Why is Final Fantasy XIV not as popular as World of Warcraft?

Why is Final Fantasy XIV not as popular as World of Warcraft?

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  1. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's like twice as popular
    Go ahead and post your twitch viewers count we all know why you made this thread

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      where?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        The people searching for WoW aren't doing so because they are interested in playing, they are just looking for the bi-weekly disaster coming out of Blizzard.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          this is false because google shows you what people search for

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            what do they search for?

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              check for yourself. you can scroll down a bit and see the Related queries section

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >It's like twice as popular
      >Source: The voices in my head

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        You're telling me that right now there's more hardcore mythic raiders in wow than there are erp degens freeloading the free trial with futa mods?

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes because mods aren't available right now.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            dead game

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        It was a few years ago, not any more though.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          What do the colors mean? I don't speak chink

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Blue = First cheevos
            Red = Got a cheevo in the previous period and again in the charted period
            Green = Got a cheevo in the previous period but not in the charted period

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            population trends iirc, it's some split between players that've been playing already for a long time, new players and players that exist but didn't come back

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's activity trends based on the number of player achievements earned for the "complete the msq of this patch" in the time period on the lodestone.
            Red is for players who keep earning achievements.
            Blue is for new players who earned their first achievement.
            Green is for players who earned stopped earning achievements(ie players who stopped playing). It's broken for the latest date because everyone stopped earning achievements at that point.

  2. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because the community doesn't support its talented content creators.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      The content creators are shit drama fiends

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah people like meoni who will spend 50 minutes talking about a cash shop outfit are talented,mmo content creators are shit regardless of the game because most of them rotate between saying the game is great or the game is shit every 10 minutes

  3. 8 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      midlanders are so hot. probably the only thing i miss about this game

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Why do you have those mods? Also post the actually bad one with like 40 of these not just a handful like c'mon that is a pretty weak picture

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        these were all posted in a single thread, and only a couple of them were ironic
        i was there when he made the comp

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH PEOPLE I DON'T LIKE EXIST SOMEWHERE I'M GOING FRICKING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >PEOPLE I DON'T LIKE EXIST SOMEWHERE
        Yes. And they shouldn't.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH PEOPLE ARE LAUGHING AT MY AWFUL TASTE I'M GOING FRICKING INSANE

  4. 8 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      bro, how the frick are you always here?

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        vile potato magic allows them to bilocate and assume animal form

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          one could ask the same of you

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            i want to bilocate into this potato pussy. do not judge me like the others

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        never under estimate a lala homosexual's desire to attentionprostitute.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        vile potato magic allows them to bilocate and assume animal form

        never under estimate a lala homosexual's desire to attentionprostitute.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous
        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Not enough skin

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        who do you think keeps making the threads

  5. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >why is niche japanese mmo not as popular as western slop that has been is Hollywood movies

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Final Fantasy is been Hollywood movies too sir

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Meanwhile wow was in zombieland, south park and other shit, it was extremely shilled to normalgays

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Game that was last culturally significant in the 00s was featured in franchises from the 00s.
          Who would have fricking guessed?

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            How many games were in movies?

  6. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >this will surely make people want to play our game

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      ?si=qb8wjIJ9SmjCMqrQ

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's so fricking over.

  7. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    this is a very nice thread. would be a shame if someone... you know...

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      hehe based

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      hehe based

      You both should really consider suicide

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        *considers it*
        looks like i'll have to DECLINE heheheh

  8. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why do you care? Why does it matter?

  9. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Dalamud is still down
    There is no reason to still play this game beside modding, stop wasting my time

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >troony porn addict suffering without cheats and coomer mods
      based

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >weirdo immediately thinking about porn
        I refuse to play gnb without the sfx mod

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          textools?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      the beta, you fricking moron

  10. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    the drk has fallen...

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      DRKbros what the frick is even the point of our job now...
      I mean apart from the cool weapons and good storyline.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        and somewhat cool animations that can be improved with mods
        and being better in downtime fights
        and being better with a good composition
        and having dark mind with magical damage tbs
        THERE'S NO POINT IT'S OVER
        i really prefer gnb now but only because i find it more fun to play

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >DRKbros what the frick is even the point of our job now...
        To make the 6 people left playing since HW bitter about the walking corpse of the former most fun tank in the game being paraded in front of them by moronic wheelchair brainlets constantly. You know the same reason Samurai and Machinist are still in the game

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      MILLIONS MUST LOVE

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >paladin is still only third despite getting a burst meta-compliant rework and buffs every patch since 6.2
      why

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Give it a couple more days but it has almost as good damage as WAR, it's just that WAR gets free crit-dh

  11. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >he needs mods and addons

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >no namingway to fix spell suffixes
      >no primal replacement mods
      >no customize to give my character hips
      >no noclippy to fix living on the east coast
      It's over.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ive needed simple tweaks since they removed belts, game is unplayable without it, so yes, you'd be dumb to use them

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Not to use them* hehe
        You'd have to be autistic to, though, removing belts fricked up the ui and its been bothering me since

  12. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    because its shit

  13. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >This patch finally made me start gathering
    Fricking yoshi piece of shit.

  14. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Boring fricking class design
    >Dogshit gameplay
    >Inherent lag because of the awful netcode
    >90% of content is too easy to be enjoyable
    Why the frick should I play this trash when I can play literally anything else and have actual fun

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      what do you mean? The combat is the best that it ever was! We burst and then we do absolutely fricking nothing until the next 2 minutes! It's PERFECTO

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      what do you mean? The combat is the best that it ever was! We burst and then we do absolutely fricking nothing until the next 2 minutes! It's PERFECTO

      just like the in game rotations
      every 2 minutes
      you do it for free

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Have you decided to try playing the game yet or are you content to jack off to G'raha porn and act like an insane cultist in Ganker threads for now?

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          I take it this patch didn't do much for you since you're here playing defense on Ganker instead of playing the game.

          all your posts
          every 2 minutes
          for
          free

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        I take it this patch didn't do much for you since you're here playing defense on Ganker instead of playing the game.

  15. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Zeromus lynx doesn't even make an effort to look like it's related to Zeromus at all. Classic low effort EW shit.

  16. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    they don't know about Ryne (and her very good friend Gaia)

  17. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    LOL he was right you do it for free every 2 minutes

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      [...]
      all your posts
      every 2 minutes
      for
      free

      Take your fricking meds loony troon. Stop obsessing over a game you don't even play.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        the potency of your posts is very low and you didn't crit try again in 2 minutes

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          It was enough to give you paranoid schizophrenia.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          You literally do not even play the game.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        I don't need to be paid to shitpost. I do it out of love. It's sad that paid shills can't understand this.

        for
        free

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >screenshotting, cropping, hitting airplane mode, turning airplane mode off, and writing a new reply in just 15 seconds

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            I'm just that good.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        nice photoshop 🙂

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      [...]
      all your posts
      every 2 minutes
      for
      free

      I don't need to be paid to shitpost. I do it out of love. It's sad that paid shills can't understand this.

  18. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >log in
    >plugins still down
    >log out

  19. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >talk to three NPCs
    >transition into a cutscene where characters ambiguously gesture with no voice acting
    >click on a glowing spot and wait for a progress bar to fill
    >transition into a cutscene where Zero rambles in broad platitudes about strength and friendship
    >click on a glowing spot and wait for a progress bar to fill
    >transition into a cutscene where everyone tells Zero she's really strong and Zero tips her hat
    >talk to four NPCs in the orange circle
    >transition into a cutscene where the WoL stands around in the background while Zero talks to everyone else
    Literally who cares, this entire patch cycle has been so phoned-in that it's not even funny anymore. They charge $15 a month for this shit, fricking hell
    The point of running these games for years on-end is to improve the formula as you go along, not just shit out the absolute bare minimum

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >"But it gets better after 600 hours"
      Narrator: It did not, in fact, get better.
      You could have been playing a better game this whole time but instead you invested it into this shit. Did you really think you deserved anything else?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      My favorite is always when the exciting action music kicks in, and all of the characters are still just standing around with a completely blank expression

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >camera slowly cuts to each character doing some variation of palm punching or psyching up at a snail's pace
        >camera cuts to an overhead view
        >one character turns to leave
        >...
        >another character turns to leave
        >...
        >another character turns to leave
        >...
        >another character turns to leave
        >...
        >slow fade out

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >"AND DON'T FORGET US!"
        >the good "getting shit done" shb music starts playing
        >camera pans over
        >it's the fricking trolley homies
        They're taking the piss aren't they

  20. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Cultists saying Gaia shows up in the msq in the last thread
    She literally doesn't, she only appears in the crystarium AFTER the msq is over, that doesn't count you fricking liars

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Did you skip cutscenes or did you forget to take your meds?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      the avg limsa afker gents and ugly gents

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >afker
        >pics that were obviously not made while afk
        huh?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >he doesn't know the poser of the gposer hacks

  21. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Soken must never make an EDM song again. That Zeromus remix SUCKED
    Red Wings playing when she went apeshit was cool. It was a good trial in the end. Shame about the story leading up to it lol

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      I really doubt Soken even did Zeromus. He barely works on this game anymore.

