Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[AziraSyuren]

When someone asks for a recommendation on the strongest class, it's ok to actually tell them the numerically strongest class. It won't end the world.

The community is so averse to being seen as "meta slaves", that even when someone clearly states they enjoy the gameplay of multiple classes equally, they will always get spammed with "pick what you enjoy, dps doesn't matter in this game, you'll do worse with a class you don't like" and the question never actually gets answered. It's such a simple question, but taboo to answer it directly.

Another one is that there are far, far more players who obsess over the idea that people use only logs to stroke their ego, than the actual handful who use logs to stroke their ego.

GOD, THANK YOU

"Just play what you have fun with lol everything is viable if you put in the effort" that's not what they're asking you unhelpful asshole >: (

[CKNovel]

Meteion ruined Endwalker and made absolutely no sense for the story. We meet Meteion in Elpis, mind you, a level 86 zone. That means we are over the halfway point for the expansion, and are close to the finale of it. Meeting the big bad of the expansion - even the entire story - over halfway in it makes no sense in my opinion. Meteion should have just stayed as a happy little bird girl, but instead, we just had to do the entire Ktisis Hyperboreia arc of the story and mess everything up forever. Doesn't Meteion have like, millions, or even infinite amounts of sisters? Surely there are more of them than just the one Endsinger we fought, right? Yeah, makes no sense.

This leads to my 2nd hot take: We should have just let Zodiark fully heal and fight him as the final trial of the expansion

This leads to my 3rd hot take: Fandaniel did nothing for the story during the Mare Lamentorum arc besides ruin it.

They introduced the big villain of 10 years exactly 4 levels before 90.
I'm sure they initially wanted a natural event to be the cause but it was easier to put a face on it.
Except they did it way too late, which almost makes a Necron 2.

Fandaniel was only a reason to say "there's a danger coming up and here's Asahi's face".
I don't think anyone cared about Fandaniel until the Elpis arc.

Elpis is good but it commits several cardinal sins:
-Timetravel
-McGuffin memory eraser to keep the Timetravel logical
-Peak point of Fanservice (look it's all your favorite characters)

[CKNovel]

Job Design is XIV's weakpoint. Very few jobs actually feels complete and engaging.

Gear being slowly distributed prevents your from BiS multiple roles.

[Ayche]

Trend is your friend.
If some trends in FFXIV have been going for over 4-6 years now, it seems foolish to except them to suddenly reverse course.
Healers, dungeons, raid tiers...
Take your pick.

[Soge01]

Thancred looks better with a mustache.

[Caurcas]

The music is not that memorable.

[Vatom]

If they pulled Gear out the game, it wouldn't make a difference in the game.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Healing is fine.

[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.

[fantasiaaddict]

Elpis is good but it commits several cardinal sins:
-Timetravel
-McGuffin memory eraser to keep the Timetravel logical
-Peak point of Fanservice (look it's all your favorite characters)

I didn't even realize the McGuffin bit. Jesus.
(just goes to show how convoluted it is heheh)