Mondays w/ Mrhappy  

Happy mispronouncing hola to avoid aloha thinking they are about to get attention is hilarious and I love it

Phoenix downs are not usable in battle, particularly annoying in deep dungeons

Ok that thumbnail expression was actually great.

Mr.Happy's hair has recently become one of the little things to look forward to every Mondays.

Granblue with a PS5 controller, Stellar Blade with the DDR pad. Multitasking!

Happy's hair with that thumbnail looks like he is about to star in a bollywood movie 😂

#MondayswithMrHappy Heya happs! Hope you have a great day! Do you think they'll ever give us the option to make other classes 'pets' smaller like summoner? Nothing is better than seeing Queen/Esteem/Summoner pet, all congregating where the the party was at the start of TOP getting ready for looper, especially if a tether is going where the party originally started, and my brain is like someone is still there that needs to move.

#MondayswithMrHappy Hello Aloha and Ivy! And Hello, Happs! I hope you're having a nice start into the new week. I'm really struggling to decide whether I should transfer my character to another DC for potentially better loading times when DT releases. Even if we set aside all the downsides, like no retainer bell etc, my fear is that if too many people also travel to another DC for better loading times, it won't make a difference anymore, and I could have stayed on EU servers all along. I think I remember you and Sly saying in one of your podcasts that you'll just stay where you are. So my questions are: -> What advice do you give to people who don't care about the downsides that DC travel brings? -> Do you believe it will make a big difference for the queue? -> And did the dev team even mention if they were working on other solutions to make logging in faster? I know this is probably only answerable by speculation. But I always thought your in-put on things like that to be very valuable. Thank you!

#MondaysWithMrHappy Hi Happy, Long time lurker, first time commenter - just wanted to say thanks for the years of consistent high quality content. I think you have the most realistic understanding of SE's philosophies out there and I really enjoy listening to your perspective and considerations for what they may improve. Sorry for the length - hoping some of the sprinkled context might also be useful food for thought for the upcoming (soon) state of the realm for caster DPS. I'm a BLM main, so these are BLM-focused questions: 1) Non-standard lines. Do you think they are likely to stay in 7.0? On one hand, BLM is viewed as complex and some players enjoy that complexity. Removing non-standard would also make BLM much worse (without larger changes) in the 6.X content when it becomes legacy. This is particularly problematic for ultimates (possibly making BLM dire in 4/5 ultimates). On the other hand, it does already have the widest DPS differential and it feels unlike SE to perpetuate that, especially given the 6.0 enochian change was aimed to reduce the skill gap. Can't find the original source but I think I remember YoshiP calling non-standard lines "deviant lines" around 6.0 when paradox memes were discovered. I think SE does consider non-standard, the 6.X patch notes for BLM have always been phrased around avoiding shifts in rotation, hence the only buffs being enochian and xenoglossy. Not sure if you saw this but in the 10 hour broadcast walk with YoshiP segment, he messed up his BLM rotation and commented on it. The translated comments from the reddit discord were: Y "My hands are already so used to 7.0..." Y "BLM does get a bit of a change after all" I haven't seen YoshiP use non-standard so I'm curious to know what he's referring to. I personally love EW BLM and didn't feel it needed much change except from low level issues. Could well be in for another 10 levels with a different rotation! 2) This might be controversial but I wish SE would make a clearer stance on where a BLM should be in a party. Do you have an strong opinion on whether a BLM should be looking for a caster spot or melee spot? I'm not a world progger but I would like to be able to stick to a long term static and prog within a few weeks without dedicating hard to Week 1. Prior to TOP, I would have said BLM should always be Melee. The LB gimmick from TOP worries me about future content as 2 x Caster LB is much worse than 2 x Melee LB there. TOP has been cleared with 2 x Caster but as someone who hasn't done TOP and wants to, that fight alone makes it weird to look for a long term static if I'd rather be in a Melee spot. Obviously this is partially a combat res question but I just want to highlight in particular the impact that TOP has kind of put Melee BLM (and I guess also Melee Picto) in a strange position unlike any other recent content. (Ignoring pre-nerf P8S - although I'm fairly certain that was also done with 2 x Caster). The 6.4 changes to increased healing spell ranges also lead me to think that larger arenas and higher movement mechs are likely going forward, so I don't see 2 x Caster supremacy to be likely just yet. P.S If you're invited to the media tour and non-standard doesn't come up in the combat live letter, I'm sure myself and the BLM mains out there would greatly appreciate if you could quickly check if transpose has been turned into a GCD or if they add a trait that incentivises long fire lines! Well, if you are allowed to comment on those sorts of things. Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Lighting looks really good. Nice improvement.

"Leave everything else the same, just cut out soda." ...yes...yes, I know.

