YoshitPiss be like: OOOH, SUBARASHI! This sugoi visual update will make make sure XIV stays relevant for next 10 years!
>>715977205 (OP)Planar reflection GODS won
>character textures are still 64x64 res
lmao
>tell your low-spec users to fuck off because reflections
shit company
shit team
shit game
>>715977205 (OP)>XIVtrannies were actually basedfacing at ps2 technology
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>>715977205 (OP)it doesn't even look like that
the floor is way less glossy
>>715977205 (OP)Note the copyright dates. This is for the DX11 update during Heavensward.
>>715977205 (OP)>XIV stays relevant for next 10 years!this was when they added DirectX11 support in Heavensward 10 years ago you dumb fuck
>>715979634This is true, OP is fake news. Here's the real update.
>>715977205 (OP)The reflections were hard-coded to update 15 frames per second.
>>715979429bullshit. You are showing the DT reflections. OPs pic is from a pre-HW live letter.
Holy shit only new fags here.
>>715979845What's funny is back then you had doomposters saying XIV was dying after Heavensward, etc. Every year ever since 1.0, it mindbroke /v/. The difference nowadays is that the "content creator" meta is doomposting ragebait like how /v/ always does, so now EVERYONE is doing it.
>>715980042Yeah, that's my point.
OP posted a pic of something pretending it's the graphical update. But it isn't.
>>715979845>>715979634Okay, how about an area from the latest expansion, made with new technologies from ground up!
>>715980059>What's funny is back then you had doomposters saying XIV was dying after HeavenswardAgain spotted another newfag. The doomposting began with the "vacation" after the HW release and less content with each update cycle. And this started with HW.
We went from huge update every three month (raid, 3 dungeons, etc.) to 4,X months with less and less content.
>>715980178ARR maps are still the best looking part of the game. Plus they have real vistas at the horizon and somewhat try to give sense of being part of a bigger world.
Since HW all overworld maps are shit.
>>715980264That's what I said. After Heavensward was out. You're being aggressive for no reason.
>>715980447them's some jaggy shadows
>>715980447sorry but I like XIV (playing since 1.0) and imho 1.23 and ARR were still the best parts of XIV. Since Shadowbringers we have a shitty shonen story with characters for fujos.
>>715980059>huge gap before 3.1>diadem 1.0 AND 2.0 were complete ass>The addition of unsyncing content>mentor system added>started the formulaic patch cycle, that for some reason is too hard to maintain now.>started the paradigm shift that everyone is entitled to every single reward at some point (struggling to get something now? come back in a couple of years and you'll just get it handed to you instantly)yes heavensward was the beginning of the end
>>715977205 (OP)nigga waxed the floor good
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Did DT fuck all the truly reflective flooring out of the game? The manor in the OP doesn't have them anymore, Eulmore doesn't have them and Old Sharlayan doesn't have them.
>>715980851The reflection is still there but heavily toned down.
>>715980889Yeah, it's very, very mild, and only at particular angles.
I hope that's oversight.
>>715980972I guess it's because of the new "lighting with additional sources". Couldn't get the reflections right and toned the shit down so no one is seeing it.
>>715981110Maybe. Could just be that the old parameters for these materials are just a lot less subdued in the new system and they need to crank them up.
I know Solution 9 has plenty of reflective surfaces, so it can still be done.
Jesus, this is old.
OP is really spinning the wheels to keep bitching about Yoshida.
Oh look, seems like the xiv defense force has arrived.
>>715980614I dunno if there are even any "MSQ andies" that will throw themselves on the Heavensward sword anymore, being as Heavensward's main saving grace was its MSQ quality and only really when compared to ARR. Enough time's passed that the only person I see go out of their way to praise its story these days is one of the trancers that didn't give up.
>>715981379so don't act like you're discussing the game
old bait trance
>>715981616so don't act like you can accept critique
cultist obliterator trance
>>715981657"yoshitpiss" isn't critique lil homie
>1.23 was on the right track
>ARR was fun and still somewhat a mmorpg
>HW was the first mistake
>the took the wrong turn with ShB
Can someone post my old ShB screenshot from Lakeland where I was sitting in some small gorge and was fishing?
>>715981731oh so you're not whiteknighting the game
just the person making it (read: destroying it)
curious....
>>715981834>actually YOU'RE yoshidaah geez
you're makin me so angry
>>715981887no it's just funny that you don't actually care about defending the game
just the dude making it
noted :)
Why is my graphics card getting significantly louder in the DT zones/OC, despite the zones just looking marginally better than the rest of them?
>>715981984yoshida derangement syndrome
>>715980408I agree with this. ARR was my favorite because of the sheer variety in the areas and all the little hamlets.
>>715981309Post a good comparison, if you're so great
>>715982729You wont get an answer from ShB faggots
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>>715982729There's not really a lot to bitch about him or his output beyond typical "MMO director lies" and getting suckered into the same AAA fallings as every other AAA game with 16, and 16 isn't even relevant to 14.
>>715982729comparison of what?
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>>715979907dios mio look at how they destroyed the sovl
>>715982018xbox series s limitations, prease understand
>>715980178The Dawntrail zones are a huge step up over everything besides ARR and a return to form
>>715980178Looks good to me
>>715984772Yeah, it's a bit drab, but it doesn't look awful graphical fidelity wise.
>>715984772What's funny is you can see the resolution is set to be lower. Look how pixelated the animals are in the bottom.
anyone else looking forward to 7.3 next month?
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>>715984772>>715984887Let me post a few of mine.
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>>715985292I'm eager to check out the new deep dungeon, I'm into those more for the rewards than the actual dungeon-crawling. Most other people hated Eureka Orthos because it was a solo oriented grind-off you had to go out of your way to do, I hated it because the rewards sucked and the weapons weren't interesting enough to want to take out of EO.
I don't even understand how SE's pipeline works because they updated a lot of ground textures for older zones like pic related to remove tiling, but then in brand new content like OC the grass texture there is still tiled
>>715985373>>715985471looks like shit compared to ARR.
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>>715977205 (OP)What's going on in those thumbnails?
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>>715985292What's there to look forward to? Another underwhelming extreme, alliance raid that's undertuned because the devs are still traumatized from TGC 6 years ago, waiting two more months for PotD 4.0 with another stupid gimmick instead of a fresh DD experience
On Urqopacha: they seem to have fucked with the mountain textures at some point and now they look... off... as if they have a lower res texture, or their tiling is in the negatives so it's a small-ish texture wrapped over a gigantic mountain.
>>715985292I am! It's not gonna be the hypest of the hype patches re: content. I was hoping maybe we'd get a variant thrown in the mix, but I'm nonetheless looking forward to it. MSQ is gonna be a main attraction here, and I hope they handle it well. I'm interested in the Alliance Raid. The beast tribe.. is eh.. okay. I was somewhat interested in the Yok Huy so I hope they do well with them. Deep Dungeon seems cool enough. I hope it's more like HoH and PoTD and less like EO, and given that YoshiP said that he was "a little afraid that it might be too easy for hardcores", I have some hope there. Not a fan of pixie aesthetic so I expect the rewards to do nothing for me.
