Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

I know this is not impressive but I feel good about myself. Last night I beat t6 and t7 unsynced with a pug. I know that is nothing to most people but it is better than I would have expected from myself.
If you did it unsynched, then you're right, it's not that much of an accomplishment.

Hell, I tried soloing Second Coil Savage recently and even I can do T6S and T7S solo. T8S and T9S are only roadblocked due to mechanics, but I was eventually able to clear them with a friend's help and a little bit of luck during the final phase of T9S.

If you did them SYNCHED, however, then that'd be worthy of some congratulations.
 
Alrighty, quick update from your favourite Maelstrom autist.


My friend gave the game another shot and he is playing the shit out of it. He took a 3 week vacation and for the last two weeks, he has played the game every single day for at least 4-6 hours. He absolutely hated getting into crafting and gathering, but I think he is slowly warming up to it. I think his favourite content are the trials on higher difficulties, as well as PVP (even though it's just a big brawl).

Got a new look as well, if anyone is interested, because I swapped Dragoon for Paladin. Looking like a Dark Souls knight feels great.
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Next goal: Beating Ramuh and Odin extreme, we skipped those fights to finally continue the story to Heavensward.
 
Got a new look as well, if anyone is interested, because I swapped Dragoon for Paladin. Looking like a Dark Souls knight feels great.

Next goal: Beating Ramuh and Odin extreme, we skipped those fights to finally continue the story to Heavensward.
Personally, I'd dye that Adamantite helm to match the color scheme of the Noct body, but otherwise, fairly decent.

If you really want the Dark Souls look, then get to 80 and start grinding Revelations so you can buy the full Cryptlurker fending set. It's literally Dark Souls armor. (Shown on the far right)
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If you did it unsynched, then you're right, it's not that much of an accomplishment.

Hell, I tried soloing Second Coil Savage recently and even I can do T6S and T7S solo. T8S and T9S are only roadblocked due to mechanics, but I was eventually able to clear them with a friend's help and a little bit of luck during the final phase of T9S.

If you did them SYNCHED, however, then that'd be worthy of some congratulations.
I'm a dumbass I meant synched. Editing original post now
 
I just assume everyone is insane.
That is the correct assumption to make, lol.

I can't really contribute much to the conversation about finding FCs because I'm mostly a solo player. I am in an FC but it's mostly dead with me being like one of the few people who still logs in but honestly I use it as a buffer to keep from being invited to any other FCs (which is huge considering I'm in Balmung and yes I know) and the buffs are still nice. I'm also in a discord with some okay folks but they are mostly casual folks, adults with jobs, married with kids, etc. We don't interact much because well you know...they have lives. Lastly, I literally pug everything so I don't have a dedicated group (it's not as bad as you'd think) The only thing I can say is just go wherever you feel comfortable with and the moment you start having a whiff of something shady, just hit the eject button.
 
Personally, I'd dye that Adamantite helm to match the color scheme of the Noct body, but otherwise, fairly decent.

If you really want the Dark Souls look, then get to 80 and start grinding Revelations so you can buy the full Cryptlurker fending set. It's literally Dark Souls armor. (Shown on the far right)
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Thanks for the tip. I haven't played around with dyes yet, but ye, the longer you look at the armor, the more you notice the individual pieces not quite fitting together.

I also cannot wait to get my hands on the FFXII-judge-inspired armor. It does exist, right? Or did I misread something?
 
Thanks for the tip. I haven't played around with dyes yet, but ye, the longer you look at the armor, the more you notice the individual pieces not quite fitting together.

I also cannot wait to get my hands on the FFXII-judge-inspired armor. It does exist, right? Or did I misread something?
Absolutely but they're available in the Bozjan Southern Front, so also level 80 after the main ShB MSQ.
 
That is the correct assumption to make, lol.

I can't really contribute much to the conversation about finding FCs because I'm mostly a solo player. I am in an FC but it's mostly dead with me being like one of the few people who still logs in but honestly I use it as a buffer to keep from being invited to any other FCs (which is huge considering I'm in Balmung and yes I know) and the buffs are still nice. I'm also in a discord with some okay folks but they are mostly casual folks, adults with jobs, married with kids, etc. We don't interact much because well you know...they have lives. Lastly, I literally pug everything so I don't have a dedicated group (it's not as bad as you'd think) The only thing I can say is just go wherever you feel comfortable with and the moment you start having a whiff of something shady, just hit the eject button.
Sounds a lot like my last FC, even down to the chill-but-mostly-dead discord. Crystal too lol.
But I guess that most FCs that aren't just small friend groups, giant sprout mills, or degenerate alphabet soup dens are probably like that.
 
I frequently forget that I'm technically in an FC. That's probably for the better. Though Malboro does seem like one of the "normal" locales in Crystal, so maybe I could shop around.
Absolutely but they're available in the Bozjan Southern Front, so also level 80 after the main ShB MSQ.
Early Bozja sucks so much fucking dick it's unbelievable, but it does eventually become pretty alright side-content and it's thankfully pretty quick to grind out the armor set for cosmetics alone. Well, provided you don't run into useless groups of drooling retards who will have meltdowns if you ask why they don't have an essence popped in DR.

I've gotten to that part of the ol' relic grind where I have to grind out the HW or SB raids / SB Fates. I know the raids portion gets worse, but man am I not looking forward to either of these slogs.
 
The effects of the Twitch FFXIV collab can still be felt to this day with FFXIV streamers that aren't asmongold and other warcraft streamers. They all tag each other non-stop on social media and type in heart emojis to show how great of a community of streams they are. One of them in particular is Rin Karigani, who demanded SQEX to tell them who picked the streamers and why anyone who showed ACT on stream was not included, so him and his balance mentor squad can continue to bully people over a video game. The dude brands himself on positivity but he always comes off as an ass and condescending, because he actually is.