  22. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    it literally doesn't, though?
    i thought the entire story of 5.3 was g'raha jamming his spirit into a crystal so you could jailbreak his body on the source with it, completely subverting his death

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      She's not speaking literally, autist.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      People die when they teleport in star trek

  23. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I love a thousand deeply flawed systems stacked on top of each other wrapped up in a game that can't even come close to matching the soul of FF11 that everyone gaslit themselves into thinking was good because WoW was terrible at the time.
    FFXIV cultists hate being told 'play other games' because every time someone does so they risk escaping platos cave and realizing they could be playing a good game instead.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      are you done doing it for free yet?
      the ip isnt even new this time

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >in a game that can't even come close to matching the soul of FF11
      you got exactly what you wanted from the exact people behind 11 in 2012, why didn't you play it?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Because no FF11 fan has actually played the game in over 15 years and wouldn't want to because they only enjoyed it with their friends

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          I play both FFXI and FFXIV currently. And you're a dumb motherfricker anyway because FFXI got a huge resurgence of interest because of the troony horizon server. Also that anon is talking about 1.0, moron.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        because 1.0 had 1/3rd of the content that XI did when XI launched. gathering was good, crafting was good, gameplay was okay except for the absence of real skillchains but ultimately there was just literally nothing to do but hunt NMs. Even vanilla ass vanilla xi had garrison and shadowlord on top of an actual complete initial quest line

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        XIV 1.0 was nothing like XI, stop these moronic statements.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          He didn't use the word "like" in that post, only replied to "matching the soul" and that it was created by the same staff. Considering the setting and aesthetics were the primary point of investment on the project, and that it did have many of the same people in the same roles, I don't think anything unreasonable was literally said there.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >was
      >at the time.

  24. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is it now? Do we have any idea on the wow numbers now that China ditched blizzard? I play both but it feels like patch week XIV is bigger than patch day wow. Even two week ago, I’d say that classic hc was only 30-40% bigger than ff. But it’s a bit hard to tell because wow servers are quite a bit larger than xiv’s.
    Now, if we compare retail wow to ff, it’s not even close.

  25. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the MSQ for this patch
    I don't understand how this Void story was given en approval.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Everything has gotten a rubber stamp for the past three years because YoshiP was gambling on FFXVI catapulting him to the head of Square's board.
      Now he has to keep pretending 14 is is life's work despite gutting the back half of an entire expansion by looting all of its lead staff to work on his own pet project.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >gets demoted and replaced
        The best outcome

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Blame dangerhair

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      its simple
      Yoshi doesn't direct xiv anymore, his assistant ghost directs it
      Ishikawa is a hack whose only talent is knowing how to write emotional scenes, all her previous works were strong in the tear jerker moments, she is not material for a leading position, yet she is the lead of the writers team
      she approved this, ghost director just signed the papers, yoshi is smoking in his slave pr trips thinking that people are competent in his absense, game goes to shit

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I agree. Ishikawa would be a great assistant writer, but having her as lead gives us the Ultima Thule bullshit.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Exactly, each writer have a strong skill and a shitty one
          Matsuno is great for world building but sucks ass with dialogues and making people feel organic
          Ishikawa is good for emotive moments, but absolutely doesn't understand any lore
          Banri is good with lore but it doesn't understand pacing
          Maehiro seems to be the most well rounded one but 16 happened

          the harsh truth is that for all managing skill yoshi has, the team and the method SE uses to promote and find talent are not on par with the demands, you can't just promote people up all the time because they did a nice project once, thats how they ended up with Nomura being a director and he almost tanked the whole franchise, it's a miracle that SE accepted to hire DMC guy for 16 instead of pulling someone from bd1 or 2

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            That just means Nomura should work with them on Versus 13. CBU3 has a whole bunch of Matsuno devs and Versus was just Nomura aping Vagrant Story. They're just missing Akiyama and the Tokyo Team guys stuck on 7R and KH4. Ishikawa and Maehiro especially should work with him and Kanemaki. Ahhhhh....

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Versus was just Nomura aping Vagrant Story
              People think this?

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >but 16 happened
            For 16, didn't they write the basic JP Script then hand it over to that bald fricker to localize and rewrite and then rewrote the JP script to match more closely?

  26. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Last two expansions fricked up hard by explaining too much of the underlying lore of the world/shards.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      The setting is done at this point. Everything is wrapped up, every conflict is resolved, every mystery has been answered. They're basically just giving the team a blank slate. Everything from this point on is XIV-2.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        It pretty much killed my interest in the game since there's no real mystery left, especially after raising the stakes so fricking high in a near jumped-the-shark moment.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      this. if i ever played again it would be to go to old zones, there's nothing left to know and they blew threw all of it right as the story started getting more interesting in stormblood. people shit on it now but ARR had so much mystery and such a mystique to it that it easily rivaled XI, but now the magic is gone. We've all seen the man behind the curtain, we know certain things exist solely to be a reference to something, corporate crossovers constantly, cash shop is ramping up, and its clear were moving into "themed" expansions rather than the generally linear narrative progression of ARR - stormblood

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        ok but how long until you ask for the scions to die?

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          I didn't want them to die why would I their deaths wouldn't have been earned unless they actually sacrificed themselves for you to move on in ultima Thule. I just think it's lazy they don't even get a break so new characters can start being built up, and instead it's just business as usual.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Stormblood was horrible. The my failed to make a good was story and killed off several interesting plot lines in the process. The garbage that nu-garlemald is with Zenos and all that crap comes from Stormblood. It’s a disaster whose consequences are still felt to this day.

  27. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    So where are the other 4 servers for Dynamis

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      You’re not getting them anymore because dynamis is fricking dead

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, Dynamis is def gonna be forced upon new players come 7.0. Some people think Dynamis is gonna be the first DC to be converted to test cloud based servers.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >converted
          Wait, there's no way in hell they're gonna turn all the data centers into cloud bullshit right?

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            They said they were going to launch a test DC that's cloud based later in 6.5 series. So they're gonna have a new small cloud or convert Dynamis to it. Dynamis exists just to exist at this point since they've failed to meet what they promised, but that's typical of YoshiP to do that.

  28. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >EW
    >Dyanims this and Dynamis that
    >post EW
    >Dynamis never brought up

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >take things 1:1 from XI
      >do nothing with them
      >change the meaning to fit the current story
      >drop them or never explain it past "muh reference"
      this pisses me off more than anything because yoshida has absolutely eroded XIVs presence and world ever since they ran out of oda and tanaka led material. He literally can only take things from other more talented teams now, what the frick is he doing? i get that it's nice to have a nostalgia "point and smile" thing once in awhile, but fricking everything in endwalker was just a reference past a certain point. Why the FRICK was anima even there?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Anima was supposed to be the final boss of the Garlemald 6.0. What they did to Garlemald I will never forgive. The only way to fix this is by retconning the entirety of 5.4-6.55.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >What they did to Garlemald I will never forgive
          Frick garlemald
          Frick garleans
          /spit

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >t.limsa afk-er
            homosexuals like you belong on a cross

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              post your garlean oc so I can laugh at you

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't want to be a Garlean
                I WANT TO FIGHT THE GARLEANS
                frick

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Why the FRICK was anima even there?
        The Garlean standard features a chain. What summon in the series could feature chains? Anima. Anima in X is also a tormented mother who felt trapped by her society, and the subject for the Garlemald primal is a tormented father who felt trapped by Emet-Selch.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Why the FRICK was anima even there?
        Because it was planned as a trial for for the expansion they skipped, where the thematic parallels between Seymour/Seymom and Zenos/Varis would've been dwelt on slightly longer.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >skipping an entire expansion about garlemald
          I can't say it wasn't a good choice, no matter how many shortcomings you think EW has.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >doing Pandemonium
      >never bring up Dynamis to Themis and the others during the third tier when they're memories in the present even though that's exactly what Athena is looking for why you're so strong
      It's all so tiresome.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why would you bring up dynamis in that context?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        look this super powerful and important part of the elemental wheel and cosmic universe that was being studied by ancient progenitors to man that we stole the name from a previous game and made it have nothing to do with that and solely used it as a way to explain why a bird e-girl can suddenly be the root of all problems ever is just not important right now. haven't you seen how much lahabrea is a bad dad? that's much more important to dwell on!

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          You know dynamis is an actual word that FFXI didn't invent, right? XIV's dynamis wasn't taken from XI, they just used a fitting Greek word for the energy.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >part of the elemental wheel
          Bro, don't speak on lore shit when you don't actually understand it.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        why the frick would that even be relevant, azem was already strong even by ancient standards and you're his reincarnation

  29. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Grab a human, add a cat wig
    Grab a human, add a rabbit wig
    Grab a human, add some pimples and oil

  30. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    WoW was in the right place at the right time, FFXIV was a bandaid against the gushing wound of modern WoW being shit. It made MMOs a little less shit by comparison, but it's going to be a while before we see another WoW or Minecraft or Fortnite. Whatever it is though, chances are we won't see it coming.

  31. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The stereotype of a wow player is a fat obese nerd
    The stereotype of an XIV player is a neurotic troony who will try to dox you and kill your pet cat if you don't RP with his lalafel

    Both are gross but there's some degree of separation.

    >But look at the gay centaur!

    Wow had 10 years of being a straight nerd hobby, that's still part of the cultural assumption. XIV has been homosexuals and crossdressers from day one.

  32. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Haven't done the new Alliance raid yet. Do followers of Oschon win or lose?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      We're the only ones who won.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Are you a big gay flaming homosexual and/or a woman?
        Then you win.
        Otherwise, you lose like everyone else.

        We get one of the most direct patron shoutouts

        I'll count that as a win. Now for the most important question: Are the fights fun? Because the 2nd raid had a lot of boring fights.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sadly no, they each needed like one more mechanic in the post-ultimate attack loop

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          I like all of them. Llymlaen is the coolest.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          First two were okay.
          Last two, less so.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >24 man raids after Ivalice
          >not being snoozefests
          Pick one

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Are you a big gay flaming homosexual and/or a woman?
      Then you win.
      Otherwise, you lose like everyone else.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm an adventurer. Cope.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >god of adventure
          >he uses a fricking bow

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      We get one of the most direct patron shoutouts

  33. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine stopping in the middle of athena's fight to deliver exposition on what dynamis is
    >damn that's crazy... TREMBULLLLLLL

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Kek.
      >n-no you dumb b***h let me stop you and explain that you are actually looking for this X energy that I just happen to manipulate
      Bleach-tier autism.

