So, there's just so much negative junk on the forums as of late. Cash Shop hissing, SSII healer catfights, (I'm assuming Nexus-caused) tank speed run table-flipping, wardrobe complaints, game tweaking demands, 'shiney' hardcore vs 'filthy' casuals, class vs class, relics (.....though I will silently join the grind-complaining *slowly raises hand*), etcetcetc... It seems as though everyone is at each other's throats.
Gaming communities are easily toxic, so why not post something expressly positive about anyone and everyone?
I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting really tired of seeing only complaint threads and not enough positive contribution.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a bunnies and rainbows kind of person, but jeeze. -_-
Soooooo, post your positive experiences, stories or moments or things - from in game/FFXIV - that have made you happy, or (positively =p) amazed, or laugh, or awesome parties or people you've met! Things that have made you proud or happily surprised at yourself for!
You know.... positive things!
Now excuse me while I insert bunnies and rainbows.
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12-12-2014, 03:28 AMSasealPost Your Positivity: Awesome moments were awesome!
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12-12-2014, 03:29 AMSaseal
Okay, so here goes. I figure that I started this thread - whether it works or falls 46375843657483 pages into oblivion - so I might as well start the ball.
So, I was all proud of myself when I took my bard into Titan HM (my nemesis =_=) and pretty much dodged every aoe (for once... since I seem to suffer from positional lag) xD I'm usually eating every other WotE when I go on WHM >__<.
Downside is that the rest of the party died or was pushed off till it was just a dragoon and I poking around at Titan with just a tidbit of HP left... we clung to hope but er, yeah. My little myth-geared bardy ass and a DRG weren't going to take on Titan alone xD;;
We wiped, but it gave me confidence that it's not that I -can't- do Titan HM (WHMing) but I guess just a difference in circumstances or luck? Unfortunately I think I ended up with fight fatigue from concentrating o_O since I couldn't do as well in dodging, after that... but still! *pats self on head*
Also, watching a large tank and a lalafell DRG just turn and jump off the cliff consecutively to ditch a determined wipe - from something of a floor level view (:x I died in a different wipe) - is a hilarious thing to see. xD
And last story -
Did Labyrinth for the first time on my bard character (done it a lot on WHM) - one of our alliance's tanks, a WAR, had 10k-ish HP.
I have to say, they were badass for a good few bits of the raid.
-Behemoth fight: They took dem behemoth falling comets like pebbles (and killed everyone else not behind a rock)
-Acheron fight: While everyone was waiting on the platforms behind the shielding with Flare about to go off... they were the last one out, and got on the other side of the barrier JUST in time... but from where I stood it was a, "cool guys don't look at explosions" moment xD -
12-12-2014, 03:35 AMJamillion
Here goes:
I was recently promoted to Brigadier General (3rd rank) in the best FC on Lamia! I love this FC, it's like having a second family and we all try to be helpful and supportive of each other. It really is a fantastic group of people, we also recently gained a few new members (someone even rejoined) so it's great to see us thriving. We're currently working on a gathering super team which I hope to be a part of once I reach 50 with my miner and possibly botanist. Also our fearless leader is an awesome 4-star crafter and a master crafter in all classes so that's awesome. Not to mention we have two houses, one FC house and another that's basically a night club for the members. We have our own website as well, it really is an awesome FC and I'm proud to be a member. -
12-12-2014, 03:48 AMSasealDayum o.o With that second FC house, you guys could probably buy the extra 'personal rooms' and turn them into a mini town. xD The dance club, the restaurant (with those new meal plates that can be crafted and eaten by any. Going on a raid? Catch a lunch at the restaurant, first! lol), sauna room, bar.... *_*Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamillion
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12-12-2014, 03:56 AMJamillionHaha, well the second one is technically a personal house but that would be pretty awesome, we do have a lot of fun with it though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Saseal
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12-12-2014, 04:23 AMSummonerSenah
Running around on my alt on Jenova as a level 19 gld with level 15 gear on still, a level 50 dude stopped me and traded me some HQ gear to wear instead. I thought it was really nice of them. ^_^
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12-12-2014, 04:31 AMZooters
I recently came back to the game. My FC got me caught up to them in Second Coil in a night and the following weekend got myself up to i109 Blm/Smn. Been leveling Ninja, which I am liking quite a bit. My FC isn't hardcore maybe slightly more than casual, but when I was on the game before I had a hell of a time getting a set schedule going. Since I left and my friend has had the FC they set up a couple night, but we got past a bunch of primals that people have been putting off doing.
