#endgame-lounge
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But people who play with Awful Humans are morally grandstanding on twitter about how we need to protect women in the community
(Sfia)
because it makes them Feel Bad
Bro we need to protect the community from you 
That's the name I was forgetting
these pipes make me very happy
NOBODY CARES
I care
Only to you
my brain is way too cooked to understand wtf is going on here XD
its neat tho

Idk what's going on but I respect the minecraft grind
Is that window close to the Trench so he can hang out with his new Leviathan Buddy?
distillation towers
in case you forget which game you're playing
Needler nest across the way
minecraft might as well be gmod 2 nowadays
Got a bunch of thermal plants
Ahh, I didnt see that. Hate those shitters, firing Needles THROUGH WALLS and hitting my Tadpole
I just built it there because of the nearby resources
Guy who plays endfield once
Seriously speaking tho it looks cool
And it worked out with the story stuff
is that GTNH
Nah, I get you. Made my newest base there too
endfield deadass activated my sleeper agent factory autism
and yea it's gtnh
ha I thought so
Gonna have lockers and lockers of titanium
I'm actually at the end of the current story content in Subnautica 2 atm, so as much as I love the game, don't have much to do currently XD
I'm probably gonna wait like a year to play subnautica 2
as much as I loved the first game
See, I had to support it, especially cause my fiancee had never played a Subnautica Game before and she REALLY wanted to play this one with me
I'm planning to wait for 1.0
I loved the first game but BZ was a miss for me, idk why
Unironically, they call the current base patch 1.0 atm XD
I knew what you meant, just thought it was funny
Truthfully, despite it being in early access, the game has a fairly substantial amount of content already. There is definitely room for more, and I wish the early game was a little more stressful (I still remember coming across my first Reaper in Subnautica 1), overall its a really fun game
I have heard that the current map is noticeably smaller than sub1 but they are planning to expand it
I didn’t find silver for like 4 hours
The map is already really big tbh
Like 2km across?
There is ALOT of room for expansion, since they plan to have you go to that huge Tree in the distance, and you dont even get close as of yet
I didn't get into sub1 until it was in full release anyway and I really liked the fact that I didn't basically get roadblocked by "this content will be added later" there
I do need to figure out how to convince a few friends of mine to play sub2 with me when it fully releases
Subnautica 1 was a bit different. It didn't actually have walls telling you not to go further, it would just suddenly add the content. Like alot of the Biomes were added, but then seriously fleshed out later
There used to be a terraformer tool in S1 EA
I like small crabs :(
Yeah, and they took it away cause it just broke everything XD
tbh just drink some milk
Have you ever met a WAR that off tanks?
Yeah?
I make war players OT in fru
I mean, yes?
let the real tank take the busters
Xenosys Vex @ Gilgamesh (probably)
Having the map just like
I remember the Sub1 Terraformer, that shit was so broken its ridiculous
Lmaoo
Bro, every time I saw the Red Wall I flinched away so fucking fast
Was bad enough dealing with the Collector, I didn't need the Shivers in my life
I cleared m9 with a WAR that wanted to OT which is like fine wtvr it doesnt matter for this fight. Asked them if they ever MT and they said no…
Thats the part that really irked me lol
S2 spoilers ||I was in the Tadpole Pens talking to the NOA node and when I got out I heard the leviathan music and saw the collector outside the window there, PEAK moment for sure that the game just had happen||
||legit I knew it existed but never saw it until heading to the Ruins, and then I heard the music, turned around, and freaked tf out cause it was right behind me||
They're just pregaming for Evercold, clearly
Pregaming is craaaazy
||thing is, I DIDN’T, I wasn’t following the updates they had and it SPOOKED me||
Let's OT together, bro
My static unironically swapped which tank is MT bc our pld player wanted practice before evercold
Yeah, that mfer is really spooky even when you expect him
And the baby
I love him so much
So out of curiosity, how hard are Unreal Trials?
Also need to be lvl 100
despite not having finished EW or DT, I do have a lvl 100 Job, so that end is good
But I'll watch the Hector Video on the strats, if only to make sure I get things right
do you have lv100 gear
uh
I miss my wife Thordan unreal
you don't have the gear for it in that case
unless you bought a bunch of current crafted
they couldve bought gear from the MB
The min ilvl requirement is piss easy to get anyway
My friend made me a full set of iLVL 770 gear as a reward for my RPR getting to lvl 100
She told me and my fiancee that she would make us the 770 gear and meld it with Materia too for the first lvl 100 job we get XD
gear is overrated anyway unless you intend to do savages/ults
I do plan to eventually get into that, but I need to progress more and such
it is kinda important to meet the minimum ilvl tho
ye
Still, it is good to know that Unreal is basically just the Extreme Trial but brought to current Level and ilvl
gee thanks
And we got another one!
good one

@languid cedar has been banned by lizzer_ for the following reason:
comp account

Love it when that happens .-.
oddly their post is still up in #glamour-discussion
Oh bizarre...
