Live Letter Thoughts

[Tetsujin]

So I just have a question -- what the heck is the symbol on that jacket from? I know it's supposed to be a "PLD jacket" but I don't recall seeing that art anywhere..

I believe it is literally only used in the EW Paladin cape. If you mean more generally, I believe that symbol is based on the cross of Santiago. Turned blue and made less Crusader-y. Pic related:

Applied generally, this is a great philosophy for being miserable your entire life.
And for coming off as an entitled ass, which is perhaps equivalent.

So, no thanks. I'll keep my ready smile and easy laugh, instead.

What a cope. Never seen anyone get hit by the LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH reply in the face of demanding quality from a multi-billion dollar company. Anyway, Awesome has a point. Let them live their life, bro.

[AwesomeJr44]

FFXIV is a quality product

Alright then. If it is a quality product, then you won't mind if I continue to demand quality as surely it would meet my standards then.

What a cope. Never seen anyone get hit by the LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH reply in the face of demanding quality from a multi-billion dollar company. Anyway, Awesome has a point. Let them live their life, bro.

They're offended because I dare ask for something that is above their low standards.

[Padudu]

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Yep, I completely forgot how it looked! It's been a while since I even remembered the glam existed. That's a cool fun fact though Thank you lol. My mind just blanked it on completely when I looked at it on a hoodie lol..

[Thaciscokidd]

Sealed my interest in Variant/Another dungeon stuff and made me more interested in island sanctuaries than I initially was. While Animal Crossing/Harvest Moon games are usually not my games of choice, this has the potential to be a good backbone and/or stress test if they ever going to do instanced housing. I'll do the content if it leads to better stuff in 7.x and beyond.

And mostly

That remix of the FF4 boss theme single handily made me excited for this patch. I was gushing so hard when that music came on!

I need a mount with the Red Wings theme or The Airship(faster town music lol) them

[Atelier-Bagur]

Alright then. If it is a quality product, then you won't mind if I continue to demand quality as surely it would meet my standards then.

It's mostly having unrealistic expectations for something that's just supposed to be a simple content patch. We're not talking about getting full on expansions every couple of months. For what we normally get, this is a lot for a patch.

[Knot_D]

Alright then. If it is a quality product, then you won't mind if I continue to demand quality as surely it would meet my standards then.



They're offended because I dare ask for something that is above their low standards.

Still better than what WoW gives to their players

[Cach]

Indifferent on story
Not touching Island Sanctuary

Everything else looks cool and I hope there are more FF4 songs in there.

[Amenara]

Glad I can remeld warrior to be the same as the rest of my tanks. Seems like a normal patch so just waiting on the patch I really care about in 6.25.

Gear looked cool for tanks, so excited to get all of that.

[Silverbane]

Still better than what WoW gives to their players

Or SWTOR, which long ago was fun, but was always buggier than FFXIV in my experience.

Unlike what people complain about with FFXIV, SWTOR had serious bugs, like glitches that made it impossible to progress through a raid after you got 80% through it even though you did everything right (the Pirate Captain fight, or Underlurcker), or made it trivial to get the best gear in the game (the queue-into-the-final-loot-drop-repeatedly bug). And then there were the cash-shop slot machines that were an easy path to riches, until (after the devs said they were working as intended, and people had spent a lot of real money to get them based on that statement) the devs nerfed them.

When you've lived through that, you can really appreciate SE's CBU3.

[Flashy]

I disagree, personally I prefereed the 5.x rotation.

I agree with you there, I loved 5.4 SAM.

6.0 was a slight downgrade imo, buffs being auto-refreshed with the use of Meikyo Shisui (maybe i'm a masochist but I liked how if you started the wrong combo after your loop on 2.14 Slow SAM, you would drop a buff) the loss of Seigan, the loss of choosing between midare or higanbana opener depending on the encounter you are doing.

But the big thing for me was we still got new things despite losing other things, Namikiri looks and sounds amazing, Third Eye got dumbed down but was a big potency gain on successful usage, and even though dungeon content is mostly irrelevant to me, the AOE got better since you could apply AND refresh buff timers with just the AOE combos.

My issue was SAM was underperforming damage-wise, but I didn't mind it much, I was still learning the new rotation and felt the job was still satisfying because the core of SAM, the building of GCDs into your Midare, was still satisfying. And then 6.08 comes around and we get buffs and life's good

Now in 6.1, it's more than just losing a oGCD. The core of the job was ruined, they shifted the potency that we lost from Kaiten'd Iaijutsu into our combos. The Midare we're casting after using our 3 combos is hitting like wet toilet paper.

I'm curious why you think the job was ruined in 6.0 though? And how were you clipping Kaiten when you could single weave the entire opener if you chose to do so?