Oh, PvP, I hope the set we get is good. I wasn't a fan of 7.1's set, so crossing my fingers 7.3's is better to me.
Otherwise, I appreciate the QoL changes. Chat bubbles, viera hats, the probable furnishing limit increase. I hope we get a few more old zone and gear graphical updates. Drachen armor update in 7.2 was neat and I've gone back to using a few pieces in my DRG glam.
>>715985559FFXIV is still the most ugly MMORPG from the bigger ones.
>>715985557Unironically those screenshots were taken when 720p and 1080p were more common resolutions, they're for the DirectX11 update taking place at Heavensward. They're not supposed to be huge
>>715985373>>715985471>>715985559I'm a bit envious. I have a shit graphics card so I can only use FSR.
>>715985494I can only surmise that from the art side of things, Occult Crescent was at least in part worked on before some of the old zone updates. I remember seeing bones in Shaaloani that looked lower-res than ones in the updated ARR zones.
>>715985651I think WoW's a lot uglier these days purely because everything knocks off of it in artstyle, so it ends up looking like Raids Shadow Legends by association. Similar deal to how Pixar movies look pretty shitty these days because AI is trained off of Pixar's overall artstyle so hard that even the original media looks generic and uncanny
>>715985778I was running 1200p back in 2009. When was 720p common?
>>715985604ok then fuck off
>>715985651WoW and GW2 both look uglier to me.
>>715985515I have some I took from ARR after the update.
>>715985604Alliance Raids are only useful to doomers to shit on OC. Now that it's not in OC Alliance Raids go back to being pointless.
>>715985926Cry about it. Cry about wuk while you fund another ring for yoshida.
>>715986001ARR zones look so good now. I do want them to change the shader on that colgate splash, though.
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Sorry for reposts but since everyone is posting pictures of old updates now, I figure I may as well join.
I think one of the main jarring factors remaining in zones is the way mountains look. DT introduces some good stuff, and the 7.1 updates to the ARR zones makes mountains and cliffsides and the like way less ugly, so I hope the same happens for some other parts of the game. Looking at you, Lakeland. With your crumpled paper mountains.
Anyone who might not be subbed/has been unsubbed for a little while who wants to see any graphical changes in a zone?
>>715986203New on the right actually does look more "high altitude" if that makes sense
Shame they're too retarded to tell autismos to eat shit, they keep listening to them and downgrading characters to make them look closer to what they were like before
>>715986942Yeah, it's fairly desaturated, but that's kinda what you expect from a floating mountaintop.
And things just slot together better than.... whatever the hell the muddy mess on the left is. 3ds max default viewport shading.
>>715986203Left: SOVL, floating island buffered by winds amd storms have smoothed out the terrain
Right: soulless, copypaste debris because uh....JUST BECAUSE OK, dulled out palette
>>715977205 (OP)YOSHI-P SAMA PLEASE THINK OF THE PS4 PLAYERS
>>715987016>Shame they're too retarded to tell autismos to eat shit, they keep listening to them and downgrading characters to make them look closer to what they were like beforeI know, right? The spasming over "nuuuh my character's mouth is one pixel lower than it was here I made an autistic photoshop overlay comparison don't you see HOW UNFAITHFUL THIS IS??"
It's a lost cause. Better hope for the customization update YoshiP has been teasing to add new faces and all that. Maybe we can get some they can go all out on since it wouldn't need to adhere to an old look if it's entirely new.
Same for stuff like Miqo'te tails. They're stuck with the old ones because "muh faithful", but they could add new ones that are more modernized in presentation.
>>715985604>devs are still traumatized from TGC 6 years agoWe can't have fights like TGC anymore. If they did people would just complain devs are catering to hardcore raiders again.
>>715987364I'm still fucking mad, because Au ra got huge upgrades, then they got downgraded and look closer to pre-dt than anything now
we could have had this
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What kind of fat cuck wastes his whole life grinding every job in a dead nip mmo? Maining bitch healer, no less. K E K
>>715987194>Expansion starts with beautiful vibrant landscape of colors>rugpulls you into generic grey metal future city #5 for the climax and ongoing story
>>715987551Wait, what do they look like now compared to that?
>>715987717I don't have updated comparisons on me but, they look closer to left than to right now, for example
Uh, oh spam bot kun has arrived. Time to come back in 40 minutes.
>>715987817Thread too positive (read: neutral), initiate MK Ultra dumping programming.
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>7.3
>calyx slop
>wuk slop
>gulool ja slop
>trial is another speen thing
WHAT IS SPEEN DOING?
END OF DT SOON
More Hiroi slop.
>>715987921>>715987921>>WHAT IS SPEEN DOING?having sex (with me)
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>he has 2 computers folder dumping 2 seconds apart now because he thinks it makes him less obviously one guy
>>715979907>the samples they made during the first month of testing looked much better than what they've actually implemented into the game after three years
>>715987901Crazy how this nigga got monetized in a month for just AI slop, people really hate 14 now
>>715988040its funny because its still the same images so they still get filtered
>xivniggers ITT still wasting sub money on kate's game
>in the year of our lord 2014+11
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>>715977205 (OP)Art style is king and FF14 looks like plastic if mods applied looks like modded skyrim.
>>715987970>unironically comparing state backed Chinese companies with fingers in millions of pies to single JP corpo
You get to take one (1) Scion with you into the next expansion. Rest will not show up, it will be WoL, your choice and a new regional MSQ cast.
Whomst do you choose?
Holy shit, the numbers really have increased lol:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IWWfJW2qtJxvj9CcW0bAzLlB2lsmaF5zA6dghFY7vV4/
>>715988404ryne or sphene
>llamatodd going for the throat
Actually surprised, he was one of the biggest XIV simps since the start,
>>715988382On top of that he's listing Actiblizz like it isn't being propped up by Candy Crush.
>>715987615yeah that jebait kinda sucked
>>715988404My japanese speaking wife of course
>>715988471Jesus fucking Christ. Going on 7000 unique posts with the same pics from the same devices.
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>>715987551was this that version of the benchmark that had everything looking so yellowy?
yeah, I do think the skin felt more.. as they described it, "dewy" and pliable. It's a shame they got rid of it, but I expected as much. I'm just happy they didn't revert entirely to the old paper flat skin shader. Hopefully when they do a character creation update, maybe they can add an option to give that skin a more supple look again.
>>715987551Yeah I was pretty happy with the upgrades right at launch, made my character look a bit more mature. Was a really good look then they downgraded.
