Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

also this is my favorite thread

Getting rid of Machinist's Bishop Turret back in Shadowbringers never made sense. Why the heck would I summon Queen Automata on a pack of enemies when it can only attack them one at a time!? And to add insult to injury, Bishop Turret was given back, but for PvP! Come on devs! You guys could have at least given back Bishop Turret for PvE after you guys gave it Dismantle back!

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Getting rid of Machinist's Bishop Turret back in Shadowbringers never made sense. Why the heck would I summon Queen Automata on a pack of enemies when it can only attack them one at a time!? And to add insult to injury, Bishop Turret was given back, but for PvP! Come on devs! You guys could have at least given back Bishop Turret for PvE after you guys gave it Dismantle back!

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That still really cheeses me off. It also doesn't help that when people asked they gave us a flamethrower and went "here's your AoE back, bro. :^)"

Res potential from DPS need to be significantly reduced. Put it on a 120s timer at least.

RDM and SMN should not have to pay the rez tax. Their DPS should be increased until it is near the level of BLM.

I enjoy FFXIV. C:

I don't enjoy FFXIV.

I somewhat enjoy FFXIV.

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

That still really cheeses me off. It also doesn't help that when people asked they gave us a flamethrower and went "here's your AoE back, bro. :^)"

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Which is crap, because Bishop is an all around better constant AoE attack than Flamethrower, because if you move, Flamethrower turns off. Meanwhile, even if we have to reposition Bishop, building the gauge to do so is a cake walk! Meanwhile, Flamethrower is stuck on a long arse cooldown...

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Originally Posted by Absimiliard

RDM and SMN should not have to pay the rez tax. Their DPS should be increased until it is near the level of BLM.

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Yes. Absolutely YES!
And I say that as someone who mainly played BLM. Let people play what they enjoy instead of feeling like a training wheel you ditch once your ress becomes unnecessary so you can push kills easier.

While I don't have nearly as many issues with the combat system as other people, and I actually enjoy the relatively simplistic job piloting aspect, I completely loathe random procs in this game, not crits, crits are fine, but rather things like RDM's 50% Verproc chance and DNC's 50% Fan Dance chance, DNC feels amazing during your burst after Technical Step, or when the stars align and you get perfect procs for like a full uninterrupted minute, but that happens so sparsely...

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Originally Posted by VeyaAkemi

While I don't have nearly as many issues with the combat system as other people, and I actually enjoy the relatively simplistic job piloting aspect, I completely loathe random procs in this game, not crits, crits are fine, but rather things like RDM's 50% Verproc chance and DNC's 50% Fan Dance chance, DNC feels amazing during your burst after Technical Step, or when the stars align and you get perfect procs for like a full uninterrupted minute, but that happens so sparsely...

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Meanwhile I love chance and RNG elements. One of my favorite things in RPGs is when you have an ability that casts random magic or things like that. But it's a good thing that there are jobs that have RNG and ones that don't rather than all of them having RNG mechanics like that, or none at all.

The notion that Healers should focus on damaging GCDs and healing oGCDs is cringe and toxic when teaching newer healers or when content is already in it's .x5 patch and most players are BiS in PF. No one cares about your funny coloured numbers and no one ever will, they care about the content being cleared and tanks not dying to Boss DoTs/Auto Attacks cause the "optimized" healers neglected to use 1 or 2 GCDs to heal them after a buster.

As an aside to this, I want every fight in each raid tier from now on to have "At content" Almagest levels of Raid damage so we can get healers healing once again.

1. As it stands right now, Healing is brain dead easy.
2. Dungeons aren't fun, you can just about fall asleep during them.
3. having the same formula every expansion / patch cycle and slapping a new skin on it isn't exciting. try new things please.

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Originally Posted by Allegor

I don't care how good its personal dps is, DRK is the worst tank. Might as well let the DRG do it

(had a chain of bad DRKs all night, let me vent lol)

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I mean, if you look at the four tanks, DRK and GNB are just very lackluster as TANKS, not DPS sticks that hold aggro, but TANKS. Their party support/mitigation kit is super basic in comparison to PLD and WAR. Their support is also designed in a way where it is more beneficial for them to hold and use it selfishly for themselves than actually use it to support and protect the party.

I'd rather jobs stay simple and fights get more complex. I don't need to worsen my carpal tunnel trying to keep up with a dozen CDs, but bosses could have more interesting mechanics than orange puddle, tankbuster, and half-room or donut cleave.

DPS mains opinions do not matter, especially in regards to high end content and job design

Garlemad should be rebuilt. Much like how Doma's captial was where we helped donate stuff for the effort.

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Garlemad should be rebuilt. Much like how Doma's captial was where we helped donate stuff for the effort.

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I don't think that one is as much as a hot take as it is a hope/expectation of many. x)

But yeah, agreed. Good way to distribute that Garlean glam people have been asking for, too, and involve Gaius, Cid and Nero again.