#mondayswithmrhappy Hey haps! Good morning to you! I was listening to the most recent Melee state of the realm and something struck me... the complaints about stardiver and it's insane animation lock for an OGCD. This made me think of one of the biggest struggles people have to use "work arounds" for, ping. Would be it perhaps better if more ogcd's had longer animation locks (but not position locks), making double weaving impossible and helping resolve issues of people who simply cannot double weave due to ping, as I feel the animation lock of stardiver is long enough that it prevents smooth double weaving but short enough that even with moderate ping you won't clip.

Did a eureka weapon a few months ago (along with the armor). The light farms are optional. It was a way to empower your weapon during the content period, and it's probably useful if you intend to use the weapon, but for glam or achievement purposes it's not at all required. All you need are sufficient crystals and the boss items (most of which can be bought with crystals), and to unlock 30 logos actions.

#MrHappyMondays Hey Haps, and another hello for anyone who didn’t say hello. Do you know who you will have first the tank predictions for state of the realm and if Xeno will be there? Bonus question, with SE balancing tank damage regardless of their utility do you think GNB and DRK will get their kits updated to match PLD and WAR?

"There's a reason most mechanics are a form of 'stack' and 'spread'. they know we have (two dps, healer, tank)" Actually, that would be really fun and cut down on DPS queue, though even then it's not awful (given it's made up for by DPS queue in Alliance). I know it'd be a decent amount of work, mainly to change dev's developing mindset and they've already gotten so good at boss/dungeon mechanics, but I would love to see base Light Party changed from healer/tank/dps/dps to healer/tank/dps/fill and mechanics in fights slightly change based on what fill is. Dps functions like now, healer makes enemies have a bit less hp, but a bit more sustained damage, tank has less hp, but more stacking mechanics that you want to swap tanks for. It'd also be a neat way to teach in dungeons the techniques you'll later be using in raiding. Not gonna happen, but man that'd be cool.

#MondayswithMrHappy With the Elden ring DLC, are you planning to play before dawntrail or not cover it on stream?

#MondaysWithMrHappy A question or few pertaining to Dawntrail's new Limited Job "Beastmaster" and amongst other things? 1) What kind of weapon/tool could Beastmaster use besides their pets? I for one am still preferring they/it uses something similar to the Beastmasters from Bozja content. Axe and Shields. Or maybe even using crossbows~? They could use whips, although I've been hoping and wishing SE saves it for an actual full Job in future expansions. Kinda used in a way like Seven, a playable character from Final Fantasy Type-0. Which by the way. 2) What are some weapon types you'd like to see in future expansions to come to Final Fantasy XIV? Like ones for a Caster/Range/Melee DPS, Healers and Tanks? Like I said before, I'd like to see whips being brought in for an actual full Job. For Casters? A Fan or Umbrella. Another DPS weapon could be a Ringblade like Tira's from Soul Calibur? Or even Threads/Wire Strings like Walter C. Dornez from Hellsing? For Tanks? Probably a Flail or Heavy Polearm of sorts? | | That's all for now~. 😙👌

#MondayswithMrHappy Hey Happy, you doin ight? I'm doin ight. Just wanted to say hope you are doin well and the cats doing just as much!

Man, I do not envy you farming all those Hydatos Crystals

#MondaysWithMrHappy Hi Mister Happy, thanks for all the videos you've created! Two questions: 1) Would it be feasible to create a RU-vid playlist with all your Mondays w/ MrHappy videos? I enjoy listening to these in the background when doing errands since it's mostly audio only, but have to manually search and queue up several each time. (Edit: I just found a playlist from you actually but it goes up to episode # mid 200s; wondering if you're willing to update it? :P) 2) Compared to other games you played, does FFXIV give enough / a lot of control to players on UI customization (without mods), or could they go even further? I haven't played a variety of games myself, but when I first started in 2020 I was pleasantly surprised at how we can arrange hotbars and buttons to our hearts' content.

#MondaysWithMrHappy A couple of weeks ago you said something about an achievement taking 7 years to obtain. Could you elaborate on this, please? Which achievement is that? How do you start it? Why does it take so long?

#mondayswithMrHappy Hi ya! Just a quick question: with End Walker officially over and all major patches in something I think isn’t mentioned a lot about this expansion is how many quality of life updates we got across all forms of content. What is your favorite quality of life improvement added in Endwalker? For me it’s the coloring and symbols added to the names of party members in instances, it just helps me keep track of where some people are in harder content. Anyways have a good one!

I did see a video earlier about a way to port over characters hairstyle in-tact to the benchmark, but I don't remember who posted it.

