Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

I do got another take:

Wearing a full Armorset isn't Glamour.

Glamour is the effort of creating something new and unique with different pieces. Wearing a entire Set however, is like competing in the Masterchef Competition by preparing frozen Pizza bought from your local Supermarket.

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Originally Posted by Anhra

I do got another take:

Wearing a full Armorset isn't Glamour.

Glamour is the effort of creating something new and unique with different pieces. Wearing a entire Set however, is like competing in the Masterchef Competition by preparing frozen Pizza bought from your local Supermarket.

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I can't say I agree with a full armor set not being glamour, but I too like to put together an outfit from various sources (ideally having each piece, even down to the accessories coming from a unique source) to make something more unique, even if it takes me a few minutes, hours or days. If I can't see the rings or bracelets, however, I usually don't bother. But if I can...same deal.

It's okay to yell at people and kick them from your party when they don't want to learn and play their job right. I don't care if you pay a sub. When you put zero effort to read your tool tips and learn how to play the game then you should not be allowed to enjoy any content that involves other players because you are ruining their experience in game and not the other way around!

Lyse is a good character, and Stormblood was fun.

F'lhaminn is an underused character and I hope with the end of Endwalker and the introduction of Dyanmis, she becomes an on the field active character with a unique job of her own that involves singing. :)

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Originally Posted by Anhra

I do got another take:

Wearing a full Armorset isn't Glamour.

Glamour is the effort of creating something new and unique with different pieces. Wearing a entire Set however, is like competing in the Masterchef Competition by preparing frozen Pizza bought from your local Supermarket.

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Agreed, and I'll take it even further, using more than one piece from the same set is cheating

Skiros is always right. :3




Cheers

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Originally Posted by Anhra

I do got another take:

Wearing a full Armorset isn't Glamour.

Glamour is the effort of creating something new and unique with different pieces. Wearing a entire Set however, is like competing in the Masterchef Competition by preparing frozen Pizza bought from your local Supermarket.

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I'd say it technically still counts as glamour since it's a set you glamour over whatever else you're wearing, it's just a very uncreative glamour.

And that really shouldn't be a hot take either, full armor sets are designed to look good together so of course it takes 0 effort to make it look good together.


As for my hot takes:
Shadowbringers is a vastly overrated expansion. Great story but mediocre everything else, basically the exact opposite of Stormblood.

Endwalker's plot turned into generic JRPG nonsense halfway through where you kill both god and then satan with the power of friendship, the stakes are also nonexistent because you know that none of your walking plotarmor companions are going to die.

depends, im a tank with a passion for heavy armor, more armored looking pieces tend to mismatch easily with pieces of a different set,how dye affects it from the texture themselves, i have only a few glams with different pieces that i am personally satisfied with.

This guy spittin.

EW SMN is currently one of the worst designed jobs in the game. And the design choices the dev team made are very worrying for future job reworks.

King of the Hill is better then Rick & Morty, Family Guy, South Park, Futurama, Beavis & Butthead, The Simpsons or any other of the animated comedy shows.

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Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso

Zenos is the Best Villain in FFXIV.

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He's my favorite as well, but I wonder about his ending, is he dead or just off somewhere doing something?

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Originally Posted by VictorTheed

He's my favorite as well, but I wonder about his ending, is he dead or just off somewhere doing something?

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He stopped breathing. So i guess, he is dead. But he could be reborn again. But without the memories of the past.

/10 chars.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by FullSilver

EW SMN is currently one of the worst designed jobs in the game. And the design choices the dev team made are very worrying for future job reworks.

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Oh no, I'm so scared of older jobs becoming fun. The dev team totally never said that pre-Endwalker Summoner wouldn't be able to keep up with all the changes because of how complicated it was to design and play in the first place, no, not at all...

1: Healing currently is fun and nice. Doesn't need to be anymore complicated or added dps. Just play red mage/dancer.