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12-12-2014, 05:20 AMStrejdaTom
To be honest every time I down extreme primal or new coil turn (atm still on T9 with my static) it feels so awesome. I am really looking forward that feeling when I finish T9 and enter FCoB. :)
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12-12-2014, 05:28 AMZootersMe too! We're on Turns 8 and 9, I've yet to enter either one, since just coming back, but I'm looking forward to when we beat them. Yes I know I could DF or PF them, but I enjoy doing stuff the first time with my FC.Quote:
Originally Posted by StrejdaTom
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12-12-2014, 05:28 AMYumi_umi
Getting back into raiding and making my way thru scob lol..
Gearing up my crafters = loving the artisan tool req nerf.
I enjoyed the marriage thing too
So stoked for golden saucers my baes. So stoked. -
12-12-2014, 05:35 AMAzurr
I have to say its awesome to see you around forums, since you designed the mini-party of your own characters just like I did. With unique personalities and just a few specialized jobs on each.
Solotanking t5 felt pretty awesome once I got a win with my friends, although extra scary since my controller was dying during twisters. Someone actually thought I was cool (my tank is a lala) then they realized they already know me and were like how could you xD
Soloing the boss in SV HM as a puny paladin in str gear with most of its HP still left. Had a few close calls but I killed it.
Beating t8 with a duty finder group with no deaths in the run :D I was a heal xD
Scholar becoming my main class over others was a cool moment, since I found a healer that suits my style and it comes with a fairy too. Really didn't expect to like it the first time I donned on the job outfit for it. -
12-12-2014, 07:37 AMSasealGrats on the coils! xD I'm a little chicken to drop into T5 - mainly fear of not doing well enough and then people flipping tables at me x_xQuote:
Originally Posted by Azurr
Nice to see another doing the same (with creating diff characters)! xD
Ramblings of doom (ignore if boring, rofl):
My characters have their own personalities, but I only really drop in and out of their character around friends/FC that understand whats up - and if I'm just not being serious about something/messing around. We're really not an RP FC (though I have RPed in the past and in other mediums) and I'm moreso out-of-character than in-character... though, even then, I usually drop out of character once I'm in a pugged/DF party - so if in a party that isn't comprised of just my FC, I'm more or less just me.... But I also think some of their traits are just magnified pieces of myself (and some not), anyway.
I think the only thing that remains, character-wise, when I enter a DFed party is the type of greeting.... and that's it. No real particular reason.
Keeping it brief....
Saseal (my main) is like the serious, kind of prudent big brother type - kind of diplomatic and protective, but does have a twinge of impishness when feeling playful around friends/FC.... I tend to enter dungeons with "Heyos", when on him
Taiga being Saseal's little brother, who is very much the skiddish, easily frightened kitten-y kind of Miquo'te.... and stutters. But I get lazy with typing the stuttering that I sorta omit it >_>. I usually do "Hello!" or "Hellos" in DF parties.
Zhyneel is a little bit of an opinionated, tempermental imp with a bit of a height complex. Depending on who the rest of my party is, I'll either say "Please don't step on me!/Nobody step on me!" if it's tall peeps (....born from a time when I entered a hest with three Roe and my wee little Lala) or just a general "hello" if I'm feeling uncreative...