Damn man you look good! Congrats. I haven't noticed lately but in this video for some reason you look really thin and fit. Keep it up 👍

#MondayswithMrHappy Heyo Happy, I hope you are doing well. In the lull leading up to DT I decided to take the plunge and finally play through FF11. At the time of writing I am following the 1-119 guide and am just shy of lv 50. By the time you're reading this I expect I'll be a few sections further and neck deep in expansion storylines, but my question for you is this: At what point should I cut off the game for my own sanity? I'm enjoying it now, but looking to the end of the guide I see what looks like an old school nightmare of a gear grind for multiple different sets and upgrading those sets, but I have no idea how necessary that will really be for someone just looking to get the bulk of the story and to get out. Anything you can offer would be appreciated.

#MondaysWithMrHappy Hello there, Played some wow for the first time recently and found the amount of short cooldowns, sub 10sec, intresting compared to FFXIV. I belive that BRD has the shortest CDs in FF at 15sec(Bloodletter and Empyreal Arrow). Have there been more/other damaging abilities at these lower CD in the past?

Digging the hair

Well blue mage initial reception was bad but with the 60 and 70 update they really improved the job. Still the fact they screwed the initial impression so bad i also was shocked we got another limited job.

#MondayswithMrHappy Hello Happy! I wanted to ask you about your experience as a streamer. I work full time and every other Sunday I run a D&D campaign for my friends. Do you have any tips or advice for someone like me who wants to fit in a small streaming schedule with all of that going on? (I've been streaming for about 3 years and have recently taken a 6 month hiatus due to issues that finally were resolved recently, and wants to get back into streaming.)

How do I ask him questions? Where do I post them?

#MondayswithMrHappy Hey Happy, hope you're doing well! Do you think they'll ever put pity gear drop in endgame dungeons? hearing horror stories about Ult raiders having to do the dungeons 50+ times and my own 26 runs of alzadaal's legacy to get the striking chest kind of made me wonder why they haven't done so already, seems like a universal pain point that could easily be fixed.

#MondayswithMrHappy Hey Happy, hope things are well. One thing I've noticed, and feel free to correct me if I've just missed them saying it, but every time I've seen them mention the new variant dungeons for Dawntrail, they always just say variant and never criterion. I'm trying not to read too much in that of course, but it is a bit weird to me for them to not just simply add the "and criterion" part to that. Do you think there's anything to potentially take from that, or is it just a weird slip-up on their part?

#MondaysWithMrHappy hey Haps, how are you doing? In XVI, what would be your go-to gear / eikon ability setup for getting all S-ranks in Kairos Gate?

Weird you say you are tired. You seem more rested than normal.

#mrhappymondays "Hello little croppies!" I've been playing Harvestella recently, and I just started exploring a theme park (keeping it vague for spoilers). I've finished every character's story quests (so far at least), and have tidied up most quests for each region. I can't quite tell how far I am into the game, and I feel like I'm missing something. I've only made it as far as the spring section of the Well since I've only had two quietus happen (just started Fall). Should I delay the story for that? Is there a point of no return I should try to wrap everything up by, or is it better to just B-line the story because of the features it unlocks? Thanks.

#MrHappyMondays Heyo! Been running DR Savage, got me thinking if we'll see hard level content with large crowds again? What is your opinion on it and the rewards that may come with it?

#MondaywithMrHappy Hi, another eureka question. Exactly how good is haste? My friend told me it is really good, So l bought the earring And ring from market board.

#MondayswithMrHappy Hey haps you look like you're doing great. Would you consider adding timestamps to the questions it'd be a great help. Also I had a crazy idea I hope you can entertain. With melee uptime becoming a non issue and casters having more movement than ever, what if square combined Phys ranged and casters to simply have melee and ranged balance. Obviously things like revives and job DPS/utility would have to be adjusted.

#MrHappyMondays as we wait for that one Tuesday hey happerino, hope you and the cats are well and feelings satisfied with your gainz "your journey to get back in form inspired me to have my own for the past two months now" quick question if you do not mind, we were able to use mounts in end game hub city until stormblood but that was removed in ShB and EW did they even state why and would they consider bringing it back?

#MrHappyMondays Hey Haps. How you doin? I'm doin a'ight? Just had a question that's been bugging me for a while. I don't remember when but you mentioned the resistance relic weapons and that they are the worst one to upgrade out of all the relic weapons (or something like that). I was thinking of going back and finishing the weapons i already had, so what makes the grind so bad?

#Mrwithhappymondays Heya Happy, thanks for all the content. I started watching recently as my friends and I only just caught up to the end of 6.0 a few weeks ago after starting the game about a year and a half ago together [we're in different timezones and only do dungeons/trials/raids in msq when we're all on], and was surprised to learn in this episode that Bismark is apparently hated! He's one I particularly like since he reminds me a lot of old siege fights in MH, like Lao-Shan or Jhen Mohran. My question is, are there any fights in the game that are very unpopular but you happen to quite like?