>>715988704no it was on expac drop, i think benchmark was a bit different
>>715988484Xivg biggest whores
>>715988404yshtola (cum chalice holder)
alphinaud (my nigga)
omega/alpha (robot)
riol
azdaja (cute femra form)
matoya (old person npc focus might be interesting)
>>715988404I sacrifice all the Scions to bring back Venat and adventure with her forevermore.
>>715987551My fish looks better now. Didn't like the initial changes in the benchmark
>folderchad making xivkek necromorphs seethe endlessly
My hero. Never stop.
>>715988798Damn, I don't remember the characters ever having that soft skin shader on launch. Maybe it's because my character was almost unchanged? (Female Highlander)
>>715988919Maybe, I don't recall anyone mentioning anything in particular about highlanders
>>715987603cuckoli is a known /xivg/ lolcow and diaperfag
>>715988986Barely anyone plays them unlike Miqo'te, Midlander, Au Ra, Viera. So less pissing about the 1 pixel difference between 6.55 and 7.0.
XIV threads have become 2020-era WoW tier. Just copers and schizos screaming at each other as the game itself rots from incompetence and westernized malice.
>>715989139>2020-era WoW tier.
I miss the ARR - early HW time. Last time this community was somewhat good. Good people, good artists, mostly good vibes... and now it's full with second life trannies.
>>715988545alisaie is a pig.
>>715989325actually, Krile is canonically a pig.
>>715989139At least when /wowg/ was basically in open rebellion against WoW back then and talking about XIV it was fun.
>>715988808>sex catperfect partners
>alphiliteral ez modo problem solvers for whatever issue
>omega/alphacute dynamic
>riolspy shit
>azdajawaifus
>matoyado shit for old granny kino
>>715987194>>715987615>second expansion city in a row that's next to the coast>not even one tiny section to let players swim in itI will never not be mad about that
>>715989325alisaie is a porxie?
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damn, we really used to live like this huh
>>715988916Folderkun and the archduke won.
>>715978482They look fine tbf
>chasing GoT storytelling years after season 8 killed it
>chasing transtrender bux years after sane people turned against troons and BLM
Yoshida is Abe Simpson.
>>715989735As the world gets woke fatigued, SE will bravely bear the burden and take in all of the exiled feminists and leftoids who are looking for an adult daycare. Such inspiring self-sacrifice.
>>715989410I've played both on and off over the years and it was peak shitposting season, but not only from /wowg/
>>715989901We need more gear updated.
>>715978482>>715989901Random player character
>>715979972Don't they run at full speed now?
>>715989998femezen are sexo
end of
>>715989749it's really still impressive how many memes tlou spawned and none of them are nice
>>715989981Looks really nice. Some of the early gear could really use some higher resolution, since I still like to use the for glam, but it's not easy mixing them with newer stuff.
>>715989529Thank you for saving mine!
>>715990368TLOU2 may genuinely kill Naughty Dog in the long run, there's been all sorts of news and leaks about their staffing problems both during and after that game
>>715990383Yeah. They partially updated old gear in the form of Scion gear (which as of now doesn't transfer over to their regular counterparts, of course).
Some look better than others. Some are currently unchanged, like Papalymo's. Hopefully, 7.3 has a bigger gear upgrade push.
>>715989139Well current day XIV is in the same state as 2020 era WoW, so...
>>715990678Makes sense that they'd prioritize those, since you're seeing them a lot. Don't really care about the shop items though, since, unless you're playing a clone, they're kinda cringe.
Especially with the better looking metal, I'm hoping for some ARR armor upgrades.
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>>715990953Yeah. But I feel they could've done a little bit of cross-updating. Since so many of the assets are similar, they could've applied them to the regular gear versions as well.
I assume they'll eventually touch them up. Maybe they'll be better at that point than the shop ones are now, as those might be a little rushed. I dunno.
>>715977205 (OP)Do people unironically play this boring turd?
>>715977205 (OP)The hate toward FF14 and its troon players is warranted, but SE is like Lucy and the football at this point. It's never going to recover.
>>715990678Now you can do the Urianger look with the facewear of goggles yeah?
Are mooncat fangs still gone or were they just shrunk?
>>715977205 (OP)Can you see their panties?
@715990728
Not really. XIV is doing the opposite of 2020 era WoW. Dawntrail is what happens when you finally tell the big climax of your story, and recognize that you need to take a step back. The whole beach episode idea. It's intentional. Shadowlands is what happens when you keep trying to hype and grow your story more and more.
XIV did it right, people are just assmad because Ishikawa wanted a promotion after ten years in the author mines and the new writer isn't quite as good.
>>715991131Pretty sure that at least the twins are separate from the player models, so it's not a 1:1 conversion, but I agree with the general sentiment and the assets do exist already.
How far have they gotten with the graphical updates?
>>715985818>I'm a bit envious. I have a shit graphics card so I can only use FSR.Have you tried using Optiscaler? It's pretty cool.
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>>715991560I can only surmise it was a bit of a rush job. And you can kinda tell. Thancred's shirt was updated pretty well, but his pants didn't really get touched up. Same for Y'shtola's. I assume because you don't see them much.
I really want a big push. Some gear updates were great, but I need more of them.
>>715991631Finished with ARR zones afaik, did a pass or two on all the other zones (with a few exceptions), did a bunch of NPCs, and some of their gear. Player gear is fairly limited still in how much of it got updated. They updated all the ARR AF gear in 7.2.
>>715991631Not far, but does it even matter? You wouldn't even notice the difference unless you did a side by side like
>>715986203
Can someone complain why there seems to be a 24/7 thread up titanicposting about FFXIV despite this game being a decade old
>>715991908The answer is usually money.
>>715977991looks like a basic bitch cubemap to me
>>715991908>Can someone complain whysaars...
A good graphics update shouldn't be jarring.
>>715991908GOOGLE DOCKY
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IWWfJW2qtJxvj9CcW0bAzLlB2lsmaF5zA6dghFY7vV4/
>>715991908It's one extremely deranged guy that's dumping the same images every thread.
>>715988471Expansion is a step back, so there is some general resentment, but the last patches already seem to address some things.
>>715991631>Most areas updated throughout the entire game, primarily material swaps (new rock textures, etc)>Some/most ARR areas have gotten special attention, Crystal Tower in particular>ARR artifact armors and relic weapons updated to new materials, all relic weapons and artifact armors from all expansions can be dual dyed whether material updated or not>Alphinaud, Thancred, Urianger and Estinien are using character specific updates of their respective Sage, Gunbreaker, Astrologian and Dragoon artifact armors, but none of these are available to a player yet (Thancred's potentially available by the Virtu Gunbreaker gear, but that gear cannot be dual dyed)>Viera and Hrothgar are slated to get a huge hat revamp next month, but "some helmets" may still be missing, Viera have an ear toggle while wearing hats and helmets
Patch 7.3 Drops
>Sphene dies
>Wuk powers up to kill bad guy and does so (after the trial)
>Shota bad guy says he did this for her and for her people because he loved her all long but couldn't say it because he was sick
>Lay her real body to rest for the Alexandrians to properly mourn
>Lil lizard dude (forgot his name) will cri
>Wuk says xhe needs to see more of DE WURL and that her brother (forgot his name too) can handle it.
