Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

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I finally started the second part of DT, happy to be away from trooncat, and what happens? She's still mentioned and simped for in every single conversation. I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but seriously, how could SE think this was a good idea? I can't wait to be done with the main xpac, but since I don’t have much time to play it'll take me ages to get there... urgh.

Devoting more resources to final flop 16 and having the b team and DEV IS HARD run this game, Get used to trooncat for a bit more, but it will have a more diminished role later in the post-msq and completely gone by the fourth set of post-msq. Also you won't see tacoland anymore for the rest of the expansion, the story gets a little better but still in dumb territory.
 
Got back into PVP, mostly the 5v5 mode and drill sniping people is still as fun as I remember, although I'm having a lot of fun with Viper as well. Frontlines is still a mess, I kinda miss the days where you could move waymarks while in combat so a few people could use them to tardwrangle everyone else.
 
Got back into PVP, mostly the 5v5 mode and drill sniping people is still as fun as I remember, although I'm having a lot of fun with Viper as well. Frontlines is still a mess, I kinda miss the days where you could move waymarks while in combat so a few people could use them to tardwrangle everyone else.
You can blame worldfirstniggers for abusing the waymark system and making it worse for everyone else.
 
So ended up making a Hrothgar. Not for degeneracy but because I loved a lot of their animations back in Shadowbringers. Ended up going Monk as well since I had never really touched the class at all on my main.

So for someone who hasn't played in like 4 years what the hell am I walking into? I know they added in changes to glamours, trusts, the graphics update and made some Trials into solo duties. Any other shenanigans they've done to leveling or the game in general besides that?
Leveling, general gameplay and maps will get an update once Evercold rolls out. I guess the only real "additions" they made to the leveling process is that basically every single dungeon and I think the ARR trials can be done with NPCs, so you can try your luck with queue times or you can bite the bullet and do dungeons with NPCs in around 15-20 minutes instead of 7-10 with competent players.

Bah, speaking about doing content with NPCs reminds me that the Grand Companies need some more love imo. Then again, it seems that the server I switched to has no GC enjoyers running around. I stood at the bridge to the Maelstrom HQ in Limsa in a Maelstrom Captain outfit and the Maelstrom Elite weapon as a Roegadyn and gave each passerby a Maelstrom Salute and most people just ran past me. I understand why they do it, they got stuff to do, but in the time between the final ShB patch and Endwalker release there were quite a few people that played along and stopped for a brief moment to salute back. Shameful display, Maelstromniggas, now you are making me feel as grumpy as my Roegadyn looks.
 
Bah, speaking about doing content with NPCs reminds me that the Grand Companies need some more love imo. Then again, it seems that the server I switched to has no GC enjoyers running around.
Gods that would be great if they would touch up some old systems. Doubly so if they would do something with Squadrons. I remember being disappointed hearing about Trusts being added to old content but still not doing anything with the Squadrons. Guess it'll go on the heap with other barely there stuff like Lord of Verminion, Mahjong, and Rival Wings.
 
You can blame worldfirstniggers for abusing the waymark system and making it worse for everyone else.
Yeah, it just sucks they didn't enable it just for PVP because being able to tard wrangle 24 people at once was great. Especially when all three squads had a wrangler and we could have true mass battles when all 72 players smashed into each other.
 
how could SE think this was a good idea?
Marketing. They REALLY wanted to sell femhroths, so someone, probably a marketer, insisted in some kind of memo or as part of a design document, that every single scene had to feature a female hroth so that they would be on-screen in as much ingame footage as possible. The fact that there's scenes where she isn't visible, but they still talk about her is merely an error in translation.
 
I finally started the second part of DT, happy to be away from trooncat, and what happens? She's still mentioned and simped for in every single conversation.
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Whenever Wuk Lamat's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Wuk Lamat?"
 
Yeah, it just sucks they didn't enable it just for PVP because being able to tard wrangle 24 people at once was great. Especially when all three squads had a wrangler and we could have true mass battles when all 72 players smashed into each other.
I guaran-goddamn-tee they are literally unable to do that without also enabling it in all cases like before.
 
