Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[Alligator Alcatraz]

I will maintain that the updated blacklist feature is probably the best thing to come out of this entire expansion.
Being able to thanos snap away people at the press of a button is a fucking god send.

The best part of the blacklist and NPC crowd changes is that it is essentially a lite version of the Visibility Dalamud mod built into the game.

It isnt reasonable to assume that Square Enix would pay attention to a little ol mod, but then they stated during Friday's live letter that there is an option so party members show up, which is a little too on the nose in similarity to Visibility.

It gives me the impression that they looked at the mod, picked out what they liked, and since removing players from the game entirely would be weird as the developer of this MMORPG, they bent over backwards to code a complicated system so players disappear only around quest NPCs.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

Looking forward to xeems having a slow week and deciding to send out an agent to repossess lionel's gaming PC just so he has shit to talk about on stream.

That dating ad post was funny as fuck tbh. Bald Man gave us a good one on that

 

[Angry Crustacean]

It isnt reasonable to assume that Square Enix would pay attention to a little ol mod, but then they stated during Friday's live letter that there is an option so party members show up, which is a little too on the nose in similarity to Visibility.

Square is definitely paying attention to mods. That is why we have an option in-game to display job icons as a part of player names now and chat bubbles on the way.

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

Square has always stated that they are aware of mods and what people are actually using. They can't officially endorse any because that makes them liable when they inevitably break someone's game. But they have said before that they use it to gauge what features people actually want and then see if they can implement it officially. I think this is a really good middle ground even if it is slow as fuck. It took then how many years before they finally implemented a little checkmark on items you already obtained?

 

[Well Intentioned]

Square has always stated that they are aware of mods and what people are actually using. They can't officially endorse any because that makes them liable when they inevitably break someone's game. But they have said before that they use it to gauge what features people actually want and then see if they can implement it officially. I think this is a really good middle ground even if it is slow as fuck. It took then how many years before they finally implemented a little checkmark on items you already obtained?

That checkmark mod was literally what I was going to bring up.

I'm positive that the only reason they're 'against' mods is because of the huge console install base in Glorious Nippon and they want to avoid perceptions of 'unfair advantages.' Yoshi-P is an old school MMO gamer, so he knows the value and almost assuredly used some himself.

 

[Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer]

I'm positive that the only reason they're 'against' mods is because of the huge console install base in Glorious Nippon and they want to avoid perceptions of 'unfair advantages.' Yoshi-P is an old school MMO gamer, so he knows the value and almost assuredly used some himself.

P7S is a good example of this too. And the fallout that happened.

There's a mechanic called "Inviolate Purgation" a little over halfway into the fight. The intended way to solve it seemed to be to use south platform for stacks and north platforms for spreads. But that made healing awkward and forced melee downtime. People found on week 1 though that you could fit the stacks and the spreads on one platform, and if you had the stacks at the back of the platform, you wouldn't cover the other one.

This basically became the defacto method because it was way easier, allowed much easier healing, and meant melee could maintain 100% uptime. But the positioning was very precise. And because of how the arena is designed, you couldn't put down the waymarks without modding (or saving a modded set of waymarks).

NA/EU didn't give a shit. And it didn't cause much of a fuss even among console players cause you didn't need to have mods to save it. You could just grab it from someone else as you would do with any other set of markers. JP were pissed though, and if you put down the markers then they would consider it "illegitimate" and either kick you, leave the party, or outright disband. This led to a "naughty modders" statement and then they changed the arena to be bigger after clearing the fight so you can put down the markers.

Personally. I think the bigger issue is that P7S was a shit fight. I genuinely think that it's the worst savage they've ever made since Alte Roite back in O1S. Nothing hard happened until the boss was at like 20%. With current gear score, you reliably skip the only hard bit.

 

[King Of Braves]

That checkmark mod was literally what I was going to bring up.

I'm positive that the only reason they're 'against' mods is because of the huge console install base in Glorious Nippon and they want to avoid perceptions of 'unfair advantages.' Yoshi-P is an old school MMO gamer, so he knows the value and almost assuredly used some himself.

