.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Anon, like I've said in my other posts, the devs are very much aware of the problem and the big man himself have openly stated that they are taking more drastic actions to curb it along with (at least a small) shift in design philosophy. That along with the devs seeing and saying that 7.0 is a "new start" for the game means that they are trying to tackle these problems, we won't know for sure until the media tour but saying that they will openly ignore all of this stuff when they have shown the opposite so fat is pretty dumb.
Being a doomer for the story and job design is pretty easy and rational right now but being a doomer about the stat systems is a bit unfounded, atleast for another 4ish months
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'm just saying I've seen what happens when stats get out of control in RPGs. I hope that whatever change they make keep the game at a sustainable growth rate in terms of player power for a good few years, since that's how long it took for the original issue to arise.
>If you want a challenge in old content, you don't do it unsynced. Min iLvl exists specifically for that purpose. Did you forget that the Min iLvl setting exists?
I know, and no one wants to do it because everyone only ever follows the path of least resistance. Why put in actual effort for that glamour piece or title that you want (like any other fucking game in existence) when you can just get it in half a minute of smashing your keyboard? There is no reason to ever do old content at its intended level range save for bragging rights and that's fucking awful. If people had to actually square up to get old stuff you'd see party finder explode with people running old raids again, instead they just hand all of that over for practically free then wonder when players complain that there's nothing to do.
I won't speak for others, but if I wanna revist old content then it's gonna be for glamours I never bothered getting when I was farming the content while it was relevant. I'm not gonna sit there and Min iLvl it when I already did that shit day 1.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
They could probably fix the min-ilvl stuff by decreasing the drop chance/drop rate of gear when you solo it or play it in a group over a certain ilvl/lvl threshold and increasing it when you play the content at min-ilvl along with maybe giving players a chance to gain a double drop so that you get 2 things at once
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Everyone has their own ideas. Some of them aren't good.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
If they start designing the game in a horizontal manner then players will ever only reach old pre-EW numbers before they are effectively soft-capped. A stat squish doesn't mean that they will touch the level number either since they could just squish the retarded stat growth that has happened in EW and then we will be back to old pre-ShB numbers again.
What they can't do anymore though is rely on ilvl as a crutch for character progression, YoshiP himself has hinted at that himself like how I wrote in my original post
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
The absolute worst part of the stat squish is that it could have contributed to making unsyncing old duties more difficult because of the lower numbers, but then they went out of their way to add a unique godbuff when unsyncing just to keep them retard easy. Wouldn't want your past 8 years of content to be relevant or anything.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>we will see iLvl 1000 soon
It's literally at least 5 fucking years away.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
So two and a half expansions later.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>they will never
We don't know what they will or will not do, the key is we need to see just how far they are going with the game in 7.0 and beyond. Were they being serious and it's a clean cut and a new beginning or will they just continue along the same tired storylines.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>players will skip the entire story because it's too long
doubt it, you pay if you want that and have for years
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
There is nothing stopping the devs from just allowing players to play the "Hydaelyn saga" once they complete the new MSQ and one of the largest complaints from all of the new players that joined in ShB and EW is that the current MSQ is too long, if the devs does what I said they will essentially have fixed that problem without removing any content from the game
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Honestly even though this would make people freak out it's probably the best way to move forward. Package up the first story arc and move it to the side, use 7.0 to begin a new story in a new setting so we can make use of not only all the new fixes/updates/changes but the newfound freedom to do what you want and not be shackled to a setting that's been drained.
The one thing that makes me think this won't happen is that it would cost too much money and we know how tight their budget is.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I mean they've already gone through the trouble of introducing a codex with summaries for everything so I think they're already planning on doing this
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
They've been doing a lot of little and not so little things that seem like they could add up to a situation like that but even still the budget situation really kills my hope for it.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
you'll probably get a situation where the story gets split but the opportunity to change the game up only goes that far
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
This is the one that really makes me think. He always teases what's coming next during the rising and in this scenario I can only think of one "big change" that has visited the world thus far.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I try not to be too hopeful these days maybe I've just been beaten down with the same content delivery cycle we've had for years. I can't see it being anything but a big story shakeup
The biggest chance we will ever see any of the two are in 7.0, if we don't see it at that point then it is safe to say that the devs have decided to just coast along on the "safe side" and the game will either die out before the next arc is over or there will be a handful of whales that keeps the game alive forever
>Do you guys think it would be possible for the next arc to capture the same level of story quality again?
The setting has been really sanitized so I'm leery on that. Maybe Maehiro could do it if he comes back after XVI is done with. >Spoiler
Almost said no on reflex but they're reaching a point where they'll be spreading skills out over 100+ levels so something's gotta give eventually.
>The setting has been really sanitized
What do you mean exactly? Of narrative conflict you mean? >Maehiro
I just hope its not more dragons. I loved HW, but I'm just kind of done with the dragons myself.
I think it's possible but it remains up in the air. I like the post EW MSQ but not so much that my opinion won't change if they fumble pretty badly. The biggest worry is definitely the new guy and if he's learned all the important lessons from what made the last two expansion stories so good. Honestly though it might take more than one expansion to actually figure that out though, assuming he stays in charge for that long.
And no, I think they'll stick to just reworking a job once it becomes bloated or whatever other reason. Summoner might basically be a one button job but I feel like they left plenty of room to grow the job in future expansions because of it, though we'll see if that holds true or not. I would honestly be quite surprised if they did anything actually interesting in the job design sector because it really is designed to played by monkeys at the base level. Which honestly, it's fine, it's an MMO not a fighting or strategy game
>The biggest worry is definitely the new guy and if he's learned all the important lessons from what made the last two expansion stories so good >comes back into MSQ writing >IMMEDIATELY slams his brand new zero personality blandfu into the WoL's face at full force, taking great care to completely annihilate any and all forms of interaction between the rest of the cast in order for everyone to drag their tongues across her void-scented cunt
I checked out of the story entirely after 6.0 concluded. I have absolutely no faith in the current writer.
>story
No, I think we've peaked. But because you've peaked doesn't mean you don't stick around. >spoiler
All the focus of every class is damage, while doing the bare minimum of your job if it's any color that isn't red. I don't think the devs and a lot of players like that, and it needs to change. I think they might buff Tenacity/Piety and make content bring some real hard damage values going forward, just absolutely curse every tank and healer that doesn't stack it and make every sort of "filler" section of fights more of a downhill battle. Something they can do to keep up this DPS race idea while adding value to roles doing their roles is just letting players swap equipment mid-fight, at least while not targetted by any specific enemy, and multiple weapons of the same tier with different strengths. For example, DRK has Claymores, Greatswords, and Guillotines, right? Going forward, this flavor text naming convention would reflect their stats; claymores have big crossguards and give better defenses (and skill speed so they can cycle their skills and build meter quicker), and guillotines are giant fucking blades with huge damage focus. GNB would have smaller bayonets to longer Garlean-style gunblades with a similar dichotomy. 1h catalysts return for BLM and WHM with mad cast speed versus 2h power.
>So you guys think it would be possible for the next arc to capture the same level of story quality again?
Sure. But it's going to be a slow buildup. To go back to your earlier statement, while I think Endwalker does wrap up some stuff from since ARR, I do really feel like it's more of a Shadowbringers sequel than anything else.
If you asked me what would happen in HW, sure I'd say "maybe we'll fight Zodiark someday", but I sure wouldn't be going "I bet the Ascians are actually people who wanted their world and friends back because they lost it after an act by one of their own following an apocalyptic event instigated by another one of their own."
It's going to be weird to be in the early days of a big new arc, though, if that's indeed where it's heading. >And as far as gameplay goes
I've no idea where to go, but as for the current gameplay, I hope they find a good comfortable spot for what we have now and redistribute the abilities to be learned much, much earlier so that you don't spend the first 60-70 levels with the most boring parts of the rotation. After that? Maybe a speudo-talent system? Nothing major, just a tree with some flavor abilities to spruce up your existing rotation or replace some buttons. Adding some new abilities and returning some old favorites (like Kaiten)
I have no problem with being indefinitely level capped so long as we don't stay indefinitely power capped. Getting stronger and being able to more easily tackle stuff from expansions before is a good thing. It would suck if an EX trial from 7.0 remains more or less the same difficulty forever after 7.0.
Probably to spite you honestly, but if he is, thats shitty.
>nude lalafell pics
reported to elon musk
[...]
Don't get my fap material purged kudasai.
Actually, please do so. Give them a reason to move off that shitty site.
they have a protected backup account where they post extra Hispanicy stuff anyway
Honestly any time porn starts getting purged and a new site is adopted, it just gets flooded with all the normalfags and other artists who follow and they do the exact same thing again that cause the last one to go to hell. I don't understand it. Its fiction, who gives a fuck.
Twitter absolutely sucks ass as a platform for hosting art though. Its unreal to me how many use it as their primary or sometimes only upload place, because the quality is such utter garbage and the ability to actively search it is dog shit.
Why are people still rolling on Yafaemi gear, do they not fucking understand I missed that patch for reasons that are way too old for me to remember and don't have jack fucking shit from Mhachi still
Shit I don't even have that much Diabolic stuff either.
Unbelievable levels of butthurt from Crystal and raid cheaters that would be the highlight of the decade. In the end nothing would change community-wise because while they'd certainly threaten to quit, they wouldn't dare throw their second life away.
