Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Jkap_Goat]

Ranger is the job that uses Bows but they can also guns ( marksmanship) as well as other weapons






combat skills



isn't it nice that FFXI jobs have alot of depth and can use more than one weapon than xiv jobs?

RNG ( Ranger is an amazing job, and it should of been properly in xiv instead of this hybrid bard thing)

[VeyaAkemi]

Alright, actual hot takes...

- SMN existing as it currently does is a good thing and it far better represents the legacy of the job to how Summoning behaved in the Famicon to PS1 era as well as any time Summoner appeared as a job in the good FF games, SMN changing from what it was to what it is now was a bad thing because it messed up people who liked the old SMN, those two are not mutually exclusive things, ideally both versions would exist together.

- Job complexity should never be accounted for when balancing damage output, playing complex jobs like BLM should be its own reward because you find their gameplay engaging, not to mention "complexity" is relative and no two people will feel the same way about every job, in an ideal world, every job should be within a margin of error of each other, though admitedly its a feat easier said than done.

[BRVV]

Stormblood showed us picking a side... although we already have done that. Shadowbringers and Endwalker lean a lot into the anime tropes, beating enemies with the power of friendship and having enemies become friends. Somehow this makes people create memes about Stormblood being pro-war because killing a bunch of people and forgiving (mass) murderers like Zenos or bird girl is apparently a sane way of acting according to the playerbase at large.

[Pratini]

Y'shtola is mid

[Saraide]

Y'shtola is mid

Is this really a hot take when there are actual people on this forum actively hating her with every fiber of their existence and want her writers fired? I think you need to turn up your stove a bit more to get cooking.

[Amenara]

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How is the ranger using a Mandau?

[Allegor]

I don't care how good its personal dps is, DRK is the worst tank. Might as well let the DRG do it

(had a chain of bad DRKs all night, let me vent lol)

[VeyaAkemi]

Is this really a hot take when there are actual people on this forum actively hating her with every fiber of their existence and want her writers fired? I think you need to turn up your stove a bit more to get cooking.

Here's a Y'shtola hot take then, I adore Y'sh, but without a single ounce of attration to her, she works best as the "team mom" for the Scions(sexualization of the term "mommy" completely disregarded for this statement), and the fact she canonically views the WoL AND Runar as younger siblings, made clear by the comparison of them to Lyse, is genuinely great.

In fact I am not attracted to any of the Scions, but I still adore them all in their own way.

[RyuDragnier]

I don't care how good its personal dps is, DRK is the worst tank. Might as well let the DRG do it

(had a chain of bad DRKs all night, let me vent lol)

Kit wise, you're 100% correct. It's a mish mash of stuff that coincidentally works together. It has no real identity to it, and even its ultimate attack isn't linked to any part of their kit.

[Jkap_Goat]

How is the ranger using a Mandau?

I think it's daggers in that, RNG can use daggers since they have a -B ranking in that combat skills, like If they ever need to get up close and personal to do some Damage