>game is dead
>yet I've nearly filled up my o3s MINE static in less than 24h
weird
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>game is dead
>yet I've nearly filled up my o3s MINE static in less than 24h
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Every moron can beat it at level 90 by pressing one button
Doing old content MINE is the only legitimate way to clear any raid since you're doing it in the hardest possible settings. All the morons doing "on content" stuff are hilariously overgeared for everything so every clear is quite literally illegitimate. The only legitimate clears for endwalker content will begin when they can be done MINE when dawntrail is released. Now cope, seethe and shit your diapers.
what? no
raids are not designed to be blind progged min ilvl no echo
They're definitely designed to be blind progged without echo. But usually the available ilvl is about 10 over minimum at release.
Old stuff has fricked up balancing though because of potency creep and simplified low level job kits.
they're not designed to be blind progged because everything is a trial and error check that gets trivialized if someone else gives you the information
recent example is peridialogos and apodialogos
the names tell you nothing about what they do
they instantly kill 2-6 people if done incorrectly
the only way to learn to deal with this mechanic blind is to die to it
not even world first teams did it blind, they just watched other people streams and shared information
>someone else gives you the information
How does that person get the information?
>the only way to learn to deal with this mechanic blind is to die to it
That's called blind progging
>not even world first teams did it blind, they just watched other people streams and shared information
The first team to figure out something about any particular mechanic is blind prog, by definition.
>"the only way to do it blind is this"
>"yes that is called blind progging"
you're repeating yourself
the point is thst it is not expected for every single player to go through the same process
and if you want to do it that way you are free to do it, but you will find out it's an inefficient mess that causes people in your team to lose patience and quit
which is why blind prog statics often disband
>the point is thst it is not expected for every single player to go through the same process
That's true. They're not designed for everyone to blind prog them. But they are designed to be blind progged and a lot of people do that and enjoy them.
>a lot of people
that's not true and you know it
reddit also says garbage like "the sexiest female races of the game are highlanders and roegadyn" and you know this is not true
Femroes are ugly as hell but highlanders can be pretty good
You missing skills and rotations from when those fights were relevant. If you didn't have a TP bar then you did NOT clear any fight from SB or earlier.
isn't it better to just get the bis at the moment the fight was current? or get the minimum ilvl gear allowed and go in the fight unsynced
you keep all the 90 skills and the fight is actually hard, mine for some reason is still very strong
You're still synced to old content and you still missing old skills or playstyles that were pruned.
The way this game does legacy content is fricking moronic. No one wants to play half a class against bosses that are undertuned relative to potency creep.
At least WoW and Everquest have decent approximations of the actual old expansions that you can play.
>At least WoW have decent approximations of the actual old expansions that you can play.
I hope you're talking about classic here
What the frick else would I be talking about?
Stormblood content is the closest you can get to as "intended" but you still have some potency creep affecting your experience and not having to slot Awareness is big in O3S. Also I hope you banned SMN and relics if you want to do content as intended.
I've done the entirety of Omega on MINE. Not sure if I've done all of Stormblood MINE, but most of the trials too.
Some are ridiculously easy, like o1&2s. But some like o3, o7 and o8 are great fun. Enjoy 'em, anons!
Agrias!
tell me how this static goes after 2 months of "progging" 12h a week blind and not making any progress towards clearing
I did o9s in 1 hour so this will probably be 2 nights at most, fight doesn't look that hard.
sucks that WHM is the only "mage" job that doesn't have a level 1 trait :/
post the risky pics homosexual. Or give link to your shit or something.
Artist name?
people were soloing O3S on Warrior when it was relevant, you fricking moron
what size is your static? Just you and your tulpa?
8 people doing MINE for fun. Why does this make you so upset? Stormblood raids are often more fun than EW ones since you have to work a bit for uptime, tanks have to drag the boss around and deal with adds, it's not an instant wipe if Jimmy is 1 yalm out of position, etc.
why are you so defensive about doing old raids MINE?
what went wrong with Endwalker?
Criterion (Savage) is dumb
Criterion completely failed to provide interesting, lasting combat content.
Less content than Shadowbringers and Stormblood. Plus the story about the Thirteenth wasn't that good. It was pretty much filler.
On the bright side, no more Ancient shit.
Not enough cute waifu content!
no content and the void story is ass
They appealed to raid loggers and gave them everything they wanted, gave them Criterion with Savage, gave them DSR and TOP, gave them an entire Savage raid tier that is pretty fricking good if I saw so myself especially if you're a raid logger. The problem is, they only really accomodated raid loggers and forget everyone else.
>Relic grind
1500 tomes
>Exploration zone
It doesn't exist, no wait it's the Island Sanctuary so yeah that didn't go down too well.
>Deep dungeons
People who do them are still doing Palace of the Dead or HoH there was almost no one calling for brand new Deep dungeons, it's cool they're in but no one is doing Eureka Orthos not even solo.
Like I said, they appealed to the raid loggers who are the most bitter homosexuals in an mmo, even when they're specifically accommodated for they STILL b***h and moan that they didn't get enough attention
>"only 2 Ultimates not 3 THAT'S BULLSHIT YOSHIP"
People like Arthars need culling from the game, I am hoping and praying he fricks off to WoW for good he is a complete blackhole for FFXIV and encourages bad raid habit among people getting into raiding.
>People like Arthars need culling from the game
With this I fully agree. Raid homosexuals should never be catered to.
>People who do them are still doing Palace of the Dead or HoH there was almost no one calling for brand new Deep dungeons, it's cool they're in but no one is doing Eureka Orthos not even solo.
People who liked Deep Dungeons (solo or not) wanted a new one, but sadly the new one is very boring to rerun solo thanks to how the game is designed nowadays. For casuals there's not really any reason to rerun any of them besides the few times you need to for the mounts and cheevos.
/thread
Actually, this should be an end to all future FFXIV threads until 7.0 drops
Absolutely correct. Appealing to raidhomosexualry is what killed WoW as a game.
You think people would have learned with Everquest 1.
>>"only 2 Ultimates not 3 THAT'S BULLSHIT YOSHIP"
>People like Arthars need culling from the game, I am hoping and praying he fricks off to WoW for good he is a complete blackhole for FFXIV and encourages bad raid habit among people getting into raiding.
definitely agree with this but since he is the bald man's friend it won't happen
The worst part about Eureka Orthros is that the difficulty revolves around memorizing oneshot mechanics now which is exactly what people are getting sick of in raid content.
>memorize double autos good
>memorize attack bad
Kek, DD monkeys are insane.
XD
They fricked up with Criterion. Both Normal and Savage need to have a rework. Normal has to be easier than it is and be more like Extreme level and Savage should be like the raid tier, offer new mechanic and not be a lazy 1:1 stuff with no-death thingy. And for love of god make them drop Savage like gear so people can farm gear not only through the raid tier if they wanted to.
Also the other real reason why it has problem it catered way too much to people that kept saying that this is a story game first and a MMO game second, considering what YoshiP said about 7.0 aka "we'll focus more on the multiplayer activities" I think that he regrets reworking all ARR-HW-SB dungeons to make them soloable with trusts. What a huge waste of resources that was.
a better read is that he spent most of endwalker making content that can be or is designed to be soloed, and that he wants something multiplayer next. the trust dungeons are future proofing that would have to have been done eventually
also, raiding gear belongs in raids. if you want the high numbers drag the 7 tards, not just 3. then i'll point out that high numbers are the most pointless thing to endeavor for in ffxiv and that maybe you should reexamine what you want out of the game if you're just checking off BiS lists
I just think that after like 3-4 months of savage, if you get other ways to gear up your character for other jobs. (Which is one of the selling points of the game, being able to play all jobs on one character) then there should be one more way to gear up properly your character too.
Plus the whole solo thing ate way too many resources alongside a PVP rework that came out and fell flat very quick. When they'll fix the netcode in this game, probably PVP will be somewhat decent.
>pvp rework
the pvp rework is arguably the best thing they did for EW as far as gameplay. CC is fun (though some stages are shit) but no feature is perfect and doesn't need adjustments. its hardly fallen flat, as there's now pvp modes that aren't dead except on community driven days like friday frontlines.
What is so bad about criterion dungeons? I know people think that the rewards aren't worth the effort, but is the reward all that matters in a piece of content?
