Final Fantasy XIV

[golden garnet]

make it too challenging and people dont have a curve to get into raids

[rancid iron]

-implying EXs aren't raids

[sterile moss]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrt1AT1x/

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1219092747613372436/1451450590998696067/image.png?ex=69463833&is=6944e6b3&hm=a89fe624eb57adcd5141734d7c23863e97a2f73c7ce960d60b22cc21befacde1&

[golden garnet]

theyre the entry level

a stepping stone into real content

i never said thyere not raids, i said that

you make the ex primals genuinely difficult and now the only 8 man content casual players have is normal raids

how do you go form that to savage prog with no experience?

id like savage versions of primals, sure, but not if it means losing the entry level. only in addition to

but we all know how stretched se is wiht ff14 as it is

so ill take a fun but not dififcult ex primal

at least until squaree starts putting th emoney ff14 earns back into it

[woven oasis]

EX isn't very good at being a "stepping stone" into savage tbh

there needs to be another form of content

in-between them

[golden garnet]

i mean you dont get much more challenging than ex wihtout it just being savage level

id say its a perfect stepping stone

[woven oasis]

you can clear EX on patch with like 20 deaths

There usually are no body checks, and DPS check is non-existent

[golden garnet]

you can clear the first 2 turns of many savage tiers in justr a s long

so what would be the stop gap between somnething like doomtrain and the first turn of a tier?

[woven oasis]

savage "light"

[golden garnet]

so ex

[woven oasis]

same savage, but maybe some of the mechs are with markers, dps check is easier, and some mechs are easier in general

but not to the braindead levels of EX

[sterile moss]

You mean like savage 4 man content?

[golden garnet]

so ex

[sterile moss]

Like...ASS?

That's the mid point you want

[woven oasis]

no, criterion is its own content

[sterile moss]

Its higher then extreme

But is savage level of mechanics and positioning requirements

[woven oasis]

criterion savage is actually MORE difficult than savage raids, and i'd say even ultimate

[golden garnet]

the 4 man content is good, but its not the same as 8 man content. i feel like its less of a steeping stone into savage and more of a side quest to savage

[fierce snow]

One day ill do criterion

[golden garnet]

same. too many loot brained people just dismiss it instantly

[woven oasis]

rewards are important

[golden garnet]

hard to get a group thats decent and not like "well my numbers dont go up so theres no point playing the game"

[woven oasis]

there is no reason to do content more than once if there are no good rewards

[golden garnet]

idcx about doing ti more thna once. i care about doing it once

[fierce snow]

No rewards means i dont push ppl to do it

Hence why i never formed a group

Its always more so

Hey wanna do this? No? Ok

Or i dont even ask if they dont want to play ff

Or busy as fk

Mostly the last two cause most ppl i would ask arent trying to play ffxiv too much

Or busy

[golden garnet]

one day poeple will rememebr that they play games to have fun, and the digging th etunnel is the reason you play, not reahcing the diamonds

but that days not today

[fierce snow]

I need the reward to boost motivation

Goal at the end etc

[golden garnet]

meanwhile i realise that the goal is in the doing

[sterile moss]

The content difficulties are vertical in this game
Baseline is 4man content i.e story dungeons
Slightly above that is 24 man's
Above that is normal raids/story
Criterion
Above that is neir 24mans
Potd/and releated content just cuz of the sheer rng
Extremes
Savage criterion
Savage raids
Ultimates

[golden garnet]

journey before destinaiton etc

[woven oasis]

If you had a dream job, would you do it for free?

[fierce snow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/279400182624550912/967126780110573588/unknown.png?ex=69463f40&is=6944edc0&hm=aafcbe72c335212319367389c455e0d42636a1671064bc4272dcbeb14277f99b&

I did this for a title

Thats it

Just a title

[woven oasis]

When ppl put effort and time into something, they need to get something out of it

[golden garnet]

fun

thats the something

its a game, not a job

[woven oasis]

for you fun is enough

for someone it isn't

[golden garnet]

one day yall will realise it too

[woven oasis]

not everyone is the same

[golden garnet]

why did you start playing the game to begin with?

[woven oasis]

because i like FF

[golden garnet]

was it to get betetr loot?

exactly

[woven oasis]

i do want to get better loot

[golden garnet]

thats why youre playing. the loot is the carrot on the stick that obfuscates it

[golden garnet]

i went to visit that guy

what a hero

i assume theyre supposed to be the bst mobs

[fierce snow]

Because u get the reward of the credits screen from ff games

[pale elm]

That’s what I though too

[fierce snow]

[rancid iron]

https://fixupx.com/FeristalJ/status/2001865216439857620

Feristal J (@FeristalJ)

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FixupX · Dec 19, 2025, 4:00 AM

The thing with rewards in XIV is

We can have it both ways

Good rewards AND a good time

So when the rewards are shit its objectively inferior

and that's just fact

Because of one simple thing: time why go through the effort of learning the fight(s), prepping food, materia and then the biggest hurdle finding a group you can stick with long term

Even just one of those things is a colossal fucking pain so if there's no incentive beyond "do it for fun XDD" there's no real point for the majority of people

[golden garnet]

im just saying people putitng so much stock in the rewards and ignoring the content that dpoesnt number go up are just goign to get bored of number go up,. or just forget theyre supposed to be having fun to begin with

like if you want to spreadsheet then there are far better games for that

[crimson niche]

i mean

even if the content has reward

i still dont wanna do it if its not my type of content

[fierce snow]

As a funny sid bit

I got my friend into savage for one reason

A dye able coat

https://tenor.com/view/dark-souls-2-faraam-knight-dark-souls-2-faraam-knight-faraam-armor-faraam-knight-fight-gif-13381825237128833924

He needed it for his faraam cosplay

[crimson niche]

anyway

did the lv 1. lived

[golden garnet]

yeah thats fine, i mean more people that ignore content that they would otherwise like purely cause they dont get gear upgrades or something

[crimson niche]

i dont even care for

gear upgrade most of the time

[golden garnet]

same. in ff i just figure out my bis, follow that map and when its done its done idc

im there to play, not to get 3s of dopamine

[crimson niche]

i do savage purely because of friend

now that i didnt join stal for savage this time

because of health issue , idk if i will care about doing it

[golden garnet]

i enjoy the content, but yeah also to me it's to hang out wiht friends and do somethign challenging together

[fierce snow]

I just get bis on few jobs so i can play with friends

[golden garnet]

same reasons i play arc raiders, or lethal, or phasmo or w/e

just to have fun

[fierce snow]

hope it doesnt get worse

[sterile moss]

Yes its still around

Enjoy this meme freshly created today

[crimson niche]

[nocturne frost]

never really got people who'd say that gear rewards from criterion would somehow fix the thing(maybe it'd help a bit dunno). gearing overall is very boring and I hope they try to come up with something more exciting.

[sterile moss]

We shud downgrade to a single ring slot

[rancid iron]

They can't change gear not without copy pasting the gear idea from the exploration zones

[sterile moss]

Obviously 2 rings is to much effort for se

Cant have you wear 2 savage rings or 2 tome rings

That would be unbalanced

[golden garnet]

the pass is Carbonara if youre still waiting

[sterile moss]

Insert SpongeBob meme here

[golden garnet]

not a lot is up, but some things are

[rancid iron]

Another thing holding XIV back "bAlANcE"

[sterile moss]

Blu was a mistake and so will be beast master

[rancid iron]

Indeed

[sterile moss]

Too much effort to give them content

Same with housing

And free companies

And subs

Airships

Why all these half baked ideas?

