Thankfully I see some crystal players forming discords for doing stuff on crystal dc and that has got me back into raiding. But it is bad that you need to get noticed to be able to join since it is not that easy to find those servers.
This is why I main WHM, because Lilies are a GCD instant healing resource that lets me refund the Glares I didn’t cast through the Blood Lily. My habits at this point include trying to find good places to switch between using Lilies and using my OGCD tools. To the point where if something goes wrong I usually have an answer for it on hand at the ready. However, this is a skill that I picked up with years of practice. I don’t expect newer healers to have this down right away. Planning your healing is easier if you can properly collaborate your plans with your cohealer too.
Does anyone remember ARR relics?! The pain for the grind. Now that the relics are easier tgey don't like it. Wheb it was more grindy, players still gets upset. People! Make up ur mind.
Ppl with a “but my barse”, mentality scare me. I agree, If you’re lucky enough to snatch a great party and a great parse in pf: lucky you. But ultimately, if your party can’t clear bc you can’t even keep them up, like what are you doing lol.
Nah, I actually welcome that these weapons are easy to obtain, I hated Eureka, and that was one of the main reasons I never did those relics. I wanted to obtain the Reaper Relic before Dawntrail and started today, and I'm super happy that they are easy. I might also do BM, too.
I think the point is if people are making mistakes due to learning the mechanics, that is not a reason to not heal them. Also, it’s more detrimental to the party as a whole to let that person die when you could have saved them and circumvented their error/choice. Domino effect. Could have stopped at one and just fixed it but letting it fall is likely to cause more to fall 🤷🏻♀️
Please no fucking expansion zones. Cannot stand eureka and bozja, not fun content or zones imo. And now as someone witg a 7 month old baby and a full time job the mando relics are great as they respect your time more than the horrible old grind weapons. Why some people want a long grind is beyond me, quite selfish reasoning. They should have kids then see how their opinion changes when they need to touch grass and spend time with family.
I couldnt run a nightclub, im fine with my lounge ^-^ but yeah it took me a week to get the initial design, over the past 3 years i only added to it, and changed only a few things. Housing truley is the endgame
What I did for the 10th anniversary event, I checked what was still highest selling per tome at the end and some of those are now selling for quite a bit on my World. I’m still sitting on some for better pricing but yeah lol.
You are aware these prices are very likely to tank with this event, right? Not to mention no one is gonna buy these off the boards for quite awhile, most likely even a few weeks after the event is gone cuz people who wanted them would’ve already gotten them
The thing with the mb for me is I don't mind holding items for later since moogle tome items have gone up months after the event before. I'm still holding some stuff from the 10th anniversary hunt to sell when a new housing zone comes out haha. Even if you aren't gonna sell in the initial window, eventually the supply/demand can balance out especially with more and more players joining the game. Certainly there's a level of speculation involved but I find that fun and it's okay if you want more reliable/stable prices on stuff.
This actually makes me super happy to hear! I plan on making guides for as much high end content as I can! I'm gonna post a sneak peak of some upcoming guide stuff soon in my discord if you wanna check it out too because I really wanna make the best guides I can possible make to help the most people clear and more importantly, have fun with the fights
@@SonicridaAwesome! While I can appreciate the overhead diagram kind of guides for certain mechanics like P9S's Levinstrike, there's nothing like seeing the actual attacks happening. Both to get their timing right, and to see what they look like. For example, an overhead guide can tell me what Abyssal Nox does, but with guides like yours I can go ahead and count how many seconds after the cast the Doom gets applied in real time. You know, to optimize heals, calmly check for how long the debuff last, etc. All on the guide, no need to find a POV. Which to be fair, full length fights do help too. To figure out how early or precisely can I pop a cooldown to have it ready for the next big mechanic. I am not too active on Discord servers, but I'll try to check your Community posts when they pop on my feed. Thanks for the invitation, though!
@@Snoopy44291 yeah, I find that super important to see the footage and how things work. It's what I'd wanna see in a guide I was learning from anyway haha timing is important and I do approach this as a healer so that might help a bit cuz I know what info I need! I'll def post news on community posts too!
@@Sonicrida Exactly! I also find it important to see how different roles have to position during certain mechanics to get a feel for them when needed. Like on TEA's BJ & CC phase where there's lot of things to be baited per role. Bonus points that you're doing them as a healer. I don't think there's much focus on healer actions these days. It's just mit, heal, and don't die. Not something more constructive like "if you pop Temperance right as the line-stack begins, you'll have it back by the time the Meteors fall". Or in another case, "this barrage of raidwides can be fully mitigated by a Sage's Panhaima and patched with an AOE heal by the end. No need to pop a Lilybell under these circumstances". Which to be fair, would be hard to notice when trying to put out a guide on time for it to be relevant, but perhaps useful for a commenter edition guide follow-up, if you're interested in doing something like that. I'll try to stay tuned to the community posts. Thanks for that!