I did all the variant dungeons and I think they are a huge improvement over the old "hard" version of previous dungeons.
they're not midcore enough
No one knows what midcore truly means.
Savage, Criterion, Unreal, and Extreme are midcore.
Bozja and Eureka are hardcore.
>Bozja and Eureka are hardcore
only hard parts are BA and DRS
That's not what he means by hardcore, what he means by hardcore is something you can grind away at for extremely long periods.
The only "hard" part of BA is having to bend the knee to the troony discord mafia just to run it.
>bend the knee
>join discord and sign up for run
Huh? They're not making you take HRT and post trans rights on all your social media, it's just a Discord server.
He's mad he can't drop in with 47 other uncommunicative randos and magically clear without issues. He also thinks BA and Eureka discords have some kind of stranglehold on BA and Eureka participation when they formed naturally in response to most people being bored to tears by Pagos, and the Discords and other organizations formed out of everybody that didn't get filtered
BA absolutely does, if you don't join them on scheduled runs, they will grief your run if you manage to get one going.
Just grief their runs back, are you stupid or something?
Why wouldn't you just cooperate with them for guaranteed party members and a high completion likelihood?
>why don't you just bend the knee
>just get banned because their discord clique can mass report you
>noooooo i literally can't do anything in this game MOOOOM MOMMYYYYYY WHY ARE THEY BEING SOCIAL WITHOUT CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF MY FAT USELESS ASS I'M BANNED I'M BANNED I'M BANNED
>ad absurdum
>get banned
You can’t get banned for doing content, my FC stabbed into a ton of BA runs and never got into trouble.
Most likely a person who doesn’t like to interact with other people but plays a mmo for some reason.
I ran it with my FC and they did shouts for me, plus you can just stab into runs and get in but you most likely die to stuff and people will not waste a life to rez you. No idea why you people are even scared of going into a discord, get the mount and never going into the discord ever again.
There's an intense chance of losing hours of progress with exp loss on death. Also, how hard is it to make a new party for DRS? What gear will I need?
New mode
Nostalgia.
>get in the vc
>don't
>ba is a pushover
>shove the guys face in shit after the raid is done
Don't be dishonest.
You don’t really need gear but you most likely need the right pot so raid wides don’t one shot you I haven’t did it in years so I maybe wrong now
>hours of progress
Lmao no
Even at level 60 a death just means two pulls at sprite island and you’re back at cap
They serve no purpose.
They are utterly expendable content, just like regular MSQ dungeons. There is no reason to do them repeatedly. There is no extra difficulty added with doing the savage version. The rewards you get from savage version can be traded on the marketboard, completely invalidating one of the reasons to do it.
They aren't even an alternative source of gear, which players have been asking for for ages. The most you can get is some shit to upgrade your tome weapon to be on par with the raid gear, but guess what, in a couple weeks we get a patch that will give us the final relic step and, oh wait, the fricking final relic step is the same ilvl as the raid wep at the end of an xpac.
On all accounts it is a waste of resources. It doesn't appeal to casuals, it doesn't appeal to midcore people, it doesn't appeal to raiders because they can just do the fricking raids and get better shit for doing them, even an exclusive mount every tier.
It is an absolute waste of time and money, it solves no problems in the game despite having the ability to.
Explain then why do I see more people flexing <Epic Hero> than <The Alpha Legend>.
Statistically that is impossible because Epic Hero is owned by far fewer people.
It's easier to get for one, and it's a better title.
That's all well and good but they stopped doing (Hard) dungeons 3 expansions ago. If we were getting these dungeons along with the other shit we expect to get like another zone and a restoration type thing, then I don't think people would complain as much. But when this expac all we have gotten is IS and (Hard) dungeons then it goes to show you how fricking grim this expansion is content wise.
We could have got a new exploratory zone, but people b***hed about the previous ones so the devs decided to not do one for this expac. This anon
is right.
Heard we getting another one on DT so happy for that
they're a replacement for (Hard) remix dungeons from previous expacs and in this respect they are objectively more content
>reclears are varied, even if only slightly
>glamour set(s) tied to it
>get some Deepest Lore to go along with it
Plus one thing they pointed out is moronic because someone has to do the savage version to put the mount up for sale and you cant just get everything you want in one run
>They serve no purpose.
>They are utterly expendable content, just like regular MSQ dungeons. There is no reason to do them repeatedly.
A piece of content can just be a challenge to overcome and be done after it. You don't need to clear the same thing 100 for it to be meaningful. Some people just clear a piece of content once and move to the next one.
>The rewards you get from savage version can be traded on the marketboard, completely invalidating one of the reasons to do it.
Doesn't that make Criterion a viable activity for getting gil? That gives players that can clear it a reason to come back.
>They aren't even an alternative source of gear, which players have been asking for for ages. The most you can get is some shit to upgrade your tome weapon to be on par with the raid gear, but guess what, in a couple weeks we get a patch that will give us the final relic step and, oh wait, the fricking final relic step is the same ilvl as the raid wep at the end of an xpac.
Does gear even matter in this game, every piece of gear becomes irrelevant in a matter of months.
>it doesn't appeal to raiders because they can just do the fricking raids and get better shit for doing them, even an exclusive mount every tier.
I don't think raiders only raid for the sake of gear, because if that was the case you wouldn't have people like OP that are doing old raids with no gear gain involved.
NTA but only gear that really matters is crafted gear and then you’re set until next expansion, anymore is just an added plus.
>A piece of content can just be a challenge to overcome and be done after it. You don't need to clear the same thing 100 for it to be meaningful.
This is very true and it's a shame not everyone gets it. I think Variants are some of the best content ever added to this game, even though each one only lasted me a few evenings. I'll be annoyed if the devs change them following criterion criticism.
Do you even play the game? Gil is basically worthless and so easy to get that running the dungeons for gil is pointless, I mean you could if you want to but there are faster ways of getting it.
As for gear, the point is not about catering to raiders but allowing people who don't find raiding all that enjoyable an avenue of getting better gear that doesn't come from grinding out tomes, which are time gated.
Gear does become irrelevant after a few months when they introduce a new raid tier, but so does every tier of gear when that happens.
Obviously if you enjoy just playing the dungeons and learning the fights that's great, but personally if I'm going to invest time into something I want to be rewarded for my time, and these dungeons offer very little in the way of that. Savage raids don't either, but they are at least more enjoyable to play and the gear they provide helps speed up all the other content you do.
so why is gil a bad motivator for content but its literally the only thing to do in eureka and thats alright?
I didn't say it's a bad motivator, I'm just saying that there are so many avenues of making gil that making another one is fricking pointless. Add that onto the fact you can just buy gil off of some chink for like $10 and get just as much as you would get from running Crtierion Savage and selling the mount.
Eureka also has way more to offer than just making gil, it offers progression and exclusive rewards like the Ozma mount when you clear BA. Criterion has nothing like that.
but criterion has a mount too
Yeah but you can trade it can't you. I don't have to touch Crtierion at all if I want the mounts from it, I can just buy them with gil, which as I said is easy as frick to get even without doing Crtierion whatsoever.
I wanted the Ozma mount so I grinded Eureka and cleared BA and got it. I had to actually earn that, and that's why it's more special to me.
I won't deny they are trying to make it better, but it's not enough man. When they announce making the tome weps glow my first thought is I will just unsync it at the start of Dawntrail, because that's all they are is glam.
>I can see you don't own a house in the game.
This is a picture of my Ishgard Large I had that got demolished a few months ago because I unsubbed. I still have 75 million gil on my character. This is after buying the 25m gil Ronka mount and the 50m gil shep mount.
Gil is literally so fricking easy to get man it's a joke.
As for gear, raiding is the primary use for it yes, but it also speeds up roulettes, and to tie it all up in a nice bow you need current tier BiS to even do the hard vartants of Criterion dungeons. I understand that people like to do stuff for a challenge, I do too, but like I said I personally like to at least be rewarded for my time.
>I won't deny they are trying to make it better, but it's not enough man. When they announce making the tome weps glow my first thought is I will just unsync it at the start of Dawntrail, because that's all they are is glam.
Not a bad thing. Gear is temporary. Glam is forever
>
I won't deny they are trying to make it better, but it's not enough man. When they announce making the tome weps glow my first thought is I will just unsync it at the start of Dawntrail, because that's all they are is glam.
