You're right
In reality the writing never stopped being unfun, overly verbose, padded drivel insisting on itself throughout the entire 400-hours campaign.
Wrong. We don't spend 50 hours prepping for something to happen while beasts summon primals and we don't spend far too long in meetings. EW at least took us to the 13th and we saw a bunch of cool IV references.
ARR patch writing wasn't bad, there were just a lot of filler quests that don't even exist anymore. This patch series had some of the worst writing in video games.
More hyperbole. There was only one shit moment that struck me in the entire EW patch series and it was the justification for benching Vrtra before the Rubicante fight. That was dumb.
Zero contradicts herself from one scene to the next, Golbez's scheming doesn't make any sense and in hindsight everything he did up through 6.3 was actively detrimental to his plan, Y'shtola had one of her primary character traits just vanish for the sake of sucking off Zero, Estinien turned into decoration, they had us ask the populace for permission to use the magical tower two patches in a row, the only acknowledgement Unukalhai and Cylva get is "tell them I said hi". Dude, this story was BAD. It is a fricking mess.
sniffing chocobos would be a massive fricking improvement over this fricking garbage. pisshomosexual worshippers really will slurp up whatever slop he shits out.
>"Easiest EX" according to most people >Wouldn't know because somehow PF can't do the easiest shit
I'm gonna be parsing gold by the time I find a PF that doesn't immediately frick up meteors
I did a blind from start PF last night and we got to at least 50% success rate on meteors after seeing it a few times, maybe more at the end. Really this is nothing compared to Sweeping Immolation on Rubicante which I saw at best 15% success rate in most PFs
Sweeping Immolation had at least a 50% success rate. If you got the stack, it was ez win. With spread it could go either way depending on the party.
It didn't help that there were like 4 different macros going around in the PF and every one of them had a different spread pattern, some had tanks and healers center, some had tanks side, healers center etc etc. All the while the tanks could easily just go to the bad side with immune to give players more room, but of course nobody did that either
Tokyo fanfest is early January too, with 6.5.5 dropping the week after.
Oh this comparison makes it look much better. Lots of fearmongering of "Highlanders with cat ears".
Anon it's literally Highlander default pose stance, with height being slightly taller, between Highlander and Viera.
That said, all the female leg models in the game are technically the same (except for Lalafell).
The height is what I'm talking about. As long as they're tall and have beastial faces it's good. I just didn't want them as hunched freaks or uwu-ified like fem Au Ra. Female Roegadyn use fem highlander as a base too so male Hroth being male roes with cat heads and fem hroth being female roes with cat heads is fine.
He already said Hrothgar isn't made with the intention of being popular. It's to fill in a niche present in the western MMOs he looks at. You should have believed him.
>It's to fill in a niche present in the western MMOs he looks at
Is he moronic? The three most popular western MMOs, WoW, GW2 and ESO, all have beast races
It didn't feel so self contained anymore when the writers decided to allow the First to have a stake in the outcome of the story. 6.5 was way better than the previous patches in that you felt some actual large scale story progression.
In the end, its purpose was to set up a Thirteenth expac down the line, like the Warrior of Darkness patch msqs in Heavensward were used to set up Shadowbringers.
Same reason the Unukalhai/Cylva stuff was only mentioned through an optional dialogue at the end. They're reluctant to incorporate stuff building on older optional content in the MSQ because casuals will cry that suddenly they have to do a raid or Eureka/Bozja.
hes still from the void in xiv, unless now there are just 2 voids the ff4 void and the completely unrelated xiv void that Unukalhai and Diablos are from
In Bozja he was summoned into a vessel. You can't kill a voidsent that way, it just gets zipped back to the Thirteenth when the vessel is no longer usable. Just like when you nullstoned him in Mhach.
Exploratory zone or future patch content is fine by me. 6.5 and 6.4 had a bit too much focus on Zero balance wise, and was too much "teaching autists to love", but all in all it was reasonable, interesting. Better than the worst parts of previous patch stories', worse than the best.
Invading the 13th with an army to reshape the Void sounds cool.
>when the writers decided to allow the First to have a stake in the outcome of the story.
I'm not sure "walking around asking a few npcs if they'll kindly not sentence two whole worlds to die while cleaning up their shard because someone completely unrelated might get upset" is having a stake.
Seriously, I REALLY hope they drop the "we gotta ask for permission every time we try to save the world" plot points in DT. Back in ARR/HW, etc. if the Scions needed to break the law, go undercover or challenge the local leadership to save they day, they fricking did. Hell EW started exactly like that with the whole spying on the forum deal. Tell these fricking newbie writers to come up with better ways to pad out the story.
I guess i was wrong then
I still don't understand them they are crying right now about "mystery is dead" while eating everything ancient related when mystery of them died in their beloved shb
>Need a Quicktongue III materia for the alchemist quest >only have 2s and 4s >trialcucked from skipping the effort by buying it off the market
What iLvl gear do I need to grind with for that? Looking at the materia I'm guessing anything between 45 and 70 will work.
It's funny how you can instantly detect the tourists.. If you are an old player and you think this patch was worse than most of the ARR patches, half of the HW's patches, 4.1 and 4.2 and 5.1 and 5.2 there is somehing wrong with you, just quit at that point. Literally the people freaking out about EW patches are all the WoWshitters unironically because they are not used to a normal patch sched yet. Cope and seethe + didn't read because I'm already gone from this thread so don't even try.
>wake up >remember that Endwalker is the first expansion to have the X.5 dungeon give lazy recolored armor instead of a new set >it's not even a cool set, just one everyone hated from Shadowbringers
I will never not be mad, this expansion keeps pissing me off more and more
I unironically hate this. They should have different icon shapes for roles, rather than colors. Make Tanks square, DPS sort of guitar pick shaped, and supports circular.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Remember when Sage icon was altered for the benefit of attention seekers clamoring about a non-existent mental illness?
8 months ago
Anonymous
remember when it was mainly a cover for the first icon looking terrible
What would be the point of a green mage? It was originally a buffer, debuffer. Just being a caster dps seems like an odd implementation. Doesn't seem like they want to go beyond the classic split even if some jobs do lean more in the buffer direction.
A different kind of RDM? I'm not saying it has to be never before seen, but so far the new job additions have at least a different idea behind them all.
>What would be the point of a green mage?
Either a way to bring back DoT mage now that Warlock SMN is kill, or it will get the Sage treatment and be nothing like its original inspiration.
No real support job is possible with the current design of FFXIV - you can't debuff or interrupt enemies nor buff allies in any way except for a raw DPS increase.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Buffs in this game are so pointless anyway. oooo wow, 3%. Save you one whole GCD in the entire fight.
8 months ago
Anonymous
You can't even do more fun buffs, like faster GCD speed because that would offset everyone's rotation from the group buffs
>he still believes that gaia bullshit yoshi said is real
yoshi teased primal summoning in the overworld back in arr
the steam page still have images of it
I dont see it in game
devs too lazy, they are giving you hammers as axe glams.
>BLU is from the New World >The letter is from the new world, so GNM would be from there too
I wonder if they have a long history of green and blue mages, like Eorzea with black/white/red. Are they somehow linked? Maybe they use a similar weapon, like a cane or one handed club, will they somehow be linked to monster magic, but the usage is different? I don't think they'll be similar to classic FF green mages like Sages aren't really the same either.
Thaumaturgy and Conjury are also from different parts of Eorzea. They are like 2 sides of the same coin, opposite, but the same in a way.
It would be pretty consistent for BLU and GNM to be similar.
Nah, it will be GRM.
BLU is the only one not to follow the same naming scheme as the other color mages, and that's only because it would make its shortform be BLM as well.
We don't know if BLU is from the northern half yet. One of the zone descriptions they gave at fanfest talked about massive ceruleum deposits, like where the Whalaqee live.
I could see it being a DoT Mage, or a utility caster, or an even more physical RDM given how it's primary spellcasting is debuffs so you throw on a DoT or two then beat the shit out of your enemy with a mace or hammer. Though I don't see Krile using either of those.
There's a new bug where buffs will completely bug out and spit out random things to random party members.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1942963632?t=0h18m29s
Are doomposters paid or just Barry level pathetic? This is ridiculous. Anyone who plays this game knows 3.X patches almost killed the game, 4.X was stupid fake echo shit that was pointless as frick in the overall story, 5.X had cool WoL trial, rest was rather meh.
>see some sprout in pf doing Final Day >its locked ilvl 570 now so why not >its still so goddamn kino
I feel like such a gay but I teared up after a year of not doing the trial
The best thing about Endwalker is that Stormblood (the best expansion) has been vindicated. Maybe Contentblood isn't looking so bad to you morons now, huh?
Longer trailer and whatever EW content they have yet to reveal. Current progress on the graphics update.
It's better timing to drop the femhroth trailer in the JP fanfest to go along with the benchmark and 6.55, but there's always a chance it shows up in the EU one.
So EU fanfest is in what, 2 weeks? A bit more?
They will surely show one of the jobs but what else? Is it finally time to show femhroth?
London: full Corsair reveal, brief and partial glimpse of Krile in Green Mage outfit in the extended trailer. Keynote ends with femHroth reveal;
Tokyo: full green Mage reveal with final cinematic trailer version, benchmark with femHroth and updated old races
You can look at sb and shb eu fanfests but i think that they will show something about 24 man and 8 man series (theme, bosses maybe), there will Sakaguchi and people think that he will help making 24 man
First Job Reveal, will prob be Green Mage.
2nd Job + Full trailer (WoL revealed as Corsair) and Femhroth will be at JP Fanfest, week after if patch 6.55.
i became a cutscene skipper with the post EW MSQ content. absolute drivel. Between the >shit msq >forced hildebrand for the relic, which itself was literally just tome turn in's >the boring fricking trials >the godawful crafter/gatherer relic quests which are pressing the same macro 50 times over the course of an hour, x9 for each tool
i genuinely think the post EW content is the worst the game has ever been. Outside of maybe post ARR MSQ. On the other hand i discovered the joys of fishing and just caught Jaws of Death and Listracanthus in one cast > mooch so that was based
They actually do. Triplecast/Swiftcast works with PLD spells for instance. It's just that there are a lot of buffs that only work in conjunction with abilities from their original job, but any buff that stands on its own works fine.
In the log from
Playing Lalafell has ruined me on playing any other race because they all feel so fucning slow compared to how Lalafells zip around the screen even though I'm aware that everyone moves the same actual speed.
Apparently the devs are trying to fix buff limits but they've clearly fricked up something deep here. Some screenshots have buffs belonging to jobs which aren't even in the party.
>I'm no programmer but wouldn't that just involve increasing an interger somewhere?
No, because it's an online game. That makes it more complicated as you have to handle communication (packets) between the clients and server.
You can't just "increase the integer" when dealing with specific data packets with tight specifications designed to transmit and or store certain amount of data per unit of time
It's also why they can't just easily increase inventory space
It also limits the number of character customisations possible because the server transmits EVERY character's face,hair,nose,colours,etc to every other character in the zone every single tick. Which is why it was a massive undertaking to do something as simple as adding midlander stubble in EW.
Why in the absolute frick would they make it work like that? That seems horribly inefficient no matter how you slice jt.
