Do you shame people for their choice of materia melds?

[Gwenorai]

You know, it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't take him 20 minutes to get to the point on some things. At least his lore videos aren't too bad.

As for the OP's question, I don't, but probably because I'm not a tryhard. Also on the of shaming, a big thanks to RareItems and WaterShield for promoting Balmung drama stereotypes!

I'm just laughing because the people they're screaming at; literally have said you don't need melds if you're not doing savage - no one is hating on their melds because we don't care, they're not doing content that requires it. Yet they want us to care and thus throw a tantrum, lmao.

[RareItems]

I'm just crafting, trying to fill up my retainers with stuff to sell. 10 retainers is hard to keep filled up with goods. Especially if your crafting in demand items that nobody else is crafting because your selling it at dirt cheap prices lol.

This thread was a nice distraction from the boredom lol, I enjoyed seeing all the triggered Raiders, foaming in the mouth when you mention "Tenacity is a good meld for tanks" lol.

[Gwenorai]

I'm just crafting, trying to fill up my retainers with stuff to sell. 10 retainers is hard to keep filled up with goods. Especially if your crafting in demand items that nobody else is crafting because your selling it at dirt cheap prices lol.

This thread was a nice distraction from the boredom lol, I enjoyed seeing all the triggered Raiders, foaming in the mouth when you mention "Tenacity is a good meld for tanks" lol.

Nice backpedal.

[RareItems]

Nice backpedal.

Backpedal to what? You know there's a daily limit on how many post a player can make per day right? lol. So you have to be more precise when you type something. Not everyone is a Genius Mind reading Elite Raider like you.

[MariaArvana]

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"Did you just assume ilvl430 unmelded tanks don't wipe on The Twinning? Maybe if you actually solo queued you would know lol."

I was simply responding to this. My bf solo queued all the time on release since I was a slowpoke that liked watching him stream and he never had issues with DF healers then either. You give DF healers too little credit, especially when they're paired with a tank that knows what they're doing. Even though I queue with him nowadays, the fact is, we're still getting DF healers, one half of the integral part to making wall-to-wall pulls work and never have issues either.

It clearly proves Tenacity melds is the best for solo queue casual content for Tanks. Casual content being 95% of the entire content in the game lol. It gives you room to adjust and support your team instead of just being a 3rd DPS, because that's basically what a Direct Hit Melded Tank is, a 3rd DPS.

Learning to min-max your mitigation is clearly the best option for solo queue casual content for Tanks to make TEN even more more unnecessary.

[JohnSpawnVFX]

Lol at them needing Tenacity to tank properly on Expert roulette

[HyoMinPark]

Not everyone who plays FFXIV considers Savage/Ex Trials as endgame content. Even FFXIV Dev's know that, that's why they made Relic Weapons/Eureka/Hunt system.

Savage and Ex Trail content to me, is like the Majhong content in FFXIV. It's there, it's optional, you don't have to play it lol.

Plus all the Tryhard Emo's in this game are in the Raiding scene lol. Can you imagine ppl saying they're hardcore because they've beaten an AI opponent? lol. Maybe if you did it on a PS4 i might give you a clap lol.

The OP of this thread should read all the replies and see it for himself. Raiders are the cancer of this game, they think they can dictate what melds i should put on my gear and if i call them out for it suddenly they're all foaming in the mouth and coming out of the Woodwork like this Kasumi guy xD.

Elitist Raider: Direct Hit is the best Meld for Tanks, Tenacity is a waste of a meld, I have more respect for you if you did not meld anything at all.

Casual Player: But i don't even raid, i just do Expert Roulletes with 3 random people

Elitist Raider: It doesnt matter, Tenacity is Trash, If you meld Tenacity your going to get shamed and called a noob, GL getting a static with those melds, the parser only reads Damage Dealt, nobody cares about Damage Mitigated!


Seriously, SE needs to change Direct Hit so it has no effect if your job is a Tank lol. That should help all the confused tanks who think they're a 3rd DPS.

Idk which to quote so I'll just quote this one.

Who peed in your cereal this morning? I don't know what you have against raiders, but I think the only toxic/elitist individual in this conversation right now isn't them.

I'd say if raiders/theorycrafters thought Tenacity was a worthwhile stat compared to their other options, they'd have BiS sets with it melded. That said, whatever benefit it gives is outweighed by the benefit of the other substats. Hence why it goes largely ignored when it comes to optimization. No one cares if you want to meld it for dungeons, but people that want to optimize will not meld suboptimal stats. That defeats the purpose of optimization. And I really don't understand what's it to you what other people meld.

It's also quite funny how you go on about how "ugly" or "worthless" the "dye-able glamours" from Savage are when you've stated in the past you want them available from normal mode.

[WaterShield]

Idk which to quote so I'll just quote this one.

Who peed in your cereal this morning? I don't know what you have against raiders, but I think the only toxic/elitist individual in this conversation right now isn't them.

I'd say if raiders/theorycrafters thought Tenacity was a worthwhile stat compared to their other options, they'd have BiS sets with it melded. That said, whatever benefit it gives is outweighed by the benefit of the other substats. Hence why it goes largely ignored when it comes to optimization. No one cares if you want to meld it for dungeons, but people that want to optimize will not meld suboptimal stats. That defeats the purpose of optimization. And I really don't understand what's it to you what other people meld.

It's also quite funny how you go on about how "ugly" or "worthless" the "dye-able glamours" from Savage are when you've stated in the past you want them available from normal mode.

Hiiii o/

Gratz on the Titan clear btw (my group's at 30% ^.^)

On topic: Tenacity is just kind of a waste. It does less than every other substat, and you don't need melds at all outside of hard content soooo IDK why people like to preach the power of tenacity.

"It's also quite funny how you go on about how "ugly" or "worthless" the "dye-able glamours" from Savage are when you've stated in the past you want them available from normal mode."

I tend to believe they want the rewards without the effort. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Komarimono]

I meld some tenacity to get me to the 2200 soft cap, rest direct hit and skill speed on my gunbreaker(since gunbreaker loves the skillspeed) I don't make fun of others melds though, since rarely does it make any dramatic change. I cleared Eden with no melds since FC was like, hey! You're 80! Unlock and let's do this! One shot it with no issues. I've sadly not gona back due to work hours, but plan to clear the rest of the normals since seem easy then go onto savage, with melds ofc.

[HyoMinPark]

Hiiii o/

Gratz on the Titan clear btw (my group's at 30% ^.^)

On topic: Tenacity is just kind of a waste. It does less than every other substat, and you don't need melds at all outside of hard content soooo IDK why people like to preach the power of tenacity.

I tend to believe they want the rewards without the effort. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hello!

Thank you! ^^ And good luck to you on your clear! Prepare your healers for a lot of healing in the last phase!

And yeah, I don’t really understand the defense either. It would be nice if it was a worthwhile stat, but that would require the developers to make it scale into something worthwhile. As it stands, though, I think this person is just arguing for the sake of arguing at this point.

And I wouldn’t doubt this in the least.