2: The entire story line would be better if we traveled with a lalafell partner like a side kick.

3: Bard would be better if it didnt revolve around music and instead was just a regular archer class.

4: Dark knight would be better if it was just a regular giant sword class with different elemental attacks. Less dark knight more cloud.

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Originally Posted by fantasiaaddict

Oh no, I'm so scared of older jobs becoming fun. The dev team totally never said that pre-Endwalker Summoner wouldn't be able to keep up with all the changes because of how complicated it was to design and play in the first place, no, not at all...

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I remember them saying something about not really knowing what else to do with SMN going into EW and that the current design left no room for new skills. They seemed to be out of things to do with the job that would have been more than just updating animations and potencies.

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Originally Posted by FullSilver

EW SMN is currently one of the worst designed jobs in the game. And the design choices the dev team made are very worrying for future job reworks.

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this is a burnt take. went for the hot but forgot to check the times.

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Originally Posted by Puc

1: Healing currently is fun and nice. Doesn't need to be anymore complicated or added dps. Just play red mage/dancer.

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If the solution to the majority being dissatisfied with an entire role is to play another role, that just cements there is something fundamentally wrong with the design of said role.

Since the housing thing is busted stupid I just want to go to a spot in the world and be like "This is my land now".

I claim the bridge in Gridania. It's my bridge. I live under it.

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Originally Posted by fantasiaaddict

Oh no, I'm so scared of older jobs becoming fun. The dev team totally never said that pre-Endwalker Summoner wouldn't be able to keep up with all the changes because of how complicated it was to design and play in the first place, no, not at all...

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If by "fun" you mean gutting and chopping off as many skills/meaningful interactions with the class as you possibly can to the point that you can literally play it with a single button macro, all while pouring a bunch of "cool" effects on top of it to hide the fact it has absolutely nothing underneath.....

Yeah. I'd be scared of that too.

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Originally Posted by Lilyth

If by "fun" you mean gutting and chopping off as many skills/meaningful interactions with the class as you possibly can to the point that you can literally play it with a single button macro, all while pouring a bunch of "cool" effects on top of it to hide the fact it has absolutely nothing underneath.....

Yeah. I'd be scared of that too.

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Exchanging meaning interactions and reducing the button bloat *

because yea, having to penta weave all the time really is considered "fun". Summoner is such a bad place that is currently the second most played dps and already surpassing the number of players AND doubling when the last savage tier dropped.

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Originally Posted by AmpelioB

Exchanging meaning interactions and reducing the button bloat *

because yea, having to penta weave all the time really is considered "fun". Summoner is such a bad place that is currently the second most played dps and already surpassing the number of players AND doubling when the last savage tier dropped.

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There are a lot of people that are of the mind that pressing more buttons equates to engaging and complex gameplay, when it really just amounts to busy work if none of those buttons are working together towards something. The previous iteration of SMN had a lot of DoT elements and then almost completely divorced from that were the Summoning elements, and the later part consisted of one badly functioning pet that you had near no control of or interaction with while the former meant juggling DoT timers to increase potency of a single skill.

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Originally Posted by fantasiaaddict

Oh no, I'm so scared of older jobs becoming fun. The dev team totally never said that pre-Endwalker Summoner wouldn't be able to keep up with all the changes because of how complicated it was to design and play in the first place, no, not at all...

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They unironically never said that, but you'd have no argument if you didn't twist their words so I understand.

I haven't gone through all 70+ pages of this thread, so this may have already been touched on, but I'm sick to death of G'raha. He was sort of endearing in ShB, I get that he's gone through a lot, but the moment he joined the Scions it's like he became the dev's favorite boytoy that they need the feel to push into every situation with the WoL. His fanboy nature is irritating, like it was tailor made for his droves of fans who lose their mind any moment he breathes. Said droves act like you've murdered their first born if you so much as utter a syllable against him too.