8 months ago
Anonymous
This is just how Japan is with netcode. Look at Nintendo's online services with their horrendous lag etc for another example. I imagine there's less interest in making good netcode in nipland because they all have high bandwidth and low ping, so it's just not something given serious consideration like in the west.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Look at Nintendo's online services with their horrendous lag etc for another example.
That's not netcode, it's because it's all p2p
8 months ago
Anonymous
homie, Japan internet is SHIT unless you live in Tokyo because boomers that are about to go senile don't see a problem with using the same telephone lines that the country has used since the fricking 60s because they are still chained to their land-lines and fax machines. The only reason why the japs don't give a frick about good networking is because they are extremely isolationist online and their island is so tiny that the lack of distance saves their asses from experiencing bad ping
It won't just be "an integer", it will be to do with the total packet size or something. These things can get complex when you're transmitting and syncing data multiple times per second. Also japs are infamously bad at netcode and SE are working on 10+ yr/old spaghetti engine code where the original programmers have probably fricked off years ago.
>wouldn't that just involve increasing an interger somewhere
Everything to do with character creation, inventory, and Hrothgar/Viera limitations also winds dopwn to "just increasing an integer". But because of the game's shitty core netcode, increasing an integer causes all kinds of problems.
>Gee, thanks. . .not all of us have played every class and know what every ability does. I need help on every roleplay battle, to me they're hard, period.
Jesus. Did these fricks only play Candycrush before joining XIV?!
>They had to remove the one thing that kept morons out of positions where they could frick themselves and other over
I will forever hate MMO devs for continually avoiding the one thing that would improve the gameplay experience for 80% of the playerbase by 10x
I'll possibly forgive them since this was basically just a nothing story to tide us over until the new arc officially begins, but if 7.0 is this awful, then yeah I'm just gonna raid log and do nothing else. XVI's story was amazing compared to EW patch and that's not a good look.
Demystifying and removing all the gods is really shit, even if it is common in FF. Fantasy worlds with actual gods with real power who interact with the world are so interesting. I loved the interactions with gods in BG3, especially the one where Vlaakith just snuffs you for being uppity.
>Vlaakith >God
She's just another high tier lich with access to wish. Elminster is of the same level. If she try to do that shit to a level 17 spellcaster, they can just counterspell her wish spell at level 9 and tell her to try again.
They can even do this earlier with a lower level counterspell if they're lucky.
Same. When Zero failed the first time to harness the power of light I thought okay she will probably take until at least 6.55 to be able to use it. I didn't expect it to happen 2 minutes later.
i hate the scions so fricking much its unreal >end of EW sets up perfectly for the scions to be in the backseat >marketed as the end of a major story arc >new adventures implied for 7.0
you can tell that stupid fujo pink haired b***h had a hand in making the scions not actually disband. Frick off.
The Scions don't disband or die because they are highly marketable. It's the triumph of marketing metrics over storytelling, and one of the few bad story decisions which it's unfair to pin on the writers.
>the scions disband (not really, just a cover up) >they all go their seperate ways for the time being >expect to atleast be away from them for the patches >nope meet with more than half of them again by the second patch >6.5 acts like us "getting together" is a big deal
this writer sucks so fricking much jesus christ, can't believe they gave this homosexual an entire expansion to write for
I can't wait for the writers to try to recycle the same character arcs like they did with Alphinaud.
The Scions don't disband or die because they are highly marketable. It's the triumph of marketing metrics over storytelling, and one of the few bad story decisions which it's unfair to pin on the writers.
I would say they are going to get into a problem when people start getting bored of them and they didn't even try to push new characters, but fujos have terminal shit taste and will eat anything as long as it has graha doing ear wiggles.
>Kate's been in charge since ShB >Yoshi intentionally didn't tell this because he knew players would be moronic incels about it
Anon, the story is bad because ishikawa was awol for the 6.x story and she's basically the only competent writer.
But whoever decided 6.1 should be advertised as a new fresh adventure and immediatley dropping it after the dungeon should be strung up by their entrails
6.1 and beyond was a fresh new adventure.
It was basically a compressed version of the overall game's arc. >regular adventure shit for cash >someone needs help only you can give >friends use knowledge and connections to help >the scope of the problem expands as you learn about it >bad guy needs your problem to continue for his horrific plan >dismantle horrific plan piece by piece >dismantling came too late and/or serves horrific plan >Cid adapts known technology to help you out >get help from general populace >strike back against bad guy >learn bad guy has good motivations >talk him down or kill him >slow non-horrific process to fix massive problem starts
This goes back to ARR and maybe 1.0 with Garlemald wanting to conquer and genocide to prevent primal summonings.
It's a good loop, just needed expanding.
The only way to save FFXIV is for the devs to stop shoving in shitty "le high end" content that the average person doesnt care about and doesnt engage in
They put all this dev time into this shit, and what, like 5% of the playerbase ever touches it? Utterly moronic. It isnt 2009 anymore, nobody gives a shit about raiding except mentally ill neets. Raiding is a dead concept in literally every mmo that isnt wow, and that isnt saying much considering wow is a dead game only played by the raiders who are left over
Also stop adding moronic mechanic bloat to every boss. The new alliance raid bosses would be so much more enjoyable if they had 30% less bullshit going on
>Cut out raiding, only 5% does it >Cut out island sanctuary, only 5% does it >Cut out crafting, only 5% does it >Cut out fishing, only 5% does it >Cut out fates, only 5% does it >Cut out all content that only less than 10% of the players do >Where did all the players go wtf
You're a real genius anon. The game has issues, but ideas like yours is why other MMOs never flourished. "Focus" just means "less players"
are you seriously trying to imply that fishing / crafting / fates and so on take the same amount of dev time to make as an EX or ultimate fight does?
also, its pretty obvious more than 5% of people engage with all of the examples you just mentioned, since it is casual content, and casual players make up the vast majority of the playerbase
atleast use a tiny bit of your brain before you speak, please anon
The EX and Savage are developed alongside the normal modes, and use the same assets and code. You're really not saving much dev time in exchange for killing content that a lot of the playerbase actually does engage with. Savage engagement is around 20%, and extreme is higher than that.
Cut out content and you lose players, then even the turbocasuals will notice when their friendslists and FCs are suddenly all offline.
This but also for fishing, crafting, custom deliveries, hunts, sidequests, triple triad, and all other optional content. We should only have MSQ, cashshop glams and Limsa AFK because that's the content with high engagement.
Who?
They basically wrote themselves into a corner, the universe was killed by a sad bird and everything was done by the ancients.
The only thing would be Nomura style Lufenians.
Please no. I just want Cho'gath (Mamool'Ja) to be freakishly powerful without any ancient evil bullshit
It's gonna be whatever eldritch alien civ created Ultima and the zodiac stones/auracite. That shit was stronger than Amaurotines. It was strong enough that Athena went fricking insane trying to fully use and understand it's power. (She still failed).
>get to the new world >wrap up the succession crisis thing after 1 dungeon/trial >discover there was a bigger evil engineering the politics so he could get his hands on [ancient power] >follow the trail and it all leads to the ancients and Azem >go back to every citystate/ally in Eorzea to say hi and get their support for some reason >fight the bigger evil and defeat him >in the cutscene after he defeats us instead and unleashes le world serpent but it eats him >it's imminently going to devour everything >Y'shtola realises we need to [blah blah aether] from the other shards >enjoy 3 zones of fixing trolleys and unblocking toilets on other shards to get their consent >come back and fight the world serpent and save the world >everyone claps
Something going on in one of the other shards, though I don't know what elements they have left to cause a calamity. Maybe we'll travel to the continent north of Tural
One of the Shards getting uppity and invading and attempting to conquer shit with advanced tech is the most likely source of conflict with anotherShard I'd imagine
The only FFX thing in Dawntrail so far are the Pelopelo. The primary conflict so far is centered around a FFXI reference and the primal fight they revealed is FFVI.
It's bound to mainly be FF V wank because of Krile and Galuf.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Like Endwalker was IV wank because of the moon, right? moron.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Endwalker is constant IV wank, so yeah.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Yes? Did you not play for the past two years,
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Tower of Zot >Tower of Babil >the moon >Loporrits >Magus Sisters >FFIV tomestone sets >Troia >Scarmiglione >Barbariccia >Cagnazzo >Rubicante >Golbez >Mt. Ordeals >Octomammoth >Lunar Subterrane >Zeromus
What did he mean by this?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Oh yeah, also Barnabas, Lugae, and coming soon Asura
8 months ago
Anonymous
>moron calling others moron
Why is Ganker like this?
8 months ago
Anonymous
goddamn, you're fricking moronic. thinks men and be women too
8 months ago
Anonymous
I'm sure they are running out of stuff from FFV to wank.
Who?
They basically wrote themselves into a corner, the universe was killed by a sad bird and everything was done by the ancients.
The only thing would be Nomura style Lufenians.
We know at least 2 (3?) zones are there, but others have not been revealed. My cynical imagination is that we'll also do some shard hopping and end up saving the world as usual instead of having a comfy 6 zones low(er) stakes expansion all in the same region.
>drag it forwards and away from the source >make sure the tether doesn't go through a meteor (it will go red) >make sure you're not standing right next to another meteor (it will go red) >don't stand in someone else's tether when it goes off, that will kill you
This void arc was so generic that I don't understand how they missed the oportunity to reveal that Zero's real name is Cecilia and the real brother was Golbez. That way it would have made more sense for Durante to become a good guy to protect his best friend's sister.
>The most popular guide for Thordan Unreal in Light DC has ranged spread near melee, and melee spread further from boss
Surely nothing bad will come of this. I won't have to listen to endless arguments how melee should go nw/ne and ranged straight w/e, right?
Whatever you DC's PF circlejerk decided. Just check what they're saying in PF and go with that, the worst thing you can do is start mixing it up and introduce different strats
Keeping the positions same throughout the fight has its merits even if they're not optimal for every part.
But yes you'll have to suffer listening to endless arguments about that shit because melee uptime totally matters on a weekly meme fight that no one sane even parses.
The thing is that the clock position spreads are completely arbitrary, except for that one point. The other times when you do it there are no targets to attack
I think at the start of the fight you use them for the mini lightnings. Yes anyone sane could do that without murdering the MT even if the overall positions were melee NE/NW but it's PF so don't expect sanity.
I didn't want endless arguments about why the spots should be different.
8 months ago
Anonymous
But you will inevitably get them in P3 when melee greed and don't want to run far away from the boss to break tethers or drop puddles when the ranged can just stay near
8 months ago
Anonymous
Remember back before Endwalker when people used macros, and sometimes you'd get macros that were slightly different and sometimes the PF leader would even warn you about it and tell you to check your positions to make sure where you go.
Yeah if only we could do that.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I remember in EW when Rubicante came out and every macro had different positions for Sweeping Immolation. Then when the party leader posted the macro, someone posted another macro with different positions and I got to listen to idiotic debates about what positions to use
I never want to do Rubicante again
8 months ago
Anonymous
Well just stick to Hector's shitty spreads then and get your weekly fox leafs.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I will, but I'm also keeping an eye out for the melee players who will inevitably kill the ranged
>still haven't gotten the reveal that her true name is Cecilia >they keep draggin Unukalhai and Cylva along >real Golbez is still trapped in that crystal
Outside of a full void-based expansion we've still gotta fight corrupted Golbez and learn Zero's real name, which is obviously going to be Cecilia.
