We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[Vrankyl]

This paragraph triggered me a bit so I felt the need to add in my 2 cents. First of all, yes, he did save and revive the game. Nice THANK YOU...I guess? But the man has been at the helm for 5 YEARS now and til this day, he refuses to change the formula and cycle of repetitve content patches. He says sh*t like "This has NEVER been done in any MMO!" yet...where's the "never been done before" content who preached about? I've seen NONE. Everything that Stormblood as offered so far has been nothing short of disappointment. He keeps repackaging old content and delivers them as something "new" but it's just old sh*t but with a new coat of paint.

I just wanted to point out with this that the 'Never done before in an MMO' thing was mistranslated. What was actually said was 'Never done before in our MMO' and it was in regards to the feature shown at the end of the 4.3 MSQ. Which he was correct, that was something that was never seen before in FF14, so he didn't actually say anything factually incorrect there.

That said I do agree that there could be some changes made to FF14, if you don't savage raid there is less and less to do each patch especially with them artificially extending the content by releasing it throughout the course of the patch cycle instead of the main patch itself. It would also be nice if they did try things a bit more, or at least innovate based on how players actually play the game rather than throw a tantrum and force their intended style down our throats ala Pagos style. I've seen a lot of really good ideas floating around the threads discussing Pagos and it's sad because I have no hope what so ever that any of it will be taken to heart by SE as something to add.

Off the top of my head:
-i180 Law gear.. Onishi?
-Little Ladies' Day outfit 2016
-Moonfire Yukata(Hope I'm spelling it right)
-Current crafter gear
-Azim Steppe crafter gear
-Bardam's Mettle gear
-Shisui gear and the 2017 Moonfire
-Doma Castle gear
-Kugane Castle/Temple of Fist gear
-Genta/Genji gear
-Mendacity gear
- 4.0 Oni PvP gear
-Ao Dai
-Taoist's set

MogStation:
-Eastern Journey
-The newest Chinese glamour
-Far Eastern Lady/Lord set
-Korean set 1
-Korean set 2(Sorry forgot their names but they're in there)

We have alot of Asian gear. We just don't have alot of SAM gear. But we definitely have alot of Asian gear.

Also a couple of corrections to this list. The Doma Castle gear and the i180 Law gear are the exact same sets, so really shouldn't be separated. The only difference between them is you can dye the i180 Law gear. As for the Azim Steppe crafter/gatherer gear and the Bardam's Mettle gear they don't really belong in this list either. They are Mongol themed gear which is a vastly different style from the Oriental style used in all the other sets, yes it is Asian but they really are out of place with the over all style of the other sets. I will agree that we haven't gotten much in the way of Ala Mhigan gear, but on the same token one can say that their gear all sort of... seems a bit similar when you do look at the sets.

Balsaar's Wall is Ala Mhigan resistance gear
Level 68 crafted gear is Ala Mhigan
Castrum Abania and the Farlander gear from Hell's Lid is Ala Mhigan
The i310 gear is Ala Mhigan ((Totally forgot the ilvl of the first sb tome gear, fixed it))
And the prior top crafter/gatherer crafted gear was Ala Mhigan
I also suspect that the Suspenders glam gear was Ala Mhigan as well.

So there is room for more, but on the same token it's not a bad start.