I think it's possible but it remains up in the air. I like the post EW MSQ but not so much that my opinion won't change if they fumble pretty badly. The biggest worry is definitely the new guy and if he's learned all the important lessons from what made the last two expansion stories so good. Honestly though it might take more than one expansion to actually figure that out though, assuming he stays in charge for that long.
And no, I think they'll stick to just reworking a job once it becomes bloated or whatever other reason. Summoner might basically be a one button job but I feel like they left plenty of room to grow the job in future expansions because of it, though we'll see if that holds true or not. I would honestly be quite surprised if they did anything actually interesting in the job design sector because it really is designed to played by monkeys at the base level. Which honestly, it's fine, it's an MMO not a fighting or strategy game
Post EW MSQ for me has just been "fine" its not been bad, not been amazing. Ive enjoyed it, but I do dislike Zero and I will be pretty annoyed if shes a permanent party member in 7.0
Fair, but I'd say prepare your butt then. I'd currently suspect Golbez for the WoLshard award and combined with the fact that the it seems like we're slowly making the rounds of introducing her to our other friends I suspect she'll be sticking around for a while. But I'm hoping she just needs time to cook and stuff since they're basically building her from nothing. We'll see how it works out, though.
The main issue i have with most female modders is the eyes the majority use. They look like they just got punched in both eyes or like they have been crying for hours. I don't understand it at all.
The modern T-shirts/band shirts are fucking retarded too, but not what bothers me most.
For me it's the 'why do you feel the need to give your character some horrible disfiguration holy fucking shit just why' combined with the fact that they also usually look like some kind of weird doll that makes me think their tastes have been irreparably warped by poor parental choices in childhood toys.
>Golbez
You mean Zero?
And I hope not. I hope she sacrifices herself or something. Shes so fucking boring, and I'd rather not just deal with having the equivalent of a child asking what emotions, food, and basic reality is for plot exposition and info dumps. She had some neat fights, now send her off.
Sadly running out of Ryne.
No, I mean Golbez with his whole savior shtick. if Zero were the shard I'd half suspect we'd end up 'eating' her which would make introducing her to everyone really pointless.
Midlanders can be made to look just like Hingans or Domans, and there's an acceptable lore reason why you might be in Eorzea. Hellsgaurd Roe are also acceptable.
Why can't Gosetsu, Kaien, and Yugiri follow me around instead of a gay ugly cat, a dude who tried to shank me with dragon powers like 4 times, and a shitty tsundere.
I was getting worried scrolling through this thread, thinking "Wait, where's Yugiri, is nobody going to post Yugiri?" Good work, Anon. You saved the thread, and I will be adding that picture to my Yugiri collection.
As for your question, I'm very happy to hang out with the Scions and like them a lot. But it's a huge shame to leave the Doma crew out of the story- but thankfully we're at least getting a variant dungeon with them.
The main issue i have with most female modders is the eyes the majority use. They look like they just got punched in both eyes or like they have been crying for hours. I don't understand it at all.
The modern T-shirts/band shirts are fucking retarded too, but not what bothers me most.
Are you guys excited for the patch?
Gonna bum-rush the story or the normal raids?
I'm going straight for the story since ex trial parties will only get worse over time
Y'Shtola will do her thing again because reason, but the Lifestream is weakened from the 13th's souls, and breaks because of the stupid cat, and we'll get a place called The Intersection that lets us traverse to every shard and fix everything.
Please look forward to it.
However, in 7.0 it'll be one zone per shard with you jumping around between them to solve the smushed worlds situation, and at least a couple will just be MSQ dungeons.
>go shard hopping with my cat wife >alisae too much of a grug brain to follow, left behind to fuck off and get her own fucking personality instead of leeching off alphinauds.
I'm playing as Juan Fantasía. If I ever fanta out either I'm going back to male lala or going catboi if I can bring myself to care about glamour and pay for a name change.
Anyone giving that retard any twitter accounts or discord servers for mods or lalas deserves the inevitable shutting down of their accounts.
It's another Ava Ashley wannabe. >literal chuds hunting for lalas to cause problems for
http://avaashley.net/
Only chuds hate lalas.
A trans pedophile using lala hate as a shield, like all other legitimate pedophiles who use their hate of anime.
What's the worse they can do? Reporting social accounts? Is that just twitter activism as per usual?
Tracks down not just their social media, but apparently hunts down their IRL addresses, phone numbers, personal relations, workplaces etc. and tries to ruin peoples' lives.
>As the leader of this movement I get a lot of hate. I have even been openly Doxed and my info is still being spread to this day. Which obviously brings out a lot of transgender hate due to the fact that I am transgender. Which I guess surprises a lot of people to hear as you usually envision trolls to be cisgender males based on the sterotype. >I take a deep personal interest in these subjects because I was a victim of molestation as a child myself for quite a few years
KEK
you couldn't make this shit up
The lalafell chair drama was caused by redditstacks melting down over the devs confirming their redditstack characters aren't canon. Japanese fans of actual lalafell knew this all along and embraced it.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
You keep saying "redditstacks" but I have yet to see an image of any actual shortstack modders/redditors doing any of what you say.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nice quads. The redditstack in the image you posted made this post about the chair.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>picrel
How delusional can a person get
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Kyouka and hhmpkr follow
...whoever took this image for outrage bait actually follows these lala accounts lmao.
>Why do you always play as a female character?
I want a 7ft furry gf >Why not play as a potato?
I do occasionally, but they're comic relief more than anything else
did i accidentally pick the huge gay race or something? i started playing xiv and made a male lalafell not that long ago because all the other male races didn't appeal to me, could only look like a twink or old as fuck so i just chose the literal baby race and marauder for fun.
You are a gay only if you act like one. I play the whore race and yet I've only been approached by weirdos like 2-3 times via pm. Maybe people should just play the fucking game instead of waiting with their butt up in the air for uldah rapists to drill their butt only to complain right after
I just thought the idea of a 3 foot pugilist was funny, this is worse than the time I picked the name princess celestia in battlefield 3 because I thought it would be funny if a soldier shared a name with my sisters toy
I don't like people trying to make lalafells into shortstacks either, but not because I hate shortstacks. I'm perfectly fine with shortstacks, but hate lalafells, and it annoys me that people are trying to take this thing I don't like and pass it off as something I do like. I just don't want to look at lalafells, period. The best girls in FFXIV are all part of the tall races anyway, shortstack enthusiasts would likely be happier playing other games that already have that bodytype in them, rather than trying to push potato-shaped pegs into hourglass-shaped holes.
That other autist is a cunt though and can fuck off to the site he seems to be so obsessed with.
regardless of whose video it is, a lot of xivfags have a broken sense of humor
it's like they're all facebook catmoms
they also suck at letting a joke go
>trying to grind CC for the false monarchy set >started yesterday at level 3 and got to level 10 >everyone is an absolute and abject fucking retard >doesn't fight on the crystal >goes off 1v2-3 and dies >enemy team are always perfectly coordinated with complimentary jobs that decimate your entire team instantly and are all have ultimate weapons
I wonder how many games it will take losing EVERY SINGLE FUCKING GAME to get to 25 before tuesday.
yes. i'm making the game end faster rather than prolonging this shit. The crystal is 60% towards our goal and 3 of my team are dead and we're facing a coordinated team? Whats the fucking point of rushing in?
>On May 23, 2023 from 2:00 to 10:00 (GMT) / May 23 from 3:00 to 11:00 (BST) / May 23 from 12:00 to 20:00 (AEST), maintenance will be performed on all Worlds. >During this period, FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable.
>Usually play RDM in CC, love being an annoying shit that binds/silence/weakens the enemy team and/or buff/heals my own team >Have a pretty good win ratio with it >Got a bit bored with so I decided to use MCH for a while >Get a ton of kills but my team keeps losing >Go back to RDM and immediately start winning again
Either the teams I had were pretty shit or the buffing/debuffing I do as a RDM has a bigger impact than I thought.
How to compress WHM for dummies >Cure I upgrades into Cure II >Cure III removed or just turned into an upgrade from Cure II that sets it at what traited Cure II is like at 90 >Medica upgrades into Afflatus Rapture
Medica II still exists.
Medica is basically never used
>cure iii removed
Shitter
>Cure III removed or just turned into an upgrade from Cure II
Shitter confirmed
Or have Cure II just become Cure III as is.
Either way it's not like Cure I is useful ever, nor is Cure II used outside of big pulls in dungeons sometimes.
>I need as much redundant healing as possible because I'm bad
>Hide cure 3, medica, rapture >Add an Eukrasia-like button that upgrades cure 2, medica 2, and solace
You can probably add it to some other shit as well like Regen
Nah, healers already have too much overlap. Giving WHM a SGE mechanic is a bit too much when they really should be trying to spread them out more.
WHM should get something based around making use of its heavy healing output. I'd say maybe something related to converting healing into damage, but that would probably be a headache to tune and people would whine that teams could start taking pointless damage purely to help boost such a skill or some such nonsense.
>Hide cure 3, medica, rapture >Add an Eukrasia-like button that upgrades cure 2, medica 2, and solace
You can probably add it to some other shit as well like Regen
I get removing/combining cure and medica and asylum-liturgy, but the rest is just bullshit. Maybe i'd remove tetragrammaton instead of benison, but that's it. Who the fuck wants solace and rapture combined?
