Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[FatMebius]

Well, pretty much every DRK player had been asking for a non-shitty version of Living Dead for, uh, a long ass time now. And we finally got that (With getting that second AOE waaaay earlier now as a bonus.) So, I'd imagine by the time they do two more expansions, they'll have a pre-70 TBN.

 

[Dave.]

MTQCapture is currently mad.

 

[Well Intentioned]

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MTQCapture is currently mad.

At least she has skin in the game, so to speak. There was some WoW Dev who RT'd a troon who was screeching about how important 'today's decision' was for ALL women.

I really, really, really wish I had saved it, but I think they had deleted it.

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

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She’s still making an outdated guides?

 

[Zeke Von Genbu]

Well, pretty much every DRK player had been asking for a non-shitty version of Living Dead for, uh, a long ass time now. And we finally got that (With getting that second AOE waaaay earlier now as a bonus.) So, I'd imagine by the time they do two more expansions, they'll have a pre-70 TBN.

Now they just need to fix every other problem.

Like making Dark Mind not ass vs most the game.

Making DRK not boring as sin outside of the two minute window in boss fights if you want to do the most damage. The other tanks at least get decent 1 minute windows, but DRK has to hold as much as possible for the two minute due to how its resources and CDs work.

TBN needs to not be the most retarded unique tank CD in this game's existence where its value and timing has to change when you get new gear due to it being an HP% shield because TBN can't just give you Dark Arts when it expires, the shield MUST break for some reason when no other tank has to do this. TBN isn't so good anymore that it needs this restriction, its time to let go. It is more frustrating then fun for TBN to work this way, TBN's most interesting part is using it to generate an extra Edge of Shadow for burst purposes anyway.

Oblation is a pure cope "Look mom I'm helping!" defensive and needs to do something more, 10% is fuck all with how tanks use their CDs these days due to diminishing returns.

Making DRK's full opener not require 7 double weaves would be very cool, not even GNB double weaves this much.

Make Abyssal Drain not fucking shit filler garbage would also be cool. Just make it a GCD again, cost mana, and have a CD like MCH's Drill. Bam I made Abyssal Drain not garbage and we now only need 6 double weaves.

While I would say DRK and WAR are very much different jobs overall, Blood Gauge is a shitty gauge mechanic that does almost nothing for the job but rip from a different more well liked job.

Living Shadow is so boring for how iconic of an ability it looks for DRK's narrative, it could at least be like Ninja's shadow clone or something at least.

 

[Tanner Glass]

At least she has skin in the game, so to speak. There was some WoW Dev who RT'd a troon who was screeching about how important 'today's decision' was for ALL women.

I really, really, really wish I had saved it, but I think they had deleted it.

She doesn't really, though. It's unlikely she lives anywhere (because it's a State's Right now) that bans abortion and even if she does, she's extremely welcome to leave because her job is 100% remote.

She’s still making an outdated guides?

"Making" is subjective, because I think now she's just getting them from a real raiding guild instead of actually making the strats herself? So she's kind of just a videographer for someone else's idea (plus also a streamer girl and based on that tweet probably a lot of fun to watch).

 

[Zilortha]

I caved and actually decided to level all jobs/classes on one character. It really is a better method, having fun doing leves and fates an hour a day after work. Not sure if healing is gonna be my thing, never tried healing in an MMORPG, but what is the worst that can happen? Getting yelled at by strangers on the internet? Heavens no.

Hey see? I'm glad you like it. I was wary at first but I really do love the way this game handles jobs.

As for healing, you probably won't get yelled at. The community is notoriously leashed. So instead of outright harassment like you'd get in Warcraft, you just get seething passive aggressive snark in XIV. I'm not sure which is better, but I'm not terrified to play jobs I don't usually play in content with other people, so I'm leaning toward XIV on that one too. So who knows. Give it a try, you might like it!

 

[Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer]

"Making" is subjective, because I think now she's just getting them from a real raiding guild instead of actually making the strats herself? So she's kind of just a videographer for someone else's idea (plus also a streamer girl and based on that tweet probably a lot of fun to watch).

Honestly. She could double-dip and make updated raid guides using current strats and nobody would complain while she also gets new views for the same content. Looking at her P4S guide, here's some things that stand out for phase 1.

• Inverse Chlamys is using an outdated and confusing technique that's a lot more prone to error. Current PF strat of getting people to stack into role groups makes it a lot simpler and cleaner to pass tethers as well as causing everyone who doesn't want virus to get a stack of miscast, making cross-contamination way less of a thing.
• Pinax is outdated. You should be pulling between Fire/Lightning for uptime and to make patterns easier to resolve
• Don't use KB immunity on first pinax. Having it up for cape makes it a lot easier to resolve the Pinax immediately after cape.
• Orbs is outdated. Never even seen Mizzteq's method. Braindead orbs is much easier and means you can completely ignore the active role debuff.
• Towers is also outdated. Most people pull boss north for towers to give DPS better uptime and make tethers easier to take.