  34. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >9.0
    >void restoration expansion written by ishikawa
    >people will call 6.x patches good after just like WoD in 3.4
    I hated the WoD plot and I still don't like it now

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      WoD patches were always good and everyone was mad for the entirety of Stormblood because the devs """"dropped"""" the plotline. Bringing Zero back will not make anyone retroactively like Zero. Her whole story is a fricking mess.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Her whole story is a fricking mess.
        How is her story a mess? It's straight forward. The problem had always been how hard they were dragging out the 'friend? what are friends?' bullshit.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          They should had dropped that bullshit in 6.3.
          6.3 in general was when this storyline went to shit. I liked the story up to 6.2. The story should had been about fricking around in the void from Troia, not the convoluted friendship bullshit we have now.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Here in the Void nobody does anything for free
          >Anyway here's my house where I let other voidsent stay under my protection for free
          >What's friendship?
          >Let's go ask these two guys who are best friends and selflessly look after each other no matter what
          >Death is a dream, everyone here wants to die
          >But how can mortals just walk around without a care in the world when they can die at any moment?
          >I don't even remember basic parts of life like how to eat with my mouth...
          >But I do remember a 10 second interaction I had with two complete strangers which took place over 10,000 years ago
          And how about Golbez?
          >Why did he care about the gate in Beatrice's house opening? He didn't know Vrtra was on the other side.
          >Why did he care so much that he sent all four archfiends to suicide over that gate?
          >Why did he then pull everyone away to Garlemald just to blow that gate up? Especially when at that point in his plan he was aware of Vrtra being a dragon and that he was rousing Azdaja. So he knew he needed Vrtra in the Void to imbue Zeromus properly, but decided to cut off his only path.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            oh shit, it's you again. i'm disengaging.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              >oh shit someone actually has an argument, i'm running away

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                yes yes, you win. accept my confection. I'm not going to piss away precious moments of my life arguing with a brick wall again.

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                You asked a question and I answered it. You know you have no rebuttal.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >>Why did he care about the gate in Beatrice's house opening? He didn't know Vrtra was on the other side.
            I thought he was able to sense it due to having the wyrm sibling on his side.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              He couldn't sense anything until the group crossed over, but Golbez immediately called in the group when the gate first opened, before the expedition.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            All of this, I think it's clear that their original idea was to have Cylva play the role Zero did but for whatever reason (maybe the skipping of the garlemald expansion) decided to chain that into side content and make up a new donut steel character.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        I honestly thought they will reveal Zero's true name in 6.5 but maybe they're keeping it for the void expansion
        Maybe its revealed that she's Cecil and she destroyed the summoner village or whatever, sounds like a good arc for her.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Cecilia

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Maybe she's Rosa but that wouldn't make much sense

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Y'shtola is Rosa for the purposes of the Cecil analogy, Alisaie and Alphinaud are similarly Palom & Porom

  35. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Laugh at Thaliak and Llymlaen gays

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      I will not because they were fun. Llymlaen especially had great voice work. If anything I will lament more wasn't done with them.

  36. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can't tell if people are trolling or if they're genuinely moronic
    I'm leaning towards the latter

  37. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    remember, it's convoluted and stinky and hack writing that zero remembers extremely distinctive armor from thousands of years ago, whereas golbez (durante) doesn't remember zero at all until he gets a good and proper look at her

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why would durante recongize zero when he's never seen her in her goth phase before?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        mystical hat of identity concealment

  38. 8 months ago
    Anonymous
  39. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >NOOOO we can't have talent trees to customize our jobs like any other RPG because everyone will just choose the meta!

    Who cares? Metagays will always exist, the point is to at bare minimum make any build viable, which even WoW manages to do. Any RPG that exists has build customization, even recent games. Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk, Souls Games, hell even Armored Core has build customization. Not to mention literally any other MMORPG has talent trees and most are more successful than this game ever has been, like WoW

    >But then you'll just get kicked from your group
    Then make your own fricking group, set your own rules. Make your own guild of wierd specs. As long as each spec is viable that's all that matters. Maybe the devs should stop designing content around nanosecond-tight DPS checks and make fights skill-based instead.

    Anyway, the entire point of an RPG is being able to build and customize your own character's playstyle with different classes, specs/talents.

    The argument that "well everyone will just choose the best option so there's no point and every class should only have 1 way to play it" is fricking peak souless moron logic. Holy frick, making up your own unique builds, slowly progressing and growing your character is the main appeal of RPGs you fricking mongoloid.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah metagays will always exist, up to and including begging for there to be an existent meta to follow through being bogged down with class customization, go play a game that has that instead of complaining XIV doesn't

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      i liked the skill system in 1.0 but yoshi p has decided that everything ever in 1.0 was bad, and people who never played it use it as a cudgel to shut down any talks of any kind of gameplay variety coming to xiv. It's all so tiresome. People can't even talk about the good parts of 1.0 without someone immediately swooping in to say "ackshually you didn't like 1.0, it was bad! ..huh? No I never played it why do you ask?"

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        yeah why won't yoship think about all five of us 1.X players, we still exist and we're still fricking valid

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          you literally proved my point

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            You literally chomped right down on the hook. That being said it's not at all an uncommon opinion that 1.X was garbage through and through, whether from unplayed secondaries or not, since there's more than enough gameplay footage floating around to get a broad idea of what it was like. It's especially weird when that's being used as a foothold to discuss other radical gameplay shifts for FFXIV because de-facto you're picking an example everybody hated in 1.X.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              it *wasnt* bad through and through, the release was bad. that's what im saying, people conflate release 1.0 with what 1.x became after yoshida took over and even the release had good ideas. The problem was they were never refined or even brought over to 2.0, so they're left to rot. ARR cross class just wasn't as satisfying when normal battles aren't something you even have to think about so the usage of said cross class system is relegated solely to boss encounters, which in 2.0s WoW style, the only thing that really ended up mattering is dps. There's no real levelling process in ARR since fates were just zergs, leves were gutted, and dungeons gave the best xp so any cross class option that wasn't either "reduce damage taken" or "increase damage dealt" is ultimately useless and could've been refined into a interesting futureproofed system.

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                one of the biggest dumb ideas from release was classes being job stand-ins
                just have jobs
                nobody wants to be a fricking lancer
                uhlan in FF12 was loathed and reviled
                just have dragoon

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          homie.. i can't even tell if bait or not you literally did exactly what that anon just said

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      This comes up every thread but the sad answer is that Yoshit simply doesn't care. You will never have interesting gear procs, trinket effects, set bonuses or talent points because he does. not. care.
      Oldgays like you and me just need to accept that we aren't the target demographic anymore as the fricking fall guys crossover more than adequately demonstrates.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        spreadsheet Black folk and whack-a-mole proc addicts get the rope

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          But they were the loudest demographic for years. Why do you think the 2 minute buff window is a thing? Those Black folk complained about their buffs not lining up FOR YEARS.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I honestly believe that they can make RPG combat and systems since even their minigames and PVP have it
      Maybe they're just too scared of the casuals mass unsubbing if the combat gets more complex

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think their philosophy is less about unsubbing directly because of complexity and more causing "friction" like back in HW in casual content because the gap in your average playing and playing correctly grows to large.
        People mass dropping in things like Steps of Faith or Nidhogg story mode because of the relatively high chance of failure back then are likely also why all story mode content is even more braindead than before.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lmao "builds" in a mmo are a joke, Icy vein build or kick noob

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        You're the sort of person who spends 4 hours reading build guides in single player games instead of playing them.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >got so butthurt about his shit idea getting called out proceeds to make up a scenario to cope.
          If you want build "diversity" go play D4 LOL

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      This "argument" has always been moronic in any multiplayer setting, because the reason you will be kicked isn't because of blind metagays, but because killing a boss with 37,000,000+ HP while you're doing attacks with a peak DPS range hovering around 80K where a single fricked up mechanic can reset the entire encounter means that failure punishes every single person present, and insufficient and inferior DPS in these cases will provide dramatically more opportunities to slip on mechanics. Making a character who is explicitly and mechanically provable to be inferior to another just because you prefer a different color to your fireball than the other one is completely fine in a singleplayer game where the consequences of your meme build only affect you, but when there are 7-23 others who will all feel the impact of your decisions, it's something all of them will opt to not deal with going forward.

      >BG3, Cyberpunk, Souls, Armored Core
      Literally all of these are singleplayer games first (one of them is exclusively singelplayer) with multiplayer functionality as an included feature to the singleplayer experience.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        99% of your game isn't like that. It's dogshit easy so mentally ill trannies can floortank their way to the new idle zone and get new costumes to bawd around in. Hardly anyone plays the ultra punishing modes.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Every single EX, Savage, and Ultimate raid requires this kind of knowledge, and any and all Normal content will always be so brainlessly easy that any moron can complete it. So why even worry about epic dual-wielding katana WHM and even more epic rapier-pistol BLM that can chain spells together if you're not going to use any of it on content where the mechanical diversity would matter?

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >So why even worry about epic dual-wielding katana WHM and even more epic rapier-pistol BLM that can chain spells together if you're not going to use any of it on content where the mechanical diversity would matter?
            Because those people will then go and join random PFs and make it even less useable than it already is.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Blows my mind that gay is even bringing up souls for build diversity since even in multiplayer there is almost no build diversity if you want to be meta.