I only played the FF14 trial and wasn't able to chat with anybody, but the Lalafell always flirted gestures at me in the town hub. That's my impression of the Lalafell that I think of whenever I fap to artwork of them. They want human dick
>3 of my team chasing round a single MCH while the other 4 enemies are sat on the crystal
legitimately how do these people even fucking function by themselves?
>play CC every now and then for the Alpha Wolf title >retards kept to a minimum, usually >play CC in the past 2 weeks >every match is filled with brainless retards trying to binge farm the armor pvp set
>WHM is notorious for being replaced in favor of other healers because of the strength of mitigation from SCH and SGE and the bonus damage of AST >Any attempt to change this is met with crying
They should just give WHM clerics back with it having the smooth toggle of tank stances.
Now cry for me, healer haters.
I am incapable of being obnoxious.
I don't belliev you, you browse v AND play ffxiv
I don't want people to instantly recognize I'm obnoxious, I like springing it on them.
I couldn't make a guy that didn't look goofy and femRoes are cool. I'd rather mash the potatoe instead.
>female character
I play as a dude.
>play as a potato?
They're candy corn.
god that creature on the left is so fucking hot
sex with lalas
Tresh3D's kemono.party listing hasn't updated since the 8th and he's posted stuff since then
I'M MAD
I dont play as female, but I certainly do want to fuck potatoes
I can choose to play a potato, you play as a potato irl.
Why would I do that when there's a tomboy race, muscle girl race, and amazon race to pick from?
on model lalafell sex
Why would I play as a midget?
It's efficient
They get castrated by crayfishes.
I have a woman fetish
tonight is the night I make a shortstack lala
wish me luck
>Shortstack
Cringe. Make an actual lalafell instead of off model garbage.
you don't control me or my dick
I'm tired of tasteless morons polluting lalafell porn. Go fap to a goblin or some shit.
no, I don't think I will
>likes vanilla lalafell
>calls others tasteless
jej
>Redditstack moron doesn't even like lalafells
Every time.
And?
Redditstack gays don't belong in XIV.
Here, let me pretend to care about your gay opinion.
Uhh... damn, I am so moved by your words. What you like and don't like matters so much to me. It might make a person want to shed a tear.
All lalas are reddit though
Reddit is appalled at the thought of sexualizing a lalafell in her natural form. They're fine with redditstacks because they worship obesity.
You should be crying over your horrible taste.
I don't feel like it.
not me retard
Thank you for your service.
I'm currently playing as one of the least attractive character options, a male duskwight elezen.
Play pvp you fucks
I want to reach diamond before the patch drops
lalafell are annoying
Why did the devs make it to where you hear their voices the loudest over everyone else?
https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/67714
kinky. does it come with a ball gag graphic for them?
>https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/67714
>someone was butturt enough to make this
>ehehe i'm an annoying little gay
>mute you
I bless modding everyday
Rude!
>that’s a male
I feel proud of my superior lalafell taxonomy skills
Calling a girl male is even ruder, prepare to be punished!
*SHHLOOOOOOOOORRRRRPPPPPP*
Into my folder you go!
Enjoy. This thread just made me go through my old screenshot folder.
You look like that crazy bitch from the DRK quests
The Fury wills it
cute!
>reason: you're ugleh
holy mother of based
I'll never understand people going out of their way to waste their precious time with these things. You know who else has impulse dysregulation and just has to make themselves heard? morons.
Learn to ignore you troglodytes. I dislike Lala's as much as the next lifeless sperg but I'd be damned if I'll waste my time on plugins such as that instead of coming here to call people stupid.
Talk about obsessed, this is the very definition of it.
>wordswordswords
This is fantastic, but can it also mute that one Miqote voice? You know the one.
How much does it pay to have a bot post these every thread, i need some extra money.
>I'm sure this tank diving right in in CC has a plan
>Evaporates instantly
I deserve this for not working on my series level more earlier.
i'm at 15
i'm in the same boat, anontachi
Might just sit this one out and wait for 7.0. This games endgame has gotten worse with each expansion.
Okay.
should I fanta from Highlander to Xaela
odds yes evens no
>Xaela
Disgusting. Male Xaela are pure edgelords.
And you obviously wouldn't play a female character since you're a guy.
Lalaboys kissing!
Interesting.
Please face the wall now.
reddit post
This is really fucking gay anon.
Is that a problem?
Yeah.
>tfw no cute lalafell gay ingame boyfriend
it hurts...
>no gay lalaboy onahole for my futa rava
Fucking lala haters keep scaring them off.
gay lalaboys have standards stupid futamoron
>gay
>standards
Only if they're played by biofems in which case im not interested.
>gay lalaboys have standards
sorry no one but reddiors like your forced meme fetish bud
I like neither lalas or vieras
but you felt the need to reply, curious
holy obsessed
struck a nerve did I
>everyone who doesn't like my ugly gay zany potatoes is LE REDDIT
It just makes me cringe how insecure you are.
>so insecure he had to respond
>calling anyone else insecure
lol
>redditors
Dickgirls of all forms are a chan fetish, fren. All the meme related to them originated here and one of the most famous shemale porn stars started out posting here. You're the one out of place here, fag.
whatever you say chud
>chud
I accept your concession.
>forced meme fetish
That fetish is older than you, kid.
hey...
>initiating with hey...
ngmi
Teach me the right way to do it, senpai please
>rava
Try calling her a moron and show her your spade tattoo.
too late reprobate
lalafells are for unfunny millenials who say shit like doggo and for tryhard spergs who have a melty when the sprout doesn't pull more than 1 pack
>7.0 is dropping seeing other players outgoing damage
Further casualizing commences.
I turned my damage numbers off ages ago and I can't say I've noticed any difference in how the game feels. When the boss doesn't have a health number anyway it's not like seeing how big your number is really helps.
sauce?
If true (it isn't) this would just make parsing literally required to raid at all. It'll still be there in the network data to display casts, boss hp, etc. Literally just hiding it from casuals.
>It'll still be there in the network data to display casts, boss hp, etc.
You just won't get the actual damage numbers. I don't know if they're also changing the mob to an HP% system to further mask things, given the game currently just sends the raw current HP vs. total HP, despite vanilla clients being unable to see the actual number.
Can I ask why it would make parsing required to raid?
yes anon i'm sure they're making the battle log completely useless
I made a female character because I couldn't make a male character I was satisfied with the look of. Plus big lady.
I have played as a lala before and it's fun.
rip god mode RPR pyros/hydatos
Explain further.
protect + shell then using platebearer and bloodbath l lets you solo spawn basically anything in pyros and hydatos. right now you get about 95% dmg reduction total and 6.4 will be about 85% total.
That isn't too bad either. Isn't bloodbath going to aid you in that regard?
It's literally ded content people were having fun with
Why
>Morbi
God Morbi is trash as a human, but his comic about fucking an imp is good
I play as a Hrothgar because I want to have sex with one
I hate lalafells because every single time, without fail, when people leak new equipment, they always use a lalafell model and you can't ever make out the full details. And every time this happens, they always get complaints to use literally any other race to show off what the gear sets look like. But they keep doing it over and over again. Like some kind of comedic skit that nobody finds funny yet is still allowed to air on national television in front of millions repeatedly.
It's funny to me
I just finished the endwalker MSQ as a male lala WHM, what did I think about it?
>Why do you always play as a female character?
Because I like tits
>Why not play as a potato?
Because I like tits
Understandable
I have never spoke a femlala player I wouldn't run over with my car.
GOD I WANT TO MASH A POTATO
Why are lalaboys like this?
Like femlalas are any different, you are both a mistake and a blight, in xiv and the real world.
sorry, am only into femlalas
Lalaboys best onaholes?
Yes
why are lalas so obsessed with themselves
Cultists
because they're all attention-deprived gays with daddy issues
>all this projection
cope
They are the master race, it's only natural.
I am a human male obsessed with femlalas
You will never be a human.
It's literally a cult.
cults have a unifying belief behind them and, as a rule, exclude others. i've been in many lala shells and none of them excluded talls so long as they loved lalas. the lala mod discords could be considered cults.
lalas do get treated differently than other races, for better or worse, so its unsurprising that some people use it as a personality and as a unifying banner. as a lala myself most contact i have with people outside my friend group are other lalas
Thanks for proving me right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_perception
stop replying to bait
i call you cookie lala internally so as such i can't take you trying to be scary seriously
i always knew him as "bobcut"
Fair
I am going to pick you up and fuck you until you're overflowing with cum
That is not a threat, but a promise
Dont get me wrong but you are either barely a fit in here or genuine austitic/sperg. Obviously they get an archetype just as any other race, how true is it will depend on how much of an NPC your personality is
i don't really fit with the typical lala crowd yes. not that that makes me special, as i am 100% the type to avoid discord by principle. this alienates me from most socialization. i have a few similarly minded friends and they don't have their in game race as part of their personality. so there exists outliers for every group
>look at any lala linkshell
>they kick non-lalas
?
>why are [noun] so [adjective] with [noun]
low effort posting synonymous with south americans
(you)
So is the meta to buy right gear, then use tomes for left gear?