[rancid iron]

Not even a hard fix either just lock the party out if there's even a single limited job

[golden garnet]

they gave airships content in the past and it fell on its ass

[nocturne frost]

grand company seals

[golden garnet]

but in all fairness diadem sucked ass

[sterile moss]

Why does my friends list have to refresh when I want to bulk clear friends who quit

Why doesnt it show me last login date

[nocturne frost]

why pvp team menu is so much better than friends list.

[rancid iron]

^ it was actually related to Diadem but because diadem was such garbage but airships weren't hated they kept them in and changed diadem

[sterile moss]

Grand company trusts another abandoned half baked content

[golden garnet]

you used to have to have a company airship to go

then eventually they dropepd that

[sterile moss]

Mentor is half baked as well can we just get rid of it as well

[rancid iron]

Mentor sysem perfeclty fine its the rewards that need to be banished to the ether

Ironic considering what I was saying earlier

[sterile moss]

Mentor has no real checks and balances on how you act in the group channel

It doesnt require any effort to just camp in it all day

Using a slot when someone who wants to help cant get in

The roulette itself is ass, the rewards to little for the amount of bull that's in it

Yes I want to do rathalos ex and striking tree extreme

Thank you mentor roulette

[rancid iron]

You're a mentor you're supposed to be able to do that content and help sprouts learn it

West doesn't raw dog EXs but JP does

[sterile moss]

Jp actually use raid finder the correct way instead of dog piling public pf

[rancid iron]

Indeed and they actually make use of the housing districts as intended

Instead of west where its empty and uncanny

cuz there's no one around

[sterile moss]

Afk at fc/private house

Afk in limsa main aeth

[rancid iron]

That too

But I didn't count it for obvious reasons

[sterile moss]

Dont get me wrong, I love 14, ive been playing it since 1.0
But it has a lot of problems and half thought out ideas that were implemented they still havent fully addressed
Trusts are great, sadly it came at the cost of grand company trust first and that came at a cost of limiting how much grand company could evolve. We still dont have max ranks shown on its own tab

[crimson niche]

Trust isnt great for mmo imo

Multiplayer game but implement solo play

Its good but its not

[rancid iron]

It will be when they allow CT on trusts

[crimson niche]

Like i understand ppl get nervous

[sterile moss]

Because they keep trying to allow more and more casual players reach endgame

[crimson niche]

But its a mmo

[sterile moss]

Remember when you could fail a duty cuz ur gear wasnt up to snuff?

[crimson niche]

Yoy gonna get use to it eventually

[rancid iron]

Its more then that they treat XIV as a single player FF first

[sterile moss]

Last one was in storm blood right out the gate

Now they have an easy mode

[crimson niche]

It all begin with the vault

[sterile moss]

Better get used to rahbaun and Pippin talking about that mech and how badass it is and the amount of guards around it

As the nearby hornet wrecks your chocobo for the billionth time

Why are there no I-level restrictions on dungeons that matter yet? Or roulette
We only just got them on alliance cuz how many kept cheesing it to only do CT

A lv 90 character should not have 80 gear

[crimson niche]

i just dont like ff14 system in general

maybe im too used to gw2 freedom

but gw2 "get 1 gear and you good" also not that fun

[sterile moss]

Speaking of, why do we only get some gear pieces in msq if its designed to fix that issue? Why are selective pieces side quests only? What do u Mean my lv 55 gloves are from this side quest back in western highlands that isnt even apart of aether currents?

Im already in hinterland

[crimson niche]

i think only shadowbringer expansion

[sterile moss]

This is another half baked idea they needed to fix

[crimson niche]

the gear start to get better in msq

but not til the 50% of the msq

because the gear is still shittier than previous raid gear

[sterile moss]

That's just how they do scaling in general

Thats a different issue altogether

[crimson niche]

yea im pretty sure

qitana ravel is where you get 1st gear upgrade

its so bad LMAO

[sterile moss]

It is, for that expansion

The real problem with shadowbringers was

How armor scaled

Tanks melt in holminster

[crimson niche]

i remember in shadowbringer

[sterile moss]

Even with 1 pack pulls

[crimson niche]

the mob is so fking tanky

its unreal

[fierce snow]

I love holominster

[sterile moss]

There was one dungeon in storm blood that also gave tanks wearing raid gear a huge kick in the face

Its the one in the plains with a fucking "know ur mechanics" boss

That does "no damage"

[crimson niche]

the mob there

[sterile moss]

Yup

[crimson niche]

is fking stupid

[sterile moss]

Bardams was a step in the right direction to force common raid mechanics into the brains of the lowest denominator

[fierce snow]

Also a good time

I love these dungeons

[sterile moss]

But they panicked and shifted back

[fierce snow]

Fun to tank and heal

Except now im a dps main i guess so

Uhh

Unga bunga

Me bonk

[sterile moss]

Nier raid should have been another step up to get the lowest denominator into a better mechanics check

[fierce snow]

Bardams no bonk

[sterile moss]

But they scaled it back a lot

[fierce snow]

https://tenor.com/view/puerta-gif-15603345484423826267

[crimson niche]

they so afraid

of alliance raid

after heavensward alliance raid

[sterile moss]

Thundergod says hellow

Now its thunder who?

[crimson niche]

thundergod is the only one

that wipe me

for 2 hrs straight

and voted abandon

[sterile moss]

Things r so watered down now its almost pure water and there's no grit no dirt no emotion

[nocturne frost]

I was doing weeping city day one and ran out of 2h instance timer

[sterile moss]

No desire to get better

I can play any class to a high blu, low purple without even consulting balance. I don't have to be in the most optimal raid gear, the best melds

I can die 6 times a fight and the party can still clear

[crimson niche]

its funny

im not that hype about new raid tier at all

[sterile moss]

I like doom train cuz nostalgia

[fierce snow]

Void ark and osma for me

[sterile moss]

Ill forget half these bosses within 3months of clearing them

[fierce snow]

Chcullain or however its spelt

[sterile moss]

But I can tell you, I still remember all of Alexander teir

[fierce snow]

It was the allaince raid decider

So many wipes on it

[sterile moss]

I still know all their mechs and gimmicks

I cant remember anything from eden teir

[fierce snow]

Thundergod wasnt as bad compared to me

[crimson niche]

i remember most of stormsblood raid

not alexander

[fierce snow]

Hw ones were rough

[crimson niche]

i afked

[fierce snow]

A9 also so many wipes

[crimson niche]

the whole shadowbringer raid

[rancid iron]

I miss weeping city

[sterile moss]

I could not do any of Gaia time stops anymore

[crimson niche]

you know why i afked the most shadowbringer?