Not sure a hot take but there are far too many venues. from moment im on till i go off thats all i see in pf under other. then come night it just explodes and cities get spammed with ads.

of all the ones i been too i can say very few are unique. mostly all are just the cookie cutter ones. both in the sfw and the nsfw department. im not talking design because each venue thankfully has their own style design but i mean overall setup of services. also lord forbid you have in game bards...its like a death sentence to venues. everyone rather a twitch dj these days.

feel like they should rename the game to Final Venue XIV at this point.

Island Sanctuary should have been exclusive to gatherers and crafters only, and have the mobile game-like gameplay loop/barriers removed and level gated by DoH/DoL instead.

Tataru's stocks would plummet in the western crowd if her English dub sounded anything like the Japanese and Korean dubs.

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Originally Posted by Tehmon

Tataru's stocks would plummet in the western crowd if her English dub sounded anything like the Japanese and Korean dubs.

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Her stocks plummeted for me the moment she pulled an airship out of her ass. Her whole shtick of making up for her weaknesses in combat by being super resourceful and good at creating things was cute but it's just ridiculous now.

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Originally Posted by EliaStormblade

Her stocks plummeted for me the moment she pulled an airship out of her ass. Her whole shtick of making up for her weaknesses in combat by being super resourceful and good at creating things was cute but it's just ridiculous now.

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Honestly I just headcanon that Tataru is related to Tataramu and thus has connections with Highwind Skyways, surely Tatabaru isn't so heartless to not give lend his (theorical) niece an ear, especially after he mellowed out, and thus make it easy for Tataru to commission the right engineers?

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Originally Posted by Sol_Seppy

Island Sanctuary should have been exclusive to gatherers and crafters only, and have the mobile game-like gameplay loop/barriers removed and level gated by DoH/DoL instead.

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except its only for gathering and crafting lol.

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Originally Posted by Ravenblade1979

except its only for gathering and crafting lol.

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uh, no. you can do everything without even having to touch a crafting or gatherer class

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Originally Posted by Sol_Seppy

uh, no. you can do everything without even having to touch a crafting or gatherer class

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now that i think on this you right but then it would be like any other piece of content if they did that. this is unique to people who probably don't want to pick up crafting and gathering outside of the island

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Originally Posted by Ravenblade1979

now that i think on this you right but then it would be like any other piece of content if they did that. this is unique to people who probably don't want to pick up crafting and gathering outside of the island

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yeah, but it means that it follows a mobile-game-like system that is time-gated which just sucks ass, when it could easily be gated by something you work towards which is much more engaging and rewarding.

FFXIV without the trinity system (Tank-Healer-DPS) but, instead, giving every class its own healing, tanking, and DPS tools would be cool.

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Originally Posted by NiceNox

FFXIV without the trinity system (Tank-Healer-DPS) but, instead, giving every class its own healing, tanking, and DPS tools would be cool.

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So Guild Wars 2 with better story?

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Originally Posted by NiceNox

FFXIV without the trinity system (Tank-Healer-DPS) but, instead, giving every class its own healing, tanking, and DPS tools would be cool.

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I wouldn't wanna nix that system entirely, but I sure wouldn't mind some better sustain as a dps. x)

Here's my lukewarm take:
Get rid of the "type XYZ in say chat" quests. They're not engaging, they're not "mixing up the gameplay", they just make me feel like a crazy person talking to myself in public chat.

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

Here's my lukewarm take:
Get rid of the "type XYZ in say chat" quests. They're not engaging, they're not "mixing up the gameplay", they just make me feel like a crazy person talking to myself in public chat.

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Counterpoint: leave them in so tribe dailies are not just "go to x and interact" or "go to x and kill y".

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

Here's my lukewarm take:
Get rid of the "type XYZ in say chat" quests. They're not engaging, they're not "mixing up the gameplay", they just make me feel like a crazy person talking to myself in public chat.

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I hate being relaxed and comfortable and then have to get up to pick up my keyboard because it wants me to type in chat. It really is bothersome.

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Originally Posted by Remish

I hate being relaxed and comfortable and then have to get up to pick up my keyboard because it wants me to type in chat. It really is bothersome.

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I just made macros for the tribal ones and put them on a bar

The two minute burst window is one of the worst things to happen to PvE in this game.

Varis died in a stupid, unnecessary way. They could have kept him alive and his trash son. Yeah I think Zenos is bland and boring.

So much more could have come out of Garlemald.

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

Here's my lukewarm take:
Get rid of the "type XYZ in say chat" quests. They're not engaging, they're not "mixing up the gameplay", they just make me feel like a crazy person talking to myself in public chat.

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They also suck for console players who may not have a keyboard handy. The PS controller's built-in keyboard is terrible.

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Originally Posted by EliaStormblade

I wouldn't wanna nix that system entirely, but I sure wouldn't mind some better sustain as a dps. x)

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But now that tanks don't need healers, sustaining (mostly newbie) DPS is the only reason we're still valid, don't take our one job from us!

Here's a new one...

Casual content should have enrages, extremely lax ones, but they should still be present, to prevent fights from being endlessly loopable, and push the skill floor a tiny bit up so it stops being a tripping hazard in hell.