Thread 724589357

The 7.4 patch live letter is imminent.

How would you maintain the status quo in FFXIV?

>>724589357 (OP)
lalafell plapping nakadashi and impregnation

I have never played a mmo except for adventure quest worlds
Is this one worth it

>>724589357 (OP)
>How would you maintain the status quo in FFXIV
lalafell plapping nakadashi and impregnation

MSGK is fucking bottom of the barrel taste

>Thavnair again
This is like if we pivoted back to Coerthas immediately in SB, holy fuck they are panicking hard. 8.0 is gonna be full of SHB and EW memberberries no doubt

>>724589357 (OP)
>live in 13 hours.
I guess i'll just catch the vod

aiming for a full card. i think i have a good shot at it

>>724589713
I haven't played in a while but weren't dzemael and aurum both adjusted already years ago

>>724589713
We already know OC is getting new jobs in 7.4

>>724589457
Play the free trial, which lets you play up to the best expansion, Stormblood. You can do 99% of the content for free, excluding pvp, which is a good thing because the pvp sucks dick in this game.

Everything is downhill after stormblood, and I definitely would not buy Dawntrail as is. If you enjoy your time up to level 70, wait until 8.0 releases in 2 years before buying the full game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VITcgEdY6rw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfqxHUpMyVg

>>724589713
This is what i'm expecting. Honestly the smartest thing they could to right now that the DT storyline is wrapped up is to actively and agressively pivot away from it. Just go away from Tural, start building up a plot somewhere else, with other characters. But i highly doubt they will. Honestly the thing i'm looking forward to the most this patch is my mandated once-per-patch Blue Mage update, where i get to have fun for like 5 hours and then not play the job again for two years

>>724589457
Just so you know >>724589939 is right about the free trial, but he's wrong about everything going downhill after Stormblood. The game's most popular expansion is Shadowbringers, but he's likely part of a group of obcessed schizophrenics we refer to as "zodiark trancers" who insist that it's actually bad. Either way, the free trial gives you potentially like 1k hours of content, so start with that for sure. Keep in mind that XIV is a fundamentally narrative-driven experience, so take your time with the story.

>>724589838
Not sure if Darkhold was, Aurum was for sure
Aurum was barely touched beyond giving the Coincounter tells for Swing attacks

>Corvos
GIVE ME MYSTIC KNIGHT

>>724589579
Awful opinion

>>724589579
Don't think sugar riot is a gaki

>>724590327
Revamp of DD is 100% coming. They already did Halatali and CC, DD is 7.4 and AV will be 7.5.

>>724589457
fuck no
I can not think of one MMO in the current year that's worth it
some mega retard with 27,000 hours sunk into one over the last 11 years will probably try to "uhm erm ergk ackshually" this but they're wrong and blinded by nostalgia, I could go back and play NexusTK or Dark Ages or Ragnarok Online or any of the old MMOs that I played when I was a snot nosed retard and actively enjoy myself even today but much of it will be carried by that self-same nostalgia

>>724589965
>Posted it again.

>>724589838
>>724591038
It was directly, but the change to make mobs not drop exp anymore but only bosses made that first big room completely worthless.

For darkhold the also adjusted stuff, for example you cannot fall down anymore at THAT spot.

Also fairly certain they've tweaked a lot of other stuff in there.

He's back to spamming threads every day

>>724589965
God damn this looks depressing. Why the fuck does everything have to look the exact same? Even when you DO give it a different artstyle, the maps look the same, the vfx look the same, the damage numbers, the way they move and rise and fall, all this shit looks so similar to everything else. And then there's the combat, which doesn't distinguish itself in any way shape or form, regardless of whether it looks fun or not, it just looks like everything else I've already played a hundred times before by now. It's like there's some "Chink Slop 3000 Engine" every one of these builds off of and that base alone ends up as 90 to 95 percent of the game. I don't wanna be so fucking bitter about everything anymore, but nobody seems intent on giving me any reason to feel any other way about this crap.

6 more Waxing Arcanite until my botted tome farming finishes all the relics. What did I think of this?

I feel like since the number crunch they did a while ago, all synced content in the game just folds extremely fast. Especially for a story centric game, these are supposed to be peaks in the story against a strong enemy, and its super dissapointing to see Thordan or Ravana fall over before even finishing their first mechanic loop.

While the game does have its problems, you cannot deny that it is cinematic AF, these fights are the hypest parts of the game and I think its one of its strenghts compared to other games, and it should focus on maintaining that memorable experience for first timers. I dont know what technological issues could stop them from multiplying the health of every boss from arr to ew by 1.15, hell even m4 dies before firing her big cannon nowadays. I understant that veterans might be annoyed to spend 2 extra minutes in their roulettes, but you are supposed to be playing the game because you enjoy the fight, not to get through it asap, so I feel like in general it would be a net positive by a lot.

In fact, might as well add a 15% boost to all their damage, raidwides still wont kill a dps at full health unmitigated, but it adds a much needed friction to the fight and makes them more enjoyable.

Can agree to this somewhat, it's depressing seeing vets here be annoyed by the mere idea of a fight being slightly longer, when all that's being proposed is the fight being closer to it's original intent.

Replaying older fights, barely hearing the music transitions, not being able to see a full mechanic loop - it devalues the experience for new people, especially those who heard how cool and epic certain fights are supposed to be.

Had a sprout in a trial roulette the other day, when it was done they said "that was it? I spent longer queuing than doing the fight". The game in it's current state spends a long time building up for neutered, sad versions of fights that leave little impact, and make people less inclined to continue.

>>724589965
what's this, like 4 button combat slop? can you even play a tank or heal in this?
ui looks bland as fuck

How would (you) fix FFXIV?
If the game continues with the status quo it will die, so you have to fix it

I thought that Brute Justice's intermission phase was so hype when I first experienced it and it's really sad that most runs won't see it anymore.

At this point I dont really care
Maybe ill resub for the new tier, probably not though
Hopefully 8.0 will lurch in the other direction so hard it fixes everything

>>724589457
i started playing it 1 year ago, i've enjoyed it alot up until DT
but i think it's worth playing up until DT

>>724589457
Free trial it and if you like the story play it up to Endwalker. Dawntrial sucks except for the wrestling trials.

>>724593891
right on cue

We've had this thread many days in a row.

>>724589713
I liked your bingo, I was going to fill it out but ultimately you have a shit load of likelihood choices. Still, if you had me bet it'd be the middle row. But more likely Yshtola instead of Krile to try and pander to fans. Also advanced merch shilling stratocaster style. Maybe an XIV car or motorcycle.

>>724591532
>The Israel-palestine conundrum of Eorzea (fuck etheiyrs dumb name)
>Graha Tia is a palestinian
I like Corvos because Arabian nights since Graha said flying carpets and mystic knights but man that'll be a fun shitshow since aside of bruhaha about the not-morion there wasn't enough of that drama for DT given it was just about DT sucking dick.

>>724589965
buy an ad

>>724593891
>they relegated him to a wood collection joke again
My boy did not deserve this disrespect.
I am genuinely angry at this

>>724593961
>most runs won't see it anymore
I started playing in 5.2X and I literally did not know until somewhat recently that Mateus has an add phase after the frogs.

>>724594198
>Eorzea (fuck etheiyrs dumb name)
Hyedalyn, not Eorzea. Eorzea has always been the continent, Hyedalyn was the commonly accepted name for the planet before EW.

>>724593961
what do you mean?

Old content is slow because there was a lot more complexity involved with playing your role and job correctly.

The difficulty of content was a much more even split between 33% playing your role, 33% playing your job and 33% executing the mechanics of the fight in those days.

Roles and jobs have been streamlined and fight mechanics made more complex such that the difficulty split is now something like 5% playing your role, 5% playing your job and 90% executing the mechanics. When you also take into account the fact that a lot of the old, lower level abilities have been removed or reworked and the jobs feel very barebones at lower levels, playing old content feels more like a 1%, 1%, 33% split - which obviously makes it boring.

TL;DR - old content feels slow and boring because your job is slow and boring.

>>724593891
>fix the netcode
>change savage loot rules
>rework raidbuffs to not be meta stacking them
>make hats for mi'qotes to have ear holes/sockets again
>make the ILV sync on roulettes sync to the min ILV of the duty
>improve roulette rewards to compensate the change above

That would be an easyly achievable start. But of course the best is just to make a new game.

at some point i think for a game to not fall into this never ending rabbit hole, yoshi just has to say fuck it and force everyone to engage with the gameplay and bring in some complexity of the jobs and the roles back. like i genuinely do not know how you can make this game even more boring to play with just how smoothed everything is.

all of the best girls in the story are lalafells
I have filled my squadron with every female lalafell i can get
I WILL mash every potato

This is very true and many people also do tend to forget the switch from job-relative difficulty to mechanic-based encounters.