[sterile moss]

I still vaguely remember my spot in lions

[crimson niche]

it was pso2 time

and then ngs happen

back to ffxiv

[rancid iron]

Ew NGS

[crimson niche]

nah

shadowbringer

it was still base pso2

[rancid iron]

OH I see

I didn't see the play time

Unless you actually played 3.5k hours of NGS

To which I would have to ask

[crimson niche]

i think

i played like 100hr of ngs

[rancid iron]

Why do you hate yourself

[crimson niche]

i really tried

[rancid iron]

Dude fuck NGS I'm still pissed they killed classic for that

They literally shoved classic out to NA finally and then speedran like a decades worth of content in a single year or some shit and then killed it once and for all for NGS

[sterile moss]

Ultimates are probs the last real difficult content of the game, and I tapped out at tea because the amount of effort to learn it burnt my entire static out that doing regular savage was more preferable, some have cleared others afterwards, but that was the real last time I felt like my job had its own issues in a fight [I was dragoon at the time]

[crimson niche]

TEA took me 6 months in a static

[sterile moss]

Bout how long mine did as well to clear

[rancid iron]

Jesus if they thought TEA was rough they would've started their villain arc on TOP

[crimson niche]

and then i join another static after not clearing

[sterile moss]

We got 2 clears then dropped

[crimson niche]

and they fresh to clear

in 7 days

[sterile moss]

Tea is also when multiple plug-ins started really killing the learning curve

God forbid nobody have melon in ucob

Or is it uwu

[crimson niche]

thats all i have for ulti weapon

i didnt do fru because of health issue

[woven oasis]

damn i really need to clear uwu at some point

my favorite glow probably

at least in color choice

[sterile moss]

Automatic discord call outs, and "weak auras" saying exactly where to stand made it so that a majority can clear if all they do is pay attention

[rancid iron]

"That's all I have" they fucking say as they're almost full

[sterile moss]

Theres even bots out there that can move u correctly

So all u do is push ur rotation

[crimson niche]

nah i didnt get all the weapon

some ultimate i just clear a few and call it

its way too tiring

out of all ulti

i hate uwu the most

because all the old ultimate im late to the party

the dps check is way too easy and skipping phases

[rancid iron]

The curse of potency buffing

It retroactively affects older content

and the only fix for it is to have the ultimates only have you use the buttons from that expansion with their potencies in tact at release

and we all know that's a good idea so it won't be implemented

[golden garnet]

and suddenly nobody will do ultimates

cause they can tplay the class they main, only trhe class their unc mained 10 years ago

[rancid iron]

Welp guess they're skipping phases then

[sterile moss]

Pct in uwu is a huge dps skip

So is dancer

I forget which is was but the changes go either arms length or silence changed how you react to a certain mechanic making it easier since ull have more then just 1 option or it cooldown faster

I cant remember which one it was

Ah right from storm blood it was 60s cooldown

Shadowbringers turned it into a 2 minute

[golden garnet]

i think the solution to this stuff is them doing unreal scaling on ultimates, but they wont do that cause its such a niece content tobegin with

[sterile moss]

Unreal ultimate weapon ultimate

[crimson niche]

im saving totem

for new job weapon for old ulti

[sterile moss]

Better get 20 to be sure

[golden garnet]

rememebr when they promised thta and then added it to 1 fight

[crimson niche]

since when they add to 1 fight

which one

[golden garnet]

pct and vpr to top

that wa sin 7.0 or 7.1

[crimson niche]

i dont even remember

[golden garnet]

and i thought "yeahg sick ok ill gte a dsr viper weapon next patch then right?"

[crimson niche]

is top 6.0 fight?

i dont remember anymore

[golden garnet]

yeah top was in ew

[rancid iron]

first time?

[golden garnet]

nah, im still waiting on fc summoned primals

surely now ct is done it'll be next

[rancid iron]

Nope you get void ark instead and fall asleep cuz its boring as shit

[golden garnet]

void ark was hype tho

back on old scaling the fights were interesting, and all the hype leading up to its announcement wiht the ark showing up in chruning mists and sea of clouds was fun

i wish theyd do more teasing shit like that again

[rancid iron]

Was it really tho? Cuz all I heard was people bashed it cuz it was boring a distinct downgrade from WoD

[nocturne frost]

yeah void ark wasn't that well received. basically only the 3rd fight was liked.

also 3.1 was rough time in general.

I had fun tho as I was just properly getting into basic endgame weekly tome loop and unlocking tons of old content. Also leveling other jobs took way longer back then so had hands full.

[golden garnet]

i liked it

my firends liked it

mmo gamers hate everything, especially if its current content

but yeah hw was bottom of the barrel expansion other than its msq

[rancid iron]

Say that to shadowbringers

[golden garnet]

nah shb wasnt as bad as hw

[rancid iron]

Exactly it wasn't hated on current

[crimson niche]

i think

ff ddos again

[woven oasis]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-rock-rock-and-roll-head-bang-rock-star-gif-15812025

[woven oasis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-xJV9aHzIw

[reef flame]

they did a video reviewing soken

[pale elm]

Yeee

[fierce snow]

is aether still the home of pf?

nvm

[grizzled nova]

https://fixupx.com/i/status/2002325720891273299

ナットウ (comms wip) (@NatNatXIV)

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FixupX · Dec 20, 2025, 10:30 AM

[idle wren]

I almost didn't recognize that was the pagos top dyed black

[sterile moss]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/519373789339844620/1452067184749842502/image.png?ex=69487672&is=694724f2&hm=2bf0b2008adb4a207b49e7f04cc539de48302207cb4442cfe435c4a7f71e3e8d&

[woven oasis]

[viscid pike]

[crimson niche]

[fast cedar]

Thats fake

[tranquil nexus]

https://i.imgur.com/cmRrymX.png

[tranquil nexus]

[fickle talon]

Tell me abt it. I lost another ex clear

[tranquil nexus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/100463940835762176/1452460550998196328/G8ihofraYAANLKC.png?ex=6949e4cc&is=6948934c&hm=7e79a73829adee6c5b2bff70eb9ba57ddc40cc0b82005075346a56420e909f71&

[orchid rapids]

I won the m9 music roll with a 69

holy moly

[woven oasis]

NICE

[pale elm]

But not 67

[pale elm]

https://tenor.com/view/bonk-nasus-bysanek-lol-league-of-legends-gif-11399205024908901612

[wind jackal]

https://hard-drive.net/santa-accidentally-schedules-final-fantasy-xiv-raid-for-christmas-eve/

[fierce snow]

i realize this as i craft

this is the wvr wep

[crimson niche]

ddos again

[worldly swan]

the wf raid is doomed for NA

They are just gonna DDoS the hell out of NA

[idle wren]

If DDoS has an outsized impact on RWF I would actually laugh my ass off

[fierce snow]

https://x.com/RSiTrolledU/status/2003361654667722844/photo/1

iTrolledU (@RSiTrolledU)

Current data so far. I would recommend if you are using ExitLag to switch to Los Angeles so we can get more data points. There are confirmed DCs on San Jose which many use(which I actually had reports of before this form from talking to people).