No, you buy the whole set and pentameld it. Then gradually replace it with bis over then next 2 months.
>Communio double kill in CC
Reaper is fun as hell, but it feels like its just so much more work than playing nin or drg for way less pay off.
>GC rank system came out in 2011 in 1.X
>Areas marked red were how far you could get on its original release
>It's been 12 years, rank only went up twice since then
They may as well scrap the system, much as I like it when NPC in the know address you by your current rank.
Problem is that they've stated they don't know what kind of rewards to add to it that would be meaningful. Being a captain makes sense with our recruits, but being a commander would have to have something larger than what we have, contextually.
speaking from a practical standpoint, captain is pretty much the last rank where you may routinely see combat. everything above that are desk jobs. you don't want one of the best fighters in the world stuck doing paperwork
>could have fleshed out squadrons for 60+ dungeons, new venue for current materia, etc.
>instead they went out of their way to add trusts to older dungeons, making squadrons even more fucking useless except for gathering spiritbonding scrolls
ah yes. the ability to do msq dungeons with your squad only after you complete the msq
Might as well remove those ranks from the UI then
>wanting to be a supreme high lord champion of your GC
>still take orders from literal whos due to the nature of the game.
yea no fuck that .
GC rank and the GC squadron are forgotten content that will never be touched. They could do AMAZING things with squadrons but no, why bother.
>They could do AMAZING things with squadrons
Like what?
I hated leveling them up. I only did it for the emote.
>Let you use them in the overworld instead of your chocobo
>Allow them to be used in all the fancy new duty support they've added, instead of using a story npc and a few jobbers
>All sorts of customization, allowing them into the island, combine them with the retainer feature
FFXI has a better trust system, why won't they open their eyes.
They have enough AI to be useful for musou styled content I think
If the war with garlemand wasn't wrapped up or bozja was still on going you could have actual military stuff involving GCs in the game where you take your whole 12 man or whatever squad and move them around in groups of 4+1 in battleground style content
Monk feels strong but also like I'm not earning any of that damage TB quite H.
alright, i've updated my meme card from last thread i was in. thank you for your input if you helped. whatcha think?
>non-azdaja dragon
Nah, that sounds beyond asspull tier.
>Lunar Primals, but not Fandaniel's
But they've already established what lunar primals are in this game, why would they put others now? Either we just meet new vanilla primals from elsewhere or they'll just be called something different.
>Y'shtola sucked into a portal
That's just a repeat of ShB.
>Twins petrification
I feel like we're waaay past that. If it was gonna happen it'd have been earlier I think.
>Thavnair gets more punishment
Those poor fucks.
>FF4 easter eggs only 10% of the players recognize
That is being EXTREMELY generous. I'd argue only 10% of the playerbase has played another FF game, including 7 or one of the newer ones. The amount of players that actually played the classic FF titles are significantly lower. You'd be hard pressed to find a player that isn't a bandwagoner using the game as second life, a wowfugee or some normie.
Thankfully not everyone is a crystal erp chud or aether raid chud
No, just the overwhelming vast majority. MMOs are dead for a reason.
i imagine erpers are more likely to get references than raiders are. especially wowfugees
then again the average erper isn't very high quality. maybe i just tend to give people the benefit of the doubt? does that make me a doormat?
Most raiders these days are just retarded zoomers, all the wowfugees left, all the nice raiders from hw also left, only californium gayrons now.
Is this the usual cope?
People playing game bad because they're all unwashed RPers?
It would be a blessing if they were RPers, they would at least pay attention to the lore. No, these creatures are worse.
I unironically don't see the problem with the billboard
>Its a waste of money!
Hey, if some oil baron wants to waste money on this go ahead
>It uses the ffxiv logo without permission!!
Who cares?
your right, I see it all and finally understand anon! I'm going to limsa to /beesknees all day and talk about trans rights!
it offends me as someone who has an interest in marketing. its far, FAR too complex for a billboard. this is something you'd put in a magazine or at the top of a website
The main problem was that it used a modded screenshot as the beach glamour on the viera hadn't come out yet
>noooo you can't use mods because they break the ToS!!!!
lmao
It's one thing to use mods and not bring attention to them so they don't get banned.
It's another thing to openly use mods and wave them in the devs' faces.
no you have to make it the world's biggest problem or you're le one of them
>uses modded outfits in a game with a fairly firm "don't modify our fucking game" stance
>gives the impression that the game is something other than what it is - a fantasy/sci-fi hybrid MMORPG
>openly advertises a discord server that, according some reports, engages fairly openly in RMT and sexually explicit services, in a game with a (in the US at least) rating of T, indicating it's suitable for teenagers
>event itself was likely full of sexual deviants and actual groomers
Gee anon I don't know, what could be the problem?
least the community as a whole seemed pretty put off by it. kinda funny actually
Only because it exposed the majority of the US playerbase for what they actually are: deviants, degenerates, groomers and scumfucks.
no need to start sperging out
It's TOO LATE, ANON
I'M ALREADY SPERGING
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
damn
it's ogre
yeah. there are just some things you don't say out loud
These are just NA problems. Meanwhile on EU we had a yuge rejoining party with no drama.
The problem is that they are a bunch of gays and I don't want to share a game with them.
I'd be more surprised this actually happened IRL before being in something like GTA if rockstar actually made more than 1 game a decade at this point
After looking at this billboard for only a second time, I realize just how shit it is, and it's because of one major flaw that doesn't have anything to do with the actual product or service being advertised.
There's way too much information on it. WAY too goddamn much. People driving by this will glance at it for a second or two before they pass it, and there's no way any normal person is gonna absorb everything it's trying to say.
I can't imagine anyone driving by this and having any clue what they're even looking at.
You have to keep these things simple for a billboard ad. For something with this much detail, you'd have to stop in the middle of the road in order to read all this shit, and if you're on the road to begin with, ain't nobody got time for that.
How does socially retarded degenerates have this much money to throw around? I refuse to believe that they are all savant programmers or well known/respected smut artists, it just makes no fucking sense. The only conclusion I ever reach is that most of them are deep in dept from pretty much borrowing all of the money they have, have inherited most if not all of it or are deep into RMT/some actual illegal activities to fuel their 'tisms
It’s like $80. Get a job, libtard.
You sound like you definitely know what ur talking about.
>I'd argue only 10% of the playerbase has played another FF game
This was the case for me with a ton of people I've met in XI, XIV1.0, and ARR. Those guys don't care for single-player shit, they just want their social w/ basic gameplay addiction.
I thought that the games weren't narratively connected so you didn't need to have played VII to know what VIII was about and so on.
I mean with that, and with the fact that most of the other FF games play substantially differently to XIV, I don't see why that's such an issue if someone hasn't played the others before.
it’s just spergs whining. The worlds aren’t connected except through omega cameos.
Normally yes but this one is just a bunch of shit from other games pasted together.
In that case isn't it better to have not played the other FF games so you don't recognise that fact?
There is an argument for it but in another sense you're just supposed to point and clap.
>P9 and P10 ain't beelzebub.
>P11 will most likely be related to Sabik.
>No FF2 Pandemonium theme remix.
The only thing I can see is Athena going full Emprah.
Man, I know FF2 is shit but even 13 gets some fanservice here and there.
>It's been established since Stormblood - maybe even sooner, I didn't do a lot of side quests - that Lahabrea's zodiac equivalent is Mateus
>We already got a Lahabrea body double, they weren't Mateus
The writing for EW is a fucking catastrophe, whether it's the MSQ or the side content. They constantly miss these obvious slam dunks only to substitute some lackluster nonsense instead.
oh no they didnt le ebin reference the game is dead
Everything about Endwalker has been pretty mediocre.
I like it.
aaaaaaaaaaa my unsatisfied autism aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>they constantly miss these slam dunks that 3 people out of 100 would recognize and 1 would care about
Yeah remember when they referenced Emet-Selch's esper parallel by naming a fish and a server after him? Fucking retard
N1 is impossible. You can literally see her horns in Golbez's dragon.
No, worse. I am everything Ganker hates.
>male character
>bunnyboy
>healer
and come next patch I'll be healing your useless ass with a carbuncle. Or not, haven't felt like playing the game, Endwalker sucks.
scholars using carbuncles only have one excuse, and thats if they're an alphinaud fetishist. other than that, Lily is the best part of being a scholar
>praises lily
>posts eos
You couldn't even tell so blatant a lie for shitposting purposes.
>healers
>healing
>male viera opinions
>mattering at all
lol
lmoa
>male
>bunnyboy
>healer
Post glam.
My brother.
i played thru the entire game as a male elezen
I play as a female potato set to max height. I also always wear full armor with a helmet.
That hat stays on permanently.
>max height
A walking nightmare get away from me
I like au ras too much
Oh great, we have horses posting here now.
just one more level until I get the pvp set, and then I can ignore FL for a few months, thank god
>Why do you always play as a female character?
>Why not play as a potato?
Some jobs just.. don't look right as a male
>Why not play as a potato?
I hate how low the camera is in relation to the world
>I hate how low the camera is in relation to the world
This is actually a great thing. I wish I could be this smol and cute irl.
Not going back there. I might start actively playing again then. If I do that it will be costly. I really easily get addicted to idling and just observing the people who check me out for hours while replying to the occasional whisper. God I love attention.
