Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Soge01]

Verminion should be like Pokemon battles and Chocobo racing seriously needs an update.

Hippo racing in the gold saucer should be a thing, becauae why not?

[ReynTime]

Verminion should be like Pokemon battles and Chocobo racing seriously needs an update.

Hippo racing in the gold saucer should be a thing, becauae why not?

With how they like to promote FFXIV as a solo-friendly experience it would be nice if at the very least they gave players the freedom of only playing against CPU in the races if they want to. With the current state of the chocobo race, the challenge log becomes really RNG heavy sooner rather than later when other players are involved, most which are following guides for perfect chocobos.

[Soge01]

With how they like to promote FFXIV as a solo-friendly experience it would be nice if at the very least they gave players the freedom of only playing against CPU in the races if they want to. With the current state of the chocobo race, the challenge log becomes really RNG heavy sooner rather than later when other players are involved, most which are following guides for perfect chocobos.

Do people even play Chocobo racing right now? I tend to only see people playing when it's the Make it Rain Campaign. I rarely run into no more than one or two people every half a dozen games.

I'd rather actually see more people play Chocobo racingbecause of the above mentioning of severe lack of players at all times. Though a none player option wouldn't be bad either.

[ameliaw]

This game has a serious problem with button bloat and pressing 1 2 3 for a combo when you have 30 other skills isn't engaging, fun or difficult. Out of the popular MMOs this is the one with the biggest amount of buttons and it is definitely not the most fun, battle content wise.

[Absimiliard]

Forumites do not represent the majority.

[AmpelioB]

Forumites do not represent the majority.

Me when people complain about the new summoner while it's the most popular caster a̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶i̶s̶h̶e̶d̶ ̶y̶e̶t̶

[MonsutaMan]

Blue Mage limited job is actually a good idea, the only bad aspects of it are details of how it runs their "endgame" content (to be more specifc, the inability to partake Log objectives solo).

Piggy-Back Hot Take: Blue Mage would be less scrutinized, if it could do the main story. People complain about BLU's inability to do normal things, like a normal job. A BIG part of "Normal" is the main scenario quest.

If BLU could, people, imo, would be more inclined to deal with it.

[Rolder50]

Me when people complain about the new summoner while it's the most popular caster a̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶i̶s̶h̶e̶d̶ ̶y̶e̶t̶

You could argue Summoner is popular because it's brain-dead easy. Do more damage then a red mage with a fraction of the effort, boom recipe for easy "popularity"

[Soge01]

Proto-Carbuncle should be used as inspiration for how to make SMN's useless Carbuncle useful again.

- Let it be both a party support and attacking pet.

- Let the barrier Carbuncle creates for ourselves usable on other party members and give us a version of that that can be used to mitigate damage across our entire party, along with a reflect feature added to both barrier types that absorbs a certain portion of damage, before reflecting said portion of damage right back at the enemy(s).

- For every Egi and Demi egi we summon, Carbuncle's fighting style temporarily changes and follows your lead by either doing a single or AoE attack depending on what you do. In addition to that, after summoning all five of our egi, Carbuncle will transform into Proto-Carbuncle and go on a rampage againat your enemies for a limited amout of time, while your spells change to an HP absorbing type that you use to feed energy to your Proto-Carbuncle to keep it out on the field before it returns to normal. And adding to that, with every enemy Proto-Carbuncle eliminates, it also slightly extends the duration for long it sticks around, too.

Also, our Proto Carbuncle would have a special attack that allows it to spread its own version of miasma and bio upon a single target or group enemies that does damage oved time and if the Proto-Carbuncle can be managed to stick around long enough to recast its toxic attacks again, it'll double the damage of its bio/miasma attacks, though the timer for both will be halved due to enemy resistance to the same type of attack.

[fulminating]

They should not have added jobs after arcanist. It’s clearly too many for them to properly balance or even find distinct niches for. Delete sage, reaper, gunbreaker, dancer, red mage, samurai, astrologian, machinist, dark knight and ninja. Also new summoner while you’re clearing out the trash.