Man, I was falling asleep at my work desk when that popped up, and now I feel slightly more awake xD
So I gotta thank the random ass scam bot for that
my bad 
Ain’t Eris the goddess of Discord and Strife?
man i tried the first one and ive never had worse motion sickness since outer wilds
awful
Discordia is the Roman version of Eris
Of course
bro did not read percy jackson /s
I just need to play Hades 2 again, but I've been lazy XD
and the Roman name for Ouranos is Skype
I’m on the third one I think
I didnt even know Eris was IN Hades 2
unless I missed something
She fucked with you in EA
ooh, she wears tricolors
I don’t think I finished the first hades either
like RX-78
Like the whole 10 clears thing
I'm not good enough at Hades tbh, in the first one I couldn't reliably beat a run, and in the second one I cant beat a single run XD
Damn, nice!
look at weave
unoriginal

yesterdfay i asked if u needed pilgrim potions for q40
we have a paladin and it seems to be ok
we got through adds phase more or less fine
with just the pld and whm
you don't
Although since you'll need more healing might be more sensitive to party comp
Couldn't beat enrage with pld, sge, dnc and pct
but when I swapped from dnc to sam, keeping our ranged strats we instantly got way closer (with a disgusting amount of enpi)
gotta finally clear it now that our picto is back from japan
it's unpleasant to not have them
I'll say that much
My comp is PLD, WHM, DRG, PCT
We’ve just been progging it blind so no real idea of how long left to go or if we’re doing enough dps
the check's not particularly hard
it's also not that long
the don't fall asleep check is real though
not because it's boring
just got a few things to keep your attention on at once
When I’m playing dps do I need to follow the rotation perfectly that’s posted online, the button sequence feel so wierd for some dps rotation
if you care about your damage I would not suggest deviating from the recommended rotation unless you know what you're doing
yea its one of those, "if you gotta ask you should just stick to the rec rotation"
personally if it feels weird, i would try to analyze why the rotations are the way they are so that the math makes sense
because once you ese the math it's just like ohhh and if not then the reasoning behind the old rotation's comfort usually comes down to something like, "built bad habits while levelling"
Rotation are basically fitting hardest hitting skills under buffs
Buff windows are 20 second long so you have 8 gcd space in them with 2.5s recast
Beside the usual keep the basic combo rolling and using your ogcds as they come off cooldown
Although if your ogcds are long enough with charge you can hold them for use under buffs like drk shadowbringer
p4s cleared in my blind group, yippee
And after 2.5 tiers on shield healer, someone else wants to give it a try, so... here I go tanking I guess

do d on tank
DSR on tank is just nonstop tickets to Mickey's Dick Smasher I think
... Okay you kinda get a break on p3-5 I guess
dsr on paladin before we got bulwark:
soul tether can be spicy if you’re playing with brainlets
why did they take it away from us only to give it back
An IQ too high?
only to take it away again in 8.0
moreso punishment for all the casuals who touted warrior as the best tank for so long
I think drk needs another buff, tbn bad
Thoughts?
Tbn should heal for 500 potency on break
Or when it expires
Bitch ass tank cant even heal itself with short mit
TBN should have a bunny dressed as a WHM appear on your head if it falls off without breaking
no other alterations
breaking TBN gives the person doom and they have to be healed to full in 10 seconds or they die
Living Dead forever o7
shinryu unreal is ridiculous
i did a tell and retell and there were so many deaths but we still managed to beat it
i’ve discovered the true endgame
just make tbn break always
8.0 PLD made cover... eh whatever
Nerfed veil
and no buLwark
it may be a closet but it’s MY closet
make tbn apply a hot for the value of the unbroken shield upon wearing off
yoshi p you can hire me
do that and drk will beat pld in which is the better tank lol
ok now do this to your orbiter
oh I should probably put the few DT Role quests I didnt do on my list of stuff to do before every cold
I mean they all unlock the same thing in dyable gear
trying to think if theres anything else I need to put on my list
I already chucked that on the list I just needed to wait for it to be as hard as possible
Roulette wheel is gonna be worse for sure but I know Im skilled enough so itll just be a matter of time
yar
well its been like 2ish months since I played so maybe some refresher ex's wouldnt be a bad idea to knock the rust off
my orbiter is still weirdly misplaced before an update that moved the solids around
but just minorly
whats an orbiter
didn't feel like moving the gravity defying kuakka hung vertically wrong from where there was a globe
Orbiter omen
Warframe uhh, base?