Fenrir is a bit of the happy-go-lucky, friendly 'fella' who tries hard (maybe too hard, but I think that's more my own personal flaw) to do what he can. I usually enter with "Hello, hello!", when on him (much like one of the male hyur retainer greeting types)
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12-12-2014, 11:41 AMSaseal
So this one time in Garuda EX, we kept wiping. This, of course, led to flaired tempers, then silence in waiting out a timer (no one wanted to abandon at 40+/- mins on the clock, I wanted to keep trying and two didn't want the leave penalty). So there we are, sitting in silence... when my co-healer, a SCH I believe (my memory is not the best) sort of starts a conversation. A silent convo. All emots. So we just 'spoke' in emots. It was pretty awesome.
It turned a "Well. This is a bad night -___-" to "Okay, it was an annoying hiccup in the night, but it's not so bad, sitting here now ^^".
So much better mood from then on.
Thank you, mister scholar sir!
Sometimes, it's even the little things...
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12-12-2014, 12:07 PMEggnook24
Had a Peru with some newbies doing Garuda HM, I was running BLM, had already done SCH and PLD on it, figured DPS would be an easy quick kill. My mistake. 5 wipes, but each time we got closer to the end. I was explaining tactics and kept encouraging, and eventually downed the duty. Everyone broke into the Manderville, and I got commendations galore. Was frustrating but fun. I had been drinking a bit that night though, so was in good spirits.
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12-12-2014, 11:55 PMJoeDono
Getting my Ramuh EX clear.
I joined a progression/clear party after banging my head against this for a few weeks. I was afraid this would turn into a case of "oh, we didn't clear immediately. I have better things to do *leave*". I knew we weren't going to clear it the first or even the fourth time. I was ready to devote as much time as it took, but prepared for the inevitable disband after one or two tries. We wiped once...and no one left. We wiped again...and no one left!! We wiped a third time...and still no one left!!! We wiped a fourth time (this time finally making it past the add phase)...and then we had to reset because someone forgot to repair their gear. That caused some people to leave (although whether their excuses were real or made up, we'll never know). We recruit a bit more and go in. We wipe again...and no one left!! You can see where this is going. Around round 6 or so we finally cleared it. Commendations and friend requests went all around. -
12-13-2014, 12:33 AMZanzhizExaverion
My Ramuh EX clear was incredible. It was about a week before the patch dropped, my friend and I had been trying for ages. We beat him as everyone started dying. I was terrored as a tank, the other tank had to Holmgang, and Ramuh died to a last second Flare from my friend. We erupted into cheers. I hadn't nerdgasm'd like that in forever.
Another was doing a Trial Roulette on Warrior, we got Chimera, my whole party died (there were about 2-3 new people. And I soloed Chimera from 10%~15% to death. They were all like. "God damn you're a beast." Felt good, was the first time I got 7 commends at once as well. -
12-13-2014, 12:54 AMRinion
After running SV and Tam-Tara HM for the last couple of weeks I got my Robe of Divine Harvest ^.^ Also this morning I ended up with an amazing team for Sastasha HM ( I went SCH). The damage was really good and the tank was very polite and asked if we wanted to speedrun at the beginning of the dungeon ( to which everyone said yes, however I was presuming a little bit of chaos XD) and whether we wanted to try a big pull just before the last room (I said we could try although I thought we'd wipe). We (with a few close calls) didn't have a single death throughout the dungeon AND we succesfully did one big pull in the last room (my first time seeing that) =D That was one of the smoothest runs I've had in Sastasha HM. Usually it's hectic to speedrun, but today it was quite calm mostly =D
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12-13-2014, 01:16 AMPoxyPriceless
About half a dozen or so of our FC members working our tails off to save up for a Large House in Mist. Felt very satisfying when we reached our goal.
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12-13-2014, 01:24 AMJanhyua
The best moment in my gaming experience was.
Looking at how much my raid has grow for the past 4 months as a leader it means a lot to me, I wish I was a better leader and I wish my raid will forgive my shortsighted decision I make -
12-13-2014, 01:25 AMAdrian74
I'm enjoying the new buffs of the DRG so much that sometimes I even forget to go watch the negative posts in forum and some replies.
I even decided to not continue my ninja's nexus because Sasuke's blades look ugly... So I win both things! Gearing up now my lolDRG (Love the 120 chest gear of DRG and MNK) and maintaining the cool nexus lightsabers!