I think they're made to be evergreen but to be honest the content already gets obliterated with newer BIS, and Alo is gonna be a joke after the manderville weapons final stage hits. I agree with you anon, they need more carrots like helping with gearing on the side since they're usually a patch off of savage anyway, and I think they need proper balancing for more casual players on normal criterion. I don't think EW had good content balance at all, and I feel like a ton of the casual, and lower end midcore players got shafted completely. I hope things get better in DT because I legit just felt bad to get all of that raiding content to have fun with while some of my casual friends had barely any reason to log ion.
>I agree with you anon, they need more carrots like helping with gearing on the side since they're usually a patch off of savage anyway, and I think they need proper balancing for more casual players on normal criterion
You think variant dungeons are too hard? I hear people complaining that they aren't hard enough and that Criterion is too hard.
Variants too easy and never prepares people for criterion and Criterion is too hard for casual players, I think there should be a proper balancing for them because on those patches theres next to nothing for them.
I think that Variant is for casuals that just want some story and that Criterion is for the hardcore players that want challenge. You could say that the problem with Variant/Criterion is that it doesn't appeal to people in the middle of those groups.
>I don't think EW had good content balance at all, and I feel like a ton of the casual, and lower end midcore players got shafted completely.
I'm one of those players, I've dabbled with all of the content in the game from maxing out my crafters to even progging the older ultimates in PF and there was just nothing to keep me interested this expansion. I gave up my large because I don't have enough autism to raid all the time, and because that's pretty much all the content there is to do, I stopped playing. It's very sad and I hope that DT will be better, but who knows man.
It was a good gooncave, maybe even the best.
Hopefully you find what you want in DT anon, I still keep subbed. I'm mostly around to keep my FC up since it auto passed lead to me, while also going back to every ultimate to help friends who didn't clear and to just frick around since it's pretty fun. We're in for a huge dead downtime between DT after next patch, so at the very least I plan to keep things rolling for my friends and keep myself busy.
>I don't think EW had good content balance at all, and I feel like a ton of the casual, and lower end midcore players got shafted completely.
fully agreed, i mentioned in a previous thread XIV right now feels like its almost purely focused on either the social players that dont give a shit about content updates beyond "what can i use to glam my char out if I'm not a modbeast" or raiders who are notorious for being a HUGE pain in the ass to continously cater too
and sure, the lack of grindy new stuff has given me time to shoot for other stuff ive been interested in trying but none of that has the draw to make me want to sub by itself
>Gil is literally so fricking easy to get man it's a joke.
I wish it was easier. I can't get above 10M gil and there is still too much stuff to buy in the market board. Just the golden mounts are already too expnsive.
Do unreals, low level treasure maps for the daily lotus leaf chance, craft for the furniture market, etc, you got quite a few options anon, it sounds like a pain but if you work at it a bit you'll be swimming in gil.
Do daily roulettes, maps, and make sure you getting your retainers to look for stuff sometimes they bring you stuff that you can sell for close to a million
>letting your large demolish
NOOOO SISTERR!!!!!!!!!!
Where else am I suppose too goon my oon stick?
>Add that onto the fact you can just buy gil off of some chink for like $10 and get just as much as you would get from running Crtierion Savage and selling the mount.
Some people enjoy playing the game without opening our wallets to chinese farmers.
You could also just pay someone to play your character in a Ultimate to get all the titles. That doesn't mean Ultimates are pointless.
Gil is a good motivator for playing the game and thousands of people run bunnies in eureka just to sell the stuff and get gil. No idea why anyone would think it’s completely useless. It’s useless if you play the game but if your play super causally then it means a lot.
Also has been better with rewards, I personally like the little extra glow step for the tome weapons, and but I don't think it's gonna be a good carrot for Savage Criterion if we get ugly as frick tome weapons down the line. There's definitely an issue with the gearing balance of that content, and I hope they fix it up. As for gil being useless, I argue it is past a certain point but still has a point. I usually set aside 15 million per raid tier to get a full set, pentameld for early savage clears, and potions/foods mats if my group's crafter needs help. That's doable if you put a little but of extra time on side content that pays like unreal etc, but dungeons definitely help add to it. I'm sitting on like 200 mil or so atm though and at that point nothing gil wise matters so it really is kind of pointless when you have everything and you're practically set for the savage tiers and ultimates for the next like 2-3 expansions of content.
>Also
Meant Alo but yeah.
>200 million
Send me 20 million and I will give you a single bom boko
>Gil is basically worthless and so easy to get that running the dungeons for gil is pointless
I can see you don't own a house in the game. There is some content that revolves around gil.
>As for gear, the point is not about catering to raiders but allowing people who don't find raiding all that enjoyable an avenue of getting better gear that doesn't come from grinding out tomes, which are time gated.
The only content were FFXIV gear matters is raiding. Why make a new way of getting gear if the devs can just change the tomes and the time gating?
>Obviously if you enjoy just playing the dungeons and learning the fights that's great, but personally if I'm going to invest time into something I want to be rewarded for my time, and these dungeons offer very little in the way of that. Savage raids don't either, but they are at least more enjoyable to play and the gear they provide helps speed up all the other content you do.
Some people don't care about getting the new ilvl piece of gear and only care about overcoming a challenge. Once a new expansion drops all the gear of the previous one just becomes glamour.
>Some people don't care about getting the new ilvl piece of gear and only care about overcoming a challenge. Once a new expansion drops all the gear of the previous one just becomes glamour.
I definitely agree with that, I prefer getting content done quickly and on content, I don't care too much about the glow at that point, it's more about just having a good challenge with the boys. I like having that stress with friends and having a story or two to tell later.
Rewards matter for driving engagement. Criterion released while a lot of players were still progging and reclearing savage, and is content where current BiS is relevant, so those players would naturally focus on savage first. By the time they got their gear sorted Criterion PF was already dead - the best players had cleared it once or twice and stopped, with only a few farming it for gil but not engaging in prog PFs. I think there are also a number of people who got burned by the naming and difficulty. Before Sil'dih came out, players naturally assumed that
>Variant
>Criterion
>Criterion (Savage)
would be 3 different, evenly spaced difficulty tiers, with Criterion likely being around the Extreme Trial level. Instead Criterion jumps straight to Savage difficulty, and pretty much the only change to Criterion (Savage) was the rez restrictions which make it a brutally punishing instance most comparable to Ultimates.
If I can’t PF a piece of content it doesn’t exist
Simple as
hope you don't play on primal, bro. Dead PF...
Normalgays are starting to catch on to the fact that this game has done nothing but dumb itself down as time goes on.
Pandering to raidgays
>postpatch MSQ was incredibly lackluster after 6.1
>games great if you play for social and pretty good for raidgays but complete ass if you dont fall into those packs
>what has released has mostly had no legs outside of PvP rework
probably more but cant be fricked to think of them
i think the trusts thing is fine personally because its futureproofing, the game wont always be popular and its better to try and deal with that earlier rather than later
>postpatch MSQ was incredibly lackluster after 6.1
6.2 was fine
6.5 was a good finale
I think the issue is mainly 6.3 and 6.4 since nothing happens there
Too much story crammed into 1 expac. They shit the bed with the relics and their replacement content for relic zones is even worse.
>skeleton crew dev team because they were all working FF16
>island sanctuary was implied to be something akin to harvest moon but it's actually just managing a spreadsheet every week
>criterion dungeons a complete and utter failure on all accounts, made to appeal to the massive influx of wow players prior to endwalker release and ended up appealing to no one as a result due to poor design choices and lackluster rewards
>expac launch MSQ was very rushed and had awful pacing issues, post-launch MSQ is literally fricking nothing and is entirely forgettable. I remember more of ARR post-launch quests than I do these current quests
>pvp rework was mostly good, breathing a lot of new life into it but is still very flawed with very questionable balancing decisions and them absolutely ruining shatter in frontlines
>raiding was an absoulte fricking shitshow. job rotations further dumbed down even from shadowbringers, 2 minute meta forcing every job to essentially play the same way, fight designs were also made very easy especially for melee players with each raidboss having a massive fricking hitbox. cross-dc travel also ruined raiding scenes on many dcs on NA, everyone just started coming to aether to raid and it inevitably fricked up the party finder to the point where it's almost unusable now.
tl;dr this expac was a complete and utter shitshow and anyone who disagrees is huffing copium until their lungs collapse
>pvp rework was mostly good
You fricking cultists are coping so hard.
