Write your Positive Experience on FFXIV

[Fallaner]

9) Preferred server or data center? - Crystal. I started on it, still play on it. Used to be on Zalera, but now ended up on Goblin due to friends. Can... can we remove Balmung though? Balmung doesn't count as part of Crystal, okay??

10) A glam style you always return to? - Blacks. Lots and lots of blacks. Sometimes whites, but usually I go back to blacks. Especially in any style I perceive as cute or elegant.

11) A dungeon, trial, or raid you secretly love? - Hmmmm. SECRETLY? Honestly dunno if I'd say any are secret. Maybe Orbonne? I know a bunch of people dislike it and find it hard, or at least did last I checked, but while I never played the Ivalice games, the Thunder God's Voicelines are still amazing. Really though I like a fair bit!

12) Any closing thought or appreciation you’d like to share? - That I always prefer to see more positivity in things. Also, that it's okay to take breaks! Take a break! If you've been playing the game for a decade, or close to it like I have, it's normal to burnout sometimes or find things aren't to your tastes! We change as we grow, and that's normal.

On a more appreciative note, I actually really do enjoy the story of FFXIV. It has helped me through a lot of bad in my life, and for that alone I will always hold it dear to my heart. Endwalker in particular helped me through a very bad period of my life, and while life may be dark at times still, we rise, fall, and rise again.

13) Write a question for the player who replies after you.
Previous Question - Coerthas Central Highlands. For the grave/monument in the north overlooking Ishgard. IYKYK. If I have to pick a *single* favorite track from the OST... Okay that's actually an extremely hard question, but I'd have to give it to The Maker's Ruin. It is THE WoL's theme to me, and I must admit to getting pumped to hear it be used.

My own question: Do you create your own lore for the Warrior of Light? (I do. A lot. I'm a nerd, I admit it.)

(Character limits AAAAA)

[cramoran]

1) When did you start playing FFXIV?

mid-January 2023. I had just gotten my first full time job, and after years of hearing about the game, and refusing to play on principle (I love FF but I needed to finish my bachelor's & then master's...), I jumped right in.

2) What keeps you playing?

8.0. Dawntrail has been amazing, as my first full expansion, but with 8.0 being the Sixth expansion, and FF6 being my favorite mainline game, the wonder at what narrative parallels from it, and what new stuff awaits us, has me hooked.

More day to day, the social aspect of it. I'm not in an FC nor have any linkshells, but the small moments when waiting in PF, making jokes, giving advice, it feels good.

3) What do you enjoy most about the game?

Save The Queen. The relics, the field op zones, Delubrum. God-tier.

Please come back to us Yasmat. One day.

4) A favorite memory or moment?

I had listened to To The Edge before I had progressed to Shadowbringers. When I got to a certain part in The Tempest, and heard the music change, and recognized the leitmotif (thank you Toby Fox for teaching me that word), I burst into tears. It happened that night was right before my birthday. One of the best presents I ever received.

5) What makes FFXIV feel different from other MMOs for you?

People are encouraged not to be jerks, and the jerks are to be viewed as aberrations. There are still jerks, but they can play their way and you can play your way, and find decent people.

Also, compared to SWTOR, being able to be multiple jobs with a single character is nice. I have a soft spot for SWTOR but man, it took a while for multiple storylines there.

6) What would you say to someone thinking about trying FFXIV?

Shadowbringers will (probably) be in the free trial within a year or two, you don't even have to pay. Never a better time to give it a go.

7) Favorite emote?

Pose of the Unbound. Chuunibyos takin' ovah.

8) Favorite job to relax on?

Red Mage. I cast the spells, I get one for free, I cast the spells again.

9) Preferred server or data center?

Midgardsormr, Aether, my home #ILoveMid

Though I don't savage, for all other combat instances you can still find people reliably playing.

10) A glam style you always return to?

Fine Leather Jackets.

Also my Augmented Drachen Armet. Best Artifact Helmet ever made. Goes with so many tops.

11) A dungeon, trial, or raid you secretly love?

Dun- I mean, Fun Scaith : ) (its good you people just don't know how to mit, heal, and kill adds lol, be glad we don't have to do forreal Diabolos Doors).

[cramoran]

12) Any closing thought or appreciation you’d like to share?

Shouts out to Valen H., The Green Knight of Goblin, and Eirefriar O., The Diminutive Dreamer of Cactuar, my dearest friends who helped me get my bearings in those early days in 2023.

Shouts out to Max P., Maxwell F., Seti, Judge, Bai, Iviss, Aldous, Ohn, Anla, Syntax, and especially Nacl, and all the rest of the company, of the Lego Steppers, for helping instill in myself the confidence to try and retry one particular savage encounter.

Shouts out to all players new and veteran that still play in Bozja & Zadnor to this day, five years after patch 5.35.

Shouts out to everyone who ran with me in Pilgrim's Traverse 1-30 Silver Sack farming runs, I hope you too get your shrubs.

Shouts out to Bebedora Arc, who helped me get good at Bozja all those months ago. Maybe I'll see you in the tower one day.

Shouts out to all the people with funny names on Midgardsormr, especially What'ifzelda Wasagril. Stay committed to your bits.

And finally, shout out to Chuck Dewberry. Chuck Dewberry.

13) Write a question for the player who replies after you.

Previous Question: Did you create your own lore for the Warrior of Light?

Answer: Yes. In particular, though Celesi is a Duskwight, was born in the Black Shroud, and did All That, in truth, she is the same being as my player character from when I played a certain CRPG released in 2001 set on a volcanic island. Duskwights are the closest to D***** so it was an easy fit. In my conception, after that first game, Celesi through a tabletop game campaign I never finished, came to realize their existence as a extension of myself, but through my imagination and dreams, given life by these games. They accepted this, and yearned to play more. Thus did I whisk them beyond their original bounds, to Eorzea. To a fresh start. I think they're having a good time. I know I am.

My question: Think it'll rain?

[Bryson]

1) When did you start playing FFXIV? - ARR Beta

2) What keeps you playing? - Raiding

3) What do you enjoy most about the game? - Savage, Ultimates, Relic (when they're good like zodiac weaps), Q40, Criterion, Field Ops not named OC

4) A favorite memory or moment? - Probably clearing DSR

5) What makes FFXIV feel different from other MMOs for you? - Raiding not being gear gated.

6) What would you say to someone thinking about trying FFXIV? - Buy boost if you ever actually want to catch up

7) Favorite emote? - idk don't use them

8) Favorite job to relax on? ast one trick