Inside A REAL Final Fantasy 14 Cult: The Story of Dreadwyrm Academy 

I was part of this FC. The original drama and mob did it's job very well. Sprouts who didn't know any better left to enjoy themselves elsewhere. Cult Leader Neph quit. The current FC leader is a total sweetheart and awesome person who stuck up for us all when things went down and has been de facto leader for years. She made sure Neph didn't come back to start again. I REALLY hope that this video doesn't cause people to wrongly harass a current FC that doesn't deserve it.

Imagine an FC that offers nothing but asks for everything.

The leader could've just said, "We don't do savage. Period. If you want to do Savage find another FC." That FC leader gave off some major narcissistic vibes in their statements.

Oh hey, its these guys. I love how proud they were when they finally cleared Suzaku Extreme. Unsynced and an expansion later.

Entire cult sounds like a massive coping mechanism to justify their grey parses.

holy shit i didn't think that I would see shit like this. I remember back in HW learning about the dreadwyrm cult because their leader was active in novice network during HW and SB. I never got caught in it, but I've seen some shit from it that was insane. There was this one time, this sprout was asking some questions in the novice network, and we all gave them information. The leader found out about it somehow, and she reprimanded the player for asking questions in the NN. She told them that they were only allowed to ask questions in the FC chat. This shit was WILD. I couldn't believe it happened on my server.

Thankfully that insane Neph leader is basically given up the position and left the FC alone by themselves. It's now run by a wonderful person whose truly caring and a great person. I genuinely hope none of this comes back to the current people there, they have something to do with those insane leaders.

In general I'd agree people shouldn't be mocked for their parses, but if someone's going to claim to be a master of job X, qualified to teach it, and then their parses on job X are all grey/green, that's worthy of ridicule.

I can confirm this I was once a member here and nep is a insane person he asked me to leave my static to run stuff with them and that I couldn't be with my own static when the FC needed raiders! That dude is insane I would say for sure please find another FC for the love of god don't do it together yourself!

I smoked a savage raid and now my palms are hairy and I've gone blind

LOL I used to be friends with them, This was a long time ago, DWA is no more they are now DWO and basically run by Jovi who is a sweetheart. I made a few long post exposing Nep's nonsense.

Dreadwyrm Academy just seems like an amish challenge that ended up becoming a way of life. Shit’s wild lol

Oh, I remember this shit, lmao. FYI, this cult is the tip of the iceberg for giant guilds full of leaders who discourage players from proper improvement, telling them to demonize savage, etc. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I promise you, Dreadwyrm Academy is the tip of the iceberg. One of many.

This is madness. I log in, pvp for a few hours a day and check retainers for random stuff to trade for seals, that's about as far as my effort for my own fc goes 😅

this has very "we demand to be taken seriously" vibes

Most power this person has ever had in their life, and it shows

I mean, if people want to do savage content, they'll do it. No one deserves to be harassed/ridiculed for that, let alone FC members. I would like to do savage content as well, I just do not have time for it. Adult life eats up most of my time.

This is one community legend cult. I still remember their 'Master Bard' had grey parse 😂

Oh man. I just learned about the Final Fantasy House and other cults similar to it a few months ago. I know this shit gonna be good.

There are several FCs on Aether that are similar. Dollhaus, 8-bit are two that come to mind. Leadership completely nuts, controlling. Dollhaus leader shouted at a person for using shout chat in an open map to ask people to hold a rare fate for them (I was there for that). 8-bit leader famous for harassment of guild members they didn't like, and being involved in breaking up an irl marriage for an rp relationship (I was around for that too). People are absolutely nuts sometimes.

wait hang on...they expect teamwork and self sufficiency? So you have to be able to solo everything in order to join but only if you do it as a team? do they also ask for cold fires and dry water on entry?

Holy crap, I forgot about this stuff, some of their "top members" was like, grey parsers and was shit talking everybody, what a period of story, this FC is like, one fraction of many out there that still operating, discouraging players and savage, this shit is funny.