How moronic are you that you feel the need to focus on the one positive thing that anon mentioned, sandwitched between several negatives? Deranged, you are utterly deranged.
didn't read, keeps malding with your troony cultists.
You never xivved if you haven't been accused of being a cultist and a doomposter.
The pvp rework was honestly the only thing I enjoyed from this xpac. I played frontlines so much I ended up getting both of the 100 wins achievements for seal rock and onsal. I got crystal rank in CC the first season and then never played it again because I cba with that ELO gaming shit, I had enough of that back when I played Overwatch.
Didn't read, stop shilling your dead game troony.
No exploration zone.
All the people who joined during covid lockdowns are all caught up.
The "formula" has been cracked making some side grinds (crafting) not worth the effort.
>end one massive storyline in a spectacular way
>instead of immediately gripping players with the start of an amazing new storyline while everyone is still subbed we get some extremely short and mediocre storyline about Zeno's reaper avatar and people get driven away
7.0 is the make or break MSQ. Poochies void adventure left a bad taste in everyones mouth, if Hiroi fricks up Dawntrails MSQ they're gonna lose the storygays.
They'll never lose the story gays because the scions are all poochies. So long as the scions stick around and do their signature actions like Yshtola saying she wants to learn more knowledge or Thancred making a sarcastic remark or Graha saying how he wants to go on an adventure, XIV will never fail.
Not gatekeeping wowfugees hard enough.
YoshiP and Co working on both FF16 and Endwalker and delivering subpar products for both. The interns in charge of the .X patches should have been tard wrangled harder and whoever was left in charge of the expac should have prioritized developing a reason to keep actually logging in beyond losing a house. Game is still fine but everyone that is burnt out is because the game is still the same as it was last expansion, but now with even more content gaps. Crafting relics were a nice addition however.
I don't think EW would be that bad if they had actual battle content to grind out.
Cory "Spazkid" plays xiv
spazkid can do whatever he wants as long as he draws more sonic characters getting piped
I log in for RP and socializing at this point.
So you mean you Play a Role in the Game? You Roleplay in the RPG? Holy fricking shit.
I know, it's quite a novel concept seeing as most people just like to jerk off one another with minimal continuity or consideration of who their character is as an individual. Me personally, I like to play the character along his own story that is told through player interactions using the RP tag. MSQ is a waste of time. Go play a single player game, not everyone is capable of being Meteor.
Nobody cares that you don't want your main character to be The main character, it's just Ganker that's not smart enough to parse the difference between how they RP their character in their search-info and the version of their character that goes through the MSQ.
If the RP requires you to ignore everything that happens in the actual game it isn't a good roleplaying game. Luckily RPgays are getting a XIV tabletop game soon which will be way better for roleplaying in the Etheirys setting than whatever you can cobble together in the MMO.
Every game with a storyline of its own requires you to do that in the name of supporting your own headcanon. Even FFXI doesn't leave it completely up to you what your character thinks and does, and that game also doesn't give a shit about what your character thinks and does to anywhere near the extent XIV does.
The world and setting are great for RP but I agree with you, at least insofar as what I said about the MSQ being bullshit. You would only have critical information related to various things in the world if you were the WoL. Most people will never know the Twelve are dead. Most will never know the truth of the Final Days, Ancients, etc. That said you can still refer to them as a person in that world who lacks that information and react accordingly.
NTA, but I entirely agree. Nobody seems to realize the majority of people do NOT wanna be the WoL. it's boring. The guy I play is literally his weapon. I'm an intelligent weapon possessing a corpse, and I've done it for so long, it's own aether has reignited and is not effectively a version of the weapon, and doesn't even realize it. That's gonna be fun if the group ever figures it out. [Yeah, it's not 100% to lore, but frick it, it's fun. /spoiler]
Your character is lore accurate enough bro don't worry. Between the Anima (?) Weapons and the Odin lore and aetheric gear you can find in dungeons having the aether of the dead formed wearer, your character is entirely feasible.
Also that's all yokai spirit stuff for Rokkon that applies as well. What a cool character you have.
>What a cool character you have.
That's all I've ever wanted to hear. Thanks, anon. You're a cool gamer and you're invited to my birthday party. Take it easy, anon.
>the difference between how they RP their character in their search-info and the version of their character that goes through the MSQ.
That's not how RPGs work. Your character can't magically swap between two identities unless swapping identities is literally part of the character's persona, like they have dissociative identity disorder or a secret 2nd life.
Quit being a fricking autist just so you can have an argument.
Having a scripted story where you're the big special narcissist is a terrible way to design a game where you inhabit a world with other players.
Quit being a fricking autist just so you can have an argument.
I accept your concession.
I pray you learn how to announce you're trolling epic style in some other way. Ganker is insanely hivemind-y.
I'm not trolling, you were just too stupid to engage with the topic, so I took it as a concession.
FF16 started production during Heavensward anon, they've been working on both games since then, this is not a new thing that cropped up during Endwalker.
>>>/vg/
i liked endwalker
Filtered.
Pass the whole filters list
But if you want to get the Lalafells mad they usually respond angrily to this
-Call pinklala foxxo to remind him that people already know who he is
-The shitty ugly lalafell white mage is angry when you call him out on his e-celeb bullshit posts
-The purple hair lalafell that bought his ultimate clears gets angry when you point out he just likes to dickride the others
-Y'shtola hair lala gets mad at people using his images to repeat his jokes
ah, thank you senator may. it will be brought to the council and adjustments will be made
Remember that time you got so pissed off at being called an e-celeb chaser that you got banned?
That was pretty funny
>Asmongold
Yeah he got filtered by Stormblood. Can't blame him to be honest it was the weak point of the story.
Filtered.
>giving them attention at all
Share the filter list
I have zero filters on and just ignore them because I don’t have autism
giving them attention is already a mistake
it's funnier when they talk to themselves because they get bored and leave quick
it's especially nice when they stay up to 4 am to post one image i get small enjoyment knowing i am potentially depriving some annoying frick out of sleep
>Pass the whole filters list
https://pastebin.com/332t6wHB
Thanks
Thank you, bookmarked and will post in whatever xiGanker thread I happen to be in.
>MINE
Minimum item level no echo?
Enjoy I guess, that fight is probably not TOO hard any more since the dps checks won't be as bad as back in the day (I remember the panda fricking me over real hard as a tank if we had a death to the stalagmites). Once you get the book phase down the rest is piss easy.
Free Login is rolling out for FFXI for any old players here
Don't you have to talk about e-celebs or something?
sure. you wanna talk about jocat, or grinding gear, or preach rebuilding his studio? or how about season of discovery? had a run in with teremus last night
NTA
>preach rebuilding his studio
Was a pretty fun subathon all things considered. Vastly underestimated how big of a game Elden Ring is. His wife pissing him off was fun to watch.
The Jocat shit just seems like histrionics crossed with an excuse to quit his online life.
>GG taking a 2 month break after reaching elpis after a 2 month break after beating zodiark
how do they get away with it bois
Gotta milk that watchtime. Once the MSQ stops, the views drop.
why would anyone care about your shitty wow character if we have your ff one
you pick the weirdest shit to block out like anyone gives a frick or means anything
stay clear of lizards
You have issues
What do you gays think of the omega fight in ffxvi?
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Further confirmed that the XVI team can't do anything that doesn't pander to XIV fans. I'm starting to think that CBU3 isn't capable of creating interesting worlds using original ideas. If I want to see things relating to FFXIV, I'll just play FFXIV.
Wait, are you trying to imply that Omega is a XIV thing?
Lol
Lmao even
>pandering in a final fantasy game
>bad
Are you a newbie to final fantasy games or something? Pretty much all final fantasy games bring super bosses from older games and I’m hoping gilgamesh shows up sooner or later
Whoa a final fantasy game that references previous games? That has never been done before!
It really did not need to be a direct eScape/Azys La remix when 14's Omega as far as I'm aware does not exist in the 16 universe nor does fricking Azys La
There's putting cheeky nods like the Titan theme and putting in a song that sounds like unfinished garbage from a Pulse album that they just threw on because it's remotely adjacent. If you treat it like a FF14 song, it's not that bad, but damn man.