As a Tank Main, I’ve heard and dealt of the “You Pull You Tank” mentality and it’s embarrassing as well as putting a bad rep on us tanks who don’t cry about something so stupid
sometimes I wish DPS was not so important to tanks and heals. you should be a healer/DPS, not DPS/healer where it's all about DPS and healing can get kind of boring when we only have 1 single DPS spell 1 aoe spell, and just spam it again and again. having that been said I like healing and still have fun with it. it does get kind of annoying when a tank doesn't even use basic mitigation or tank CDs and heals get blamed for it, if you don't know how to play tank you can always ask about things like that in party we are a team at the end of the day. if I see a tank doing it, I will not be mean about it. I care more about getting us to the end more than things like that. just do the best you can. and don't feel bad if someone dies we all been there.
Healers are so broken. I actually started to hate this game after 4.0's changes stripped healers of their dps complexity and started this pure healer garbage. It's so thankless, boring, and dull.
Grouping up with people to do content doesn't make me feel connected to them in any way. We have our own jobs to do sure, but then we just part ways and never talk again. All of my friends have moved on from the game, my FC has like 3 people online at the most and no one ever chats or says hi. Going into duties with others is the same, most groups never say anything and they get on with the grind. Even trying to make friends as a bard, playing music for others I can hardly make any new friends, people sit and listen to a song or two then they move on and I just feel like I'm part of the background.
Im a RDM. I know my main focus is DPS. But i usually joke that i have a worse "healers mentality" than an actual healer. (Im not this way except to close friends as a joke) where i have the mentality of "im the true reason this party is alive. If the healer goes down **_I_**, choose whether the healer gets ressed or not
Uhh this already exist though? Story skips on cash shop with gear and Gil to boot. Just brings you to the start of the previous expansion which is a lot smoother experience if you want to jump into it while still learning a bit with gameplay mechanics and even a bit of story.
The rp community advertising in other datacenters is so annoying.... i dont hate roleplayers, i just hate how obnoxious alot of the advertising is with the long ass shouts ruining conversations and blocking out small fcs trying to recruit new members(god bless all small fcs, im with yall), advertising in party finder of other data centers and ofc the raiding and market crap mentioned in this video... i hope roleplay gets its own dedicated tab on party finder so it it doesnt destroy party finder once cross region pf arrives eventually
The story isn't for everyone especially ARR. I know dozens of people who were asked to come and play and only a few made it past ARR despite all of them being very hyped to get into the game. The longer the game goes without a built in option to skip the more it hurts the games ability to grow. If you don't want a skip then having one has no negative impact on you. The story just gatekeeps the game for players who care more about experiencing good gameplay. I hate to say it but the gameplay especially in the early game isn't good and being locked into the story doesn't help with that first impression. There's potentially a massive audience of gameplay over story people who are locked out of this game. And before people start talking about the MSQ teaching you your job etc and so skips bad... No. It doesn't. The ratio of combat to cutscenes is miniscule. Allowing people to avoid that if they want to and experience more raw gameplay right from the start will actually teach them the game faster as well as keeping that type of player engaged and expanding the audience of the game. I should also be clear a skip should not auto complete the story, you should have the option to go back and play the previous story in your own time. Dawntrail being a fresh story is a great checkpoint to start this type of practice. The truth is its going to have to happen eventually. The quality of the game keeps going up, making the earier stuff look worse and worse. Eventually its not going to be a good first impression, ARR already isn't for most. Imagine in another 5 expansions time when you have to tell new players it gets really good after the first 1000 hours of mandatory story.
I spent about a month or more from like 42 to 55 to catch up with some friends near the end of the current expansion. I quit before it happened. It felt too much like a solo game most of the time. Still a good game, but doesn't feel like an MMO when most of the time I'm running between NPCs by myself and watching cutscenes (a majority of them I don't care much about) , and I've still got 45 levels to go.
So i personally like how it is minus story skip being an option, i like the idea of the other people with me in endgame experienced the story and we made the great journey getting there. But yes i understand that it does alienate new players and that since they are a business they need to address it.
to answer the question asked in the title, NO it is not, I beat the whole MSQ watching and reading everything in 14 days. If you don't have 14 days to spend on a MMO i don't know how to save you.
