Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

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Originally Posted by PirateRyanG

Cheers for that, mate.

It isn't an ARR spoiler.

It is a spoiler for a later expansion.

I had only played ARR and clicked it thinking "oh, this is fine I can read this"

So, thanks for ruining the plot! :)

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First part is in ARR Updates 2.x (> 2.0) and second part is in Heavensward 3.0 i believe

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Originally Posted by PirateRyanG

Cheers for that, mate.

It isn't an ARR spoiler.

It is a spoiler for a later expansion.

I had only played ARR and clicked it thinking "oh, this is fine I can read this"

So, thanks for ruining the plot! :)

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To be fair, if you really finished ARR and not just 2.0, said spoiler is confirmed only a few quests after your stopping point.

EW is about as mature and dark as a saturday morning cartoon or Power Rangers

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Originally Posted by Kazhar

To be fair, if you really finished ARR and not just 2.0, said spoiler is confirmed only a few quests after your stopping point.

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Regardless, a huge bummer to read.
100% on me for forgetting it was resolved slightly after ARR, so that was a massive oopsie.

Sincere apologies to the offended party, and I'll remove the OG post to prevent it from happening to others.

Yes yes and yes. This buggs me out too! Its just too weird to see ppl walking aroung in sneakers ,jeans and cappies.... Yeah its final fantasy with mutch in the mix but thats just too mutch for me

Hot take.

I never saw the John Wick movies.

Elezen are just elongated Lalafell.

An FFXIV house should be treated like a pet. If you won’t take care of it, nor spend time with it, don’t get one.

Because of the current housing situation, I firmly believe some are more deserving of one than others despite us all paying the same monthly sub fee.

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Elezen are just elongated Lalafell.

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I think you're onto something.
https://i.redd.it/xr440qccl3871.png

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Originally Posted by Anienai

Hot take.

I never saw the John Wick movies.

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Possibly an even hotter take, while Keanu seems like a really decent dude, he's a pretty bad actor. :X

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

Possibly an even hotter take, while Keanu seems like a really decent dude, he's a pretty bad actor. :X

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whoa.

/10 char

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

Possibly an even hotter take, while Keanu seems like a really decent dude, he's a pretty bad actor. :X

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Honestly......I think he as an actor is about C grade.
However John Wick was so cool, it made Keanu Cool. Even more cool then his roll as Neo.

Legit, he seems like a cool guy...but I never get excited whenever I see him attached to a product.

My hot take is that this game gets worse (and a lot more boring) every expansion.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

I think you're onto something.
https://i.redd.it/xr440qccl3871.png

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This honestly looks great. Reminds me of Deku from My Hero Academia, except a bit lanky and taller.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

Possibly an even hotter take, while Keanu seems like a really decent dude, he's a pretty bad actor. :X

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Not a hot take if your first exposure to Keanu was that one Dracula movie. Hoo boy, that accent attempt.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

My hot take is that this game gets worse (and a lot more boring) every expansion.

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Man I hate to say it, but you're not wrong on that.

Expansions should different from eachother, and not a copy-paste formula.

For the next expansion, I would rather have female hrothgar and/or an overhauled character customizer than a new job.

I miss Stormblood Astrologian. I loved being able to switch between shield and regen heals, and found the card system much more intuitive; placing the the Bole on the tank for more defense, placing the Ewer on your struggling co-healer, placing the Spear on crit-heavy jobs like bard, and the Arrow on monk or ninja for even faster skill speed and thus more dps. If you were ONLY ever fishing for the Balance over and over, you were playing it wrong and I will die on this hill. The Spire was useless tho ngl

Characters who died during the msq should have stayed dead. Not because I dislike said characters, far from it - I just think that it would have raised the stakes and made their storylines that more impacting.

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Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso

Honestly......I think he as an actor is about C grade.
However John Wick was so cool, it made Keanu Cool. Even more cool then his roll as Neo.

Legit, he seems like a cool guy...but I never get excited whenever I see him attached to a product.

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I thought he was pretty cool in Bill and Ted. I wish EW was like Bill and Ted. I would love a XIV expansion called "Final Fantasy™XIV™: WoL's bogus adventure™".

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Originally Posted by Mat13295

Not a hot take if your first exposure to Keanu was that one Dracula movie. Hoo boy, that accent attempt.

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Lmao, that sounds so hilariously bad that I'm not even going to bother looking it up on youtube. It will ruin Keanu for me.

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Originally Posted by kpxmanifesto

Lmao, that sounds so hilariously bad that I'm not even going to bother looking it up on youtube. It will ruin Keanu for me.

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Watch the video called "Best Acting Ever - Keanu Reeves in Dracula". Let's just say he sucked. But not blood.

Verminion should be like Pokemon battles and Chocobo racing seriously needs an update.

Hippo racing in the gold saucer should be a thing, becauae why not?

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Verminion should be like Pokemon battles and Chocobo racing seriously needs an update.

Hippo racing in the gold saucer should be a thing, becauae why not?

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With how they like to promote FFXIV as a solo-friendly experience it would be nice if at the very least they gave players the freedom of only playing against CPU in the races if they want to. With the current state of the chocobo race, the challenge log becomes really RNG heavy sooner rather than later when other players are involved, most which are following guides for perfect chocobos.

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Originally Posted by ReynTime

With how they like to promote FFXIV as a solo-friendly experience it would be nice if at the very least they gave players the freedom of only playing against CPU in the races if they want to. With the current state of the chocobo race, the challenge log becomes really RNG heavy sooner rather than later when other players are involved, most which are following guides for perfect chocobos.