It’s pretty clear you know nothing about ffxvi because their are a ton of ruins with really high tech mechas running around so omega being in isn’t a issue
Not the point, moron
It’s one of the points in your post, moron. I didn’t have any other problems with your other point
I don't even want to give your post any substantial to reply with so I'm just going to call you an underage homosexual and leave it at that
Whatever headcanon works for you doesn't make this song any less soulless
moron
He's right, Omega in XVI is literally "hey look its OUR thing from OUR other FF game." It even has the pixel-perfect safe spot between the aoes at the start of the fight like O9S fire phase. There is little actual crossover between XIV fans and FF fans, and CBU3 knows this, so they pander hard to the stuff their audience knows rather than those invested in the whole series.
Don’t care I liked it and enjoyed it and played older final fantasies
What's your fricking point? Every FF game has references to previous titles.
>It's ok when Soken drops a Pulse slop remix in a AAA game because other games did it too maybe once but Soken can do it at least 3 times in the new game
Cultists are so tiring
So it’s not ok when Gilgamesh shows up with a battle on the big bridge remix in any game but FF5
So Azys Lla is related to omega how?
That monsters being in test tubes is related to Azys Lla so I can see why they used that climbing the dungeon
Show me one reference in FF1. Didn't think so, chud.
Good point. When is it a reference and when is it a generally accepted part of the medium? DnD has been around for a long time and it has both sucked up a lot of fantasy ideas from other sources and made several original ones. At what point can a beholder be considered just a fantasy creature not a DnD one?
Accusations of cultism are always so funny and ironic from you c**ts.
For final fantasy games it’s pretty much been the standard to at least have a few super bosses from older games even if they don’t completely look the same always have the same name but omega is pretty close to his OG look from ff5
>At what point can a beholder be considered just a fantasy creature not a DnD one?
When WOTC stop being litigious about "brand identity".
It's derivative of dnd
literally azys lla theme something that has nothing to do with omega but soken is once again a fraud and fans eat that shit up because they recognize it so it has to be good!!
>chicken tenders is azys lla
I don’t think he even clicked the video but they do use a azys lla remix when doing up the tower
>come into thread for game you don't play
>piss and shit everywhere
>come into thread for a game i play
>people are discussing another game
>SOKEN fraud
>FFXIV bad
>FFXVI bad
>Omega bad
Barry, do you even play the games before you even criticize it?
i know the entire design philosophy of ff14 is that its okay to not play the game between expansion releases but the game desperately needs good content that isn't just one and done content.
I could post a ton of content from older expansions and this expansion that you could grind out but it would be pointless to do it
that isn't the actual philosophy or they'd remove all fomo and timers. it's just the lie they use to justify lazy gameplay design
Ive spent more time farming criterions than bozja and eureka
because all the people still playing are autistic enough to know what o3s means.
yeah but "dead" means "i don't like it" in moron language
I'm glad Yoshida will never be allowed to direct another FF ever again. 16 was so bad.
The way he phrased it sounded like a lose-lose
>we learned a lot of things but we won't apply them to XIV and the team is getting poached to other studios now that XVI is done
Get ready for patches in DT to be 4 1/2 months long, up from 4 months in EW and 3 1/2 before that.
Doomposters won.
DOOM posters always win.
>DOOM
Filtered.
I love DOOM
>and the team is getting poached to other studios now that XVI is done
Good, I don't want Maehiro anywhere near the writing process. All of the XVI teamers were poached from the XIV team during Heavensward and I very much think it was for the better.
Maehiro wrote the best parts of XIV because it was an expanding world with small stories tying it together, being tasked to write a full JRPG that needed to appeal to everyone instead of something niche and direct is not his forte. Everyone praises the start of XVI but when it strays into default jarpig territory that's when the magic is lost, I don't blame Maehiro for it that much. 2.X is way better than people give it credit for and him laying the foundation of 3.X is why most of those patches feel like they push the plot forward while also being self-contained, none of this filler and filler shit the patch stories have had since 4.2.
I wish we could go back to that instead of grandpa yaoi ancient wank Ishikawa dies.
Maehiro has a serious problem not leaning on rape as a female storytelling device in XVI, when that game threatened to rape Benedikta and mentioned Jill was *going* to be raped before she woke up as Shiva my mind flashed back to Sastasha and Mistbeard.
>problem
The game has enslavement as a major driving point, the real reason they didn't want to add any Black folk because avoiding them entirely was the easier option over including slsves that are black, and all you care about it rape?
Can you stick to the fricking conversation without seething about Black folk?
Bit I am? Slavery is worse than rape.
In both cases it made sense. Bandits rape women and invaders tend to rape the shit out of the people they conquer. No way they'd stay flaccid when a woman as attractive as Benedikta and a seemingly defenseless e-girl is at their mercy.
le epic serious game of thronestasy
Wasn't even the first time a character canonically got raped in FF. You didn't know that though because you're a secondary.
i don't remember tactics raping literally every female character of narrative consequence
Plus their is a whole rape cave in FFXIV first dungeon
Very funny that Maehiro was the one writing XIV when the game had a pirate rape cave and a rapist pirate and an insane healer turned necromancer and killed a femroe immediately for cheap drama
Oda had a woman get gangraped by Garleans in Stormblood and the DRK questline starts with you saving an Elezen girl from getting gangraped by temple knights.
It was also a significantly better character motivator for Yotsuyu than it has been when Maehiro did it since Oda didn't dwell on the rape itself anywhere near as hard, nor did he mention it every five seconds and Yotsuyu has more interesting things to say than "I was raped/came really close to getting raped. I support you Clive"
>DRK questline
The rape's just part of that one and I would say it has more to do with DRK's Berserk references than anything, remember the manga opens with Guts fricking a monster's brain out and our first shot of him in the whole comic is of his ass (before beheading said monster)
>nor did he mention it every five seconds
neither did maehiro wtf
>Yotsuyu has more interesting things to say than "I was raped/came really close to getting raped. I support you Clive"
This is disingenuous.
>The rape's just part of that one and I would say it has more to do with DRK's Berserk references than anything, remember the manga opens with Guts fricking a monster's brain out and our first shot of him in the whole comic is of his ass (before beheading said monster)
So it's fine if it's a Berserk reference? It's not like Maehiro really lingered on the rape more than Ishikawa did. When the corpse brigade raped that one Ala Mhigan chick it was done to highlight how desperate the situation of Little Ala Mhigo is and to piss off that one guy enough to try to steal crystals from Amaal'ja. Ishikawa included the attempted temple knight gangbang to highlight the corrupt elements of Ishgard and why Dark Knight vigilantism is necessary. In both of these cases the rape wasn't included to get anyone hard, it was to highlight an issue in the setting at large and provide a motivator for the characters.
>Yotsuyu has more interesting things to say than "I was raped/came really close to getting raped. I support you Clive"
>This is disingenuous.
not really, jill is a dead fish throughout all of 16
>le epic serious game of thronestasy
You realize that's the entire reason people even bought the game, right? Nobody wanted that Ultima garbage
>that Ultima garbage
You mean the traditional FF story template that the vast majority of games in the series use?
Templates are the reason why the series is failing. Nobody cares about Ifrit/Garuda/Titan/Leviathan/Ramuh/Shiva every fricking game, people want Ravana
Where's my Doomtrain musical theme with lyrics, Soken
>weapons are rehashed ultima and garlean themes
>fiends have the same fricking track
I think its so over we aren't even aware of how over it has become.
Dumbest thing I've read on Ganker today and I've glanced through a Barry thread.
FFXIV succeeds the more it relies on new things, it's not dumb
FFXIV? The game that uses that exact template as well?
Where's Emet-Selch in the previous games?
Don't go tunnelvisioning on Emet now. In the big picture the template is political conflict that segues into hidden manipulator into ancient civ/aliens/manifestation of despair or nihilism.
And while much better executed than predecessors, Emet-Selch is still preceded by characters like Ardyn and FF IX Garland.
In both cases it was a cheap drama device because Maehiro doesn't know how, or very probably doesn't want, to write anything with a vegana.
>very probably doesn't want, to write anything with a vegana.
Based Maehiro.
Benedikta hot rapped and a lot of the women with Jill also got rapped, only reason she didn’t get rapped was because they think eikons are disgusting and she could have probably kill them if they tried.
FFXIV?
RAPE GOOD STORYTELLING
EVERY FEMALE CHARACTER NEED RAPE
MAEHIRO BASED BASED BASED
this but unironically
women are meant to be raped and nothing else
Based. HW needed Estinien raping Ysayle.
