Stormblood has been out for 2 months now. What are your

Anything involving Doma was great
Anything involving Ala Mhigo was shit
Red Mage is fun
Samurai is shit
And Square Enix still hasn't done anything about all the retards at endgame, so I haven't even attempted the Savage/Extreme fights.

General sentiment: "It's more of the same".

I unsubbed as soon as I finished the MSQ.

>>387313465
Extreme primals so far are the easiest yet. This is also the best patch yet to try savage content because OS1&2 are fairly easy. Give it a go anon, you can do it.

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its alright, needs more stuff to do hoping 4.1 brings some good stuff please look forward to it

>>387314018
>Extreme primals so far are the easiest yet
Everyone always says that.
Sophia was apparently the easiest thing to have ever existed. Yet it took me 2. WEEKS. to clear, trying several hours every day for a full fortnight, because people in PUGs can't count to 7. Most wipes were to the enrage.

Until they cull the retards I'm never touching endgame again.

>>387313465
Same but swap Ala Mhigo and Doma and the two new jobs are both boring as fuck.

I got 4 classes on my main and an alt to 70, did the extremes, didn't care to do the savage stuff.

I was planning to get my brother to play but his OS/computer is so fucked that he can't get the game to even launch (I have tried so many things to fix his shit), so now I have just reverted to the 'come back for next patch' plan.

I like most of what changed, the fact that we only have a couple of jobs currently in the trash can when we have as many as we do currently
is pretty nice. Salty SMNfag tears will also never get old, they will never be satisfied.

I login once a week to get my omega cog from exdeath and to refresh my house.

>>387312775
>Kugane/Doma are intricate and colorful
>Ala Mhigo is literally fucking Afghanistan
The disparity in quality is downright insulting.

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Just got 330 weapon, strongly considering quitting now. Wanted to do ivalice 24 man raid but that looks to be months off.

Any reason I should stick around? I pubbed o1s and o2s but 3/4 seem pretty out of reach in publand, so I think I've pretty much done all the game can offer me.

>>387313465
>Anything involving Doma was great
Pretty much this. At least in some class quests I get more Doma goodness but wish there was more.

Remember to thank a PLD today.

>>387314236
>actually fucking liking ala mhigo

Explain yourself right now

Been playing DRK amd AST for the first time, both are pretty enjoyable so far and are at 58 & 65 respectively so far. My first tank I enjoy playing and the last of the healers I had yet to try.

>>387314184
Sorry to hear that anon. Lakshmi really is easy to do but Susanoo is the tougher one by a bit. Try finding an FC or group already familiar with the fight or make your own party in PF for serious clear.

>>387314407
Take a break and unsub until next patch with content you like is out.

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>>387312775

I played for 2 weeks and then dropped it. Just like with Heavensward. I got doubly disappointed since I thought Eureka would be in at launch because I'm retarded.

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>self-identification counts for nothing
>if your lineage is X, that is who you fucking are and anything else is race-treason
Phew. I might have forgotten this was a Japanese game for a minute there.

>>387314637
Everything involving Othard was filler shit full of useless snowflake characters. No need to say much. Some characters' development were completely gutted as a result because they absolutely gotta make me run around helping lizardmen beat the shit out of each others for 2 levels thousand of miles away from where the actual conflict takes place.

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Expansion #2 where this bitch has done LITERALLY NOTHING.

>>387315039
Alphinaud writing doujins about her is apparently enough for her to be the face of the series

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>>387314937
Fedora did literally nothing wrong

>>387315039
Doing nothing might've been the right thing seeing how fucking garbage Lyse was, only team Doma and Alisaie weren't complete garbage in the msq.

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>this expansion described in one image

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>>387315767
*clenches fist for the fourth time*

They somehow made me miss her

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>>387315767
Hopefully the patches will focus on the empire trying to retake Doma and just ignore Ala Mhigo.

There needed to be an underlying plot thread underneath all the liberating.

Lyse's character is wasted by not having her square off with Yotsuyu or the other one.
Zenos hold no real ideals for the player to go against either, he's just a madman and the story acknowledges that.

The story really only got interesting at the literal last second.

>>387312775
Story was worse than Heavensward
Characters were very underdeveloped, they tried to introduce more new characters instead of digging deep into more interesting ones like HW did with Estinien and Ysayle

There's barely any content, and barely anything new compared to 3.0 launch, It's literally the same game experience.

Primals were meh, at least they came up with new mechanics

Raids are ehhh, 1 and 2 are shit, 3 is fantastic, 4 was good

I stopped playing after clearing Omega in wee one and realizing that I have nothing else to do in this game


Oh yeah, pvp is still trash

Which direction do you think the main story will go in 4.1 and on?
On a side note I've noticed a lot of Thavnair related things lately.

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>>387316037
>wol has demolished countless primals, the fucking ultima weapon, and 1v13d THE FUCKING KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND
>zenos for some reason can shit on the WoL without any effort
>randomly loses to him at the end in a fucking 4 man dungeon

>>387316172
What is this shirt called

>>387316260
It's on the mogstation, Minfilia attire for like 15$ or some stupid shit

>>387316101
>Raids are ehhh, 1 and 2 are shit, 3 is fantastic, 4 was good

Do you mean normal or savage?

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>>387312775
just resubbed for Stormblood after having played for my 1 free month like 2 years ago

>horrendously outdated clunky tab-targeting combat (and that ground targeting mechanic lol jesus christ)
>like 50 skills per job
>have to memorize 30 input "rotations" to be considered good at a job like some fucking autist otherwise you're shit
>even when you want to turn your brain off and solo quest or grind, you still have to wrestle with overcomplicated job mechanics that require 100% focus just to kill random mobs
>have to grow a 3rd hand and a 3rd eye to optimally play most DPS jobs
>eyes glued to hotbars to see whether any of the 12 different random procs and cooldowns have popped up
>have to juggle and manage like 3 different mana/energy bars + job specific gauges/stances per job
>AND THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE "SIMPLIFIED" STORMBLOOD COMBAT

>zero synergy or teamwork between the classes outside of minor buffs others can passively benefit from
>No emergent situational awareness needed. In dungeons or teamfights everyone just tunnel-visioned into doing what they're supposed to do non-stop, and hope their teammates are doing well
>open world is completely empty outside of FATEs and an occasional hunt popping up - no rewards (not even cosmetic) for exploration, no hidden quests, no environmental storytelling or lore to discover, no optional hidden areas
>99% of quests is "go here kill that, or go there talk to that, or pick up that thing"
>the structure of every dungeon is a completely linear "3 corridors of trash mobs
then a filler boss", repeat 3 times with a bigger boss at the end

why is this game popular at all? just because it's called final fantasy?