I was one of the many, many people who were initially filtered out during ARR, particularly the Company of Heroes questline. I just didn't care enough about the game at the time, because the game itself didn't seem to value my time at all with the seemingly redundant fetch quests. Everything after ARR was absolutely exciting and engaging, but I had to hold my own face to the grindstone just to get to that point. A major storyskip to HW is absolutely something I will recommend to other people now that NG+ is something the game offers just so they don't get filtered out like I did, and I think the team has the right idea, but I also think skipping all of the vanilla experience is going too far, as Shadowbringers and Endwalker are some of the most emotionally touching stories I have experienced.
IMHO: Dawntrail is meant to be the beginning of a "new" saga,. Apart from the NPCs relationships that were developed: a new player who just wants to experience Dawntrail as their "beginning" into FFXIV might find the previous "saga" to be irrelevant. One option that Ive heard from several players in FFXIV would be to have the game split into two starting points. For example: after a character is created, the player is given which "saga" to start with. If the player chooses Dawntrail: the game would "speed run" the player through their job/class, focusing on getting the job/class leveled, and touching on that basic story of ARR through EW. If a player chooses to start with ARR: then the game would progress normally. I do agree that a lot of the "fetch" quests are time consuming; but, they are meant for the player to "see" their surroundings in the game. Havjng said that: i don't think it is necessary to have a player do multiple "fetch" quests to fulfill that purpose. A lot of the "burn out" IMHO comes for forcing players to stay in the same area too long. Its one thing to spend hours in ARR; but, hours on just one small part of the world as a whole gets tedious. One avenue SE should have gone down (IMHO) is to have Viper and Pictomancer be starting jobs right from the start in Dawntrail. ARR through EW should stand alone/apart from Dawntrail. Yes: i know... New players would be overwhelmed with all the new abilities; but, this would have given SE a way to imrpove or redo the job/class trainer. An example would be that a new player would be required to complete a certain "training regiment" before being released into the world of Dawtrail: with said regiment not being rushed but not being super slow either. An existing player could be given the option to do this as well or opt out of it. While I love playing FFXIV and i am still foing through the MSQ: I do find FFXIV to be in an awkward state at the moment as there can't be a "one size fits all" solution for the game. There is no consensus on how things should be done or handled. If a new player comkng from another game or MMO that has the tank/healer/two DPS setup: they could probably figure out their job/class abilities fairly quickly and even develop a basic proficiency given practice. However, gatekeeping or "skip shaming" isn't the answer either. No one should be made to feel like "less" of a player for using a job or story skip. I've seen this happen more than once where a player asked where something was in the game and other players tort back "Ah... A story/job skip per. If you had played the game correctly: then you would know where such and such is." Heck, even i can't remember where everything is within the world of FFXIV. TLDR: the perception of what the right or wrong way a player chooses to take in FFXIV needs to be done away with. What is right for one may not be what is right for another. At this point: mayhap SE should have separated FFXIV into two separate MMOs under the same title. IMHO though, being able to start directly into Dawntrail with the option to go back and play ARR through EW would make more sense for new players who just want to start with Dawntrail. Then again: that would still feel right for some and wrong for others.
This really makes me thinks of .Hack//sign. One of the big questions was “how do YOU play The World?” Collectors, raiders, completionists, lore hounds, pk’ers, greifers… all play the game.
I have a dsylexia. So the amound of reading that i would have to make to reach the end game would salt my game exp to much. As i start playing i only look at the voiced once. Then as i reach storm blood i skiped the rest of the story and played without looking at it. Its not that im not interestes but with out good reading skills its impossible for me to enjoi and i found a outher way to enjoi it. I found a friendly lets player that lets play the hole game and even read the side quests. Because he isnt much into crafting i look the story form the mowen tools resencely and good damn is this cute xD Its the best suloution for me. Skip the story by my own chara and watch the 1400 to 1500 episodes of his lets play ._. Yeah the game story is realy realy big if you read EVERYTHING! XD Thats my opinion at the story. ^^
0:28 Min.: I personal have a mixed point of view at the topic. Clearly a story skip would save me much time but i for my part see the story as somthing wonderfully. I was realy sad that i couldnt see the story because of my dsylexia. In ff14 the endgame isnt the fully goal. Its the travel and the friends that you make. And then the endgame after you see it. Maybe i think difrence later on but hey what knows i i only saw the first 30 episodes of 1500 episodes xD I only be after satasha in the moment so i cant judge tbh ^^
4:46 min.: I for my part have NO interest in getting good at this game that i love. I s*ck anyways at the fight part of the game so why should i bother and try to learn it. Makes no sense to me. I would rather focus my self at creat things. Crafting and gathering is the main part that i enjoi. Clearly i may s*ck at my astro but hey who cares? :3
