Show Your Positive Experience Party

We have show your (race) threads full of beautiful screenshots and I thought we not have a thread where we can show screenshots of characters with whom you had a positive experience?

Yesterday, I ran the leveling roulette with my wife and had the most enjoyable Hatali run I've ever had. We met two wonderful players with senses of humor and both passionate about FFXIV.

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From left to right: Tigol Biddys, her carbuncle, me, Striking Hawk (my wife), and Hanna Knight.

Thanks for the run! :D

I have my Lala joining a random PF for Nier Tower raid many months ago. Didn't expect it is a full Lalafell run.


Edit: For some reason, the image doesn't show up. I will just leave the reddit link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...er_tower_raid/


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I had a sprout learn about return in a Manor leveling roulette party today. That was wholesome.

It went fast and no one was wasting time saying RP bs.

Wish it would happen more often.

We single pulled, took our time and RP walked the entire run. There was lots of ooc chatting and RP as well. Made some friends.

Wish it would happen more often.

I joined a run months ago where no one greeted each other, spoke to each other, or emoted at each other. We cleared the dungeon quickly, and without issue. I still think of that run fondly when I'm stuck with a buncha wierdos who won't shutup and keep dieing :/

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I love your screenshot Momo Kozuki! I've never managed to get a full party of fellow lalafell. But, I know someday I will. :)

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Originally Posted by van_arn

I had a sprout learn about return in a Manor leveling roulette party today. That was wholesome.

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Ha! I just learned that trick last month and I have been playing for years!

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Originally Posted by Izscha

It went fast and no one was wasting time saying RP bs.

Wish it would happen more often.

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'Eh. I enjoy RP and socializing a bit during a run. But, different players like different things.

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Originally Posted by Xaruko_Nexume

We single pulled, took our time and RP walked the entire run. There was lots of ooc chatting and RP as well. Made some friends.

Wish it would happen more often.

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*looks at you suspiciously*

100% of my groups since I started this game in July. In the last ~100 days all of my random groups have been either positive, or neutral, and I have completed 184 dungeons, raids and trials during that time period. I've had more groups for random questing or 'kill the big bad' too but those are almost always silent, therefore I class them as neutral. TBH those large, roving groups that do FATEs are rumored to be pretty fun, social, and chatty, but I have never been in one.

Wait... I seem to remember one person in a raid saying something sarcastic like "nice of you to wait for the people watching cutscenes," when someone pulled early. To which there was no response, no further issues in the group, and the same 'GG' and 'Thanks!' at the end.

Anyway, , there's been regular chat (especially in roulettes, MSQ particularly, where many folks have seen the "movie" before), jokes, talk of glamours, RP stuff, people discussing mechanics, "the weather," and just general chit-chat.

In those 184 groups, I've died dozens of times, caused wipes, and did stupid things as any sprout would. All I ever got was a rez and a "avoid the blue X (or whatever) next time and you'll live!" And I say 'thanks,' and we go on.

So here's my +1 to the positive group thread. Big ups to all the folks that generate positivity out there in Eorzea. It really does come back to us.

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Originally Posted by Izscha

It went fast and no one was wasting time saying RP bs.

Wish it would happen more often.

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Right on, glad you had a good time. Whatever an individual's version of a 'good time' is, I hope they have it, be that a silent run, or an RP-fest.

I made a mistake. No one rage quit, someone told me not to worry, and someone else explained what to do.


Coming from WoW, that just made my day!

Kacho, you're always a font of positivity, thank you!

While I haven't had any memorably good dungeon party experiences outside of FC runs, none have been bad either. I'm on a fairly bilingual (JP/EN) DC so conversation tends to be minimal, which isn't a bad thing per se, but it does lead to generally technical in/out party experiences. As far as communal experiences, I've really been enjoying the positivity of the "Show Your <race>" threads here on the forums (points at Kacho). It's heartwarming to see people come together over their mutual love of a particular race and show off the character and glamours they're proud of.

We had a dps that dc'd a lot at the start of the dungeon.

We all waited til he was stable before fighting the boss. He was very grateful and kept apologizing evenn after we told him that it was fine.

I'm glad that he at least got to finish the dungeon as he was new to it.

Haukke Manor (Hard), two newbies to the instance (including me on SCH) and one person who said they did the dungeon once a long while ago. I was having fun, kinda happy I've come to grips with SCH playstyle finally. Most of the dungeon went swimmingly until the last boss. The one who had come here before said they remember something about the boss consuming the adds and wiping the group; after a little brainstorming we gave it a go and wiped - but it was alright. Two of us Googled it up and it seems that person had been right, the whole boss was a big DPS check on all adds. We went all in and at Lady Amandine, I typed out "LB" - the reaction wasn't quick enough though and we all zipped down to 1% health, and I just went ham spamming Succor and Fey Illumination in panic as I had run out of Aetherflow stacks. Miraculously I made it in time before any unanticipated bonks, and we made it!

I got praised at the end for my heals - I just replied back with thanking everyone back and saying it was a job well done all around. It was amazing.