Because he can't have actual relevance in the story since he's locked behind optional content, so you can only mention him after he would have been relevant.
Why? It's just fricking tomes and all the raids are now finished. What's the point of releasing the last relic step when there's nothing to them on? Even Criterion will be dead (again) in January
buddy they have to keep you subbed for another 8+ months until dawntrail
>two more weeks?
Try three more months.
??? why wait that long? It really doesn't matter power wise and the relix step is just buying 3 rocks. Would savage raider be upset if people got better weapons?
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Why? It's just fricking tomes and all the raids are now finished. What's the point of releasing the last relic step when there's nothing to them on? Even Criterion will be dead (again) in January
Because it's connected to Hildibrand and they decided Hildibrand comes in January. That's really the only reason.
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Why? It's just fricking tomes and all the raids are now finished. What's the point of releasing the last relic step when there's nothing to them on? Even Criterion will be dead (again) in January
gearing has always been moronicly slow in this game
things are still locked and unfarmable months after everyone who cares has stopped raiding
twines and shines are horrendously limited
criterion will finally offer something but only the savage mode which you need to be BiS to handle anyway
relics are too slow to be relevant
The 24man should drop 660 gear with different stat allocations. Variant should drop tokens, Criterion should drop fully upgraded gear. There is no reason not to let people just gear whatever they want and have fun at this point.
>bigger numbers
why is this what drives you? pvp doesn't take gear into account. there's only parsing
8 months ago
Anonymous
Savage is built such that getting good gear is a catchup mechanic that makes the fight a bit easier - this is a good system for players who don't clear in week 1/2 but gearing drags on frustratingly for months in order to retain players by annoying them. It would be more fun and enjoyable for everyone if there were alternate gearing methods released around week 8 of savage.
8 months ago
Anonymous
good gear isn't going to make you do body checks better, give a tank enough hp to not have to invuln, etc
8 months ago
Anonymous
Indeed, and the excessive body checks are another issue. But gear does help with tight dps checks, sloppy mitigation, the occasional recoverable death etc. It's a simple fact that we have gearing as part of the savage gameplay loop and that many players are aided in their clears by gear.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Good gear makes you skip more mechanics which increases your chances of clearing. You can absolutely raise zombie through P10S with bis while you can only zombie maybe 4-5 deaths in full crafted.
8 months ago
Anonymous
joke's on you they shoved body checks into every fight of this tier
if you have 1 (one) moron in your static you're not clearing for months
8 months ago
Anonymous
Ar8jwj
Why do you want 660 gear to be exclusive to raiders?
8 months ago
Anonymous
I'm excluded from playing a variety of content with all roles because gearing is a pain in the ass. I don't give a shit about the numbers, I just want to join the 650/660 EX PF party that's only missing a healer, but my healer gear sucks
Scion dating would have been better than the island sanctuary. You could have made it be some daily quests you do together with them, get some cool little cutscenes and maybe even reference your choice in the MSQ in some subtle way. I legit can no fathom why they wouldn't go that step, even FFVII had a dating mechanic.
They are running out of excuses not to do it. Y'shtola is involved in so many different plot threads by now that offing her would be completely impossible. We know the Twins will never croak and neither will G'raha. It is even easier for situational NPC's like Yugiri who is only relevant for any Doma related stuff.
I wish they just let it happen already, with as much shit as the WoL and the scions have been through together it seems natural that the WoL would develop a romantic relationship with at least of them
My headcanon is that my female viera has has been hopelessly in love with Y'shtola from the day she recruited her into the scions, but can't express it. I want her to finally have all the hot lesbian bun/cat sex she dreams of with Y'shtola
>skip everything story related >don't have to care about the shitty writing anymore >make up my own canon where I get to frick all the b***hes while adventuring with my bros
The optimal FFXIV experience
>NO YOU SEE THE BAD GUY SUDDENLY BECOMING GOOD IS GOOD WRITING BECAUSE HE SHARED A NAME WITH A CHARACTER FROM A DIFFERENT GAME THAT HAD A COMPELTELY DIFFERENT SETUP AND CONTEXT
FFXVI was the game that finally made me accept that Yoshi P is a massive hack and onetrick pony. He did one good thing in XIV which worked for most of the maingame and Heavensward and since then he just kept doing the same shit over and over and over and over again. He did it so much that he even somehow managed to do a full singleplayer actiongame that STILL feels like his usual shit.
It constantly fricks with the pacing to make you spend three hours every time you enter a new town sucking up to the villagers with FFXIV sidequests. The periods between eikon battles really just feel like you're playing FFXIV.
It was really mediocre to begin with, and it ultimately failed due to poor platform decisions, and somehow managed to take FFXIV with it, since these moronic Black folk though it would be a good idea to leave a subscription-based MMORPG just dusting on a shelf for 2 years without content
Also you should remember his hillarious claims that turn-based RPGs are "le bad and outdated" moments before BG3 stole the show for 2023 games
>Also you should remember his hillarious claims that turn-based RPGs are "le bad and outdated" moments before BG3 stole the show for 2023 games
Octopath Traveler 2 is a better FF game than any FF since X maybe XII, I haven't thought about it enough. The turn-based thing is so fricking stupid
It has some major pacing issues throughout the main story, which is exasperated if you like doing side content for extra character and world lore and whatnot, but up until the last like 10 to 15 hours of the game the side quests are pretty terrible. Basically the highs are so high that when you're then made to spend 6 hours after one doing literal mmo tier fetch quests it sours the experience. Also the base difficulty of the game is way too easy and the unlockable difficulty has too much health bloat, the game desperately needs a KH Critical mode style difficulty option.
>Durante spends 5,000 years torturing Azdaja >while Vrtra is busy reuniting with her, Zero turns and speaks for the group telling him he doesn't have to apologize because he already atoned by helping her
This made me unreasonably angry.
Wow, how kind of her to offer that after she already spoke for everyone. She's such a caring leader! It's not her fricking place to do any of that. It's not her place to tell Vrtra he's allowed to ask for an apology.
>It's not her fricking place to do any of that. It's not her place to tell Vrtra he's allowed to ask for an apology.
You're either moronic or trolling. Which one is it?
Neither. How do you not see what's wrong with that? Especially after she already told Durante that everything he did is forgiven because he helped HER. She specifically singles herself out. He helped HER so everything is forgiven.
Did you play some kind of special edition version of the game where she turns to Vrtra and tells him that he has to forgive Durante?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Oooh I see you must have played some weird version of the game where she didn't turn to Durante while Vrtra and Azdaja were reuniting to tell him that he was forgiven for what he did to Vrtra and Azdaja.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>to tell him he was forgiven for what he did to Vrtra and Azdaja.
Is this your headcanon? Cause in the scene that played in the game she gives a generic "make amends" speech, Vrtra says he can't forgive him, and then they leave. Later on she explains why Durante isn't there and says that she can bring Durante there so he can apologize if Vrtra wants, to which Vrtra declines.
I'm not sure how you came to your unhinged interpretation of that scene, but I'm guessing it has to do with a lack of meds or you're ovulating.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Cause in the scene that played in the game she gives a generic "make amends" speech
lol no, she tells him that he's already made amends by helping her. You probably see no issue with the scene because, like many XIV trannies, you're a narcissist.
By your logic, Vrtra is a piece of shit for forgiving Durante in Azdaja's place
Vrtra never forgave him.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>You probably see no issue with the scene because, like many XIV trannies, you're a narcissist.
Or I'm not an unhinged woman on her period.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Or, more accurately, you're a narcissist troony who thinks the world revolves around him (yes, HIM).
8 months ago
Anonymous
Whatever you say, ma'am.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Vrtra never forgave him.
Vrtra forgave him when he said that torturing his sister-wife was okay because Durante's actions were more than enough.
It came today, finally. I ordered this two months ago and it came. It's so good. I'll be wearing this at the London fanfest, you see me wearing this come and say hello.
heres how you fix gearing
loot lockouts are role based so you can repeat fights on different roles and not frick people over
loot lockouts in general are lifted MUCH earlier, at the latest by the next major patch preferably earlier
once youve bought something with a particular floors books the prices for items bought with that book are halved
all tomestone costs are halved
crafted gear introduced for floors 4-8/9-12 are the same item level as the previous savage series (ie 1-4/4-8) rather than a higher item level so that spending the time to achieve bis isnt completely useless outside of on-patch ultimate prog (note: crafted gear would still technically be better because of penta melding but the difference would be minute and min ilvl is already balanced around not penta melding according to the devs)
I like you ideas but also, basically nothing change if you're just new to raid a new tier with your suggestion, aside from >all tomestone costs are halved
Gearing is not just savage and should still come from other piece of content (and I'm not talking about tomestone gears, which is just specific stats you can't change).
I would add
The 24man should drop 660 gear with different stat allocations. Variant should drop tokens, Criterion should drop fully upgraded gear. There is no reason not to let people just gear whatever they want and have fun at this point.
's suggestion with yours.
Also don't forget that players are stupid and will still set absurd ilvl requirements to join groups. (I still remember that NIN with a very high ilvl requirements for P6S, 30mn in PF, we start, he SINGLE HANDEDLY wipes the group 3 times ALONE and quit/disband, thank you mr nin)
vc and alliance raid come so late that theres no point of them dropping savage gear when savage should just be unlocked by then
i think the initial gearing period for each savage series is pretty much fine for the most part, my issue is that it shouldn’t take an additional 8 weeks to gear a second job
the entire play any job on one character system is completely pointless when you cannot effectively play a second job on your character until your first job is finished or you just dont care about fricking over other peoples chests
and also forcing you to buy all new crafted gear every single series is annoying and is only there to incentivize you to keep your sub up and grind gil
I agree with what you say, crafted gear in week 1 feels weird since it's mandatory for a lot of people, while it should be catch-up gear.
>vc and alliance raid come so late that theres no point of them dropping savage gear when savage should just be unlocked
So, why not just give 655 (or 650 or twine... idk) if it's not impacting anyone? I've not done any savage this tier, and i've barely one job at 650. I can't even do the new EX aside from this specific job (also because I don't want to swap materia to SPS for BLM ..)
If you talk to Nophica she handwaves the elementals. >oh teehee they just care too much so they might get a little too excited about their job! don't worry about them!
>we have dealt with the universe ending threat that was behind everything bad that happened >we have defeated the single strongest being in the universe (Zenos)
How will anything we meet or fight against in Dawntrail even be seen as a threat? Not only have we dealt with the big bad of this universe, if there WERE something stronger out there we've not seen yet Zenos would have noticed and fricked off to obsess over it instead of us.
It's like we've killed god and now are heading to kill spiders and rats in a cave.
If you just don't obsess over powerlevel shenanigans it can be fine. An enemy can still hold friends/innocents hostage, fight us with duplicitous methods and evasion, bind our power in some way, etc. All of this is preferable to ever-increasing stakes and a cascade of greater evils who each can destroy the entire world.
Zenos isn't even the strongest being in the universe, and the reason he's obsessed with the WoL isn't just because of his/her strength. He's obsessed because the WoL is the first person he's ever felt a personal connection to. The Hunt stuff is just dressup for that desire for human connection and companionship.
Anyway there's always stuff in the other shards, planets outside Etheirys that also shielded themselves from Meteion's song, things that came to Etheirys in the distant past like the Heart of Sabik and Ultima, etc.