That's unfortunate but I think you'll fit in better there.
Now I went and looked anyway and it looks to be in a worse state than it was 4 years ago. Not that I thought that this was possible tbh.
I play a Lala for the sole purpose of upskirt peeping. Perfect vantage
I will fatten up a lala with my cum
>Why do you always play a female character.
Nah, Women are cute, but lame as fuck. I'd never want to play as one.
>Why not play as a potato?
Because my character is the warrior of mother fucking light, I want him to look as cool as possible, not make him a fucking midget that literally looks like a potato and has a nickname to reflect their chubby asses.
When will they get desperate and bring him back? 7.3 or will they wait until 8.0?
It depends on how badly Hiroi fumbles 7.0.
hopefully never
we've had enough zenos
i want him to join the scions. would be funny
I can think of no more pointless an addition, especially when it runs contradictory to Zenos's character for him to even want to come back and when his death is confirmed by Zero's tie to him being cut and returning her to the Void
Rather have Zenos be greg 2.0 and show up in other FF games but never XIV
only schizo trannies like him. youre a huge gay.
I like him, but he had a great send off. Keep him gone.
cute!
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>female
I don't
>lalafell
Because Dancer exists.
I play a female potato.
She is CUTE
I don't play at all
>XI hit 21 last week
>It's officially going maintenance mode in July
Think ARR's going to last as long, given the frequency of new assets/production values its content requires? It's a decade old already, more if you include 1.0.
If we're going up to 10.0 then there's only 3 more major updates after the next expac
Wouldn't be surprised if more of them are just freebies like later XI stuff too, since they could easily just add horizontal endgame content after reaching whatever they decide is max level instead of constantly moving the base level you have to reach before you are actually playing your job up by 10
If anything ARR/1.0 should get rewrites and content before level 50 should get a difficulty overhaul before we reach a wholesale maintenance mode unless the game will just have an offline adaptation in the future
I'm kinda excited to see what we get in 8.0 for horizontal content since they mentioned wanting to stop at either lv. 99 or lv. 100 for series traditional purposes. I would personally hope for lv. 99 for XI parity
>I would personally hope for lv. 99 for XI parity
Yeah about that.....the XI cap these days is ML50.
Then they do the same thing and introduce Master Levels after the actual level cap.
I just expect XIV to stay at 99, introduce some BS like an expansion introducing some means of new unlockable traits as your "New toys", similar to how 1.0 had it. Otherwise it's same ol' same ol' with the iLvl creep.
Either they keep going to 100, 110, and so forth or right here and now going into 7.0 they do a reset of sorts and send us back to 50.
>Each expansion becomes 5 levels
>ARR is 10
XIV will go until it's no longer lucrative. And even when it's not selling gangbusters, it'll probably be maintained for a while as they work on a new MMO in the background.
Why would you play as a malformed midget when you could be an amazonian bunnygirl?
whoa!
Lala? Not a fan.
>Asanagi clone
I am a fan of Asanagi
Sorry to hear that.
Get in loser we're queing up for syrcus tower.
whales gonna whale
AAAAAAIEEE DOOMSISTERS????
When XiV came out it was the first time I ever mained a female and it was Lalafell. I stopped playing before I hit level cap. Fuck chud MMOs. WoW included. Goodbye.
>played a female character
>felt dirty
>blamed the game
>that jump on 6/13/2019
But I thought the game was dying, the experts here told me.
Reminder you gain more stats in like one patch at level cap than the entire fucking expansion leveling at this point, which considering you just have to grind those to get the abilities to make up for the ones they deleted renders the leveling process entirely just a way to make you waste time.
welcome to every expansion anon
it's like this every expansion, everyone knows leveling up is a formality
There was a time the game did not physically gate you and the fact you would get your level 5 boipussi gaped by level 40 mobs was all that hypothetically kept you out of areas you weren't supposed to be yet. Not that I didn't make the Ul'dah to Mor Dhona level 2 or whatever the fuck the game forces you to be before it stops stuffing tutorials down your throat run to pick up my swimsuits on a test character.
Honestly I wouldn't even go autism on this if leveling was literally just a prerequisite to wearing better gear and not presented like a normal FF where it actually matters. Like why even have both a minimum level and minimum ilvl requirement on duties, when a fully geared level 85 character is going to be stronger than a level 88 still using Crystarium gear or whatever.
wear your gear you dipshit this is a WoW-like MMORPG in 2023 and not an SNES title
because girls are cute
mwah
My solo-FC maido sub maintainer looks like that
I just want a lala friend who is played by a real girl.
Is that really too much to ask.
There are no girls on the internet.
>Bu-
There are no girls on the internet.
two of my ~10 persons fc are lalafell played by real girls. They are like 40 tho.
Unironically the only (real) women that play XIV are streamers, or 40+ year old women. My mom plays XIV.
Is your mom single?
>Need DR savage for colored Laws Order gear
Why did they do this? Now I gotta go hunt a discord
All these lalas have no right to be so lust provoking
>Old relic grind involves farming fates
Fine
>Old relic grin involves farming fates with no guaranteed material drop
Gay
Imagine being unlucky.
hence i'm fine with the incessant red tomestone grind of the manderville weapons tbh
i don't mind eureka and bozja as a relic grind method either when it's *not* doing the fate farm shit, only having to put up with that obnoxious crap the once and every thereafter relic was much easier was a pleasant surprise
Regardless of your thoughts on Endwalker, and considering the ARR through Endwalker as one "arc". Do you guys think it would be possible for the next arc to capture the same level of story quality again?
And as far as gameplay goes do you think they will every throw us a curveball with talents/traits/tree or any other unique change to the core gameplay or will they continue to keep is safe but polished?
i think it'll be very easy for a second arc to be able to hit the quality of this one since they aren't going to be fumbling about with half-discarded plot threads from 1.X and taking some 6 years just to find its own bearings the way the first arc did
safe but polished 100% but they're gonna have to figure out some kind of lateral shift eventually just because they can't keep tweaking jobs up to lv. 99 or lv. 100 forever
I mostly concerned because the characters we know have felt like we've fully explored them at this point. I guess it'll be the marker of good writing if they can give us new plot threads or development for them I guess.
Realistically they should give us a whole new party to get attached to, and I know that would be narratively the best option, but I don't want to at this point
>safe but polished 100%
Shame, but I'm still hoping.
>they're gonna have to figure out some kind of lateral shift eventually
I'm hoping thats the push needed to Hispanice some shit up.
I agree the best chance is now in 7.0 since its literally a new beginning. However, I don't think the game will wither and die before the arc ends. FFXI is still running afterall. Far smaller team now, but they gave that game new content long long after I had assumed it dead.
>Ryne hips
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YoshiP did say in an interview (with famitsu I think) that the current increase in levels are unsustainable and that the team is very much aware of it. He also hinted at what they were experimenting with when he said something along the lines of "Anyone who knows me will know that I am very traditional when it comes to Final Fantasy" and "We are always listening for feedback from our community and this is one of the cases where they will play a key part in what direction we take in the future" to my ears that sounds like the permanent max level will be either 99 or 100 but everything else about endgame is just complete speculation until they show us gameplay during the next media tour
Still seething about not getting NA tickets because of the dumb system.
can you change into npcs with glamourer
What do you mean?
I'm mod inept. I just like Ryne and steal pics I see of her.
I wanna make my own poses. That's all.
You used to be able to with anamesis but something broke
Now you can only use npcs, retainers, etcs
I think we might know a lot sooner, when they show off the next expansion teaser trailer in 2ish months it'll spill the beans. They are really pushing the thought of some sort of rejoining or major happening shaking everything up and if that does turn out to be the case then I'd wager we get some sort of level reset rather than moving up to 99.
They will never do a level reset for the same reason why they apologised when they changed the EXP and DMG numbers around in EW, they know that there are a lot of people who will have an irrational reaction to it happening and the devs have avoided shit like that since forever with the only time they actually defended themselves against this sort of negativity being when they removed Kaiten.
The furthest they will go with a reset is what I've said in many other threads before, they will make a split in the MSQ around level 30ish (or whenever the players have unlocked all the city states for the first time) and allow players to pick between the "Hydaelyn saga" and the "New World saga".
If players pick the old MSQ-line the game will play exactly as it has done since 2.0 with the "New World saga" just starting automatically once you reach the end of the old arc, but if players pick the new MSQ, they will either be lvl boosted up to 90 after doing a tutorial-thing or the devs will scale all 7.0 content so that the player can level from 30-99 on the new continent, most likely pulling the same schtick of forcing players to meet level requirements to continue the 7.0 MSQ just like how it used to work pre-ShB/SB
For any doubters who says "but that means that they need two write twice the amount of text for dialogue! One for beginners and one for veterans!" All I have to say to that is: they are already doing exactly that for every event-quest since HW came out, they also wouldn't meed to write twice as much dialogue since it would be easy for them to just make two "start points" in the story for 7.0 and use that to quickly make new players catch up in the story while just shuffling veterans along with a "Oh! We already know this guy! Just put him on the boat then"
The game desperately needed a stat squish - numbers were ballooning out of control during ShB, and in the very next expansion we're already seeing some absolutely insane numbers. The problem with the stat squish is that they didn't do it fully and properly - on top of stats and damage going down, iLvl should have also gone down. WoW has gone through multiple stat squishes out of necessity due to having players hit HP in the millions while dealing billions of DPS. If XIV continues down its current path stat-wise, we will see iLvl 1000 soon. At that point, iLvl is effectively meaningless due to being so high. Hell, next tier we're going to approach i700, which is already insanely high.