As someone who is apart of the current FC... We arent by any means like this. Jovi runs the show and we are just laid back and having a good time. Sadly... the name and history still follow us till this day.

Great community btw

Even after all this time it’s still crazy to think a crazy cult fc like this exists, glad Xeno reacted to it.

Wait until they hear about Ultimate.

I remember hearing about this shit Y E A R S ago! I completely forgot that this existed.

Oh hey, I posted that thread lmao. It's so weird watching this, just hoping I didn't say something too cringe worthy. From what I hear the FC has died out a bit, but I haven't spoken to anyone who was involved for a while now. In the end there were some pretty crazy stories regarding Neph.

"You are a Healer [...]" yeah, that makes my eye twitch already

This feels like an RP FC that took itself way too seriously

my favourite bit is how they have a tenet about being self sufficient, and then another one about being required to always help FC members (which isnt very self sufficient)

I had heard about this group back in ShadowBringers and had an alt over there that got in. They tried to say I wasn't ready to do savage despite out-dpsing Arc as a samurai and even several people on summoner. So I went and joined a static anyway. Cleared all the current content before they managed to. Came back. flexed my fancy gear. Then proceeded to lali-hop my way into a few ultimate clears as well. All the while taking a bunch of people who Arc and Neph said weren't ready and getting them through the content. with literally zero issues. So if anyone is wondering why 30-40 people left during February? Well. I took them and gave them better homes. Current leadership is solid though, No insanity to be seen. props to them for fixing the dumpster fire that it was. Edit: for clarification. I was only in the FC because I was looking for company buffs while grinding up my alt. When I tried to recruit people in the FC to do practice, they put a hard stop to it. So I told them that regardless of them saying so. I'll have a group up in PF. They then kicked me, but the damage was done and several people began to come right to my PF, and I started doing multiple runs every day for multiple groups. Mostly made from people from the cult. the amount of hypocrisy they showed was amazing. But I made a lot of good friends from those who split off.

Strummer, would you somehow be able to interview one of the members of the FC now? Seems like some of them have good heads on their shoulders and could maybe give everyone an insight on how they are now. I guess that'll depend on whether they'd be willing, too.

I got kicked out of an fc because I refused to change my character to male because I was a male irl and rolling a female in game, i just prefer the way females video game characters look to males. Some ff14 people are shitbat crazy

Ok, I'm Bezz the one who was being targeted by those posts on their website. Neph tried to gatekeep savage from me, and when i left he went nuclear and a friend still in dwa showed me everything he was saying about me and those posts from the DWA forum that you're showingb.I'm. The one who provided all those screenshots and made the dwa subreddit. Please stop giving life to DWA this was 2 years ago. A lot of bad shit happened to the former members. Some I'm still close with. We've all moved on but it keeps being brought back up and we all get pmed, and dragged about it.

I still find it so interesting how people are scared to do endgame content in this game, both savage and ultimates. People have this extreme anxiety of getting kicked off of parties or blacklisted by some for a mistake, I used to be like this too until i realized that's normal and something everyone goes through at some point. I was an awkward as fuck player who did UCoB before even doing a savage, it was hella painful at first but I managed to perfect myself and become a pretty respected person around my friends. Having anxiety on your first time is understandable, outright banning it in your FC because of some personal salt/bad experiences is just insane

there are cases of doom that requires esuna. dun scaith for instance. but mostly you dont use it. hell even on poison/burns most of them dont do enough damage to warrant losing the gcd to it

I have quit so many Guilds like that in different games in the past they are always so toxic stay away from Guilds like that which has giant forms.

I guess I just have terrible luck because out of the 4 fc's I've gotten into 3 of them have been weird varying levels of this culty weirdness. Gaslighting, love bombing, insane levels of control or at least attempts at it, blatant and extreme favoritism to the point of ostracizing anyone who questioned the golden ones, hostility which would be denied and/or ignored by the leaders, the list goes on.