Zeronus wasn't that strong. It just had respawn haxx and golbez was boohoo giving up trying to fight the hard way. Did you see how 3 scions and 1 weakened goldybees just stomp its ass like 2 times in the span of about 45 seconds each? We're just technically soloing it's ass with our glorified shadow clone jutsu
Frick even zenos wasn't that strong because we just 1v1 his clown ass. He almost only won because we just fought turbosatan. It's like sending Ali to fight Tyson immediatly after he went 12 rounds with a tiger. New writers fricked the powerlevels up so badly
you would double stack the highest dps tank rather than the two highest
healing wouldnt change, you’d still use ast/sch for dps and sge/sch for mit
you would never play a pranged, most common comp would be 3 melee + smn or 2 melee + blm + smn if the fight forced significant downtime on the third melee dps
Just unsub you frick
>atrocity
The hyperbole is getting tiring. People are acting as if we're back to ARR filler patch writing.
You're right
In reality the writing never stopped being unfun, overly verbose, padded drivel insisting on itself throughout the entire 400-hours campaign.
EW patches are worse than ARR patches
Wrong. We don't spend 50 hours prepping for something to happen while beasts summon primals and we don't spend far too long in meetings. EW at least took us to the 13th and we saw a bunch of cool IV references.
The EW patches are worse than ARR patches
>we saw copy-pasted things from FF4
who cares
Mindbroken.
Correct, people who defend EW patches are mindbroken
>no you
ARR patch writing wasn't bad, there were just a lot of filler quests that don't even exist anymore. This patch series had some of the worst writing in video games.
More hyperbole. There was only one shit moment that struck me in the entire EW patch series and it was the justification for benching Vrtra before the Rubicante fight. That was dumb.
Zero contradicts herself from one scene to the next, Golbez's scheming doesn't make any sense and in hindsight everything he did up through 6.3 was actively detrimental to his plan, Y'shtola had one of her primary character traits just vanish for the sake of sucking off Zero, Estinien turned into decoration, they had us ask the populace for permission to use the magical tower two patches in a row, the only acknowledgement Unukalhai and Cylva get is "tell them I said hi". Dude, this story was BAD. It is a fricking mess.
sniffing chocobos would be a massive fricking improvement over this fricking garbage. pisshomosexual worshippers really will slurp up whatever slop he shits out.
shadow bringer is the worst.
>trailer shows you being a cool warrior of darkness
>half of the game you play hide and seek with fairies
What a slog
i want to FRICK feo ul.
>"Easiest EX" according to most people
>Wouldn't know because somehow PF can't do the easiest shit
I'm gonna be parsing gold by the time I find a PF that doesn't immediately frick up meteors
>Never entered Zero EX
>See a party at meteor prog
>Join them
>5 pulls later we clear
It's that easy
I did a blind from start PF last night and we got to at least 50% success rate on meteors after seeing it a few times, maybe more at the end. Really this is nothing compared to Sweeping Immolation on Rubicante which I saw at best 15% success rate in most PFs
Sweeping Immolation had at least a 50% success rate. If you got the stack, it was ez win. With spread it could go either way depending on the party.
It didn't help that there were like 4 different macros going around in the PF and every one of them had a different spread pattern, some had tanks and healers center, some had tanks side, healers center etc etc. All the while the tanks could easily just go to the bad side with immune to give players more room, but of course nobody did that either
took bro 1000 hours to realize the story is shit :skull:
Full reveal at London in 2 weeks or Tokyo in January?
I feel like it will be in London, because she will probably be presented to us in 6.55 which is in January
Tokyo fanfest is early January too, with 6.5.5 dropping the week after.
Anon it's literally Highlander default pose stance, with height being slightly taller, between Highlander and Viera.
That said, all the female leg models in the game are technically the same (except for Lalafell).
The height is what I'm talking about. As long as they're tall and have beastial faces it's good. I just didn't want them as hunched freaks or uwu-ified like fem Au Ra. Female Roegadyn use fem highlander as a base too so male Hroth being male roes with cat heads and fem hroth being female roes with cat heads is fine.
Oh this comparison makes it look much better. Lots of fearmongering of "Highlanders with cat ears".
>she
It's a hrohtgal Anon
the lalafell size difference is gonna be so fricking based
gee more manwomen great investment yoshit!
He's doing it out of spite because he didn't want to do it at all.
He already said Hrothgar isn't made with the intention of being popular. It's to fill in a niche present in the western MMOs he looks at. You should have believed him.
>It's to fill in a niche present in the western MMOs he looks at
Is he moronic? The three most popular western MMOs, WoW, GW2 and ESO, all have beast races
Do you know how to read
Upon rereading it, I understand what you meant, you just typed it out poorly.
>you
That wasn’t me you braindead frick
And how was I supposed to know that? This is an anonymous imageboard Mr.moronic
>They didn't model her upper half
Lame.
why would they model something they dont want to show, you fricking moron
It might've been accidental, but for once they were smart and only showed what was necessary and didn't let dataminers get everything.
They did it on purpose, anon. They knew it would get datamined the minute the servers went back up.
I don’t get it, what’s this?
The female Hrothgar legs with Erenville.
6.5 added female hrothgar legs.
Femhroth.
Datamined model of the teased npc in the final 6.5 cutscene. It's a femHroth. They were smart enough this time to literally delete half the model.
>2 shorter female races
>7 taller female races
>People wanted more tall shit
Yes
I'm still mad.
Imagine if this game was JP only. Maybe in that timeline this would be what vieras look like
The devs worship Matsuno and anything he has worked on. You were always going to get Fran clones.
femroes are done for
I skip any cutscene featuring Alisaie, G'raha or recently Zero. Probably add bunny boy to the list in DT.
It didn't feel so self contained anymore when the writers decided to allow the First to have a stake in the outcome of the story. 6.5 was way better than the previous patches in that you felt some actual large scale story progression.
In the end, its purpose was to set up a Thirteenth expac down the line, like the Warrior of Darkness patch msqs in Heavensward were used to set up Shadowbringers.
>its purpose was to set up a Thirteenth exploratory zone down the line
Fixed, look forward to diablos again.
I wouldn't mind. Love Eureka/Bozja and love the idea of Diabolos being recurring villain.
>Another remix as fire as this
Hell yeah motherfricker
I liked running Dalriada. I do think they should retool the Bozja raids to be put in the roulette.
God Diabolos is so fricking hot
why did nothing diablos related even come up during this void bullshit
Because they couldn't twist Diabolos into some kind of FFIV reference.
Same reason the Unukalhai/Cylva stuff was only mentioned through an optional dialogue at the end. They're reluctant to incorporate stuff building on older optional content in the MSQ because casuals will cry that suddenly they have to do a raid or Eureka/Bozja.
He's not FF4.
hes still from the void in xiv, unless now there are just 2 voids the ff4 void and the completely unrelated xiv void that Unukalhai and Diablos are from
...Is this homie REALLY not dead after Bozja? inb4 some tragic bullshit backstory in 8.x I guess
theres more than one diablos, its a species
In Bozja he was summoned into a vessel. You can't kill a voidsent that way, it just gets zipped back to the Thirteenth when the vessel is no longer usable. Just like when you nullstoned him in Mhach.
Exploratory zone or future patch content is fine by me. 6.5 and 6.4 had a bit too much focus on Zero balance wise, and was too much "teaching autists to love", but all in all it was reasonable, interesting. Better than the worst parts of previous patch stories', worse than the best.
Invading the 13th with an army to reshape the Void sounds cool.
>when the writers decided to allow the First to have a stake in the outcome of the story.
I'm not sure "walking around asking a few npcs if they'll kindly not sentence two whole worlds to die while cleaning up their shard because someone completely unrelated might get upset" is having a stake.
Seriously, I REALLY hope they drop the "we gotta ask for permission every time we try to save the world" plot points in DT. Back in ARR/HW, etc. if the Scions needed to break the law, go undercover or challenge the local leadership to save they day, they fricking did. Hell EW started exactly like that with the whole spying on the forum deal. Tell these fricking newbie writers to come up with better ways to pad out the story.
Don't forget that after the quest you have to walk around to thank everybody for letting you save the world.
>That guy isnt trancer but just a shitposter or something else
Yeah he is lmfao
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/490845-If-you-could-ask-a-single-question-to-Yoshi-P-what-would-it-be
I have a strange feeling they wouldn't actually ask this to Yoshi-P
>entire game is a long lesson on FLASE GODS BAD
>we end up killing false god mom anyway in the end
>people still complain
She's dead, we killed her. Even if she's responsible for trillions of deaths over the course of 12,000 years. Does it even fricking matter any more?
>i type like this
>since i am a redditor
need more line breaks
>>we killed her
>BUT SHE WAS PORTRAYED AS A GOOD GUY AT THE END AND THATS BAD
trancers are mentally ill
Frick off Trancer. You lost.
why do these people
post on Ganker
I guess i was wrong then
I still don't understand them they are crying right now about "mystery is dead" while eating everything ancient related when mystery of them died in their beloved shb
>Need a Quicktongue III materia for the alchemist quest
>only have 2s and 4s
>trialcucked from skipping the effort by buying it off the market
What iLvl gear do I need to grind with for that? Looking at the materia I'm guessing anything between 45 and 70 will work.
Make sure to use spiritbond potions so that you can cap out quicker.
It's funny how you can instantly detect the tourists.. If you are an old player and you think this patch was worse than most of the ARR patches, half of the HW's patches, 4.1 and 4.2 and 5.1 and 5.2 there is somehing wrong with you, just quit at that point. Literally the people freaking out about EW patches are all the WoWshitters unironically because they are not used to a normal patch sched yet. Cope and seethe + didn't read because I'm already gone from this thread so don't even try.
>ot used to a normal patch sched yet. Cope and seethe
funny
LOL
Y'shtola improves every cutscene.
This story is literally the straw that broke the gatos back. Not even she can salvage this shitshow.
Give her summer clothes in DT.
>wake up
>remember that Endwalker is the first expansion to have the X.5 dungeon give lazy recolored armor instead of a new set
>it's not even a cool set, just one everyone hated from Shadowbringers
I will never not be mad, this expansion keeps pissing me off more and more
>2pm EU on a workday
>dalamud not even out of beta testing yet
>1600 people on Mare
How many people use this fricking thing?
The last time I saw someone post numbers, it was about over 16k.
>one (1) person fricks up meteors in the ex
>entire party wipes
literally how?
If you frick up your placement you can just sac yourself and get rezed again
I play on NA is how.
It's happening with alarming regularity.
New job confirmed! Irish.
>IRA job
>pipebombs, fistfighting and knife crime
I wonder if they'll go with the FFTA2 version, since in that game this is the logo of GNM
Every official appearance of Green Mage (few as they are) has had a three leaf clover motif.
Ah the more you know, my only interaction with GNM was from FFTA2.
I mean...we got Black, White, Red, what's wrong with a Green?
>blue so forgettable it doesn't even make anon's list
Shit I actually forgot BLU
Wow... it's a mage but... GREEN.
Epic job choice Yoshida...
>Red Mage
>Black Mage
>Green Mage
>Blue Mage
>Summoner
>Red Mage
>Has a red icon
>Blue Mage
>Has a red icon
>White Mage
>Has a green icon
>Green Mage
>Has a red icon
>Black Mage
>Has a red icon
I unironically hate this. They should have different icon shapes for roles, rather than colors. Make Tanks square, DPS sort of guitar pick shaped, and supports circular.