I really hope they tone him tf down in the next expansion, but who am I kidding, he's probably getting a 1,000+ buck statue soon and will forcibly be BFFs with the WoL until I die of old age. I did enjoy that I pretty much got to tell him I dislike traveling with him in the current 24 man raid story, but we can't be putting down the fandom fave too often, so I doubt we'll see more of that.

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Originally Posted by AmpelioB

Exchanging meaning interactions and reducing the button bloat *

because yea, having to penta weave all the time really is considered "fun". Summoner is such a bad place that is currently the second most played dps and already surpassing the number of players AND doubling when the last savage tier dropped.

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Ah, yes, SMN. The famous "having to penta weave all the time" job.

I get that this is the "hot takes" thread, but that doesn't mean you have to lie.

Summoner's rework was fine and all i ask is that they continue building on the one central idea the job is based around now and make it more interesting with time



I know healers are struggling to not fall asleep right now, so i can't say i'm convinced it'll happen, but i'd rather a consistent, somewhat boring design that can be worked on than the old, mashed together, held together via duct tape and a prayer, reliant on botched ai design

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Originally Posted by rewd

I get that this is the "hot takes" thread, but that doesn't mean you have to lie.

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I'm hardly lying but rather using my personal experience, even taking your own link you can see they are busier caster which are the most things I play, feel free to take my logs for the past tier and call me bad but don't call me a liar.

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Originally Posted by AmpelioB

I'm hardly lying but rather using my personal experience, even taking your own link you can see they are busier caster which are the most things I play, feel free to take my logs for the past tier and call me bad but don't call me a liar.

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No one cares about your logs or your experience when you can instead provide facts. You had the arrogance to judge what other people might find fun and all you brought to the discussion was a baseless hyperbolic statement. You don't exactly get to whine when your lie is exposed.

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Originally Posted by rewd

Ah, yes, SMN. The famous "having to penta weave all the time" job.

I get that this is the "hot takes" thread, but that doesn't mean you have to lie.

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That link shows data from April 2021. It is not current data and doesn't reflect recent changes.

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Originally Posted by D6Damager

That link shows data from April 2021. It is not current data and doesn't reflect recent changes.

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You surely know that the topic of the discussion was old SMN in relation to the rework, right?

Right?

EDIT: not to mention that your sherlockian "gotcha" moment makes even less sense when you realize that SMN was and obviously still is a low CPM job (even less than RDM now) so you could literally photoshop that picture and change Eden with Asphodelos and the point would be the same.

But thanks for making us notice the date and the five big columns referring to a savage tier that came out more than a year ago that absolutely no one else noticed, I suppose.

SMN is trash.
The Primals are kinda cool but I'm so sick of the same damn Primal's we have had for years...Ramuh when?

Dunno if these are hot takes, but I guess that's really for others to decide.

Fantasias shouldn't be a thing. You should be allowed to do all of that stuff at the beautician npc without spending real money. At the very least, a fantasia should be given upon completing each MSQ expansion.

6 private wards were unacceptable, and people who already owned homes in 6.1 should have been barred from relocating during the initial housing lottery, to give actual homeless players a better chance at literally anything at all. Likewise, if you win a home but don't actually decorate it, it should just go back into market so someone with taste can finally give your empty home the love it deserves. People who use "muh neighborhood" as justification for why the rest of us can't have instanced housing are just high on the idea of owning something rare; their neighborhood is dead and they probably don't even like their neighbor, but they'll never admit it.

Telling people to unsubscribe if they're not enjoying the game creates ripple effects where people quit because their friends quit and those people quit because their friends quit, and on and on. When Yoshi said to unsub and people began parroting it, I didn't see it as a good thing. People look at it and say "wow they really don't just see us as money" even though they charge you ten dollars to change your eye color and sell us raid themed mounts instead of just putting them in the base game, like come on now.