>>387316037
>Zenos hold no real ideals for the player to go against either
It's because of that we were kindred spirits.
Zenos is always hungering for a stronger enemy to fight, and the WoL was so bored they accidentally summoned a primal (Susano-o).

By the way, what's the best mount to PvP with that's also easy to get? Currently using the battle drake, but I'm wishing I'd farmed out that fucking stupid Youkai watch one because it has a tiny hitbox.

>>387315324
(You) get a free one from me

>>387316474
>Falseflagging this hard

FFXIV combat revolves around like 7 buttons, stop trying to make your game seem complex.

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>>387316172
>randomly loses to him at the end in a fucking 4 man dungeon

This is where the sb story shit the bed the hardest

>need hydaelyns help to beat gaius and the ultima weapon

>need hraesvelgrs eye to beat niddhogstinien

>need alex to actively inhibit himself for us to beat him

>can beat zenos with no plot macguffin despite him flooring us with no problem twice previously

What changed? What's the explanation for the WoL one moment getting his ass handed to him and the next not only beating zenos without aid but also then beating shin-zenos without aid

unless the other players in the dungeon and shinryu fight are canon

>>387316363
Savage

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>>387316037
The underlying plot thread was the mystery of Zenos' hair care regimen.

>>387316351
Thanks but I can't find it using textools. I wanted to rip the model. Is there a more specific name for it?

>>387314184
Wile I agree that "easy" is always subjective, I managed to clear D1S and both EX primals as a rather casual player together with my small casual-midcore FC. And I've newer touched current EX primals before

>>387316172
The story actually acknowledges you levelling up and getting stronger, so it makes sense that you get your ass beaten the first time going against an enemy 10 levels higher than you

>>387316863
Antecedent's Attire
It's a full set of gear like Odin's old gearset, not just a chestpiece

>>387316767
Now hold the fuck on. We also beat Thordan 1v13 in the middle of a singularity reactor with Thordan being at max power.

Our power level is just inconsistent as fuck.

>>387316767

They are canon. The DF description always acknowledges them. Too much even, to the point of being obnoxious. It's especially jarring with Susano where they say something along the lines of "no matter how strong you are, it's impossible for a mere mortal to kill a primal alone" and in Bardam's Mettle where it basically says you cheated.

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>>387316946
Thanks.

it's reskinned heavensward

fucking trash cashgrab

same fucking shit, fuck FFXIV

>>387312775
same shit, new coat of paint.

people still play this regardless of the fact.

>>387316767
Any of the big boss fights, like against Ultima and Nidhogg, you canonically have your team of adventurers helping you.

>>387316983
The other three players in most HW dungeons aren't canon; DF doesn't mention anything about other adventurers, since we already had a party of Estinien, Alphinaud, and Ysalye

>>387316971
When it comes to dealing with Primals, Hydaelyn usually lends her help to the WoL, since fighting fucking gods is really hard for a mere mortal.

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>>387317235
>WoL
>mortal

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The Ala Mhigo emancipation part of the story, despite being what I was most excited for, was utterly underwhelming. Fordola's character had the most potential of any story character we had so far and they just completely shit the bed with her useless ass. Zenos was refreshingly just a dickhead instead of some tragic villain with a noble heart type shit so I liked that, but they fucked up the scale of the conflict and I never really felt like we liberated something substantial. I liked Raubahn getting more background, he's easily the most likeable Ala Mhigan (that line where he's like "Alright old friend, I'll free Ala Mhigo for you" despite Ilberd being a cocksucker till the end was really good)

Somehow despite being mostly about lizardfucks I enjoyed the Azim Steppe parts of the story the most. I actually enjoyed learning lizard lore and taking part in their dumbass tribal customs and shit.

Doma section of the story could have been much better they really fucked with the scale of the conflict doma feels like a tiny castle and a couple houses and there are like 14 domans left.

HW story was better but it took a few patches to properly close shit up so I have high hopes for the future story patches. They atleast nailed the best part of HW which was "ragtag group of unlikely allies go on an adventure together to beat the big bad" which is all I really ask for in a jrpg story.

>>387312775

Doma was great over to soon
No one cared about Ala Mhigo going in and the game gives you no reason to care going out.
Lochs are ugly as fuck end game zone compared to any previous expansions.
Great writing with one exception.
Anything involving Lyse, shes only important because the writers deem it so. Story never gives you much reason to believe shes even competent.
Red Mage is spammy
Samurai requires precognition for optimal dps rotations, most pick a sen and stick with it. Deals decent damage even if you are shit.
Absolutely no midcore content.
1 quest out of 10 in every area now worth doing... An improvement over 0... Game makes it clear which one with a splash image.
It's more of the same. Same roll out as ARR and Heavensward. Only now there will be 1 less dungeon each patch to compensate for wasting time making super savage content no one will play.

>>387316983
>Everyone just thinks the WoL is really strong
>WoL is actually a scrub and that has get carried by other people, and any time they have to fight solo (like against Zenos) they get floored
Sounds about right considering this games average player base

>>387312775
Really been enjoying the game so far, but I'm worried my interest is declining.

Want to get into end game raiding but as per usual the devs are fellating statics and static culture to play the game past a certain point and statics can go straight to hell. Anything past V2S seems like a crapshoot in a pug, either you luck out and get a really good group or you get a typical one and wipe because people don't know how to do their thing.

Hoping that a few more weeks of people getting gear will make V3S and V4S more pug-accessible.

>>387316135
It's probably going to be a mix of Heavensward and Realm Reborn.

>>387317145
SB quest descriptions went to absolute shit in every single way compared to HW, tbqh.