Before you start playing you are in your spaceship
And can decorate it
oic
umad might need a delay, we got peak coming out same day
does anyone know the site where i can find waymarks for ex trials? doomtain in particular
was this one! tyvm!
is this fight savage level difficulty where I need to watch videos and study ahead of time cuz I really want the exquisite drk weapon
advanced? no not rly, I've seen ppl go in completely blind
advanced is akin to extreme, wasn't it?
yeah it's a stepping stone from variant to criterion
Yes but you can heal spam so not really
There’s also no dps check. Like at all.
advanced is like an easy extreme
Easier than the easiest extremes ngl, more like slightly harder dungeon bosses
I agree except for the sword lady that shit was kinda ???
I think I found her harder to grasp than like
Zoraal Ja
But extremes are already easy 🤔
For one of the mechs you can just get hit twice on the same side, then you have three safe spots
just gotta heal up after the vuln
Yeah this is what I did too
good way to cheese it
easier*
sword lady is the only sorta tough one
speaking of extremes
ex7 made me wanna go back and redo the other ones
because i only did them like once or twice and my clears were scuffed
of course you did
Most just duo it
Duo also makes one mech of sword lady a non mechanic
The one where she throws tethers and the the green border players should take it
With 2 its alr the correct pair so it doesnt matter
i wish ex7 was as good as doomtrain was because ex7 is a slog to play
like its not a hard fight but it over stays its welcome
better than zeromus though
is that a bad thing? 
When does ex7's mount usually become buyable with totems?
Waiter my steak is too juicy my lobster too buttery
(woe, tenacity upon ye)
(if you want / need actual substat breakdown I'm happy to explain)
Shoutout to Jbear
I'm still floored that he talked about some tanks being designated MT/OT by default less than a week before the Fanfest keynote
I wonder is this true
Ex7 is harder vs train
Idk.. train felt more tougher
Fun is not a function of difficulty
No devs said this
Whats EX7
and train is much more fun than enuo
Bru use names please
At least, not just difficulty
enuo ex
Oh its Enuo
Enuo would be harder than train
Train is more fun yea
otherwise known as slop: the fight
It didnt feel that way
Enuo sleepge but at the same time its not as bad as Necron
Expected patch is 7.58

Necron was
Which is a while off
to be fair, very low bar to clear

Bar is literally in hell
GC memes still happened so
necron or zeromus
Necron doesn't have fun mechanics and it's incredibly easy to get everyone killed if you start slacking off, which is like... the worst of both worlds
The adds phase in necron was sleepge
Do people mm2 cheese now?
As in force wait there and then
this is why I hate zeromus btw
Skip mm2
wait you can still see the names
example of why you hate zeromus
not meteors
Bro I was watching that
one sec hylic
God I love my chud healers
Zalenia still causes deaths and wipes to bloom 3/4/ef2
oh dont get me wrong i hated meteors too because somehow standing against a rock is an ultimate level mechanic for pf
My blind group has barbie and rube next
barbie best girl
I've heard rube is slop but barbie is... maybe good? Idk, I'll see once I'm in there
The more pressing issue is that someone else in the group wants to take a stab at shield healing, meaning I get to pivot to tanking
barb is fun yeah because unlike rubi it doesnt do the same thing over and over
barbie is the best EW ex by a country mile
golbez and the uh, the one whose name is a massive fuckin spoiler, were also good, but not as good as barbie
Golbez was 2nd best
Hydaelyn, Barb, and Golbez were the EX's I really enjoyed in EW on content
male au ra dark knight who exclusively knows main tank
such a strange breed of player
unsurprisingly pf still can’t do spreads in m11
Strange is not the word I'd use
there are many other applicable words
i do believe strange is one
maybe it's typical for them
1hr 15 mins to get into aether 
0% DH
Ur finished
as opposed to....ultimate unsynced?
Yes, as in gear for that item level so you can meld dh
Checks out
Edgy glam drk 100%
It should removal all rewards but I think for the lols they should allow unsynced ults
ngl now im in post dt, i can see why people said it can take 8 to 10 weeks to get fully geared out
especially for 780 tome stuff
450/450 yea
It's a modern mmo right. Gearing before current content is super fast then extremely slow for current patch
yup, whole way through i could just do daily dutys, sit at 2000, get tome gear, boom straight to next expansion. now. im here for the weekly and daily grind, still a lot of side stuff i need to unlock for weekly quests and such lol
Yea
for tomes yeah, i know i need the raid weapon at 795 eventually, currently using the crafted 770s
Augment them
When is the final stage
end of july
A bis that doesn't matter since it comes out after a tier is finished
And after the ult is too
Ig for the people who might be struggling with the check
A couple more substats might help them
Placebo a clear
I mean you get bis mostly to just say you have it then for any practical use
True
im a min/maxer so if i can get full bis, imma do it
oh i know its tome/savage, im using Balance as my guide
The reason blu isn’t allowed is presumably because they can’t separate clear flags for achievements
The Balance provides high-quality job and raid guides for Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV).
