Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Oizen]

Either make hitboxes proportionate to the mob in question, or remove the ranged tax on damage. One invalidates the other.

As someone who basically exclusively plays melee jobs, I'd rather see the hitboxes shrunk. I like greeding for damage, and it feels rewarding to do dumb uptime strats for it.

Melee isn't meant to be 100% uptime, thats the entire point of it doing more damage.

[VeyaAkemi]

Eureka: Elemental chest pieces +2 should be buffed to have +3 to Haste so you are no longer punished for wearing them over the Vermillion Cloak/Kirin Osode armor, this is especially relevant for Healers and Casters who actually have a reason wear the Elemental +2 over the Vermillion Cloak because that allows them to wear headgear for aesthetic purposes.

Bozja: "Blade's"-stage Relics should be buffed give a Bozja-exclusive buff, maybe another +2 to Haste to match the Augmented Law's Order armor, ideally they'd be given one extra stage to match the Physeos Relics, but that might be too late for that so a +2 flat buff would be enough.

[Anienai]

I will randomly use tank LB3 and blame it on the co-tank.

[Silver-Strider]

I will randomly use tank LB3 and blame it on the co-tank.

Big ass Rock Wall appears.
"It was the DRK"

[TheMightyMollusk]

Big ass Rock Wall appears.
"It was the DRK"

DRK's been turning into Edgy WAR anyway, it's almost believable.

[Mimilu]

For AST, I miss Royal Road and the ability to extend the buff timers more then the six different card effects.
I hope next expansion they ditch seals (and maybe Minor Arcana) and bring the focus back on the cards (and don't touch Earthly Star and Macrocosmos because I like them).
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[Absimiliard]

BLM damage should be lowered to SMN levels.

[Turnintino]

Shadowbringers is a mediocre expansion because I feel no connection to the First and I don't give a *beep* about Emet-Selch. The whole time I just wanted to go home, I missed the Source.

I actually felt really similarly when I first started ShB, but I ended up coming around on it, with the Scions as a kind of narrative anchor -- the first time in any expansion where I gave a shit about any of them. Still miraculous that I did, though, considering how much I couldn't (and still can't) stand Emet.

That said, it's not a premise I'm interested in returning to. That initial disconnect from the overarching narrative is really jarring, and the writing has to do a lot of work to help the audience overcome that and re-immerse. You're as good an example as any that it just doesn't always work.

I mostly dislike sympathetic villains like Yotsuyu and Fordola. Not every villain needs to have a tragic backstory that explains why they are the way they are. Oddly enough though, I love Emet-Selch. Probably my favorite FF villain. Not sure what the difference is for me.

I think Fordola and Yotsuyu were a little redundant, given their arcs both say virtually the same thing about exactly the same issue. We only needed one. And I personally only appreciated Yotsuyu; I couldn't stand Fordola (the Garleans in EW evoked a very similar response from me, incidentally).

[Absimiliard]

Omnicide is objectively bad regardless of the reasoning you apply to it. There is no adequate justification.