X · Dec 23, 2025, 7:06 AM

[fierce snow]

https://x.com/king_jeffo/status/2003550526764687829

King Jeffo (@king_jeffo)

I hate getting jebaited by the strategy board

X · Dec 23, 2025, 7:37 PM

[lunar citrus]

OH

my friend sent me this LOL

[fierce snow]

dw

this is recent post

like

7min ago

its funny with caption too

[woven oasis]

dead game

[sterile moss]

Play tank instead

[woven oasis]

i don't have any on this character

[sterile moss]

If you can travel to aether ill be free in an hour if u wanna catch a tank

[woven oasis]

i'm on EU, so i can't 😄

but thanks for offer

[rancid iron]

It'll be fine tanking's brain dead anyway

[woven oasis]

i am a tank main

[rancid iron]

Oh good then you don't need me to explain

:v

[sterile moss]

If anyone is NA my offer is valid for anyone who needs it. Just ping me

[woven oasis]

finally, the penetration strat

[earnest zealot]

Massive

https://board.wtfdig.info/

[woven oasis]

At this point just use raidplan imo

Also why did they make the codes that massive? They literally don't fit in the pf description window

[worldly swan]

my first guess is... they use RDB's for these systems... so they have to build a unique ID that is "scalable" with their infrastructure plus has some encryption to avoid threats

[woven oasis]

[worldly swan]

I work with those databases on a daily basis... there's a lot of "good practices" that you have to follow on the corporate world

[reef flame]

encryption is only needed when the data itself is vulnerable

like a password

but if you a sharing a code for raid planning, doesn't look like it

you could use a hash instead

the idea being that you don't know what hash belongs to whom, you can guess, but there would be millions of hashes

[rancid iron]

Here's my guess

See back in the old days when game's didn't have a "save" file as you'd know it

Game's had passwords like Doom on the PS1 which was an alphanumeric code

Input that and it determined the level, inventory and stats giving the illusion of preserved progress

I suspect something similar is going on here where each alphanumeric determines with each part of the code and how the board is placed with the icons even the arena shape hell even naming it might make it longer

and those old codes could get real fuckin long

Oh and the code? You completed a level and the code was flashed on screen and you had to write it down

Now TBH you could make the code shorter but they could also make the PF popup bigger

[woven oasis]

i think they should just make the max character limit in pf desc at least as big as the code can be

that's a lazy fix, sure, but it would help

woooo

finally, after 10 years of having this acc

2 years in ARR were on different one because steam version only appeared with HW

[rancid iron]

Not to flex buuut...been playing this account since late endwalker

My secret? Always wall to wall (yes even in sastasha don't be a weak bitch have faith in your healer), rotate mits, occasionally glance at the vuln stacks someone has and ensure the healers don't have to revive them and fight like hell

and have a good look of course

[fickle talon]

ITS

1PM

PST

SERVERS PLEASE

[fickle talon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/930171971205988362/974468119047335976/stalalaMood.gif

[fierce snow]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1172748569875316827/1178630901350027295/caption.gif?ex=694d0610&is=694bb490&hm=56f6088362ec126b82f277fa72aad31b3d668a73a24452cb1191a6235dc1f243&

[earnest zealot]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/805136714476552224/1451963028751909127/queen.gif

[woven oasis]

NOOOOOO

rip Lvl 1 .

[woven oasis]

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/d2bb45e4aa63ccfdea65a00bc78833b3a6380f37
honse helms this year

https://tenor.com/view/umamusume-gold-ship-horse-presentation-meme-gif-5852286300479648943

[sterile moss]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/236851396828200962/1453774247767052410/image0.jpg?ex=694eac46&is=694d5ac6&hm=793998802cecfcf56ba8eb64c1f60666f9b2a6255e57a07cf324b4408d50ba04&

you should also have one

[fierce snow]

Add it to the list

https://x.com/i/status/2004115146592121319

Natus❖🐟 (@natus_ffxiv)

Did the server really die 5 times a day because of the retainers

X · Dec 25, 2025, 9:01 AM

[rancid iron]

and some people wonder why I keep defaulting to "spaghetti code" like 95% of the time

[idle wren]

I don't think anyone who is a developer and has personally dealt with spaghetti code wonders that. But I would be curious of a technical explanation of how that crashed the servers.

[reef flame]

well the only way i see it is some unhandled exception/error

[idle wren]

I'm also curious where on the lodestone they found that

[reef flame]

because

the other way would be some massive amount of connections, like due to the ddos stuff

but then the wording would blame the ddos

[idle wren]

Very possible, and even likely in fact, that I'm just missing it but I'm not seeing the page with those notes.

[tranquil nexus]

I'm going to commit a violence

@steady flicker

I AM UNLEASHING THE HONKS

CODE "HONKVASION"

[steady flicker]

no idea why but i follow the call

[tranquil nexus]

What's been going on for the past fucking week and a half?

The servers fucking exploding repeately

[rancid iron]

Someone with a micro penis keeps DDoSing the ISP's that XIV uses

[tranquil nexus]

They ain't gonna have NO junk when I'm done with them

[rancid iron]

Just undies and a YH trademark huh?

[steady flicker]

dont ask me im not subbed since months

[tranquil nexus]

shit's going straight to LiveLeak

[rancid iron]

Mr Happy put out a thing that can help

use a VPN and pick the right connection to bypass it

Its literally the best we can do since stabbing someone is apparently or so I'm told very bad

[crimson niche]

I really dont think its retainer ddos tho

Since it doesnt affect oce and jp dc right?

[fierce snow]

Yeah i think its cope

[slim marlin]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/916257727758630962/1453692509095067648/SPOILER_merry_christmas_unenhanced_warrior_gif.gif

[sterile moss]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1219094998251733054/1453957484514381896/G9CCBjZW4AA596S.png?ex=694f56ed&is=694e056d&hm=1f2b273b73ad11c1e77764d1811853686eabf4fcdee3f1d50f3ad2483e4d0d3d&

[tranquil nexus]

yeah

[golden garnet]

Brush my static suddenly fell apart right now on boxing day and now I have to find a new team on time for the 6th despite the fact that I'm busy with family until new year

Just half the team like "i wasn't sure if I wanted to commit to another tiers I thought I'd wait until a week before the next to let yall know"

Like thanks. Sure wish you said that before I crafted up your sets

People are so damn inconsiderate cause it's a game, as if it's not our real life time and effort 💀

[pale elm]

Oof

[earnest zealot]

Did my first forked tower session

Going from fresh to last boss 50% was not on my plan but let's fucking go

[woven oasis]

most of runs are done by ppl with a lot of experience so it's usually should go pretty well, as long as nobody greed

grats tho! couple more runs and you'll get a clear

[slim marlin]

Yum

[golden garnet]

i gotta do forked tower tooo! i skipped it during all the rush cause of how poorly organised it made the raids become

it looks cool

[slim marlin]

Working on my 100 for Forked Tower. At 75 at the moment. Really the big wall for learners is Dead Stars because you can’t skip any of their mechanics and a lot of them have raid wipe potential. Meanwhile, Marble Dragon and Magitaur difficulty can be greatly reduced by a good shotcaller.