Although I very much prefer the current encounters design (based on mechanics), we don't have anything to enjoy a deep gameplay. What's worse, the subtlety that existed in ARR / HS / etc have also disappeared.

They can't expect old content to be any good with neither the current (max level) gameplay, nor the old subtlety (legitimately removed), without any difficulty (because they are dungeons / alliance raids) and to top it off, with a ridiculous skillset.

Your conclusion however goes the opposite way from SE's design. They want leveling to be a progression towards the current skillset, so low level HAS to be a partial experience of an already simplified gameplay. Jobs being "less boring" would require a complete change in their skillset philosophy and even then, they don't want new players to get so much information that they can have a deep gameplay.

They won't build a huge overhaul of low level skillsets so the only lever they're left with is to make encounters more engaging, thus speeding up the mechanics so it doesn't feel like almost nothing ever happens.

>>724593891
THERE HE IS
LET'S
FUCKING
GOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>724594424
Hydaelyn it is then. I just don't like how Etheriys has this complicated bit at the end with the placement of the r i and y.

>>724594569
Yeah that's a fair take. I think it's also just that once you get used to a higher octane of speed or complexity to mechanics it makes the earlier, slower stuff seem so paltry. It's the same reason why just compare

Dark souls 1's final boss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIeqxGaZnFo
with Elden Ring's first boss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQhfP79H09g

I don't like Elden ring, but you can see how what seemed fast once upon a time in 2011 is now glacial.

>>724595075
>I just don't like how Etheriys has this complicated bit at the end with the placement of the r i and y.
I hate how it sounds like the lowest effort fantasy name imaginable. It's just Aether. It's like calling the planet Magica or Fantasia.

>>724589457
I'm gonna be honest with you. No. 1.23b-SB was the golden age and you missed it.

>>724593891
Is this /vg/ reject going to do this in every thread?

Whoever is copy pasting and posting comments from reddit ffxiv discussion here, you should at least try to post comments that makes sense, you are posting comments that are replies to other comments without any context and it's looking bad.

Or better yet, you should just stop doing it.

>>724595054
i remember in these very threads people vehemently defending mods like this and would attempt to gaslight you by saying it doesn't matter even when you pointed out people started putting it in their adventurer plate to signal that they are using it. now look where it got these faggots.

>>724589579
It's not illegal to be a fucking imbecile.

It's actually cool that ARR and HW raids rely on conceptually simple mechanics that interact to create pressure instead of sequential-stand-here-or-die shit. Changing old bosses to make them use the in-out-left-right slop we've been bored by for three expansions is the last thing the game needs.

Let the expansions have a different fight style and appeal to different people. It's fine.

>>724595283
this i definitely agree with

>>724589939
can i still do the free trial if i did the 30 day one, i tried registering and it told me no

>>724595541
No

Once the expansion is over at the very least they should go back over the fights and add better iLvl syncs. The first two raid tiers of every expansion are just not fun at all, and I don't really understand why they want to keep the fights in that state. It's crazy reading through the comments and seeing people bring up Shadowbringers as a bad example of what this can become. Sure Paradigm's Breach is way too long, but the trials and normal raids (and Copied Factory) hold up much better than any other expansion does. I've never really looked into why or if these are synced differently, but the trials and raids actually still hit hard and don't fall over in 2 minutes. You routinely see more people actually dying from failing mechanics in these fights than any other expansion and I don't think it's even kinda close.

>>724595216
never used /vg/ lol

>>724595569
ffs, gotta make a new account?

>>724595134
It's not pronounced like Aether, thoughbeit.

You can't design features exclusively around a new player if a veteran is going to get shoved into it every other day to fill queues. Solo duties can be tuned properly because they're heavily synced and if you fuck it up you can shove the difficulty down dramatically.

>>724595686
oh wait i might already be on the free trial and just thought i only got 30 days
downloading to find out

>>724595054
disgusting

>>724595834
Yes it is. Let me guess, you say 'ayy-thurr'.

If dealing with people re-learning normal mode mechanics is so awful then maybe we should instantly be given rewards the moment we zone in.

>>724589579
>t. lost to a brat

Important mechanics are skippable in what are supposed to be iconic combat moments in the game as a whole. This actively detracts from the modern new player experience, because they will never see duties in full in the same way that older players did on release.

>>724596053
Well, that's how ameritards pronounce it.
The name is pronounced 'ah-teh-rees'

>>724589357 (OP)
Add gambling to Mahjong and other side activities. XIV needs a dual arena where I can blow all my gil.

They added iLvl sync to Endsinger in 6.5 and that fixed the problem with being able to skip the cutscene and second phase. This one thing alone can be done to a lot of duties to fix the problem, and there's more that can be done for stuff like the CT raids.

>>724596749
or stupid changes like removing Estinien from The Aery

>They added iLvl sync to Endsinger in 6.5 and that fixed the problem with being able to skip the cutscene and second phase.
what? was that possible?

Like sure, I'm all in for the changes, but CBU3 kinda boxed themselves in when they made the normal raids too easy and savage raids too "extreme" for the majority of people, for years. Sudden changes will just not work, but at least they've done something different and are trying to push it up in recent patches.

>>724594175
posted it again award (you, not alphinaud juice)

>>724597129
add shogi to the saucer

>>724596492
I hate when that happens.

>>724597129
need a place to blow my MGP
why haven't they added more rewards to the Saucer yet?

It's not a despairingly bleak opinion on the average MMO player, it's on the average video game player. The vast, vast supermajority of people who play video games are extremely bad at them.

>>724593543
Backport trusts to every MSQ thing. For all expansions prior to whatever the current one is, a player must first complete the dungeons or fights solo, with trusts tuned to the min iLvl of the content before they're allowed to run it with other players.

That's sort of when a lightbulb turned on and I realized people are just really fucking bad at video games. Even stuff that's way easier than the souls games even, I will see the same type of person just repeatedly fail the most basic stuff. 14 shares a lot of dna with a lot of 80's/90's japanese video game design where there's very little rng, things are hyper-deterministic and you can just memorize your way around stuff and even in those games, people fail and fail and fail repeatedly even when they have no reason to.

>>724599417
at times i will know a certain mechanic but i will still follow a player thinking he's right, only for us both to fail said mech and get a vuln stack, i don't know how to stop doing this

Ultimately this goes back to the choices the devs made all the way back in Creator/Stormblood. They were at a crossroads on how they wanted to proceed and from that moment they could choose a complete systemic simplification of the game, or to stay on the path that Gordias/Midas started, let the chips fall where they may. The success of Creator sold them the idea that simplification would be good even if some people complained, and to their credit it got them through several expansions up until now.

Steps of Faith was so kino
Such a shame they removed it

I feel like if you're falling asleep during a fight; that's the issue with the raw gameplay. Having a couple extra skills that are just the same skill but with higher potency shouldn't be the difference between falling asleep and going "THIS IS SUPER EXCITING"

>>724598926
Or maybe they just don't feel like wasting their time with repetitive simon says ddr "difficult" content?

I think it's pretty clear, at least so far.

>>724593891
You have to start over after 4.3. Keep everything in the story the same until then but erase everything afterward. Never introduce trusts, never casualize further than what SB already did, and yes that mean TP stays. No damage squish, Zodiark is final boss for final expansion ever, and no nerfing TGC

>>724594803
retard question but is fixing the netcode really that shrimple?
every mmo i play has issues with ice skating even at near perfect ping and it seems like none of them get it right

>>724599417
it's why streamlining too much to make it "accessible" is pointless
you could make the gameplay just pressing 1-2-1-1-2-2 and there's still going to be a lot of players that fuck it up and people who don't care just press buttons that are shiny or look cool
as for boss mechanics, yeah it makes me question if half the playerbase even looks at the screen but you are not allowed to question this openly

>corvus
>all the dot headed garleniggers fled corvus because it was destroyed off screen by the final days and garlean incompetence.
>magic carpets and cat tribes

I GET TO DICK DOWN MY ADORING FAN CATBOI. KINO INCOMING.

will the desert music be bollywood tier or 80s nintendo desert egyptian music?

>>724601889
I agree, every trial and raid in the game should have duty support.

>anons say for months that they want to go to Corvos
>"SHUT UP GARLEBOO TRANCER FUCK YOU THAT'S FUCKING RETARDED DUMB FUCKING DOOMSISSY"
>image shows maybe Corvos is happening
>"WHOOOOAAA I'M POGGING OH YEAH I ALWAYS WANTED CORVOS WE'RE SO BACK DOOMSISSIES ARE SEETHING"

>>724597129
I wish yoshida would just take the loss of the ESRB or equivalent rating and throw in poker like he said he wanted to. I don't know how to play poker, the last times I learned were in college where alcohol made me forget and then with my friends in red dead redemption 2 where alcohol also made me forget. But card games are fun. And fucking make it possible either anywhere or have a placable poker table for apartments and houses and yards.

But I don't have the big asian brain for Mahjong.

