Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Koushirou · Jul 20, 2021

I know I shouldn't be surprised, but the amount of apology and explanation in that letter for...20min queues compared to the "crickets" response to the 7+ hour queues in Classic WoW is just so fucking staggering. God, I hope the dark corporate powers never take Yoshi-P away.

Chris · Jul 20, 2021

Gavinmad said:
christ i need a second monitor if im gonna keep doing the daily main scenario roulette.

Yeah you got to weigh up if you need +1 level vs the time helping spouts watch cutscenes.

If you aren't max level in one character you really shouldn't be doing it imo.

Gavinmad · Jul 20, 2021

Chris said:
Yeah you got to weigh up if you need +1 level vs the time helping spouts watch cutscenes.

If you aren't max level in one character you really shouldn't be doing it imo.

it's still a huge chunk of xp once a day despite the time it takes, and god knows the MSQ isn't enough to keep two characters leveled without road to 70.

... · Jul 20, 2021

Its great tomes too. Just....catch up on a show while Nero gives his life story

Merrith · Jul 20, 2021

Yeah I pretty much have some youtube, twitch, or netflix ready for Prae runs, just tab out during monologues and collect tomes/exp at the end.

Urlithani · Jul 20, 2021

Koushirou said:
I know I shouldn't be surprised, but the amount of apology and explanation in that letter for...20min queues compared to the "crickets" response to the 7+ hour queues in Classic WoW is just so fucking staggering. God, I hope the dark corporate powers never take Yoshi-P away.

Turn on captions and look at his answer about WoW. The dude loves and cares more about WoW than most WoW devs probably do.

rhinohelix · Jul 21, 2021

No wonder people fucking love FF14. I am in awe after reading that announcement. That's how you build commitment and dedication in a community.

... · Jul 21, 2021

They are a mix of Japanese as fuck about their duty to quality, and as dedicated to making fans happy as any company I've ever seen.

And cat girls

Grizzlebeard · Jul 21, 2021

... said:
They are a mix of Japanese as fuck about their duty to quality, and as dedicated to making fans happy as any company I've ever seen.

And cat girls

FemRoe is where it's at mate.

... · Jul 21, 2021

Grizzlebeard said:
FemRoe is where it's at mate.

The cat girls arnt for me. Im on board with femroe

Malkav · Jul 21, 2021

Femroe definitely got snusnu energy.

I was rereading the last Live Letter translation regarding the incoming downscaling of stats with Endwalker, and it may actually have an interesting effect. They are limiting the increase of stats from gear between lvl50 and 80.

Yoshida said during the LL :

Y "So lets say you fight an Enemy that was scaled to ilvl 500 and your gear is ilvl 500. Their stats will have been adjusted as well, so it won't be different"
Y "But if you fight the same enemy that was scaled for ilvl 500 while equipping 530 yourself, the stat difference on your end between ilvl 500 and ilvl 530 will be less than it is now"
Y "So it will feel a litter longer than now"

Right now, most the 50/70 duties have become completely faceroll in roulettes because of player overgearing, to the point where you can completely ignore mechanics (looking at you Crystal Tower). I think this in turn helps foster the feeling from the paint lickers that they can just cruise through all the content while being carried with absolutely 0 consequences. If this change actually bring back even a bit more difficulty (closer to the difficulty that was originally intended for those duties), I really hope it pushes the community to shape up a bit.

Grizzlebeard · Jul 21, 2021

Malkav said:
Femroe definitely got snusnu energy.

I was rereading the last Live Letter translation regarding the incoming downscaling of stats with Endwalker, and it may actually have an interesting effect. They are limiting the increase of stats from gear between lvl50 and 80.

Yoshida said during the LL :

Right now, most the 50/70 duties have become completely faceroll in roulettes because of player overgearing, to the point where you can completely ignore mechanics (looking at you Crystal Tower). I think this in turn helps foster the feeling from the paint lickers that they can just cruise through all the content while being carried with absolutely 0 consequences. If this change actually bring back even a bit more difficulty (closer to the difficulty that was originally intended for those duties), I really hope it pushes the community to shape up a bit.

I look forward to seeing many PUG slaughters in Pharos Sirius when this change goes live.

Malkav · Jul 21, 2021

Grizzlebeard said:
I look forward to seeing many PUG slaughters in Pharos Sirius when this change goes live.

Man even with overgearing people still wipe too much to that boss.

Neranja · Jul 21, 2021

Malkav said:
Right now, most the 50/70 duties have become completely faceroll in roulettes because of player overgearing, to the point where you can completely ignore mechanics (looking at you Crystal Tower).

It's a good change, because at the moment it's a bit of a mixed bag, especially when you have a lot of sprouts running around in leveling gear. Had a ninja with 2.8k HP in Castrum, he died basically in one non-dodged AoE. Nothing you can do about that.

At the same time the experienced players try to roflstomp content as fast as possible, and then wonder why the sprout healer can't keep them alive. Leveling the playing field and making leveling content more challenging would go a long way to tell new players "no, it's not easy and you're not going to carried every time, you have to put in the effort"

sukik · Jul 21, 2021

On sale again for any newcomers that missed the last one.

FINAL FANTASY® XIV SALE

The Square Enix Store is the official shop for Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest, soundtracks, merchandise, video games and exclusive collector’s editions.

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Morrow · Jul 21, 2021

As much as I enjoy FF14 I think my journey is fucked if I don't find a good group to play with. The vast majority of the playerbase really are crayon eaters. It's the worst I've seen in any MMO. I mean having a good group to play with is the real key to any good MMO, but damn, I ain't finding one very easily. How do I find a decent FC?

Cybsled · Jul 21, 2021

Statics tend to be small and aren’t always in FC in my experience. There are link shells out there devoted to that I believe. I can’t comment on a best method because I haven’t given a fuck about hardcore raiding since TBC

... · Jul 21, 2021

a lot of servers have discords to get together to do things like eureka / baldesian arsenel. and those tend to be very large groups of people. i would think something like that would be a great way to find folks to play with.

Malkav · Jul 21, 2021

I'd probably check The Balance Discord server. On top of being the central point for theorycrafting, they have a pretty extensive listing of other Discord servers, including Datacenters/Worlds Discord servers.

Join the The Balance Discord Server!

A community hub for theorycrafting, resources, and discussion about Final Fantasy XIV. | 465950 members

discord.gg

Falstaff · Jul 21, 2021

sukik said:
On sale again for any newcomers that missed the last one.

FINAL FANTASY® XIV SALE

The Square Enix Store is the official shop for Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest, soundtracks, merchandise, video games and exclusive collector’s editions.

store.na.square-enix-games.com

Nice, thanks for posting this. I assume the Complete Edition is the way to go for everything?

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