        DS1 - Straight sword
        DS2 - Straight sword
        DS3 - Straight sword + Shield/Murky/PKCS
        BloodBorne - Holysword/Rakuyo
        Elden ring - BHS Dual pokes/Bloodflame spinning slash

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          why would you care about the meta in a singleplayer game? what's next, competitive qbert?

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            I can honestly see a meta with a game where you can pvp
            The stupidest shit is meta in a PVE game like Monster Hunter
            Like holy frick seeing stupid Black folk argue about "useless" weapon types just grinds my gears

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              there's pvp in souls?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                yeah?you can invade people and "duel" them
                its honestly just a game mode with not much importance and people complain about the balance in souls pvp too

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                That was literally the defining gimmick of Demon's Souls

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                i played it offline

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Like holy frick seeing stupid Black folk argue about "useless" weapon types just grinds my gears
              This makes me laugh because i play gunlance and have no trouble getting clears.
              Whether or not I'm doing 3.5m moron clear strats is redundant.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                same
                >me playing striker LS
                >duhhh why you not playing optimally??
                frick W*rld and the soulsborne crowd

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Not talking about the single player mode though, all of those are the most meta easy braindead overpowered shit in pvp/multiplayer mode.
            Literally murky was so fricking broken people would just invade the area you could get it from to keep people from getting it.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              too many zoomer words i didn't understand a single word there

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Did you reply to the right post?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                i don't know what modes you're talking about i just started the game and then beat it or what a broken murky is. isn't that the thing from blizzard?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Are you in the wrong thread?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                who are you replying to

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      This really is the crux of the issue with jobs in this game. Not the 2 minute meta. Not the homogenization (though those are both serious issues).

      It's the fact that every single job has only one way to play it, there is zero build customization, no talents, nothing. Worse you're even locked to a single weapon-type per job.

      Want to be a paladin who wields a two-handed hammer and does dps? Too bad.

      Want to be Dark Knight that duel-wields short-swords and does dps? Too bad.

      Want to be an elemental dps WHM that focuses dealing dmg with Earth, Wind and Water spells? Too bad.

      Want to be a Black Mage that specializes in one specific element, like a Frost Black mage? Too bad.

      Want to be a Ninja that focuses on DOTs via bleeds and poisons instead of burst dmg via Mudras? Too bad

      Want to be a healing-focused Paladin? Too bad

      Want to be a Warrior that can use a one-hander and shield to be more focused around mitigation and protection? Too bad

      You will play each job exactly ONE way, you will use only ONE weapon type per job and you will like it.

      Seriously how the frick can people complain about job design and ignore the actual elephant in the room here which is the total lack of any class-customization? I can't take any of you "MUH 2 MINUTE META" "MUH EACH JOB IS HOMOGENIZED" morons seriously when you ignore the actual biggest problem with this game's class-design.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        shut up Black person go play 11 if you want muh different wepons and muh spells and utility and interesting gear choices none of that shit matters
        its all so tiresome

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >op asks why game 8s not more popular
          >Explain in depth why and how it could be remedied
          >"REEEEEE FRICK OFF META Black person PLAY SOMETHING ELSE"

          Just be honest next time and ask why nobody wants to have e-sex with your cat girl you keep spamming screenshots of on discord. Girls only though, men are icky nono.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            i was mocking the other people itt arguing against it

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Go back

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >want to be a [wow spec]?
        go back

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        That is not FF paladin
        That is not FF dark knight
        God I wish
        That is not FF black mage
        That is not FF ninja
        Yeah got a point, but XIV warrior is more like berserker.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        DRK in original HW was pretty fricking great and had its identity, whether you liked it or not. Now it's fricking nothing. Like actually.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Want to be a paladin who wields a two-handed hammer and does dps? Too bad.
        >Want to be Dark Knight that duel-wields short-swords and does dps? Too bad.
        Both of those are irrelevant complaints about aesthetic choices. If you want to see what Tank-Turned-DPS looks like, play with Irregulars in Eureka/Bozja, where the focal shift can actually provide some degree of interesting gameplay, but ultimately is nothing more than a retooling of those jobs.
        >Want to be an elemental dps WHM that focuses dealing dmg with Earth, Wind and Water spells? Too bad.
        >Want to be a Black Mage that specializes in one specific element, like a Frost Black mage? Too bad.
        Adding an entire layer of elemental resistances and weaknesses to raids would invalidate this anyways. Making some kind of Firaga mage who gets bonuses to Fire damage and Fire procs and Flame Damage boosts would immediately need to be cycled out the second you encounter Ifrit, and considering how almost every single boss in the game is represented by one of a number of elements, you'll routinely find yourself incapable of doing anything without either leaving or changing to the "job" needed here.
        >Heal Paladin
        >Mit Warrior
        So why would one be better than the other?

        Literally the only case you're making that has a legitimate use case would be DoT Ninjas, but the sweeping anti-DoT patches make it clear they don't want us to focus on DoT uptime and instead lean around the burst window. One could argue that's bad for class identity, but everything else you're suggesting is either completely irrelevant nonsense or just "Why can't my BRD also use Inner Release and Doton????".

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >dps WHM
        That's called a BLM you tool.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Want to be a paladin who wields a two-handed hammer and does dps? Too bad.
        Kicked for being a bad hybrid tank/dps instead of the tank
        >Want to be Dark Knight that duel-wields short-swords and does dps? Too bad.
        Kicked for being a bad hybrid tank/dps instead of the tank
        >Want to be an elemental dps WHM that focuses dealing dmg with Earth, Wind and Water spells? Too bad.
        Kicked for being a bad hybrid healer/dps instead of the healer
        >Want to be a Black Mage that specializes in one specific element, like a Frost Black mage? Too bad.
        Kicked for being overfocused low-damage meme build DPS
        >Want to be a healing-focused Paladin? Too bad
        Kicked for being an inferior Paladin build
        >Want to be a Warrior that can use a one-hander and shield to be more focused around mitigation and protection? Too bad
        Kicked for being an inferior Warrior build

        Thank god morons like you aren't on the design team, and the rest of us don't have to suffer from your dogshit decisions.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          don't respond to wow players

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        wow specs only exist because you can only play 1 class per character
        in xiv where you can play 19 different jobs on one character its a bit of a moot point

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      So are you gays done with the bozja/eureka being good shitposting? lalacord is so boring.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Having talent trees would be fricking awful in XIV. They work in games like WoW specifically because they're built around you having only one class, so it's a means to give you variety. You can be a paladin to heal, hurt, or tank but you can only be a paladin. The game is built around this, which is why you cannot change classes freely.
      The issue with XIV is that it isn't realizing how you should build a game around being able to switch classes. They should make the classes different in how they achieve their goal, make dungeons and bosses that some jobs may be better suited for because of it. Give damage element types, give bosses resistances, make the classes play differently.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Hell if you want a good and explicit example of "talent trees" really not working in XIV's context, Scholar and Summoner was a direct attempt at the idea. It heavily gimped Scholar and consigned Summoner to forever using books.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >make dungeons and bosses that some jobs may be better suited for because of it.
        game was like that until HW
        players whined that PLD was useless because some raid bosses were magical dmg only, PLD was a Phys specialist
        >Give damage element types
        ARR had this, you can see the remnants of it like ixali giving you a wind resistance debuff in coerthas, removed because players dumb, and it became mostly pointless as devs moved away from making enemies with resistences
        same happened with gods and materia, you could min max a specific resistence with the 5 points your god gave you + materia melds.

        the issue is that the devs listen to the most imbecile of players and dumb it down to everyone, now we're here with 2 min meta, and I doubt DT will improve it

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          "i can't take this tank in at all because the other two have many options for magic damage and mine doesn't have any" was a problem yes

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            No, the problem was that the devs overdid it
            you could just have alex have a 50/50 split so you're required to bring both, but alex have what? 3 phys skills and all the rest is magical

            it's the same issue with body checks now, instead of making it a part of the encounter they shoved it everywhere instead of other mechanics, so people are saturated with it

            but instead of trying to find a balance, they do nothing, gather feedback, trash the entire system and start over by making it dumber, every xpac is the same shit

            AST went from being OP because it could shield and regen in HW to being useless because it offers an inferior reward per click ratio than just dropping a medica 2
            and it will be reworked yet again

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              >OP because it could shield and regen in HW
              It could only do one or the other at any given time (being locked out of the other entirely) and it was OP in Heavensward because WHM had shit MP economy and they had the audacity to buff Balance to 20%.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              I personally don't think splitting abilities to magdef and def actually addresses the problem which is that one objectively best tank sucks when the goal is tanking, even if it's at the expense of theming and class flavor

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I mean they still use the elemental resistance debuffs, to make sure you can get hit by multiple effects but not the same one consecutively (eg p9 and p11 tankbusters) it's just that players can't interact with it themselves.
          It WOULD be cool for there to be a variant way of handling it with setup like white mage being able to apply wind resistance and red mage fire resistance so if you have both of them in a party, the tanks don't need to swap

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Then we move back to the issue with job preference as people would whine that X job is mandatory for X encounter and now they need to run a raid twice as long to gear different jobs for each role, or run alts.
            and the devs simply don't want jobs to be locked in

  40. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Zero doesn't die
    >Golbez doesn't die
    >Azdaja doesn't die
    >Nobody fricking dies
    >The Void is still fricked
    >Still don't learn Zero's real name
    >Golbez-Durante doesn't even show his face (I mean post-voidening, not as he looked as a human)
    >The 13th doesn't get rejoined with the First or the Source
    >Not gonna be two moons in The Source
    >Literally NOTHING fricking happened
    >All of this buildup......a year of MSQ.........FOR NOTHING
    >Same writer will be writing Dawntrail

    Dawntrail is gonna be an atrocity isn't it?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      the four fiends dieded
      and Vrtra permanently lost an eye I guess

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      I want game of thrones Black folk to leave

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Only Game of Thrones has death and consequence
        >No other story in the history of fiction ever has
        Please ignore even children's films like the Lion King having death of major characters. In that case it being the entire focal point of the story.

