Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Sauteed]

yep
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[ItMe]

yep
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Sounds like reaper has a pretty intense origin story : D

[Kolsykol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicetHsObfY

A player with an autoclicker bot lost 261.000.000 Gil. Love it

Cheers

I just knew he was gonna accuse the one with the retainer of scamming and ofc he did lol.

It's always both funny and irritating to see these kinds of people when they get caught, they have absolutely zero self-awareness and act like the victim.
It's even like this with a lot of irl criminals, no one thinks they're the bad guy and they think all the shady shit they do is totally justified and then they get mad when it happens to them.
A lot of people in jail for murder for example actually look down on people who are in jail for theft.

[Caurcas]

So in the wait for EW, I decided to revisit Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Boy, does that boomer shooter hold up. Makes me miss the golden age of the fps on PC.

[Vyrerus]

What you all leveling first in Endwalker?

I can't decide if I want to level Reaper first for the story or just continue on with MNK and level it after.

Going with either PLD or RDM first. Probably PLD for quicker queues. Might try and wing both simultaneously. RDM for quests, PLD for dungeons or something. Split sidequests between them. Might also be SMN instead of RDM. It's the most torn I've been yet at expansion launch.

HW I did WAR on one char and DRG on the other first.

Stormblood I did DRK on one and MCH on the other.

Shadowbringers I did DRK on one and SMN on the other.

I raided on DRK and SMN in Shadowbringers. Technically still holding the caster spot in my raid group. Raid's a bit of a ways out, so I'll have plenty of time to level either way... so it's not impacting my decision... making choice harder D:

[Kolsykol]

Is there something else you're supposed to do with what you gather in Diadem?
I got lots of Fish in my inventory that I can't handin to the guy on the left, and it's still market prohibited so can't sell ( Approved Grade 4 etc... ).

Do I just throw it away?

[Vyrerus]

Not really sure, because I never bothered with the new Diadem. Can you use it in applicable restoration synths, or at the very least, can you desynth it into anything?

[Knot_D]

Is there something else you're supposed to do with what you gather in Diadem?
I got lots of Fish in my inventory that I can't handin to the guy on the left, and it's still market prohibited so can't sell ( Approved Grade 4 etc... ).

Do I just throw it away?

Mostly the diadem fish is pretty good to level your CUL desynth.

... Although there's no good fish to desynth anymore since ARR

[Kolsykol]

Thanks, Desynth seem'd to do the job.
Better than nothing I guess :P.

[SturmChurro]

Couldn't help myself, I've been playing Morrowind during the wait. Probably not going to be good when I need to spam something for the moogle event in a couple days... I kind of wish I had a laptop on hand, so I could just spam Praetorium on the other screen. I mean, I suppose I could run two games at once though.. just a lot easier on another PC. Either way, most of that is just cutscenes. I really need to get it done though, otherwise I'll be kicking myself for not getting that jacket for glamour.

I do find it funny when people try to criticize Skyrim and put Morrowind up on a pedestal, when you can literally just spam (unlimited) training, get +5 in attributes every level, and max your luck attribute (!), without even cheesing. You can be any "class" you want, and become extremely overpowered even without minmaxing in that game, for that matter. Still, I think Morrowind probably has the best story concept and lore in the series, and a very interesting locale. I'm really hoping the next entry - which is supposedly Hammerfell - brings us a bit back to that. Redguards have pretty interesting lore, and it could make for a pretty great RPG concept.

I have to say though, I kind of wish more games handled main storyline pacing like Morrowind; having breaks in the main questline that give you a proper excuse and reason to actually go out and explore the world, and pretty much do whatever you want. Sure, it's to make sure your character has progressed properly enough to actually do the questline(s), but it really bothers me in a lot of games, because many main stories tend to have a very false sense of urgency. It can make it very difficult to actually find actual in-world reasoning to do side content.