So this is kinda cheating since it's not party interractions but the majority of my good runs are the ones where we quietly and efficiently clear dungeons. Sometimes we'll emote at each other and it's all wholesome n stuff.

But, hey, positive interractions are positive interractions and I dunno where else I could post this... but a lot of people have been randomly waving at me or petting me today. I have no idea why... but it makes me smile everytime ^.^

Thank you kind strangers!

This one was years ago in an extreme trial though I'm not entirely sure which one. I think Titan maybe?

Was back in HW, joined a group for the fight where I think everyone was new to it. We kept wiping over and over, though no one ever complained or left the party. Kept up the attempts and managed to clear with about 1 minute left on the instance timer. Pretty enjoyable run.

Although I have been getting some rough runs lately, I do recall two awesome runs of Shisui of the Violet Tides recently with two amazing healers that managed to keep me up through the one large wall-to-wall pull after the first boss. I made sure to commend both of them, I wish I could give them all the commendations! So, thank you random Viera WHM and Roe SCH, I shall never forget you since those were the smoothest runs I have had in this game for the past week or two.

Did a stone vigil run a few days ago.

Tank was around level of duty but wearing level 19/20 armor in some slots and was getting two shotted in some pulls.

He repeatedly apologized. We Suggested he upgraded his armor. No one raged. No one quit. We helped him through and had a cool run even if it was slightly more difficult and longer.

My experiences are when everyone can play in Paglth'an in 11 min, good dps no death.

This is so rare... Most of the time it's the PL of the dead guy over and over, the sadness.

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Originally Posted by Illmaeran

Kacho, you're always a font of positivity, thank you!

While I haven't had any memorably good dungeon party experiences outside of FC runs, none have been bad either. I'm on a fairly bilingual (JP/EN) DC so conversation tends to be minimal, which isn't a bad thing per se, but it does lead to generally technical in/out party experiences. As far as communal experiences, I've really been enjoying the positivity of the "Show Your <race>" threads here on the forums (points at Kacho). It's heartwarming to see people come together over their mutual love of a particular race and show off the character and glamours they're proud of.

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You are welcome!

I feel there is a lot of positivity in the FFXIV community. We just have a tendency to remember our negative experiences more because they are rarer and stick out more.

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Originally Posted by Tanis_Ebonhart

We had a dps that dc'd a lot at the start of the dungeon.

We all waited til he was stable before fighting the boss. He was very grateful and kept apologizing evenn after we told him that it was fine.

I'm glad that he at least got to finish the dungeon as he was new to it.

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The exact same thing happened to me today. Several people in my FC were experiencing massive lag and disconnects and it started while I was in Sastasha leveling my Bard. I felt terrible, kept apologizing and told them to kick me if it happens again but they were like 'nah, you're good' and basically carried me through the whole dungeon as I kept losing connection with the server. Everytime I thought the problem was fixed, it would kick up again. Thank you kind internet strangers and sorry again for whatever that madness was.

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Originally Posted by Lexis

The exact same thing happened to me today. Several people in my FC were experiencing massive lag and disconnects and it started while I was in Sastasha leveling my Bard. I felt terrible, kept apologizing and told them to kick me if it happens again but they were like 'nah, you're good' and basically carried me through the whole dungeon as I kept losing connection with the server. Everytime I thought the problem was fixed, it would kick up again. Thank you kind internet strangers and sorry again for whatever that madness was.

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I had this exact same problem, but I was solo in PotD.
I wish I had had cool team mates at my back. Glad to hear people had you when things outside your control were rough.

Got sephirot EX in mentor roulette. We had a bunch of mentors and legends so I was like "We're all gamers here, let's do it." It was an easy one-shot, even skipped mechanics in the first phase. That was nice.

I was in Lab. of the Ancients the other day and the last boss was about to do his 2nd party wipe ability and all of us but a single Gunbreaker ran to the pads. That ballsy player took him down on his own in one of the most clutch plays I've ever seen in the game. Everyone was amazed and gave the guy a ton of compliments. I'm pretty sure he got all the comms from his party too.

This thread needs bumping!

I was doing a bunch of endgame Heavensward dungeons today to clear my journal. In the Arboretum there were two newbies - me and the tank. Tank was pretty vocal about not knowing what was going on, I was quieter since I've moved party chat away from general in preparation of Endwalker spoilers. Last boss, the big platform-wide AoE is telegraphed, and I as an SMN do my thing and jump to the edge following another player (who I assumed was going to the edge too).

I... got swept off! And it was just me, too!

I covered my face in my hands IRL and said sorry - like, I was so confident that this is what I'd had to do. Next AoE the tank cascades down with me too. I check player chat and they'd gone "uh". The DD seemed amused and said we'd had to run to the middle.

It was light hearted, and I confessed I was embarrassed for my mistake. I didn't feel too bad though, the others seemed quite positive and nice about it.

I once got a party in expert roulette where every player knew how to play their jobs and we finished in like 10 minutes and skipped many mechanics on the bosses.

It was magical.

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Me and some random groupies that needed a shot with the generic warrior after MSQ roulette.