Remember when Sage icon was altered for the benefit of attention seekers clamoring about a non-existent mental illness?
remember when it was mainly a cover for the first icon looking terrible
You forgot the best one, White Mage.
I agree make yellow mage a reality where its basically a glorified mimic
It's not like they have many choices. Green Mage as a job only really exists in two or three games in the whole series.
What would be the point of a green mage? It was originally a buffer, debuffer. Just being a caster dps seems like an odd implementation. Doesn't seem like they want to go beyond the classic split even if some jobs do lean more in the buffer direction.
Maybe it would be a mix of ranged and magical DPS?
A different kind of RDM? I'm not saying it has to be never before seen, but so far the new job additions have at least a different idea behind them all.
>What would be the point of a green mage?
Either a way to bring back DoT mage now that Warlock SMN is kill, or it will get the Sage treatment and be nothing like its original inspiration.
Buffing yourself
>they bring kaiten back for green mages
Monk has 3 buffs that improve his damage output, I can see that being a caster style.
It will be a support job.
No real support job is possible with the current design of FFXIV - you can't debuff or interrupt enemies nor buff allies in any way except for a raw DPS increase.
Buffs in this game are so pointless anyway. oooo wow, 3%. Save you one whole GCD in the entire fight.
You can't even do more fun buffs, like faster GCD speed because that would offset everyone's rotation from the group buffs
Is WOTV fun?
Don't know, I just grabbed random images from a wiki. It's probably not fun though since it is SE gacha.
They've been wanting to do a mace/hammer job for a while, so I'm guessing this will be their excuse to finally do it.
>he still believes that gaia bullshit yoshi said is real
yoshi teased primal summoning in the overworld back in arr
the steam page still have images of it
I dont see it in game
devs too lazy, they are giving you hammers as axe glams.
If they're going all out with the green + clover thing, it'll be a shillelagh.
the postergirl for hte job is Krile, they're not doing any physicality with the job like Hammers.
The mace would just be a fancy staff just like RDM swords anyways, so I doubt that'll be a problem.
>finally get a hammer job
>it's a CASTER
Frick Japan
back to the cuckshed your shitty job is not happening
this is runefencer territory
>BLU is from the New World
>The letter is from the new world, so GNM would be from there too
I wonder if they have a long history of green and blue mages, like Eorzea with black/white/red. Are they somehow linked? Maybe they use a similar weapon, like a cane or one handed club, will they somehow be linked to monster magic, but the usage is different? I don't think they'll be similar to classic FF green mages like Sages aren't really the same either.
Wasn't BLU from notAustralia?
It's from the New World, practiced by the Whalaqee injuns
It's from North !America
>Are they somehow linked?
BLU is Northern Tural, GRM would most likely be Southern Tural, so I doubt they are linked.
Thaumaturgy and Conjury are also from different parts of Eorzea. They are like 2 sides of the same coin, opposite, but the same in a way.
It would be pretty consistent for BLU and GNM to be similar.
>GNM
>implying it won't be GRN
Nah, it will be GRM.
BLU is the only one not to follow the same naming scheme as the other color mages, and that's only because it would make its shortform be BLM as well.
We don't know if BLU is from the northern half yet. One of the zone descriptions they gave at fanfest talked about massive ceruleum deposits, like where the Whalaqee live.
I am going to play the Ganker mage
its a 3chan mage
Was about to either use 3chan or 4cha but ended up with the safest choice instead
I could see it being a DoT Mage, or a utility caster, or an even more physical RDM given how it's primary spellcasting is debuffs so you throw on a DoT or two then beat the shit out of your enemy with a mace or hammer. Though I don't see Krile using either of those.
How mad will you be when it's Gambler or some twisted fricked up take on Puppeteer.
I'll actually kill myself if we don't get beast master
>wow what a strange earring
>it looks completely normal
It's a hint about the upcoming Netflix film "Leprechaun in Eorzea"
So she was a leprachaun after all!
How long until emergency maintenance?
>See nothing
>Then suddenly realize
What the frick happened?
Buffs just randomly shit themselves now.
Might be tied to Dancer since every instance of the bug has had a DNC in the party.
There's a new bug where buffs will completely bug out and spit out random things to random party members.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1942963632?t=0h18m29s
>all that autistic screeching and giggling
Fricking hell.
>DNC literally get infinite Standard step
>Constant 720pot attack
lmao
Not just infinite Standard Step
lol this reminds me of that time bosses could steal hallowed ground application from paladins
https://www.fflogs.com/reports/L3MK9dxZHGFzbWRc#fight=8&type=damage-done
>Quadruple Technical Finish: 248 casts
lmao
>16k DPS DNC
BIG
DICK
ENERGY
It's Unreal too, so that's with 565 ilvl sync.
>That DNC
>content more staggered out than ever
>still manage to have a gamebreaking bug in the game
They really don't give a shit about XIV any more.
stormblood was the beginning of the end, this is when the subs started dropping, mine included.
So Krile will become Irish?
Lala's in the New World will be called Leprechauns.
I will still pray to Halone
They said that was ok, it will just be collected by the pray-o-matic now.
INCREDIBLY smoochable
Total Hyur Love
Please for the love of god let green mage have a cool weapon and not just another fricking staff
>after the atrocity
"ahhhhhhhhhh~"
>Dye my Green Mage armor blue
My WHM glam is red.
>dye my DRK set pure white
>dye my PLD set jet black
ONORE… RYO FU SETSUJIN
>Dye my Scholar armor Summoner
you are a grown ass man you cant be groomed
okay daddy teehee :3
>kitten
>papa
>mommy
I wish I could crack their heads with a lead pipe
How would you react if you were in this situation?
Laugh. It's either a good joke which deserves laughter or a genuine WC which should be laughed at.
>Blocking out names
Not my image.
Malera? its always malera.
Are doomposters paid or just Barry level pathetic? This is ridiculous. Anyone who plays this game knows 3.X patches almost killed the game, 4.X was stupid fake echo shit that was pointless as frick in the overall story, 5.X had cool WoL trial, rest was rather meh.
I feel like the majority of people have checked out until 7.0 at this point. Seems fairly normal honestly.
>see some sprout in pf doing Final Day
>its locked ilvl 570 now so why not
>its still so goddamn kino
I feel like such a gay but I teared up after a year of not doing the trial
It is kino and I tear up every time.
The best thing about Endwalker is that Stormblood (the best expansion) has been vindicated. Maybe Contentblood isn't looking so bad to you morons now, huh?
Its still shit except for the postpatches.
So EU fanfest is in what, 2 weeks? A bit more?
They will surely show one of the jobs but what else? Is it finally time to show femhroth?
Longer trailer and whatever EW content they have yet to reveal. Current progress on the graphics update.
It's better timing to drop the femhroth trailer in the JP fanfest to go along with the benchmark and 6.55, but there's always a chance it shows up in the EU one.
London: full Corsair reveal, brief and partial glimpse of Krile in Green Mage outfit in the extended trailer. Keynote ends with femHroth reveal;
Tokyo: full green Mage reveal with final cinematic trailer version, benchmark with femHroth and updated old races
You can look at sb and shb eu fanfests but i think that they will show something about 24 man and 8 man series (theme, bosses maybe), there will Sakaguchi and people think that he will help making 24 man
First Job Reveal, will prob be Green Mage.
2nd Job + Full trailer (WoL revealed as Corsair) and Femhroth will be at JP Fanfest, week after if patch 6.55.
i became a cutscene skipper with the post EW MSQ content. absolute drivel. Between the
>shit msq
>forced hildebrand for the relic, which itself was literally just tome turn in's
>the boring fricking trials
>the godawful crafter/gatherer relic quests which are pressing the same macro 50 times over the course of an hour, x9 for each tool
i genuinely think the post EW content is the worst the game has ever been. Outside of maybe post ARR MSQ. On the other hand i discovered the joys of fishing and just caught Jaws of Death and Listracanthus in one cast > mooch so that was based
MYSTERY
TRANCE
A couple days ago I was telling my FC mates that for a MMO, FFXIV is really bug free and things get patched quickly.
>New DNC glitch
>Mfw
Remember when Yoshida said the extra time between patches was to prevent crunch and allow for extra polish? Kek
Remember when it was supposed to be 4 months and not 5?
Heh, it's incredible what he's allowed to just get away with. Nobody ever questions him or pushes him on anything.
What's the glitch?
It's just a cosmetic one, buffs frick up and show random ones but they don't actually give you the effect.
lol
It's not cosmetic, in that vid there are rezzes being cancelled, infinite dancing, combos failing, invulns being removed. It's a disaster.
Why are dancers like this? Fricking bawds only good for being public toilets
They actually do. Triplecast/Swiftcast works with PLD spells for instance. It's just that there are a lot of buffs that only work in conjunction with abilities from their original job, but any buff that stands on its own works fine.
In the log from
, you can see that Rdps gets credited towards the bugged out buffs who get applied to the party even without the required jobs being present.
I've skipped every cutscene and dialog since HW
I have never watched a cutscene or a video. Not even guides. Yes, I joined your clear party for Ex and Savage.
You bought the Nophica portrait for your house right?
I don't even use my houses
My mom said no to naughty pictures.
Anon
She is your mom
and she said no.
I don't know where to buy it
Duremert in the Pillars around (9.7, 10.7), each portrait costs 20k.
SIRS please be buying the very good Zero poster for only $5 USD
That's probably the ugliest patch art ever
3.5 exists
I wasn't ready for this
Dios mio, Alphinaud forma horsefart
>That WoL stare
>Papalymo's face
What the frick.
Wol fricking ears
Not the worst but it's certainly one of the worst ones.
I'd crop it with other shit and just display the Alisaie 😀 face
I hope Ryne grows into a titty monster like that.
>I hope Ryne grows
Anon, I...
When was the lore book out again?
I hope she grows chubby with coffee biscuits
Coffee Biscuits are so last season you idiot. You fricking moron.
This.
Tinctures of Vitality/Intelligence are this expansion's hotness if you have at least one combat retainer.
It's in the lore book bro
Gaia says she doesn't like coffee biscuits in 6.5
Same bro.
>mfw this is official art
See nothing wrong here chief
Doesn't matter
No more god breasts
Frick
We didn't even get a chance to enjoy Llymlaen's
How do i enjoy playing any race that isnt a Lalafell?
Playing Lalafell has ruined me on playing any other race because they all feel so fucning slow compared to how Lalafells zip around the screen even though I'm aware that everyone moves the same actual speed.
Use Customize+ and set all scales to 0.5
So what's causing the bug? Seems strange that the game would just randomly start shitting out buffs for no reason.
I didn't notice anything like it when I was clearing Zeromus on patch day, and there was a DNC in my group too.
Bet it's status overflow once again like in TOP
Apparently the devs are trying to fix buff limits but they've clearly fricked up something deep here. Some screenshots have buffs belonging to jobs which aren't even in the party.
I'm no programmer but wouldn't that just involve increasing an interger somewhere? Seems strange that it would lead to this sort of cascade failure.
>I'm no programmer but wouldn't that just involve increasing an interger somewhere?