>>724602245
Thavnair was India, Corvos is liable to be an eclectic mix of Greece and Arabia judging from the lore bits we have. Wait a minute - Greek and Middle Eastern. Anatolia.
>Aht Urhgan

>>724602473
tranny schizo trancer take your meds.

the empire of garlemald was a congregation of simpletons.

>>724589357 (OP)
I'll have to catch up once I wake up
And I want the game to improve, not stay the same

>>724601825
nah this is also a delusional mmo vet opinion

as if normies would have a problem with simon says or DDR, those games kick ass

It's rather amusing seeing some in the comments advocate for duty support because they can't be bothered to play for a few minutes longer with other people in an mmo when there's already been big complaints about the multiplayer aspect of this game being heavily diminished as it currently stands.

I agree completely with the op, either buff everything or fix the ilvl issues. Aside from story, the main aspect of this game is supposed to be gameplay. What's the point of it if it's over all too quickly? If you're a sprout experiencing this stuff for the first time, you wouldn't be getting very much out of it, if anything at all.

>>724602245
>>724602568
More curry shit, great.
I wish the XIV team could pull of Aht Urghan Empire vibes but they already had their chance and it's ass.

>>724603024
Corvos is Arabian Nights

>>724603024
bruv isn't even being ironically racist in the right direction

6 hours, Abel. Is today the day?

>>724589357 (OP)
i want something completely out of left field. like a confirmation of a long ago rumor like blitzball or a blue mage pvp mode

>>724602473
Corvos has nothing to do with Garlemald

I've played just about every Final Fantasy Game except the Online games and the most recent one.

Is this game fun?
And is there a simple Knight like Job that's good and not gonna get me fucked over in end-game? I always preferred the more basic and grounded jobs in Final Fantasy. Replayed Tactics, immediately beelined to Knight. Was a lot of fun.

>>724603737
Try out the Free Trial
There is Gladiator which becomes Paladin which is the sword/Shield job
Fun is subjective. Its a tab target MMO after all. One that is VERY beginner friendly. So if you are familiar with the genre the beginning can feel kinid of baby mode

>>724603737
paladin (tank) is a simple knight job you can play.

corvos is the variant.

>>724603696
it was under empire control before the garleniggers got their shit slapped by the final days and general garlean incompetence. the refugee dot headed niggers went back to garlemald in 6.3 or 2. the one with the stupid tower reeing.

>>724603696
Lorelet retard.

>>724603853
>>724603861
Looked it up. I don't really like all those flashy particle effects, but I'll give it a shot on the free trial.

>>724604240
you can turn them off i'm pretty sure

They should absolutely dynamically change the HP at least for the story bosses. Whenever I get Thordan I intentionally sack my damage if there is a newbie in the group because it really deserves to breathe more. Any story fight should get to go through its entire fight-line to allow newbies to properly experience it. I don't care if I get it in a roulette and have to spend an extra few minutes in it.

>>724604240
If you want swords, Gladiator is the only starting job with one. Later you can play Dark knight (greatsword), gunblade (funsword), Samurai (Katana) and the newest Viper (dual swords)
And yea you can reduce or disable effects if you want

>>724604358
That they don't boggles my mind. Granted mechanically these fights are already easy, at least they'd be a tiny bit harder if we weren't so OP

>>724604358
People would bitch, but I agree. Like a forced echo on MSQ fights to make them last as originally intended

>>724604358
Thordan gets a pass for me since is canonically a curbstomping as he was operating on bad information (he wasn't the recipient of a 1000 years of hope and prayer)

Shinryu needs about 20% more hp, Hades about 15% more

>>724589965
>another trash KMMO that will die in half a year or less

I don’t want to give them another excuses for making lackluster endgame contents. Besides, just make enemies in older contents do things faster.

Oh...oh no...

Mogs mounts cheevos we got em
Drop crits on the boss we one shot em
Vizex with the Roe he's on bottom

Our favorite thread sycophant! He's here! He's checking if you're still subscribed!

>>724605157
>he spent 15 dollars to just do a 5+ year old unreal
you can't make this shit up

>>724605157
folderkun is our favorite thread personality

Fucking savage in Christmas, I swear

>>724604358
I do this with Brute Justice, too, because not getting to see the intermission/hear the best part of the song is fucked.

there he is
the thread tertiary
'friends' in the thread but none in game

>>724606240
i'm not gonna erp with you anon

>>724604358
>>724606037
hrt users

I don't strictly think the fight has to be longer per se, although I do kinda wish jobs were more interesting below level cap and I wish some fights had a little more "teeth" to them.

Like for example Thordan, I don't think the issue is strictly that the fight isn't long enough, I think it's the fact you can just kinda ignore every mech throughout the fight with minimal if any consequence. Endsinger atleast the mechs kill people for getting hit too many times, but iirc the fight got so powercrept on expansion that the devs had to tighten the sync a fair bit.

Supposedly alliance raids have some cool mechs nobody sees anymore unless you get a MINE group but even then when I did MINE ivalice we ended up skipping a lot anyways because the type of people who seek out a MINE alliance raid tends to be people who know how to hit their buttons.

>>724606240
you mean parasocial?

>>724603737
This game is gay.
Tactics is 100x better, just replay that.

>>724602068
I don't know how easy or difficult it would be to actually do that, but what i know is that there are 2 very well know addons that actually fixes it. One of them can even be used on console without you even having to have FF XIV installed on your PC. You need to do some hackerman shenanigans tho to make it work on console.

So yes, because of those two things, i believe that it wouldn't be that hard to fix the GCD clipping of the game.

>>724605913
Go spend Christmas with your family and friends, the raid will be there when you're back. It's not going anywhere.

>>724604358
That would be really cool. It's a shame that the only experience that people will have with trials and raids for the first 100 hours of the game are all stomps and bosses dying at 5x the speed that they did back when they released.

Probably won't happen, too many players these days seem to just want fights that are short and give quick rewards. Sometimes I wonder why they even want to play the game, they don't seem to enjoy it and just want it to be over so they can get rewards. Almost reminds me of genshin players with their primo addiction, seeing having to actually play the game as just an annoying inconvenience to get primogems

I haven't been subbed since 7.1. Let my house get demolished. The only attention xiv gets from me anymore is when I jerk off to lalafell art.

>six hours
>100 posts

>>724607226
That's a lala from /xivg/ who cucks her EB

>>724607465
ok?

>>724607385
post sleeping lalas

>>724607626
This lala is DEAD

>>724607226
Many such cases

>>724605717
I think he's lonely because of how slow or ded threads have been
Look at him grasping at straws, he really wants attention

>>724595054
we like this btw
if you are against this which is the real content you hate ffxiv

>>724589357 (OP)
I unsubbed 3 months ago and I can't bring myself to sub again; the enjoyment I get from playing doesn't seem worth $15.

>>724608756
Your sickness must be purged
Like a parasite, you must be burned out if the star is to survive.

>>724608476
its unfortunate really, I miss having fun with this game

Are there any plugins or places to find easy files to import hotbar layouts? That's the biggest thing keeping me from returning to the game.

>friends keep wanting to replay this game
>everyone keeps getting caught up in fotm to fotm
>content to stay in my single player games or occasional maplestory with classic coming up
we'll never play this game at this rate
might be a good thing

>>724608854
It's like 12.99 innit for the cheaper sub. But yeah, I'm probably going to wait to 8.0 unless I am bored witless and want to rp--------------- but I always got more shit to do and bannerlord warsails drops in less than a month.

>>724608972
I'm an MSQ fag but I really am convinced if it wasn't so utterly abominable while there'd be doldrums and a loss of subscribers it'd not be this bad. You wouldn't feel actively contemptuous of the game. Think there's some saying about how contempt is worse than hatred because wow players will love to hate on the game and still play it. Contempt is "You're so beneath me I am not even going to play", while hate tends to be rageplaying/ragewatching. It's the difference of how I feel versus a bioware game now (contempt) and how someone playing league of legends or something hates the game but logs in daily.


>>724609039
Did you have files you used for hotbar layout you lost but know is on your hard drive? In that case you can use everything.exe to find it if you know the extension (and it's not some common extension like .txt or something).

>>724608854
Literally no reason to stick around unless you want to do savage or ultimate
Fuck man, even the stuff that isn't that just becomes an extension of savage and ultimate anyways

>>724610907
Nope. I still have the hard drive, but I can't access it. I may try to take it to a nearby tech support shop to see if they can recover it, but I'm not hopeful.
It'd be nice though, it'd get me the files for the game I was working on back.

>>724611424
The techies I'd do as last step because they may just go "Yeah I'll just reformat it rather than bother". Sorry to hear that, you can look around for one of those programs that helps with retrieving deleted data but I am not sure of your issue and to be honest if you were to tell me I'd not really be able to offer help so I don't want to waste your time. Last time I had an issue like that was 2009 or something and I just hooked the HD up to another computer which was able to access it.

>>724611525
Unfortunate. Any website that I can just download UI from then?

