What have you never attempted and probably wont ever?

Ultimates I will most likely never do. Probably savage (but never say never, I may do at some point with my fc for funsies).

I don't like having set times for my playtime nor can I always commit to certain times, so that just wouldn't work for others. And I don't like pugs for stuff like that because I also suffer anxiety issues of not wanting to mess up and let people down. I'm a decent player. I always do my best and am always trying to improve - but I am also aware of my own limitations.

Crafting. It feels too much like a job. I play this game to have fun not to do a 2nd job.

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

Savage and above. I've watched videos on some, and there's no way I'd remember all the mechanics. I have enough trouble learning the normal mode stuff.

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I don't think anyone ever immediately remembers all mechanics by only watching a video. You need to practice and experience the instance itself to remember them properly, it won't be as hard as it may seem by only looking at the video.

Nobody clears them on their first try (after watching/reading a guide), usually you will practice phase by phase until you're ready to complete it.

Creating a character on Balmung

Use of the party finder.

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Originally Posted by SamRF

I don't think anyone ever immediately remembers all mechanics by only watching a video. You need to practice and experience the instance itself to remember them properly, it won't be as hard as it may seem by only looking at the video.

Nobody clears them on their first try (after watching/reading a guide), usually you will practice phase by phase until you're ready to complete it.

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I'd probably get kicked for dying too many times before I could get near completing it, assuming I could get accepted into a party finder run without some proof that I've successfully run it before. (My FC doesn't do them.)

Any hardcore content (Savage, Extreme, Ultimate, etc) that is current, I really don't enjoy 'pushing' myself and the burden that always comes after a wipe or two when people start looking to point their fingers, so I just don't bother and I'll wait until they're old content so newer gear and higher ilvls can carry pretty much even the worst player through.

Also gathering/crafting, it's just not fun for me and there's no way in hell I'm spending nearly 20$ a month to play a game so I can do something I don't enjoy.

Most forms of PVP (other than the Duel Circle at the Wolves' Den), especially The Feast. I have absolutely zero interest in any form of structured PVP (I did Borderlands Ruins ~ Shatter with my boyfriend once simply because he bugged me enough to try it, but I realized I'm just not cut out for it) so I can quite honestly say that is one thing I will never end up doing.

Really, anything 'end game' related is something that does not interest me either, particularly raiding (I only really do raids long after they've ceased being 'end game' for completion's sake once or so and then never again). I'm quite happy doing things solo or at my own pace - I'm really a casual player these days.

Ultimates, at least until cross-datacenter party/dungeon finder hits.

The struggle of finding 0 people who want to start raids at 9PM pacific is real, and I have waaaay too much invested on coeurl to transfer datacenters.

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Voice chat used by my main LS in FFXI had 0 in game related conversation when doing end game content.

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Raided world-firsts in EQ and WoW, voice chat was 75% people being silly, 20% someone going "guys, pay attention, doing loot", 4% laughing at the raid leader going down the wrong hallway on accident, and 1% anything relevant to raids, which was entirely in our late night or 10man group.

Voice chat in a majority of content is unnecessary.

Penta melding forbidden slots in gear. Never going to happen.

I have never done a hunt ever, and i've been playing since ARR. Like i forget they even exist.

I have no intention of leveling a crafter ever. It takes everything i have to level one profession on my main in wow each expansion.

Also savage raids/ex primals. I have time to raid in one game and it's not this one. Besides, the rigid nature of progression raiding isn't something i'm a fan of. I'm super casual here. Like, i have no doubt i could do well here, but i'm just not up for it. I have solo healed Ravana EX in HW because one of my FC peeps needed a hand, it was pretty easy, and in either ARR or HW i did queue up for Odin (not realizing the difficulty), but that was as much as i did.

Crafting
Eureka

Ultimate raids really don't feel like my cup of tea.

For the time it takes to clear one I feel like there are more interesting achievement rewards I could be working on instead.

Ultimate - since I quite savage raiding due to SE's network infrastructure being too frustrating to deal with.
PvP - Always hated it with a passion of a thousand suns.
Most of the gold Saucer herp-a-derp. Just don't care.

I can think of a few things like Ultimate and Gold Saucer events.

Ultimate is pretty self-explanatory. I use to raid back in day, but after watching a video of people attempting to clear Ultimate raids, I immediately thought: "SO MANY COLORS!!! Realizing that I cared for my blood pressure and noped out of that thought process.

Never looked back again. Congrats to those who cleared it though, hotdang.

As for Gold Saucer, I just eventually gave up and decided that the Cloud card and the mounts will forever stay in the seller's inventory screen forever mocking me. Even with MGP practically being tossed at you at your feet nowadays, I will typically look at it on the floor and go "huh? Did I grind for my poetics this week?" and completely ignore and forget any of the events that are currently happening.

I'm just a terrible spender. The highest MGP count I had was 500k and saw some glamour and dances and spent all of it. The lottery doesn't do anything for me either, because in all the attempts I've given, I've been met with the best prize of all: Forgetting I had a ticket and got the good 'ol consolation prize!

Savage and Ultimate. I did my hardcore raiding time back in EQ. Nights were either spent raiding or doing things to prepare to raid on the other nights. So I've gone the opposite and I choose not to have a schedule now. If I've got a goal then I will work obsessively at it until complete. I'm also an omni-crafter on multiple characters before Ishgard. So it's not a time expenditure thing. Not a skill thing. I could pick up the patterns and react to them without any issues. It's that *I* want to choose what I do on a given night, not the expectations of others. So I'd be a horrible static member because I can go weeks playing every night for hours each night and then not be on for a week while I'm playing some console game that interested me. And I have no interest in doing anything to change that.

As to the voice chat thing, yeah, my raid alliance in EQ didn't use voice chat. We had the all-raid chat channel and then we had specific chat channels for classes so we could sync casts. But a lot of the time we were clowning around in shout.

Shame on you

For me it’s savage, used to raid a lot in other MMOs but ff14 raiding is so god awful it’s regulated to platform fights rather than ...you know raiding! I can do Normal and I’ll admit the trials are fun the apex being Sigmascape (Which is scaled so poorly it’s not even fun anymore) but I will never do savage until some hardy reworking is done

Hahaha I thought I was the only one! Ive been playing for years and have no idea what is going on or who half the characters are.

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Originally Posted by Erigby

I have never read one quest conversation or watched a cut scene through all of the xpacs. i click through or skip the CS.

i have no idea what the story has ever been about

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Hahaha i thought I was the only one. Been playing for years and I have no idea what's going on.

Savage - demanding a static for content is too much. Should be puggable or DF'able, or make versions of 4 man dungeons savage for some diversity for the casuals.
Eureka - i dont even understand it or why people do it or why they keep putting variations of it in the game
Everything i did in 1.0 - hard dungeons, speed runs that rewarded an extra chest, changing jobs in the middle of a dungeon, repairing your friends gear in a dungeon, entering the dungeon through the open world.

RP, despite having my main on an RP server.

I'd love to have a casual group of friends to do some of the savage and/or ultimate stuff. I know i'll never have the time to devote to the more hardcore groups but it'd fun to try it at a more relaxed pace.

I also really want to do the BLU raid achieves for the morbol mount. I don't know when it will happen but i'm determined to get it done eventually.