To the Siren-based, jump potion using catgirl DRK crying about heals being terrible in a story-progression Susan, leaving the group only to get dumped back into the same exact group seconds later, talking shit about the "previous" group's heals being bad, and then that same group proceeding to clear Susan with little problems because the drunk SCH finally sobered up and started doing his job-
The WHM who had to deal with your squishy faggot ass says hello. Use your fucking cooldowns on the telegraphed hard hitting shit, not his AA, you fucking Brazilian cumstain.

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Close to if not at least as good as Heavensward. It'll be much better if 4.1 actually drops in early October.

>>387316971
>Our power level is just inconsistent as fuck.

I think this is just what it comes down to.

The story team doesn't make it clear whether everyone we've fought is stronger than the last or if like in a real life street fight anyone can win since anyone can throw a punch to the jaw that'd knock someone out.

>>387313465

>Samurai is shit

Lol what

It shits out damage

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>>387316983
yeah that Susanoo one was obnoxious as fuck and I'm no

>muh immershuns

guy but it took me out of the story hard

it was seriouusly something like "LOL GOOD THING YOU HAD THE FORESIGHT TO BRING A GROUP OF 7 OR SO OTHER ADVENTURERS WITH YOU TO OTHARD AND ALSO GOOD THING THEY CONVENIENTLY SHOW UP AT A MOMENTS NOTICE WHENEVER YOU GOTTA FIGHT A PRIMAL ;^^)))))"

> Unsubbed around March or April
> Always planned to resub after getting my shit together.

>It's fucking August.

Should I just suck it up and get back in there? What have I missed?

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>Maxed the classes I wanted
>Did Savage till O4S even though I was supposed to stop after Creator
>Maxed DoH/DoL
>So much gil I don't need any
>Only weekly tomes left

I peaked again. Its just like 3.1 when I unsubbed. Im pretty much ready to stop playing for a while again.

Best thing about Stormblood is that they don't have a weekly cap on scrips anymore for gather/craft

>>387313465
>Samurai is shit
What an awful opinion.

>>387317858
That shit is mostly just Koji's """localisation""" though

>>387318039
Just as Yoshida planned.

>>387316908
Having a competent group is 99% of the battle.
I had the mechanics for A9-11S down in the first lockout. Did it take me days/weeks to clear them? You fucking betcha. It's basically self-flaggelation trying to PUG anything in this game; the very reason people isolate themselves in statics is because the vast majority are just so god-damned stupid they can't help but sabotage anything they participate in.

I'm not the world's best raider, far from it, but jesus fucking christ. They need to make Stone/Sky/Sea dummies mandatory (or something) to even attempt a raid, because back during Alexander I could raidfinder queue for A10S and A11S complete/completion and it was disgusting how many hours I'd spend wiping to the enrage. If I'm an AST, busting out 800pDPS and doling out 10%AoE Balances constantly 8 weeks into a raid cycle I don't want to see the god damn enrage.
FUCK.

>>387318039
Literally me
After doing all the game had to offer in HW, I stopped playing until a week before Midas release

Actually, I'm glad this tier was so easy, I woulnd't want to raidlog for over 2 months like I had to during gordias

>>387317858
That happens all the time though
"Look WoL, we're captured and in a super dangerous situation, and we can't waste any more time! But just so you know there's an exit door over there in case you need to go do something or gather a party of fellow adventurers to bring back here to help you fight. No rush though."

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MSQ was alright, quality was overall better than HW MSQ, though it did feel a bit empty at parts. Doma was better than Ala Mhigo.

Still not sure how to feel about the job changes, some are good but at the same time others were monumentally retarded (E.g. Release MCH, current SMN). Which is a shame, but they're still moderately interesting depending on what you play. BRD is fairly fun and well designed, for example.

Endgame is still brainless, though. Taking a shit is more interesting than O4S.

>30+ minute queue for a MSQ trial as a healer during the afternoon
why do people pretend this game is popular

>>387316172
Try soloing him in ala mhigo. Bet you'll get your ass beat. He loses because canonnically you had 3 other people there to help you.

>>387318559
they need to collapse some of these data centers into each other, they're way too small

Aether and Primal should really just be one huge NA center, primal is a fucking fraction of aether and it could probably absorb primal no problem if they give a little more to the server budget

Doma was good throughout, Ala Mhigo was trash except the obvious highlights.
SAM is fun and has good aesthetics, RDM was kinda disappointing and I was bored with it before I even broke level 60. Doesn't get much better at 70 either.
I don't like most changes to already existing classes.
All new areas look good.
Raid tier is absolutely awful and Savage is a joke. Same with EX Trials, though Susano is pretty fun. I (and everyone else) have high expectations for Shinryu EX.
Can't give my opinion on crafting (lmao) or gathering (haven't gotten to it yet) but since the new areas are pretty comfy I don't see how they could've made it worse.
Rhalgr's dungeon bosses are alright and I hope they keep an increasing crescendo of difficulty with it as base, they still haven't figured out how to make the in-between interesting though (like no dungeon requires use of duty items? Are you fucking serious?)
OST is consistently good and great at times.

Overall a 7.5/10

rate the sb class quest stories

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So what's the difference between seekers of the sun and keepers of the moon?

>>387319341
Suns have shorter fangs and slitted pupils, have a normal human skin palette, and canonically are the ones that are supposed to have heterochromia (this was added to other races for 2.0).
Moons have longer fangs, slitted pupuls, a brown/grey/blue skin palette, and canonically are the ones that are supposed to have multicoloured tails (also given to Suncats in 2.0).

>>387318963
The problem is that they fucked up super hard letting things get as out of hand as they did with things like balmung or gilgames. Every server that's even a medium population just feels desolate by comparison and they've only recently even started to address this by closing transfers to overpopulated servers and incentivizing lower realms. Its a start but I fear they waited too long for it to be effective

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Why do people here hate the idea of statics? I thought the whole point of an MMO was making friends.

>>387319341
Suncat = Cat eyes.
Mooncat = Vampire fangs.

Also because there's a huge imbalance in cat male::female ratio, they apparently have different systems of enslaving males for breeding purposes.

>>387319341
Suncats form tribes around 1 or 2 breeding males
Mooncats form small family communities were the males are expected to fuck off after a while

>>387319695
Because there's literally no way to find these people without knowing at least one of them IRL. Which defeats the purpose of MMOs to begin with.