I've recommended some of her guides before. But for P4S I wouldn't. There's so much that differs from the usual strats that it means you'll be doing something totally different the whole fight.

 

[Mister Uno]

Honestly I find tanking in FF14 boring outside of Extreme content. Especially for regular dungeons. Just turn on tank stance and spin around. From what a friend told me, Tanking use to be more interesting before they reworked how aggro worked. But in his words "Shitters complained that they couldn't keep aggro due to their incompetence".

 

[Takodachi]

I'm noticing a pattern between shit players who spam cure 1, and enforcement of the ToS from last year.
I took a year and a half break, and came back to a playerbase whos infinitely shittier than I remember. 9/10 healers in DF roulette that will spam cure 1 even if my HP keeps hitting 10%, Tanks who refuse to use aoe aggro combo, and DPS who are too retarded to realize "hey, maybe i should dump my kit between pulls instead of saving them for the fucking boss"

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she doesnt even live in the US, does she? or am i confusing her with some other FFXIV thot

 

[Dave.]

Zepla made a post about current events:

I don’t disagree with what she says and it’s not THAT strongly worded of an opinion and I’m sure some here will probably think contrarily, but you have to admit, Cole Evyx throwing himself at his lady’s feet is fucking hilarious

 

[Mister Uno]

Zepla made a post about current events:
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I don’t disagree with what she says and it’s not THAT strongly worded of an opinion and I’m sure some here will probably think contrarily, but you have to admit, Cole Evyx throwing himself at his lady’s feet is fucking hilarious
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Man EVERYONE needs to give their hot takes on this shit. And considering its the Final Fantasy fanbase, you're practically preaching to the choir. Their hot take has been repeated already a thousand damn times on Twitter.

 

[Dave.]

Man EVERYONE needs to give their hot takes on this shit. And considering its the Final Fantasy fanbase, you're practically preaching to the choir. Their hot take has been repeated already a thousand damn times on Twitter.

Well I’m about to give this thread nuclear fucking nuclear cringe now that you mention it…

 

[Zeke Von Genbu]

Well I’m about to give this thread nuclear fucking nuclear cringe now that you mention it…
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I'm sure if anyone could be fucked you could type something very similar about fucking any political party being bad for the same rough reasons in any major political decision, which is why this so specific yet so vague way of phrasing just to say "Right bad" annoys the fuck out of me. This is why I hate average political discourse of current year, no one gives a shit about having defined principles they make for themselves. It is all "Who's Football team is better!?" levels of discourse and every fucking political discussion is more like an argument about who wins the Superbowl then anyone vetting or arguing based on what they believe in. You'd think a game that tries to talk about things pretty even handed on extremely bizarre ideas to achieve a goal would make people see things beyond such simplicity, but fuck that no one can read anyway so I don't know how this fuck boy typed this while being illiterate.

Zenos was wrong, people don't say and act based on things they personally believe and use some justification for it after the fact, people need to actually believe in a thing wholly beyond the (in this case) American political equivalent of wearing a sports jersey to actually follow that line of logic. Even the fucking JRPG Pope believed in something beyond "Ishgard good, Halone good, dragons bad."

 

[Mister Uno]

. You'd think a game that tries to talk about things pretty even handed on extremely bizarre ideas to achieve a goal would make people see things beyond such simplicity, but fuck that no one can read anyway so I don't know how this fuck boy typed this while being illiterate.

Because everything to these people is just black and white. There is no gray area. Everything is just Harry Potter and Star Wars (excluding the old EU), good guys vs. bad guys. One of the reasons I really enjoy the Neir series and Fallout New Vegas is because its just not Black and White. Hell even in the old Star Wars EU the Empire wasn't actually all that bad.

Spoiler: Nier Replicant spoilers and a small bit of Fallout New Vegas spergery

One thing I absolutely love about the story is that at first you think it's just you trying to kill a big baddie to save your sister, since its just in the protagonist's lense. But as you get different endings, you realize that the protag and his gang are actually doing far more harm then good, just because of their sheer ignorance of the situation and wind up fucking everything up that could of saved humanity. Kaine is the only one somewhat aware of this, but doesn't care because she selfishly wants help her new friends. In Fallout New Vegas, each faction is different shades of gray. The NCR seem good, but they're actually filled to the brim with corruption, who overextend themselves for the sake of expanding their control over the SW. Many places in the game are either short on supplies or troops. Without the Courier's assistance, they would of lost the Hoover Dam. While the Legion, despite the slavery, misogyny, and general brutality during war, provide safe and stable territory to where traders no longer need to guard their caravans anymore since Raiders are almost a thing of the past.