Big numbers are big numbers; it doesn't matter how many zeros there are in the number, but eventually the amount of zeroes at the end loses all significance. People don't really feel excited when they hit for five billion damage with a big attack vs, for example, landing a 100K direct crit.
It's funny that even after the squish we're already back to early/mid ShB numbers.
Yeah, exactly. The half-assed stat squish is going to necessitate yet another one very soon because in 7.0 stats are going to spiral out of control far harder than they ever did in the SB-ShB era. You thought tanks having 200K HP was a bit nuts? Try DPS having 300K and tanks having 750K, minimum.
Sadly, XIV's nature as a themepark and the dev team's design philosophy, alongside the current (utterly rabid) fanbase completely prohibits any form of horizontal progression. Also worth noting is that they already did reduce stat growths on gear back in ShB. And if I recall correctly, they reduced defense gains on gear in SB. They've already taken a number of measures to curb stat growth, but ALL of them are half-assed bandaid fixes.
If you want a challenge in old content, you don't do it unsynced. Min iLvl exists specifically for that purpose. Did you forget that the Min iLvl setting exists?
>If you want a challenge in old content, you don't do it unsynced. Min iLvl exists specifically for that purpose. Did you forget that the Min iLvl setting exists?
I know, and no one wants to do it because everyone only ever follows the path of least resistance. Why put in actual effort for that glamour piece or title that you want (like any other fucking game in existence) when you can just get it in half a minute of smashing your keyboard? There is no reason to ever do old content at its intended level range save for bragging rights and that's fucking awful. If people had to actually square up to get old stuff you'd see party finder explode with people running old raids again, instead they just hand all of that over for practically free then wonder when players complain that there's nothing to do.
Most of it isn't really balanced properly anyway due to job changes over the years, hell they don't even tweak old ultimates and those get super fucked.
Anon, like I've said in my other posts, the devs are very much aware of the problem and the big man himself have openly stated that they are taking more drastic actions to curb it along with (at least a small) shift in design philosophy. That along with the devs seeing and saying that 7.0 is a "new start" for the game means that they are trying to tackle these problems, we won't know for sure until the media tour but saying that they will openly ignore all of this stuff when they have shown the opposite so fat is pretty dumb.
Being a doomer for the story and job design is pretty easy and rational right now but being a doomer about the stat systems is a bit unfounded, atleast for another 4ish months
I'm just saying I've seen what happens when stats get out of control in RPGs. I hope that whatever change they make keep the game at a sustainable growth rate in terms of player power for a good few years, since that's how long it took for the original issue to arise.
I won't speak for others, but if I wanna revist old content then it's gonna be for glamours I never bothered getting when I was farming the content while it was relevant. I'm not gonna sit there and Min iLvl it when I already did that shit day 1.
They could probably fix the min-ilvl stuff by decreasing the drop chance/drop rate of gear when you solo it or play it in a group over a certain ilvl/lvl threshold and increasing it when you play the content at min-ilvl along with maybe giving players a chance to gain a double drop so that you get 2 things at once
Everyone has their own ideas. Some of them aren't good.
If they start designing the game in a horizontal manner then players will ever only reach old pre-EW numbers before they are effectively soft-capped. A stat squish doesn't mean that they will touch the level number either since they could just squish the retarded stat growth that has happened in EW and then we will be back to old pre-ShB numbers again.
What they can't do anymore though is rely on ilvl as a crutch for character progression, YoshiP himself has hinted at that himself like how I wrote in my original post
The absolute worst part of the stat squish is that it could have contributed to making unsyncing old duties more difficult because of the lower numbers, but then they went out of their way to add a unique godbuff when unsyncing just to keep them retard easy. Wouldn't want your past 8 years of content to be relevant or anything.
>we will see iLvl 1000 soon
It's literally at least 5 fucking years away.
So two and a half expansions later.
>they will never
We don't know what they will or will not do, the key is we need to see just how far they are going with the game in 7.0 and beyond. Were they being serious and it's a clean cut and a new beginning or will they just continue along the same tired storylines.
>players will skip the entire story because it's too long
doubt it, you pay if you want that and have for years
There is nothing stopping the devs from just allowing players to play the "Hydaelyn saga" once they complete the new MSQ and one of the largest complaints from all of the new players that joined in ShB and EW is that the current MSQ is too long, if the devs does what I said they will essentially have fixed that problem without removing any content from the game
Honestly even though this would make people freak out it's probably the best way to move forward. Package up the first story arc and move it to the side, use 7.0 to begin a new story in a new setting so we can make use of not only all the new fixes/updates/changes but the newfound freedom to do what you want and not be shackled to a setting that's been drained.
The one thing that makes me think this won't happen is that it would cost too much money and we know how tight their budget is.
I mean they've already gone through the trouble of introducing a codex with summaries for everything so I think they're already planning on doing this
They've been doing a lot of little and not so little things that seem like they could add up to a situation like that but even still the budget situation really kills my hope for it.
you'll probably get a situation where the story gets split but the opportunity to change the game up only goes that far
This is the one that really makes me think. He always teases what's coming next during the rising and in this scenario I can only think of one "big change" that has visited the world thus far.
I try not to be too hopeful these days maybe I've just been beaten down with the same content delivery cycle we've had for years. I can't see it being anything but a big story shakeup
The biggest chance we will ever see any of the two are in 7.0, if we don't see it at that point then it is safe to say that the devs have decided to just coast along on the "safe side" and the game will either die out before the next arc is over or there will be a handful of whales that keeps the game alive forever
>Do you guys think it would be possible for the next arc to capture the same level of story quality again?
The setting has been really sanitized so I'm leery on that. Maybe Maehiro could do it if he comes back after XVI is done with.
>Spoiler
Almost said no on reflex but they're reaching a point where they'll be spreading skills out over 100+ levels so something's gotta give eventually.
>The setting has been really sanitized
What do you mean exactly? Of narrative conflict you mean?
>Maehiro
I just hope its not more dragons. I loved HW, but I'm just kind of done with the dragons myself.
Looks like a pink Gura.
I think it's possible but it remains up in the air. I like the post EW MSQ but not so much that my opinion won't change if they fumble pretty badly. The biggest worry is definitely the new guy and if he's learned all the important lessons from what made the last two expansion stories so good. Honestly though it might take more than one expansion to actually figure that out though, assuming he stays in charge for that long.
And no, I think they'll stick to just reworking a job once it becomes bloated or whatever other reason. Summoner might basically be a one button job but I feel like they left plenty of room to grow the job in future expansions because of it, though we'll see if that holds true or not. I would honestly be quite surprised if they did anything actually interesting in the job design sector because it really is designed to played by monkeys at the base level. Which honestly, it's fine, it's an MMO not a fighting or strategy game
>The biggest worry is definitely the new guy and if he's learned all the important lessons from what made the last two expansion stories so good
>comes back into MSQ writing
>IMMEDIATELY slams his brand new zero personality blandfu into the WoL's face at full force, taking great care to completely annihilate any and all forms of interaction between the rest of the cast in order for everyone to drag their tongues across her void-scented cunt
I checked out of the story entirely after 6.0 concluded. I have absolutely no faith in the current writer.
The expectations from the first arc will ruin whatever potential the second arc could have.
>story
No, I think we've peaked. But because you've peaked doesn't mean you don't stick around.
>spoiler
All the focus of every class is damage, while doing the bare minimum of your job if it's any color that isn't red. I don't think the devs and a lot of players like that, and it needs to change. I think they might buff Tenacity/Piety and make content bring some real hard damage values going forward, just absolutely curse every tank and healer that doesn't stack it and make every sort of "filler" section of fights more of a downhill battle. Something they can do to keep up this DPS race idea while adding value to roles doing their roles is just letting players swap equipment mid-fight, at least while not targetted by any specific enemy, and multiple weapons of the same tier with different strengths. For example, DRK has Claymores, Greatswords, and Guillotines, right? Going forward, this flavor text naming convention would reflect their stats; claymores have big crossguards and give better defenses (and skill speed so they can cycle their skills and build meter quicker), and guillotines are giant fucking blades with huge damage focus. GNB would have smaller bayonets to longer Garlean-style gunblades with a similar dichotomy. 1h catalysts return for BLM and WHM with mad cast speed versus 2h power.
>So you guys think it would be possible for the next arc to capture the same level of story quality again?
Sure. But it's going to be a slow buildup. To go back to your earlier statement, while I think Endwalker does wrap up some stuff from since ARR, I do really feel like it's more of a Shadowbringers sequel than anything else.
If you asked me what would happen in HW, sure I'd say "maybe we'll fight Zodiark someday", but I sure wouldn't be going "I bet the Ascians are actually people who wanted their world and friends back because they lost it after an act by one of their own following an apocalyptic event instigated by another one of their own."
It's going to be weird to be in the early days of a big new arc, though, if that's indeed where it's heading.