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>>387319213
drg
>shit until right at the end. tf was the point of the random MNK questline cameo? also that last duty was gliltched or something week 1 I hope they fixed it

DRK
>good throughout with 2 VERY strong peaks at the middle and end. Contender for best job questline along with the 30-50 DRK ones.Sidurgu feels like a battle brother in a clan where you're the last two surviving members in the world and its comfy bantsing with him and the girl.

AST
>not super fun from a gameplay perspective (what healer job quests are though?) but really interesting from a lore perspective since we learn about eastern Geomancy (effectively removing the chance of geomancer being a playable job). The kugane kid with the fuccboi haircut was a good character.

That's all I played so far, moving onto RDM next I hope the catboi justicelad is as cool as he intially seems.

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>>387312775

They need to release the fucking relic grinds already.

>>387319794
Go check your PF you fucking sperg. I've never spoken to any static member face to face in three years.

why did warrior lose bloodbath

>>387319794
I don't know any of the people in my static irl and we do things just fine.

Same old dull gear carrot on a stick with months and months between new carrots.

>>387319213
WAR FINALLY became good.

>>387319695
That's what FCs are for

>>387319213
SAM
50-60 Fucking amazing
60-70 Fucking awful

>>387316826
>>387319864
Why is his hair so perfect?

i play pld and just pull everything and am able to do ok regardless of any healer

will i be able to do the same with drk and war?

>>387319341
Sun cats prefer oral, Moon cats prefer anal

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>>387319341
One has cat-eyes. The other doesn't.
>not wanting sexy cat-eyes

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>>387315767

>rambles incoherently about why innocent abused inexperienced farmer children aren't fighting against experienced coordinated killer soldiers armed with death machine robots for 60 hours
>gets given job offer to lead a revolution because she's "seen some shit" according to Conrad
>it ends up being 1000% YOU that ends up doing all the work as usual
>she steals your glory and walks off the hero of the revolution

Lyse is the worst.

>>387319695
>Why do people here hate the idea of statics?

I don't want to have an obligation to my videogames

what if I really don't want to play on raid night?

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>>387319695
>I thought the whole point of an MMO was making friends.

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>>387319213
PLD was hype.
SCH was mostly boring, but I like it for pic related.

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>FC of 5 players who does savage
>Always have to pug for 3 other players (2 DPS 1 healer)
>Keep getting cunts who just want to do O1S or O2S or worst want to get carried though O3S
>After like 1 or 2 hours we finally get them
>The DPS is fucking awful
>We reach O3S and get to enrage because the DRG killed our tank on library
>We wipe again because the DRG killed our BLM on library again
>Cunt act as if it wasn't his fault and get upset that we blame him
>Our tank fuck up once or twice
>Awful DRG says something "Mhm oh yeah great play there!"
>We kick him
>Check his DPS on ACT (I don't use overlay anymore since it eat up like 20 FPS off my game for some reason)
>Mfw I have no face

Why are DRGs always the fucking worst?

>>387320436
>cunt
Ausfag?
Need a healer?

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>>387320002

>SAM 50-60 Fucking amazing
>"excuse me sir, are you evil?"
>"why yes, yes i am."
>NOTHINGPERSONALKID
>"well that sure was fun!"
>HAHA RACIST IGNORANT JOKE

Musosai was a shit mentor/wannabe Batman and his story was laughably bad.

>bust your ass in content
>some autist does 30% more damage than you by honing perfect asian inputs
>you now have a blue parse and nobody wants you within a mile
>groups that don't care about that stuff also don't care about doing mechanics right, no middle ground

No wonder average players feel so disenfranchised

>>387320153
I wish i could get both the eyes and the fangs.

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>only midcore content in the game is O3S
>only hardcore content in the game is O4S
>everything else is casual trash
>next patch is the casual patch
>only reason to continue playing after beating O4S once is dressing up cats and lizards in shisui glamor

>>387320497
Nah, I just like to use that word to describe horrible people in general.

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>>387319213
MCH
>Cops and Robbers
>Smug Hilda

Was worth only to see Hilda be smug

>>387319695
>convince a clique of 7 other people that you are worthy of breathing the same air as them
>if you pass this first barrier, you get invited to a trial where they judge if you are worthy of continuing to breathe their air
>if you do not parse 90+ percentile, goodbye you can't play with us
>if you put on the performance of a lifetime and play absolutely flawlessly, you are allowed into the static
>from this point on there are rules in play
>you will never miss a raid, you will come prepared with consumables and fight knowledge (the only sensible part of a static tbqh)
>if at any point you make a mistake, mechanical or rotation wise, you are out of the static good bye see you
>if at any point you have a parse below 90, good bye find another static
>if you at any point can't make it too a raid, thanks for playing go find another static
>but steve from the static's wife had to work late so they both couldn't make it, why don't they get reprimanded?
>they have seniority fuck you shitter
>what about that black mage that's a gray parser?
>he brings important intangibles that are crucial to the success of the static, fuck you

I think a static could work if it was just a group of 8 people that shared a common interest and respected each other. I've just never ever seen anything close to that, it always feels like I'm the new guy trying to fit in with some clique. I hate the idea of always feeling like there's a gun pointed to my head ready to fire at the smallest slip up, its just too much pressure when I'm trying to learn a fight and optimize my performance to have that weighing on me as well.

>>387319712
>>387319713
>you will never be enslaved and gangraped by qt catgirls 18 hours a day
J U S T
U
S
T

>>387320436
What server and who are you lacking.

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Nero's shit-eating grin is a work of art.

>Reinstall the game because there is an event going on
>Need to be level 30 to do the event
>I am level 20
I'll try the game again some other time I guess.

>>387320930
I joined a static recently. It was literally just "don't be a dick and don't be a shit".

>>387320743
O3S is unironically harder than O4S.
t. cleared O4S on the exact same day the second reset happened.

>>387320998
Primal and 2 DPS/1 heal

>>387321481
Nah, O4S is harder because of the randomness of Exdeath' blackholes.
Fuck, I wanna see Neo Exdeath already...

>>387321684
Not really. Neo is pretty much a joke to everyone but healers.