Also one of the reasons I love Gaius van Balsaur as a character. Before and during ARR, out of all the leaders in the Empire, he was the few that actually treated those he ruled under with respect. He believed that he could actually bring peace to the Erozea and eradicate the Primals. Then his entire world view was shattered after a near death experience and indirectly caused the deaths of almost his entire army.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

Honestly I find tanking in FF14 boring outside of Extreme content. Especially for regular dungeons. Just turn on tank stance and spin around. From what a friend told me, Tanking use to be more interesting before they reworked how aggro worked. But in his words "Shitters complained that they couldn't keep aggro due to their incompetence".

Tanking in ARR and HW was both kinda complicated but at the same time very abuse-able, it had its fair share of issues like PLD not getting shield oath (his tank stance) till 41, Warrior, in comparison, got defiance, which increased health, and gave more emnity, also overpower was simpler to manage than using flash and a savage blade combo, so it had issues, i think untill HW the meta was to use Maiming gear as tank for the dmg stats, dunno how stuff panned out in SB, i stopped playing in like, 3.1 and didnt come back till 5.3, and i deadass didnt get further than like 40

I somewhat forgot the state of DRK but i do believe that at the start of HW it was pretty much the "complicated" tank so scrubs didnt really play it, but i didnt play much of HW back in the day so i could be extremely wrong

They kinda threw out the baby with the bathwater when it came to managing the Tanks though, but they werent that unjank either, that was pretty much the compromise, extreme simplicty that tried its best to level out the jank instead of a proper look-over

 

[FatMebius]

Well I’m about to give this thread nuclear fucking nuclear cringe now that you mention it…
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>Male Viera
>Straight

LOL. Pick one.

I somewhat forgot the state of DRK but i do believe that at the start of HW it was pretty much the "complicated" tank so scrubs didnt really play it, but i didnt play much of HW back in the day so i could be extremely wrong

They kinda threw out the baby with the bathwater when it came to managing the Tanks though, but they werent that unjank either, that was pretty much the compromise, extreme simplicty that tried its best to level out the jank instead of a proper look-over

I miss having tank stances and DPS stances.

 

[Übertroon]

Zepla made a post about current events:
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I don’t disagree with what she says and it’s not THAT strongly worded of an opinion and I’m sure some here will probably think contrarily, but you have to admit, Cole Evyx throwing himself at his lady’s feet is fucking hilarious
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Hyperbolic drivel as usual. Nobody is going to be forced to carry dead babies. Very rarely is a woman going to give birth to a child that's the result of rape.
These people have no idea what this actually means.
They can't fathom that abortion being legal across all 50 states was never going to work, it was never put up for a vote because they knew that the voters would not stand for it.
Every state is now getting the abortion law the electorate wants. You'll be free to abort as many children as you please in New York, while Florida will instead adopt regulations similar to Europe.
It was always insane to use the courts to circumvent a vote in the legislature.

 

[Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer]

>Male Viera
>Straight

LOL. Pick one.

I'm so glad that Male Viera exist since it means that I don't get accused of being a gay coomer for playing a Male Miqo'te.

Sorry Male Viera fans. You'll just have to wait till next expansion when they add a femboy harpy race or something. Till then, you're the new coomers of 14.

 

[Zeke Von Genbu]

I miss having tank stances and DPS stances.

I too miss having "stance I barely use outside of early prog or with trash can healers" and "stance I use 90%-95% of the time when I'm playing with none shit players", especially when they eat my gcd. Only Warrior had an okay system with it because it wasn't clunky as fuck due to it being an off gcd and actually had some real noticeable differences due to Inner Beast vs Fell Cleave and how Equilibrium used to work. For the majority of players tank stance is a noob trap outside of wall to walls and the first 10 seconds into a fight, especially outside of EX trial+ gameplay.

Dark Knight was either "more fun mode" or "less fun mode" because Grit wasn't a fun stance to have on and was even worse to swap in and out of.

Paladin was a clunky piece of garbage if you needed to oath swap often because of them being gcds and the stances did fuck all to add to the job as they were so passive in what they gave you.

Their are many things I miss about HW era DRK, but things like Blood Weapon being unable to be used in Grit is not one of those. It creates this problem where your enjoyment and ability to play your job is entirely tied to your healer's not being pissy man babies, and guess how many healers suck in this game? It is one thing if I need to manage CDs better or tighter for worse healers, that at least means I can improve something I'm doing, but some healers back then will hold your group hostage if you don't turn tank stance on whenever they say you need to because they're playing a 4+ second GCD somehow with how slow they are to react.