>>724611818
Googled it and may allah forgive me for having to quote reddit, but:

>https://discord.gg/thebalanceffxiv
>This discord has various example hotbar layouts in their class channels. Not all jobs have examples, but a bunch do. You will need to recreate them yourself though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o3agYe-JPQ

https://quazii.com/ffxiv-hud-ui-guide/
https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy14/mods/1054


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZwDmVLF2VE

So some of these have download links (verify the source is reputable and not going to be 300 gb of dolphin porn and all that). Or you have to go to the balance discord and ask there.

>>724589579
True, I prefer osugaki

>>724589579
こんにちは、私でガキです

The live letter is not imminent, it's still hours away.

>>724589357 (OP)
How long do these live letters go for? I've never watched one.

>>724604358
Square needs to auto-ban time wasting troglodytes like this guy on sight. Below 50% parse in a Duty Finder? Locked out for 48 hours from it.

>>724614098
2-3 hours. though when they start talking about merch they're usually done

>>724589357 (OP)
can i play as a loporrit yet or does the game still suck

>chaotic will save the game
>cosmic exploration will save the game
>occult crescent will save the game
>quantum will save the game
What cope are we on now?

>>724615527
>>chaotic will save the game
>>cosmic exploration will save the game
>>occult crescent will save the game
>>quantum will save the game
First, you have to tell me
Who are you quoting?

>>724615527
theres no more cope, it's over.

>>724615527
8.0 And to be frank all it has to be is fucking mid and people (myself included probably) will act like we've been saved.

>>724604358
This, Thordan is an exceptionally bad case. I'd also want to see them block the final boss of an alliance raid from being pulled if someone is in a cutscene.

>That one guy who needs to save 12 seconds and instapulls
>That other guy who readychecks 6 times in a row while people are in the cutscene

>>724607385
This website is dead if you haven't noticed, it doesn't help that every single thread on this board gets spammed by schizoids who have made X game their mortal enemy, why would you try to discuss something here?

>>724589965
>Not even chinks can directly ask you for your gender anymore

>>724593465
Kind of an extreme case but I saw a sprout get totally fucked once on dying gasp, this was on materia where a lot of people do even normal trials in party finder and there was a blue mage in the party that just put out way too much damage to end the climax too fast.

>>724616020
The catalog is just third worlders and mega corps shilling the latest slop
The entire board has slowed significantly over the past 3 years, especially after the hack, too much goodwill lost
The site essentially acts as an anonymous toilet for retards

>>724616260
It used to be fun to refresh the catalog and see what people were talking about. You could just read a thread if you wanted, or if something caught your eye you could sit there and discuss a topic and lose track of time. Nowadays you need filters to block a dozen offtopic threads, you probably end up hiding another dozen as you go, and when you do see a thread that seems interesting you open it up to see a wall of people arguing about who the ESL is and terminally online retards filling the thread with charts and the lowest effort shitposting imaginable. There's not much left to enjoy here.

>>724614161
Alright, that's pushing it a bit late but if I feel tired when they start shilling merch I can take that as a sign to leave, thanks.

>>724616554
They usually split it into two segments with a commercial break inbetween. The first half will list out what we can expect in the patch with maybe a few reveals whereas the second half will usually start with an ingame demo, go to an indepth explanation of something, and then quickly devolve into merch advertising.

Also this is the first of two separate live letters and it generally has less information and less to show than the second one, the patch trailer is only shown in the second LL.

>>724616454
I can deal with a lot, it's the schizos for me
You can enter a thread for something you've recently garnered interest in and you see 50-100+ posts of incoherent schizo rivalry lore

If they don't do anything proper for 8.0, this game might slowly die for real.

>>724616760
bonus for mods doing literally nothing about specific trolls and spammers

>>724593441
which plugin is that, it looks sick

>>724616817
brain fart and cut my post off
doing nothing about specific trolls and spammers while laser focusing "vidya butts" and other low-impact shitposts

when's the jive letter

>>724616914
It was fun while it lasted, I'm going to miss discussing games and arguing with anonymous people online.

I have not subbed to ffxiv in over a year nor kept up with any expansion or player number drama. All I'm here to say is:
cumflate every lala posted in this thread.

>>724617258
Cancelled

>>724617743
no...

>>724616020
I can't really fathom being so fucked that you become a 4chan topic schizo spammer. Got to be an awful existence.

>>724616771
What's funny to me is my friends are up to WOW - I'm not a fan of the game but I was speculating where wow would go after their last titan expansion and I stopped and realized 'why the fuck would they end it?' That game has simpsons levels of endurance, it could probably go fine for another 20 years. And while I think the setting is dogshit, the writing is so atrocious I will grit my teeth and say Dawntrail was better, I can still concede that they've done some real wild shit with a game that is 21 years old. Meanwhile it's just
>Abloo bloo bloo small family company abloo bloo bloo spaghetti code abloo bloo bloo console limitations.
To say nothing of the wild shit fucking dweebs in their shed are able to cook up with burning down the house or whatever. That's what they do with WD40, a 67 year old slavic engineer named boris and bamboo slats and I'm supposed to believe Square can't do it? Fuck, now I remember it took how many years to get hats for hrothgar and viera?

All my screaming into the 13th void is to say you're correct. 8.0 being mid or better and it'll continue on to 10.0 or beyond. 8.0 being DT levels bad and it's very possible it won't even have a 9.0. The bancho numbers for new players for DT are fucking apocalyptic. Eyeballing it and we're at fucking 1.0 levels of new players.

>>724618028
>Chartposting
what a tiring existence

>>724618084
This except when the charts are rising then we love luckybancho

>>724618084
Would you rather I post a lalafell and talk about roegadyn penises, screech peepeepoopoo comments about Yoshida, screech about barry, go kekaroo or some other fucking demented legitimately mentally retarded faggotry you fucking faggot?

>>724589357 (OP)
>here's your content bro
lol

>>724607385
ff14 is dead. check out their concurrent on steam. it shows a extreme decline

>>724618190
>>724618253
This is why people don't talk about the game here, or any game these days. Completely and utterly worthless posts made by sad individuals who spend every day seething about something existing that they don't like. It's made even sadder when they pretend to play the game they are shitposting because you know that in order to reach that level of retardation they've already had to of spent hundreds of hours shitposting and know they need to disguise themselves.

What a waste, I imagine most of us feel the same way, it's not annoyance or anger but rather disappointment.

I think we all know that 8.0 won't be good, not even "ok" like EW or SB, but they'll dangle Emet, Hythlodaeus, Hydaelyn, ascians, Zenos, whatever they need to and that'll be all other takes for people to say XIV is back.

>>724618605
there is no way this is a real person

>>724618603
I play the game, I like the game, I want the game to do well. That's why I tell delusional cultist retards like you to kill yourselves.
>It's made even sadder when they pretend to play the game they are shitposting
You don't get to play this card anymore when the resident white knight has proven multiple times lately that he doesn't actually play the game at all. Pic related. None of you play the game, none of you give a shit about the game. That's why no matter how bad it gets you're happy to pretend it's fine because it doesn't actually matter to you at all if the game is unplayable. You never played it to begin with. It's just a personality for you after you migrated from your CIA-sponsored skinner box called Azeroth.

>>724618701
For a lot of people just leaving Tural and never, ever going back would be enough.

>>724618835
More proof that the resident white knight doesn't play the game.

Do you fags actually keep playing this garbage after they failed to actually fix it? DT is Yoshi already saying the game will never change.

>>724618918
Just one more expansion bro just one more Yoshida says it's his proudest work this time for real, one more expansion could fix this game.

>>724618918
My current plan is to make the ShB ultimate in 7.5 my final goal in this game and then quit after playing since 1.0. I'll change my mind if 8.0 shows promise but I don't expect that with how things stand.

>>724618835
>>724618884
That's cool schizo but we don't care, say the line, post the charts, dance for our amusement.

>>724619085
You don't play the game, so why do you defend it? What do you get out of this behavior? Get a hobby.

>>724619084
>he thinks the ultimate is actually coming in 7.5

Raid finale and new variant WILL save the game.

>>724619167
Imagine the e-celeb shitstorm if it doesn't.

>>724619183
I'm going to laugh when the criterion savage doesn't have weapons.

>>724616760
It really is something to behold, early on I would wonder what caused someone to turn out like that but over time I've come to the theory that it's poor parenting. Like yeah, we've always dealt with the console warrior side of things where people went fucking ballistic over their chosen console but the schizo posting you see today goes far beyond that. These people don't outwardly champion anything and instead focus entirely on trying to drag something down.

My guess is they were raised by youtube and twitch, they crave drama above all else and feel an intense desire to hate things in order to create drama.

>doesn't play the game, shills it anyways
>doesn't play the game, hates on it anyways
You're both pathetic.