Lyse is CUTE

>>387321684
Hali's randomness comes halfway through her fight. Nothing like losing both of your healers because she decides to hop to the polar opposite side for her Protean Wave bullshit.

>>387312775
I liked it. Managed to squeeze out 200 hours from it. Currently unsubbed waiting for more content. Right now I'm playing FF12 zodiac age.

>>387318039
But that's what you want to do, get everything out of the way so then you have free time for other games etc.

I enjoy leveling aspect the most.

>want to try getting into V3S
>all the learning parties are gone because its not week 1-2 anymore
>every party is "V3S: know up tol X"
>X is never 1 second into the fight
>the game's only decent guide-maker still hasn't made a V3S guide

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>>387321846

>>387320519
Shit tastes.
Musosai being a wannabe batman was the whole reason why it's good. It's like a wacky 80s anime.

>>387318963
Rather have two data centers for NA, one east and west coast.

What the fuck is with Japan needing 3 and all of Europe only having 1.

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>>387321979
> polar opposite side
>not just pulling her back to mid after each jump

>>387320158
is she the Trahearne of FFXIV?

I can't believe how much I dislike her now.

>>387322129
>Europe only having 1.
I wish krauts and frogs got their own super special datacenter where the rest of EU wouldn't have to deal with them.

>>387319695
I don't have the time to commit to raiding at specific times, which is why raiding v1s to v4s each week in PF is nice and you meet more people in the game that way instead of just the same 7 you do all content with and don't socialise with anyone else.

>>387322129
Japan subscribes more often and more consistently.

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>>387321979
This >>387322139
What the fuck is your tank doing?

>>387322139
We maximize DPS under the pretense that "we've cleared it four times already we can handle anything", even though we wipe at least once on each fight.

At least we have a sense of humor about it.

>>387322159
no that's alphinaud

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>>387320013

>>387322129
Europe has the least amount of players compared to Japan and America. Japan has 3 datacenters because it's easier to rent servers when your company is based there. Getting a datacenter in America as a foreign company is a long waiting process, it's all about location and availability. It's not like they can just wave $100k in front of a hosts face and expect to have it setup in 1 day.

>>387320158
>help her liberate the toilet of the world that is ala mhigo (aka do it all)
>she leaves the scions to lead them after SB story
fucking bullshit tbqh. The one good thing she had going for her is that she was really nice to look at and wore revealing outfits. Now we don't even get that.

>each patch has rhalgr's reach upgraded instead of ala mhigan quarter or doma

My only hope is they knock down Rhalgr's statue and replace with Rowena.

>>387322338
>Getting a datacenter in America as a foreign company is a long waiting process, it's all about location and availability. It's not like they can just wave $100k in front of a hosts face and expect to have it setup in 1 day.

SE has affiliates in US and Europe though
They're not some kind of small indie company

>>387320158
Anyone got the "i liberated this" comic thing with lyse and the wol?

>>387320213

then don't, its not hard to pick up a replacement for this night, is it?

>>387322338

what decade are you posting from?

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>tfw 2 more months of no content

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>>387322428
>ala mhigan quarter
I'd just like to point out that after 20 years of occupation of oppressive Garlean control, the worst section of Ala Mhigo looks better than any of the other city states in Eorzea.

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>3 more months of Omega 1-4

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>>387322558

>>387312775
I've already unsubbed I'll be back for 4.5 when there's enough to do to justify a subscription

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>>387322575
>3

Is there any way to change nameday?

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>>387322478
i gotchu

>>387322456
SE's American office is based in Montreal. Any development of ffxiv goes through Japan branch executives and producers. Any major development such as moving or changing datacenters requires Yoshida and his crew to travel and handle business. This stuff doesn't happen overnight. It's a long process between translations, traveling overseas and getting the necessary paperwork, Yoshida still fufilling his job as director as well as producer, and other setbacks.

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>>387322636

Sounds sensible to me.

>>387322923
You get a chance to during fantasia

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I want to live in Hydaelin so I could get all the cat cunny I want

>>387322274
>confirmed for only playing ARR

Alphy has been a bro since HW you fag

>>387323003
Cats wouldn't fuck you anyways. Your best bet is raping a potato though they will probably beat you up also

>>387323064
>tfw you realize a potato could have the same strength and power as a roe, all packed into that tiny little body

What did people used to do in WoW when they had all content on farm and they still have weeks left on their sub?

>>387322970
>Yoshida still fufilling his job as director as well as producer, and other setbacks.
I still don't understand how is that ok?
He's probably banking in money because of that but holy shit the crazy amount of work he must have to do....

>>387323154
I heard he sleeps like 2-3 hours each night, max

>>387323245
Absolute madman

>>387323134
Vanilla/BC WoW raids were hard to get into and hard to clear so most of the people didn't experience them by the end of the patches. By WotLK you could spend entire patches just catching up to past content like rep grind/achievements/mount grind etc

>>387323003
>You will never be the WoL on Hydaelyn and trade sexual favors for saving the world.
>You will never bend Tataru over her desk and show her your Gae Bolg
>You will never make Nanamo scream your name all night long
>You will never seer your seed and over the seed seers face.

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>>387323003
I want my own clowder rape slaves.

>>387323154
There's a reason why he smokes a lot and looks old for his age. Stress.

He mentioned that one day he wants to be a director full time, but he can't leave his position as producer because he hasn't found a suitable replacement. It must be really tough too since Yoshida is basically the face of the game. If Yoshida stops being producer then you won't see him much in live letters.

>>387323245
Most of the top tier people in the world rarely sleepy. It's literally 1/3rd of your life being wasted.

>>387323578
We don't deserve him

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>>387322982

oh bitch please it's just an excuse for not making new, fresh content. All he wants to do (or is told to) is to repeat the same cycle since 2.X, it's safe and it steadily brings in money for SE.

He shouldn't be surprised when people don't re-sub one day because they realise that one monthly sub is not fucking worth the lukewarm story and trials he tries to masquerade as "raids" and the same shit over and over again. There are no surprises or excitements in this game when it comes to updates. It's like an office job.

>>387323578
Yoshi-P looks his age though. Looks like a normal 44 year old

>>387323429
Vanilla raids were really easy to get into. The only problem was when you got to Naxx. That was a huge gear wall.