EW should've ended with WoL correcting Meteion until her yearning for dick filled her dark soul with light.
Creatively Bankrupt Unit 3
What's with this? Why won't it let me buy the game? Are the servers full again?
As an addition to this, if I buy the Starter Edition and buy Endwalker, that'll work, right?
Nice taste. O3S is still one of the best fights in the game.
my server is full of expats who keep shitting things up. at least i own a house in the lavender beds
MINE rules should unnerf the bosses. And stop making Unreals seasonal content.
I like seasonal unreals because it creates the incentive to do it and makes a great entry point for new raiders. I'd like to see some savage unreals available too though, especially during these end of expac content droughts. It's such free content I'm surprised they haven't done it already.
The bosses aren't nerfed, it's the jobs that are overpowered. Not a single raid boss has gotten nerfed since Midas other than P8S.
I know we're talking about 8-man raids but TG Cid and Construct 8 were entirely different beasts when they first released.
construct 8 wasnt. the only difference is that getting the math wrong twice would kill you even with shields, and now it wont
His buffed up TB could kill a tank with kit and shields. The rotational move he does while buffed had a faster spin. And there was that strange bug where all the audio had a 1 second delay.
I do think alliance raids being already casual content should ilvl sync to thr ilvl cap on release. It's kinda dumb that you just nuke any alliance raid that isn't the last one of the expansion, but it makes sense from a gearing perspective to make the old ones easier when you need all 3 tokens for an upgrade material.
Ridorana is a victim of ilvls, Orbonne is actually nerfed.
>go back to threads from SB and ShB
>everyone whining that Eureka/Bozja are grinds to extend sub times
Mmogays really are a different breed
>everyone whining that Eureka/Bozja are grinds to extend sub times
They are mostly that, but the discourse around EW has proven to me that the general MMO populace cannot live without a Skinner's box. They need the dripfeed or they lose their minds.
Took longer than I anticipated, but I finally finished the first chapter of my FF14 smut fic, Default!WoL/Minfilia to begin with. Probably Kan-E next when I'm back from Christmas, but I'm open to suggestions.
https://archiveofourown dot org/works/52422145/chapters/132615820
Cheers for the people in the previous threads offering encouragement.
Aww yiiss.
it feels nice clearing ultimates and flexing on the non raiders
>XIV thread
>scroll down
>"raids aren't designed to be blind progged"
I am rubbing my temples and groaning.
This moron is a frequent visitor in these threads, I had a conversation with him in the past similar to the kind of a conversation an anon above had. Just ignore the creature, it is a tourist attraction, not a living being.
Anyone you unironically uses the word midcore is a Black person just play the fricking game if you want to and don’t if you don’t want to
How do other MMOs do raids so they aren't just bang your head across the wall follow the dance or die?
They don't, because there really isn't any other way to DO a raid. You can't make individual performance matter in a large-scale multiplayer environment, that's moronic; picture an alliance raid where every single person out of 24 has to "pull their own weight" beyond the simple execution of their rotation and not standing in the bad.
Usually when this conversation comes up the real question being asked is "why don't raids often have add phases anymore" and "why do I not carry a bomb into the boss's mouth sometimes"
Why not have a raid that forces each member to fight its own door boss before allowing the group to come together in order to fight the real boss? 24 mini bosses and for every one that doesn't get defeated it adds something to the boss fight to make it harder, like an orb that has to be carried by two people that makes them unable to perform any actions but if it's ever dropped the boss gets a 5x haste modifier to all its abilities and true damage that hits through barriers?
Yoko Taro wanted to do something where it relies on one player and it was shot down because of the competency issue of most normal players.
The idea you have is similar to the ghosts on phantom train. Everyone gets their own room. I like that one a lot.
That sounds like bullshit though because delubrum reginae savage has a solo duel in it where if one person fails nobody gets a fricking hand token
because people don't like doing that shit. simple as. people want to play their classes.
Even MINE still isn't comparable to an original clear. Most skills have been buffed or changed since the original content inception.
I don't know why I bother trying to post in these threads, any criticism or discussion is ignored or retorted with blatant fanboyism.
The only good thing Endwalk added was CC, and Frontlines suffered for it.
The pvp changes make the jobs actually fun to play. Its too bad its stuck in gay shit like pvp
Yeah, I get it. I had been arguing the past few threads to bring back class fantasy and feel. The direction pvp took was class fantasy first and balance second. I'd kill for that in pve, but I don't see it happening with how the dev team responded to the complaints.
Its so bizzare. Pvp, a mode where everything must be balanced has the best job forms. Pve is balanced to the nth degree and all the jobs feel the same. Why
I did BA by myself while high and found it to be super easy.
They need to bring the pvp ults into the regular game at least.
That's an awful idea, personal limit breaks in PVP are completely useless in most PVE contexts. WHM's personal limit break is effectively a Holy cast.
Frontlines died when they buffed mount speed.
Is anyone unironically claiming XIV is dead? There are like a billion sprouts running around ever since they added Stormblood to the trial.
If line goes down slightly or it's been a month since the last patch, that means it's dead and will never recover, it's over, it's in maintenance mode and end of service is coming soon. Never played a live service game before?
>Never played a live service game before?
I haven't, no. I only played XIV because I was desperate for a FF that didn't suck and I was told I could basically ignore every single other person (thank God that was true.) I don't like multiplayer shit and XIV is the only mmo I've ever played.
Let me fill you in on some of the community tropes present across live service games then.
>1% difference in DPS
Literally broken, imba, pls nerf, so cheap. You're trolling if you pick anything else.
>Boss gets nerfed slightly
Wow this fight is a total joke now, your clear doesn't count if you didn't get it last patch.
>New patch is about to drop
HOLY SHIT WE'RE SO BACK
>New patch is not about to drop
THIS GAME IS DEAD
>Player is better than me
Sweaty no-life tryhard
>Player is worse than me
Stupid casual. No one knows how to play this game properly.
>Player has a title/mount/achievement/etc that I don't have
They cheated. Everyone cheats that shit.
>Strategy involves 18 steps of mental processing to execute, but the previous strat took 19.
It's the "braindead" strat!
>Some world first group from Japan did this strat on stream once, but since moved on
It's the "JP" strat (no one in JP uses it) (we'll be using it for the next 3 months)
>Game releases content I don't like
This game has no content
>I don't understand the mechanic
This game is dogshit
Umm those sprouts are fake and not real
yea i ain't reading that bro
Can I join the Ganker discord?
Their isn’t a Ganker discord but their is a Ganker FC on primal ultros called ZR if I remember correctly
Stop bullshitting me lmfao. There is absolutely a Ganker discord.
Oh someone should post the remember us pasta to really complete the shitposting.
Criterion is based.
Just shitty ERPers got filtered because xhim/xher cant play the game without addons telling them what to do.
You know it's bad when you join an FC and instead of people talking about the game/gameplay they're talking about mods etc. The game took a down-ward spiral the moment Yoshi P didn't go Hitler on the modding community.
What do you get out of inventing these fricking imaginary scenarios and then getting mad about them? Haven't you get better shit to do?
>Stop talking about my game negatively or I'll kill Xhyself!!!
lol
Post XIV opinions that make Ganker seethe
>Ishikawa is a good writer
>Graha is one of the best characters
>Shadowbringers was the best expansion, with Endwalker at a close second
>Nier raids are fun
>Super anime glowy weapons are best weapons
Everyone loves glowing weapons other than people who can’t get them
Glow is only as good as the weapon it is put on. If the weapon is a tacky, overdesigned piece of shit, no glow will save it. And most glowing weapons are just that.
I don't. I wish I could get Cronus Lux with just the runes on it without the gay glow. It's collecting dust in my glamour dresser now.
Just mod it.
>If you having cleared an ultimate your opinion on this game doesn't matter
Add this one to the list.
>Ishikawa is a good writer
True, but she has a limit and EW was clearly beyond her potential scope
>Graha is one of the best characters
In SHB, yes
>Shadowbringers was the best expansion, with Endwalker at a close second
SHB is, EW is not
>Nier raids are fun
Copied was pretty fun in its relevance, Puppet was pretty solid aside from the last boss, Tower is easily bottom 5 AR
>Super anime glowy weapons are best weapons
Depends on how the base model and glow compliment each other but yeah.