No, because it's an online game. That makes it more complicated as you have to handle communication (packets) between the clients and server.
You can't just "increase the integer" when dealing with specific data packets with tight specifications designed to transmit and or store certain amount of data per unit of time
It's also why they can't just easily increase inventory space
It also limits the number of character customisations possible because the server transmits EVERY character's face,hair,nose,colours,etc to every other character in the zone every single tick. Which is why it was a massive undertaking to do something as simple as adding midlander stubble in EW.
Why in the absolute frick would they make it work like that? That seems horribly inefficient no matter how you slice jt.
This is just how Japan is with netcode. Look at Nintendo's online services with their horrendous lag etc for another example. I imagine there's less interest in making good netcode in nipland because they all have high bandwidth and low ping, so it's just not something given serious consideration like in the west.
>Look at Nintendo's online services with their horrendous lag etc for another example.
That's not netcode, it's because it's all p2p
homie, Japan internet is SHIT unless you live in Tokyo because boomers that are about to go senile don't see a problem with using the same telephone lines that the country has used since the fricking 60s because they are still chained to their land-lines and fax machines. The only reason why the japs don't give a frick about good networking is because they are extremely isolationist online and their island is so tiny that the lack of distance saves their asses from experiencing bad ping
It won't just be "an integer", it will be to do with the total packet size or something. These things can get complex when you're transmitting and syncing data multiple times per second. Also japs are infamously bad at netcode and SE are working on 10+ yr/old spaghetti engine code where the original programmers have probably fricked off years ago.
>wouldn't that just involve increasing an interger somewhere
Everything to do with character creation, inventory, and Hrothgar/Viera limitations also winds dopwn to "just increasing an integer". But because of the game's shitty core netcode, increasing an integer causes all kinds of problems.
The game is made of spaghetti thats why some dude linked it to something years ago and probably any change will frick up things
They tried to up the player buff limit for some instances. I'm guessing they broke something while doing that.
They increased the buff cap in some duties maybe thats the cause of it idk
zeromus broke the rift between instances
>This is the kind of moron that the game is designed around now
Grim
>the comments seething on the video
kek
>Gee, thanks. . .not all of us have played every class and know what every ability does. I need help on every roleplay battle, to me they're hard, period.
Jesus. Did these fricks only play Candycrush before joining XIV?!
Every MMO has shitters like these. They had to remove proving ground requirements in WoW because people were locked out of heroic dungeons.
>They had to remove the one thing that kept morons out of positions where they could frick themselves and other over
I will forever hate MMO devs for continually avoiding the one thing that would improve the gameplay experience for 80% of the playerbase by 10x
ew's base story wasn't much better so idk why people thought the .x patch stuff would be good
I'll possibly forgive them since this was basically just a nothing story to tide us over until the new arc officially begins, but if 7.0 is this awful, then yeah I'm just gonna raid log and do nothing else. XVI's story was amazing compared to EW patch and that's not a good look.
Why the frick did they just reveal the Twelve just to kill them?
They are not dead they are just chilling in the aetherial cum flow
We'll they couldn't very well kill them without revealing them now could they
merchandise
Because they wanted to wrap up every single thing about the original setting to give a blank slate for the newcomers.
It does feel like its leading to that.
It's already done. Every conflict is resolved, every mystery is unearthed, primals are safe now, the original setting is concluded.
Demystifying and removing all the gods is really shit, even if it is common in FF. Fantasy worlds with actual gods with real power who interact with the world are so interesting. I loved the interactions with gods in BG3, especially the one where Vlaakith just snuffs you for being uppity.
>Vlaakith
>God
She's just another high tier lich with access to wish. Elminster is of the same level. If she try to do that shit to a level 17 spellcaster, they can just counterspell her wish spell at level 9 and tell her to try again.
They can even do this earlier with a lower level counterspell if they're lucky.
Same. When Zero failed the first time to harness the power of light I thought okay she will probably take until at least 6.55 to be able to use it. I didn't expect it to happen 2 minutes later.
Dude you wanted it to take LONGER? I could have fricking kissed Ryne on the spot when she thankfully just handed Zero the cheat code.
i hate the scions so fricking much its unreal
>end of EW sets up perfectly for the scions to be in the backseat
>marketed as the end of a major story arc
>new adventures implied for 7.0
you can tell that stupid fujo pink haired b***h had a hand in making the scions not actually disband. Frick off.
>you can tell that stupid fujo pink haired b***h had a hand
It's time to take a break from the internet anon.
The Scions don't disband or die because they are highly marketable. It's the triumph of marketing metrics over storytelling, and one of the few bad story decisions which it's unfair to pin on the writers.
>the scions disband (not really, just a cover up)
>they all go their seperate ways for the time being
>expect to atleast be away from them for the patches
>nope meet with more than half of them again by the second patch
>6.5 acts like us "getting together" is a big deal
this writer sucks so fricking much jesus christ, can't believe they gave this homosexual an entire expansion to write for
I can't wait for the writers to try to recycle the same character arcs like they did with Alphinaud.
I would say they are going to get into a problem when people start getting bored of them and they didn't even try to push new characters, but fujos have terminal shit taste and will eat anything as long as it has graha doing ear wiggles.
Sadly the scion flanderisation is widely well received so we'll be stuck with them until the game dies.
>stupid fujo pink haired b***h
wtf are you even talking about?
Kojis replacement writer
How would a translator have anything to do with the decisions made by the Japanese writing team?
I think the Scions are really cool and would love for them to actually expand on them in DT and going forward.
Seems like a really shit card if you have to fill your field with TEN other cards in order for it to activate
>Kate's been in charge since ShB
>Yoshi intentionally didn't tell this because he knew players would be moronic incels about it
Anon, the story is bad because ishikawa was awol for the 6.x story and she's basically the only competent writer.
But whoever decided 6.1 should be advertised as a new fresh adventure and immediatley dropping it after the dungeon should be strung up by their entrails
6.1 and beyond was a fresh new adventure.
It was basically a compressed version of the overall game's arc.
>regular adventure shit for cash
>someone needs help only you can give
>friends use knowledge and connections to help
>the scope of the problem expands as you learn about it
>bad guy needs your problem to continue for his horrific plan
>dismantle horrific plan piece by piece
>dismantling came too late and/or serves horrific plan
>Cid adapts known technology to help you out
>get help from general populace
>strike back against bad guy
>learn bad guy has good motivations
>talk him down or kill him
>slow non-horrific process to fix massive problem starts
This goes back to ARR and maybe 1.0 with Garlemald wanting to conquer and genocide to prevent primal summonings.
It's a good loop, just needed expanding.
Hyped for Dawntrail.
Yes, when do preorders drop?
>AI art is now indistinguishable from hand drawn
it's over
>indistinguishable
get your eyes and brain checked
>indistinguishable
>immediately recognized it as AI art
Huh?
Only took you a decade and 30 something patches to realize huh? It's ok anon 🙂
Just quit before you go deeper into sunk cost then. The atrocious msq is the main selling point. Run while you can!
The only way to save FFXIV is for the devs to stop shoving in shitty "le high end" content that the average person doesnt care about and doesnt engage in
They put all this dev time into this shit, and what, like 5% of the playerbase ever touches it? Utterly moronic. It isnt 2009 anymore, nobody gives a shit about raiding except mentally ill neets. Raiding is a dead concept in literally every mmo that isnt wow, and that isnt saying much considering wow is a dead game only played by the raiders who are left over
Also stop adding moronic mechanic bloat to every boss. The new alliance raid bosses would be so much more enjoyable if they had 30% less bullshit going on
No.
A game can be boring without challenging bosses.
>even these brain dead ARs are too much for people
Consider suicide
>Cut out raiding, only 5% does it
>Cut out island sanctuary, only 5% does it
>Cut out crafting, only 5% does it
>Cut out fishing, only 5% does it
>Cut out fates, only 5% does it
>Cut out all content that only less than 10% of the players do
>Where did all the players go wtf
You're a real genius anon. The game has issues, but ideas like yours is why other MMOs never flourished. "Focus" just means "less players"
are you seriously trying to imply that fishing / crafting / fates and so on take the same amount of dev time to make as an EX or ultimate fight does?
also, its pretty obvious more than 5% of people engage with all of the examples you just mentioned, since it is casual content, and casual players make up the vast majority of the playerbase
atleast use a tiny bit of your brain before you speak, please anon
The EX and Savage are developed alongside the normal modes, and use the same assets and code. You're really not saving much dev time in exchange for killing content that a lot of the playerbase actually does engage with. Savage engagement is around 20%, and extreme is higher than that.
Cut out content and you lose players, then even the turbocasuals will notice when their friendslists and FCs are suddenly all offline.
This but also for fishing, crafting, custom deliveries, hunts, sidequests, triple triad, and all other optional content. We should only have MSQ, cashshop glams and Limsa AFK because that's the content with high engagement.
Ultimate is literally the longest living content in the game. How many UCOB PFs you see compared to an EX from just a few months ago.
>The only way to save FFXIV is for the devs to pander to coomers and fujos
fix'd that for you
Why are we going to Tural in boat when we have the artificial aetheryte tech thing?
The experimental aetheryte thing sucks and it's not even far away.
Going by boat is more fun
>why would we hurtle headlong into some relatively unknown land leaving ourselves incapacitated and potentially at the mercy of bad actors
moron
>Ryne gave up being a NIN and is now a BTN
Gatheringchads just can't stop winning.
I hear farmgirls like it in the rear.
>7.0 is just standalone story with local final boss
>Next doesn't start until 7.5 again
The end of 7.0 will probably tease the next Zodiark/Ascian level big bad
Is there anything implied to be that high level of a threat?
>le serpent
No
>le serpent
yes
Also note the massive fricking crack across the ocean/panama in the new world map they showed.
It's gonna be whatever eldritch alien civ created Ultima and the zodiac stones/auracite. That shit was stronger than Amaurotines. It was strong enough that Athena went fricking insane trying to fully use and understand it's power. (She still failed).
it was also in the trailer as well so it's of some importance
different anon, but huh, i didn't notice that
ayyy lmaooo lizard people
forgot image
This is the Azem symbol
Not even close
>get to the new world
>wrap up the succession crisis thing after 1 dungeon/trial
>discover there was a bigger evil engineering the politics so he could get his hands on [ancient power]
>follow the trail and it all leads to the ancients and Azem
>go back to every citystate/ally in Eorzea to say hi and get their support for some reason
>fight the bigger evil and defeat him
>in the cutscene after he defeats us instead and unleashes le world serpent but it eats him
>it's imminently going to devour everything
>Y'shtola realises we need to [blah blah aether] from the other shards
>enjoy 3 zones of fixing trolleys and unblocking toilets on other shards to get their consent
>come back and fight the world serpent and save the world
>everyone claps
Something going on in one of the other shards, though I don't know what elements they have left to cause a calamity. Maybe we'll travel to the continent north of Tural
One of the Shards getting uppity and invading and attempting to conquer shit with advanced tech is the most likely source of conflict with anotherShard I'd imagine
Ultima
But I'd rather watch a new villain slowly become a real threat.
>le serpent
>no
maybe you should play ffx you midwit
you know, the game they're basing the whole dawntrails concept on
The only FFX thing in Dawntrail so far are the Pelopelo. The primary conflict so far is centered around a FFXI reference and the primal fight they revealed is FFVI.
still play it, its a good game
I did.