T4 was easily puggable in BC, T5 and T6 were the difficult ones that needed a guild and voice chat.

>>387323578

Don't a lot of Japanese smoke? Doesn't seem something out of the ordinary.

>>387323670
It's hard to make fresh new content when you're given a shoestring budget with profits solely funding expensive failures like FFXV rather than your own.

>>387323681
Have you seen him recently? Depending on the lighting he looks like he's in his 50s. Those fucking wrinkles on his face.

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tfw SCHfags are submitting to WHM.

>>387323578
Yoshida has been talking up this idea for a while now. He even talked up possibly leaving XIV as a core member and working on other games. He's also bringing to stage and live letters and other shit a lot of other core members of his team. He's testing them out as possibly the new face of XIV. It's going to happen eventually as Yoshida is just too talented. And SE has a problem that Yoshida's existence explicitly reveals. They don't have enough talent. They don't rear their younger developers well enough and make them suitable to take on bigger projects. Currently, SE Japan lacks people of Yoshida's caliber or even near him. His main job aside from running SE Tokyo's MMO division is finding talent in his ranks and moving them up to take on projects and leads of their own.

>>387323801
post pic

>>387323739
Smoking is common worldwide. But people tend to smoke more when stressed out. Japanese business men are stressed all the time. Hard work, barely any sleep, and imagine Yoshida a guy that has to do two jobs at once and everyone worldwide judges him.

>EVERY DPS PARTY FINDER LOCKS IT SO NO ONE ELSE CAN LOOT THEIR SHIT

When you try to explain to them that you can't be selfish and tank/healer always have to loot against someone they say "it's not the same, they know they have to."

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Make no mistake the work on XIV made him age like a POTUS

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>>387323804
>tfw WHM think they're in any position to bully others

>>387323739
Tobacco is still big in Japan. It's moving away from it, but they're like 1980s America still.

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>>387323967
SE CEO when?

>>387322559
too much one colour.

System wise it's same old same old there is something that has gotten worse though. Way worse.
The world design. Stormblood area look worse than both rhe base game and heavensward let me explain. The texture work is poorly thought out, where a wall meets the dirty ground it clashes ugly. There is flat surfaces you can't land on everywhere, in HW if it was flat chances are you could land on it.
This is unacceptable.
The rain effect is different and looks low resolution, you can check this out. Compare the rain weather in idyllshire and kugane or the lochs.
I never disliked a music track in this game before this expansion but the peaks daytime, lochs daytime are ear wrenching after prolonged listening so is the later portion of the yanxia theme.
I don't know what happened in the team but they got majorly lazy and amateurish with this expansion.
I kept talking with the character between main quests, every single time i could but they never had anything interesting to say where in HW you had fun side stoeies going on with alphy gahtering wood, iceheart getting moe for the moogles and such tidbits, nothing of that sort this time around. Something went wrong.

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>>387323967

he just wants to take vacation and work on comfy handheld games

i just hope his replacement is not an introverted, shut-in who never talks or interacts with fans

remove soken

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>>387324425

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>>387324453
and replace with whom?

>>387324425
for what reason, give a good one or you're eternally a fag

https://youtu.be/iR3yMqpaCrU

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>>387323876
>Yoshida is just too talented

>>387324578
t. Praise Tanaka

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>>387324425
Remove yourself

>>387324531
Yanxia Day.

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>>387324596

>>387324578
He's definitely a talented manager though

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Its weird. I play Stormblood and I'm like "Yup, this is the best thing MMOs have pushed out in recent years."

... but all it makes me do is crave WoW. EVEN THOUGH I'm perfectly aware its worse in its current state.

I hate myself.

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>>387323891
>>387323967
other comparison

>he didn't watch state of the realm with /OUR GUY/ Larry

What's your excuse?

>>387324425
Remove Soken and replace with Double Soken

>>387324706
J U S T

Game is more casualized than ever which is great because I've got a busy schedule nowadays. Its better than HW and not as good as ARR. It's an okay expansion.

>>387324706
Looks like a normal 44 year old

FFXIV is the MMO for people who have never played one and those retired MMO vets.

>>387324695
Well ff14 is a WoWclone so that's probably why.

>>387324531
not him but it sounds like it would fit an African theme more

when I imagine Mongolia/Central Asia those sounds don't come to mind.

>>387324630
I understand why a lot of folks dislike it. but being asian, i find it super comfy and reminds me of my childhood.

>>387324710

who in the fuck is Larry and why should I care?

>>387324531
shame about the actual zone

>>387324578
Compared to the other people working at Square he's a fucking god.
He made an MMO while running another one in two years.
Meanwhile you have Nomura who takes 10 years to make a game and Tabata who thinks combat should only be designated to one button that you hold.

>>387324695
FFXIV does the opposite for me, it makes me even more disgusted at WoW. How a company like Blizzard puts less effort in their game yet has 10x the budget and staff available.

>>387324897

Your childhood was like early Jackie Chan/HongKong martial arts films?

>>387323951
Not doubling up on classes is how a static would do it. And youre foolish if youre joining a pf where you'd have unnecessary competition on loot that has a weekly lockout on it.

>>387324706
Well, it's been almost 7 years since he took over. He went from mid 30s to early 40s.

>>387324735
Soken necked himself once i don't think he'll be going for another one. Our hope lies in cocain overdose.

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>>387324706
>>387323967

>>387324984
Nope, mom worked at an antique/furnishing shop, this type of music would play often if not 80's american/asian pop music.

>>387325221

sounds comfy indeed

>>387325195
kek

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>>387324695
>putting gameplay over visuals so you can have clutch stuns and interrupts instead of forcing you to memorize boss rotations and stop all actions 5 seconds before you need to stun something and then press the stun 1 second before the boss even starts using it
>dungeons that at least sometimes pretend to not be hallway simulators with doors blocking you from pulling more than the regulated 3 packs and conveniently placed circles for bosses
>raids that you actually explore and progress through instead of circles and squares you're teleported into
>seamless overworld

Even though wow does plenty of shit wrong (titanforging a shit) they still do a lot right.