>And as far as gameplay goes
I've no idea where to go, but as for the current gameplay, I hope they find a good comfortable spot for what we have now and redistribute the abilities to be learned much, much earlier so that you don't spend the first 60-70 levels with the most boring parts of the rotation. After that? Maybe a speudo-talent system? Nothing major, just a tree with some flavor abilities to spruce up your existing rotation or replace some buttons. Adding some new abilities and returning some old favorites (like Kaiten)
I have no problem with being indefinitely level capped so long as we don't stay indefinitely power capped. Getting stronger and being able to more easily tackle stuff from expansions before is a good thing. It would suck if an EX trial from 7.0 remains more or less the same difficulty forever after 7.0.
lalafell
gonna need that guy's twitter or whatever, damn thats hot
Think it might be this one.
https://twitter.com/myaaa04880502
>nude lalafell pics
reported to elon musk
They don't care, I have reported that account years ago and they told me they are okay with pedophilia.
Probably to spite you honestly, but if he is, thats shitty.
Honestly any time porn starts getting purged and a new site is adopted, it just gets flooded with all the normalfags and other artists who follow and they do the exact same thing again that cause the last one to go to hell. I don't understand it. Its fiction, who gives a fuck.
Twitter absolutely sucks ass as a platform for hosting art though. Its unreal to me how many use it as their primary or sometimes only upload place, because the quality is such utter garbage and the ability to actively search it is dog shit.
Don't get my fap material purged kudasai.
Actually, please do so. Give them a reason to move off that shitty site.
they have a protected backup account where they post extra Hispanicy stuff anyway
I simp for my femzen, simple as
Why are people still rolling on Yafaemi gear, do they not fucking understand I missed that patch for reasons that are way too old for me to remember and don't have jack fucking shit from Mhachi still
Shit I don't even have that much Diabolic stuff either.
They want the turn ins probably or desynths.
I wish I had more of her in that dancer outfit, but I just steal these pics honestly.
Realistically what would happen 8f mods and plugins are gone
shitposters on Ganker scratch it off on their lists and move on to the next thing to complain infinitely about
Unbelievable levels of butthurt from Crystal and raid cheaters that would be the highlight of the decade. In the end nothing would change community-wise because while they'd certainly threaten to quit, they wouldn't dare throw their second life away.
damn these are cute, are they all from the same guy?
here
Ryne is made for xaela bulls.
I like her with almost anything because I just like Ryne.
>modded garbage
Why is it people who mod can't even do it properly?
Let's see your own modbeast, big boy.
All of the Ryne ones I've posted have been great.
Post EW MSQ for me has just been "fine" its not been bad, not been amazing. Ive enjoyed it, but I do dislike Zero and I will be pretty annoyed if shes a permanent party member in 7.0
Fair, but I'd say prepare your butt then. I'd currently suspect Golbez for the WoLshard award and combined with the fact that the it seems like we're slowly making the rounds of introducing her to our other friends I suspect she'll be sticking around for a while. But I'm hoping she just needs time to cook and stuff since they're basically building her from nothing. We'll see how it works out, though.
For me it's the 'why do you feel the need to give your character some horrible disfiguration holy fucking shit just why' combined with the fact that they also usually look like some kind of weird doll that makes me think their tastes have been irreparably warped by poor parental choices in childhood toys.
>Golbez
You mean Zero?
And I hope not. I hope she sacrifices herself or something. Shes so fucking boring, and I'd rather not just deal with having the equivalent of a child asking what emotions, food, and basic reality is for plot exposition and info dumps. She had some neat fights, now send her off.
Sadly running out of Ryne.
No, I mean Golbez with his whole savior shtick. if Zero were the shard I'd half suspect we'd end up 'eating' her which would make introducing her to everyone really pointless.
The savior shtick could also be the influence of the shard of zodiark he ate,
>mod
>properly
>They're posting an actually cute character quick dump all the lalas
>He uses a japanese name for his character
I hope you guys don't do this
It's acceptable if you play as a Hingan or Doman, but only if you use a name from the proper era and play as a race that lives there.
So only raen or maybe even xaela?
>Nooo my midlander/roe is totally an eastern hyur/roe
Midlanders can be made to look just like Hingans or Domans, and there's an acceptable lore reason why you might be in Eorzea. Hellsgaurd Roe are also acceptable.
Yet they are still called a midlander, curious.
Call me when I can make Yotsuyu instead of a fluoride stare European with black hair.
Call me when we can make highlanders that look like Minfillia and Lyse
1.0 problem, it didn't have female highlanders. SB had unique faces for eastern npcs.
Every doman that isn't Yotsuyu or Hien has a midlander face.
That's because SE is lazy, they don't actually look like that.
Alright, now that we're playing pretend here we can easily apply that to midlander PC's with Far Eastern origins.
No because their race is still classified as midlander
You can make a WoL that is identical to Isse, what they are classified as in the character creator doesn't matter.
You will always be a shroud spawn.
After making almost exclusively female characters I made a male lala on dynamis so I could follow in the gooch's footsteps
Also just because I enjoy the experience of levelling crafters before everything else which is only really doable or beneficial in ARR
Why can't Gosetsu, Kaien, and Yugiri follow me around instead of a gay ugly cat, a dude who tried to shank me with dragon powers like 4 times, and a shitty tsundere.
Next patch, look forward to it, we will never have to deal with real people again soon.
Phew!
I was getting worried scrolling through this thread, thinking "Wait, where's Yugiri, is nobody going to post Yugiri?" Good work, Anon. You saved the thread, and I will be adding that picture to my Yugiri collection.
As for your question, I'm very happy to hang out with the Scions and like them a lot. But it's a huge shame to leave the Doma crew out of the story- but thankfully we're at least getting a variant dungeon with them.
It's simple. I play a male character so I can protest the female potatoes.
>females in charge of modding.
The main issue i have with most female modders is the eyes the majority use. They look like they just got punched in both eyes or like they have been crying for hours. I don't understand it at all.
The modern T-shirts/band shirts are fucking retarded too, but not what bothers me most.
chemical OMAN E
my lalaboy needs to bully tall women with his feet
There are only 3 acceptable races.
Going to try raiding for the first time this tier, how do I avoid embarrassing myself?
Because I play as the female potato I want to fuck into oblivion
A FUCKING HAT.
I hope 7.0 kani is better than Meteion
>writer OC: female
>:(
>writer OC: catboy
😮
Are you guys excited for the patch?
Gonna bum-rush the story or the normal raids?
I'm going straight for the story since ex trial parties will only get worse over time
raids. i want to see if we get themis kino but we'll get moronthonius AGAIN.
ill probably skipp all garlemald cutscenes in msq.
>Why not play as potato?
I do. Half the playerbase shuns me and swipes at me, the other half gives me cookies.
Y'Shtola will do her thing again because reason, but the Lifestream is weakened from the 13th's souls, and breaks because of the stupid cat, and we'll get a place called The Intersection that lets us traverse to every shard and fix everything.
Please look forward to it.
However, in 7.0 it'll be one zone per shard with you jumping around between them to solve the smushed worlds situation, and at least a couple will just be MSQ dungeons.
7.0 will send us home, it's why they are finally putting it on maintenance mode and merging subs.
>go shard hopping with my cat wife
>alisae too much of a grug brain to follow, left behind to fuck off and get her own fucking personality instead of leeching off alphinauds.
kino.
>Dún Scáith is real
What the fuck? Are we in Eorzea?
post more lyse
your wife has a bigger number of toes than iq
I'm playing as Juan Fantasía. If I ever fanta out either I'm going back to male lala or going catboi if I can bring myself to care about glamour and pay for a name change.
ZODIARK
TRANCE
i play male midlander
i just wanna play the content
A FUCKING HAT
Why not both?
I LOVE KHLOE ALIAPOH!
No correction needed today
I think she's about to correct me.
I followed the instructions, why doesn't mine look like that/
I want in to the secret Lala discords, I want the good lala coomer mods
That's just a scheme to have you pay $40 ingress
there aren't any, they all make them fat.
Anyone giving that retard any twitter accounts or discord servers for mods or lalas deserves the inevitable shutting down of their accounts.
It's another Ava Ashley wannabe.
>literal chuds hunting for lalas to cause problems for
http://avaashley.net/
Only chuds hate lalas.
The fuck is this absolute autism
A trans pedophile using lala hate as a shield, like all other legitimate pedophiles who use their hate of anime.
Tracks down not just their social media, but apparently hunts down their IRL addresses, phone numbers, personal relations, workplaces etc. and tries to ruin peoples' lives.
>A trans pedophile
As a pedo I don't have a problem with pedo mods. Only normalfags in denial would use pedophilia to hunt other pedophiles
What's the worse they can do? Reporting social accounts? Is that just twitter activism as per usual?
>As the leader of this movement I get a lot of hate. I have even been openly Doxed and my info is still being spread to this day. Which obviously brings out a lot of transgender hate due to the fact that I am transgender. Which I guess surprises a lot of people to hear as you usually envision trolls to be cisgender males based on the sterotype.
>I take a deep personal interest in these subjects because I was a victim of molestation as a child myself for quite a few years
KEK
you couldn't make this shit up
soon
you know weirdly enough this is probably what they will end up as. I just hope they are tall
God please. That would make the haters in /xivg/ so fucking mad it would be funny
needs more titties and needs more hips (or they're going to end up like femroes)
No they're not because of hmofa
No.
yes
All pedophiles deserve the fucking rope.