[woven oasis]

Hardest boss of Forked is a bridge

People need a goddamn leash there

To not run ahead and wipe everyone

[slim marlin]

I am the firm believer of pre-popping traps

Can’t blow up the bridge if the traps aren’t there

[earnest zealot]

first boss was one pull
Second boss was two pulls
bridge was a one shot
marble dragon had one yolo pull cause we lacked time

and second run of the session was up to boss 4 50%

[earnest zealot]

next time

[golden garnet]

i managed to get 5 trials in the hour i was looking screw those previous guys. i'll be fine

[fickle talon]

my groups slaccing till week 4-5 since someone is bzy

[slim marlin]

Soon…

[tranquil nexus]

https://bsky.app/profile/thexteras.bsky.social/post/3mazmoyyvw22i

♥️✦ IShowElves ✦♥️ (@thexteras.bsky.social)

My edible hit and someone put this in PVP chat

Bluesky · Dec 28, 2025, 5:47 AM

[woven oasis]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jzg32FMo8uc

[tranquil nexus]

https://i.imgur.com/MztTs23.png

[golden garnet]

ive noticed a ton of midcore statics contacting me like "we're looking to raid 2 times per week for 2 hours each" like??
what do people think midcore even means?

i think people are more ashamed to call themselves casual im ngl

[rancid iron]

Ya see people have this thing they gotta do called "jobs" its not like the jobs of XIV its a thing you do pretty much all day to make this thing called money

Cuz don't forget you can be a midcore skill level player but have no time at all

[golden garnet]

well sure, but a midcore static isnt midcore if theyre going 4 hours per week

and dont be pedantic, i ahve a job too

a great player can be in a casual team. the skill level isn't what makes a team casual or midcore or hardcore

[rancid iron]

Don't be pedantic? Where's the fun in that? :v

[fierce snow]

midcore is a broad term

like almost any static can call themself midcore

hell stals group can be considered midcore

cause they aint raiding w1

[golden garnet]

i think people are just afraid to call themselves casual cause it has such a negative connotation, even if it perfectly describes their attitude and goals

[fierce snow]

midcore can range from 2 days 2hrs, to w1 clear

literally

[idle wren]

The terms used to define statics never have solid definitions and always vary widely by person. Especially the most populated of those, midcore, where the definitions range the widest.

If you're looking for a group by making a post somewhere or something I'd put the time commitment you're looking to make instead of vague and arbitrary classifications of commitment.

[golden garnet]

I did, but yeah i had a lot of poeple coming out and messaging me with very casual coded goals. literally one was "3 hours per week with an optional extra day no guaranteed clear on patch"

but everybody wants to say theyre midcore

[idle wren]

I feel you're too hung up on the term. What matters, in my opinion, is the intent to clear the content eventually regardless of how much time per week you can actually afford to dedicate to that goal.

Not all groups have that intent. Some just do it for fun and of they don't clear then cool.

[crimson niche]

If they dont clear , dont make a static

[idle wren]

Either way I'd worry less about vague, arbitrary, and meaningless labels and more about specifying the schedule and raid environment you're looking for. Then those people should know from that that you would or would not be interested in raiding for x many hours a week. (Not that that will necessarily stop all of them from contacting you, but I'd expect it would a good chunk)

[crimson niche]

Just get a friend group , not a static that have other people in it

[golden garnet]

yeha i usually raid with friends. just this tier it fell apart cause half the team decided this last week that they dont wanna raid this tier :^)

one of the teams im trialling wiht is with one of my friends from the old team tho. im hoping that one works out for us

[crimson niche]

I dont understand making a static with a mindset of not clearing

If they take longer sure

But if its fine not clearing then..

[golden garnet]

yeah right?

[crimson niche]

[golden garnet]

like fair enough if you dont want w1/2, or you're like "we clear when we clear" but if youre not aiming to kill in 4 months??

like whatre we doing here

[crimson niche]

Like we all know ff14 is a reward driven game

Its why content with no reward , no one cares about them

[golden garnet]

but the reward is the time with the fwends

[brave aspen]

hey does anyone know how they learned there job in ff14? kinda lost on how to go about learning jobs n the balance is kinda overwhelming (little)

[rancid iron]

It took waaay longer then it should've for me

But I followed someone's elses rotation and just muscle memoried it

Smacked a dummy between dungeon queues till I can do the rotation on autopilot

[woven oasis]

Basics : learn your opener and main priorities/drifts/gimmicks of your rotation.
You can practice opener in Stone Sky Sea because it resets your cooldowns, and then hit the dummy for at least 6 minutes continuously.
Dummy is not for everyone tho, i get bored and lose focus by the end of my burst

From there you go to normal raids, then extremes to learn how to apply your rotation in the active fight.

And then you decide if you wanna delve deeper into optimization or not, there are plenty of resources on Balance. Although i personally don't enjoy reading 50 pages of text with advanced math formulas sprinkled here and there.

You don't actually need to do these giga optimizations to clear 99% of the content. Basics are more than enough, deep optimization is mostly for parse monkeys

[rancid iron]

I know enough to not be griefing and autopilot it

Unless the targets HP is low in a dungeon then I just hold it so I can get full value when I do use my stuff

[crimson niche]

weekly reset

back to expert roulette

[idle wren]

Largely agree with what Tera said.

Learn your basic rotation first and what the most important parts of the gimmick of your job are (what your job gauges are and how they function etc).

Then get familiar with your ogcd abilities so you know what you have access to. Read all your tooltips and develop an understanding of how things work together.

Then learn your opener after you've got both of the above on lock. Stone, sky, sea is great for learning your opener because you can leave and rejoin and it resets all your abilities.

The balance has information you may use in any of these steps. But I'd treat it as a reference manual instead of trying to take everything they say in at once. Focus on one piece of the puzzle first.

Then just practice a lot in real content until you get comfortable. Once comfortable, practice in content you find more challenging. I've personally found both Alliance Raids and Normal Raids to be great for this when starting out with something new before eventually moving into extremes / savage.

[sterile moss]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1219092747613372436/1455439734691332239/image0.png?ex=6954bb61&is=695369e1&hm=c83dcff0e823fa4c448141847473c9613bfc1b9883ef996ea776cc58f9cb247c&

[reef flame]

video format

also they forgot 1 step to learning the job

learn your ping

[woven oasis]

Uncle Noclippy or grandpa Alexander solve most ping issues (unless you have like 110+)

[rancid iron]

Only small problem

Just throwin it out there

Shits fuckin illegal yo

[woven oasis]

Yoshi-p himself said he doesn't care what you use until it starts affecting the game noticeably (botting, bag abusing), you scream about using mods, link mods or harass others based on mods

[rancid iron]

Totally unrelated

What's rule number 1 of fight club?