>>387325036
the picture on the left was when he was 42 during A Realm Reborn. he's 44 now.

>>387325221
The start is nice but it ends incredibly high pitched

>>387325285
That doesn't make much sense. Arguably, the most difficult time of Yoshida's XIV tenure was from 2010 to 2015, during ARR. Post HW through SB is when he and his team started taking it easy.

>>387325275
I will never comprehend how people are comfortable with being ugly. Ugliness is something you try to get rid off, to cure not striving to achieve it.

>>387324710
>larry is still stuck in v3
>the nigger is still stuck in v4 at meteors

why are these pillars of the community so shit?

>>387325275
S E R V E R
L I M I T A T I O N S

>>387325275
>Set bonuses that exist
>movement abilities that don't feel like shit
>items that actually feel like upgrades (though I hear this isn't so great currently)
I played WoW at Legion launch for a little bit after not having played since WOTLK and my only actual complaint was that enemy effects (ground markers that you can dodge and shit) felt a little unclear.

>>387325532
Pilars of jack shit. Who are these people ?

>>387325275
WoW and FFXIV may as well not have overworlds because they're dead as fuck after the questing rush is over. At the end of the day, people just AFK in towns like lobbies. So why not just focus on making actual content instead of useless overworlds? PSO and Vindictus has the right idea.

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>>387323681
he's aged fast in japanese years

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>>387325725

>>387325754
>Sakurai somehow looked older at 23 than he his now 44+
What the fuck?

>>387325725
The kittens not wearing bikinis made the entire situation POINTLESS

>>387325275
>blacking out the name as if I have moonrune keys installed to even search this guy up

>>387325754
sakurai is a special case, his genes allow him to get younger as he ages.

but watch as soon as he turns 60 then seniority is going to hit him like a truck. it's already starting to happen with his frequent hand pains.

>>387325754
>boyish looks
>voice like a badass yakuza boss

i wasn't prepared

I dont know what it is, its shit

>>387325893

exactly, it's to prevent perverts like you to sexualise them

>>387325680
Blizzard are still not very good at visual presentation of mechanics, but considering upgrades, it seems current "good" dps levels are x4-5 times of what were at start of legion (exept fights relevant for that ilvl last about same time)

>>387325275
>raids that you actually explore
gets old after the first time and everyone just wants to rush through it to get to the boss.

ffxiv skips the padding bullshit and trash mobs and just places you infront of the boss.

Post the character from Heavensward that made every scene in Stormblood.

Hint: He's a dragoon

>>387326135
haurchefant

>>387326135
The one with title of Azure Dragoon. Warrior of Light.

What's the point of job quests in SB?
They seem to unlock nothing as of 64. All my spells unlock from levels and my gear from quests.

So we can all agree on /v/ that Aether and Chaos are full of the worst mental case people and Primal is the only decent American datacenter right?

>>387326302
They give you your 70 skill and your artifact 3 armor/weapon

>>387318229
Is it?.
Because is really fucking annoying.

What the FUCK are Poetic tombstones used for now?

>>387326302
you get story, cutscenes, and a boat load of EXP.
at the level 70 job quest, you get your final skill and your job armor.

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>>387325893

>>387326403

buying gear for your lvl 50/60 jobs

>>387326341

speaking of, i played rushed through all of HW last week or so and never came across job armor there. does it all come from Hunts currency? i've never even done one of those.

>>387326403
Buying lvl 50/60 gear for your retainers.

>>387326513
you used to get the heavensward job armor from tome currency but they changed it to centurio seals from hunts.

>>387326513
Yup you get them from the npc at the forgotten knight bar.

they're not that good anymore, but get them for glamour purposes. as for hunts, they're easy, get your dailies from the board outside and if anyone shouts for hunt mobs in your zone or somehwere you can quickly get to, try and join up.

The weekly targets gives you 100 seals

>>387326513
Which job did you finish it with?
I think SAMs and RDMs don't get any gear with their lvl 60 job quests, but others do.

Stopped playing after a while because there's still Jackshit to do unless do savage raids.
Might come back and sub only and only because of the moonfaire event outfit

>>387326789
Time freeze is a poorly utilized fetish.

>>387326031
>>387326493
FUCK you both. I'm the got dang warrior of light, I've done so much for this world and all I ask in return is some loli tiddies and booties in bikinis

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It's got a point.

>>387326189
That's a regular man. Talking about a dragoon-man

>>387326513
I thought lv 60 job armor is given at the lvel 60 quest now.

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>Female Au Ra is a tranny
everytime

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>>387326928
>hfw you're strung up in Idyllshire by Mountain Dew and her Gobbies

>>387326928
You'll wait until they're 16 just like local Eorzean law dictates.

>>387326861
Nothing to do with time freeze, it's just a retainer.

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>tfw everyone has forgotten WoL's canon love interest

>>387327009
>Lesbian trans woman
So he's straight?

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>>387327091
I miss you

>>387326708
>>387326723

right. the Welkin set for AST, for example, i'd probably get just for glam.

>>387326820
>>387326987

oh yeah i went through with RDM, and you do get a budget "Red" set at some point, actually. but its not like the true Artifact armor i don't think.

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>wanna finish hw relic
>get to light phase
>run 4 hw dungeons
>do a1s 5 times
>still cant finish first rune

are you kidding me with this shit?

>>387327161
he cut off his dick and wears a skirt, but still dates women.

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>>387327091

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>>387327009
>designer at GW2
>plays FF14

Also
>lives in NA
>plays on fucking phoenix

Fucking trannies man

>>387327079
I'm not saying I'm gonna fug the loli booties, I just want to be like those Lalafell during the faire questline and spy on frolicking bikini clad kittens through a telescope.

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>>387326928

Enjoy

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2277400

>>387312775
Better than Heavensward but the formula is more of the same like IGN review summed up. People that like the formula will love it, people who expected the game to turn into a sandbox innovative MMO will be massively disappointed.

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>50 frontline victories after 134 matches
>The ADS mount is at least 400 matches away
>134 hours awaits me of more PvP

MCH main from HW finally starting to play it on SB. How am I supposed to play after the job changes? Am I still lining CDs for Wildfire? When should I overheat this piece of shit?