Also indie company
Wait where are you in the msq
post dawntrail now
i move quick
NVM carry on
when i set my mind to a goal, it becomes a fixation and im not stopping till every savage boss is done and i can settle into a decent static
I was going to say there's a real world by the time you finish msq ever cold might be out and that gearing is changing a lot
Maybe it's to much of a hassle? Tho could they just do a brute force work around of making a second version of the ultimate that's exactly the same it just doesn't give rewards
But I was way off lol
ive literally gone from stormblood to post dawntrail in about 3 weeks
340 hours
Holy
evercold i reckon i can probably do in the same time when it drops lol
I thought I kept a brisk pace tho I also did a fair amount of side stuff
Nah you'll finish it in the early access
aka a week per expansion including post expansion, tomorrow ill clear as much of post dawntrail as i can
Don't forget they only launch with base msq
i legit have kept 1 class, stopped for one day to get crafters up to 50 and only played paladin
I will do evercold post patches during early access
He'll yeah
i already know theres gonna be a race to finish evercold as well the second it drops lol
Do people race msq?
Not really, most people don’t rush at all even on the HC end
they do in every game ive ever seen
No realm first achievements like wow has
No real endgame content for the launch either
especially youtubers racing to get ALL EXPANSION CUTSCENES out as fast as possible
racing msq just to do extremes on launch lollmao
ya there isnt anything other than 2 EX trials for a month
You have a few EX to farm but that’s not worth losing sleep and skipping msq over
this doesn’t happen
Also just sucks to get ahead of the curve of players and oops you’re waiting for 3 hours for final trial
well, those need to watch the cutscenes to record them
so they're not setting records either
While I wouldn't consider the story the main reason I'm here I might as well enjoy it while I'm doing it
doesnt mean their not up the second it launches playing as much as they can to finish it all and be the first to upload
being first for many like that with games equals MONEY
there is little rush to finish msq when nothing is timegatsd for 2 weeks and then it’s just the normal raid
lol you think its for those who actually play ff14
the only thing to do is ex trials
cutscene youtubers are for those who like the story but dont want to put in the time to play said game
why they watch it on youtube
I havnt played during a expansion release yet but I assume they organize it to incentives you to take your time with the msq
exp launch has 2 ex trials and uncapped
2 weeks after is normal raid
2 weeks after is savage + crafted i think
there is no reason to rush the story unless you don’t care for it at all
and those players do exist, like me lol, i enjoyed ff14s story but i am at heart a grinder/raider and pvp enjoyer. story is always secondary to me
there really is nothing to do for 2 weeks but the ex trials
Thats fine
Just temper your expectations
For exapc start
Thats all
It dont have a lot to do at launch usually
expac launch is very chill ye
the only thing that can get kinda monka is getting enough materia to pentameld
oh i will, first few weeks from what i can tell will also be rotation practice/ new gearing figure out and do the maths lol since evolved and they mentioned a new gearing system
Overworld update
i dont think they will but im coping
they mentioned something ab materia not transferring when you ilvl sync from highest
ngl thats what many think the new gearing system will be. no materia and something else instead
so since it was mentioned im sure its still there
first few weeks for every mmo ive ever played and ive noticed it about ff14 as well, are always rotation practice and maths on gear to figure out whats most optimal
Make materia something akin to gearset...22 slots which all apply materia stats regardless of sub stat weight in gear
And allow penta in that gearset
i mean the only gear available is uncapped tomes and ex accessories and ex wep
idk what math there is to do besides materia
That way your penta wont be wasted atleast
even that will be mathed and work out whats bis for that current moment lol
there is only 1 set of armor
Main thing is rotation
ya the math is "this one is higher ilvl so i equip it lol"
Stat dont matter much beside gcd
xiv is not wow and it wont become wow in EC
doesnt matter lol, if people can do maths to figure out whats most optimal they will
there is no math besides the materia
the gear progression is
job gear - uncapped - ex acc - ex wep
on exp launch
and uncapped is better than job gear
i dont think maxim is wrong that regardless of how little a gain it is to care that much about the min/max, someone somewhere will be doin it
namely the balance lmao
just wait for balance to come out with it
yup, especially if they know harder content is coming and that tiny bit of an advantage can make the difference between a completion and failure
literally the people im talking about
Also crafted gear drops with raid
yeah but crafted comes out later anyways
soooo
it doesn’t matter
it does if it means the difference between a worlds first on content
just cause it doesnt matter to you, doesnt mean it doesnt to others
does anyone gaf about world first ex trials
yes
especially on exp launch?
for better or worse, expac launch tiers tend to be on the easier end and im thinking that with the addition of evolved mode, they arre going to tune it even lighter in hopes to give people an opportunity to adjust
like light heavyweight was the easiest tier ever in the history of the game
double digit deaths for final floor week 1
i’ve not heard of anyone really caring for an ex wf so maybe i just don’t know but like really who gaf
granted that was mostly due to pictomancer existing but yeah
and unless you got a static that’s also all gonna be skipping story then idk
i think ur really overestimating an exp launch
ok this may be a dumbass question n it has nothing to do with baldo's drama but if you get banned by GMs and your sub runs out, will your ban be gone if you resub after 2 weeks
depends
id assume so
I'm p sure sub time still ticks down during ban?