>>724619237
Some irrelevant chink and bald manlet who gets mad at everything will claim they're quitting but come back in 8.0 anyways. Most players know it's a rush job, as only one ult was originally planned for DT.

>>724618261
>>724618605
Genuinely, who does this appeal to?

>>724619261
Q40 is a great example of how out of touch these devs are
They made this mistake with Criterion and made the exact same mistake again

>>724619340
shilling a game you don't play is kind of retarded but saying you cant hate a game unless you are actively playing it right now is just as stupid

>>724618190
Which is never.
You can take any old luckybancho chart and it always looked like this.

>>724597329
yeah, end of expansion gear versus AF/90 dungeon gear

>>724607626
honk shoo honk shoo

>>724589357 (OP)
>FF14 is shit
>Re-release the game with ARR
>Still sucks but better
>HW makes the game much better and storyline is good
>Stormblood writing is crap but art style carried it
>Shadowbringers really good
>Game started to get popular around this time thanks to WoW killing itself with BfA and Shadowlands
>Endwalker is the highest peak of popularity and the end to the story they were building up (Stopped playing right before release as I was burnt out)
>Dawntrail release and its the worst expansion by far, from horrible writing, to the new character, to less content updates and content, etc
>Game population lowest its been I think too
How do you fuck up, get good, and then fuck up harder?

>>724619536
>Which is never.
KEKAROOOOOOOOOO

>>724618028
The setting is funny in a context of out of all the fantasy universes out there, Azeroth has to be a top 5 shithole. How you even live there as a random joe has to be like not being born Indian or something if you want to survive any chance of surviving. WoW's biggest loss was basically when it lost it's old guard and the soul got raped by the carrion vultures. Even in Midnight they're STILL making a quest to desecrate any goodwill with Garrosh and Garrosh literally snapped himself out of the plot in Shadowlands and everyone loved it. It's so bad. What Kate or Hiroi or whomever is doing with Dawntrail is the same lack of care Warcraft probably has had since like, Legion or so. Maybe they're just catching up. Me, I'm an idort I like playing both so I always feel like the black sheep whenever I post here. The pliability of the setting still arguably gives them a shitton to work with. You have to understand things like "stakes" and "intrigue" cannot exist if suddenly you can't murder 100 murlocs daily for some bullshit World Quest because it wouldn't make sense plotwise. Shit like that. I can always give Blizzard some credit over Square is at the very least they try to change things and experiment. Whenever Final Fantasy gets new content it's almost by the book and scripted. Deep Dungeons? Any new formula? Maybe taking a bit more inspiration from the ten billion roguelikes and lites that exist to keep the random gameplay a bit more interesting? Nah, best you get is a boss that most won't even touch and the rewards suck mega shit. If Savage didn't tend to lean toward the good as well as ultimate I genuinely feel like XIV wouldn't have much to stand on if the story was bad at any point, you know? To me the state of XIV when it's at it's worst is almost at form some sort of japanese kikery at place. It's hard to compare the two though because while XIV is not Square's only product that they live or die on compared to WoW at the same time

>>724619505
Which is kinda sad since Q40 introduces a couple unique mechs, but aside from title there's no reason to run it.

Good luck anons, I'll leave you guys to enjoy the rest of the schizo rambling.

rape bratty lalafells

>>724597329
I don't think you could skip phase 2 entirely since it triggers at certain hp threshold.
They buffed the fight because average groups were skipping too many p1 mechanics.
They should really retune older duties.
Both normal and alliance raids need to be ilv synced in roulettes. Skipping scales in Aglaia or devour in Proto Carbuncle kills the experience for anyone who's not doing this content on patch.

>>724619393
I'm also not saying the ult has no chance of being in 7.51, but do keep in mind they started panic-developing it. DSR was also planned for 5.51 as early 5.15, as per a pre-covid Famitsu interview where Yoshida also said they weren't doing Hildy or a DD on purpose for SHB and mentioned the minion farm (early version of what became IS). While there's no pandemic affecting development currently, there is far less funding and manpower.

>>724589713
>New glam is not modern slop
lol, lmao even

>>724619785
based

dollah

>>724593792
IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR

>>724619839
>Panic Developing
What? No anon, it was planned for .3 and they couldn't handle it so it got pushed back. It's possible they moved it on purpose and don't want to admit it because they wanted to work on other content and it's equally possible they just fucked up and couldn't finish it in time. They did state before that they didn't think a .5 ult would be a good idea, rightfully so, but they also walked that statement back a little recently.

An ult in .5 is not a good idea btw, especially if they are releasing another exploratory zone AND a raid with it.

>>724619790
Scales is dogshit, not every mech or phase needs to be seen.

>>724619678
I think the more egregious insult was wasting time on variable difficulty
If casuals do not want to run it, they are never going to run it

>>724619653
>HW makes the game much better
lol
HW almost 1.0 the game all over again.
There was nothing to do except raiding and raids were so overtuned the raid community pretty much died for the first two tiers.

>>724620163
>the trademark ability of the boss doesn't need to be seen because muh kill time muh tomestones

i think yoshi p should send out more CnD letters to mod makers

I will do something incredibly reckless if I see Wuk at all

>>724620223
class gameplay was the best it ever was, MCH was a ton of fun to just play even in non raidfaggot content too bad they deleted it because people bitched about bard having cast bars

>>724619839
>While there's no pandemic affecting development currently, there is far less funding and manpower.
Because they already know dumb retards will keep sub for this game even if SE give the bare minimun since it's their life. Pokemon company already tested this. There's no coming back.

>see xiv thread just prior to live letter
>expect to see predictions and hopes
>it's the same schizos thinking other schizos and boogeymen are out to get them
Wew lad. I'd rather post potatoes.

>>724620135
No it wasn't. They never once talked about a second ult until a summer interview where Yoshida was outlining future content.

At JP fanfest, the LL had two notable things. It said "ultimate raid" and "variant dungeons". However, we're only getting one variant after all as of recent news. There was never a second ult planned this time, Mr. Ozma was working on alternative endgame experiences like Chaotic and Quantum, which ended up being duds regardless of if you liked them or not. They're just throwing the towel and doing what the people want, but the question is if they can design a good ultimate in 6 months. FRU had longer dev time but was pretty trash.

>>724620410
They never talk about a second ultimate anon but everyone knows it's supposed to happen and when it should release. There is no such thing as panic developing.

>>724620229
It's a shit trademark ability.
>stand opposite of add
>watch cutscene
Wow, amazing. Fucking Cloud of Darkness has more nuance.

>>724620345
whats there to actually be hopeful about now at this point everyone is just praying the next expansion is substantially better

>>724620529
That's like saying you shouldn't see Teraflare in T13 because you just stand in a neurolink and LB3. You're exactly the nigger that killed this game.

>>724620345
I can help.

>>724620536
I mean, that's a start, and I feel the same way. Surely 7.4 onwards can only be an improvement now that (hopefully) Wuk is done and dusted.

>>724620516
They do talk about them much earlier. Usually interviews around X.2 confirm another is coming, but this time there was silence until nearly 7.3. If the ult released in 7.5 after all, it'll be a rush job.

>>724620575
This
Scales is cool, I don't care if it's a waste of time or simple, I want to fucking see it, I am fighting the motherfucking god of balance and commerce I WANT TO SEE THE SIGNATURE MOVE

>>724620575
T13 is endgame raid content, Aglaia is a handheld snoozefest abomination. You can not compare them.

>>724589457
Very good main story and huge amount of content.

>>724620685
I'm coomparing, I'm coomparing!

>>724620632
Skip soar or disband, bitch.

>calyx is still alive
>boring ass nigger

so a kuja fight next with him?

>>724620345
Yeah, you sure would, fellow /xivg/er! Let's gpose and never play the video game!

>>724620627
They never commit to it anon, please you know what I'm saying here don't be dense. They never come out and declare that a second ultimate will exist, it's not technically an official thing, but we know it will be, and should be.

>If the ult released in 7.5 after all, it'll be a rush job.
First off it's releases, not released, second it won't be a rush job because they started working on it a long time ago, it's not something they have yet to begin and have to "panic develop"

>>724620773
Nah, watch him get cutscene'd and we fight something else.

>>724620685
You can replace T13 with Striking Tree and Teraflare with Judgment Bolt and the point still stands. You have tranny speedrunner mindset where everything has to be about you getting your tomestones with maximum efficiency which is the mindset that raped this game. Kill yourself.

>>724620821
Never been to xivg in my fucking life other than to occasionally gawk at the barnyard behavior.
I take all my lala images from /v/, twitter accounts, or pixiv.

I used to kill so many people in scales by rescuing + going into the wrong side...

>>724620843
this, imagine being mad over seeing a fun mechanic and spending, at most, an additional 5 minutes in an instance.

>>724620830
>winter primals

IM WINTERINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Ultimates were and are a fucking mistake, the worst type of content focus.

