Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Shinkuno]

The Windcaller one in specific is an actual hairstyle from another game.


Past that? Yeah. There's a ridiculous amount of short hair options in this game, but if you want to have amazing-looking locks, bowl cuts or bangs, the game all but spoils you.

And this is my Hot Take on the hair thing. Unfortunately, not every hair is made to cater to your race.
Roegadyn have felt this since the start of the game. Hrothgar know it. Pretty much every race out there that easily gets unflattering looks knows it. If you're a race whose model doesn't mesh well with the hairstyle, sorry but you got other choices to pick from. No need to get your knickers in a twist over it.

It's unfortunate, sure, but it's natural. Not everything is fit to other races, and the game can't always be having these issues on the same races.

Let me tell you, most hair doesnt fit any race. Like modern legend has a kinda exposed forehead on everything but lalafell

[Midareyukki]

Let me tell you, most hair doesnt fit any race. Like modern legend has a kinda exposed forehead on everything but lalafell

And that's fine. That's exactly what I'm saying: you can't expect generically-made stuff that isn't optimized to your race to always work on you. And that shouldn't come as a surprise. Yet it does to so many people.

[TheMightyMollusk]

And that's fine. That's exactly what I'm saying: you can't expect generically-made stuff that isn't optimized to your race to always work on you. And that shouldn't come as a surprise. Yet it does to so many people.

But you don't understand, I'm a paying customer so I'm always right and this small indie company needs to cater to my every whim or I'll cry.

[Soge01]

That's a very unfortunate child.

[Selsix]

Ultimates are stupid content that only pander to a super tiny niche of players and are a complete waste of developer time. Also the weapons are really gaudy and ugly.

[Vyrerus]

They should make the raiding scene more desirable instead of cordoning off Salvage from Normal and such. I think we should be given totally new encounters, cutscenes, and story along with the higher tier raiding. And the raiders should be forced to sit through it like Praetorium, the first time.

Raiding hasn't ever felt quite as fulfilling as it did during ARR and ARR 2.1 to 2.55. So maybe I mean, I want more raids like Binding Coil. Higher difficulty, no savage / normal dichotomy(except for the inception of Savage during Second Coil because Devs were salty about those super fast Second Coil clear groups).

As it is now, due to the divorce of difficulty from story progress, you do the harder fights simply for the sake of doing them. The reward structure is actually non-reward once you actually git gud at XIV. The entry level gear is all that's required.

There's a greater Ludo-narrative dissonance too, ever since Heavensward. With there being one form of the fight that's pure fiction, and the real form of the fight that's no real challenge, it makes the WoLs that do, do Savage seem kind of insane. "I'm an extra hard bad ass because I beat the Minstrel's imagination! Yeehaw!"

[Soge01]

I don't see the point in Thancred remaining a normal Gunbreaker. The fact he has a major weakness in that he can't use his own aether to charge his gunblade cartridges and is forced to rely on the Scions or anybody else for that matter to do it for him should really be treated as a last resort instead of a natural constant

We have Cid's Ironworks, the remnants of the Garlean Empire and the people of Sharlyan, any of whom could figure out an alternative method for Thancred to charge his gunblade cartridges.

[Midareyukki]

We have Cid's Ironworks, the remnants of the Garlean Empire and the people of Sharlyan, any of whom could figure out an alternative method for Thancred to charge his gunblade cartridges.

Isn't MCH low on aether usage specifically so your average, every day commoner can pick up a gun and start blasting? I know we end up backflipping, but so much of it makes use of non-aetheric methods and gadgets.

Plus, he used to be a Ninja, he's used to backflipping even without the need for aether to guide him.

:T he literally could have gone for that than the one that specifically requires a crutch caster to load his gun.

Then again, Trusts needed a tank, and we couldn't rely on the Exarch to tank all the time.

[Soge01]

Isn't MCH low on aether usage specifically so your average, every day commoner can pick up a gun and start blasting? I know we end up backflipping, but so much of it makes use of non-aetheric methods and gadgets.

Plus, he used to be a Ninja, he's used to backflipping even without the need for aether to guide him.

:T he literally could have gone for that than the one that specifically requires a crutch caster to load his gun.

Then again, Trusts needed a tank, and we couldn't rely on the Exarch to tank all the time.

The thing is, Thancred can't use his aether at all. Otherwise it can cause some really severe problems. His fight with Ranjit in Shadowbringers shows that. Thancred almost died using his own aether against him. So him being a MCH wouldn't be possible for him, not matter how little aether it uses, because it still requires the user to consciously convert their aether into lightning aspected aether in order to power their arsenal of weapons.

He was actually a Rogue, not a Ninja. But was pretty much on par with a Ninja and was strong enough to clash blades with Ardbert, a Warrior and force the latter back. So it actually does make sense for Thancred to become a Tank at some point, if you think about that coupled with his experience as a Gladitor, too. Gunbreaker is actually a pretty perfect job for him, its just that his specific gunblade still requiring external help from others to charge his cartridges jusr doesn't make any sense any more at this point.

It made sense for Thancred to have this handicap in Shadowbringers because he and the rest of the Scions were stuck in a complwtely different world and the people of the Crysterium were able to figure out to use some of the Crystal Tower's tech, but not all of it. Otherwise the Crysterium would look more like Allag than what it currently does.

So when the Scions finally returned to the Source, I was hoping Thancred's handicap would be resolved considering the literal arsenal of big brain tech nerds scattered across Eoreza alone. But it never happend, unfortunately and it probably never will, which is a shame. Because I was hoping to see Thancred finally get some of his self reliance back after he lost his ability to use aether and had picked up Gunbreaker in order to be the Scion's shield. :<

[Allegor]

I don't see the point in Thancred remaining a normal Gunbreaker. The fact he has a major weakness in that he can't use his own aether to charge his gunblade cartridges and is forced to rely on the Scions or anybody else for that matter to do it for him should really be treated as a last resort instead of a natural constant

We have Cid's Ironworks, the remnants of the Garlean Empire and the people of Sharlyan, any of whom could figure out an alternative method for Thancred to charge his gunblade cartridges.

I don't recall if it was ever addressed, but if it was, I guess it's technically a hot take(?): we should've healed Thancred and Y'shtola when we remade their bodies using a mix of aether and dynamis. Both their handicaps are caused by aether, but I doubt the damage was such that it affected even their soul.