Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[OM3GA-Z3RO]

Here's 2 takes

Take #1
Final Bosses in Dungeons should have a FPK (Full Party Kill) mechanic if the party does not fulfill mechanics properly

Example
When Hermes uses True Bravery and the Tank or Physical Ranged DPS doesn't Interject it, Game Over man

Why this take? People have gotten too lazy and Dungeons have become so braindead easy, you don't need to follow mechanics and just ignore it

Take #2
Normal Raids should go back to being actual raids like in Coils and Alexander, it will be an opening to a much better story building experience, I personally loved how you cause havoc while running through the city inside Alexander.

Normal Raids should be actual raids
Savage Raids can stay as Mini-Trials where it skips the trash mobs and puts you right in front of the boss.

[Arkfrost]

Take #2
Normal Raids should go back to being actual raids like in Coils and Alexander, it will be an opening to a much better story building experience, I personally loved how you cause havoc while running through the city inside Alexander.

Normal Raids should be actual raids
Savage Raids can stay as Mini-Trials where it skips the trash mobs and puts you right in front of the boss.

I cannot describe how much I want this, and all those people acting as if Normal raids are the endgame weekly grind chore that has to be done as efficient as possible by removing trash mobs & dungeon part make me so frickin' mad. No, Normal raids are baby mode story content that is only worth to be done for the story once (and maybe for the roulette to level jobs/get those last 10 tomestones you're missing), and not the weekly grind chore (and even if it was, you only have to clear the wing 5x, which is done in about an hour per week to get a full set of raid gear, which is worse than the tomestone gear).
There is nothing that can justify that content having to be made "efficient" like savage raids.

[Kolsykol]

This forum is a cesspool of the same identical repeated and tired whining about the same thing over and over again and it's extremely tiresome.
When you see that people have like 60-70 or even more of threads started in six months that are ALL negative and every single post they make is negative and the same repeat bs.
It's kinda suss, I don't understand how someone like that can still play the game if they're so mad all the time.
They're like a dedicated hater, like one of those '' anti-fans '' or whatever they're called.

People like that exist in WoW and other MMO's or genre of games too and I don't get it, if a game makes me that mad all the time I just quit...

The forum is basically a circle jerk of the same small minority of people constantly harping on about the same crap all the time and circlejerking about it and inject it into every thread they get a chance to and it's annoying as hell.
A lot of them seem to think that the devs are not giving them specifically what they want out of actual spite or '' laziness ''.
It's like an actual toddlers way of viewing it and how game development works.

And every time you push back against them at all you get accused of being a '' white knight '' and they turn on their victim mentality mode.
They treat people disagreeing with them as you breaking into their home and beating up their dog or something, even worse if the devs disagree with them then victim mentality mode will be engaged for years with constant demands of apologies from the dev team it's just lol...

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My guess is that having a PC that is more powerful than the current console is fairly niche ( in the grand scheme of things ).
PC outpaces consoles rather quickly but only a small portion actually stays up to date.
Convenience and cost is part of the reason why consoles are so popular, I mean I think people leave out the cost for a TV that actually takes full advantage of consoles but still.

I definitely agree with Lustre tho in the sense that consoles are limiting the game in regards to systems.
Mouse and keyboard are just objectively better at a lot of things, the same could be said about controllers but that doesn't really apply to this genre.
FFXIV is definitely a game that suffers in certrain areas because of it being on console and needing to be playable with a controller.
I think ultimately both the players and consoles limit it in regards to how complex Jobs can be too.

[Toukichiful]

Make leve quest better it take 9 years in real life to complete the achievements due to the regen system. make low-level leves not cost allowance please.

[Xerkrosis]

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Take #2
Normal Raids should go back to being actual raids like in Coils and Alexander, it will be an opening to a much better story building experience, I personally loved how you cause havoc while running through the city inside Alexander.

Normal Raids should be actual raids
Savage Raids can stay as Mini-Trials where it skips the trash mobs and puts you right in front of the boss.