>>724620843
Nobody wants to be stuck is a dogshit instance like Aglaia longer than they need to be. If anything, EW alliance raids should have the super echo while CT, SoM, and RtI receive health buffs and echo removed from Monastery.

>>724620943
I doubt it'll be primals again, we've "solved" that problem and could probably dissolve your average primal with a well-placed question.
I do kind of hope we visit Vikingland and Northern Othard.

>>724621024
>I'M SPEEDTROONING
I know

>>724621024
just leave and take the 30 minute penalty, or better yet don't queue for alliance raid roulette.

>>724621069
Theres all kinds of headcanon you could do with viking roes but i really just think theyre going to do a variant. Its specifically a Scion B team thing too and no one else has done anything with it Scion B wise unless the first 7.4 screenshot we saw was corvus with hoary boulder and coconut doing a variant.

>>724621069
You didn't play 7.3? Calyx is doing primals from planned concepts like Zodiark instead of relying on faith to define the shape of the primal.

>>724621024
>I don't actually want to do any of the content, I just want the rewards from them
Nigga just go play an idle clicker game or some shit, this is embarrassing.

>>724621024
Bro you really riled up the roulette heroes lol

>>724621150
No, I know Necron was a "Primal of fear", but even then we just stood there and kicked its shit in which scared the fuck out of Calyx.
If they go to "Primal of <emotion/concept>" for the next set of trials or whatever, I'd be... well, not disappointed, as long as they're fun fights, but surely they can do something different than primals. Calyx resorted to that cause in true Ascian fashion
>DURR HEY DUDE SUMMON A PRIMAL LOL
but I reckon that won't continue. Hell, if 8.0 remembers that previous expansions exist, the loporrits might just give us a "dissolve primals" button to press at this rate.

Shaaloani was okay.

>>724621272
Primals can be anything. Think of Eureka. Amon was smart enough to just set up the concept of a primal that can conjure anything he could imagine. He just used it to reinvent creation magic and did all sorts of shit with it. Primals can still be interesting in the hands of a good writer. They just need the writer.

guess he's just spamming now
wonder what he did in XIV this month if at all

>>724621069
>visit Vikingland
>new Job: Viking
>one hand axe weapon, maybe Lightning magic so people can larp as Thor
I could see it.

>>724621561
>one hand axe weapon
BEAST BROS, NOT LIKE THIS

>>724621561
Vikings would use dual shields. It was the meta set up for them in FF3 and Yoshida confirmed they had it in concept at one point but couldn't figure out cool attack animations for shields.

>>724621561
I genuinely doubt we'll get new jobs in 8.0

>>724621635
>>724621561
>Dual shields/gunshields like Rhitahtyn
GIVE IT TO ME YOSHIP FOR FUCKS SAKE.

>be me
>dont use duty finder
>dont do anything that requires df
WOOOOOOOOOOW THAT SURE WAS HARD

>>724621635
COWARDS

>>724621693
...so you stopped playing at Sastasha?

>>724621693
how's it feel being stuck at post ARR

>>724621380
>rubber bullets

kys

>>724621672
They'll keep forcing new jobs. At least for now.
They are even scared to downscale to a single job per expansion.

>>724621810
Why are people so stuck on this anyway? It was for a non-lethal duel to settle a dispute. They use proper bullets for everything else.

>>724621742
Duty support is a thing.
You get stuck on unsupported trials, though.

>>724621868
He shoots the guy in the hand anyway but they cut off to the side to another NPC looking at the camera and telling you that they're just rubber bullets. It's absolutely insane presentation that would get forced into a censored kid's cartoon in the 90s.

>>724621936
Sounds like you're desperate to be angry at something. Rubber bullets fucking hurt, anon. Ever been hit with some? I have, for training. Would not fucking recommend.

>>724621868
because it's the cherry on the sanitized shit cake that's DT up to that point
in comparison, I started playing DNA and you have cops shooting minorities in the streets in like the first hour

>>724621984
>Sounds like you're desperate to be angry at something.
You sound like you're desperate to defend childish, nonsensical writing. The rest of the retarded bullshit you spewed onto your post has nothing to do with the topic at hand, which is that pausing the moment to tell you that everything is safe and non-violent like it's a 4kids dub is ludicrous and doesn't belong in this game where in post-ShB we were witness to a duel with actual real bullets.

>>724621938
rape rape rape rape rape
i hope they mod themselves to look like children even more and let me act out my fantasies

>>724619653
i was so hyped about dawntrail, and it turned out to be utter shit. i feel grief over how shit ffxiv turned out to be. i had such high hopes. guess its over for mmos in general anyways

>>724621936
That’s a big reason I disliked DT, it was just so sanitized compared to earlier game.
Like going from a game where it’s first dungeon is a pirate rape cave to rubber bullets duels is just so dumb.

>>724622118
Sanitization began with SHB for the most-part. It was just easy to look over because everyone wanted daddy Emet or cat twink.

>>724622118
fuck even compared to the previous expansion where you have a guy blow his own brains out, and then we go to the fucking throne room scene with the lizards

>>724622118
>Like going from a game where it’s first dungeon is a pirate rape cave
You don't even need to go back that far. Quintus blew his own head off in the previous expansion.

lalafell sexo

>>724589357 (OP)
FFXIV is Nortubel tier

>>724622205
>ShB
>sanitsation
>Valens van Varro and his rape/torture dungeon getting popped like a can of fucking soda

>>724622267
KILL YOUR FUCKING SELF

>>724622271
How did Hiroi go from Valens to Zoraal Ja?

>>724622327
valens was dogshit too.
>hey lets save some money and reuse valens again as his assistant getting surgery to look like valens so you can reuse the mech model as well.


holy fucking kikery. i knee yoshi.

>koana spends a lot of time abroad studying and learning the ways of advanced civilization, so when he comes back to compete for the throne it's understandable that he needs to spend time to learn the culture and people of the lands and that they wouldn't be accepting of him because he's made himself an outsider

>meanwhile, wuk lamat is FROM here, spent her WHOLE LIFE HERE, and IS A FUCKING HUNTER, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE HER TO GO OUT AND EXPLORE THE WORLD yet she knows NOTHING ABOUT FUCKING ANYTHING

Someone Dawntrail defender explain this fucking retarded shit to me because ever since I realized this it has eternally made me seethe.

>>724622398
Valens was kino

SPIKE DIES!

>>724622450
There's no explanation except that they rewrote whatever they had for Wuk after 6.5. She's a different character. Notice how she doesn't get seasick in 6.5?

>>724622510
the writing is so crazy.
>hey shes a hunter tomboy
>hey shes a tomboy who get sick who can spam 3 different lb3s
>hey she just hurt her hands whacking a shield with her axe and she passed out.

such crazy swerves.

>>724622450
I think the worst Wuk moment for me in the game was the one part of the contest where her bio-dad is the judge and he clearly rigs it in her favour.
Gulool Ja Ja might as well told his two sons to fuck off from the very start since he favors Wuk Lamat so heavily.

tranny fridge cat has done irreversible damage to this game

Behold, John Arcadion himself.

I FEEL YOUR LONG DPS QUEUE WAIT TIMES!! AS IF IT WERE MY OWN!!!

>>724622732
>cruiser weight champ talking to some elezen
>heavyweights
Will the last fight swerve and have nothing to do with based prowrestling? i hate when they do that.

>>724622831
Wicked Thunder was a heavyweight so there should actually only be two heavyweights. So we can have:
>Heavyweight
>Heavyweight
>Brute Bomber 3
>El Presidente
Or we could have
>Heavyweight tag team match
>Brute Bomber 3
>El Presidente
>Curveball

>>724621868
Straw that broke the camel's back. Shaolaani was almost a breath of fresh air, and then the writing beats you over the head and reminds you that no, nothing is ever allowed to be wrong with anything in Tural. It's all smiles and sunshine and is somehow more of a lifeless sanitized theme park than Living Memory.

>>724589965
I hate this type of soulless korean or chinese slop that looks like that ugly ass chinese theatre or boy band aesthetic. SO bad.

>>724622904
>it was all a work everyones fine

i hate it and like it at the same time.

>>724602568
Gambling is a big nono in online vidya now and could quickly end up giving the game an 18+ rating

>>724622450
I just ignore anything related directly to Wuk Lamat.
The entire DT experience for me is the Alexandria fucking with the natural life cycle and all the subtle FF IX references.
Also Zoraal Ja is an underrated villain. High ego mixed with inferiority complex makes for an entertainingly volatile bad guy. Personally I hate how EN mistranslates his title for no reason which completely kills the payoff of the cutscene during his trial.

>>724623064
Well there's not much in this game EN doesn't mistranslate, you're playing fanfiction if you don't speak Japanese

>>724622450
As someone who still managed to find a lot of Dawntrail fun... there is no defending Wuk. Literally the worst-written character I have encountered in fiction in years, and I read a fucking semi-smut sci-fi story about a galaxy full of thirsty bimbo sluts lusting after human men. Somehow every character in that fucking thing is more fleshed-out and believable than Wuk.