        But apparently this is too dark for FFXIV

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >game of thrones is when..you kill characters

        read a book Black person

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          No game of thrones is when you inject shitty pointless plot twists for no reason other than to be edgy

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >"The story should have stakes."
            >WOOOWWWW SO YOU JUST WANT RANDOM SURPRISE DEATHS FOR NO REASON

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              >stories don't have stakes unless people are dropping like flies
              Wow somebody call up Tolkein and tell him that LOTR had no stakes.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                I can't believe Tolkien was such a GRRM stan that he killed Boromir for a cheap edgelord twist.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >the bro knight dying early on means the story has stakes
                Well good news anon, they don't need to kill anyone else in XIV now.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Wow this is such a cheap fricking edgelord twist, how could the writers do this?! Did Barry and the trancers infect the dev team?!

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's almost like there's a difference between having a few impactful character deaths here and there and killing off random characters for absolutely no reason whatsoever besides shock value.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's almost like nobody is asking to kill off random characters for no reason, and in fact you're just a shitposting Black person incapable of having this discussion in good faith.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >It's almost like nobody is asking to kill off random characters for no reason
                Dunno sure looks like it

                >Zero doesn't die
                >Golbez doesn't die
                >Azdaja doesn't die
                >Nobody fricking dies
                >The Void is still fricked
                >Still don't learn Zero's real name
                >Golbez-Durante doesn't even show his face (I mean post-voidening, not as he looked as a human)
                >The 13th doesn't get rejoined with the First or the Source
                >Not gonna be two moons in The Source
                >Literally NOTHING fricking happened
                >All of this buildup......a year of MSQ.........FOR NOTHING
                >Same writer will be writing Dawntrail

                Dawntrail is gonna be an atrocity isn't it?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                That anon is lamenting the complete lack of any kind of change or consequences for the story. He's complaining that we just wasted over a year on a pointless filler arc.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >That anon is lamenting the complete lack of any kind of change or consequences for the stor
                Which he equates to random, pointless character deaths.
                Although I do wish Zero had died just because the character is shit.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                wtf thanks for the spoiler butthole

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Boromir, the elf captain Haldir, Theoden the king of Rohan, his son and half his army

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Haurchefant
                >a literally who introduced a few chapters before dying
                >an old man
                >and a bunch of faceless soldiers
                Wow, so many stakes.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                The king and knights of Rohan weren't faceless literally who

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                The king was the old man. The knights were the literally whos.
                Based literally whos, but still literally whos.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Everyone knows who Hama is!

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, I hate to break it to you but most people didn't even read the books at all

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Shame, the part where Aragon tells a guard whoever touch his sword will be cursed and eventually die was pretty kino, actually don't think it was in the movies

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah manne, no one died in lotd

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                moron

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                No u

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >game of thrones is..plot twists

            ESL or just moronic American?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Shut the frick up, we all know you started parroting this because of ff16, you're a literal npc

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          I've been saying it as soon as gays started whining no one in the main cast has died.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's going to be biblical and will probably take Stormblood's place as the worst story wise.

  41. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    bros, how come nobody died in the place where nobody dies? fukkin bullshit

  42. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yawnfail

  43. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Did you buy your $5 Poochie poster?

  44. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >THE CITY MUST BE PURGED

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      This entire moment was a blatant rip off of the Culling of Stratholme. Blizzard should sue.

  45. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    How is the EX? Does it continue the trend of .5 EXs being too fricking easy?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, there's one mechanic that PF will frick up but it's actually easier to get through if people are dead. If you can get past that then you can hard carry everyone with a RDM. My clear had like 15 deaths.

  46. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >why isnt niche weeb dead game with terrible gameplay popular
    A mystery for the ages

  47. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >golbwz is our new nakama
    >there's hope to restore the 13th
    Decent conclusion to our 13th adventure, maybe Golbez makes Zero more tolerable

  48. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is this some hyper gigabrain play that I'm not understanding?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      No it's just the average IQ of an undercutting moron.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's a bot.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Undercutting bots have been an issue for such a long time.
      And still, they refuse to do ANYTHING about it.
      Frick this game, man.
      If you have a sub-fee the very least you can do is moderate it PROPERLY.
      Frick SE, man.
      Bots are the one thing that need to get permanently banned.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        "muh undercutting bots" is the biggest poorgay cope I've ever seen and I've been seeing poorgays cry about it since 2.0

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm botting Island Sanctuary right now

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm literally DoL botting on 3 accounts right now

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        "muh undercutting bots" is the biggest poorgay cope I've ever seen and I've been seeing poorgays cry about it since 2.0

        You can literally bait them into selling items at 1 gil, check the price history for the most recent (6.4) gathering node items. Also check the signatures on all the Diadochos gear and Lodestone them, you'll see obvious bot characters with:

        >1 job at 90
        >All crafting jobs at 90
        >Botanist and Miner at 90
        >Fisher either at 0, unlocked, or sub level 10
        >In a FC with 4-8 other characters who are all level 20-30

  49. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I honestly don't know where they'll take the story for dawntrail, maybe it'll just have some bad guy that just wants to conquer brazil and be the king of pirates or something
    Sounds ok I guess? At least the zero plot is already over

  50. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    There will be new pots for this patch or 6.55?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      There will be no more new pots until 7.0.

  51. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Vorpal Thrust is Dragoon's shittiest remaining animation

  52. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    So why doesn't Golbez look any different after becoming a voidsent? He's just larger. I understand there are human-like voidsent (those winged-black knight guys, Barbariccia, Rubicante, Succubi, etc.) But the fact that he doesn't look physically different at all post-void-corruption besides growing larger is moronic. We see in his boss fight at the end of the new dungeon that he just took a bit of dark energy into him and became a monster. So why doesn't fully-voided Golbez look any different?

    I was expecting them to have him take off his helmet and see what he looks like now but they didn't even do that.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      mmo limitations

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      because he's wearing armor

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe his voidsent form is actually just the Golbez armor because he was so obsessed with masquerading as Golbez.
      >We see in his boss fight at the end of the new dungeon that he just took a bit of dark energy into him
      He used a memoria crystal to do that. The memoria crystals contained eidolons/primals that the memoriates drew on for more power. So that form was more like he was trancing.

  53. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oh boy, I can't wait for 7.0 to bring just FSR1 as far as new visual settings go, with no supersampling, proper AA methods, or means of cranking shit like the garbage environment shadows higher.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he lacks the information

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >FSR
      Imagine the smudging
      The only viable AA method for the game is SSAA but you probably need to have a 4090 to run it if you play at 4k (like you should).

  54. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >We barely even explore the void
    >Only do one dungeon and a small floating rock Zero lived on and the Moon

    What a fricking wasted potential that was. Could've made it an entire expansion continent but now it never will be.

    Between this, and killing off the Twelve, is Yoshi-P just trying to completley destroy everything that came before he took charge of the game? If so he's pulling a fricking Danuser right now.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      yes, since 1.0 flopped in japan it's morally and socially acceptable to shit on your former superior and burn down everything he tried to do. That's why they're finally shuttering XI too and removing its staff.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he's pulling a fricking Danuser right now
      kek you really want xiv to turn into wow

  55. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    now that endwalker is over, its all uphill from here r-right bros

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Wrong. Now that FFXVI is finished it's all uphill. until the next failed SE bomb that siphons all the money and manpower from XIV's budget

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >rely on an MMO to fund all of your stupid crypto, AI farm, and AAA projects
        >covid boost ends so the excess profit drops like a rock
        can't wait to see how this horribly backfires for everybody involved

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          already happened
          he got fired and his pet studio got nuked
          SE trainwreck have been happening in slowmo for 15 years

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >now that 6.x is over, its all uphill from here r-right bros
      fix'd

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      FFXIV as we knew it is over. All the old guard has already moved on. Yoshida, Soken, Koji, Maehiro, Ishikawa, none of them are even working on the game anymore. The setting is totally wrapped up so they can offer a clean slate to the new era of writers. The game will get less and less attention, patches are already getting spaced further apart with less content added. The peak of the game came and went, so just understand and make peace with that. I'm still gonna play and enjoy it as long as I can, but my expectations are gone.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      my cope is that since endwalker was bad, dawntrail will surely be good

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        4.0(bad) > 4.x(good) > 5.0(good) > 5.x(ok) > 6.0(good) > 6.x(bad) > 7.0(?)

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Its so over

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sorry, step-cousin, but I think it's really over this time.

  56. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    $13 per month + tip for... pffffffffffhahahahaahahaha

  57. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Knights radiant captain is a fricking shotacon with a little brother fetish
    What the frick.

  58. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    greenchads won

  59. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    FF has never beaten WoW on search engines, stream views, vod views, or quarterly earnings. Where did this FF is more popular nonsense come from? Did Ganker meme magic something into reality?