*female lalafell laugh*

>>387327576
Thank you!
Finally some reward for my hard work.

Lame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNRq1J91ybo&feature=youtu.be

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>>387327721

>/surprise
>/cheer

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>>387327778
There's always one

>>387327721
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRFEf4oPQmk

>>387327576
Too flat.

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>>387327838

>>387327838
I'm just saying it's lazy majority are from XI.

>>387327778
This honestly does not bother me. If there are some good/iconic designs then I don't mind a game bringing them over. It's FF its pretty common.

That said, I miss 1.0's textures so much, I just wish we had that again for not only our characters, but the mobs as well.

>>387327778

but every time i see an FFXI model it lifts my spirits... until i fight it and its the same as every mob in the game; do your rotation and maybe walk out of the orange cone if you care enough.

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>>387327930

literally cancer incarnate

>>387328062
Lalafells are the reasons are character does fuck all in cutscenes.

Is SAM any good?

>>387328031
Meh, most enemies are recurring in FF. I consider it more a nod to the previous MMO

>>387320002
Both are terrible.
The only good thing is that a lalafell died.

>>387328080
That's because XIV mobs outside of bosses lack all the XI versions skills outside of maybe 1 or 2.

>>387328184
I'm not talking about recurring monsters, as Goblins have been in many games. What you seem to be blind to is it's the exact same model/skeleton

>>387327721
No joke though, I don't female Lalafell to be fucking adorable when they aren't bring meme machines. When they are just bubbly cuties with sweet smiles like Tataru, they get my korokoro dokidoki

>>387327679
what is the context of this picture

>>387328031
It wouldn't be a FF game without references to previous FF games. At least they managed to put effort into redoing some of the models. Compare the Goobbue in XI to the Goobbue in XIV. The XI Goobbue doesn't have moving expressions and has lower quality textures.

>>387328123
I know, that really bugs the shit out of me (though I confess I play a lalafell, it's because I remade my XI taru and he holds a special place in my heart being my first major mmo).

>>387328176

*SWASHSWISH KERRCHINNGGGGKKRRSSHHH* i think that* SWWOSHFOCHHAMMMSWASH SHWISH* its alright, probably *SWASHSWASHWATTASHH YooooOOOOOOO* more interesting and "modern feeling" than most other melee playstyles.

>>387327262
Nope. Enjoy your content.

>do o1s
>drg and healer things drop
>drg did 1.9k dps
>healers dps comes from assize and aero
I'm glad the shitter sensor works as intended and combats the extreme dps disparity.

>>387328123
1.0 cutscenes had your lalafell character doing shit. They just stopped doing mo-cap for ARR because budget and time.

>>387328202

well more than that, i'm just bemoaning the whole system a bit; elements, debuffs that matter, buffs that matter, different linking/aggro rules, high power/danger level, etc.

but hey i still play FF14, i can deal with it obviously.

>>387328620
I'm glad elemental resistances don't exist in FFXIV because then it would turn into a wankfest where people would refuse to bring jobs for FATEs or bosses because "lmao enemy is strong against fire dont bring any blm"

>>387328520
I could understand leaving it out for ARR, but they've had two expansions now, come the fuck on.

>>387327262
relic weapons are supposed to take months to finish, poopsockers want a grind and they got one.

if you really want to speedrun through it, look up when lights are at their most effective.

>>387328779

the whole system and every individual part is related in design though, you can't really compare like that. IE if elements mattered then BLM probably wouldn't be designed around doing damage with Fire only.

unless they were really dumb. like some vanilla WoW-tier designers.

>>387328887
would you be okay with mo-capped cutscenes that people skip anyways if that means delaying patches even further (extra month or maybe two depending on setbacks)

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>>387328887
No, all profits must be pumped into KH3, FFVII:Re and FFXV DLC.
Then when those games are released, all profits will be invested into making FFXVI (directed by Yoko Taro), FFXVII (directed by Yoshida) and FFXVIII:Online (directed by Koji Fox)

>>387329075

thats a damn cute lizard.

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BLM is in the best place it's ever been. Only thing that would make it better is if they gave us manawall back.

Japanese insiders say that 4.1 will drop in mid September.

>>387312775
STORM OF BLOOD
BORN OF BLOOD
FOR OUR FALLEN BROTHERS

>>387329268
is this also when shirogane opens up?

i've been sitting on this 43mil for a while now and I'm anxious to try and get myself my first home after playing since 1.0

>>387329346
shirogane is sometime in 4.1, not at launch of 4.1. so could be in october or november.

Should I main RDM or BLM

>>387329423
BLM of course, RDM is pretty boring.

>>387329405
got damn it, well thanks anyway, will keep saving up

>>387329423
why not both? they share the same gear.

>>387329456
>RDM
>Boring
Maybe you're just upset that RDM is leagues better and offers utility that BLM doesn't.

how much should i be Unleashing, just a lot? also do i start pulls with Grit then turn it off when there is less mobs?

>>387329669
RDM is like the DRG of casters, they're damage is fine but they're incredibly boring to play. The skill ceiling is incredibly low and messing up doesn't punish you as much.

Nothing. Hit a point in ARR where I need to grind out three levels to proceed through the story and I just really haven't felt like it.

>>387329740
If you're pulling a ton of mobs, may as well leave grit on and spam unleashed abyssal drains with some quietus in between. if there's only a few enemies or a boss, then just open with a aggro combo infused with dark arts then drop to increase your dps output.

>>387329864
How? The game shits XP at you at those levels now

>>387329268
That'd be nice.

>>387329740
Always pull in Grit, the first seconds of engagement are where enmity most matters. Turn off Grit when you aren't taking heavy damage, already have established aggro, and aren't expecting huge damage spikes anytime soon.

As for unleashing, 2 unleashes in Grit is enough for big pulls.

>>387329974
It really doesn't. You hit a wall around level 40, and there's one point specifically where you have to grind multiple levels.

>>387329864
Do the chain of quests in the waking sands, they go on for a long time and should be enough to get you through.

How do I get people to join my FC?
Or alternatively, how do I get the 3 people in there to leave without being mean to them?

>>387330352
>Or alternatively, how do I get the 3 people in there to leave without being mean to them?
you kick them

>>387330352
Say you support Trump.