>>724623091
It only got bad when Kate took over in SHB
>inb4 muh horsefart
NA turned him into a bro instead of a sexpest freak, so much so his HW writing in JP is modeled after the NA localization.

>>724623091
Heard that German and French are proper translations instead of asspull headcanon.

>Wuk Lamat: you gotta help me win this contest to rule my people WoL! If my brother wins, he’s a warmonger he might want to conquer Eorzea!
>get to Tural
>learn these dumb Mexicans can’t even build ships to reach Eorzea themselves
She played us like a fiddle.

>>724623028
I hate it because it's almost predictable, but I'd love it because it'd be an entire organisation pulling one over on the WoL for laughs.

>>724623285
>It only got bad when Kate took over in SHB
No, it was always bad. In some ways it was even worse because wholesome chungus Koji-Fox managed to successfully psyop both reddit and his own company into believing he's some kind of co-author whose opinion influences the development because he wrote some songs

He's still going

>>724623315
Would have been fun to see the timeline where tural invade eorzea and gets their shit handed to them by a bunch of sailors with mountains of actual naval combat experience with each vylbrandian ship sinking 10 turali ones with no casulties

>>724623605
Koji was a part of the original worldbuilding team when the game first began development. You're a retard and you will never be Japanese. You don't even play this game either.

>>724623605
Acquire buoyancy.

>>724623028
I'll forgive any amount of bad writing out of arcadian as long as at the end of it all you get to have a solo duty where you on your own fight against a team of all the surviving fighters without their soul buffs, give the people something really exciting to close out the era of soul abuse

82 minutes eft until the LiveLetter
are you guise excited!?!?!??!

>>724622781
Queue times haven't been too horrible for me lately despite how dead the game is, but seeing the same people in roulettes has become a very regular occurrence. It can actually be neat sometimes, like I got the same miqo tank in my trial roulette 2 days in a row because she was doing her first runs of Emerald and Diamond.

>>724623626
>make it past the sahagins climbing up out of the water over the sides of your ships
>make it past the lominsan navy
>make it past the kobolds blasting you with cannons from the shore
>get through the desert no problem because mhigger mercs are lazy
>start ascending into the frozen alps
>get massacred by dragoons
>dodge dragon fire while fleeing
>somehow get out of the mountains alive and into a dense forest
>the trees start screaming

>>724623646
See, you just keep repeating the lie he told you.

>>724623746
You're never going to convince anyone that Kate is somehow better than Koji. Stop posting about games you don't play.

>>724623784
Kate didn't think racist and suicide jokes were funny at least
>Stop posting about games you don't play
Are you so scared I might be right you have to invent a boogeyman? Surely if someone's critical of FFXIV they must not have played it. How pathetic.

>>724623821
Last time you poked your dumb nigger head into these threads you denied that Louisoix summoned primals at Carteneau. You don't play this game, you have no idea what you're talking about. Kill yourself and fuck off.

>>724623821
>Kate didn't think racist and suicide jokes were funny at least
lol so that's what this is actually about

>>724623851
Not the same person
>inventing boogeymen again

>>724624076
There isn't more than one retarded faggot who shows up at this same time and starts crying about how Koji was worse than Kate.

The best part of this game is hearing the music as you see that a starting area is called The Eighty Sins of Sasamo

>>724624189
making someone walk up and down some steps until they die from exhaustion has to be the lamest way of executing them

>>724624271
Hell I do that for free

>>724624189
Unlike a certain other game there's actually 80 steps too, (well 77 the others got eroded apparently)

>>724621024
I hate your kind with every fiber of my being.

>>724622510
Yeah pre-patch Wuk is so radically different from DT Wuk it's actually astounding. Like she struck me as being seasoned but naive about the greater world, not a literal retard who barely knows her people's ways.

>>724624581
LOL how naive.

>>724624581
6.5 Wuk predates the (((consultant))) involvement in DT and major rewrites to make the expansion 'culturally respectful'

>>724623746
Bro he literally worked on a ton of the lore for FFXI before coming to XIV he wasn't some random saboteur who co-opted the setting that somehow showed up during relaunch. I really don't understand you're argument.

>>724624471
What's the other game is it ff11... I am a noob I seriously did like that part best even though I started marauder so it was kind of not my moment

>>724624629
Considering 6.5 was likely written months before we even played it and they were well on their way on working on 7.0 it would not surprise me.

Is it normal for them to announce beastmaster and not show a single second of footage or even a screenshot? Did they forget they said they were adding this fucking job to the game or something?

>>724589579
who asked you numbskull?

>>724624832
7.5 trust the plan

>>724624673
Skyrim, there's a big mountain that's meant to be 7000 steps but there's only 784, you can probably assume there's another 100-150 buried under snow but still far from 7000, although they may have meant footsteps rather than actual surface steps, even then it's probably incorrect.

>>724624932
Ohh thx. Never played much skyrizzle.

>7.4 more OC jobs
>7.4 variant maybe?

are we sure there wont be a DR type raid for OC?

>>724625231
There was no extra OC content in the roadmap they showed aside from jobs. They already have to panic develop a normal mode for the second Forked Tower so I wouldn't expect a surprise raid for 7.4 but it's not totally impossible.

>>724625003
Never played Skyrim? It's one of my favourite games of all time, download the texture pack, get past the tutorial and enjoy. Play it without mods first, (other than a texture pack) and soak in the world, try not to fast travel as there are a lot of random encounters plus the world itself is so atmospheric to walk and travel in. It's great.

Oh shit it's started I thought it wasn't starting for another half hour
Wait this doesn't even have subtitles? am I in the wrong place or is this actually JP only?

>>724625698
Oh I see
>Please note that the presentation slides will include both Japanese and English text, but the presentation audio will be in Japanese only.
Oh I see
this doesn't seem worth watching live, I may as well just wait to see the slides, people will post them after I'm sure

>Today is a PLL without gameplay footage
I'm going to bed

WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES?
EXPECTATIONS?
FEARS?
SUSPICIONS?

>>724597129
this but also allow it in housing as well

>>724589357 (OP)
I don't play MMOs so I imagined she was talking about my pathetic efforts at trying to 1cc Battle Garegga

>>724596492
The weak should fear the strong.

I can't wait to play 7.4 in 20 fucking years

>>724625870
what

15 minutes, /v/!

>But what is sure is that he's reflecting the past 10 plus years of running the game and ensure the new few years of FFXIV is going to be even better
>and also, his utmost priority, to him, is to reflect user's feedback on the game.
well, it sure as fuck can't get much worse

>>724625870
>No gameplay footage
>No English
I can really feel they are trying their best to appeal to players aren't they? are they fucking retarded ?

>>724625905
>hopes
variant
cum chalice
yshtola
>expectations
oc job
modern glams making sissies seethe
>fears
alisaie, wuk, tataru slop
>suspicions
WERE GETTING A DR TIER RAID FOR OC.

>>724625905
I want pure glamour collection similar to WoW but it will never happen.
Instead we're going to get the new writer desperately trying to bring people back by taking us to Meracydia and ripping off the Heavensward story and doing it badly.

>>724626038
ew

>>724618703
>picks the asian
>doesn't shit post about pink hair

the cult for ffxiv is huge, imagine watching a live letter at this hour with almost zero gameplay footage and a summary of content you already know

>>724626229
You know what's worse? Posting in a ffxiv thread when you dislike the game. Seems like a massive waste of time.

>>724625745
You know what fuck it i'll chuck it in picture in picture mode while I do something else and bring it up if I see slides.

especially if 4chan is gonna be shitting itself

>>724626418
https://www.youtube.com/live/VaCPpiqmAUs

watching on youtube with your adblock is better

>>724625905
I want future proof glam plate system that will guarantee at least one slot for every job now and forever.
Including DoL and DoH. I'm tired of never being able to use job specific outfits on crafters and gatherers.

(He)'s saving xiv

>>724626514
>shilling for Ikea
tragic

>>724626276
>massive
unless i get hit with the stupid catcha, i just take 10 seconds to write this

So who's the dude next to yoshi? I don't speak nihongo

>IKEA
What the fuck am I watching?

>>724625905
I want to hear anything about fixing the 3rd dye option.

>>724626595
its baby mario

>>724626556
But it's a minute between posts, you could be posting something else

ivalice is dogshit.

Is this going to be outdoor furnishing or something I can actually fucking use
maybe I should finally unlock the furnishing on island sanctuary thing

Hop on Orbonne Monastery

>>724626717
wait I thought it might be some cool actual furniture but it's literally what >>724626703 said, it's just another fucking JPEG to stick on your wall

what a load of shit

>>724626717
Oh wait I see the picture there is the furnishing I didn't quite process that until I saw >>724626703
They got me excited for FUCKING NOTHING

THIS SATURDAY
LIVE FROM THE ARCADION

EL PRESIDENTE

Patch art looks kino

INTO DA MEESTO

I love FFT, but goddamn a poster is so fucking lame. Could they really not come up with some actual furnishing item from the game?

