Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Caurcas]

As the title suggests, please share your hot takes on XIV here. I'll go first. The music really isn't all that memorable outside a couple of tracks. I keep many other games' osts in rotation in my regular listening, but not XIV. Furthermore, often after I hear it once when content is new I'll flip the music off and just pull up something of Spotify or YouTube.

[Thi]

The crafting system in this game isn't fun.

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

[SamSmoot]

Yes, the crafting system is tedious, and risky in that you can lose your mats if not successful.
On the other hand, in WoW's one-click EZ-mode crafting system, the best gear you can produce is obsoleted by what you can get in the first normal mode dungeon of the expansion, so it's only worthwhile for making consumables. I also found that I could make more gold by selling the raw materials over the crafted goods that I (and everyone else) could make.

[AmpelioB]

The crafting system in this game isn't fun.

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

this would be a relevant take if Quick Synthesis didn't exist.

[Absurdity]

this would be a relevant take if Quick Synthesis didn't exist.

The issue with quick synthesis is that it will most likely craft the item in normal quality, which often just makes it a waste of your materials. In mmos that just have 1 button afk crafting there usually is no "normal" and "high" quality.

[AmpelioB]

The issue with quick synthesis is that it will most likely craft the item in normal quality, which often just makes it a waste of your materials. In mmos that just have 1 button afk crafting there usually is no "normal" and "high" quality.

You are right, why not just lock "high quality" into very slim chances to forward the usage of microtransactions like every other game does!

and they person I quote never mentioned anything as such as quality I do realize now that I quoted something old and they might have argumented about it but hey if it needs to be High quality it is probably worth the effort

[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.

[Sauteed]

I didn't like ShB at all.

[DamianFatale]

I didn't like ShB at all.

I loved Shadowbringers, but got depressed that it was out of the source. I'm happy to be back in the source, but the direction of Endwalker is making me sad, and longing for more of the source.

Elpis is cool, but its not in the main world. It feels like a Shadowbringers area.

I have always wanted to go to Garlmald, AND WANTED A NEW SNOW ZONE FOR LIKE EVER. We hadn't had one outside of Eureka since Heavensward, but its so cut off from the rest of the world. There's no city hub, no nothing besides a small slightly repopulated town, and a bunch of ruins. I'm fine with the ruins considering Garlmald had it coming, but it would be nice to restore, or at least see a still in tact smaller Garlean hub. It's so important to the story, but the devs keep this from us. I don't get it. Imagine Doma without the restoration.. would be silly.

The moon is great, and a really cool zone, but again instead of one surprise zone like Azys La, we got THREE, and when we usually only get six zones an expansion, I was really longing for more of the source. I wish we had a second Thavnair zone, Sharlayan, and Garlean zone each. Heck, we were technically in another Garlean zone via the Magna Glaces, but they never made it a normal zone. I was really disappointed. I think the devs might want to consider a seventh zone, and maybe even possibly an eighth or every expansion from now on, because it could really help flesh the pacing of things out if they are going to continue to be varied. I'm not into the single zone per country mentality that they have had, and prefer back in A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, and Stormbloods way of having multiple a country. (though I suspect Ala Mhigo might have killed this.. because they didn't go all the way with it despite hyping up Ala Mhigo.. the city is cut off..)

I feel like I was drip fed a tiny bit of Thavnair, Garlmald, and Sharlayan, but not given enough extra places in those areas to make it feel worth it. The pacing was really off for me, but otherwise I really like the expansion. It was varied and fun, but I think almost TOO varied like the second half of Stormblood was.

[LisSquid]

The last stretch of EW was weak because all emotional pull is rendered null because of the established macguffin.