Let me guess, you dislike Venat
No, like Venat. She has one of the best lines in 6.0, HOWEVER, Answers did a lot of legwork for her characterization so it was just reaffirming that side of her while also wiggling in the previous Azem spirit of adventure crap.
crystal exarch was a good character. not graha the simp
they're the same character
no
why are you gay op?
I'll shed a single tear for Criterions in 7.X because Asmonbald and his parrots are going to turn them into tedious pieces of shit for the sake of "muh prog hype" instead of appreciating the one new type of difficulty design SE has bothered with since 2.0 released. All they need is better rewards, which Aloalo provided.
I don't know how the gap between casual and extreme became so big
I'm not even talking about "preparing the player for harder content" or whatever, they got it exactly right in the Heavensward and Stormblood Alliance Raids
Now Thalia barely has any mechanics like bruh
Anyway this is what people mean by midcore btw
Stuff you can still do with complete randos but is still somewhat challenging and fun
You have morons in these very threads arguing that it's fine for alliance raid mechanics to be dungeon tier because its casual content and it makes roulettes faster.
Fricking unreal. I'm just going to blame the concept of dailies for this because it encourages content to be viewed as chores to be begrudgingly rushed through as quickly as possible for imaginary rewards that will be obsolete in the next patch.
You also get people that openly refuse to engage with posts that actually talk about why alliance raid mechanics are simple or how nuts it is to think 24-man raids should have complex mechanics
its already been done. Look at Dun Scaith. That's an acceptable level. Alliance Raids should be like that
I definitely miss the older alliance raids, I think even Nier had a good level of difficulty for more casual players. They dropped the ball completely on the newest Alliance raid series.
Fun Scaith mostly just pushes you around a lot
Well raiding in this game doesn't matter because the gear isn't used outside of raiding. Why would I waste my time doing any raid for the gear to become invalidated by crafting gear?
Rapeschizo might be the alliance raid schizo because usually he spergs out when someone suggests that alliances should be a little harder than LotA unsynced in 2023, but right now I'm not seeing those bad faith arguments.
Every Alliance Raid should be Orbonne un nerfed level.
The only hard parts were TGC and grand cross with the wind in Ultima P2
>when ultima summons all three
>pure panic as people try to stay alive
>phase change
I wish I was a dumb sprout during Stormblood
The perfect alliance raid
>WoD first mob pack
>Copied Factory boss 1
>Ridoranna second mob pack
>Rabanastre boss 2
>no trash between 2nd and 3rd boss
>Orbone boss 3
>Puppet Bunker final mob pack
>Dun Scaith final boss
are we gonna pretend ARR wasn't unholy slow up until nanamo's assassination and HW wasn't unholy slow up until nidhogg and then up until WoD and SB wasn't unholy slow up until tsukuyomi and SHB wasn't unholy slow up until elidibussy
The entire story is bogged down by narratively useless filler designed to pad out sub fees. The cultists are in denial about that, but it's the truth.
>respond with well thought out argument
ahahahahahahaha.
The worst thing about XVI is that its story is padded down in the exact same way, except its not to pad out sub fees, its just because these MMO devs don't know anything else. And unlike XIV there's no endgame to look forward to in XVI. The entire bogged down poorly paced narrative is the entire game.
Holy shit please have a nice day and unsub. You've let too many streamers and reddit opinions fry your tiny little brain until you can't think for yourself anymore and parrot what they say to fit in. 2.X did so much worldbuilding for the whole game, the only "slow" part is the moogles because that feels really detached and lacking urgency like Leviathan or the looming threat of Shiva and dragons did. HW does have some slow moments, especially when you're tasked with getting to Azys La after Haurchefant's death, but 3.1 and 3.2 are way better written than any patch from SB, SHB, or EW.
Back then, patches were written to satisfy the players and not create more questions until the hotseat writer for X.3 or next expansion took over and had to create answers themselves.
>2.X did so much worldbuilding for the whole game
It could've done it in 1/3 the runtime.
Then you would've complained about "no content in mmo story game dead game ahahahaha"
theres no winning with you
No, the game actually did have content back then, despite the story being largely filler.
pray tell, what is this "content" the game supposedly have that it doesn't have now?
>the hunting log!
you didn't play the game. Next.
>runtime
You use your PS4 to play this game.
And that was a mistake. So was flying in ARR zones. 5.3 did so much damage to this game it's insane.
>You use your PS4 to play this game.
No, nearly the entire MSQ is a movie. You can literally set the controller down while you're watching the 30+ minute cutscenes. The rest is just auto running to the next waypoint on your minimap, or playing the tab target arcade minigame every once in a while.
>the entire MSQ is a movie
>.....except for the parts that aren't
really seeing the smartest tools in the shed itt
I used the word "nearly" for a reason, anon. I noticed you disingenuously forgot to greentext that part of my post.
>cutscene
>gameplay
>cutscene
>gameplay
>repeat
why does this trigger you so much? This is pretty much how all videogames these days, especially rpgs, are structured
except it's more like
>cutscene
>cutscene
>cutscene
>....5 hours later
>...cutscene
>10 minute hallway dungeon
>cutscene
you don't play the game.
Of course I do. You clearly haven't, though.
>no u!
Why yes, I do respond to non-arguments with non-arguments. I'm glad you noticed.
Maybe you should play a different game then that caters to ur worse tastes. WoW is famous for its 2 minute cutscenes (you only get 1 every 6 months btw)
Personally, I wish there was an option to do the MSQ in a novelization form. Either by watching the video, or receiving exerts from what just happened in novel form. Effectively,a cutscene skip where you can reread what happened.
moron
Bro you are leaping to the defense of 2.X which already got pruned for brevity. You are scaring off the hoes
90%+ of the posters in the thread weren't even around before ARR's post patch story was nerfed
What did you expect?
SAY THE LINE BART
>any new DPS job from here out is just going to be reaper
AHHHHHHH
mmm zepla
What did Creative Business Unit 3 mean by this?
No dinner-plate areolas, no buy.
Now we're talking. Big nipples equals big love.
gross fatty
I am trying to finally get into FFXI and am losing my fricking mind holy fricking SHIT what the frick are the japs thinking with this system
I don't care if this shit was made this way back on the PS2 and prease understandu bullshit excuses, they could easily fix all of this shit but are too fricking lazy to do so
They actually cannot fix that because it's top-to-bottom moronation, for a very long time they were forced to use a dwindling supply of PS2 devkits to make any changes, bugfixes, or additions to the game. "Virtualizing" the equipment and servers, which probably means developing a PS2 dev-kit emulator and getting one decent server to run the game on, was the only thing that made XI's continued development feasible.
>They actually cannot fix that
Of course they can, they just understandably aren't willing to put the resources into doing it.
They already tried to remake FF XI too contracting Nexxon for it, project got axed because it amounted to remaking the game from the bottom up.
They've been asked a thousand times about,
>Upgrading the ingame UI (started then cancelled the project)
>Removing POL
>Merging subs with XIV
and they refuse to do it. They did an AMA during the 20th anniversary and their response was "uh yeah we'd like to but we don't have the manpower or money" to about 20 different questions, then a year later they put the game on maintenance mode for good. Despite making them a ton of money over the years and STILL being free millions they refuse to do anything to help it.
It was canned because it sucked, that really tells you how bad it was if SE didn't like it.
Monk should have retained its niche as a greedy DPS with no party buff
Samurai should have been a Tank
Dragoons jumps should be GCD and feel more impactful and powerful
Reaper should be deleted and they should add Spellblade or change Dark Knight to a DPS
Bard and Ranger should be split, Bard would be a Caster
White Mage should solely focus on regenerative and holy magic, split the elemental stuff for Geomancer as a Caster or Healer
Machinist should be a melee like Edgar was in FF6, split the guns off for Corsair or Sniper/Musketeer
Necromancer should be added, Yoshi needs to say screw the lore
Chemist should have been a potion tossing job, gigantic missed opportunity
I'm beginning to think Dancer would have made more sense as a melee
Filtered.
>Samurai should have been a Tank
Why? what do
Well, it traditionally was wearing heavy armor in FF5 and in FF6 Cyan wears heavy armor too, they can take a hit
I understand the DPS direction they took, but I found it largely uninteresting personally...there was potential to make it a tank that parried imo
I don't see how making it a tank would make it more interesting, especially in this game, where tanks are the blandest classes.