Yeah, probably.
It's bound to mainly be FF V wank because of Krile and Galuf.
Like Endwalker was IV wank because of the moon, right? moron.
Endwalker is constant IV wank, so yeah.
Yes? Did you not play for the past two years,
>Tower of Zot
>Tower of Babil
>the moon
>Loporrits
>Magus Sisters
>FFIV tomestone sets
>Troia
>Scarmiglione
>Barbariccia
>Cagnazzo
>Rubicante
>Golbez
>Mt. Ordeals
>Octomammoth
>Lunar Subterrane
>Zeromus
What did he mean by this?
Oh yeah, also Barnabas, Lugae, and coming soon Asura
>moron calling others moron
Why is Ganker like this?
goddamn, you're fricking moronic. thinks men and be women too
I'm sure they are running out of stuff from FFV to wank.
Who?
They basically wrote themselves into a corner, the universe was killed by a sad bird and everything was done by the ancients.
The only thing would be Nomura style Lufenians.
Sin
Please no. I just want Cho'gath (Mamool'Ja) to be freakishly powerful without any ancient evil bullshit
>It could've been wow expansion worse.
This expansion in a nutshell.
>Expansion where they wrap up everything.
>Followed by a expansion about seafaring and mesoamerican civilizations.
I'm noticing a trend here.
I am making a giant muscly furrywoman and will be furiously jerking off in my inn room to her.
Wait a minute, so next expansion is just southern new world? just brazilians and llamas? because that sounds boring as shit
We're searching for El Dorado.
>Fantasy World has the same legends in the same locations as our world
Amazing imagination writers!
This is why the planet's true original name should have been Earth, with the name Eorzea originating from the memory of it.
I mean, have you played the rest of the game
Yes and you can do things different like Garlemalds, they are nazis/romans but they live in the planet's Syberia
Holy Roman Empire
>next Monster Hunter colab event featuring Kulve Taroth
We know at least 2 (3?) zones are there, but others have not been revealed. My cynical imagination is that we'll also do some shard hopping and end up saving the world as usual instead of having a comfy 6 zones low(er) stakes expansion all in the same region.
Just a quick reminder that the new island mount is timegated behind seven months of felicitous favors. Enjoy.
Does anyone have a picture on where you're suppose to put meteors for Zeromus EX? I don't know what's killing me most of the time.
>drag it forwards and away from the source
>make sure the tether doesn't go through a meteor (it will go red)
>make sure you're not standing right next to another meteor (it will go red)
>don't stand in someone else's tether when it goes off, that will kill you
There's one meteor all the way south next to the spots where the lines spawn and people seemed to have trouble noticing that.
This void arc was so generic that I don't understand how they missed the oportunity to reveal that Zero's real name is Cecilia and the real brother was Golbez. That way it would have made more sense for Durante to become a good guy to protect his best friend's sister.
>look for new XIV videos
>get Desperius spam worse than Meoni
Would Meteion's Song of Oblivion work on the Denizens of the 13th?
Yes, voidsent are aetheric
Probably won't change appearancewise though, they are discount Terminus
So they would be able to emo themselves to death?
msq has always been good but nothing worthy of subbing for
only wowbucks think that because they were sold on the story alone
>The most popular guide for Thordan Unreal in Light DC has ranged spread near melee, and melee spread further from boss
Surely nothing bad will come of this. I won't have to listen to endless arguments how melee should go nw/ne and ranged straight w/e, right?
Who is the best guide for this, because I haven't done Thordan Unreal yet?
Whatever you DC's PF circlejerk decided. Just check what they're saying in PF and go with that, the worst thing you can do is start mixing it up and introduce different strats
Keeping the positions same throughout the fight has its merits even if they're not optimal for every part.
But yes you'll have to suffer listening to endless arguments about that shit because melee uptime totally matters on a weekly meme fight that no one sane even parses.
The thing is that the clock position spreads are completely arbitrary, except for that one point. The other times when you do it there are no targets to attack
I think at the start of the fight you use them for the mini lightnings. Yes anyone sane could do that without murdering the MT even if the overall positions were melee NE/NW but it's PF so don't expect sanity.
Ranged shouldn't go NW/NE either because the boss cleaves right before it. Just spread around in the south
I didn't want endless arguments about why the spots should be different.
But you will inevitably get them in P3 when melee greed and don't want to run far away from the boss to break tethers or drop puddles when the ranged can just stay near
Remember back before Endwalker when people used macros, and sometimes you'd get macros that were slightly different and sometimes the PF leader would even warn you about it and tell you to check your positions to make sure where you go.
Yeah if only we could do that.
I remember in EW when Rubicante came out and every macro had different positions for Sweeping Immolation. Then when the party leader posted the macro, someone posted another macro with different positions and I got to listen to idiotic debates about what positions to use
I never want to do Rubicante again
Well just stick to Hector's shitty spreads then and get your weekly fox leafs.
I will, but I'm also keeping an eye out for the melee players who will inevitably kill the ranged
So, Shtola having a great ass is canon, right?
All of those fricking cookies she has during tea are starting to fill her backside
That's too brown to be Shtola.
That's Y'Shtola to you, pigdog.
Yes.
I hope the shit with Zero is really finally over, hate that character.
For the next expansion? kinda, but she is going to return in the future or at least for optional content
>Only decent thing about her was the outfit and fedora
>they remove it and she's basically flat as a plank of a wood in her new PLD gear
>91-93 MSQ in the new world
>Major shift in story after 1st trial
>Couple of levels of cleaning up some mess
>Last 2 zones are in the Void with Zero
>still haven't gotten the reveal that her true name is Cecilia
>they keep draggin Unukalhai and Cylva along
>real Golbez is still trapped in that crystal
Outside of a full void-based expansion we've still gotta fight corrupted Golbez and learn Zero's real name, which is obviously going to be Cecilia.
Wait. Is her name confirmed to be Cecilia? Was joking with my friends that that was going to be her real name.
No.
>Only chance to mention Unukalhai to Zero is well after you leave the first
For what fricking purpose?
Because he can't have actual relevance in the story since he's locked behind optional content, so you can only mention him after he would have been relevant.
I want the first trial to just be some powerful monster in a cave, give us newfound adventure you cowards.
Did they put the last relic step in already or do we have to wait two more weeks?
>two more weeks?
Try three more months.
buddy they have to keep you subbed for another 8+ months until dawntrail
Why? It's just fricking tomes and all the raids are now finished. What's the point of releasing the last relic step when there's nothing to them on? Even Criterion will be dead (again) in January
for the glamour. it's the reward system in this game. not actual gear with stats.
You have to wait until January.
??? why wait that long? It really doesn't matter power wise and the relix step is just buying 3 rocks. Would savage raider be upset if people got better weapons?
Because it's connected to Hildibrand and they decided Hildibrand comes in January. That's really the only reason.
they are a for profit business not your friends
What's profitable about releasing content that can be completed during the free 3 day trial?
Final relic step is always in the X.55 patch;
SE wants to get your subscription money. Savage raiders want people to have an easier time gearing up at this point.
gearing has always been moronicly slow in this game
things are still locked and unfarmable months after everyone who cares has stopped raiding
twines and shines are horrendously limited
criterion will finally offer something but only the savage mode which you need to be BiS to handle anyway
relics are too slow to be relevant
The 24man should drop 660 gear with different stat allocations. Variant should drop tokens, Criterion should drop fully upgraded gear. There is no reason not to let people just gear whatever they want and have fun at this point.
>bigger numbers
why is this what drives you? pvp doesn't take gear into account. there's only parsing
Savage is built such that getting good gear is a catchup mechanic that makes the fight a bit easier - this is a good system for players who don't clear in week 1/2 but gearing drags on frustratingly for months in order to retain players by annoying them. It would be more fun and enjoyable for everyone if there were alternate gearing methods released around week 8 of savage.
good gear isn't going to make you do body checks better, give a tank enough hp to not have to invuln, etc
Indeed, and the excessive body checks are another issue. But gear does help with tight dps checks, sloppy mitigation, the occasional recoverable death etc. It's a simple fact that we have gearing as part of the savage gameplay loop and that many players are aided in their clears by gear.
Good gear makes you skip more mechanics which increases your chances of clearing. You can absolutely raise zombie through P10S with bis while you can only zombie maybe 4-5 deaths in full crafted.
joke's on you they shoved body checks into every fight of this tier
if you have 1 (one) moron in your static you're not clearing for months
Ar8jwj
Why do you want 660 gear to be exclusive to raiders?
I'm excluded from playing a variety of content with all roles because gearing is a pain in the ass. I don't give a shit about the numbers, I just want to join the 650/660 EX PF party that's only missing a healer, but my healer gear sucks
6.55.
6.51 is the criterion dungeon and a pvp update.
you aren't getting that finished anytime soon. you normalgays have to stay subbed for at least several more months.
which of these portraits makes you feel like your healer is funny, competent, professional and cute?
First one or the sixth one
Scion dating would have been better than the island sanctuary. You could have made it be some daily quests you do together with them, get some cool little cutscenes and maybe even reference your choice in the MSQ in some subtle way. I legit can no fathom why they wouldn't go that step, even FFVII had a dating mechanic.
They are running out of excuses not to do it. Y'shtola is involved in so many different plot threads by now that offing her would be completely impossible. We know the Twins will never croak and neither will G'raha. It is even easier for situational NPC's like Yugiri who is only relevant for any Doma related stuff.
I wish they just let it happen already, with as much shit as the WoL and the scions have been through together it seems natural that the WoL would develop a romantic relationship with at least of them
WoL is an autistic god killer that only nods and scoffs before going for another deity.
Even an autistic god killer needs love.
My headcanon is that my female viera has has been hopelessly in love with Y'shtola from the day she recruited her into the scions, but can't express it. I want her to finally have all the hot lesbian bun/cat sex she dreams of with Y'shtola
They teased it for the 5th anniversary and then never again.
They were joking.
I know, but even joking with it they know there is a demand for it.
Well of course.
My King.
>visit the first
>don't get to see Feo Ul
>just more "teehee coffee biscuits!" from Ryne
Frick.
>skip everything story related
>don't have to care about the shitty writing anymore
>make up my own canon where I get to frick all the b***hes while adventuring with my bros
The optimal FFXIV experience
reminder Venat is 1000% dead as canonically stated by Yoshi P himself
she's not even in the lifestream like Emet
Not in my game world, fricko
Did they removed more skills since that cool looking SAM one?
>NO YOU SEE THE BAD GUY SUDDENLY BECOMING GOOD IS GOOD WRITING BECAUSE HE SHARED A NAME WITH A CHARACTER FROM A DIFFERENT GAME THAT HAD A COMPELTELY DIFFERENT SETUP AND CONTEXT
>defending "OMG HE WAS JUST MINDCONTROLLED BY A BIGGER BAD!!!!"
I see you can't read
t. a brain-addled homosexual who can't understand characters that are morally gray
There is no morally grey a character switching from straight bad to straight good is as black and white as can be
>straight bad
The fact that he was doing this to atone for his colossal frick up and save his world shows that he was not "straight bad"
FFXVI was the game that finally made me accept that Yoshi P is a massive hack and onetrick pony. He did one good thing in XIV which worked for most of the maingame and Heavensward and since then he just kept doing the same shit over and over and over and over again. He did it so much that he even somehow managed to do a full singleplayer actiongame that STILL feels like his usual shit.
what's bad about FF16?