>Smile will play when Wuk is welcomed by Alisae as a new Scion
>>715989246The game died with SHB, the shift was immediate. You can easily divide XIV into 1.0/2.0-4.0/5.0-onward as different eras
>>715991853I started a fresh playthrough after being unsubbed for a year just to see if I could notice. Many of the changes have been very blatant, especially since I'm playing in first person outside of combat.
>>715991816So it might be a good idea to stop before HW and wait for final passes?
>>715991908We still have some Zodiark trancers trying to control the threads on a regular basis and they get pissed if any threads are up they didn't make
>>715992081I'm waiting for them to update the snow areas, like Coerthas. They've intentionally skipped those for reasons unknown.
>>715977205 (OP)>Warrior of Light be like: Yugiri! Please, marry me!"
>>715989246yeah it died with ShB and what was the final nail in the coffin that made it Second Life? Mare Synchronos
>wuk gets shitcanned to lyse status, or worse
>sphene gets upgraded to canon wife that can actually live in your player house or follow you around in the overworld
all sins will be forgiven
Can they just merge the sub with XI already so I can play an FF MMO with a threatening overworld?
>>715992303It's around that time softmodding (Penumbra) took off yeah, and all the plugins being made.
On the plus side, at least majority of what I used MMOMinion for is covered, mainly the crafting automation.
But nothing beats the convenience of letting HusbandoMax's DungeonMaster do leveling for all the jobs and also retainer ventures at the same time while I'm at work. Doing that atm.
>>715992179Going unspoiled into Elpis was kino
>>715992578why play if you're just gonna automate it all
>>715992162>So it might be a good idea to stop before HW and wait for final passes?If you want to go through everything fully updated, yeah.
I myself am probably going to make a new character in 7.55 for that same reason.
>>715992570just sub to XI and not XIV
>>715992570If you hate XIV and you want to play XI, I don't understand this thing of subbing to XIV instead and wishing XI would get a bundled sub. Just sub to XI instead
>>715992653>turning xiv into an idle game with cat titties out on the side monitor while you play other games
>>715991784Optiscaler? No.
I do know you can turn on DLAA with a good-ish card, though.
>>715992653XIV is the best game because you can AFK while you othergame
>>715992735>>715992676Sure but if they merged the subs people would check out XI since its bundled in.
>>715992653Because these players are actually gachafags, which are used to autobattlers.
Previous thread was illuminating.
>>715992803They're such different games I doubt that'd actually work out
>>715992803XI is never getting another expansion so there's no benefit to letting XIV trannies in for free to boost the numbers.
>>715992803best we can do is a one month discount every time we release more of the 24man raid, sorry
>>715992854Didn't the XI devs just announce they're doing more updates or am I crazy?
>>715992653>>715992578well for automating are now plugins there like wrath in that you can watch how your character does all the rotations so its not even trying anymore
>>715992934I haven't followed closely but I doubt it's something significant. I'd love more real content obviously, but it's in maintenance mode. Even a huge influx of subs wouldn't bring it back to life (I can dream though). I'd be worried about too many of the original developers being gone/moved on/retired at this point.
>>715992653Think I did Diadem legit? Fuck that lmao. Gathering in a loop for 75 hours for MIN or BTN is NOT playing the game.
>>715992841I'd probably check it out, since all the gameplay I've seen looked pretty rough to say the least, but I'd at least try and see for myself. Also the XI events and the raid did make me curious.
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>>715989981outdated, chud
>>715977205 (OP)its sad how he went for graphic instead of making sure the story was good
>>715993841Yup. He really should be getting those artists back to writing the story.
>rechecking some old cutscenes
kinda funny in hindsight how the warriors of darkness are pulling all the edgelord faces, even when they're completely alone
>>715989139/wowg/ was a fucking amazing place while their game was burning down. I think wowg during their downfall was one of the greatest shit to happen to a general. ff14 is full of talentless hacks incapable of creating content or memes, so it just bad. They repeat and cope about the state of their game.
>>715994260>Retail WoW was so dogshit that it actually broke Asmongoloid out of the maze when he dipped his toe into XIV for like 6 months and he hasn't looked back since
>>715994457well his character still exists
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/37147702/
>>715994538Still receives money from Blizzard too, whether directly or indirectly (Night Media owns his ass)
More like he became the minotaur
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TADAIMA
mount when?
>>715994867Looks pretty uncomfortable to sit on
>>715994931Just hack away some of those crystals.
>>715978482That's the same as real life so I don't see the problem?
Whacking catgirls with books
>>715994867Heavenly Hyoga is my dream mount
>>715995314Isn't the Eureka Orthos mount close enough?
>>715995470I thought so but when I got it I realized it wasn't enough and I still want the Hyoga
>>715994260Shadowlands /wowg/ is one of the peak moments on this entire website. Every day is was some new shit.
>>715995571Fair enough. Can't blame a man for yearning.
>>715995679Poor general's just never recovered, they got lobotomized after the huge wave of FFXIV posting thanks to a mod ban-wave for off topic.
>>715995679Magmaw posting, now that takes me back
No reason to waste a sub on ziv when better weeb MMOs already exist
>>715994260>>715995679>>715995935I can also attest to just how fucking kino /wowg/ was during that time. It comes down to the player-base of WoW being (then) mostly straight white men with a sense of humor, vs. XIV's tranny progressive pedos.
>>715996145How many 48 player raids does it have
>>715996145Man I do wanna check this out since I was interested in the original before it died lmao. Shame about the beta test dropping right when Epoch comes out.
>>715996145Star Resonance will face the same problem of leftroon baizuos trying to pozz it up with modbeasts, but Tencent at least has a reputation of cracking down on that shit much harder.
>>715996145pic unrelated?
I'm so ready for another wave of google docky
>>715996145this chink mmo existing and actually looking fun makes the trannies in my old FC seethe so much, it's fantastic
My kingdom for a Trueblood refresh, its only bad point is the helmet being strangely modeled. It doesn't look close enough to its concept art.
>>715994538If I remember right, his last login was like a year or two ago when he went into some venue some vtuber invited him to, which is what those clothes are for.
>>715992596I feel like Elpis or the Unsundered World is gonna be their emergency expansion button. Like bridging the past to the present with the chalice, and basically creating a new timeline for the past. Any excuse to bring back Emet would make all the fujos scream in joy.
>>715997245Estinien got his set updated.
I've honestly thought XIV always looked good
Compared to the washed out sludge every other game looks like these days; XIV has always had relatively decent colors which is enough for me
>>715988404Ryne.
