At level 10 you can start a quest in Foundation that leads to you unlocking Diadem, a haven for gatherers where you can spend a while gathering level 10/60/80 mats that you can sell on the market for dosh (after getting them verified by an npc beside the one that sends you to diadem)
It worth also noting that you get skybuilders scrips too from gathering diadem items and turning them into said npc, this effectively lets you double dip into two ways to get items/money and Diadem is a good place to level gatherers too. It took me maybe 4 or so hours to go from Miner 71 > Miner 80 and I made a decent chunk of change while doing so.
The funniest thing about Titan & Topaz is that now its not even a tank pet, it's some sort've jank buff and debuff pet that really doesn't see much use (At least to my knowledge). I sometimes glamour my carbies to Topaz because I prefer it to the base emerald for the Garuda Egi, you will still sometimes get a stupid 'BUH WHY' reaction.
I dunno. Titan Egi managed to tank pretty fucking well back when some friends and I had the brilliant idea to try doing an all DPS run of Qarn years ago.
I usually catch the summary VODs of his runs that get uploaded to his main channel and, as far as I can tell, Asmon isn't the only one fucking up in his parties (although he does do more than his fair share of fucking up due to inattentiveness, ignorance, and stubbornness). The party itself did plenty of really retarded, beginner mistake shit constantly throughout the duration of his Thordan EX attempts, and, though I've never attempted A4S for myself, both looking over the mechanics and seeing them in action, A4S is more of an "everyone else in the party" retard checker than it is a Tank retard checker. Tanks don't actually have to do much of anything in the fight other than the usual "tank and spank" shit, so a majority of what was going wrong in A4S was mostly the rest of the party's fault.
Before the changes it could tank decently enough but now it lacks all emnity generation.
It's also probably still needed since the SMN quests require you to summon the egis in order. Until they redesign that part of the job quest, titan egis aren't going away anytime soon.
Seriously? That post is some of the tamest constructive criticism I've ever seen. It's kind of funny when someone whose humor is based on being abrasive is still wrapped in a hugbox.
Honestly? That's how a lot of the game is experienced for a lot of people: In small friend groups, statics, and FCs. And while he's certainly experiencing benefits being a streamer, he isn't the first (and won't be the last) underperforming/unknowledgeable player to be carried by friends or static-members through difficult content.
It's got an okay aoe and a shield for the SMN, with the shield being the main draw for use in prog groups. The problem is the egi generates aggro about as well as an actual tank, so you'll occasionally have a pissed off shitty tank that's mad that he can't compete with an auto-attacking bot.
Enmity modifiers for Topaz/Titan-Egi were removed in 5.0.
It really isn't a good suggestion if the goal is for people to actually enjoy the game. Sure, the content is easier now, even synced w/ silenced echo, but they're still gonna eventually hit a "Hello World" level mechanic and face a rude awakening.
For ARR/HW min ilvl isn't even remotely close to min ilvl on release, and even Stormblood from what I've asked is fairly up in the air compared to back on release. Basically all fights until Shadowbringers die faster then they were intended because of various adjustments made to each job's toolkit and stat changes (no accuracy caps and direct hit existing being the most obvious one, tank stances not cucking your damage is another very important and notable one) compared to what they had back then. This means the hard enrages matter less and you kill the fight faster so you have less time to screw up. If all you do is walk around doing mechanics most the mechanics aren't really that bad at all, it is because of the hard enrage that you need to still be trying to do effective dps while doing the mechanics. Also for everyone who forgot, raise weakness doesn't cuck your hp anymore since SB which was a massive issue for recovery for ARR and HW and is part of what made progression from SB and onwards faster alongside the RDM Verraise spam strategies to capitalize on this change.
When people think it's titan, there's at least reason to be assblasted since it slows down clears. If you turn party effect on to limited because you like not having extreme visual clutter, you won't really be able to see what attacks the egi is doing for the comparison between ifrit / titan. Granted, takes about three seconds to explain you can cross the types / colors.