Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

You should be able to get at least one loot from savage chest before lockout applies.

The number of players who has chest lockout for the week shouldn't reduce the chests spawned for the player who hasn't received their loot.

META slaving and homogenisation makes the game more boring one stat/job/role at a time.

I took a picture, it was hot.

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Originally Posted by BaconBits

Here's a Hot Take for ya.

Your mom is a wonderful lady and I sincerely hope she's proud of the person you grew up to be.

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Awww! That was sweet.

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Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams

Of course! I will attach the background I use, I got in from the game by scaling the UI pretty large and taking a screenshot without the respective trust roles filled out and then erasing the blue background around them. For the fonts and job symbols, I got those from the following linked file, from this video.

I combined my background with their template along with screenshots with a gshade filter over them. The template will allow you to customize the text in your banner, but since it was originally made during Shadowbringers it has level 80 stuck as the background-the image I am posting has no level attached to it so you can edit that in as the level cap increases. Enjoy!

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Thank you for sharing!

Your signatures are fantastic. Well done!

My hot take(s):

1. Sushi is the tastiest food ever and you are doing yourself a disservice if you've never tried it.

2. People naturally play better on a job they enjoy than a job that they don't. Therefore, never let someone tell you to play the latest meta job if you don't care for it. You'll never reach that job's full potential.

I don't know how hot this is, but here's a take.

The gear design in this game is mostly superb, but when they make something bad its BAD.

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Originally Posted by RdehlikaJenma

Miqo'te are not "Catboys/Catgirls" People who portray them as such are literal weebs with too much generic anime in their system. Nowhere do you see female Miqo'te acting like a generic anime catgirl.

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For some reason people think that if it's an animation (either computer generated or drawn) and from Japan, that automatically makes it "anime." Also, here's a hot take that's gonna ruffle some feathers on these forums: with the exception of DBZ and Samurai Champloo, anime sucks.

Nah, even their animation, face style and specially many of the voice options are what make them "anime catgirl/catboy". All they're missing is saying "nya" randomly.
Also saying DBZ is a good anime automatically renders your opinion of anime moot.

My hot take

I like turning on mentor crown to lower people’s expectations. It’s easier to get by when people have less adequate expectations out of you.

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Originally Posted by RdehlikaJenma

Miqo'te are not "Catboys/Catgirls" People who portray them as such are literal weebs with too much generic anime in their system. Nowhere do you see female Miqo'te acting like a generic anime catgirl.

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In-game lorewise? You're incorrect, unless you're being very specific about the type of anime you're talking about, because there's plenty of cat people across anime and beyond that act the way some do in FFXIV. Player-wise? Definitely do act like that. Many nyans.

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Originally Posted by Beytran70

In-game lorewise? You're incorrect, unless you're being very specific about the type of anime you're talking about, because there's plenty of cat people across anime and beyond that act the way some do in FFXIV. Player-wise? Definitely do act like that. Many nyans.

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Praetorium fishers aren't that annoying.

I have no sympathy or love for Emmet Selch.

Sure he experienced tragedy, but that doesn't justify the extermination of life on multiple worlds. And before someone says it, I think his justification of "I don't think you're really alive" cuts it for me. It's justification that felt a lot like the progadanda of certain regimes who justified killing certain ethnic groups because they didn't consider them to be fully human.

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Originally Posted by wereotter

Sure he experienced tragedy, but that doesn't justify the extermination of life on multiple worlds.

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And what are your feelings on Venat/Hydaelyn? The one person who made the decision to extinguish all life as she knew it on her planet, for what she felt was right?

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

And what are your feelings on Venat/Hydaelyn? The one person who made the decision to extinguish all life as she knew it on her planet, for what she felt was right?

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dear god can we not turn literally every thread into a Venat debate?

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Originally Posted by MilkieTea

dear god can we not turn literally every thread into a Venat debate?

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I mean, if you want to talk about how a character is bad because they did a mass murder, you can't get too salty over pointing out that the so-called savior brought us into existence through genocide as well.

I personally think this should be debated, strictly because the white knights are out in full force over anyone who dares question or criticize endwalker.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

I mean, if you want to talk about how a character is bad because they did a mass murder, you can't get too salty over pointing out that the so-called savior brought us into existence through genocide as well.

I personally think this should be debated, strictly because the white knights are out in full force over anyone who dares question or criticize endwalker.

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There's already threads for discussing her, leave it there if you really want a discussion. You don't have to turn literally every thread that mentions one character into a discussion about another character.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

And what are your feelings on Venat/Hydaelyn? The one person who made the decision to extinguish all life as she knew it on her planet, for what she felt was right?

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I have no strong feelings about her either way.