I'm also happy that my server seems to be one of the rares that doesn't sell certain cash shop stuffs in Party Finder.
Recently nooby chocobo raised to 17 and it was another happy moment of this week... And now I have a funny theory about RNGesus and the golden-white-silver-black dyes of the quick explorations that I'll post later. -
12-13-2014, 01:46 AMAmiantos
When I first started off as ninja at 50 I was really struggling. I was doing absolutely terrible as ninja as I had only ever played bard up until this point. Nothing what I did seemed to work for me and I got really frustrated to the point I tossed my Yoshimitsu Atma and i110 Vajras. Took the weekend off and began to regret what I had done. So when I logged in that following Monday I dropped the sol to get a new i110 vajras. I just spammed Hard Modes and Extremes after that to force myself to learn how to properly react. Now I sit at i113 posting this while I wait on a FATE for my 7th book for my new Yoshimtisu Atma I got and I am able to easily top dps in most groups now.
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12-13-2014, 02:46 AMZootersMan, I don't toss hardly anything. I still have darklight and green level 50 gear from those dungeons at the time lol. Glad it worked out for you in the end :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Amiantos
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12-13-2014, 05:28 AMAzurrHaha my lala Gaku Po (I didnt even realise there was kupo hidden in that name) has a height complex too, my provoke macro says 'Pick on someone your own size!' even if the enemy is like a thousand times bigger. I always find myself climbing on taller things in the environment, same urge I get as a dragoon since dragoons have to precariously balance on everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saseal
My dragoon Raiden just went and created his own backstory. Made it clear that only color he'll wear is pink, to match his pink tail and hair, started worshiping a 'plant primal' which at first was just a small plant in uldah goblet in a pot, then as FC switched locations to gridania the plant primal was now that giant tree and we decided that the small plant just used its primal powers and overtook goblet, changing it overnight.
On another awesome note relogging into a server after you've been gone a day or a week to all the greetings from FC friends is a great thing to see. -
12-13-2014, 09:50 AMHakuroDK
Here's an awesome moment:
Crafting HQ Darksteel Ingots. Each one got to less than 25% quality when it was finished, five ingots of nine were HQ and I managed to get my Master Recipe Book for BSM. -
12-13-2014, 09:57 AMKeisatsu
Awesome moment of mine: Grinding out T4 like mad to craft Kirimu Coat on my bard, and finally completing it and wearing it
Getting many whispers later of how amazing I managed to make my character look :')
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12-16-2014, 02:10 AMSaseal
(Finally) did the ULTROS (I messed up and called him Ultima -_-) fight last night, for the first time (been busy with other things) and...
Me: Heyos. New to the fight but seen vids
FC party mates: New too
Others not in FC pre-party: New
Me (in my head): Oh thank gad (didn't have to worry about rage quitters that could do the fight in their sleep) *Impromptu learning party*
We wiped a few times from being knocked out of the ring all at once (/slaps Typhon) but we got it :D
Overall, it was kind of fun :D Punishing, but not as much as say, Titan where once you're out, you uselessly stay a on the floor like a dropped pancake.
It was a good group, I believe :D
Second:
Ran my Bard/Taiga through Labyrinth and ST and had a lot of fun! a lot more than I was expecting (I'm finding I like playing bard in 8-24 peep instances rather than the normal 4-man dungeons - which was all I was used to at that point). It was <3
(except when I Raise-accept-derped into a room wide AoE blast.... twice x.x;;; )
As WHM main suddenly playing a DPS, I always feel helpless to help out (my brain starts telling me to smash my Cure II button, but, er, I kinda can't) when shit is hitting the fan, other than try to help the healers from having to keep from raising my ass/reduce some of their heart attacks with Second Wind, bloodbath (which ever or both is avail for cross skill) and pots to be more self sufficient..... but as a BRD (...does anyone else read the class abbrev as "BIRD"? No? Oh, uh, er, me neither, ahahaha...... >.>;;; ), I can help out one way or another (at least with mp... as whm main, I will froth at the mouth for a mage's ballad), while still pin cushioning things. A bit of a 'fingers dipped in both worlds'.