Well you're inactive as ban warrants
i think it’s just based on time sis free 2 weeks it’ll go away if it was that long
oh wait I see what you mean
i think they mean, "do bans only tick down while actively subbed"
just popped up in my mind at random lol
like i assumed it wouldnt matter but ive seen companies do some bullshit
Ban times are exclusively based on the day of ban. You are unbanned at daily reset of the day listed
It doesn’t use local time or time of ban in any way
right
And bc of that it doesn’t care about your sub status
havent gotten banned but thats good to keep in mind 
And as somebody in the HC scene, zero people care about ex trial world first, firstly because it’s really hard to prove it in any way, the stuff used to log fights aren’t available and they’re not hard enough to have a severe edge, so person 1 says they cleared and person 2 from jp said they cleared first, who was actually first, whoever posted to twitter first? The ego isn’t worth that clown show, and secondly, having PTO for raids are what people tend to do, being unemployed so you can skip msq to do extremes with your group just doesn’t matter to people who are instead yaknow, getting work prepped for the actual tier that they are taking time off for.
So it would be a huge “so what” to actually try and brag about it
All skill basically doesn’t come into play, it’s who dcs in an expansion launch the least and skips cutscenes
launch extremes are usually really easy anyway so
idk
no reason to brag about that shit even if you only cared about the fights
And again, no tracking on dev side for being first, so like
Trust me I’m the goat angle
Farm uncapped tome gear
Get speedkills for 2 week
That's about it for expansion launch content
Leveling is easy 2 week
good to know, thanks for the heads up 😄 also again it matters to some but i can get why you say it doesnt matter to you since savage clears tend to be the most heavily advertised and streamed world firsts for ff14
Materia market is hot though
well because outside of savage and ultimate there's fuck all to stream for this game that'll catch peoples' attention
Msq is one and done
quantum!
Game is boring af to watch tbf
like yeah you might get an audience for a non xiv streamer who's doing xiv msq for the first time, sure
but for established xiv streamers what is there to stream
i think xiv has the worst player to viewer ratio in all of gaming ngl
millions of players but like, 4k viewers
Shit is boring
Bc it's boring to watch
I say even savage and ult wf can be boring
If they dont prog
Seeing 1 mech 20 times isnt fun either
ngl with destiny 2 dead now and that being one of the most heavily watched world first games for a raid. ff14 has a chance to fill that market now but it needs to be done in an entertaining way
Me going to sleep during DSR world prog and waking up to the exact same mechanic they were on 7 hours ago

Game is just not inherently fun to watch
Cant do anything about it
It can be fun to play
But not to watch
the game does not have a ton of variance in higher end content meaning if you watch someone do the same raid 20 times you'll probably see them do the same thing 20 times
maybe with some slight variation e.g. m10s firesnaking vs watersnaking
but for the most part it's very static
which means it gets boring fast
curious, what do yall think needs to change, to make ff14 more entertaining to watch?
because you're watching someone do the exact same shit over and over and over again
It is fine the way it is
we all know what ffxiv players are like
crazy how that one streamer got banned right before umad
it kinda does, for many if a game is fun to watch, it must also be fun to play. ff14 right now is only fun to play and even then its purely known as THE STORY GAME by many
raiding barely gets a look in by many
the game doesn't have to be a super popular streaming title to be successful
It already is printing cash
true, but it does help
you are committing a false dichotomy
Why would it need to cater to stream
Its a popular game thats played, not really watched (unless its the ult races)
ok i can tell im asking the wrong people cause anything i try to say to help or ask a question about what yall think could be done to help its stream numbers/retention for worlds first is going nowhere
they would have to drastically change the game to appeal to people that don’t play the game
I don't think the game needs to be changed to attract more viewers
and who matters more
I think it's fine being a game that is fun to play
the people paying to play the game or the people watching someone else play it
their already changing the game to make it more streamlined for gearing and rotations. change is coming whether people want it or not
Yeah but its not for stream
the game needs those changes in order to not collapse under its own decaying weight
what
what you want involves a much more fundamental change for the entire game
Its for accessibility
those changes are for actual Players
it's not to advertise the game to more audiences
Why is this guy talking like a anime villian
not people who watch streams
and it would make it not ff14
and it's not to make it more attractive to stream
Idk why are you so hellbent on it to be some super streambable game
this is like asking, "What does Persona need to change in P6 to be more entertaining to stream?"