>>724626819
I'll have a fucking coronary if the president comes out doing the vince mcmahon walk

>into the mist
haha they made sure to have the name imply you were fucking leaving tural

wtf, they don't reveal the exact date of the patch in the first live letter.

>>724626886
They came up with the Mog Station armors, pay up white piggu

I'm always jealous of the enjoyment of this game. Is it still possible these days to get the shadowbringers relic? (the blade weapons)

>Into the Mist
NOOOOOO AIIEEEEEEEEE

>>724626945
Bozja still and always will have a community. It has a larger community doing the content than even cult crescent. So yes.

Cross DC PF when???

>SAVAGE 3 WEEKS LATER
LMAO

>Delayed 1 week
BASEDBASEDBASEDBASED

>>724626945
yes, your hardest step will be grinding delebrum reginae since you have to queue as a group and do your 10 minute wait every time unless the planets align and you were born on a sunday and it's raining in brazil and you queue with someone else

>>724626945
Sure, some of it might be a little more of a grind than it used to be because less people to help but you can do it for sure

gonna be massive shitstorm in jp

>People losing their minds because of a flying carpet being "orientalist".

Can white people go five minutes without finding something to be performatively offended about?

>>724626819
That male viera in the back made my dick tingle, is it over for me

>>724627004
anon, read again...

>>724626819
Is that japanese logo the same meaning of into the mist as the english one

>>724627001
Race over within 1 hour can’t wait.

>>724626945
No one enjoys this game, it's sunk cost fallacy.

>>724627015
TRANNIES

>>724627001
T bh I’m unironically cool with this because it means you don’t have people being flaky around new years
I remember one specific tier being massively ass being savage released like, the day before christmas (or was it chaotic?)

>7.4
>MSQ-DUNGEON-TRIAL
>ARCADION NORMAL
LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE TO DO EVEN FOR RAIDERS

*sigh* Somehow Alexandria has returned...

>>724627001
>don't delay
>wtf it's on Christmas
>delay
>wtf why the delay

>>724626945
Yeah but the free trial doesn't have access to bozja/zadnor for that's shadow content and the trial is reborn-storm.
>>724627008
Just use party finder, always. I did this step in like an hour because of how fast people speed run this shit now.

>>724627001
Good, the fucking bootlickers on the forum getting upset at people for daring to question the likely situation of savage at christmas BTFO

CUTE HAG SPOTTED

>>724618605
>Bought one of these on a whim to give myself a red streak like my character
>Washed out two days later
>Gives me a rash
>At my grans when her hairdresser comes around and shooting the shit i mention it
>"Yeah that stuffs garbage, its just ammonia with a weak die mixed in that will give you cancer"
a-arigato yoshida dono..

>>724627117
It was chaotic.

>>724627052
Newfag-kun, Savage always drops two weeks after the actual patch. Well, except now I guess.

Looks like somebody on the living memory reflection from outside living memory arriving to me

Uhm, where's Wuk Lamat?

>>724627197
Because Yoshi-P delayed Savage to January so everyone can spend time with family for the holidays. Sounds pretty based.

>>724627181
>krile and graha tia pontificate while ysthola is offscreen again doing things.

i can see the future already

>>724627181
she's younger than you...

>>724627117
>the day before christmas (or was it chaotic?)
That was Chaotic last Christmas Eve
>>724627197
Two weeks for .0 new expansion drops
One week for .2 and .4 major patches
Also this has only been a recent change, since EW I think? Hardly "always" since it used to be same day as normal raids

>>724627220
Why does spin have a cat tail?

>>724627139
Why are people in this thread allergic to ignoring bait

"Electrope" is the absolute worst device they could have added to the game. It's literally a magic piece of material that can just turn into whatever the fuck they want it to. It could literally be anything. Fucking Krile could be made of electrope and we wouldn't even know. When they ruin preexisting lore by writing it off as just being made out of electrope or something everyone will finally get why it's fucking garbage.

>>724627191
Might be the only reason they learnt their lesson for this

>Krile focus
DON'T FUCK THIS UP YOU FAGGOTS.

Hell yeah

WET LALA

kino...

Blessed

They genuinely put more effort and animations into Hildibrand shit than the MSQ.

>>724627185
He's giving you cancer to save you from the cancer of playing XIV

>>724627267
so like dynamis?

>>724627303
Don't be talkin' trash about our boy!

>>724627267
its worse in the alliance. in the msq its whatever.

MISTWOLVES

>>724627295
Is this a boy or girl?

>>724627226
Convalescing
indefinitely
even though she was good enough to come outside it's still indefinite

>>724627303
They've been doing that since forever

>>724627303
They get to have fun

>more electroslope
Creatively bankrupt

>>724627351
it's fine as long as everybody who actually knows how to do that shit with electrope dies at the end

>>724627359
does it matter?

If Alexandria and solution 9 had this aesthetic a lot more people would like it

guys remember tural?

So uh wheres the content
Where are the video games at

>>724627295
Might they finally add underwater combat if they are leading into something watery
>>724627303
They seem to be putting a little more into the MSQ with 7.3 at least

TRAIN TRAIN I LOVE MY STATION

>>724627421
I've never jerked it to a boy lala before

>>724626229
I thought most of the players quit during Dawntrail. Everyone i know including me sure did.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

>Doomtrain trial
based

that's the Doomtrain from FF8

AAAAAAAAAA I'M FUCKING SICK OF ALEXANDRIA I DIDNT SIGN UP FOR THIS SHIT YOSIIIII

Doomtrain!

>Halloween theme
>releases in mid-December

>>724627437
So tragic all the residents died in the attack by alexandria
>>724627508
is the train raid based on another final fantasy game? the one with the ghosts

>>724589357 (OP)
Hey that bump is shaped like a potato

>Hell on Rails
Gotta say, that's a pretty cool name for a trial

>FFIX themed expansion
>Boss from FFVIII

I bet O5S will still be better.

>>724627547
It's 6's phantom train, different thing

>>724627538
Probably got their schedule all thrown off by having to start rewritting around reception to dawntrail

>FLOATING
>SQUARE

>>724627561
lmfao why is it Brownlee?

AWAKEN MY MASTERS

PILLARMEN

Lion transformation confirmed?

>>724627613
I like floating squares but the theme they were going with here it probably should have been something else, if not just flat ground with the spectator stands around it then at least have the platform on a pillar

The boss is going to grab the weapons in the background.

>OSRS collab
Holy based?

WIFE

Show the gear

ELF SEXOOOOO!

Sex with redhead girls

>>724627581
remember when FFXIV had you fight the Dissidia version of an FFIII boss while FFVIII music played?

Elezen chads won hard this patch

He looks like every /vg/ malezen

>Heavyweight
>Just a bunch of lanky elves so far
Where are the Roes/Hroth?

I sucked at this trial when I tried to do it before and that wasn't even MINE

EVIL WIFE MENTIONED!!!!!

>>724627749
lol lmao

>>724627749
It's gap moe see

>duty support
No, stop ruining dungeons for this shit

they are going to fucking ruin the only fun dungeon left in this shit game

THEY ARE GOING TO NUKE THE MEGAPULL AT THE START.
FUCK.
IT WAS HOW I LEVELED TO 50 ON ARR.

Rip giant Dzemeal pulls

what even is duty support?

>>724627834
Those dungeons were garbage, I'm glad they have duty support so I don't have to do them ever again in roulette.
Good riddance.

>>724627841
That doesn't work anymore anyway because you only get XP for bosses now

>>724627834
tranny
>>724627841
>"Mega"
tranny

>>724627615
He was going 100+ down in a Residential to show off a car

>o/
>meowdy
>2 packs
>boss
>2 packs
>boss
>2 packs
>cutscene
>boss
>ggs
>tyfp

>>724627494
Many of the tourists at least. The people left that post here dislike the direction of certain parts of the game but we don't doompost and attempt to derail threads.

I can't believe that they did it. They avoided putting out Savage on Christmas, thank god. Sadly it'll come with the downside that the dps checks won't exist at all.

>>724628005
new bread

GIVE ME BACK MY FULL SLEEP SPELL

>>724627952
>sadly
least fun part of the game

>eorzea bringing their wars to tural now

this is cool I guess but I would have liked to see more of north america, we saw plenty of south america already

Oh shit nice new air force one
I feel sorry for the people trying to perfect this on a controller

WOO NEW AIR FORCE ONE

CASSIE EARRING IS BACK

I heared the english words variant dungeon

Oh shit I was about to ask what the chances of them showing the last 8 mans would be.
>heavyweight division

>>724628335
Nah don’t think so probably untradeable

WHY THE FUCK DOES FFXIV HAVE SO MANY WOMEN PLAYERD?!?!?! EHATTHE FUCK

>>724628938
Yet I am still not eb'd