Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[MikoNight]

hello I don't know if anyone has passed the battle with lahabrea and ageyorum in azyslla
im a white mage and keep dying when they merge together please any help is welcomed i play PS4.

[BRVV]

hello I don't know if anyone has passed the battle with lahabrea and ageyorum in azyslla
im a white mage and keep dying when they merge together please any help is welcomed i play PS4.

Quite a hot take. Don't know anyone else who...

You know you COULD post in the appropriate topic / subforum

[SamSmoot]

The crafting system in this game isn't fun.

Would rather have traditional MMO crafting where you afk process materials then one click craft.

Of course, the difficulty gets you better gear. WoW has one-click crafting (The hard part is getting the mats sometimes) But then, their crafted gear is outclassed by the lowest level dungeon drips for the current expansion, so it's basically worthless.

[SomeoneElse]

I know you aren't necessarily looking for input in a thread like this... but I'ma toss in my two gil anyway lol.

I do think that SB is a lot more consistent in quality than HW overall, and I think it's more successful at telling a nuanced story about war -- by a wide margin. But for me, I found characters like Ysayle, Estinien, and Aymeric more compelling than pretty much anyone in SB's cast (other than Yotsuyu), which made HW more compelling for me to follow in general. And, anecdotally at least, it seems like that's the consensus among players like me who favored it: they cared more about the characters, so they cared more about the story. SB's just seemed to struggle to hook some of us despite its relative compexity.

In terms of actual content, though, SB absolutely takes the cake, imo.

Doesn't matter to me, mate. Input if you want. I hated Ysayle with a passion personally and wasn't overly attached to Aymeric nor Haurchefaunt but I'm aware I'm in the minority with that. I will say though that SB was not void of unlikeable characters for me. Lyse in particular was quite annoying. I'd rather deal with more Ysayle over Lyse, but overall I liked more SB characters than HW.

[Shurrikhan]

Doesn't matter to me, mate. Input if you want. I hated Ysayle with a passion personally and wasn't overly attached to Aymeric nor Haurchefaunt but I'm aware I'm in the minority with that. I will say though that SB was not void of unlikeable characters for me. Lyse in particular was quite annoying. I'd rather deal with more Ysayle over Lyse, but overall I liked more SB characters than HW.

Same, though with Lsayle and Lyse being equally meh to me. The rest of the Ala'Mhigan resistance, especially, were mostly likeable, even if that was definitely the weaker half of Stormblood, and the Doman/Othgardian(?) side was decently well written. Was fine with Zenos, even, for what it's worth, and StB was probably my favorite expansion over the time I was playing it, with some of the least low lows.

(I thought ShB's MSQ had higher highs and, even, a better average than StB's, but the rest was a merely okay expansion to me, honestly. EW? Maybe faintly better, outside of the MSQ feeling as rushed as StB's. I feel like most of the gameplay issues I feel with Endwalker, apart from maybe SAM's, were things already wholly present in Shadowbringers, and just better worked around now. /shrug)

[EgilTheStressedMage]

hello I don't know if anyone has passed the battle with lahabrea and ageyorum in azyslla
im a white mage and keep dying when they merge together please any help is welcomed i play PS4.

Short tether = will go off first
Long tether = will go off second
Ice = stand under
Fire = get away

[Absimiliard]

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

[Boblawblah]

my hot take for the day is:

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.

[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).

[SassyAssassin]

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

What if, and hear me out, the entire world would be fedora wearers?