That would be great. Wouldn't mind if it was similar to Coil, while in savage it's still final boss only. Since Stormblood, raids are just glorified trials.

[KDSilver]

Since it's a hot takes topic...

I liked Cleric Stance.

[Anienai]

I log out at random aetheryte spots, so I can log back in later to a different loading screen.

[NekoMataMata]

Here's 2 takes

Take #1
Final Bosses in Dungeons should have a FPK (Full Party Kill) mechanic if the party does not fulfill mechanics properly

Example
When Hermes uses True Bravery and the Tank or Physical Ranged DPS doesn't Interject it, Game Over man

Why this take? People have gotten too lazy and Dungeons have become so braindead easy, you don't need to follow mechanics and just ignore it

Take #2
Normal Raids should go back to being actual raids like in Coils and Alexander, it will be an opening to a much better story building experience, I personally loved how you cause havoc while running through the city inside Alexander.

Normal Raids should be actual raids
Savage Raids can stay as Mini-Trials where it skips the trash mobs and puts you right in front of the boss.

I did all the older raids unsynced solo and it was so weird how all of that just stopped. Running around the different rooms in the coils, or going through the different chutes in Alexander was really fun actually.

I thought raids were supposed to be like alliance raids with just one team anyways.

[Aurikai]

This forum is a cesspool of the same identical repeated and tired whining about the same thing over and over again and it's extremely tiresome.
When you see that people have like 60-70 or even more of threads started in six months that are ALL negative and every single post they make is negative and the same repeat bs.
It's kinda suss, I don't understand how someone like that can still play the game if they're so mad all the time.
They're like a dedicated hater, like one of those '' anti-fans '' or whatever they're called.

People like that exist in WoW and other MMO's or genre of games too and I don't get it, if a game makes me that mad all the time I just quit...

The forum is basically a circle jerk of the same small minority of people constantly harping on about the same crap all the time and circlejerking about it and inject it into every thread they get a chance to and it's annoying as hell.
A lot of them seem to think that the devs are not giving them specifically what they want out of actual spite or '' laziness ''.
It's like an actual toddlers way of viewing it and how game development works.

And every time you push back against them at all you get accused of being a '' white knight '' and they turn on their victim mentality mode.
They treat people disagreeing with them as you breaking into their home and beating up their dog or something, even worse if the devs disagree with them then victim mentality mode will be engaged for years with constant demands of apologies from the dev team it's just lol...




My guess is that having a PC that is more powerful than the current console is fairly niche ( in the grand scheme of things ).
PC outpaces consoles rather quickly but only a small portion actually stays up to date.
Convenience and cost is part of the reason why consoles are so popular, I mean I think people leave out the cost for a TV that actually takes full advantage of consoles but still.

I definitely agree with Lustre tho in the sense that consoles are limiting the game in regards to systems.
Mouse and keyboard are just objectively better at a lot of things, the same could be said about controllers but that doesn't really apply to this genre.
FFXIV is definitely a game that suffers in certrain areas because of it being on console and needing to be playable with a controller.
I think ultimately both the players and consoles limit it in regards to how complex Jobs can be too.

Maybe it's due to the fact that SE never resolves a lot of these complaints you see over and over again. Also you state if something makes you mad you quit, why even post here then, nice logic. This is a complaint thread after all, people are allowed to vent. The reason you get called a "white knight" is SE makes billions of dollars, they don't need you defending them, they do however make a product that people PAY for, therefore they're allowed to complain about it.

[Midareyukki]

Maybe it's due to the fact that SE never resolves a lot of these complaints you see over and over again. Also you state if something makes you mad you quit, why even post here then, nice logic. This is a complaint thread after all, people are allowed to vent. The reason you get called a "white knight" is SE makes billions of dollars, they don't need you defending them, they do however make a product that people PAY for, therefore they're allowed to complain about it.

People also forget that sometimes, quite often actually, products evolve through complaints and suggestions. And it's when you're this toxically averse to complaining and wanting improvements that your product gets stale and outdated.