No, Sphene.
Wait, no, Ryne.
No.. NO!.. No...
...
Sphene.
...Ryne.
>>715997676Model alterations, I mean. I don't want Trueblood touched from the neck down except for higher poly count or better mats/textures, but the helmet just came out ugly, and it's a shame because it's almost the perfect Dragoon helmet.
Some of it is just the design not translating well to a 3D model. I think It needs smaller wings, a smaller chin strap so a character's mouth can actually be seen, and a less sharp downwards tilt on the visor or dragon's snout while still obscuring the eyes. Alternatively a stubbier or "snubbed" visor/snout.
>>715997760I should add though, that although the colors are good, the general art direction and aesthetic the game has taken has considerably tanked
>>715997916Ah, they're not doing any model adjustments so I doubt it'll happen.
>>715998282Yeah, it's a shame. The set is almost *perfect* were it not for the helmet. Virtu Dragonlancer's Mesail at least makes a handy substitute and is closer to what I had in mind. Only caveat is the bigass chin strap, but there's a mod for that floating around to pretty much convert it into Kain's helmet by removing the strap.
>>715998379Hopefully Dragonlancer is up on the upgrade table, too. Always liked the helm.
>>715998471You might be better served by that Virtu set since it's already a graphical update (all the Virtu sets have updated textures/materials compared to the originals), and it dyes better than the actual Dragonlancer helmet does even without a second dye channel.
>>715998676It's not really on the same level as the graphical upgrade stuff. The new Drachen set is a good example.
>>715997760I do like the updated fog a lot, since it's actually pretty heavy and in contrast to the usually clear view.
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I do wonder why they didn't update Trueblood yet, other than that they didn't update the helm yet, I guess.
>xivcucks unironically soifacing over decade-old ps3 graphics
>>715999158Just rolling out every artifact all at once I imagine. They already did the "one artifact only" thing with EW's Paladin set because they used it as a test bench for metal materials
>>715999408You now remember that YoshiP said all the EW artifact armor would be updated in 7.1.
>>715999541Not too bothered by it myself, EW gear still looks really good. Close enough to DT graphical parity I don't get itchy when I look at it like I do a lot of HW or SB gear.
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>>715999698Not bothered about it either, but it is funny. Did they forget? Run out of time. Idk.
I hope they get back to it soon.
Koana could've used it.
>mfw Yoshi basically came out and stage and threatened me with Frontline Roulette in 2030
>with the exact same worst in genre net code, system code, and security code
>>715999839Why is his head so big?
>>716000837I've never played an mmo with enjoyable pvp
>>716000984The closest I could ever get into was Spiral Knights having a Bomberman side game as its sole form of PvP
>>716000984PVP is only fun when it's a way of filling the open world with unpredictable threats. Of course retards with main character syndrome who don't think other people should be able to influence their experience in an MMO hate it, so it's been turned into an isolated e-sport which is fucking retarded.
>>716000984I like Crystalline Conflict a bit.
>>716000984What's wild is that XIV PvP genuinely has some of the strongest class identity for most jobs over their PvE counterparts.
If it wasn't a laggy unresponsive mess from the get go then it would probably be fun casual PvP where everything isn't sacrificed for the fabled "esports balance" other games fall victim to.
>Alphinaud's VA playing through HW
>watches Haurchefant die
>his first reaction is to laugh because he thinks it looks goofy
>his chat says shit like "it's okay to take a minute...", "take some time to process it..."
>legion of retards waiting with their fucking vigil campfires waiting for him on return to Fortemps Manor
What the actual fuck is wrong with the people who play this game? Who acts like this?
>>716001930>you're a newfag because you think i'm an insane underaged emotional vampire who can't fathom that normal people don't have breakdowns over a character dying
>>716002207What's your name in his twitch chat?
>>716001867Haur just isn't attached hard enough to the story for it to land for everyone.
He's a bro sure but unless you crank ARR and HW back to back to back relatively quickly he gets lost in the background as you do everything else.
Same problem Papalymo had to an extent, that shit doesn't fully hit until you reach EW and chat with his dad in a side quest.
love how the first 100 posts of every thread is the schizo screeching shit, then he gets bored and people starts posting comfy about the game
>>716002469Yeah, the only reaction I had to his death was when Edmont got the news.
>>716002489Happens every time
ut99 has had reflections like this since 2000
>>716002489Well the important part is that you thought of a reason to talk about thread boogeymen instead of joining everyone else in talking about the game. What did you do in Final Fantasy today?
might resub, stopped at lvl 93
>>716001867the guy is still on HW? take the fucking hint, he doesn't give a fuck about the story lmao
>>716002653I'll tell him right now.
(I haven't been paying attention to him at all.)
>>716002613i already posted what i'm doing in the game
>>716002776listening to these kind of retards was a mistake
>>716002856They were catered to and now they're still mad.
>>716002626gotta do it for the artifact armors
a lot of jobs are genuinely at their best in dawntrail for looks (some are still mediocre like white mage)
>>716002901That's why SE should put more thought on what the actual playerbase is asking instead of youtubers.
Arthars, xeno and the others just want to treat XIV as a job, cause content creation is their job.
And if they can't waste their whole online life on XIV, it means if needs to change.
Imma be honest, the current patch cycle sucks, but I'd prefer more casual content rather than ultimates.
>>716002856The mazed /xivg/ rejects in this thread are the worst raidtrannies by far
>Cosmic Exploration is going to have more updates than Occult Crescent
>I still don't even know why it exists and Ishgard Restoration does pretty much everything it does already
I don't get it.
>>716003071post some cool ones
WoLtimate should be the final ultimate trial in the game, forever. Nobody wants to do yawnfail ultimates anyway.
>ziv has fewer players than Once Human
kek
>>716003315players asked for casual content so they're getting casual content
>>716003315Ishgard Restoration is old content, it's like asking why Arcadion has a savage mode when Eden already exists. It's crafter/gatherer endgame.
ff14's own shills abandoned it ages ago
>>716003315Because the only thing CBU3 does now is just take a thing and just make a different skin for it.
>>716003474A few threads ago, myself and another poster talked about CE a bit.
I posited it might be better to make the A-Rank missions easier, and then have an extra totally optional tier of missions that are more ballbuster-level for some prestige and bla bla bla.
>>716003507no joke, that asmon247 was playing the old XIV vods yesterday lmao
>>716003661They did already do that, it's the sequential missions. Those are the real ballbusters. If you're just finishing your tools there are a few very simple A ranks to pick from for each one.
>>716003736A few of them are fairly reliable and easy.
But a lot of them still are pretty ass if you don't meld a lot in my experience.
>>716003370dragoon just wins overall imo
>>715977205 (OP)The new tencent hq folded 10 thousand times
I kneel yoshigod
Japanese know how it's done.