(Now if only there was an HP regen song - then I'd be in love...)
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12-20-2014, 07:17 AMSaseal
I story a lot of good pug runs, I know x_x
It's just a 'Faith in humanity restored!'
Here, have another one!
So, I was on my BRD in ST, and between the party speak and the bosses spam-flapping their mouths in the chat, I'm hearing my FC mates talking about a pugged healer that was in their party while trying to do a dungeon for one of their relic books. It sounded bad. Really bad. Horror story bad. Multiple wipes bad. I'm usually the FC's healer, but I've been in a BRD mood lately.
When my ST run was done, I scrolled back up through the chat to a recent mention of kicking the decidedly trolling healer and then having me come in and take their place. I've done it a few times when an FC mate is in a pugged party and something happened. I switched to WHM.
It was decided, that with 4 mins left on the timer, there was no sense.
But then I misunderstood a comment and completely lost track of the 4 mins that went by (and apaprently, reality >_>). "You're up, Sase!" Oh goodiegoodie! +_+ *Hit "Join party in progress" and joined that dungeon.... completely forgetting the convo from 4 mins ago. Meaning my FC's dungeon had ended already. And I was still trying to get into theirs. |||OTL
Dropped in on a party in the exact same dungeon (Copperbell HM), whom were missing the same job (healer) in mere -seconds-. I assumed it was my FC's dungeon.
Started to load....
Wait. These names are not my FC.
Ohshit.
Ah.
Thats right.
You dumbass. >_<
"Heyo"
I can't bail on the poor folks. I can imagine how that would feel if I were in their place. I mention this to the FC - luckily they were cool with it (and probably needed to cool down after the sounds of that last run).
I also noticed, after a bit of time, that they hadn't cleared any of the bosses, so they were still near to the beginning. My first thoughts were, "okay... so why are they missing a healer..... was it..... bad? o_o Really bad? or... just the healer had to leave? D/Ced? Or maybe the healer was just bad?".
First good sign - the group seemed friendly in welcoming me before I'd even completely loaded into the dungeon. Okay, well, if they're friendly the whole way through, I can deal with a challenging run if it came down to it.
I catch up, buff everyone and off we go.
It was certainly different - but a good different. I've never run the dungeon quite like this - and it was in no means bad, just a different - faster - method. And I enjoyed that change of pace! Run passed ALL the things in the beginning. Drag ALL the things to the end of the bridge. Tank ALL the things after the second boss. xD
It made me happy - they asked if I was good for a big pull ('big' felt like an understatement right then), rather than just doing it and expecting godliness (like most pugged parties I have).
"yes! At least, I hope so..."
I was still a bit pull-shy from a failure in snow cloak and AV (...long story, mentioned in the 'stare blankly' thread) not too long ago and didn't want to confidently say yes, only to let them down like the last time... but I was reassured I could do it.
The tank was beast.
The DPS were beast.
I didn't even shed a moment of fear in that. *_*
Faith in pugged humanity restored.
Super fast dungeon run (reminded me of the sub-13 minute Bray HM run I once had) and a super awesome group. Why their healer ran off, I'll never know... but more awesome peeps, for me! >:D
*Oprahs the commendations* You get a commendation, you get a commendation, everyone gets a commendation! *throws commendations like handfuls of confetti*
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12-20-2014, 07:28 AMninthfantasy
Been farming Shiva EX these past few days with (finally) some good players. It's nice getting a solid 6 clears in a row with no deaths. I love the fight and am having a great time running it and equipping my alts with upgraded Shiva weapons. It's nice to take a break from raiding and just have good old fashioned extreme primal fun!
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12-20-2014, 07:40 AMAshkendorYeah, this is how I do this one now too. It's so easy cause a lot of the stuff is squishy and some of the mobs actually reset. I'd say I think you landed in one of our runs, but I don't remember kicking/losing a healer for any.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saseal