ok i can tell my point has been missed. my point is. if they can streamline and change the game, gameplay wise. they can also change fights to make them more entertaining both to watch and play
These changes are to make up for Dawntrails less then positive reception, which although are GREAT changes for the playerbase, really dont effect stream entertainment
and i dont get why your so hellbent on making sure its not
PEOPLE STREAM THE GAME.
clearly they do not feel that making the game more entertaining to stream is a priority
they would need to make it not ffxiv
i mean, ultimate world first races are sort of their "more entertaining to watch" moments no?
savage to a lesser extent
I mean knowing se it wont happen so ..you're simply setting yourself up for disappointment
why would they make changes specifically for streams though
they do make fights that are entertaining to play
the only thing thats done are drops and ult races LOL
reality is that most if not all mmos are boring as shit to watch on stream 
anyone who says otherwise is coping
they only do drops like once an expansion too
if the content is fun to do, which it is, then that's all that matters
the genre is just Like That
Nothing
And for me personally..gameplay matters more than is it fun to watch
Like, how could you possibly make farming any form of content entertaining
no, we must add subway surfer interactive minigames to streams
besides the personality whos playing
low key im surprised they havent done something like this already on twitch
I couldn't care anyless about its streamability
this + exp launch convo shows you have an entirely different idea of what ffxiv is/should be vs what it is
you do realize streams and youtube videos=advertisement for the game. so making it fun to watch brings in more people therefore more players to enjoy the game which then equals more money for square. IM LITERALLY ONLY OFFERING POSITIVE STUFF FOR THE GAME. meanwhile yall are shitting on the ideas
farming would be boring as shit to watch, and thats a lot of what most ffxiv content is about
honestly who doesn’t know about ffxiv that would play it atp
if the changes come at the expense of the game we already like why would we want to change things
Mmos just don't translate well to watchablility heck I'd argue xiv is already arguably one of the more fun mmos to watch, you ever watch wow content it's miserable.
yes thanks for the explanation of basic economics as you can doubtless tell everyone you are talking to is a fucking moron and does not grasp these concepts
I will be real .
People wont join to play this game from watching wf
yeah, as long as the game has a 300+ hour barrier between "character creation" and "jumping into the cool content people stream"
that will be a much bigger issue
if ffxiv is suffering from not getting enough new players the problem isnt watchability its the 400 hour msq lol
That thing makes 0 sense if you dont have an iota of what is happening
We get minor bumps whenever a streamer goes through the story but beyond that there isn’t really any way for this game to retain viewers outside of those initial story reactions
thats an entirely seperate issue and again does need to be changed/ the skips reduced in price by a good bit
If anything the game needs to work on shit thats not high end which they will..or they say
Will see how it actually goes about
Eh, I dont know why ffxiv story being long is an issue
maybe having raids locked behind those hours, sure
it isnt an issue it just limits how many ppl will be willing to try/commit to the game
but like, its 10+ years of story lol
Yeah, it's mostly the fact that it's a barrier to entry into that content
ffxiv is not solving the story wall in any way in either EC or DT so i don’t see anything happening
To put it another way, I think the vast majority of xiv stream viewers are already players
A real question I wanna ask is how to properly address the story wall
Like easily 95% or more
ngl ive told many of my friends that to get to endgame they have to first grind 300 to 400 hours. all of them said NOPE and would prefer to buy the skip. also the story being 300 to 400 hours is why many dont care about the endgame/pvp of this game and only see it as the story game and nothing else
People see streamers doing cool raids and think "oh cool I can jump in and do this cool looking raid" but then they find out that the cool looking raid is locked behind hundreds of hours of story
and then they quit then and there
it absolutely has a dampening effect
Personally i'm okay if XIV remains boring to watch on stream
it doesn't need to be exciting
it's a game that you'd rather play than watch
which is good
they really ought to offer some level of alternate entry to players; at least in EC they will be addressing one of the other glaring issues, which is job rotations all universally sucking ass before 70
which doesn’t seem to an an issue they’re solving
Yeah it's basically impossible to sell the MMO aspect of xiv which is why I tell people XIV is a JRPG that unlocks MMO elements upon completion
EC and DT story still rely on previous expansions
I remember when Yoshi said "Yeah it's an MMO but it's also a Final Fantasy"
Story watchers become emotional vampires and jump from one streamer to the next while their own audiences pull back to avoid spoiling themselves if they do catch interest. High end content in this particular gaming genre doesn’t make for good streaming content unfortunately because it is by nature repetitive.