We had a tank that parried a lot and it was called Dark Knight, and it blew chunks
Only thing good about DRK was that it could never die in dungeons but now that’s warrior, for some reason I really hate DRK
I would sacrifice Samurai to the tanks if it meant Gunbreaker became a DPS
>final player racial option
It's going to be a trainwreck isn't it?
No one is going to play it, even less than male hrothgar.
That’s fine, all I need is my femhroth retainers
Not a "trainwreck" but it'll just be furry femroes. A large number of people seem to be in on that idea but it probably won't be a hugely played race.
Omega raids are best in the game.
>Kefka MINE before the EW stat squish
>Raidwides that would 100-0 us without mit/shields
>Yeah enjoy Forsaken
>Tanks get to play the game and position a boss, share the busters they can't invuln and throw the weaker cooldowns throughout the fight
>Caster & Ranged mit is actually important
>Melees can, combined with the tanks, actually keep almost full uptime, barring Forsaken 2 for some
I think I've spend like 3 birthdays of people teaching them how to do Kefka and I can't count on my hands how many times I've done it at least synced no echo.
It's such a fricking joy of a fight
Boss movement is an extremely overrated concept.
you're an overrated concept
Have you done any of the Endwalker raids? It's like hitting a big turrent while doing the DDR.
On it's own, having to move a boss is a little janky but serviceable if it's needed. However once you combine it with positionals and a smaller boss hitbox, they influence each other.
A good tank will keep the boss in a safe area with enough space for melees to gather around it while remaining safe from targeted AOEs. And face the boss in such a way the melees can do their positionals.
You can do nice movement in E4Sp1, E8S, E6S, to name a few. As a melee or tank, you'll notice the difference between a serviceable tank and a good tank
The most enjoyable raids I've done in MMOs were FFXI bosses where you kept the boss still the entire fight. Boss movement is overrated.
>P3S was the last time tank positioning mattered
It hurts...
Alright, alright, pack up the bait. Final Fantasy XIV ranks as the #1 most-played MMO globally and is widely considered to be one of the best games ever made. People LOVE Final Fantasy XIV. Endwalker has been a complete blast with so many new mods available to download, everyone has Mare, and they're all down to ERP and JOI. FFXIV has never been more active than it is now. Why aren't YOU plapping and gooning with the lads?
MARE is too complicated to download
Also I'm cursed and technology hates me (probably because demons inhabit computers)
its a miracle xiv works with the mods I have installed
well there is a very simple step by step guide out there.
yeah and it got to a point that I had to join a discord to synchonize my zeta-files or something and I just gave up
well, you were almost there. You usually just have to verify your lodestone, then it spits out a code for you to use in game. then you don't even need to be in the discord.
well maybe I'll give it a try but it seems like mods are gonna break with the graphics update anyway
That's a bunch of months off, don't worry too hard about it.
Penumbra is meant for modding. MARE just let's you see other peoples mods, and is NOT needed.
If you've ever modded New Vegas, then you'll be right at home. All your stuff can be sorted into folders and sub-folders, and you just drop your modding files into a main folder, and assign priorities to whatever you want. There's even mods that check and label what should be what priority.
I really doubt most mods are going to break.
>Square-Enix unironically thinks they're going to keep me subbed or even invested into endgame with the way they keep releasing glam sets that don't have wearable helmets for Viera
They are deluded if they think I am doing something like Eureka or Bozja again if they are going to continue being lazy as shit. Bethesda mastered helmets for more bestial races in the year of our Lord 2011. If Bethesda is more competent than you at something, you fricked up.
If an MMO requires Discord to coordinate with players, it's shit. Same goes for any other type of multiplayer game.
MMO players have been using "Discord" since the dawn of the genre, go away zoomzoom.
cope, you groomer
Maybe MMOs just aren't for you if you are that afraid of human interaction.
I firmly agree. I personally led a team for a crystalline conflict tournament using only the quick chat features and no voice. We steamrolled every team except the finals which we lost. Macros are annoying as frick in Frontline though. They are abused by pvpdiscord trannies.
>Tell someone they suck and hold the group back in-game
>Get suspended
I will not risk my account to butthurt snowflakes.
(T)urn
(A)lexander
(O)mega
(E)den
(P)andæmonium
Why were coils of bahamut called "turns" instead coils?
Because ARR was a weird time
Speaking of shit, did anything else happen to blufever after he got caught? That kid who leaked the gta trailer 12 hours early got sentenced to life in a mental ward.
ARR, HW, and SB are the OG star wars trilogy. ShB, EW, and DT are the nu-trilogy.
>goyslop analogy
Either refute the analogy or your character will look like Moon over June forever
I got kicked out of a raid for removing the safety marker.
Imagine being so muttbrained you look at an mmo and see goyslop
GET IN THE CHAIR JULIE
I could've sworn it shows up in the chatlogs.
But I did state that doing raids completely blind is half the fun. The other half is dying.
I thought it was like "bahamuts coiling grip is draining the land". Then again, I didn't pay attention to the story of the raid.
>MAN EMET SELCH IS JUST LIKE MY FAVORITE VILLIAN VOLDEMORT!!!
Nah that's Moldybutt
You can't see who removes markers so in order for you to be kicked you had to of spoken up about it and I'd wager what you said is why you were kicked.
You can't directly hold someone accountable in-game, all you can do is silently kick them. At least in discord you can state the facts.
it was a singular coil
you are spiraling deeper with each turn
Turns collapsed neatly into being numbered, but Alexander duties didn't have a subtitle that could be used in the same way, so people just used A for Alex duties despite the previously established convention turns provided.
When Omega came out, there was actually a small divide between people abbreviating Omega duties with O and people abbreviating them with V (from the names of the duties) before O eventually won out.
imagine being obsessed and insecure where you have to filter and announce you are filtering the lala posters
umad
>Halicarnassus
>G'raha started the warrior of darkness myth when he first got to the First
He was always a weird little simp he was just too tired and ready for death by the time you actually met up with him again
>>G'raha started the warrior of darkness myth when he first got to the First
Bullshit, if that was the case, why did Ardbert and his companions already use the title before G'raha even arrived?
JP fanfest can't come soon enough
Filtered.
Seething
Agreed, I need to see Krile in her cute PictoInkGreenNecroGeoArmigerRelm outfit.
I wonder how uncanny valley it will look if she's in the trailer. Last time we saw a lala in CG was Heavensward trailer right?
God I miss my lil niglet Papalymo.
I'd love to see him do a retelling of XIV.
what a pointless, moronic death he got too.
huh. Now I'm seeing the possibility Hrothgirl is the same job and gets the trailer spot to avoid having a Lala in trailer and I don't like that one bit.
Nahh, doesn't look Casting very much.
It does if she's a shaman. Shaman is very likely the parallel given the Mamoolja in Tural using the same stuff as the ones in La Noscea.
>Shaman
Imagine if World of Warcraft left a comment on Final Fantasy XIV's Twitter page about Shamans, like they did with the Heavensward patch Revenge of the Horde.
social media accounts are for posting stale out of touch memes and pandering about social issues, sorry
The Mamool Ja are just copy pasted from XI, they use a lot of skills/jobs and come with a lot of names but shaman is not among them and does not fit their way of life.
she'll probably be a viper as well.
The half of her outfit we've seen is closer to Warrior or Berserker than to Viper. I think she'd be wearing Viper AF if she were a Viper, same as Yugiri wearing Ninja AF.
Eh. Goesetsu wasn't wearing SAM AF
I hope femhroths are real and the shit they put in is just a red herring
>I hope femhroths are real and the shit they put in is just a red herring
what shit they put in?
Most likely just their starting gear, even then it could be a placeholder because they don't want to show anything else yet.
There is a Lala in the trailer anyway, one is on the boat along with Sicard in the back.
Holy shit a lalach ness monster just flew over my house!
I don't have a screenshot of it because why would I but you can see them as the camera pans around the boat. They also did their best to hide Alphinaud for whatever reason, even adding an extra light to block him.
i think he just posted the wrong screenshot, but the one handling the ship is a lala
uh how the frick does he know where we're going? bastard can't even see over the wheel.
When is YoshiP going to address the RPR threat?
I just want femhroths.
Oh man, I saw a guy with a pretty good Gordon Freeman cosplay
We already won.
Ah yes "reapers" we have dismissed that claim.
who else should we bully into quitting?
gonna try to beat gogo today
Ganbate
autosaged again?