  60. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Ally roulette is finally iLvl locked to your job's current level
    >Queue is still primarily LotA/Syrcus

  61. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I played XIV up until the first dungeon since I had a friend who was addicted to it. Story was boring, zones weren't interesting, and I learned that I hate auto group finders for dungeons.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >zones weren't interesting
      bigot

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        The concept is good but it all being musty ass green-brown was terrible.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Even worse that the game has a musty ass green-brown filter on it by default

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Honestly I don't know why their environmental team design is so bad. It's constantly that kind of drab monochromatic atmosphere. Even Yangxia was ugly and that's supposed to be the verdant part of South China that inspired fricking Pandora in Avatar. Thavnair's the first time I really notice a riot of colors, even if it's a little too much at times.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Lvl 54 enemy
        Looks like a mid game zone so I wasn't close to that part of the game. Also, this zone looks like shit apart from the floating rocks.

  62. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >join p10s reclear (as gnb)
    >war dies to hh
    >i lb so the whole party survives
    >people die anyways
    >next pull
    >we reach hh
    >this time the war remembers to use their cds for hh
    >i don't lb since we both invuln'd the 3rd hit
    >people die because heals didn't go out
    >war lbs
    >we wipe anyways
    >YO THAT LB WAS LATE
    >war: i thought gnb was going to do it
    >i said it wasn't needed
    >3 more wipes to healers being shit
    >smn lags during bonds 3 and causes a wipe
    >smn is the party leader and friend of the tank they go reset their router, passes lead to war
    >You leave Kiara AkiyamaMalboro's party.
    nice vengeance usage dumbass

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      would also like to say that this is the 4th warrior in 2 weeks that hates pressing mits

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      We're past three months into the raid tier. Always do the safest strat possible to account for morons. DPS check is a non-issue.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        i can't account for the war being a moron and not pressing mits
        everyone is 655 and above, if hh kills it's because there were 0 heals and 0 mits
        if i see ascension weapons i expect people to play WELL

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sch raid wide heals very bad please understand

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      i don't care, there is no reason for a warrior to die to damage EVER and then i get blamed for not pressing the "HERE HEALERS KEEP PRESSING GCDS DURING THIS MECHANIC" move
      nah frick em frick this moron

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        The issue is that WAR can tank any normal content without any mit other than bloodwhetting with shake it off. This creates a bad habit of never using rampart/vengeance/reprise.

  63. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    /v/'s most successful doomposter: posts "it's over" every thread every day for years, does not elaborate
    /v/'s worst doomposter: writes endless paragraphs about the game "going downhill", the more he talks the more obvious it is what he is

  64. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    its over

  65. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's never been more over

  66. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    twitch.tv/djpotate
    Tune in for kino troonery

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      jesus christ

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm ashamed to play the same game with these freaks.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        you dont like it?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I hope they kill themselves.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not clicking this.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I hope they kill themselves.

        its peak FFXIV

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        SEX WITH RYNE

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Djpotate?
      more like DjDILATE
      AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
      DILATE!

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >What if....I place 2 bookshelves in the corner! Im a furnishing god!
      Makes me want to burn that home

  67. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    The hilarious bit is if the game did suddenly include skill trees all the anti-build gays would herald it as the second coming of Christ and would defend it against their own points made prior without a second thought.

    It's just cult behaviour.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      why don't you go play the game you do like, one with skill trees, and stop wasting your time here

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        If you morons were capable of taking your own advice we would still have crossclass skills and job identity in this game.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Why don't you go play FFXI, you'd really enjoy yourself.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >playing a literal dead game that SE is basically not supporting anymore

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              The thing you so desperately want is right in front of you, why not try it out on a private server and see where the adventure takes you? Why would you want to waste your time sitting here being angry about something that you can't change instead of trying to have fun?

              XIV is what it is and it is that way on purpose, this is the type of game they want to make, no not every MMO has to be the same, and no this isn't done by mistake, it's entirely by design. If you don't like it then stop wasting your time losing hair over it.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            I do. Why didn't you play any other game besides FFXIV instead of coming to my game and crying about RPG mechanics until they were all cut out one by one?

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              i don't even play xiv i just used my free month to complain on the forums about the stuff i don't like about mmos but even if they keep removing them i won't play cuz i don't like them

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              You've never played XI and no "rpg mechanics" have been cut from XIV, this is literally the way it's always been done. No losing obsolete or janky skills does not make the game worse.

              XIV isn't trying to be like other MMOs, it's OK for you to not like it.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >XIV isn't trying to be like other MMOs
                it isn't trying to be an MMO at all they just call it that so no one will get upset about the sub fee

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >It doesn't fit my very narrow description of a MMO therefore it's not one and im going to have a meltdown about it waaaaah

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                okay let's break it down then
                >MMORPG
                >Massively
                MSQ is forced singleplayer, raids are 8 people, dungeons are 4 people
                >Multiplayer
                Eureka, Bozja, raids and hunts are the only content where it is mandatory to have a large amount of real people working together
                >Online
                it succeeds this check
                >Role-playing
                Game design prevents any form of role-playing via gameplay as jobs have 1 singular way to play, story offers some choices but none have any impact on the narrative.
                >Game
                it indeed is one
                so, going off of the main aspects the genre is named after, you can play through the entirety of the levelling process sans trials (until endwalker) without ever speaking to a human being once. The content that requires human interaction is not mandatory for character progress aside from getting a slight item level increase over the tomestone gear (which can be obtained alone). So, no, to me XIV does not qualify as an MMORPG, it is a singleplayer final fantasy game that charges a subscription to allow you to potentially play with other people but that feature is never needed to do anything in the game aside from minigames.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >so no one will get upset about the sub fee

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                That doesn't work though since we have brazilians seething about this game nonstop because it has a sub fee

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                I've had more MMO style interactions in FFXIV, then all my years playing wow.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >You've never played XI
                I've played it since NA launch day you moronic homosexual.
                >and no "rpg mechanics" have been cut from XIV
                Yes they have. Did you know the game existed before you followed your WoWrat e-celebs here during Shadowbringers?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why do you roleplay as someone over the age of 18?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                See a therapist you fricking lunatic

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Which CoP fight did you find to be the hardest and why?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                My linkshell got walled at Promyvions back then.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          We do it's called job quests and armour moron-kun

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I fought my own strawman and won, I rest my case
      Quality argument.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The sheer bravery and martial skill needed to attack this strawman. I kneel

  68. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    If DRK just gets Enhanced Unmend III for lvl 100, it will actually be over. I put up with it in stormblood, I put up with it in shadowbringers, I put up with it in fricking Endwalker, but I will lose my beans if we actually don't get fricking ANYTHING. DRK is being fricked over on purpose at this point.

  69. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is what you metagays will never understand.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      You'd be right for most content in the game, the people b***hing are in fact being childish, but funnily enough it does matter for the 0.01% that do things like TOP.

      We ran a non "meta" group without things like a NIN and DRK and the DPS checks were ridiculous, a low crit run was enough to cause a wipe.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why are you letting the 0.01% hold your game hostage?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I didn't ask for your input lil bud.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            You posted in a public forum so you did actually.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Keep your posts in the WoW thread billy, no one wants to converse with someone who doesn't play the game.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Except that's not the case because in 90% of fights with any DPS requirement, it's probably an EX fight where you'll need to be at least doing half your potential DPS to contribute anything and anything above that you'll need to be on top of your game

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Tanks need this more than DPS, the amount of crying everyone does over having a non-optimal tank pair is fricking unreal
      >tanks combined make up a sixth of party dps
      >highest avg and lowest avg is like 200 when we're hitting 10k
      >people are shitting and pissing their pants saying DRK is now dead and needs a rework

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        tank players in xiv are usually just dps shitters who couldnt cut it as actual dps so its no wonder they get a bruised ego over the tank they play doing less damage than the rest

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Well, DRK players are a specific breed of moronic because their job used to be poorly designed and when it was fixed they complained so hard about it the devs had to keep simplifying it. The tradeoff is that the job for the past 5+ years has been either #1 or 2 in damage and has (still has) the best mitigation among the tanks.

        What you are seeing now is DRK finally being moved down the DPS charts and they cannot handle it, they are little babies.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >meanwhile war mains can't press vengeance even if it boosts their dps by a little
          sorry, we want to be the best and most optimal job to make up for the moronic warriors

  70. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    its been 10 years anon, this game is not changing the formula at ALL. either accept it or move on

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      its just incapable of changing because the engine is doggy doo doo put together hastily

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        No, it's exactly what they want it to be, that's why it's not going to change. You desperately need to understand this, no one's telling you that you HAVE to like it, we're telling you that it's this way on purpose, this is their design and they are sticking to it.

  71. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I do not believe a game should be balanced around its worst players.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Gotta cater to where the money is. Game was too hard. Think of the PLAYERBASE. Too much of a skill gap? Make every job fricking cookie clicker tier. I bet they would love to make every job just have 1-2-3 if they could get away with it. Maybe throw in ONE oGCD just to spice it up.

