Raiding and Teamspeak.

[Destomius]

I bet most people here that act as if voice chat is a crutch haven't even cleared A3S.

[Morbid]

I bet most people here that act as if voice chat is a crutch haven't even cleared A3S.

Man imagine what MMO players did before there was Duty Finders, Party Finders, YouTube guides and TS/Mumble VOIP.

It's like 90% of the people who think voice comm is a necessity never played a true traditional MMO...

/end overblanketing generalization post.

Always funny seeing.. "I bet such-n-such never even cleared *highest content you actually managed* before.. pfft scrubz..

[AskaRay]

Depends on if you're willing to work without it.
One of our healers in my old static refused to talk on it, but he would set it up so he could hear orders /strat being called out. Sometimes, he wouldn't even do that, but it still ended up being fine. You just have to know your team if you don't want to use a voice chat.

Personally I don't really like voice chatting....it's like a phone to me and I hate phones, but I can see when and why they are useful.

[Tint]

Depends on if you're willing to work without it.

it depends more on the other people if they are willing to work with a person without voice chat. most people are not.

[Kurogaea]

it depends more on the other people if they are willing to work with a person without voice chat. most people are not.

Which is why you choose who you associate with. There's quite a few players who raid without it. PF is your friend for sure, just filter out the jerks and you'll be fine. Also forum recruiting, that's ok too i guess

[Judge_Xero]

the stigma is you HAVE to use it.

I was just curious because as a stigma it would indicate that people who don't use a VOIP are looked down upon. I had never heard of that before.

The only conflicting situations I've seen are where people are unable to handle mechanics and would benefit from having things called out over voice.

I don't think in that regard a player is being looked down upon for not using VOIP but rather because they lack skill.

VOIP > Skill is just never something I've witnessed.

[CrimsonThunder]

VOIP > Skill is just never something I've witnessed.

Many believe that these two are one in the same, that surely how could anyone be a decent progression raider without using VOIP? This is where the issue comes from and it's more prominent in FFXIV because half the community is playing on a console, not a PC.

[Eothas]

VOIP > Skill is just never something I've witnessed.

It does happen, not sure how frequent in FFXIV though. I remember when playing Wildstar, whenever using "duty finder" there, It was quite common to enter a dungeon with a premade group that would demand you to enter their TS/Mumble server or else they would kick you. I got kicked a few times for not wanting to enter TS with a bunch of randoms even though I could do the dungeons perfectly.

[Maero]

Teamspeak just generally for a smoother run. Our FC has switched to discord however.
It is not needed just makes things easier

[Zenji]

Here's the thing, voice chat is invaluable during progression, sometimes you have a lot to say, discussing strategies and such, there's been times where it's way easier to say it then to type it. Especially on Ps4 where typing is a pain.