Yoshida plays incognito and raids, he's definitely familiar with ACT and plugins.

Personally. I think the bigger issue is that P7S was a shit fight. I genuinely think that it's the worst savage they've ever made since Alte Roite back in O1S. Nothing hard happened until the boss was at like 20%. With current gear score, you reliably skip the only hard bit.

Ain't that the fucking truth. I hated that fight for those exact reasons. You'd think only having the hardest mechanics at the very end of the fight would mean faster clears. All it meant was eight minutes of almost braindead mechanics followed by actual prog, so every pull took an eternity.

 

[Angry Crustacean]

Yoshida plays incognito and raids, he's definitely familiar with ACT and plugins.

Picture of Yoshi's taskbar with ACT showing at timestamp:

 

[Ravana]

I’m running out of things to do to prepare for DT. I went to Elpis and filled my journal with completed quests for starting Viper off with a bit of exp. I just realized I won’t even be able to accept the quest that unlocks the job now lol

 

[Tanner Glass]

Square has always stated that they are aware of mods and what people are actually using. They can't officially endorse any because that makes them liable when they inevitably break someone's game. But they have said before that they use it to gauge what features people actually want and then see if they can implement it officially. I think this is a really good middle ground even if it is slow as fuck. It took then how many years before they finally implemented a little checkmark on items you already obtained?

They don't want mods to become mandatory because of the PS4 (and soon xbox) install base that can't reasonably use them. The only game that ever really tried to sneak Mods as a concept onto console games was Skyrim.

You can also just look across the street at World of Warcraft and think "do mods add anything of real value?" with the DBM, Gearscore, and Damage Meters toxicity that comes along with it.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

They don't want mods to become mandatory because of the PS4 (and soon xbox) install base that can't reasonably use them. The only game that ever really tried to sneak Mods as a concept onto console games was Skyrim.

You can also just look across the street at World of Warcraft and think "do mods add anything of real value?" with the DBM, Gearscore, and Damage Meters toxicity that comes along with it.

It can also create a rift between console players and pc players. You'd see PFs where they refuse to raid with console players because we're essentially handicapped because we can't use tools.

I'm all in favor of mods that don't interfere with raiding though like cosmetic mods. UI mods to make it look extra pretty or mods to just make the game look prettier.

There was an incident that happened with me where I doing maps with a friend and he'd been streaming over discord to his other friends. I was messing around with outfits so I was taking pieces off and he started yelling at me out of nowhere. Turns out that he had nude mods turned on and didn't realize until I "got naked" on his stream. From then on I never change glamors in front of other people. Always straight to the inn.

 

[Well Intentioned]

There was an incident that happened with me where I doing maps with a friend and he'd been streaming over discord to his other friends. I was messing around with outfits so I was taking pieces off and he started yelling at me out of nowhere. Turns out that he had nude mods turned on and didn't realize until I "got naked" on his stream.

Your friend is a retard if he's streaming with mods on.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

Your friend is a retard if he's streaming with mods on.

Yes he's a retard and we're not friends anymore lol

You never know how many strangers have nude mods running. Don't take off your clothes in public, someone could be having a wank in the corner to your naked character. For all I know as a fem Viera, I could be running around with a big floppy cock on the reg.

 

[Well Intentioned]

Yes he's a retard and we're not friends anymore lol

You never know how many strangers have nude mods running. Don't take off your clothes in public, someone could be having a wank in the corner to your naked character. For all I know as a fem Viera, I could be running around with a big floppy cock on the reg.

Yeah, I tend to assume anyone who is in the subligar (and nothing else) is running a nude mod.

And it's always Hrothgars.

 

[Mr. Idiot]

Yes he's a retard and we're not friends anymore lol

You never know how many strangers have nude mods running. Don't take off your clothes in public, someone could be having a wank in the corner to your naked character. For all I know as a fem Viera, I could be running around with a big floppy cock on the reg.