Retainers are stupid. Having a middleman to list an item on the marketboard is stupid. Ventures are just another tool used to sell mogstation items, and tying rare items to ventures is just bad game design since there's no actual gameplay behind ventures; you just send your guy out and hope he comes back with something good. There's nothing fun about that.

Moogle tome events should be an ongoing thing with cycling rewards, to give people who want something to do during the constant downtime, something to do.

Crystal tower alliance raids should be put in the MSQ roulette roster, and you should have to clear each 24-man raid tier before progressing to the next expansion. I'm sick of getting Syrcus tower every goddamned day man.

There should be a de-commend option in dungeons/raids that lets you lower someone's commend count by 1.

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Originally Posted by rewd

No one cares about your logs or your experience when you can instead provide facts. You had the arrogance to judge what other people might find fun and all you brought to the discussion was a baseless hyperbolic statement. You don't exactly get to whine when your lie is exposed.

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lmao it's not like humans naturally judge others and this thread is make especially to judge other "hot takes".

doesn't change the fact that there are more people playing now that dead ass 3 minutes rotation is gone But yea feel free to whine how that disastrous they called rotation is "fun", if you like spamming ruin with a few dots so much just play any healer it's probably the same

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Originally Posted by Jybril

SMN is trash.
The Primals are kinda cool but I'm so sick of the same damn Primal's we have had for years...Ramuh when?

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you're right, I wish we went to Ramuh, Levi and Shiva after doing the phoenix, they probablly didn't have the assest while finishing the expac but hopefully we can see that in the next one.

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Originally Posted by fantasiaaddict

Louder for the people in the back. So glad someone brought this up.

FF14 is a very overrated game, but just because it's overrated doesn't mean it's a bad game, it does have some faults, but it relatively is a good game overall. I always found FF14 Youtubers and Influencers to be really cringe. They're always one of three things, a over-dramatic and try-hard raider who has nothing better to do in their life, a bootlicker who only talk about the good parts of the game, or they have nothing to do besides degrade the game to its absolute limits.

Adding on to this, I feel like a lot of parts that are meant to be emotional for the story are quickly ruined by how Youtubers will be so dramatic over them in my opinion. We get it, your favorite character died, you had your chance to cry, now please move on and don't make 5 videos dedicated to that character, thanks.

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Agreed, I don’t think FF14 is bad which people confuse for overrated. I see endless potential for the game and the beauty of MMOs is always subject to positive change and negative change. Influencers in general are always hype-men being the only one that has any balls to criticize the game is Zepla (her old rants on character choice and RNG were hilarious and valid) and the SAM edge lord who is one of those obligatory “I’m not racist, I hate everyone” brand of pretension. The rest can go in a hefty

Yoshi-p doesn't care about the game as much as he boasts and ever since arr he's only made false promises and made the game more of a souless product with each expansion.

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Originally Posted by LisSquid

The last stretch of EW was weak because all emotional pull is rendered null because of the established macguffin.

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I feel this is a cold take

Instead of pouring development time for another theme park dungeon, they should take their time and develop content for their open world maps. Running the same dungeons 100x times is not fun, the activities that occur during a dungeon get boring after the first time.
They could add daily quests, create more chain quests, token gathering, more weeklys and connect old content (Diadem, Eureka, Extreme Trials, etc) to farm lasting gear. They should update existing maps so they get new paths or additional branches; caves and underground tunnels.
We're at 80+ Dungeons at this point and number is yet increasing. Running the newest dungeons now wont be fun in the next 3 years, running the 2.0 dungeons will be even worse.

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Originally Posted by AmpelioB

you're right, I wish we went to Ramuh, Levi and Shiva after doing the phoenix, they probablly didn't have the assest while finishing the expac but hopefully we can see that in the next one.

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Didn't have the assets when the game is making them more money then ever lmaooo

70+ pages in and people are still claiming that "The game is actually bad!" is a hot take here on the forums? lol That's actually the coldest possible take you could come up with here.