Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Cybsled said:

Ya, I pretty much take extended breaks to avoid long term burnout. Thus far they have more or less avoided the "gotta log in every day to progress" model. If there are caps, usually it is a weekly thing.

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Yeah and the daily things are often optional, like Beast Tribes offering cosmetics rewards and xp, Squadron mission being just guild buffs and some scrips/money/whatever, Treasure map being just a bit of money, Cactpot being just MGP, Centurio/Nuts being mostly for xp and some cosmetics(item upgrades during catch up too but doesn't feel particularly necessary) and roulettes being well just xp. So if you don't log for a few days, it actually kinda doesn't matter.

Same for weeklies really, they have more important upgrades, but it's not crippling if you don't play for a while, and when you start again you don't have that huge list of shit to do every day like farming the new reps and such. Mostly you just want to cap your tomes every week and do your custom deliveries, and that's about the sum of the things you "have to" do, and even these are somewhat optional, customs you can just grind more scrips whenever and tomes are only useful if you want to raid, and for the most part can be substituted with crafted gear until you get enough drops/weeklies to catch back up.

Gear is "reset" every 6months, and fully reset every ~2years so you're never really far off if you want to catch up and get back into endgame either, especially with crafted gear nowadays and the much more attractive price points due to crafting being a lot easier to lvl. Like a new/returning player can generally afford a full or close to full set of crafted as soon as they hit cap and skip straight into endgame if they want to.

They technically didn't say that, the original message was confusing and the translations were somewhat varied too which didn't help, but it wasn't necessarily about the new class, they were just noting the gearing situation(although some translations were seemingly about the GCD of DRG?). It would make sense, but it would also have made sense to remove Maiming or add another class to Maiming a while ago, and it's not like "fixing" maiming would fix everything since there's still scouting gear too, for only one class.

That said I'm expecting medium armor scythe class. But don't care all that much, I'll play it regardless, but doubt I'll make it my "main", since I don't have a main anyway, I just play a bunch of shit, so just looking forward to new classes and all the new stuff.

Chimney said:

Is an 8 person mount some sort of pay to win that I don't know about? Otherwise complaint is worthless. Cosmetic crap is cosmetic crap whether it's $1 or $1k.

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There isn't really a point to it. I guess you could make an argument for relic area transportation, but unlike Eureka which unlocked mounts at the end of a given zone, the current one Bozja unlocks mounts right away so there's no real need to mount share like there used to. Plus you can easily just run 2 FFXV cars or several multi seater chocobos anyway. I guess if you do full map or hunt groups and people want to afk on the travel, but that's hardly a requirement, you could just, not afk, everyone has access to mounts and again unless you need to transport the entire grp together, you can just split with other mounts, with the FFXV car being the only 4 seater and also free(or well I think maybe the new savage bozja dog is 4seat too, but that's also free).

So yeah it is entirely cosmetics. It's expensive as fuck sure but it's also completely pointless.

As for the Blizzard comparison, they do have a 30$ mount, but nothing higher, so I guess it's somewhat better? They had 1year sub rewards several times though, so I don't know if I'd call Blizzard much better.

They also specifically mentionned the whales were to replace the fanfest tickets(which are like 150-200$ iirc) since they'd be streaming the whole thing for free.

So it seems it's indeed the Scythe class, although it's some weird magitek scythe like the GNB weapon, I thought it'd be a smaller blade lighter scythe like Sice in Type0. Nvm the cosplay doesn't have the whole magitek, I guess only Zenos' does.