Dreadwyrm Academy...I haven't heard that name in a long time... They aren't the whole circus, they were the entire circus industry.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it typically faster for a dungeon party with two ranger dps to use limit break on a long pull? I feel my runs go faster when cooldowns and limit breaks are in constant use.

I agree that Neph person sounds like they didn't know what they were talking about; however I don't think it was necessary to openly call out all the players on that website and their datacenter by name. I knew a couple of people who played in that FC and from what I was told the whole thing was a pretty traumatic event.

That's the most chad summoner I've seen, ngl

Some of those qoutes shaved chunks of my soul off.

Think of all the FCs out there that dream of being showcased by Xenos. Regular feature?

I use Esuna any time I can. You're paralyze? Esuna. You're hit with poison? Esuna. You're hit with Burn? Esuna. Hell anything that looks remotely like a status effect, I use Esuna to see if I can remove it from people in my party. Esuna hasn't moved from my rotation at all, even in the later content once I realized it actually worked.

You remind me so much of Limit Maximum holy cow. Your laughs are almost identical (all 2 or 3 of them,) and your personalities are super similar too. If anything he's a little more laid back than you but you're both super perceptive and logical people, and you're both very strong players at a high level in your respective MMORPG raiding scenes. Crazy.

I was in a similar FC on Light. It was fun. I mean, cringe but I like cringe things. We were a dozen ppl new to the game inside that Fc. The best thing was we couldn’t use discord to communicate. We were forced to use the FC chat for everything. Then a day a dick flew on that chat. Ah, those were my golden ages. Sometimes I miss them. Then I left that cult and started to play FFXIV.

"This is not a roleplay thing" ... Yes, it is. They just so serious about their school roleplay that they're in denial about it being a roleplay at all.

The tank that got pumped out from that cult would have been the type to sit in the tank stance 24/7 and nor drop/swap to dps ever. The heals will be the type that never dropped in the cleric stance even when no damage was going out. TBF it seems like a good starter point but clips the wings of their "students" who try and improve.

My face when I realise that I...hung out with Neph during this time period as a rando who met them during an rp cafe event. *Fear*

Famous quote "DEEZ NUTZ". I absolutely died laughing.

Honestly? I got kind of turned off of savage after getting to 90 in an FC I was in. People like to say "well if you raided in WoW that doesn't mean anything here", but it actually does. It means you are willing to put in the time to learn the fights, adapt, and be responsible to other people. It's not like WoW raids have no mechanics so it means you can learn mechanics. I think FF14 players want to be respected and not viewed by WoW players as "less than", but this goes both ways. TL;DR - there are a lot of cultish FC's in this game. And yes, we cleared P1S after like 3 or 4 pulls since that fight is likely the easiest. I do love that they didn't make savage a priority, but also will pretty much dismiss people for doing them without the FC - which implies they are a priority, but in a bad way. Or maybe they are just uber-casual. I was in a WoW guild that would /gkick people who dared try a normal raid outside of the group - because they didn't want other people in the guild to be interested in it. The leads who made the unspoken rule wanted to be the only ones doing normal or higher raids.

Xano, Xano, Xano, that is just uncalled for. Budget Yuna. Fucking hilarious.

Ya know, if people can make a cult in FFXIV, I can probably get a static.

From the looks of it they changed their name to NightDreamDay and the Mansion is a shell of it's former self xD

apparently it still exists holy moly

That boldness. The future of asmonbold for sure.

imagine there reaction when a quad legends joins

As some6on Adamantoise I'm surprised never encountered them

I kinda agree with the 3 pillars and I would have joined if they were on Phoenix but I doubt that they would take me cus I'm kinda solo playing this game not to mention that I have 5 characters and I'm a ghost member of 4 FC's

this reminds me of some clan i was in back on Socom, except more extreme lmao. some weird ass shit

as someone who is a leader in a fc.... How the heck do they have time to micromanage these people?!

i could probably use some optimization with my gunbreaker fighting, but idk if i could take a gunbreaker teacher with that bio seriously.

Damn these guys are nuts.