  72. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >muh DRK
    >muh WAR
    I never hear GNBchads and PLDbros complain about anything

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      PLDbros killed themselves en masse after Zero became a paladin.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      PLD got turned into WAR lmao. But if they hated PLDs rotation, then they probably gobble it up now. And GNBros just have to wait for their job to get fricking gutted.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I got the only shield, I'm happy no matter the state of my job
      Yes, even during Abyssos
      I do wish there were other jobs that used shields though, like early white/black mages

  73. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    because it's a clunky game exclusively played by the biggest homosexuals you've ever met. Think of the most annoying guy you know, chances are he plays XIV

  74. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is anyone else having severe lag in the game?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ping the datacenter you're on in a command prompt and see if it's just you. https://arrstatus.com/

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        30 ms the usual

  75. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    tank mains
    >NOOOOOOO YOUR JOB IS HECKIN UNBALANCED IT DOESN'T DESERVE TO DO THAT MUCH DPS NOOOO
    >C-COPE SHITTER I'M A PRO A-AND YOUR JOB IS F-F-FOR CASUALS
    healer mains
    >damn my job fricking sucks
    >mine too lmao

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      xiv healers are probably some of the worst designed classes in any mmo ever made its unreal

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's more the fight design than the class design tbh they're fun in high-end content because you actually have to use every part of your kit to keep people alive

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          except that gcd healing is counterintuitive and can cause more harm than good

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          not a healer main but
          >you have to directly heal something (not a player and you cant use aoe heals) to resolve a mechanic
          >you have to esuna multiple stacks or you need to esuna a debuff to a specific number to resolve mechanic
          I think it would be cool for new mechs but would it be fun for the actual healers

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >would it be fun for the actual healers
            The first one was already in Shinryu and is kinda cool there
            The second one no, having to Esuna in P12S sucks incredible ass and I would rather not have to do it ever again

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              I think it's nice in TEA where you have a few gcds to cleanse 6 dooms but the p12 cleanse is cancer; you need to start casting on the third stack, or else the cleanse will be too late and snapshot the fatal 4 stacks

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Makes me wish Esuna was an offgcd.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              you have to esuna in p12s?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Crush Helm, the double tankbuster with stacking physical vuln

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                yes and it takes a while to register so you have to esuna during the 3rd hit for the 4th one to be removed
                if you do it on the 4th hit then the tank just dies to the 5th
                also for me it always happens during a gcd cast so i have to stop beforehand to be able to esuna

                The issue is that WAR can tank any normal content without any mit other than bloodwhetting with shake it off. This creates a bad habit of never using rampart/vengeance/reprise.

                this moron had an ascension axe and multiple clears on every fight, if he's had to go the whole time without pressing vengeance and then blaming others for their failure then holy shit
                i've come to despise war mains

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                I mained GNB and then PLD and now WAR. I can totally see why long term WAR mains are like that. The class offers these clutches that make it so that you can ignore the rest of the kit.
                But WAR is so strong and comfy to use in raids, idk if I will go back to the other tanks. Although I play dps more often than tank nowadays.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

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              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                bardchads we are meta now since we can save 1 healer gcd

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                like 2

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      dps mains
      >NO YOU HAVE TO SYNC YOUR 120sec BUFF WITH MINE OR MY PARSING DOESN'T TURN PURPLE!
      >SHUT THE FRICK UP MY OPENER IS FRICKED NOW RESET RESET RESET
      >
      >what is this parsing? doesn't my bunnyboy DNC look cute? 🙂

  76. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Waste
    Money

  77. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Found a mod that messes with RPRs moveset
    >.PMP file

  78. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH PEOPLE I DON'T LIKE EXIST SOMEWHERE I'M GOING FRICKING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE

  79. 7 months ago
    Anonymous
  80. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are plugins active yet or am I just gonna have to finangle this controller hotbar space yet again

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      they have been active since yesterday, just put the beta code you lazy homosexual

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        dammit all, I had the beta code earlier this year but i guess it changed again, I don't frick with this discord shit

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Then play without your cheats b***h.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          It changes every single update

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          look for "dalamud" or "dalamud beta" in arch.b4k.co and it'll be there, you need to download a folder and dump it into xivlauncher's %appdata% folder this time around

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          The beta code is croissant

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          changes every time
          the beta key is "patella"
          might have to change the beta kind from null to "stg" as well

  81. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    whats the coolest axe

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      barbarian's bardiche, parashu or the new tome one

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      abyssos
      ucob
      top
      zodiac

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bravura Atma, Ragnarok

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        bravura is the tiniest axe

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          no it isn't, minos ix

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The level 55 one.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Axes are gay, use the eden hammer

  82. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >The new system to stop people from forcing crystal tower completely assfricks sprouts
    >It judges the disparity between gear level and player level, and if it's too great it just locks you out of the roulette entirely
    >Sprouts doing msq naturally build up a large disparity between their level and their gear so they just get completely locked out of alliance roulette
    Sprouts blown the frick out.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      What you typed doesn't even make sense
      pls program this shitbot better barry

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        If your gear level is too far below your actual level you can't do alliance roulette. It's not hard to understand.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          If your ilvl is too far below a fricking ilvl 70 at lvl 50 you are moronic and you should be be used as a test subject in a lab because you're too dumb even for this game and this game was made to appease to the most idiotic people alive

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Teaches them to level more jobs as they go.

  83. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Want to start tanking
    >Don't know what job to start with
    Sell me on your favorite job anon

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      i need information:

      do you want to raid, do dungeons, solo deep dungeons, eureka/bozja, or pvp?

      gimme a y/n for each please

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >raid
        y
        >Dungeons
        y
        Solo deep
        n
        Eureka
        m (maybe)
        >pvp
        n

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Warrior

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          warrior, gunbreaker, dark knight, paladin. in that order from best to worst for your playstyle

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Paladin stabs shit, casts magic, helps others, and can even heal. Plus it's the most Ganker job.
      Gunbreaker is really cool, but frick I can not into No Mercy windows. Feels great when you can do a halfway decent one, buti get too jumbled easily.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I like all of them so
      >Paladin (ARR) - White Mage with a sword and shield, stellar party-defense ability where you root yourself to the ground with your sword and block whatever's coming for anybody standing straight behind you. Turns into a spellcaster at higher levels
      >Warrior (ARR) - Berserker in a trenchcoat. Becomes a hyper-efficient self healer in dungeons during Heavensward. Unga tu bunga
      >Dark Knight (HW, must actually be in the expac to unlock it) - Great job story, bafflingly stupid leveling experience ("core" ability, The Blackest Night, isn't gained until *level 70*, DRK starts at *30*) but gets OGCD attacks and lots of them
      >Gunbreaker (ShB, lv. 60) - Ninja/Dragoon in a trenchcoat literally. Job trades some raw defense for a silly weapon and a more involved GCD + OGCD burst-phase than the other tanks

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        warrior, gunbreaker, dark knight, paladin. in that order from best to worst for your playstyle

        Paladin stabs shit, casts magic, helps others, and can even heal. Plus it's the most Ganker job.
        Gunbreaker is really cool, but frick I can not into No Mercy windows. Feels great when you can do a halfway decent one, buti get too jumbled easily.

        Warrior

        Sounds like I'll go warriror but I might give gunbreaker a try then, thanks lads.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      OK HERE IS WHAT I'LL TELL YOU
      i haven't mained a tank job until endwalker, before that i used to tank roulettes some extremes in endwalker and stormblood
      now i started with drk back then because berserk and it was fun
      right now i started with war during abyssos but switched to drk because drk is similar to warrior but has a lot of advantages and is good for downtime and fun to optimize, i think you'll be doing the same rotation forever as war whereas with drk you sometimes can optimize your mp build/spend but it's mostly the same
      i now play drk and gnb and mostly gnb for unoptimized scenarios such as not having enough raid buffs or if i think it's better for a fight, ultimately i think of it this way
      drk - very aesthetic, feels good to optimize both in damage and mits, benefits a lot from knowing the fight so when you prog always keep in mind optimization
      gnb - same as above except the rotation is very fun imo and heart of corundum is just too good, i've saved runs with aurora and that

      gnb and drk are my go-to for ultimates

      war - fun to play, specially if you like managing timers, very strong in a lot of ways and you'll always be expected to main tank, very boring to optimize
      pld - the only time i played this class for a while was in stormblood and i hated it, right now i can see why some people like it

      tl;dr just go for the one you find the most fun to do their rotation and the one you like visually the most

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      DRK = big pew pew every 2 mins, you're essentially made of paper without a healer
      GUN = big pew pew constantly, you're made of MDF
      WAR = you're big, you're dumb, you don't know how to talk or think but keep pressing buttons and you hit shit and heal
      PLD = your dps is weird, can be good, can be bad, you better learn what you're doing, but you are completely 100% immortal, no healers? you're the healer, and you can protect others and have the last cool skill from old game that wasn't removed(yet) to appease casual morons, shield bash, meaning you can distribute stuns to all monsters and their mothers as if you were a black man pouding single mother's c**ts

  84. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm surprised there are people who find the void story mid, it's pretty par for the course as far as mid expansion patches go. They have always been mid and if you think otherwise you're outing yourselves as shadowbabbies that never reached the point of having to get drip fed content before.
    Stormblood was waiting 6 months to find out that black rose was slightly closer to being unleashed (it never was), and SHB was watching beg luqq very very slowly figure out how to construct soul vessels while running errands for eulmore.

  85. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >say hello to your new melee DPS class with a sword
    >also they pull out a boomstick

  86. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I need a raise and esuna for my paladin
    Also gimme the lightblade move Zero did for DT

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm still mad that there's some character exclusive moves throughout the game that aren't even old scrapped stuff. Some of the Blades in Bozja do special versions of Samurai techs if I remember right, Mewlyb or whatever still has her 100% unique dual handguns animations, and I'm sure there's several characters that have job-style uniques rather than personal uniques like Raubahn's inexplicable bull rage inferno.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        you would be even madder if you saw all the animations that got removed from old skills and were never reused
        for all israelite penny pincher attitudes from yoshi, i dont understand why using all those animations isn't one of them when he clearly loves to reuse skeletons

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      plds had an ooc raise back in arr
      this is what casuals took from you

  87. 7 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hopefully bot-san will get me there by tomorrow...

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        how do you set that up properly? it keeps getting stuck on rocks (ahk script)

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm using MMOMinion.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            did you actually pay to not play the game?