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Do people even play Chocobo racing right now? I tend to only see people playing when it's the Make it Rain Campaign. I rarely run into no more than one or two people every half a dozen games.

I'd rather actually see more people play Chocobo racingbecause of the above mentioning of severe lack of players at all times. Though a none player option wouldn't be bad either.

This game has a serious problem with button bloat and pressing 1 2 3 for a combo when you have 30 other skills isn't engaging, fun or difficult. Out of the popular MMOs this is the one with the biggest amount of buttons and it is definitely not the most fun, battle content wise.

Forumites do not represent the majority.

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Originally Posted by Absimiliard

Forumites do not represent the majority.

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Me when people complain about the new summoner while it's the most popular caster a̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶i̶s̶h̶e̶d̶ ̶y̶e̶t̶

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Blue Mage limited job is actually a good idea, the only bad aspects of it are details of how it runs their "endgame" content (to be more specifc, the inability to partake Log objectives solo).

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Piggy-Back Hot Take: Blue Mage would be less scrutinized, if it could do the main story. People complain about BLU's inability to do normal things, like a normal job. A BIG part of "Normal" is the main scenario quest.

If BLU could, people, imo, would be more inclined to deal with it.

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Originally Posted by AmpelioB

Me when people complain about the new summoner while it's the most popular caster a̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶i̶s̶h̶e̶d̶ ̶y̶e̶t̶

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You could argue Summoner is popular because it's brain-dead easy. Do more damage then a red mage with a fraction of the effort, boom recipe for easy "popularity"

Proto-Carbuncle should be used as inspiration for how to make SMN's useless Carbuncle useful again.

- Let it be both a party support and attacking pet.

- Let the barrier Carbuncle creates for ourselves usable on other party members and give us a version of that that can be used to mitigate damage across our entire party, along with a reflect feature added to both barrier types that absorbs a certain portion of damage, before reflecting said portion of damage right back at the enemy(s).

- For every Egi and Demi egi we summon, Carbuncle's fighting style temporarily changes and follows your lead by either doing a single or AoE attack depending on what you do. In addition to that, after summoning all five of our egi, Carbuncle will transform into Proto-Carbuncle and go on a rampage againat your enemies for a limited amout of time, while your spells change to an HP absorbing type that you use to feed energy to your Proto-Carbuncle to keep it out on the field before it returns to normal. And adding to that, with every enemy Proto-Carbuncle eliminates, it also slightly extends the duration for long it sticks around, too.

Also, our Proto Carbuncle would have a special attack that allows it to spread its own version of miasma and bio upon a single target or group enemies that does damage oved time and if the Proto-Carbuncle can be managed to stick around long enough to recast its toxic attacks again, it'll double the damage of its bio/miasma attacks, though the timer for both will be halved due to enemy resistance to the same type of attack.

They should not have added jobs after arcanist. It’s clearly too many for them to properly balance or even find distinct niches for. Delete sage, reaper, gunbreaker, dancer, red mage, samurai, astrologian, machinist, dark knight and ninja. Also new summoner while you’re clearing out the trash.

sheep mount is bis

Going through Shadowbringers on an alt, and I've found a new hot take: G'raha Tia was not a character derailment. The Exarch was always a dork when he wasn't forced to be serious.

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Originally Posted by vanaii

sheep mount is bis

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Beautiful in (mint) sauce?

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Going through Shadowbringers on an alt, and I've found a new hot take: G'raha Tia was not a character derailment. The Exarch was always a dork when he wasn't forced to be serious.

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How can you say something controversial yet so true.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Going through Shadowbringers on an alt, and I've found a new hot take: G'raha Tia was not a character derailment. The Exarch was always a dork when he wasn't forced to be serious.

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Honestly, I think people just loved the Mystery Man look he had going.
So they were distracted

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Going through Shadowbringers on an alt, and I've found a new hot take: G'raha Tia was not a character derailment. The Exarch was always a dork when he wasn't forced to be serious.

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It's especially noticeable when he's confronted with Y'shtola and when Alisaie flicks him in the forehead.

I think the take most people have is that he wasn't riddled with moe anime tropes like G'raha was. He was a dork, but he was toned down. For justified reasons, if anything to keep the plot's tone.

Ninja will become even more Naruto next expansion. I suspect we will be able to at least partial summon a Susanoo and perform the Tailed Beast Bomb by then.

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Ninja will become even more Naruto next expansion. I suspect we will be able to at least partial summon a Susanoo and perform the Tailed Beast Bomb by then.

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I demand Reverse Harem no Jutsu!

My main gripe is how boring the loot can be besides glamour. I think if you gave a skill system like where weapons or armor gave minor buffs, passives, or GCD's that would spice up not only the grind but also the battle system, which has its ups and downs.

Now i know this is virtually impossible to balance and implement but just little things like that would be cool. Like maybe even stat buffs for sets like how there are already some in the game. Maybe if you had all 5 pieces of some dungeon set you get NIN's huton duration increased max by 5 or 10. just small things like. or for Dragoon you have a 5% chance to replenish a jump. I know it may be stretching but i just think it give three things ( of course in my opinion)

1. more exciting combat
2. more exciting gear grind
3. a personal feeling your character is a tad different then the next Copy and Paste lvl 90 "insert class here" that you are.

Again i know this is TREMENDOUSLY hard to implement this late into the game. But it would take a B+/A- MMO to me to A++

the hairstyles are uninspired
theyre all sort of similar. they all feel safe and vanilla.
i hope for another hair contest but i feel the winners will just be another safe and hime bang type hairstyle that gets thrown into the already 20 hime bang or spiky hero bang hairstyles that we already have