Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[RukoBoshi]

Somebody had to be a tank for Trusts, and Thancred got shoehorned into it. And they might as well have him advertise the brand-new job at the same time. Although to be fair, warrior would've been even more out of character for him, and paladin and dark knight have too much magic for a guy who can't use magic. At least with gunbreaker they could handwave it by having someone else enchant his shells.

The hilarious part to me is that, with seemingly no other gunblade users on the entire First, he'd stand out even more, which should make sneaking around even harder. I guess he's just that damn good.

Which is a shame because if they waited one more expansion, he would have had the perfect job for him : Reaper.

A job whose history is linked with a people who can't use aether and decided to make contract with voidsents to get around their magical limitations.

It's even stated that Reaper were silent assassins which would fit Thancred too.
It would have been a natural progression from his rogue days, to stay a stealthy DPS, hiding in the shadows.
And he has gone in Garlemald multiple times, he could easily have picked the job there instead of gunbreaker.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Reaper wouldn't fill the need for a tank for Trusts, though. That was kinda the sticking point. All of the other Archons (and the twins, for that matter) are primary casters, Thancred's the only physical fighter, so he came the closest to making sense as a tank and got stuck with it. I guess we could've just picked up someone else to do it on the First, but the main cast was a bit bloated already.

[RukoBoshi]

Reaper wouldn't fill the need for a tank for Trusts, though. That was kinda the sticking point. All of the other Archons (and the twins, for that matter) are primary casters, Thancred's the only physical fighter, so he came the closest to making sense as a tank and got stuck with it. I guess we could've just picked up someone else to do it on the First, but the main cast was a bit bloated already.

Yeah that's fair, it's just sad that his characterization suffered from it. Felt so weird to have him switch from sneaky mcstabby to probably the loudest tank in the game.

[Carin-Eri]

Reaper wouldn't fill the need for a tank for Trusts, though. That was kinda the sticking point. All of the other Archons (and the twins, for that matter) are primary casters, Thancred's the only physical fighter, so he came the closest to making sense as a tank and got stuck with it. I guess we could've just picked up someone else to do it on the First, but the main cast was a bit bloated already.

Well, I guess Estinien does cover the DPS role for the Scions.

Oddly, they could really have given Gra'ha a DPS role too but I guess wanted to maintain some link to his past as the Exarch and made him a hybrid instead.

[TheMightyMollusk]

G'raha was given the All-Rounder role because we didn't have a tank for Holminster Switch, but locking him out as an option for tanks would be kind of a dick move.

I'd like to see move of the Trusts get multiple roles in the future. Gives more flexibility for not having to have the entire group around at all times. Y'shtola picking up healer as an option in Troia is a good start.

[AwesomeJr44]

It's okay to criticize the game.

In other games this would be a given. In this one, it's a hotter take than the average temperature of a summer day in Death Valley.

[SylvAlternate]

Duty Support should be removed from the first 3 dungeons (or Sastasha at the very least).

a lot of new players will be anxious about the first dungeon, Sastasha, when they get to it and this will prompt a large number of them to use Duty Support.

I was the same when I began playing the game and looked around for a way to do the dungeon Solo or with a group of NPCs, Duty Support didn't exist yet so I just had to suck it up and do the dungeon with Duty Finder and it was then that, after wiping due to a Dark Knight wearing a chicken costume pulling too many mobs for themselves and the healer to handle, I realized how much fun doing content with others was.

I am 100% sure if I was allowed to do Sastasha with a group of NPCs I would have, and then I would continue to do that for the rest of the game and would have never came to that realization.
I'm also sure that's the case with at least some of the new players who ended up playing with Duty Supports, the only way to remedy that is to force people to play a small bit of the game with other players so they can compare that to Duty Supports and choose which one they prefer

[Travel]

I feel like most of the jobs in game are just a bit to "extra" with their animations and such. It's not like having a job that's extremely animated is a bad thing, but there's some points where it just looks a bit ridiculous.

Relatedly, it feels like almost every job seems to require a constant stream of button presses to do well; I'm not exactly complaining about it, but as someone who has a ton of latency and drifting issues on my end - it's not exactly uncommon for combos to simply not register, or for attacks to simply not go off - it makes me a bit hesitant to play some of the more button-heavy jobs such as Monk or Ninja in higher-end play.

Also, I personally enjoyed Endwalker's story. It's not perfect, very far from it in fact, but I found myself having a ton of fun with it overall. It's actually my personal favorite expansion, so far.

Conversely, I found Shadowbringers to be a bit overhyped. Not a bad story, far from it actually, but the constant hype from the community as a whole makes some of the plot's issues - Ran'jiit's character, some pacing issues, some plot twists being too obvious, etc. - stand out all the more. It's similar to Undertale's community, really; good story, but the hype can draw some very unrealistic expectations.

[vanaii]

I feel like most of the jobs in game are just a bit to "extra" with their animations and such. It's not like having a job that's extremely animated is a bad thing, but there's some points where it just looks a bit ridiculous.

Relatedly, it feels like almost every job seems to require a constant stream of button presses to do well; I'm not exactly complaining about it, but as someone who has a ton of latency and drifting issues on my end - it's not exactly uncommon for combos to simply not register, or for attacks to simply not go off - it makes me a bit hesitant to play some of the more button-heavy jobs such as Monk or Ninja in higher-end play.

Also, I personally enjoyed Endwalker's story. It's not perfect, very far from it in fact, but I found myself having a ton of fun with it overall. It's actually my personal favorite expansion, so far.

Conversely, I found Shadowbringers to be a bit overhyped. Not a bad story, far from it actually, but the constant hype from the community as a whole makes some of the plot's issues - Ran'jiit's character, some pacing issues, some plot twists being too obvious, etc. - stand out all the more. It's similar to Undertale's community, really; good story, but the hype can draw some very unrealistic expectations.

That's a whole series of hot takes, but I'm with you all the way through. Re: animations especially, we really should have non-self Limited animation filters on by default for party content. That's the sort of thing people need to turn on eventually, then forget it's not default when a new player complains that they can't see anything.

I'm thrilled Square had the guts to make an ending, rather than just tread water for infinity. Of course people are going to be furious it didn't end The Way They Wanted, and of course people are going to be upset when they look back over the decade and realize some threads were abandoned (even if they still might get picked back up.)

I'm not someone that believes in telling the creators what they can/can't do because "the lore says so" when the creators can make the lore say whatever they want (see also: LOTR's latest fracas) but I consider it a miracle Square was able to wrap this story in a way that was sensible and fun. Yeah, there's going to be improvements here and there-- but Endwalker just made me excited to see where we go from here. We're in uncharted territory, and that is probably the most exciting thing for me storywise in a very long time.

[Bladedance87]

I dont get it. Why is a burger the reason to fight on the forums lok