[sterile moss]

https://tenor.com/view/fight-club-you-do-not-talk-about-fight-club-the-narrator-gif-12296957953770786068

[slim marlin]

[woven oasis]

never heard about this ....fight club

[idle wren]

I really should try noclippy or uncle Alex one day

I've got like 90 ms because SE is a small indie company who refuses to invest in East coast servers or any modern cloud infrastructure

[golden garnet]

one tip i give to new players trying new classes that start over level 50 is if you feel overwhelmed, go down into some lower level content where you have less skills so you can figure out what the core of your rotation is

a lot of classes now start with 10+ abilities and traits and its easy for a new player to see that and nope out

[rancid iron]

Me either

[idle wren]

this is a good tip unless your rotation changes substantially or every 10 levels like BLM does

[rancid iron]

Or if you're a monk main

Seriously at one point it was rough to be a monk main

Imagine the pali rework but every mid expansion and fresh expansion

[woven oasis]

i was SMN main during ARR, HW and part of SB (although i didn't raid much)

i don't need to imagine

every expansion you literally had to learn a new job

[rancid iron]

Sigh a fellow bane user

Don't lie you miss being able to spread 4 DOTs at once

[woven oasis]

you couldn't spread 4

only 3

Bio 2, Bio and Miasma

Shadow Flare was a ground aoe

and Miasma 2 wasn't spreadable

just aoe around you

if i remember correctly, you could also take Thunder from thaumaturge?

dunno for sure

[rancid iron]

Ahh but you forget

Miasma II

iirc it was actually a potency gain if you used it with contagion

[woven oasis]

^

[rancid iron]

Was it not?

I guess people marked the biggest thing with the DOTs and then miasma II

[brave aspen]

okay i heard the same thing from somewhere else n they basically explained as the tooltips/order u get ur skills at basically explain themselves. is that what they meant by that?

[golden garnet]

yeah you learn your rotaiton piece by piece as you level up, but i mean more simply: 5 things are easier to learn than 12.

when you know 5, learning 7 more is easy becuase you already know how half the kit works

[slim marlin]

I like monk for this because the core of the job doesn’t change after 60. It just gets things added on to it or improved.

1-59 is learning the rotation of the combo, of how one attack flows into another and picking based on what you need. 60 introduces the core gimmick in perfect balance blitz. Everything past that adds a little more. 70 introduces a couple buffs to combo with your big hits. 80 introduces tools to help you keep uptime. 90 upgrades a few of the attacks you were already using. And 100 gives you little extra attacks onto your buffs that help your combo.

[rancid iron]

Oh and I feel like this is painfully obvious but I've seen it WAAAAY too many times

READ THE TOOLTIPS

Pls don't be another XIV player who doesn't read

Read is slowly if it helps but as long as you read it

[slim marlin]

The amount of people that don’t know things like Arm’s Length applying a slow to enemies that hit you, or that Feint/Addle applies to the other damage type is too many.

[tranquil nexus]

In my defense for the arms' length thing, I learned to take when we didn't have arms length

so it took me a while to get used to it being a cooldown

[tranquil nexus]

https://i.imgur.com/soe6PYA.jpeg

[viscid pike]

[sterile moss]

Yall got anymore meme board to share

https://tenor.com/view/is-it-gif-20766212

[golden garnet]

Yeah that's how I learn my rotatos I'm ngl. I read through all the abilities to understand how the rotation works, and then try to figure out the better way to order things so they fit into a burst, or whatever buffs/gauge the class has

Once I understand how it all works i look at balance to see if there's minor changes, or if I misunderstood something

But that's daunting to a new player opening any of the jobs that start 50+

[woven oasis]

they will never make a sidequest as peak as DRK 30-50 and 60-70 storylines

[woven oasis]

[rancid iron]

SO when are we getting mandatory ilevel and job stones for content?

Don't have either? Welp guess yo ass is banished to the FATE dimension

[idle wren]

9.0

[rancid iron]

Not soon enough

[fierce snow]

one quick expert before bed

ddos

ok

[slim marlin]

ty exitlag

6 for 6 so far

[golden garnet]

its crazy that na has been having so many ddos problems. thye didnt hit eu once as far as i know, after the first wave way back

[golden garnet]

is oce getting hit with them too? if not might be worth raiding there if you can play wiht the ping

[rancid iron]

Not that I've heard

Its because NA infrastructure is hot fucking garbage

Like its not even XIV directly either they're fucking with, the assholes been DDoSing nodes adjacent to the ones that XIV is linked to

[idle wren]

and yet XIV is the only service I know of that has been suffering from the attacks in the way it has

might actually make me feel a bit better if I knew it wasn't just XIV lol

[rancid iron]

My guess is the stress threshold is lower for XIV

Even indrectly there's still a connection point and I think that link is waaaay more thin then other things tied to that

Either that or the linked node is XIV exclusive

[brave aspen]

fkn truege

[rancid iron]

Why is a primal being summoned? Ascians.
Why is Garlemald so evil? Ascians.
Why is skill expression being removed from job design? Ascians.
Why is my pizza cold? Ascians.

[tranquil nexus]

If I didn't already just renew my sub last week, I'd legit just let it lapse for a few weeks

[bleak sail]

https://youtu.be/Ltm58mHmYTA?si=IeN5lpPVu80VNWyJ

[idle wren]

If you don't have content that you're actively very interested in doing or doing with people it's totally worth tbh.

I gave up my house and let mine lapse for months at a time these days and honestly it's felt great / freeing. If I'm not doing content with people I come back like every other patch when content has piled up a bit.

[earnest zealot]

pog

[tranquil nexus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1396645238440853584/1452690503773720686/image.png?ex=695a8cf5&is=69593b75&hm=c1b49242fecbac8a7d434ac412f68bc68b566bbaac1648284c826fcf673d0dea&

[slim marlin]

Just barely dodged that ddos

[earnest zealot]

Eu no DDOS

[rancid iron]

Sigh a thomas the tank engine mod take a drink

[golden garnet]

now i just have to play like shit forever to keep the good number

[reef flame]

just aim for 6969

[crimson niche]

you will never escape commendation

the shitty you are , some ppl like that

[fierce snow]

!maintenence

eh forgot the command

worth a try

[crimson niche]

i still debating

if i wanna go dps or tank this tier

except the dps choice

is reaper

[fierce snow]

ew

whats tank option?

[crimson niche]

gnb

i hate myself

[woven oasis]

there are no maintenances on the savage launch

weekly reset is 2 hours before savage unlock

[fierce snow]

ty tera

[fierce snow]

well bright side

if u play gnb jeffos rants will hit closer to home

[crimson niche]

holy fk rpr dps is real low

[fierce snow]

RPR kinda dull to play

[crimson niche]

the reason why im thinking is because NA will likely lock rpr out of pf

[fierce snow]

doesnt matter if its low or not tbh cause assuming ur pf'ing their dps will be low too

[crimson niche]

that does matter

[fierce snow]

NA will prob lockout SMN MCH

[crimson niche]

if their dps is low

and rpr dps is low

they wouldnt wanna risk having a rpr right

[fierce snow]

but

NA will also go hive mind and think that 2x melee > any caster

so

NA isnt smart

[crimson niche]

maybe i just tank this tier

[fierce snow]

Wf race tmrw

[slim marlin]

[woven oasis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnoQL9yiK8E

[slim marlin]

Edge of Shadow
DRS

Glad to see Bozja still pop up from time to time

[woven oasis]

if anyone plays on NA

get ExitLag (preferrably, but you need to pay) or Cloudflare WARP (free)

WARP will affect your ping a little

[fierce snow]

i use mudfish

[woven oasis]

but both will protect you from DDOS

[rancid iron]

I use nord

[idle wren]

Mudfish pricing looked really confusing when I looked at it before

[slim marlin]

If you use mudfish exclusively for 14, $5 lasts you like 10 years.

