I wish FFXIV had in-game boss adventurer guides for old content.

[Reap00]

Or at least release a compendium book for it. WoW does a similar thing, even for new raids, back when I played. Like it'll tell you what mechanics will one shot you, or the roles of each class is in the raid, like it'll tell you what to do as a DPS, what to do as a Tank, explain the phases of each boss, etc. However, I understand YP has a strict philosophy on clearing new things blind, so this feature would be better for old content, nothing from any current expansion.

Especially since I wanna do old raids, and the Ultimates, especially since I want to start doing Ultimates for Dawntrail. There are some online guides, such as on Youtube, but they are pretty boring to watch depending on the commentator or poor quality. Like I wanna at least do TWR before Dawntrail. Would anybody else appreciate this feature.

Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be a debate, don't really care if you disagree. And I don't have the energy to defend a quality-of-life feature that I'd appreciate. This post is to see how many people would want the feature, not how many people don't want it or input from those loud "this isn't WoW" people. It's a nice day outside where I'm from, keep it wholesome.

Go play another game. Stop trying to change a game to suit your needs.

[UkcsAlias]

Go play another game. Stop trying to change a game to suit your needs.

Tbh, something that revives older content is welcome. The lvl 80 trials in unsync already skip too much mechanics. And in sync they are rarely played. Khloe doesnt do enough here as that can often be done in unsync, or ignored by doing the weaker content repeatedly. For players who want a proper experience for such content the game just doesnt provide enough.

The unreal is nice for a single trial, but not enough.

I wish there would be a challenge in which you need to do the older extreme trials for some rewards again. Maybe even changing the trial every week (or once per 4 weeks). You could even still put it as high end duty as lvl 80, forcing min ilvl and no echo. It just adds variety in content to be cleared. And instead of rewarding faux it could reward something else (which should just like faux be timegated and unique, to force people to do that content to obtain the rewards or buy it from the market).

[Jeeqbit]

Tbh, something that revives older content is welcome. The lvl 80 trials in unsync already skip too much mechanics. And in sync they are rarely played. Khloe doesnt do enough here as that can often be done in unsync, or ignored by doing the weaker content repeatedly. For players who want a proper experience for such content the game just doesnt provide enough.

The unreal is nice for a single trial, but not enough.

I wish there would be a challenge in which you need to do the older extreme trials for some rewards again. Maybe even changing the trial every week (or once per 4 weeks). You could even still put it as high end duty as lvl 80, forcing min ilvl and no echo. It just adds variety in content to be cleared. And instead of rewarding faux it could reward something else (which should just like faux be timegated and unique, to force people to do that content to obtain the rewards or buy it from the market).

I mean yes, this would be great, but a compendium book wouldn't help with this. Adding Faux Hollows as a reward for doing old content weekly featured Min Item Level (similar to Wondrous Tails or the Blue Mage Log) would be what helps with this.

[UkcsAlias]

I mean yes, this would be great, but a compendium book wouldn't help with this. Adding Faux Hollows as a reward for doing old content weekly featured Min Item Level (similar to Wondrous Tails or the Blue Mage Log) would be what helps with this.

Well, i was more commenting about the part that YP wants people to play content blind. It would be a way to make it a lot more viable to do that. And by that negate the need for such compendium book. The reason to ask for that is now more because its the only way to even play the content in sync (if you dont want to resolve to external sources).
It would be a way to make blind attempts viable again as there is now a higher chance of people will go for it, and by that negate the need for such book.

And tbh, such book is already covered by wiki's. It could be nice if they were accessible from within the game and link to the proper page. But thats also as far as it should go. Tactics of beating just have to remain to youtube (as these can change over time and get additional steps of efficiency). But just showing players that searching the info about an extreme trial is nothing to shame about and even a bit recommended, it is something that would help.

For things like normal content however, you realy dont want people to look ahead what attacks are coming. And thats where i would say that such book would be counter productive. And again, ingame it can be shown when it is welcome and when it isnt. Is the button there? well go ahead. If it isnt: lets go blind.

But on that end... i think most players are already well aware of this anyway. Its only the lvl 50 extreme's that have issues.

[Saraide]

I think some things should just be left up to the community to figure out. Guides is one of those things imo.

[DPZ2]

I have to agree. An official guide would dissuade the many creative high-end players from developing their own strategies.

[Atelier-Bagur]

It would be nice if all the lodestone features were in the game. But SE seems to prefer website versions of them. But it is still worth mentioning that SE does have these features officially, regardless.

Yeah and its dumb.

[MahthildisMMORPG]

Go play another game. Stop trying to change a game to suit your needs.

Dude. Grow up.

If I enjoy this game why would I play another game? Getting mad at someone for wanting quality of life features for a game they love is so obtuse and asinine. Imagine gatekeeping, I get it, you don't want anything to change, so you're upset at even the slightest form of suggestive intent when it comes to your baby. But man, this change wouldn't affect you at all.

Also blocked, aggressive, irrational and abrasive for no reason.

Also "go play other games", is such a low effort sheepish copout. And implies someone can't suggest anything or want any form of changes because "they should just play other games instead if they don't like it", because once you go back the game is still the same with the same issues. Have you ever thought, people actually don't like/enjoy other games and prefer this game more?

Wow, shocker right? Must have blown the forums Andy's/Redditors mind.

[MahthildisMMORPG]

Don't care about this topic anymore. Happy Patch Day everyone. Peace.