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              I don’t respect the trash “content” made this xpac. Ergo, I will bot it.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                nta but why don't you just play a game you actually enjoy?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                But I am while the bot is running in the background. Enjoying some wamham

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                so you pay to play xiv to pay for a bot to not play a game while you do something else? that sounds like the logical end point of mmo addiction, like i knew someone who was so addicted to MMOs that he didn't know what to do with himself if he wasn't subbed to one so he started just botting so he could always be "progressing" on one even though he hated playing them

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >that sounds like the logical end point of mmo addiction
                anon, mmos always had people selling gold and items for real money, always, ever since the days of runescape and ultima
                this is not the endpoint, this is the very essence of mmos
                you never saw the lineage 2 chinese farms

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                im talking from the place of not desperation. It's clear he's not botting to make ends meet, he's doing it because from what I assume he enjoyed FF14 or MMOs in the past, but now doesn't but can't bring himself away from it so he wants something to play the game for him so he can scratch the mental itch. trust me i played runescape for years i know how desperate gold sellers can get, and in a way i understand them, what i can't wrap my head around is people who pay for an account, pay for botting tools, then use them for mundane optional content. It literally does not compute in my brain. Any time someone tries to explain it to me the question of why not just not play at all and save the money remains unanswered.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Mostly I want the items from it but cant bring myself to do the weekly grind. If it was more engaging I'd actually play.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                You’re thinking too deep into it you hyper autist. I bot to sell gil and use the money to buy real video games. Not my fault MMOlards have more money than common sense. You sound like you’re obese btw, how much you weigh?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I bot to sell gil and use the money to buy real video games
                You pay for the bot you moronic brazilian

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >tumblr troony in shambles realizing people win more money selling gil while afk than he selling bad fanart

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >realizing people win more money selling gil while afk than he selling bad fanart
                SANJIT NOOOOO NOOOO DO NOT REVEALING YOU RUIN IT

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                what have i done?
                quick let's hype up fentanyl

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Holy esl

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                why did that make you so angry

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I pay a monthly fee twice to afford video games
                kek

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                whats wamham?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                warhammer 3

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                You know you can play other games while a bot farms your shit in xiv right?
                this isn't a console

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah, I've used it since Heavensward and it pays for itself when I sell the gil I make from it to other people that also pay to not play the game.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                is this bot paid?
                pls give me a tldr i wont open aids websites on a work pc.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                it’s 7 euros for a month 2 euros for 2 days.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, you pay a small sub to it, you pay for whatever addons you want on it and it works. I've yet to ever be banned for using it and I've done it pretty blatantly from gathering to botting PVP back when it gave insane exp. If you know what you're doing you can bot some gil and sell it and not lose any real money.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Where do you sell your gil, playerauctions?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, easiest place to by far.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                How this website works?
                I made an ad, another player bids and money goes thru paypal i suppose?
                any issues with being scammed or do they have safe keeps for those cases?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >all this ESLism
                Isn't MMO RMT like a racial trait for you people? How the frick are you struggling?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                instructions unclear, i ended up inside your mom's pussy, pls send air cleaner sprays

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Did you manually mine the right order on the mountain before doing it automatically

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            no
            instructions unclear

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Mine in this order so your chances of caught in rocks is close to 0

  88. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    i hope dawntrail has more evil women

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I truly hope the antagonists are Viera Aztecs whose Government/Religious leaders have gone mad with blood sacrifices and probably primal summoning. Bonus points awarded the more their evil leader looks like my character because I'd have a hearty chuckle.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Viera are natives to dalmasca moron, only wanderers travel, lorewise viera should be one of the rarest races to be seen around because they are sedentary asf

        Also, the bigger population in the new world are humans and mamool jaa/amal jaa, as both lizards are new world natives.

        And I doubt they have the balls to make a new world civ be evil like aztecs, all twitter homosexuals would cry for days about muh racism and muh representation of indios
        only white european man is allowed to be evil in 2023

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous
          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            great comeback resetroony
            you really showed xhe/xher

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              The sheer genius and meme masterminding of doubling down on being insane and troony obsessed... I kneel...

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >someone used my generated image
            nice

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          No one cares and limiting them to Dalmasca is a homosexual move for shit games like XII. Furthermore Aztec stand ins seem pretty fricking likely and it's all about how hard they go with it, and most of it can be covered by 'well they aren't all evil, you're saving their people from their corrupt leaders'.

          Alternatively,

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >no one cares noooo not my fanfic
            have a nice day fatherless homosexual

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            trying the "noooo they wouldn't do aztecs that's fricking not woke" card is especially funny given he's putting it on a game whose plot revolves around very regular mass-sacrifice by beastmen, humans, and human predecessor demigods alike

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              They aren't known for their intelligence, anon.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Seriously. The lore autism I can understand to some degree, but that part of his dumb rant was just sad.

  89. 7 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's over.

  90. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Still not resubbing. No exploratory content, no me. Simple as.

  91. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's the point of Tank and Healer LB at this point? You only use the level 3 on Raids and for Tanks just a few times for expansion

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      a lv3 healer can save a raid gone wrong, but lv3 tank is honestly plot at this point, yeah. i don't think i've ever seen a reason for anyone to use tank lb unless mandated

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yes lv3 healer saves a lot but at this point is useless to have a lv1 and lv2 for them
        The limit breaks need a rework even for dps for visuals, crossbow looks unfitting for dancer

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Tank LB can (could?) likewise save an encounter in the right situation, but I've only seen it once or twice because most tanks don't even keep it on their fricking hot bars so you'll just eat shit anyway.
        I've lost all desire to raid since the first set of Eden though so I don't know if it's even applicable with the way fights are designed in EW.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Tank LB trivializes Harrowing Hell but yeah, otherwise it's just used when it's an absolute requirement or you just die.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        You use it unscripted to ignore mechanics, like Cachexia 2 from P6 or HH from P10

  92. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Predict the upcoming fanfest:
    >1 hour spend recapping the last fan fest
    >1 hour spent on the new job “wow rook at that cast animation! Prease rook forward to it!”
    >1 hour spent on shilling some XIV spin off like an XIV sleep app
    >10 minutes explaining the same content cadence of EW
    >FF16 crossover event

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      2 hrs presentation for 2 new zones, corsair pulled up as the big announcement, 8man raid still "not ready", announcement of alliance raid, pls welcome our guest story writer and wol
      this handsome oji san walks in
      crowd sheer

      no femhroth reveal

      rest of livestream is worthless as usual and we will have to see that ugly kate mug again as she brags about inserting woke propaganda in the game, also soken interview because they need to keep people tuned in

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        if Suckacoochie ever collabs with XIV on any professional level, you know Yoshi-P has a video of him sacrificing a baby to Moloch, or some shit.
        There's no way he goes back to Square, he made an entire IRL diorama FF game and sold it to Apple. Rather than making it with Square he sold it to fricking Apple and as a result nobody has ever played it. I don't even remember the title.

        If he shows up assume he has a gun pointed at his back.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          isnt he coming back for the DT allliance raid with uematsu

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          He's literally addicted to playing FFXIV, if anything he's been begging to work on the game in some capacity.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >you know Yoshi-P has a video of him sacrificing a baby to Moloch
          holy talking mushroom
          my fricking sides

          bro, Gucchi is absolutely addicted to the game
          https://twitter.com/auuo
          look for yourself

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Today I read somebody say that Sakaguchi being completely in love with the game is purely performative and that any collab would be against his will.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            source: a twitter homosexual
            trust me bro
            sony is buying SE too, he told me

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >2 hours spent on the upcoming xbawx support with no definite date given
      >nothing new announced just the new job and probably trying to hype up the new hildeshart that redditors will piss their pants over

  93. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do we know who was there with the black Viera dude (that the name I can't recall)? Can we see the model of the character in the Anamnesis or whatever or is it not updated yet?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Female hrothgar
      All that exists are her legs

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Oh, cool. I appreciate what they're doing to prevent datamining.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >prevent datamining
          it’s more like that’s all they managed to create of the new race as of now

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            They showcase it in two weeks anon.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              >2 weeks
              more like in JP fanfest where people will be more receptive
              it will also match the release of part 2 where you will see the in game model

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sticking with tradition, they'd show it at the second one, EU.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >no butt
        >thighs not thigg
        its owari.

  94. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Grand Doblyn ran away
    its joever

  95. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I want to frick Merlwyb

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Many men of learning do. I was hoping JoCat would animate more of his cat-twink getting railed by Merlwyb but sadly he's fled for Bluesky and I don't have an invite to see if he's made any more.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        didn't the homosexual community started crawling walls with their fake pussies because of his porn?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Some weird motherfrickers tried harassing him over his porn and his "I like girls" music-video, apparently enough that he got spooked and stopped drawing porn of any kind until just recently again (on Bluesky, where I can't check it), but I can neither confirm nor deny their transsexuality.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Sounds in line with the troons in this community, seems that every e celeb chased out of the game is due to their raging homosexualry, besides arthas and xenos who don't give a shit
            my greatest hope is that xbox gays invade this game and expel the troony shitters out of the game with their pure and raw "toxic" autismo
            and if a monkey paw curls, good, any side effect is better than current state

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              In what community, he wasn't chased around for XIV porn specifically, he was chased around for porn whatsoever. I am casting Medica II on you so you take your fricking meds

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              >my favorite ecelebs are better than yours
              do brown people really

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >burger can only think in a simple dichotomic plane, if you're not with me you're my enemy
                >misses all the nuances of misery and chaos
                anon, I just wanna watch you people burn 🙂

  96. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    zeromus is piss easy but fun

  97. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    To the people who didn't pick Halone, did you get the same warning about looking out for evil dudes exploiting faith in the Divine?

  98. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    can we get some athena lewds before the thread dies

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      drop folders while lalas are away!

  99. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

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