[fierce snow]

^^

if u only turn it on to raid

u can get alot of mileage

for like nothing

[tranquil nexus]

goingt o dynamis won't help, the meme is bad

Dynamis is still NA

[viscid pike]

Oh come now

[woven oasis]

damn, m10 got hands

[bleak sail]

https://youtu.be/2DGxQaY2LG0?si=77QLg_mMqcojqqLk

[golden garnet]

Had a fun few hours progging 9 and 10 blind with my new static last night. Even clutched up our 9 kill and got given my bis choker on whm as recognition

Those 2 fights are fun.

Were not a blind static but for our first night we went in blind and it went so smoothly holy

Looking forward to playing in 11 later

[earnest zealot]

Pf prog going well

[tranquil nexus]

so they're announcing the VAs for the arcadion fighters

Black Cat: Merryl Ansah
Honey B Lovely: Anairis Quiñones
Brute Bomber: Timothy Watson

that's what we have so far

[earnest zealot]

Enrage

[woven oasis]

let me say CONGRATULATIONS JP (Heavyweight savage was harder on NA) on the Heavyweight Savage (Heavyweight was harder with the DDOS) WF CLEAR. I know you've been working really hard (these fights are way easier when you aren't DC'ing) at it, and I'm happy that you've (the strong connection and being Square's fave made you clear) achieved your goal of completion. I know your journey through (the DDOS took out NA raiders in the first hours three+ times) the content was filled with ups and downs.

this fight is so fast...

[earnest zealot]

It's casters worst nightmare

[woven oasis]

this entire tier is pictos worst nightmare

[earnest zealot]

My friend wanted really go Caster this tier forcing me on phys ranged

And im literally sitting here, huh best decision so far

It's relatively chill

[fierce snow]

I THOUGHT I WAS DOING SHIT

THE ENTIRE TIME

AND GREEDED SO HARD

IM HAPPY TO SEE BLUE NUMBERS

m9s as ref

[fierce snow]

https://x.com/i/status/2009125525923807572

ʚ Cure ɞ (@curepotency)

guy shared this then disbanded the party

LMFAO

X · Jan 8, 2026, 4:50 AM

[earnest zealot]

man

[woven oasis]

Whoever made Orbital Omen is an asshole...

This mech sucks

[earnest zealot]

lmaoo

[slim marlin]

Oof

Who didn’t pot

[fierce snow]

0.15 prog soon

[low night]

small tips, if hp reaches 0% you win

[earnest zealot]

drg didnt pot on second pot

[fierce snow]

No thats a bug

An exploit if u will

Wasnt intentional

U can tell cause the music says LONG LIVE THE KING

ARCADION

How is it gonna live long if it dies

[low night]

Do you even have time to hear the music between 2 DDOS though?

So maybe NA has no arcadion king

So he can die

[fierce snow]

Ur supposed to stop hearing it?

[fierce snow]

We do. We have King Jeffo Sangius. Since hes raiding on NA this tier it counts.

[low night]

Damn that's true

Then we exploit the bosses to 0%

No other choice

[earnest zealot]

damn.

[slim marlin]

What are those rolls

[woven oasis]

[earnest zealot]

M12P1 FUN

[sterile moss]

yall can do it

[earnest zealot]

Best fight this tier yet

[sterile moss]

im playing water/fire snake

[sterile moss]

https://bsky.app/profile/serenserenseren.bsky.social/post/3mbxg4txnh227

Seren - In Fortune's Weave Waiting Room (@serenserenseren.bsky.social)

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Bluesky · Jan 9, 2026, 2:09 AM

[woven oasis]

[woven oasis]

finally, nice haul for a change

[woven oasis]

HE'S HERE

[rancid iron]

Literally watching you sleep

[woven oasis]

😭

[woven oasis]

we did it!

[earnest zealot]

nicee

[pale elm]

But did you get the whip

[woven oasis]

[earnest zealot]

M12P2 Music slaps

[earnest zealot]

wtf is phase 2

i dont have a good memory 😢

[woven oasis]

we saw enrage woooo

this fight is kinda meh after m11

[earnest zealot]

I like it more then m11

[lunar citrus]

https://x.com/randyregnitz/status/2009543794598068527

ランディ･レーグニッツ (@randyregnitz)

FF9のガーネットの衣装が出たと聞いて試着してみたけど、ちょっと、あの、男性だと大事なところが目立つような気がするんですが

X · Jan 9, 2026, 8:32 AM

[earnest zealot]

But phase 2...

I can't event comprehend of what's happening

1 mechanic is 33 slides in rp

[fierce snow]

my eyes

[woven oasis]

i read the raidplan for the first half of phase 2 and this looks fucking mental

i bet all of these 37 pages happen in quick succession

[earnest zealot]

Basically you swapping dimensions doing mechanics and moment you swap you continue where you left off .. 1 or 2 things will teleport to a different dimension

[woven oasis]

[slim marlin]

https://imgur.com/a/rip-floor-46-mmQMJat

[blazing chasm]

[fierce snow]

speedrun

[woven oasis]

[viscid pike]

[fast cedar]

SCH bros we're so back

[fierce snow]

no longer are u cursed to SGE wep

or MCH gun

no

an actual good wep

grats seny

[orchid rapids]

Got the new crafted pct wep

gonna use it for glam too whenever I get a wep upgrade

[rancid iron]

Man I fuckin hate people

Job stone and ilevel should be mandatory for every bit of content post 30

[idle wren]

Job stone I agree. But you can already get ilvl locked out of content.

[slim marlin]

Make it so the job stone doubles your Ilv

[rancid iron]

But gear is so easy to access already

How

[idle wren]

Hard to know if they're doing it intentionally or not too. I know I've gone into content a couple times where I forgot to equip the stone by accident.

But even in that case, I would've much preferred the game just preventing me from queuing instead of having to suffer through it.

[rancid iron]

See 30-40 fine you get a pass its annoying to be playing with someone at a fraction of their potential power (don't forget jobs give stats up too) but 70? They have to be intentional

That is just waaay too much content to have played through and not had your set already...well...set

[idle wren]

Unless the job starts around that level and they forgot

Though that isn't the case for the job pictured

[rancid iron]

See that makes even less sense cuz Dark Knight doesn't get a class

Neither does Sage

Like I guess they had a new install done that meant their sets got wiped but ehhh

[woven oasis]

almost there

[rancid iron]

ayyyy

[sterile moss]

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Bluesky · Jan 11, 2026, 11:01 PM

[wind jackal]

missing the chuni lala portrait

[sterile moss]

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[rancid iron]

I swear the dude's just singing about a rotissiere chicken

[rancid iron]

POSTURE CHECK

YA fuckin pretzel shape

[woven oasis]

😭

[woven oasis]

FINALLY

[orchid rapids]

Congrats!

[gritty oriole]

guys

i finally cleared

m10s........

after 12 hours of nonstop raiding

ITS DED

[pale elm]

Nice!

[sterile moss]

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Bluesky · Jan 12, 2026, 1:22 PM

[sterile moss]

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FxTwitter · Jan 13, 2026, 2:09 PM

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FxTwitter · Jan 13, 2026, 7:55 PM

[fierce snow]

➡️ ⬇️ ↘️ +🇭 🇰

[sterile moss]

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[rancid iron]

Still a better designed tank then warrior is

Even if best incarnation was stormblood

[sterile moss]

I cant hear you over my big explosions

[rancid iron]

Don't you mean those firecrackers you're now doing?