Though since you're asking the question, there's a difference between sundering life so that life can continue at all, and committing genocide to "Make Ethyris great again"

Hot take: Everyone who treats any single side of the conflict as 100% right and the other as 100% wrong is missing the entire point of the story. With the exception of certain minor antagonists like Asahi or Valens, nobody has ever been pure evil in the game.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

I mean, if you want to talk about how a character is bad because they did a mass murder, you can't get too salty over pointing out that the so-called savior brought us into existence through genocide as well.

I personally think this should be debated, strictly because the white knights are out in full force over anyone who dares question or criticize endwalker.

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Strongly agree with this.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Hot take: Everyone who treats any single side of the conflict as 100% right and the other as 100% wrong is missing the entire point of the story. With the exception of certain minor antagonists like Asahi or Valens, nobody has ever been pure evil in the game.

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Valens was 100% good, he just wanted to burn out the bad. :^)
Asahi was merely overcome with lust for a blond chad who never noticed him.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Hot take: Everyone who treats any single side of the conflict as 100% right and the other as 100% wrong is missing the entire point of the story. With the exception of certain minor antagonists like Asahi or Valens, nobody has ever been pure evil in the game.

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Zenos is pretty much pure evil lol

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Originally Posted by ReynTime

Nah, even their animation, face style and specially many of the voice options are what make them "anime catgirl/catboy". All they're missing is saying "nya" randomly.
Also saying DBZ is a good anime automatically renders your opinion of anime moot.

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DBZ is a bad anime?? That's blasphemy.

I don't think it's reasonable for either the Sundered or Unsundered to be expected to just roll over and die for the sake of the other. It's unfortunate that they were put in such a horrific position to begin with though we can most certainly place the blame for that at Venat's feet.

You'll probably have to look up to do so, though. Everybody else has to walk, apparently, but somehow she still has wings. Not one to lead by example, I suppose! Hahaha!

If you tank the Bone Dragon at the edge you're a coward.

Hunt system needs an overhaul.

Remove crossworld hunting.

Hilde quests weren't that funny.

Write as many essays as you want I still don't like Zenos or think he made a good primary villain.

Extremely hot take, quite possibly too hot: Lyse is a great character and much (not all, but much) of the hate towards her is cringey and bandwagony, she's hated largely because it's popular to hate her and less so because of legitimate issues with how she's written (of which there are admittedly legitimate reasons).

Hot take for FFXIV in general: please, for the love of god, stop faking us out with "death scenes." We lost Y'shtola twice, for crying out loud. If she's going to die, let her freaking die. I'm going to be mega pissed if they bring back a certain someone whose name starts with Z and ends with ENOS.

EDIT: There were no stakes for the Scions in EW. I thought EW was the best expansion thus far, but it would've been better had there been stakes. I don't think all of the Scions should have survived.

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Originally Posted by YukikoKurosawa

Extremely hot take, quite possibly too hot: Lyse is a great character and much (not all, but much) of the hate towards her is cringey and bandwagony, she's hated largely because it's popular to hate her and less so because of legitimate issues with how she's written (of which there are admittedly legitimate reasons).

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I remember someone saying that part of the reason why Lyse was unpopular as a character was because it was unrealistic for her to be the leader of the Resistance after Conrad died and that she was unqualified to take on that role. Not saying I agree with that logic, but that was at least a few people's reason for hating her.

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Originally Posted by YukikoKurosawa

Extremely hot take, quite possibly too hot: Lyse is a great character and much (not all, but much) of the hate towards her is cringey and bandwagony, she's hated largely because it's popular to hate her and less so because of legitimate issues with how she's written (of which there are admittedly legitimate reasons).

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I'll preface this with I don't hate Lyse. I hate how they did this weird reset on her character. She should have been more qualified. She was a Scion, for crying out loud!! Why was she bumbling around like some naive idealist? What did she learn in all those years out in the field? It didn't make any sense, and I choose to block those sequences out of my memory for my own sanity.

She was done dirty, and while I can ignore it for the sake of bad storytelling, a lot of people can't.

(I really like Lyse and how she was written in SB gives me A LOT OF FEELINGS)

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

No, he isn't. Everyone should read the official story "The Hunt Begins". Zenos grew up alone, unloved, neglected by Varis, abused by his tutor and trained to be the killing machine for an evil empire. Neglect and abuse can do scary things to a person's mind and soul, no wonder he's messed up.

Also, we still don't know what Emet-Selch did to him.

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Just because he's messed up doesn't make him any less evil.

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

No, he isn't. Everyone should read the official story "The Hunt Begins". Zenos grew up alone, unloved, neglected by Varis, abused by his tutor and trained to be the killing machine for an evil empire. Neglect and abuse can do scary things to a person's mind and soul, no wonder he's messed up.

Also, we still don't know what Emet-Selch did to him.