China watch and learn... oh wait. You can't!
KEK!!
KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!
>>716003842Yeah, you don't need to pentameld but you do need to meld a good bit. Crafting is just much more stat focused than battle.
>>716003370agoge set is lifted straight off nepheli loux from elden ring
>>716003370sage is a sleeker and more armored version of the endwalker artifact and completely mogs alphinaud's endwalker set if you're standing right next to him
>>716003917Melding is cancer, though. Getting the scrips sucks in my experience.
I stick to using cosmo credits and using orange scrips from custom deliveries, but that's limited. The only way to really farm them is crafting stuff to hand in, and no way am I crafting the kind of shit required for orange scrip gains.
>there's a non-zero chance Cover gets pruned in 8.0
>>716003370aaaand machinist is a perfect distillation of all the cowboy theming for the job they've been chasing since stormblood
>>715977205 (OP)>14 is the laughingstock of the internet AGAINI already put up with this in 1.0.
>>716003960Love the chest on this. I use it with the Occult Crescent helm.
>>716000984Guild Wars 1. You choose 8 abilities, gear and skillpoints from which to make a build and so it allowed for stupid amount fucking customization, since you can combine any two classes with a main and sub class. You get access to their whole ability pool, which could go over 100 for each class, so the total number of possible combinations is absurd.
You were able to choose between making a pve character at level 1 and start in the tutorial, or immediately make a max level pvp character which can't participate in any story stuff. This list contains over 100 builds that are considered good or better by metafags, but you were able to make some weird niche builds for fun if you did some theorycrafting. https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Category:All_working_PvP_builds
Shit was kino.
>>716004086If you go spend some GC seals on spiritbond potions the game will pour materia on you while you grind out CE missions. I have hundreds of each type of crafting and gathering materia waiting for 7.3 and that's just from getting all my tools done.
>>716004269Aren't you more likely to get XI's than XIIs though?
>>716004331XIs are still valuable but yeah.
>>716002724To be honest, I've never cried to a xiv scene while playing. But, I get teared up whenever I'm watching a streamer going through those scenes. Seto, Haurchy, Elidibus, Moen parents
>>716003507'screenshot of streamers being live, from weeks to months to years ago' is genre of repost image that just confuses me on what it's even supposed to mean. You could post a screenshot of them being live with XIV and it would exactly as relevant to what they're doing at the time you post it.
>>716002856he's not really wrong
>DT will have the most content ever>said content is actually vary barebones and to a degree, a downgrade to previous incarnations
>>716004413That they are, but I'm not really starving for those as much.
But it's definitely a useful tip I'll keep it in mind. Right now I'm more passively accruing materia, but if I ever want to "farm" it, I know what to do.
>>716004552That's not even what he's complaining about, he's complaining about the ultimate being in 7.5 instead of 7.3.
>>716004463I think it's supposed to be a /pol/ "meme magician" thing where they post a bunch of completely random and unrelated things trying to achieve a desired effect, which is to say it's basically just flooding or sagebombing with a new coat of paint
Obvious on its face but there's too many that think being a faggot online will amount to anything in the end
everyone involved in 14 and 16 should be removed from the company by force so the company can begin to heal
>>716003474The problem is Ishgard Restoration was like a mini reset / revamp for leveling up crafting and gathering from 15-80/90 to deal with the level creep from expansions.
So introducing another crafting / gathering area that the majority of people will use just for leveling is redundant, especially since you need EW completed to access it while you only need HW for Ishgard Restoration so any new player would naturally gravitate to diadem instead.
I guess you could argue it helps with 90/100 and you can...grind weird currency for shit most people won't really care about.
I mean which would you rather have more FOIGHTIN' ROUND THA WORLD content everyone can do or more crafting / gathering a generous portion of players won't engage with at all?
The moment you discount actual real autists grinding for weird player ranking shit in Cosmic Exploration, you quickly understand why it's totally empty.
Iโm enjoying the Endwalker MSQ right now with the updated graphics. FF14 is still the best MMORPG right now, and I say that as someone who started playing MMOs in the 90s.
>>716004567>streamer expresses mild discontent with ziv and offers actionable improvement suggestions>gets dogpiled and doxxed by the gcbtw troons>streamer discovers that they 10x their earnings and success by honestly shitting on ziv insteadmany such cases
>>716004868CE actually sucks ass for exp though. You can technically grind your crafter up doing it, but the level gaps between the missions make it far from optimal. It's more like a little bonus you can get on the side so you can progress two things at once. So realistically Ishgard is still part of the crafter/gatherer progression path.
>>716004868I think plenty of people would still like to use Cosmic Exploration for 80-90-100, though, yeah. It's pretty quick, and mostly pretty convenient.
>I mean which would you rather have more FOIGHTIN' ROUND THA WORLD content everyone can do or more crafting / gathering a generous portion of players won't engage with at all?I get your point, but this is just ultimately what gathering and crafting content is. Island Sanctuary was the same thing, except it was solo, and it eschewed the actual DoH/DoL.
>>716004904You fucking prick.
You disingenuous fucking asshole.
Fuck you.
>>716005253holyshit it has been years since that
is taliesin still a thing? does he still stream?
>>716004868>The problem is Ishgard Restoration was like a mini reset / revamp for leveling up crafting and gathering from 15-80/90 to deal with the level creep from expansions.>So introducing another crafting / gathering area that the majority of people will use just for leveling is redundantlevel cap continues to increase after Ishgard leaves you at 80 though
the complaint that an expansion expands a content track doesn't make sense
>>716004904I plan to make an alt in 7.55 to replay. Hopefully by that time most stuff is updated. Probably not the gear, but the zones and a good chunk of the NPCs. Fingers crossed.
yoshitpiss hasn't played his own game since hw
>>716003370Probably my favorite hat for RDM
>>716005316Yes.
He unironically shits on WoW somewhat often from what I've seen, but he still shills it. I guess he's kinda become like XIV ecelebs in that sense.
>>715982018you get better fps using dxvk instead of dx11
>>716005579Honestly none of WoW's current streamers or shills seem happy. Going through the motions
>AWAAGGGH THIS GAME NEEDS MORE HARDCORE RAID CONTENT FOR THE SILENT MAJORITY OF HARDCORE RAIDFAGS
>Ok we only have budget to make one version of Forked Tower so we will tune it for the hardcore raiders that are asking for content
>AAWAWAHGH FORKED TOWER IS TOO HARD FOR ME TO DO AND WHERE IS NEW ULTIMATE FOR ME TO WATCH STREAMERS PROG
>>716005631Every single motherfucking time.
>>716005528The satin shader is so good.
>>716005606I don't look at them too much. Just happened to pass by a few ragebait/doomer thumbnails from their channel.
QRD?