Reminds me of the Street Fighter 6 tourney stream incident where some retard forgot to turn off his nude Chun-Li mod.

Fucking gooners who are so brainrotted they can't even comprehend to turn off their degeneracy before turning on stream.

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

Reminds me of the Street Fighter 6 tourney stream incident where some retard forgot to turn off his nude Chun-Li mod.

Fucking gooners who are so brainrotted they can't even comprehend to turn off their degeneracy before turning on stream.

It's not even that hard. I use penumbra for UI mods, and custom skill animations. It's literally one click to disable a mod. Gooning is all they have and they're not even good at it.

 

[Tenshi Eating A Corn Dog!]

It's not even that hard. I use penumbra for UI mods, and custom skill animations. It's literally one click to disable a mod. Gooning is all they have and they're not even good at it.

Wow, you sure are good at gooning.

 

[EmpGulcasa]

I've not played since the first post-expansion patch of Endwalker but am wanting to jump back in for Dawntrail. I have a main with all jobs at 80 or 90 (though I usually play RDM or DNC) that I plan to do all the new stuff on with my wife but kind of want to make a new character because I'm one of the retards that likes alts in a game where one character can be any class.

With any changes made in the patches I missed, what would you guys consider the most braindead easy DPS job at this point? My reflexes aren't what they used to be and I was actually considering playing with a controller for a change. I keep seeing SMN when I search online but wanted confirmation from people who are generally less retarded than the internet at large.

 

[SilenceIsViolence]

And it's always Hrothgars.

When I started a new char on EW release, I went with Hroth - I just wanted to be big catman monk. I had no idea that I was somehow choosing the even gayer cat. The amount of pets, weird DMs, and assumptions I am a gay furry (I'm neither) have me hovering over my fanta on a regular basis, but I have no idea what I'd switch to. The fact that hrothhats still isn't addressed in yet another expac where they add another hatless race is the straw breaking the camels back here.

So I ask: what's the least cringe race to y'all?

With any changes made in the patches I missed, what would you guys consider the most braindead easy DPS job at this point? My reflexes aren't what they used to be and I was actually considering playing with a controller for a change. I keep seeing SMN when I search online but wanted confirmation from people who are generally less retarded than the internet at large.

Definitely SMN IMO, it's so braindead and simple. It's nearly impossible to fuck up and the rotation is on rails. DNC would would be a close second and then RPR. DNC is follow the glowing buttons, but has a busy burst and some build-spend; RPR becomes auto-pilot fairly quickly once you get the loop down.

I’m running out of things to do to prepare for DT. I went to Elpis and filled my journal with completed quests for starting Viper off with a bit of exp. I just realized I won’t even be able to accept the quest that unlocks the job now lol

If you have an FC and money to burn, one thing I have been doing is getting Grade 3 Wheels ready for DT - it's 24hr 15% XP buff (as opposed to the 10% normal FC buff). It's a small optimization, but I have about 2 weeks of T3 buffs saved up going into DT. You're probably better off just doing dungeons as opposed to yellow quests for job leveling FYI, the rewards are so miniscule from those that the time:xp rate doesn't offset queue spam.

 

[Angry Crustacean]

With any changes made in the patches I missed, what would you guys consider the most braindead easy DPS job at this point? My reflexes aren't what they used to be and I was actually considering playing with a controller for a change. I keep seeing SMN when I search online but wanted confirmation from people who are generally less retarded than the internet at large.

If you're already familiar with RDM and DNC, your experience playing those classes should make them the easiest classes to pick back up. If you want to try a new class, I would say stick with ranged/caster, so MCH/BRD or SMN. MCH you just have to make sure not to Hypercharge if Drill/Air Anchor/Chainsaw have less than 8 seconds on CD and always use Queen as soon as possible. BRD has a lot of weaving, but isn't that difficult otherwise. SMN is so easy you've probably already seen the rotation from your searches.

If you want to try melee, I think SAM is the easiest melee to learn.