Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Hot take: Being apathetic doesn't make you more mature.

I'm not apathetic. People just tend to have really biased opinions and think they are important.

This thread is pretty much the perfect example of that lol.

[Kolsykol]

I'm not apathetic. People just tend to have really biased opinions and think they are more important.

'' I don't like it therefore it shouldn't exist '' pretty much summarizes the mentality of a quite substantial amount of people online.

[Nizzi]

Accessible and easier jobs are not a bad thing and not everything needs to be hyper complex, but the obsession with "balance" has made entire roles or jobs feel like skins of each other rather than varied and different gameplay experiences.
Defending jobs not being fun in normal mode content by saying "you should play Savage if you want [x] to be fun" is a poor excuse to defend bad job design and is bad for the long term future of the game, because you have to experience almost all of the normal mode content during the main story quest while you only get 12 Savage fights an expac to play as intended.

[Conundrum]

'' I don't like it therefore it shouldn't exist '' pretty much summarizes the mentality of a quite substantial amount of people online.

Super common in MMOs because people think if they shoot down other ideas it will free up the devs to work on what THEY want. Pure self interest.

[SenorPatty]

WHM is the worst healer to pick up for someone new to healing.

Holy carp, this ain't even a hot take: it's fact.

I'm gonna take a guess but is it because it has too many healing tools? Just feels like that too me like I have a way too big of a safety net to the point where I'm starting to wonder if SE put those for healers who do savage/ex? There's no way the regular content needs that much healing, even in expert. If that's not the reason, lemme know why. I'm curious

[Senn]

- The housing demolition timer should be removed completely.
- Put personal parsers into the game.
- Some healer mains like to overblow how hard their role actually is.
- High damage parse as a healer is not impressive if it's at the expense of your co healer. 3 buttons you have to press, big deal.
- Tanks set the pace of the dungeon. Healers have a say on the pace, and tank can adjust as needed. Communication between tank and healer is important. DPS eat crayons and glue.

[Raoabolic]

DPS eat crayons and glue.

They are called buffs and only ONE of them involve glue. :/

[Jybril]

The games combat system is so bad that I leave more than I stay because of it.

Edit: ...Well, I had a huge list I accidentally deleted while formatting LOL, but most of it was about
the combat and jobs being bad.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Nobody cares about the Viera Race, they are just cosplaying their own Headcanon Version of Fran.
And Male Viera are just Genderbending Fran

Y'know what, I'll bite the bait: Honestly? I thought Fandaniel was an interesting character

Hot Take.....
I agree with this.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

This isn't really a Hot Take, but some types of people like to pretend it is...so ll say it.

FFXIV is not Free of Criticism.
It has problems like anything and everything else in the world - Perfection is an Illusion - There is always a Flaw.
And Everybody has the right of Opinion and the right to point out these flaws and problems. They Are Valid

On the Flip side, people with different experiences and thoughts and Opinions are Valid as well. They may like something you dont like, or they might hate something you Love. Everybody is different.
So Just because somebody disagrees with you, it doesn't mean your thoughts and opinions are Invalid, it just means they are different.
This is Fine. This is Normal.
And Both sides need to stop getting into fights and crying Foul just because people disagree with them