Off the start i'm just like, bruh, it's just savage, there aren't hazards, it's pretty chill and fun lol

I'd like to know what weird thing happens on every server. Here is Adamantoise. We know Balmung 😂 I want to know about others

yooooo we can likely go to this place now that we can server travel XD .

I know this is an older vid, but some of those points in the "pillars" were decent at least for low level play, just worded really badly as absolute rules rather then guidelines they should be, I dunno how it's in savage/unreals but in the content I normally do, LBs are typically reserved for bosses, that said it also depends on the role, melee DPS LBs are overkill and waste of a bar on trash (it's single target only), most of the time healer LBs are same (LB1 and LB2 are less effective them just spamming AoE heals IIRC and LB3 is a wipe prevention), caster and ranged are more group LBs though either to be used on trash or an add phase, still you should discuss with your group when to use that.

Well now I feel less conscious about my percieved faults when dpsing and tanking. At least I don’t brag when unsyncing Suzaku EX an expansion later lmfao

Wow I really walked into this thinking there was some crazy shit, but I left with this video summarized by DIESOFCRINGE.

Whaaaaaat a cult thats NOT on Balmung??

Yeah im not joining any FC until i get to Endwalker i just finishes ARR but i dont want to deal whit shit like this rn its to ealry

Neph sounds like he's probably working at a McDonalds, and he *wishes* he could be the manager but he's not good enough to get that promotion.

First I was like wtf is this.. now it sounds interesting 🤔

So on which days do they drink the punch?

The grey parse cult

I mean tbh I wouldn't have a problem with the terms of the FC in the video, kinda makes sense if i finished content to go back and help others in the FC also. And if im online why would you be doing anything other than progressing your FC? If that isnt for you then dont join one or atleast one like that. sure it comes off as a tad draconian but sometimes ppl think every FC is to just rp or do whatever and some are very serious about what they do. Their rules and expectations aren't hidden, it's everywhere and tbh I respect the rigid outline. A Dreadwyrm Academy exists in almost every game if you look. Glad they are doing much better now but honestly i wouldnt join a FC like this one if i wasnt 110% about it.

Their flaws aside, they made great content fo xeems. Funny video!

Club Hellfire!

Jeeeeeesus Christ monkaW

These people are acting like Savage is hard is just making it out to be some monster it isn't. Savage is only hard if you can't learn and grow from failure, more you play at savage level the easier it gets. All you need to do to succeed is know the fights, know where to be (situational awareness) and most of all know your class and to a lesser degree others abilities and limitations. Above all have fun with it, failure is not the end don't get weird about failing learn and try again. Savage honestly lets me experience what this game's dungeons used to be like and evey then some fights aren't even that hard as I had back then.

so how do they do 24man raids?

As a savage raider I find it hilarious 😂

The leader hasn't played since before EW came out.

This cult has the same large plot as me 😂

Imagine wanting to be in an FC run by baby Mussolini who wrote that insanity.

who in their right mind wants to join a FC/Guild like that. I don't play video games for archaic rules and for high school drama.

Sounds like a group of people that have never done anything above Normal/Story content but have an insane image painted in their head of what "Savage is" and what "Raiders are", soooo like 80% of the FF14 community on Reddit cranked up to 11 😂

Old video but man I swear I have seen someone on the official forums with that kind of grammar

This is so good that I really need to copy these rules into my own FC and wait for the chaos, this is just too funny. It really sounds like a few 13yr olds got together to make this like a little gang. I think they missed having an inclusive uniform made of hempen, maybe someone can suggest that for them.

....what happens if you raid in other games in this fc holy shit

some of them have good Logs doe......

Know your dps role--healers be like, "1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1...

"No story skipping" Nah I paid 15 to skip ARR and honestly??? I didn't get into the game until I did. Now I give a shit.

Damn, the guy that told them they are slow would have gotten their account terminated by the squeenix clown GM's in 2022

the Final Fantasy Mafia lol

Ooooh this was fuckin wild I remember being in this FC XD yeah it was bad

This fc sound more like a job than a actual job lmao

They seem reasonable...