>>716005730Exploding this cat with no survivors
>>716005631I just wanna grind in the overworld for God's sake
>>716005730They made Nashu dangerously sexy in newest Hildibrand
What, may I say, DID they mean by this
>>715991974Yeah, it looks like a parallax corrected cubemap to me. The windows are very bright for example, but it's completely lost in the reflection.
>>715977205 (OP)So they're actively updating armor textures now? how is the metal? does it look like actual metal now?
>>716005820Nothing much to say, just all the big players seem miserable in varying amounts. Includes FFXIV streamers like XenosysVex who's a bundle of neurotic spergouts, or Arthars begging for a mobile version of the game whenever he's not begging for new ultimates and high end raids like the Tigole flesh-puppet he is. My running theory is it's a combination of MMOs being fucking dog shit boring to report on and stream for long periods (ancestrally speaking, MMOs are live service games; imagine a Fortnite reporter) and the ragebaiting or bad faith streaming killing them inside even though they HAVE to put out SOMETHING to keep their career going
>>716006002why is she such a bimbo
>>716006040Metal looks great pretty much across the board.
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>>716006040>So they're actively updating armor textures now? Yes. But somewhat slowly.
>>716006117Abel Assgust lol
>>716006150Stop BULLYING me.
>>716006061She's actually a savant that simply functions on a wavelength that's out of sync from most others' perceptions.
>>716006061She's trying to attract a himbo
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The mechanical sentries don't want you to know this, but the Hhetsaro in the recreation zone are free. You can just take them.
Alliance raid gear better not be cloak slop
>>716006484A buttcape for your troubles?
>banned from national tv for begging for resubs
>about to get ding dong bannu from being alive
yoshitpiss and his cultists ITT will have a nice big fake cry again once their cancerkike bites it
>>716006484Probably more "important NPC" gear like the Ark Angels' sets
>>716006002>>716005854she deserves more love
>>716006517>>716006484XI has no buttcapes or cloaks.
>>716006126The one on the left is the newer one, right? (At least the one on the left looks better to me) The problem with the graphics overhaul is it's too late at this point in the game's lifecycle to give a shit. XI would've been the the game to graphically overhaul a decade ago, to give it a little more longevity and make it more approachable to younger players, not barely noticeable changes in XIV that actively takes away "resources" from making content for the game.
>>716006609Instead it has kinda bland artifact armors on most jobs and veers off hard left on Blue Mage's entire aesthetic and turns Mystic Knight into Rune Fencer for some mysterious reason
>>716006590Honestly? I kinda dig that. I wish we got gear of the Twelve in Myths.
>>716006046And that's the biggest thing, it's their main career and their largest income boosts are during Ultimate streams. So their kvetching is because they're realizing they're not gonna make money for another year.
>>716006630Yeah, left is the updated version. Gae Bolg is also updated.
Somehow they forgot to update Estinien's version so that made him good for comparisons.
>>716006683>Instead it has kinda bland artifact armorslol
>and veers off hard left on Blue Mage's entire aestheticBlue Mage has never had a consistent aesthetic, it changes from game to game. Strago isn't dressed like Zorro, neither is Quistis, or Quina, or Kimahri. They gave it Persian clothes because it's featured in a Persian expansion.
This is supposed to be Qufim obviously?
>>716001867>trying to farm emotional vampires>doesnt realized that those emotional vampires quit after playing dawntrail bc of the dawntrail story being so bad>only fake losers lefthahah
How does Ardbert's gear look?
>>716006776Yes, that's Delkfutt's Tower.
>>716006773No, really, FFXI has really bland artifact armors relative even to Job System games before it, let alone FFXIV after it. Warrior's, Summoner's and Monk's are downright bad, even.
>Blue Mage has never had a consistent aesthetic,Not a single game after FFXI has ever gone back to the Persian aesthetic, and the games handle named characters with locked jobs very differently to generic units like Tactics or games with Job Systems like V. They always go back to the Zorro or Tuxedo Mask aesthetic because that's its aesthetic.
>it's featured in a Persian expansion.It was a bad choice!
>>716007001>They always go back to the Zorro or Tuxedo Mask aesthetic because that's its aesthetic.Only in Explorers and FFXIV.
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>>716006821Very much improved. It's still visibly low poly in places like the fur trim, but it doesn't look horribly out of place anymore.
>>715988404Estinien or Alphinaud. Just want to go on an adventure with one of my bros
>>716007130That's a pretty gentlemanly get-up
Winners and losers of the 7.2 ARR AF graphical updates?
>>716007286The reflectivity is worse on the Holy Shield compared to how it was before, but it's also not the most reflective shield in the game anymore and looks much closer to other shiny metal. Otherwise I can't really think of any losers among the weapons or armors
>>716007285It's also vaguely Middle Eastern like a lot of the designs in FFTA.
Think we'll ever get a Vampire AF for BLU? I'd kill for this.
>>716007130That's probably about as close to Tuxedo Mask as FFTA2's artstyle would allow for, to be desu.
>>716007286Winners:
>Drachen (Dragoon)>Fighter's (Warrior)>Gallant (Paladin)Losers:
>Healer's (White Mage) - Barely looks like it changed at all.>Choral (Bard) - Same issue, but less so. But in turn it has areas with lower graphical fidelity that it feels like they didn't touch up.
>>716007507They could have given it a mask, I think it's sort of a middle ground. Also, what retarded Treehouse localizer called this Catmancer instead of Nekomancer?
>>716007535To be fair, bard somehow always manages to draw the short end of the stick when it comes to artifact armor.
>>716007535I couldn't help but want to post it, actually.
I see they added a kind of felty shader, and the red parts are some softer material. The cowl also has fur lining, but it's all too blurry and barely noticeable. I'd have a hard time discerning it from pre-7.2 I think.
>>716005416People usually do it to 90, regardless the other crafting / gathering systems in place is what bridges the 90-100 portions, traditional levees, the role quest stuff, grinding if you're a madman, meme beast tribes, the ShB/EW/DT role quests.
The problem was omnicrafting past the dead zones, which was 15-70 in ShB since people wouldn't gather mats for the MB to sell, it's why they added the merchants that sell completed bits and bobs for HW and SB crafts / job quest crafts along with Ishgard Restoration introduction as a catch all for literally every craft / gathering 15-80 under 1 roof with universal crafting materials.
Same reason why Ocean Fishing was put in, it's a fancy way of leveling your fishing with some potential rewards and to make it less monotonous in the lower levels so you can get it into the "useful" higher levels.
The point of the content was to help people level with some small extras on the side, Cosmic Exploration is what happens when the point isn't really leveling up your craft / gathering but to do it as an "endgame" activity, hence why it immediately emptied out.
There is unironically more people doing Diadem stuff right now than CE by a decent margin and it's rather silly.
>>716007631I didn't even know mezcal was a real thing until like a month ago.
>>716007154>>716007148woah. when's the WHM one turn?
>>716007983It... already got updated...