>Ava was here all along
Figures.
>virtue signaling on 4chinks
THE ROPE.
>THE VIRTUE
Thick.
Chocolate.
Midgets.
>Redditstack
No thanks!
>calling something reddit when reddit would seethe uncontrollably at it
Please use the right insults if you want to fit in.
No.I will parrot my way through so I can fit in faster
Reddit turns lalafells into shitstacks to make themselves more comfortable with fapping to them. They can't accept that they're a e-boi race.
I'm gonna require evidence.
The lalafell chair drama was caused by redditstacks melting down over the devs confirming their redditstack characters aren't canon. Japanese fans of actual lalafell knew this all along and embraced it.
You keep saying "redditstacks" but I have yet to see an image of any actual shortstack modders/redditors doing any of what you say.
Nice quads. The redditstack in the image you posted made this post about the chair.
>picrel
How delusional can a person get
>Kyouka and hhmpkr follow
...whoever took this image for outrage bait actually follows these lala accounts lmao.
>Why do you always play as a female character?
I want a 7ft furry gf
>Why not play as a potato?
I do occasionally, but they're comic relief more than anything else
ugh middie legs
Wear a helmet and leg protectors you dumb cunt.
Get out of here nobody likes middie hags
You might be the gayest anal-cum-felching gay to every disgrace this board.
It's an honor
anybody on aether wanna.. middie was cute
Thighlanders are both superior and cuter.
>mhigger rapemeat
Nope.
did i accidentally pick the huge gay race or something? i started playing xiv and made a male lalafell not that long ago because all the other male races didn't appeal to me, could only look like a twink or old as fuck so i just chose the literal baby race and marauder for fun.
You are a gay only if you act like one. I play the whore race and yet I've only been approached by weirdos like 2-3 times via pm. Maybe people should just play the fucking game instead of waiting with their butt up in the air for uldah rapists to drill their butt only to complain right after
I just thought the idea of a 3 foot pugilist was funny, this is worse than the time I picked the name princess celestia in battlefield 3 because I thought it would be funny if a soldier shared a name with my sisters toy
does this game have pregnancy mechanics?
It has rape mechanics.
I'm WORKING ON IT OKAY?!
The closest thing is au ra menheras forcing their wet dripping eggs on you if you do the mistake of being nice ONCE
anime was a mistake
anime is a blessing
Inside my head.
>Have fantasy game where you can play as gaint cat man
>Pick kewpie doll
Why. Hell why did it so many expansions to get a beast race that wasn't just "human with funny parts glued on?"
Furries are a minority
Now see I'd understand that if the Miqo'te and Viera camps weren't there, the former of which is so horny on main that the devs even lampshade it.
Kemono =/= furry
Don't you reheat the fucking monstergirl cope. You're the exact same people touting your kinks and shamelessness to make up for a lack of personality.
>fucking monstergirl cope.
Says the coping furry determined to remind everyone why no one wants to be associated with them.
fatafell
Yes
Disgusting obese redditstack. Doesn't even look like a fucking lalafell anymore.
Seething like a true redditor.
Congolese abomination.
Samefag.
The fuck are you smoking?
I don't like people trying to make lalafells into shortstacks either, but not because I hate shortstacks. I'm perfectly fine with shortstacks, but hate lalafells, and it annoys me that people are trying to take this thing I don't like and pass it off as something I do like. I just don't want to look at lalafells, period. The best girls in FFXIV are all part of the tall races anyway, shortstack enthusiasts would likely be happier playing other games that already have that bodytype in them, rather than trying to push potato-shaped pegs into hourglass-shaped holes.
That other autist is a cunt though and can fuck off to the site he seems to be so obsessed with.
Do FFXIV players actually think this is funny?:
>anon posts a literal who's youtube video unprompted and unrelated to the current topic
I am not watching your video, retard.
>19 hours ago
Stop shilling your shit on here
It's shit.
regardless of whose video it is, a lot of xivfags have a broken sense of humor
it's like they're all facebook catmoms
they also suck at letting a joke go
now i understand. its a dude trying to get asmongold to come back
Its fucking hilarious how they send more emails to warn you about your house's demolition than to advertise a new patch.
>trying to grind CC for the false monarchy set
>started yesterday at level 3 and got to level 10
>everyone is an absolute and abject fucking retard
>doesn't fight on the crystal
>goes off 1v2-3 and dies
>enemy team are always perfectly coordinated with complimentary jobs that decimate your entire team instantly and are all have ultimate weapons
I wonder how many games it will take losing EVERY SINGLE FUCKING GAME to get to 25 before tuesday.
I'd rather lose every game in a blitz than go into overtime and still lose.
im afking half the games when I see our team dead and the enemy team not even have 1 death with a perfectly built team.
I see you're truly a team asset.
yes. i'm making the game end faster rather than prolonging this shit. The crystal is 60% towards our goal and 3 of my team are dead and we're facing a coordinated team? Whats the fucking point of rushing in?
>On May 23, 2023 from 2:00 to 10:00 (GMT) / May 23 from 3:00 to 11:00 (BST) / May 23 from 12:00 to 20:00 (AEST), maintenance will be performed on all Worlds.
>During this period, FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable.
AAAAAH MAINTENANCE MODE IS HAPPENING
>Page 10
Deploying tactical gremlin.
Who cares about character creation
Seriously
Just build something you can bear to look at
Prostate hammering sex with Alphinaud
Family-assisted prostate hammering sex with Alphinaud
>Don't need to do weekly reclears anymore
Feels fucking good man.
Bane?
Dotmancer sucked. Long live summoner.
I hope they bring back dotmancer as an entirely new job where they can fully focus on the concept.
I'm NIN.
I miss Bane.
>Usually play RDM in CC, love being an annoying shit that binds/silence/weakens the enemy team and/or buff/heals my own team
>Have a pretty good win ratio with it
>Got a bit bored with so I decided to use MCH for a while
>Get a ton of kills but my team keeps losing
>Go back to RDM and immediately start winning again
Either the teams I had were pretty shit or the buffing/debuffing I do as a RDM has a bigger impact than I thought.
behold
>delete surecast
What kind of gayry is this?
Now do it for a healer that actually needs some debloating like SCH or AST.
>delete surecast
>leave repose
repose is fantastic for questing
How to compress WHM for dummies
>Cure I upgrades into Cure II
>Cure III removed or just turned into an upgrade from Cure II that sets it at what traited Cure II is like at 90
>Medica upgrades into Afflatus Rapture
Removing Medica would inadvertently make whm harder because then you'd have to be smart on when to use your ogcds
Medica II still exists.
Medica is basically never used
Or have Cure II just become Cure III as is.
Either way it's not like Cure I is useful ever, nor is Cure II used outside of big pulls in dungeons sometimes.
stfu
you never did content higher than extremes at the end of patch cycle
Black
>I need as much redundant healing as possible because I'm bad
Nah, healers already have too much overlap. Giving WHM a SGE mechanic is a bit too much when they really should be trying to spread them out more.
WHM should get something based around making use of its heavy healing output. I'd say maybe something related to converting healing into damage, but that would probably be a headache to tune and people would whine that teams could start taking pointless damage purely to help boost such a skill or some such nonsense.
stupid dumb Black
>cure iii removed
Shitter
>Cure III removed or just turned into an upgrade from Cure II
Shitter confirmed
>Hide cure 3, medica, rapture
>Add an Eukrasia-like button that upgrades cure 2, medica 2, and solace
You can probably add it to some other shit as well like Regen
I get removing/combining cure and medica and asylum-liturgy, but the rest is just bullshit. Maybe i'd remove tetragrammaton instead of benison, but that's it. Who the fuck wants solace and rapture combined?
I only played the FF14 trial and wasn't able to chat with anybody, but the Lalafell always flirted gestures at me in the town hub. That's my impression of the Lalafell that I think of whenever I fap to artwork of them. They want human dick
canon t b h
>3 of my team chasing round a single MCH while the other 4 enemies are sat on the crystal
legitimately how do these people even fucking function by themselves?
Play ranked if you want serious.
ranked queues are 5+ minutes and the people aren't any less retarded.
Well too bad.
>play CC every now and then for the Alpha Wolf title
>retards kept to a minimum, usually
>play CC in the past 2 weeks
>every match is filled with brainless retards trying to binge farm the armor pvp set
>retards are theorycrafting about how they would change jobs
please
just stop
my favorite is that its always dps mains who don't play healer insisting that healing is broken and boring
the mistake is things not hitting hard enough that OGCD healing is sufficient for most things
I would like to snuggle a lala
oGCD healing was a mistake.
I think the opposite is true and there should be no GCD healing. Just substitute the GCD for charges and cooldowns.
>WHM is notorious for being replaced in favor of other healers because of the strength of mitigation from SCH and SGE and the bonus damage of AST
>Any attempt to change this is met with crying
They should just give WHM clerics back with it having the smooth toggle of tank stances.
Now cry for me, healer haters.
BROS
WHAT IF THEY MADE THE WHOLE ARENA FLOOR HARMFUL
SO HEALERS *HAD* TO GCD HEAL?
>More raidwide bleeds