If there were a solution, you’d think someone would have found it by now
agreed, also this is why many mmos offer boosted accounts so people who only want to grind endgame can do so. ff14s being blocked by a mandatory 300 hour grind of a story is literally what causes the vast majority of new players to quit. hell i only got through it in the time i did by skipping LITERALLY EVERY TEXT CUTSCENE
Yeah, thats a reason I dont really watch high end content, since I might plan to do it myself like ultimates
This too, if a new player watches an msq streamer and thinks, "wow this is cool I think I'll start playing today" they are incentived to stop watching said streamer
I also just think story boosts hurts endgame too, since it puts people who have no idea how to properly play the game boost all the way to current content
I've had a lot of friends who burned out on this game specifically because the jobs are all boring before 70 and they don't wanna go through a hundred or so hours of shit just to get to the part where the content starts getting fun
unfortunately I don't think EC will fix the whole issue, because even if jobs are fun, the content will still suck
You're still storylocked
Wasn't there someone who story and job skipped like 300 bucks worth and then did absolutely dogshit 40% uptime and got mad that the game "never taught them how to play"
but it's a step in the right direction
I swear that happened here
that has happened multiple times
And those who don't
having a level 100 kit in crystal tower will never solve the problem of CT being incredibly boring
Atleast at level 50 every job will have a fucntionung rotation
Its really rng if you get either of em
True
Is there really even a solution to ffxiv storywall issues that dont make more problems then itll solve

they could make the godless realms saga not the godless realms saga
Giga solar copium take : evolved kit gives them the opportunity to rebalance the numbers of old content making them at least somewhat more fun by making them do mechanics instead of skipping 60% of the fights
and make it not require endwalker knowledge
but they aren’t
sooooooo idk what they’re thinking
Story is what devs feel is main point of the game so they want you to see it all...now if you dont care for then skip it is
I dont see an issue with a raid being connected to lore though
I do feel they can offer a one time skip but like
starting from scratch with zero pre-existing lore is pretty much impossible
yes, its called reduce the prices of the skips/massively reduce the amount of quests involved in the story, especially certain cutscenes stopping, to lead to me clicking on someONE RIGHT NEXT TO THE NPC WHOS CUTSCENE JUST FINISHED to then enter another cutscene. JUST MERGE THEM TOGETHER
Yea lol
and would suck
I dunno if se will ever do it
Every plot point will need some connection to what we know
Yeah iirc last time I checked less than 20% actually clear a current savage tier and it's still under 40% for "those who try"
if they wanted to solve the issue they wouldn’t have the solstice be the plot point
Agree
im hosting a LM for zelenia and im honestly surprised people stay through these, like 13 runs over two parties and no drop
Also game isnt loot grind like wow where item can have exponential effect on your dps
thats so much work for so little pay lol
Like it's just a statistical fact that "what the game is" to the majority of the player base is not savage/ultimate raiding
its afking limsa, THATS the content people need
So what content you do matter more
So true bestie
Which leads to most content being boring as sin
I personally find every stream of this game boring af
I think advanced criterion was like the perfect difficulty for the casual/midcore players
Same
I've always been okay with XIV being a casual game
Hard enough to die, not hard enough to actually fail
Make ultimate mount drops
I think they need to completely overhaul ex

The ex trials need to be structured different
they are
they said enuo was the last trial like it
99 totems for a pity mount in 6 months is so fucking cringe
Ultimate should drop mounts I agree
they said totems are changing too
AGREED
Totem is going away
they just didn’t do it for enuo
Most likely
They’ve implied that current ex is the last extreme as we know them
they’re changing trials for EC
WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT LIKE TWO PATCHED TO GET MY EXPANSION EX MOUNT

I want my golden wings, damnit
Something is changing with their structure but we have to wait until Berlin
My other giga supreme neutron star copium take for EC : the in-between difficulty of normal to savage is going to be the content casuals have been begging for where it might actually take them an entire week to clear
Like could a proper savage static clear that shit in one night yeah probably
But I think for msq Andy it's going to be that like, one fight per night maybe two nights for the later floors sweet spot
Gotta see how they do it
i think i trust my own skills enough that i could clear in two days
And also what will it give
but that requires me actually doing content
I can’t see the next difficulty being that hard
If it dont give shit then its doa
i dont have the hunger 
Like criterion was in ew
ive just realized. adding evercold for a new player is going to increase their time to endgame by another 100 hours and any new player who just wants to check out the next expansion, isnt going to get to without also purchasing the skips
People will skip and just do savage then
Msq isnt 100 hours
Its like 30-40
At most
im imagining it being a step up from extreme
I wonder what the new battle content they're doing is
you completely missed my point
i think advanced is a good preview for what the difficulty will be
inb4 it's mythic dungeons
Evolved will fix that
They are condensing it
you’re never gonna believe this
Im not gonna lie I checked out everything except the evolved stuff LOL
Is it that game changing
See it
I mean I wouldn't complain if there was a more reasonable fast track to endgame for people who just want to savage but I really don't want this game to end up like say destiny 2
Yourself
Its on youtube
you mean dead? thats gonna happen one year lol
Then wait for 8.0
I was more specifically referring to vaulted content but that tl
they explicitly stated that their goal when designing the evolved modes was to stay as close to 16 buttons, including role actions, as possible
Hello I have a silly question
how is P4S these days unsynced? I wanted the sage weapon from it 
Bro 😭 I know how to find the evolved shit, I just havent checked it out yet
Side note but I sorta wish they made it like 20-22 buttons I feel that's a good range
dies before act 2
i mean, they could revamp a lot of it. for example, why am i having to click on another npc who was involved in the previous cutscene. JUST TO ENTER ANOTHER CUTSCENE. just merge the two
it literally could be streamlined
i imagine it's in preparation for future expansions when the kits will get to that size tbh
Tho I also think 3 hot bars is a fair amount
in a party thats awake
Guess we'll see
very important note to add
Some people genuinely expects spoon feed..can never be sure
mind you I know shit about savage so idk how hard that is actually
Yea easy fight
you soak 1 tower while running either east/west to north/south or vice versa, fight over
then comes the hard part finding people who are willing to help me but that’s good to know already!! I’ll probably still look up mechs tho..just in case
Hey why are you laughing 
Now that I finally got morbol, Imma try to get an ult clear before my fall semester
you can do it
UWU looks easy on paper but..