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I’ve read the short story. I’m pretty sure it’s mentioned Varis gave him the best teachings he could along with trying to set up playmates with him. The dude was a bad seed from the start pretty sure even the devs say this. They’ve even gone on record saying he’s pure/ultimate evil. Can’t argue with that.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I don't think it's reasonable for either the Sundered or Unsundered to be expected to just roll over and die for the sake of the other. It's unfortunate that they were put in such a horrific position to begin with though we can most certainly place the blame for that at Venat's feet.

You'll probably have to look up to do so, though. Everybody else has to walk, apparently, but somehow she still has wings. Not one to lead by example, I suppose! Hahaha!

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See, I'm conflicted a little about this.

Clearly some time passed after the events on Elpis. Unfortunately, the game doesn't show us enough. What was that golden rule in live-action/animation? "Show, don't tell?" Yeah, they didn't do enough so we don't have that whole buildup to what Venat does. The final days started but I would hate to think Venat immediately went for blood (especially given the way she describes how much she loves all living things) but at the same time, the custcene makes it look like right there and then, she made up her mind like a homicidal psychopath would when they flip their mental switch.

It's all these questions I want to ask the live letter (or at least I hope people ask) but I have a feeling they'll go unanswered.

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

I don't care, I disagree. I'm 100% sure he'd be a different person if he grew up in a loving environment.

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

I don't care, I disagree. I'm 100% sure he'd be a different person if he grew up in a loving environment.

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I’ve seen people grow up in a great living environment and still turn out shitty. While it is true in some cases that some people are shaped by their experiences that isn’t for everyone. There are people who grow up in absolute shitty conditions but still end up alright. In game evidence of this for example being some of the scions. People have the choice to change, they just choose not to. This was very evident with Yotsuyu and Zenos.

Hot take: People who spoil deserve to be sundered and spend eternity washing a primal's bumcrack.

Hot Take: The Hot Take thread is no longer about hot takes
jfc

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Originally Posted by dapperfaffer

Hot Take: The Hot Take thread is no longer about hot takes
jfc

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Everything being said right now is probably a hot take in someone's eyes. Somewhere. Even my post right here.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Everything being said right now is probably a hot take in someone's eyes. Somewhere. Even my post right here.

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oh, nyo!
does that mean we're Twatter now?

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

I don't care, I disagree. I'm 100% sure he'd be a different person if he grew up in a loving environment.

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Ya know, I thought you were really on to something there right until you deleted your posts.

I love how this thread is a battlefield

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

See, I'm conflicted a little about this.

Clearly some time passed after the events on Elpis. Unfortunately, the game doesn't show us enough. What was that golden rule in live-action/animation? "Show, don't tell?" Yeah, they didn't do enough so we don't have that whole buildup to what Venat does. The final days started but I would hate to think Venat immediately went for blood (especially given the way she describes how much she loves all living things) but at the same time, the custcene makes it look like right there and then, she made up her mind like a homicidal psychopath would when they flip their mental switch.

It's all these questions I want to ask the live letter (or at least I hope people ask) but I have a feeling they'll go unanswered.

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Everyone was getting a bit nutty and crazy during the events of the final days. You had Venat who basically took upon the role of a bible prophet. Meanwhile the population was so stuck to their own ideologies to think she was anything more than a tin foiled hat conspiracy theorist. When at the same time they were sacrificing lives to supply their own conspiracy theorist god, Zodiark. Though when the whole planet is plunged into Armageddon, I couldn't reasonably expect anyone to stay mentally sane. It boiled down to that Venat knew the truth but nobody would believe her and so she was forced to commit acts of necessary evils and become the bad guy for the greater good. It's pretty hypocritical that she got to keep her "wings" sure. But she didn't keep her wings because she thought she was superior, she kept them because she was the only one with any knowledge of the future and of Metetion. The fact she gives her life up so quickly the moment we meet her, goes to show how long she has waited for a successor to relieve her of the burden.

At the end of the day, every single person involved handled the entire situation badly but both sides are going to point fingers that the other was eviler than their own beliefs. The difference was that Venat had the foreknowledge of her actions to sunder the planet which had seemingly believable good potential since the us from the future enlightened her to that outcome. She even says in the story that she would never oppose the convocations decisions. Her mind was made up entirely because she believed our story. Which she didn't have much reason to doubt since our soul was the same as her successor's. Whom she already trusted. We're missing a lot of information about what happened exactly leading up to it. Like did she ever even speak to the new Azem (us) about it or left them in the dark while they made their own blind choices. It's hard to say and I'd very much like to know myself. If Venat became some deranged lunatic, it's only because we made her one acting as if we're an Angel coming down from heaven to heavily influence her mind. Azems in general are just extremely chaotic good in nature.