It constantly fricks with the pacing to make you spend three hours every time you enter a new town sucking up to the villagers with FFXIV sidequests. The periods between eikon battles really just feel like you're playing FFXIV.
It was really mediocre to begin with, and it ultimately failed due to poor platform decisions, and somehow managed to take FFXIV with it, since these moronic Black folk though it would be a good idea to leave a subscription-based MMORPG just dusting on a shelf for 2 years without content
Also you should remember his hillarious claims that turn-based RPGs are "le bad and outdated" moments before BG3 stole the show for 2023 games
>Also you should remember his hillarious claims that turn-based RPGs are "le bad and outdated" moments before BG3 stole the show for 2023 games
Octopath Traveler 2 is a better FF game than any FF since X maybe XII, I haven't thought about it enough. The turn-based thing is so fricking stupid
>Octopath Traveler 2
still has denuvo
They removed that last month
It has some major pacing issues throughout the main story, which is exasperated if you like doing side content for extra character and world lore and whatnot, but up until the last like 10 to 15 hours of the game the side quests are pretty terrible. Basically the highs are so high that when you're then made to spend 6 hours after one doing literal mmo tier fetch quests it sours the experience. Also the base difficulty of the game is way too easy and the unlockable difficulty has too much health bloat, the game desperately needs a KH Critical mode style difficulty option.
>Windows of my rank 5 cabin let the rain in.
Fix this nooow.
>Durante spends 5,000 years torturing Azdaja
>while Vrtra is busy reuniting with her, Zero turns and speaks for the group telling him he doesn't have to apologize because he already atoned by helping her
This made me unreasonably angry.
>mfw
>mfw the end of myths
Endwalker is a mistake and deserves a retcon
Zero literally said that she would drag his ass out of the chasm if Vrtra wanted an apology from him
Wow, how kind of her to offer that after she already spoke for everyone. She's such a caring leader! It's not her fricking place to do any of that. It's not her place to tell Vrtra he's allowed to ask for an apology.
>It's not her fricking place to do any of that. It's not her place to tell Vrtra he's allowed to ask for an apology.
You're either moronic or trolling. Which one is it?
Neither. How do you not see what's wrong with that? Especially after she already told Durante that everything he did is forgiven because he helped HER. She specifically singles herself out. He helped HER so everything is forgiven.
>nooo you can't just forgive someone who helped you because... because you just can't!!!
Zero wasn't wronged by Durante, Vrtra and Azdaja were. It's not her place to forgive him on their behalf because he helped her.
By your logic, Vrtra is a piece of shit for forgiving Durante in Azdaja's place
Did you play some kind of special edition version of the game where she turns to Vrtra and tells him that he has to forgive Durante?
Oooh I see you must have played some weird version of the game where she didn't turn to Durante while Vrtra and Azdaja were reuniting to tell him that he was forgiven for what he did to Vrtra and Azdaja.
>to tell him he was forgiven for what he did to Vrtra and Azdaja.
Is this your headcanon? Cause in the scene that played in the game she gives a generic "make amends" speech, Vrtra says he can't forgive him, and then they leave. Later on she explains why Durante isn't there and says that she can bring Durante there so he can apologize if Vrtra wants, to which Vrtra declines.
I'm not sure how you came to your unhinged interpretation of that scene, but I'm guessing it has to do with a lack of meds or you're ovulating.
>Cause in the scene that played in the game she gives a generic "make amends" speech
lol no, she tells him that he's already made amends by helping her. You probably see no issue with the scene because, like many XIV trannies, you're a narcissist.
Vrtra never forgave him.
>You probably see no issue with the scene because, like many XIV trannies, you're a narcissist.
Or I'm not an unhinged woman on her period.
Or, more accurately, you're a narcissist troony who thinks the world revolves around him (yes, HIM).
Whatever you say, ma'am.
>Vrtra never forgave him.
Vrtra forgave him when he said that torturing his sister-wife was okay because Durante's actions were more than enough.
It came today, finally. I ordered this two months ago and it came. It's so good. I'll be wearing this at the London fanfest, you see me wearing this come and say hello.
WHAT IS GOING ON
XVI addon is in the making, quality testers were not available for 6.5
>extend buff cap
>this happens
I really don't want to know what's happening in the codebase
heres how you fix gearing
loot lockouts are role based so you can repeat fights on different roles and not frick people over
loot lockouts in general are lifted MUCH earlier, at the latest by the next major patch preferably earlier
once youve bought something with a particular floors books the prices for items bought with that book are halved
all tomestone costs are halved
crafted gear introduced for floors 4-8/9-12 are the same item level as the previous savage series (ie 1-4/4-8) rather than a higher item level so that spending the time to achieve bis isnt completely useless outside of on-patch ultimate prog (note: crafted gear would still technically be better because of penta melding but the difference would be minute and min ilvl is already balanced around not penta melding according to the devs)
I like you ideas but also, basically nothing change if you're just new to raid a new tier with your suggestion, aside from
>all tomestone costs are halved
Gearing is not just savage and should still come from other piece of content (and I'm not talking about tomestone gears, which is just specific stats you can't change).
I would add
's suggestion with yours.
Also don't forget that players are stupid and will still set absurd ilvl requirements to join groups. (I still remember that NIN with a very high ilvl requirements for P6S, 30mn in PF, we start, he SINGLE HANDEDLY wipes the group 3 times ALONE and quit/disband, thank you mr nin)
vc and alliance raid come so late that theres no point of them dropping savage gear when savage should just be unlocked by then
i think the initial gearing period for each savage series is pretty much fine for the most part, my issue is that it shouldn’t take an additional 8 weeks to gear a second job
the entire play any job on one character system is completely pointless when you cannot effectively play a second job on your character until your first job is finished or you just dont care about fricking over other peoples chests
and also forcing you to buy all new crafted gear every single series is annoying and is only there to incentivize you to keep your sub up and grind gil
Crafted gear bro.
Tell that to every 655+ PF. Crafted stops being "socially acceptable" a few weeks in because people want the fights to get easier.
not sure how thats a response to a single thing ive said in my last two posts
I agree with what you say, crafted gear in week 1 feels weird since it's mandatory for a lot of people, while it should be catch-up gear.
>vc and alliance raid come so late that theres no point of them dropping savage gear when savage should just be unlocked
So, why not just give 655 (or 650 or twine... idk) if it's not impacting anyone? I've not done any savage this tier, and i've barely one job at 650. I can't even do the new EX aside from this specific job (also because I don't want to swap materia to SPS for BLM ..)
im not necessarily against 24 mans dropping savage equivalent gear i just dont really care because im just coming from an ex/savage player perspective
maybe theres room for improving the normal dungeon/alliance raid casual player gearing but im just not sure
>change DRK to start at level 50
>remove the awful 30-50 storyline
I fixed the game
I know this is bait yet I am compelled to reply anyways.
>Azdaja didn't become a cute femra
What a waste of time this plotline was
didn't become a cute femra
yet
gayets..
>Zeromus phase 2 theme is Red Wings
>Azdaja is a red dragon
>Zeromus is red
How does Soken do it!?!?
K I N O
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BRAVO SOKEN
is there any superpower left on the source other than le serpent
elemental frickers in gridania I guess?
India (forma de XIV) will be a superpower by 2024
If you talk to Nophica she handwaves the elementals.
>oh teehee they just care too much so they might get a little too excited about their job! don't worry about them!
They care, but they care about the environment more.
And be glad they do because otherwise Gridania would just be more Ala Mhigo.
place your bets on how long its gonna take for the buff bug to be fixed
>we have dealt with the universe ending threat that was behind everything bad that happened
>we have defeated the single strongest being in the universe (Zenos)
How will anything we meet or fight against in Dawntrail even be seen as a threat? Not only have we dealt with the big bad of this universe, if there WERE something stronger out there we've not seen yet Zenos would have noticed and fricked off to obsess over it instead of us.
It's like we've killed god and now are heading to kill spiders and rats in a cave.
>universe ending threat that was behind everything bad that happened
What? Did the meteor that killed the dinosaurs cause WW1?
If the last remaining dinosaurs were orchestrating WW1 behind the scenes in order to revive their race, then yes.
But the meteor wasn't orchestrating it
I mean they did, but the warriors of light (ILLUMINATI) stopped them.
If you just don't obsess over powerlevel shenanigans it can be fine. An enemy can still hold friends/innocents hostage, fight us with duplicitous methods and evasion, bind our power in some way, etc. All of this is preferable to ever-increasing stakes and a cascade of greater evils who each can destroy the entire world.
Zenos isn't even the strongest being in the universe, and the reason he's obsessed with the WoL isn't just because of his/her strength. He's obsessed because the WoL is the first person he's ever felt a personal connection to. The Hunt stuff is just dressup for that desire for human connection and companionship.
Anyway there's always stuff in the other shards, planets outside Etheirys that also shielded themselves from Meteion's song, things that came to Etheirys in the distant past like the Heart of Sabik and Ultima, etc.
zenoswives get out
Zeronus wasn't that strong. It just had respawn haxx and golbez was boohoo giving up trying to fight the hard way. Did you see how 3 scions and 1 weakened goldybees just stomp its ass like 2 times in the span of about 45 seconds each? We're just technically soloing it's ass with our glorified shadow clone jutsu
Frick even zenos wasn't that strong because we just 1v1 his clown ass. He almost only won because we just fought turbosatan. It's like sending Ali to fight Tyson immediatly after he went 12 rounds with a tiger. New writers fricked the powerlevels up so badly
>new writers
shadowbringers class stories writer*
Frick, that makes it soon much worse then
>Dalamud is still down
Not even modders care anymore
This is what happens when patreon paypigs get early access. They have to intentionally draw the early access period out. Money ruins modding.
again. beta is there for devs. there is no patreon benefit like that, you can literally ask xivg for the key and use your coomer mods right now
moron
anon?
Works on my machine :^)
I want to impregnate Krile
The state of what's to come was obvious already during 6.1, you were just coping
Highlanders look kinda dumb
Lowest int after hrothshit
Perfect wives
Does that
look like the perfect wife to you?
>Dumb expression
>blonde and green eyes
>big breasts
>caster
YES!
Sounds good, but I'd rather have my moronfu be a healer so I can have fun abusing her in the evenings.
That's (You), right? You are samegayging so people will lust to your cute dumb character right?
this cat looks too serious
>normalgay paypig headphones
ues
so this is the newest bait? calling vrtra a pussy for letting go of his anger?
lol. lmao even
Of course the avatarBlack person can't even follow the fricking reply chain properly. Or is it just English you struggle with?
yes
What would happen if they removed all the anti job stacking penalties?
Double SAM or double BLM.
the two highest dps tanks, 3 highest dps with 1 supporter and healing probably wouldn't change much. scholar might pull ahead
Entire game would revolve around 2 dps 1 tank and 1 gree- Wait it kind of does already anyway lol
you would double stack the highest dps tank rather than the two highest
healing wouldnt change, you’d still use ast/sch for dps and sge/sch for mit
you would never play a pranged, most common comp would be 3 melee + smn or 2 melee + blm + smn if the fight forced significant downtime on the third melee dps
umm
It was good though?