After trying to make guides and xxxHARDCORExxx raid videos failing to make him popular, his next step into this downward lolcow spiral was releasing a video where he talks about his daughter "coming out" as trans. The video is awkward, makes terrible arguments, with him saying "shame on you", trying to put himself above you as he exploits his kid for attention.


Links:
The tweet about the video -- https://archive.is/g2xHH
Response to someone calling him a shitty parent -- Archive
 
The effects of the Twitch FFXIV collab can still be felt to this day with FFXIV streamers that aren't asmongold and other warcraft streamers. They all tag each other non-stop on social media and type in heart emojis to show how great of a community of streams they are. One of them in particular is Rin Karigani, who demanded SQEX to tell them who picked the streamers and why anyone who showed ACT on stream was not included, so him and his balance mentor squad can continue to bully people over a video game. The dude brands himself on positivity but he always comes off as an ass and condescending, because he actually is.

After trying to make guides and xxxHARDCORExxx raid videos failing to make him popular, his next step into this downward lolcow spiral was releasing a video where he talks about his daughter "coming out" as trans. The video is awkward, makes terrible arguments, with him saying "shame on you", trying to put himself above you as he exploits his kid for attention.
My Daughter Is ACTUALLY My Son.mp4

Links:
The tweet about the video -- https://archive.md/g2xHH
Response to someone calling him a shitty parent -- Archive
Oh yeah I know him, he was in a Ferro vid recently where he was RPing as Kronk and doing Kronk voice the whole time while they were completing normal raids with the challenge that Ferro had to keep him alive as he kept trying to sabotage the raid and kill himself. It was actually kind of entertaining to watch.

But yeah, Rin himself is a massive spaz and he's defo patting himself on the back for being such a progressive dad with a trans kid even though most people actually don't give a shit about his kid being trans. He's just desperately trying to milk his kid for attention like all the other faggy dads who're covered on this site.
 
Started playing a week ago, slowly working my through A Realm Reborn as a white mage. Level 40-ish now and tolerating the game so far despite how much the main story has been dragging its ass. I'm just wondering when the real pug struggle is going to begin as I really don't want to think about joining an FC right now.
 
Started playing a week ago, slowly working my through A Realm Reborn as a white mage. Level 40-ish now and tolerating the game so far despite how much the main story has been dragging its ass. I'm just wondering when the real pug struggle is going to begin as I really don't want to think about joining an FC right now.

Pity that white mage has the worst class quests. Followed closely by paladin. You can always change to astrologian down the road though.

It gets better for a while from 40-50, most of the post-ARR msq's until HW are a snore, after that it gets better again. Also the Crystal Tower alliance raids are a requirement now.

Don't worry about savage content until the cap plus it's the end of the expansion and many people aren't raiding now. I'm unsubbed now, but will sub to reset the demo timer on my house.
 
This was painful to watch but unlike Quin, she did practice on a dummy but she still struggles and had to ask what the circle underneath Shinryu is. If you're only in it for the battle content, that's no skin off my back but please learn how the game actually works, people should not have to explain what the hitbox is. :stress:
 
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This was painful to watch but unlike Quin, she did practice on a dummy but she still struggles and had to ask what the circle underneath Shinryu is. If you're only in it for the battle content, that's no skin off my back but please learn how the game actually works, people should not have to explain what the hitbox is.


This person is going to be in the "world first WoW raider" group

Oh no no no
 
All the asspatting in the replies + the tidbit someone mentioned that a hardcore raid FC from Gilgamesh will be kitting them out in pentameld raid gear makes me a bit MATI.
Of course they are. All the FFXIV streamers and other peeps are clout chasing these streamers from WoW hard. Most notably is that Sifa guy who gets into their party finder groups, then said person posts chats from twitch chat making fun of him on Twitter and has people come asspat him to his defense because he was in the team that got a WF in TEA. The e-orbiting is getting out of hand.
 
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Oh yeah I know him, he was in a Ferro vid recently where he was RPing as Kronk and doing Kronk voice the whole time while they were completing normal raids with the challenge that Ferro had to keep him alive as he kept trying to sabotage the raid and kill himself. It was actually kind of entertaining to watch.

But yeah, Rin himself is a massive spaz and he's defo patting himself on the back for being such a progressive dad with a trans kid even though most people actually don't give a shit about his kid being trans. He's just desperately trying to milk his kid for attention like all the other faggy dads who're covered on this site.
The pug struggle for me started at Garuda/Titan/Ifrit extreme. You need to beat the bosses on hard first, but for some reason you get some people that act like they never played around the mechanics of the fight, or people that do not even understand the fundamentals of the game.

Examples: People not standing behind the rocks vs Garuda
People not killing nails vs Ifrit
People not destroying gaol against Titan

Yesterday a level 54 gunblader didn't know how to taunt/take aggro against Ramuh extreme. When I explained it to him he would walk around the boss and get the DPS and healers killed. He was sorry and I believed him but the group eventually kicked him. Poor guy, but eh, that's life.
 
Yesterday a level 54 gunblader didn't know how to taunt/take aggro against Ramuh extreme. When I explained it to him he would walk around the boss and get the DPS and healers killed. He was sorry and I believed him but the group eventually kicked him. Poor guy, but eh, that's life.
Had the exact same experience yesterday. Doing the Second Coil of Bahamut Turn 1, really easy fight, but we wiped three times because one of the tanks didn't know what a tank swap was. How the fuck do you get that far into the game and not know how to do a tank swap?
 
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