Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Xuke]

Here's to another 10 years guys!

[Soge01]

I wanna see G'raha munch into a big slice of chocolate cake. :3

[Syln]

I wanna see G'raha munch into a big slice of chocolate cake. :3

Isn't chocolate deadly for cat ?

[Silver-Strider]

Isn't chocolate deadly for cat ?

I see no problems with this

[Soge01]

Isn't chocolate deadly for cat ?

Miqo'te have evolved specifically to withstand chocolate poison intakes. Not sure about Hrothgar though. xD

[Alec97]

Hot Takes:

Raiding Gear should be dyeable; all dungeon gear should be dyeable.

Tomestone weekly cap should be removed one month after a patch so you can level up other classes.

Mogstation items and story progression should be account-wide (new game plus for people who want to do it again).

The glamour & housing system should be fixed. It's been ten years, and it's just slightly less awful.

The main narrative needs less filler, be better paced and does not try to subvert expectations as it constantly fails, i.e. Endwalkers ending, of course, no one died.

Variant Dungeons are boring, and Criterion Dungeons need rewards.

Island Sanctuary adds nothing to the game and is parasitic. It should have fixed housing and been a crafter's dream.

Island Sanctuary should be available at the start of the game if you have completed the story.

Flying should be unlocked at the end of the expansion quests.

Zone design is terrible; all zones should've been more like exploritary zones.

Stormblood should have been two expansions, same with Endwalker; they did Garlemald and Zodiark dirty.

Hydaelyn is the true villain of the narrative who forced her perspective on society when her internal philosophy made no sense, and she lied to them all to justify a future that might never happen, where she had mutilated entire generations.

Replace raid gear with job gear so each class has a unique set rather than a recolour.

Relic quests were always terrible and never fun. They have less busy work now.

Viera and Hrothgar should have been fixed within Shadowbringers, not just another issue pilled onto the mountain of issues they refuse to address appropriately.

All materia should be slotted on the job stone, not the armour piece.

FF14 after Stormblood is a minimum viable product; most of the money has gone to other projects.

[DiaDeem]

I've got one.

Civilizations, also known as the "Lahee Song" sucks. It's obnoxious, grating and annoying. Love the meme and the meme potential. The actual song isn't great. It's the only reason I ever dread going to Rak'Tika, and I should love Rak'Tika. I love forests, I'm a Viera, and the home in the trees that the Viis ladies have (Fanow), and THAT area has a lovely peaceful piece from 1.0, but then you go outside and the freaking song starts again.

[Gordita]

Everyone hyped up the shb msq and it was actually extremely slow paced and boring until well into the patches. People begged for more drama in the msq during SB, and in typical Square Enix fashion, the went super extra on it. Sos theme song isn't good. Vauthry isn't hot. Bozja isn't better than Eureka. Empyrium was a waste of resources (should've been a housing district elsewhere). Add phase in e12n is just a waste of time. Alphinaud needs to be removed from the story. Lyse is a great character. Kaiten sucked and shouldnt have been added, ever (that's a joke calm down). Stormblood is the second best expansion, story-wise, next to endwalker. Catgirls aren't hot. Face 3 au ra females are by far the superior to all fem ra (croissant horns best girl, fite me).

I could probably come up with more but I don't feel like it. I wonder how many people agree with some of these takes. /Ponder

[Carin-Eri]

Everyone hyped up the shb msq and it was actually extremely slow paced and boring until well into the patches.

I wasn’t around for the hype so can’t comment on that element, but do agree that ShB was slow paced. It had lots of ‘standout’ moments, which is what I think most remember it for, but seem to take a while to get to them. And the pointlessness that was Ranjit didn’t help matters in that respect.

Vauthry isn't hot

Nope - and even if one were to argue that his ‘evolved’ form, when we fought him, was nice to look at his hideous personality was no different.

Stormblood is the second best expansion, story-wise, next to Endwalker

Actually agree. For reasons I can’t really explain, I recall my time playing through Stormblood more fondly than Shadowbringers. Not that I didn’t enjoy Shadowbringers – it was great, but if I were to New Game+ either of them, it’d be Stormblood.
And I'll confess that Endwalker is my favorite expansion. Not a popular choice here, but that's how I feel and that's is what this thread is about. And currently replaying the second half of Endwalker on New Game+

[Anienai]

Vauthry isn't hot.

His first form is.

Fight me.