>>716007842Now I feel like if you dye it a darker shade, the material jumps out at you more. But that doesn't change the fact that the default look is kinda weak.
>>716007535>>Drachen (Dragoon)>>Fighter's (Warrior)imma use these
>>Gallant (Paladin)they did something to the LIght set, right? Almost every PLD set is ugly except for the EW one
>>715996145Bidoof's daily streams have been comfy, the music reminds me of dragon quest
>>716008098It looks better, but also feels wrong to have WHM gear in any other color than white and red
>>716008205it feel even more wrong when Red Mages aren't using red
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>>716008127No updates for the Light set yet. Closest you got to it is a kinda drab recolor added for Trophy Crystals in Endwalker, but that one was an Endwalker product pre-graphical upgrade so it's not on the same level by any means.
>>716008205The hottest WHM in the series wears orange albeit.
Now this one feels updated
>>715996556What the fuck? I was wearing something extremely similar to this when I was crafting during ARR.
>>716008485>Closest you got to it is a kinda drab recolor added for Trophy Crystals in Endwalkeryeah, i'm not a fan of those boring recolors
they desperetely need to add more things to exchange for those
at this point i'm just hoarding collars
>>715989012Here's his xitter
Best guess for 8.0 reveal month?
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>>716008517Oh yeah I forgot the NIN AF set is sexo.
>>716009037Like a year from now at the earliest? It's so far away it's not even worth thinking about.
>>716004989It was the same for Shadowlands. Expect another solid 3-5 years of hate for FF14 to be nicely profitable, everyone loves kicking trannies when they're down
>>715987603it's always the lalaniggers
>>716008618I'm more lenient, since I got one of my favorite sets in the game from it, but I agree with the sentiment. Colors just look so much nicer than on the original.
>>716009069SCH looks nicer too
too bad I hate the job
>>716009249I love that set, just like it more with a blue/gold scheme and the hands from aglaia
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>>716009069oOooo you are not immune
>>716009434SMN is alright too but the gold on it while nice is a little low-res seeming
>>716009640BUILT for tail rubs
>>716009640haven't checked SMN yet. Bard's is still awful
>>716009434>last healer I haven't unlocked>looking forward to some comfy healing while slowly progressing and unlocking skills>unlock SCH>congrats, you're level 100, since you leveled SMNShit fucking sucked and it's probably the reason why I don't like playing it. don't feel comfortable with it at all.
>>716009824Bard has some good bits but the arrow thingy on the strap there still being pixelated is weird.
>>715980582>playing since 1.0Jesus christ seek help
I need more SCH fairies or at least glamours for them.
What I really need is for the little brats to be responsive though.
smn
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>>716009824here you go
i like the leather effect
>>716009924yeah, those pixelated triangles were bothering me as well
SMN is not bad, but I still prefer using the Rydia set with a couple of modifications.
BML is still ugly, and MNK is still and eyesore.
Personal winners for me: WAR, NIN, DRG, SCH
I'm excited for the HW BLM one.
>>715987615>grey metal cityI dont think we went to the same place
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>>716010196MNK just feels like it suffers from a similar thing as the WHM set. The metal is nice, but the cloth parts? It feels flat. And also like it didn't get updated at all. It still feels low rez.
The metal seems to be carrying hard for most of these updates and the gear that has the least of it seems to suffer most, lol.
>>716010380oh wait, forgot you get a recolor
the higher ilvl one is the ugly one
Schizo kun went to a different thread and actually got his shit deleted for once. At least threads can still be alright if people simply ignore him.
Going to sleep well knowing that no matter how bad things might get, I'll never stoop that low.
>>716010751I did see the one post deleted in this thread, wonder what that was about. I didn't know there was another thread since this one's been relatively mellow. Typical Yoshida seethe thread like this one?
>>716009846Iโm surprised they never split SCH from Arcanist. I think it was Stormblood that first revamped the Class screen on your profile, so when you unlock a job it replaces the class icon. And Scholar is separate there. And the only ability it shares now is Ressurection.
Honestly wish summoner and Arcanist had a different weapon like a rod staff thing. But alas, ARR decisions haunt us to this day.
>>716011014SMN always would have had a book. SCH was meant to have a gun, it even still begins in the MSK guild.
>>716011158Machinist is what became of a Marksman or Musketeer class
>>716011187Yeah, but it was going to be SCH originally if they'd had the resources during ARR development.
>>716011158Monk starts at the Alchemistโs guild. Is it supposed to be chemist fists?
>>716011274Naw there's a dual pistol icon for the class dating back to 1.X; if it were to advance to any job it would probably have been Corsair or Insert Dual Pistols Original Job Here and you'd share Merlwyb's job.
>>716011369>elixir field>internal alchemy (second wind)>>716011473Yeah, Musketeer, the guild SCH starts in.
>>716011158Scholar first begins at the Arcanistโs guild, then resumes there.
https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Forgotten_but_Not_Gone
Like how Summonar starts at the same and then resumes in Gridania. The jobs arenโt tied to a guild, only the classes.
>>716011524I highly doubt pistols were intended for Scholar, if it were to be any class it would probably have been the simultaneously scrapped Arcanist and its magitek trap setting rod
I think we got a new Schizo like the Pauline Jr one in the Donkey Kong threads.
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so these two elements are meant to be similar, right?
>>716011784Probably! DT has done a great job on the more subtle FF9 references even while it's blasting Beatrix in your face
>be me
>go to Living Memory to check out if I see any shapes like in the Calyx screenshots
>stop
>sit there
>get melancholic due to the music and atmosphere
Fucking DT. I swear Living Memory makes me feel like no other zone, but it's all dragged down by how awful most of 7.0 is.
>>716011579>>716011604Notice how the MRD and MSK guilds combined in ARR, just like the SCHs and MRDs of Nym became a unified force. SMN goes to Gridania because that's where Louisoix hung out in 1.0 and he gave you primal access quests.
>>716012803merlwyb the scholar
>>716012864Guns are simple weapons for tacticians and other bookish people to use.
they really need to get rid of arbitrary currency caps
what purpose do they even fucking serve?
>>716013874well it WORKED REEEEEEEEE
>>716013993Introducing a new capped currency right now.
>>716013512i get the current one at some extent, but there's no reason why poetics should be capped
>>716013512so you cant hoard them before a patch, buy all the new stuff at zero hour, then complain theres no content
>>716014087Fucking agree. Hate having to constantly spend poetics because they cap in +/- a second
>>716014206but new patch brings new fucking currency?????????
>>716014384you can buy the new currency (non-weekly capped) with the old one at a rate of 4 to 1
>>716014384does 7.3? isn't the next currency in 7.4?
>>716014384Old currency can roll over into a quartered amount of the new one
>>716014563>>716014459>>716014457>remove the ability to carry over>remove capsdone
>>716014785I don't mind either way.
But more than anything I want poetics caps gone.