You want from nuking one patch to lotsa little firecrackers

[sterile moss]

Mr Torgue got my back

https://tenor.com/bhyqn.gif

[woven oasis]

[woven oasis]

at least DRK does damage and has party utility

(unlike WAR)

[rancid iron]

And in regular content Dark Knight doesn't shut out healers

Although warrior does have Shake unlike Dark Missionary

and TBF Shake does do a lot

[reef flame]

Oh no, stal has never done astro, do you guys think she can figure out the dps rotation?

[slim marlin]

AST

I miss my gamba

[rancid iron]

Dude none of the healers have a DPS rotation

Sage could have one but it don't

[rancid iron]

TBH if we're gonna make healers into actual green DPS cuz tanks can do so much now lets actually give them more to do and press

[sterile moss]

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[sterile moss]

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vxTwitter / fixvx · Jan 14, 2026, 12:00 PM

[earnest zealot]

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vxTwitter / fixvx 💖 217 🔁 28 · Jan 15, 2026, 1:48 AM

[woven oasis]

how do i make this?

[earnest zealot]

I linked the video right under it

The adventure plate can be bought for mgp

[woven oasis]

Thanks!

[sterile moss]

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아 시발

vxTwitter / fixvx · Jan 14, 2026, 12:53 AM

[sterile moss]

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AYAYA

X · Jan 15, 2026, 9:30 AM

[sterile moss]

Import this strat board

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[woven oasis]

M11 is officially harder than M12

[woven oasis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ggrsURbv0

||"I'm utterly bewildered" theme||

[slim marlin]

||"I'm.. not sure what's going on anymore folks..."||

[rancid iron]

That is pretty funny

||Just the dude whose been at this professionally seen all kinds of crazy shit in his career from people becoming part bomb to literal behemoth and the dude just sees this shit and goes "uhhh okay what?" and even he's at a total loss enjoying the show like everyone else||

[heavy meteor]

[woven oasis]

congrats! !!

[gritty oriole]

what i found in m11s floor arena

[slim marlin]

https://x.com/eksuplosionxiv/status/2012990204068434093?s=46&t=giGlOgowoIYjzMCnK2s6DQ

Eksu Plosion (@EksuPlosionXIV)

Just about the end of Week 2 - biggest wall for people in M11S is still the DPS check. About 23,000 characters stuck at <5% enrage

X · Jan 18, 2026, 8:47 PM

[golden garnet]

Yeah that's what I keep hearing from pf

I don't think its that bad though. Now I've been through it, it just feels like any typical 3rd boss

I think pf is just used to not having any kind of functioning dps check

The previous one was kinda adds last tier and they got hard stuck there too

Its been over a year of the dps checks being little to nothing

I want to see a return to the days where dps check meant you all had to push, not "if people die you won't have enough"

[viscid pike]

My static is a bit stuck on M11. Just 1 a 2 players keep dying on goddamn swords right before a "soft" body check. and boom. There goes a pull. And it keeps happening. I am just bored out of my mind because we are stuck there

[golden garnet]

Sometimes people gotta lock innn

Ive left statics for that reason a bunch of times I'm ngl

Its all fun joking around and melting sometimes, but when you're hard stuck cause that 1 person just spaces out every pull then it ruins the fun of the game

[viscid pike]

I don't think it is really a lock in issue.
One just keeps eating an aoe because I feel like greed. And the healer cannot get on time for most of the places. Though the other healer is all fine, heals good and is on time for everything. And we even did fru together.
I will see how it goes today and hope for the best

[golden garnet]

Were only as good as our attention span at the end of the day, but yeah your team is probably different to my experience

Not me beating dsr 9 time. Taking like 2-weeks off to do dawntrail msq, then being unable to get another reclear in 2 months of 10+ hour weeks cause sch smn and brd just don't care anymore and couldn't lock in for a full pull

[viscid pike]

ugh terrible

[woven oasis]

https://fxtwitter.com/XenosysVex/status/2013031367735407081

Xenosys (@XenosysVex)

You know whats funny about this? A lot of people complains how "braindead" the jobs are and how "easy" they are to play. Yet, whenever SE puts in any type of dps check the player base just completely shits themselves. These MF would have never survived gordias LMAO

Quoting Eksu Plosion (@EksuPlosionXIV)
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Just about the end of Week 2 - biggest wall for people in M11S is still the DPS check. About 23,000 characters stuck at <5% enrage

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FxTwitter · Jan 18, 2026, 11:30 PM

Rare good take from Xeems

[fierce snow]

All i know is classes are easy enougb i play a new class every tier and end up doing ok dps without doing too mucb deep study

[viscid pike]

I am a bit mixed on this take. If jobs were more complex in the way to access power, the fights would likely be adjusted to it.
You can make a job simple as hell (cough cough smn) and still have a tight dps check. It just depends on how the fight is tuned. Besides, job complexity can also be other than accessing brute power only

[reef flame]

there's also a lot of data missing in this chart. Are all these people with the same gear level? Same materia stuff? Are there undertuned classes? Are all these people getting in this phase with 0 deaths?
i don't disagree entirely with his take but it's like the correlation and causation thing

[woven oasis]

if you reaching 5% enrage, then you are at least properly geared in the crafted gear

pentamelds will not give you 5% worth of m11s hp bar

[nocturne frost]

talking about job complexity m10s was really nice change of pace as a bard. keeping dots on both, your aoe is gain on two. shadow bite has a shitty range compared to rain of death and that basic aoe cone so gotta be aware. also I'd assume refreshing dots early is ok if regular refresh point is going to happen when bosses are stacked for cleaving. apex arrow aiming on both targets is fun extra layer too that you don't get to do on normal bosses. if only doubling the dots would still give you double procs.

[earnest zealot]

m10s is very fun on bard

[gritty oriole]

Which jobs are tuned?

[rancid iron]

I find it funny how he points to Gordias for why job design should be neutered

When TBH Gordias was its own special kind of scuffed

Now obviously the guy went through it he's got more in-action knowledge of how bad it was but I'll bet he ran DPS accessories too

and lets not forget there was nothing else to do at the time you did Savage or you get the relic long term, no exploration zones, no deep dungeons and definetely no ultimate (although TBF Gordias was a bootleg ultimate)

For what was it? 4 months?

If you ask me Xeno is in his own bubble most of his takes have resulted in basic content being even more brain dead and uninteresting while also putting more pressure on fight design to make up the difference

[viscid pike]

on the last thing. Yeah I totally feel the balance of fight and job design is so out of wack and can see it in the changes for jobs even recently

[sterile moss]

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[tranquil nexus]

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[slim marlin]

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FxTwitter · Jan 21, 2026, 4:06 AM

[tranquil nexus]

well that was... annoying
in M9N, one of the black mages is venn diagrammed by the two healer stacks. We weren't trying to kill him, he just refused to move when he happened to be in the intersection
died, then refused to take the rez
both the other healer and I silently agreed to just leave them dead

[rancid iron]

I had a dumbass dark knight the other day who never moved for the TB they got both me and the gunbreaker killed