I finally started the second part of DT, happy to be away from trooncat, and what happens? She's still mentioned and simped for in every single conversation. I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but seriously, how could SE think this was a good idea? I can't wait to be done with the main xpac, but since I don’t have much time to play it'll take me ages to get there... urgh.
It's a very good idea to have the main expansion character be a focal point of the expansion and worked well for prior ones - but the main issue is they clearly weren't aware how half-baked Dawntrail was going to be.

To be charitable - there is (somewhere) a good verison of Wuk Lamat, in some early draft/design document - likely along with a good Zorral Ja, Koana, and setting for the expansion. Wuk as a mentee would have been a great-idea as is if she didn't so fervently embrace her destiny before you ever showed up and was actually a character in FFXIV who didn't have a shining vision of who they wanted to be and molded it along the journey and learning from the mistakes of the other 3 claimants (and if those 3 claimants had actual explored mistakes) and/or you had any actual input on her personal growth (much in the same way you can give gear to Custom Delivery people/Retainers/Adventurer Squad) even if it's superficial.

It's just one of those things they planned around mid Endwalker in the dev cycle and then didn't see how bad it was doing until a full year later (or more) because of the dev cycle being structured in a way where they're writing the story years before telling it in broad strokes. It also does not help that many resources (money, dev, outside studios, etc) were siphoned off for Final Fantasy 16 (another story about family, duty, responsibility, and sacrifice). The most awful part is that the voice work in FF16 is decent to pretty good but god-awful on every level in FFXIV, which is jarring considering the voice acting was a high point for FFXIV prior.
 
Damn. Been so long since I've played ARR. Pretty much haven't played through it since the first time I did back on PS3. Graphics update and newer hardware definitely are making it look nicer than I remember.

Doing early quests and damn do I hate the fact that they abandoned Class/Job Quesrs in the name of Role Quests. Yoshi-P might be a retard and think that no one cares about the characters in the Job Quests but I do damn it. At least give me a max level quest each expansion so I can see what they are up to.

Maybe some that newfangled budget could go to improving older content and making the world feel more alive instead of gooner butt sliders and faggoty tranny hair/skin colors that are going to make my screen look like a unicorn threw up all over it.
 
faggoty tranny hair/skin colors that are going to make my screen look like a unicorn threw up all over it
Ah, you've already seen what Solution Nine looks like then! That shit aside, the game has desperately needed an update to character creation in quite some time. Butt sliders I don't care about, we already have breast sliders but they still make you look flat as a pancake even on max for anything not a fem Viera (another reason trannies play them so much I guess). Miqo'te tail 3 still looks like a crosshead screwdriver if you look at it end on, even after all these changes they've made to Lalafell nose dimples or whatever they kept fucking around with. Maybe Highlanders will finally get eyebrow options!
They're aware of roughly how many people modify their characters now post-Mare explosion so I get they're trying to provide vanilla options so people rely less on mods. Truth is they're never going to offer us that sort of customisability unless they actually supported modding the game. Which would also knock on the head all the grifters and their shitty mods ported lazily from other games with awful optimisation. That would also stop a lot of these trannies from funding their self-mutilation and maybe they'd start to fuck off from the game.
Yeah yeah, :optimistic:, I know. I just miss when every other message in Shout chat didn't involve the phrase "LGBT+" like the tranny batshit-insane-signal it is. Can't even properly add it to the term filter because there's so many bloody variants like a sodding hydra, and it's case sensitive.

I do miss the old DoH/DoL job quests too though; the Crystarium and Studium stuff felt natural given where we went in MSQ for both, but the DT equivalent just felt stiff to me even though it was technically no different in set up. I found it difficult to give a crap about any of the quests and the only thing I can vaguely remember is BLU features in one of them. Also kudos on trying to be as self-sufficient as possible! Levelling crafters now really isn't that bad. 1-50 can be easily done with spam crafting stuff like ingots, lumber, cloth etc which you can either use or sell, you can boost it even with Squadron and GC manuals if you're FT and can't join an FC. If you really want to put it off, Cosmic Exploration is really fast for 1-50 and won't drain you of gil/materials/sanity like doing Ishgard Restoration will. I'd also suggest doing daily/weekly hunt marks for seals to buy aetheryte tickets if you want to save some more gil because the easiest way to accumulate wealth in XIV is to not spend unless you have to.
 
