Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[sharknado]

Super-Hot Take: Mentor hate is over exaggerated.

Isn't just the same as popotoes and Lalafell?

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

People who think that 'main character death = well made story' and 'no main character death = garbage story' (I am including the rest of the scions in this main character category) need to acknowledge that game of thrones is not the end all of story writing.

Personally, I feel like you don't need character death to tell a good story. At the same time, I feel like XIV has this very noteworthy habit where it 'kills' its characters, only to be like "Oh, just kidding, they're still alive" a while later. Sometimes the execution is a bit odd, like Thancred seemingly falling over dead after the fight with Ran'jit only to be fine five minutes later, but I get the idea that was being gone for there: if Thancred dies, that kind of distracts from Ryne's decision in the moment, and she'd probably lose a lot of confidence over the fact that he just died on the way to her making her choice. Additionally, almost dying and not saying what he needed to put things into perspective and that's why he opens up to Ryne a lot more after that moment. I might find the way the scene played out a little odd, but I think the idea behind it is fine enough.

But then you have other moments where it feels a bit awkward.

I didn't want Nanamo to die at the end of ARR, for example. She looks like she's suffering immensely and she'd be dying at the fairly young age of 21 to boot. But when ARR ends with her poisoned and choking to death onscreen because of political backstabbing and tries to use this as a moment that has a lot of weight (fueling the Warrior of Light's inner Dark Knight, messing up Thancred's aether permanently, making Y'shtola blind, actually killing off Minfilia, setting up the events that lead to Shinryu, etc.), only to then go "Oh, no, actually she was still alive and the Scions weren't going to be accused of any wrongdoing. It was all just a wacky misunderstanding that got out of hand when Raubahn decided to cut a guy in half, haha.", that's when I start to get annoyed.

Super-Hot Take: Mentor hate is over exaggerated, and the community makes mentors seem worse than they really are. They also put incredibly unrealistic expectations upon mentors in an unpaid volunteered role. I feel like a lot mentor hate is falsely bias opinions influencing each other and because we act like mentor hate is "The cool thing to do". I see it more as people wanting to take part in schadenfreude and insult people in any way they can think of solely because they do not like them as a person. Are there bad mentors? Absolutely. There are bad sprouts to but this is always overlooked, ignored, even excused and treated as a non-issue just because they aren't the one with a crown. I find new players are often conditioned to hate mentors' way before they know what a mentor is and taught that they aren't doing their "job" by their friends and peers because its a meme to hate.

Agreed. Especially when a lot of people in XIV seem to get really huffy if you try to give advice in general.

[Liam_Harper]

WHM is the worst healer to pick up for someone new to healing.

[RobynDaBank]

WHM is the worst healer to pick up for someone new to healing.

Holy carp, this ain't even a hot take: it's fact.

[SenorPatty]

WHM is the worst healer to pick up for someone new to healing.

Holy carp, this ain't even a hot take: it's fact.

I'm gonna take a guess but is it because it has too many healing tools? Just feels like that too me like I have a way too big of a safety net to the point where I'm starting to wonder if SE put those for healers who do savage/ex? There's no way the regular content needs that much healing, even in expert. If that's not the reason, lemme know why. I'm curious

[WaxSw]

I'm gonna take a guess but is it because it has too many healing tools? Just feels like that too me like I have a way too big of a safety net to the point where I'm starting to wonder if SE put those for healers who do savage/ex? There's no way the regular content needs that much healing, even in expert. If that's not the reason, lemme know why. I'm curious

The opposite, Whm lacks in efficient healing tools compared to other healers which makes it more prone to lose dps by having to rely on lillies (dps loss) and GCDs, that adds up to a lot of questionable design choices and the worst mp economy of the healers

[Allegor]

The opposite, Whm lacks in efficient healing tools compared to other healers which makes it more prone to lose dps by having to rely on lillies (dps loss) and GCDs, that adds up to a lot of questionable design choices and the worst mp economy of the healers

WHM is in a paradoxical limbo because it's meant to be the beginner friendly healer, but at the same time I guess even the devs know they can't give it an "autoplay/babyproof" playstyle or all the lazy players would just flock to it (as if they didn't already), so you end up with a job that's so straightforward it's almost insulting, but it's also so bareboned it's ironically "harder" to play efficiently as - and 9/10 times anyone brings it up, the general answer is "just play AST then" /rolls eyes

[Ardeth]

Endwalker is the worst expansion this game has had so far. I didn't think it was possible, but you mad lads topped Stormblood.

Also before people call for my head I would still give the story of the expansion like a 6/10 even if the actual gameplay meat of it was a 2/10.

Bonus hot take the last zone has more padding than a 14 year old girls bra.

[StriderShinryu]

It shouldn't really be a hot take at all, but it's pretty simple:
If you're not enjoying the game, just stop playing it.

Just because you've built your life around playing a video game for the last 7,8, etc. years, and/or just because you used to like it, doesn't mean you still do and doesn't mean you have to keep subjecting yourself to it. It's okay to just walk away and find something else to do with your time that you will actually enjoy instead of continuing to mentally and financially handcuff yourself to something you clearly don't. I mean, take a step back and have a neutral third party look over your post history and see what they have to say.

[drtasteyummy]

It shouldn't really be a hot take at all, but it's pretty simple:
If you're not enjoying the game, just stop playing it.

Just because you've built your life around playing a video game for the last 7,8, etc. years, and/or just because you used to like it, doesn't mean you still do and doesn't mean you have to keep subjecting yourself to it. It's okay to just walk away and find something else to do with your time that you will actually enjoy instead of continuing to mentally and financially handcuff yourself to something you clearly don't. I mean, take a step back and have a neutral third party look over your post history and see what they have to say.

hot take 9/10 times this is the opinion of people who can not take criticism so that nothing breaks apart in their perfect bubble world