How much time of that is waiting for pf to fill
tbh i wasnt counting waiting time xd bc i was working on papers
LOL
That would be me LMAO
please join my pf im about to ruin your day but you don’t know it yet
Im so sad I didnt complete this savage tier, since doing other ults while umad is coming is gonna be almosy impossible
^ yea same
i will be progging savage as others do UMAD i think
or maybe i will work on DD
lowkey a lot i want to do
Bro I’m still mortified by current high end but I hope the additional difficulty in EC can ease me into it better 
My motivation to clear tier dropped with reclears
i want to do OC but i dont know what i should be doing there and it feels like it would be easy to waste my own time if i dont use a guide, cant find a comprehensive one anywhere
Should have skipped those and just progged
Oc is pretty straightforward
The raid itself is easier to access now too
Although I have no idea where exactly that difficulty is I don’t think they explained that yet
Is it that bad 
is my goal to cap phantoms? it just feels like aimless FATES and encounters with nothing im actually working towards
Yes
Thats just how field ops work LOL
Pjob mastery adds like 1.5% damage per mastery
I could help with m12 if you help get me that last m11 kill I need purrhaps
You mostly grind relic, gear that only caters to that region (mostly) and getting relics
how cooked do u think we are
I'm probably marginally better than some of PF maybe
I have everything at max in OC, I just need more FT reclears to get full +2
if this party gets nowhere in like 30 mins then sure ig
i already recleared tho
if u care abt loot shit
Ftb gear will also be not needed for north horn gear progression
So once that comes ftb wont be ran as much
Most likely
i do not mean to be a downer but savage will have significantly less players once UMAD is out
I did m10 after taking 3 months hiatus
the only pf that will be slightly alive is m12s
Its pretty easy
and thats slightly
I dunno why it took me 150 pulls to clear that
your melee was a monkey
thats why
do yall think this wins
ya maybe its a farm FRU bis and do a solo DD season
can always come back and do DMU in EC
relic soon!
i could technically join kefka parties but i think they'd shoot me for not having savage weapon lol
idk about soon isnt it pt far off
Only time I ever got tome wep was in abyssos
Skipped it since then
You either get savage or you sport a relic
No in between
you're trying to prog m10s in week 60 million are you surprised
i unironically do reclears for the love of the game atp
Is the tldr for p4s unsync
me: posts lf static as a pure healer
someone: do you play shield healer?
... I wish I did
Time to learn sch
maybe they avoid them because they're a prick
It takes time to fill at this point
Tobi when are we getting your tier clear tomorrow
Prog is ass to do late in a tier
I'm doing rep2 and it sucks
we can't even clear p1
Has Tobi sub ran out yet
any reqs or just practice
Since he’s logged on I’m guessing no
my bf is spawning into my house tmr so its unlikely ill be online at all

What’s more important, relationships or raid?
(If you knew the correct answer you’d have cleared 2 months ago)
he can help me clear 
listen
u dont understand
every time im like okay time to sit down and prog this shit
i get my ass beat by either my studies or family stuff

checked the pf leads logs
oof
Dark knight mains using their own barrier right before I use mine
Study hard
Their TBN pop is more important than yours I'm ngl
Tbn?
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The Blackest Night, their short mit
Oh
I found out why people are leaving
dudes trying to c41 and hasnt stepped foot into the fight im fucking crying
wait.
... yeah let's go with that