Yeah I still keep up with the MSQ either by watching commentary-less playthroughs or with the guys from Grinding Gear. Am I allowed to be extra pissed off with the fact that the awful cyberpunk neon nightmare that is ruining quite a lot of this game's aesthetic came from XIV's analogue to my favorite PSX Final Fantasy? Because I reserve the right to be forever pissed that the trooncat LoL tAcOs Y aLpAcAs expansion skullfucked IX right in front of me.
 
trooncat LoL tAcOs Y aLpAcAs expansion skullfucked IX right in front of me.
What makes it even worse is that while Kate was so eager to suck herself off over how cultured she supposedly is, they could have read about aztec, mayan or generally mesoamerican cuisine and done some interesting stuff with that, but no. Doing interesting things with history and foreign cultures isn't what this is about, this is about glorifying post-spaniard-rape mestizos.
 
Am I allowed to be extra pissed off with the fact that the awful cyberpunk neon nightmare that is ruining quite a lot of this game's aesthetic came from XIV's analogue to my favorite PSX Final Fantasy? Because I reserve the right to be forever pissed that the trooncat LoL tAcOs Y aLpAcAs expansion skullfucked IX right in front of me.
IX was my first FF and meant a hell of a lot to me when I first played it so I know that feel all too well. I don't think I'm going to stop being salty about it if I'm honest lol
 
Definitely thinking about leveling crafters and gatherers so I can rely on myself for gear as opposed to the market board since I've seen a few of you mention doing the same as a form of soloing and self-reliance
Im not sure how much more efficient it actually is, but I do know it's a lot more fun. I like being able to gather all the shit and make my own 770 equipment for my jobs and am glad to have all my crafters leveled and geared so I can do the same in EC.



Offtopic; Had the misfortune to play with French Canadian players multiple times in a row during CC runs last night. I think they may actually be the statistically worst ethnicity to get in a FFXIV party. Whiny little shits who fuck everything up and still act arrogant. Even beaners are mostly okay in comparison.

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What makes it even worse is that while Kate was so eager to suck herself off over how cultured she supposedly is, they could have read about aztec, mayan or generally mesoamerican cuisine and done some interesting stuff with that, but no.
Then they had an entire zone that is inexplicably southwestern US with pseudo plains indians that are just as underbaked. Truly I am impressed by how thoroughly every portrayal was fumbled.

Offtopic; Had the misfortune to play with French Canadian players multiple times in a row during CC runs last night. I think they may actually be the statistically worst ethnicity to get in a FFXIV party. Whiny little shits who fuck everything up and still act arrogant. Even beaners are mostly okay in comparison.
Somehow I ended up on a server cluster in WoW that had some Spanish speakers back in the day and they were reasonably competent. They did spew bullshit into the chat when irritated but that wasn't all that far off from anyone else. The French or French Canadians seem to be a curse upon all who wander past them.
 
Man I love coming back to the game and attempting to do content only to find myself locked out of it because it's the content that dies as soon as the next patch is out. Just put the 1-30 floors of the deep dungeons in the duty finder like regular duties for fucks sake and leave the higher levels for PF. Why do I need to be in a specific zone to queue for it? It was retarded when PotD release and it's still retarded now.

The annoying thing is I easily clear the first 9 levels solo, but the level 10 boss is a brick wall until you level up your aetherpool, except you can only get aetherpool by clearing, which is hard because the boss fucking sucks. Cannot wait for the upcoming DC changes.
Use a Barkbalm Incense and you can tank insane amounts of damage the boss does, the only hard part is killing the adds if you're not a dps.
 
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