Chicken.. Flavored.. Toothpaste... Hmm.....

Harvestella is criminally underrated, i really hope it gets a sequel or some kind of 2nd game, not optimistic about it but man, even if they just tweaked the combat a bit and added *some* voice acting to a 2nd game i would play the shit out of it (again, i think I've done 3 playthroughs already of it 😅)

Newer players don't understand the true meaning of "spaghetti code". Not to diss anyone: If you want something change, politely ask it to be changed in the official forum (and avoid reading answers from other players for your own sanity). Although they have fixed a lot of stuff, there is still so much leftover spaghetti and I doubt it will ever be fully fixed. For example: In my OG character (2.x), when I open the armory chest I see all gear as "available". When I open it on my current main (3.x) it only shows the gear available to my class/job. It is completely irrelevant but to show that those things must permeate all older systems in the game.

#MondayswithMrHappy Hello there! I play Red Mage, and while it is fun, I feel outclassed by the other magic damage jobs because all I bring to the table is being a res bot while they do more damage (Even SMN can res...) What can they do to the job to keep it competitive especially with Pictomancer being magic? Also on that note, what do you predict Pictomancer will be play like?

#MondayswithMrHappy Hello! Watched your videos for a long time, first time question (and I'm sure it's a repeat). I was thinking about the purpose of the XIV companion app and it dawned on me that for the most part it seems it's just a subscription to more storage. Almost all of the other functions are (being polite) lackluster unless yo're really fiending for that 24/7 marketboard access to sell stuff. If I'm recalling correctly the app hasn't really undergone any significannt changes since it's inception, do you forsee them making any changes to it to make it more useful (examples like managing Island Sanctuary, adding toybox games?) Ok...now that I thnk about it those don't make it more useful but do you think there could be more to it than just storage or will it most likely just be as it is going forward?

Ressing out of battle should be allowed for everyone, especially if you have healer leveled. Unlimited phoenix downs with a long cooldown, would be ideal. Maybe useless, this game is easy enough.

#Monday'swithMr.Happy Hello to you and the fuzzy babies. In vein of the question of a game you enjoyed mlre than you thought you would, what is one game that you loved and feel desperately deserves a remake cause it was underrated/overshadowed? Mine would have to be Skies of Arcadia or Legend of Dragoon Also bonus question i have a 5yr old kitty myself (male) and wamt to get him a buddy so hes nlt alone/bored when im asleep and at work. Is it best to make sure the second is around the same age and does beimg male or female matter as well

#MondayswithMrHappy Hiii ya Mr. Happy :) First time asking question but long time watcher . I recently just got a new pc and working on it and i wanted to know what was the best version to get Steam or from the square site? As a person or analyze everything i wasn't sure which one to get i see that alot of people says it doesn't matter but i figured id ask :) Also wanted to say that i remember someone asking you what your favorite anime was and i have to say that you are like the only other person i know that has watched OUTLAW STAR definitely on my top ten for nostalgia lol and that has been one of my favorites as a kid lol but thats showing my age lolol but any advice on which version would help

#9MrUnhappyuntilDawntrailwithMondays Couldn't think of another way to break the hashtag more. Hola! Bonjour! Other langues that I don't know. How're you and the cats doing? For once, just one question. No bonus question this time. Do you think they'll keep doing what they did with EW with the final fight being a solo duty? Or do you think that it would take the magic away from EW's final fight? I personally was grinning ear to ear at that moment so I definitely would prefer it stay in EW.

#mhm+numbers! Good day Haps! Quick question: lore-wise what would you rank the relic weapons in terms of lore and how would you rank them power-wise? Also! Bismarck is not a bad fight in FFXIV by any metric and the anti-Bismarck disrespect needs to stop. Players need to brush up on their history and stories.

#mondayswithmisterhappy In your opinion, is there any content in the game that's truly dead, or just difficult to dive into 4, almost 5, expansions in?

#MondaysWithMrHappy Hey Haps! Hope everything is going well! ^^ I'm struggling with sticking to one character because i like multiple races and i'm painfully aware of how alt unfriendly FFXIV is, Have you any advice for a dumb dumb like me who has 8 characters and isn't getting anywhere? xD (God help me when femhroth are officially added T^T )

#mrhappymondays Hi ya hope you doing well I had a question wanted your input on hotkeys I personally use them as I think they are the better way to raid in FFXIV I am still newer to the raiding scene and have only completed the current savage UWU and currently at P5 of DSR I have met people that also use hotkeys and I have met people who click on their skills/abilities I know I personally dont care how people play the game I know that some people want to get into hardcore content and a lot of people are like do this and do that for QoL but I know a lot of people feel pressured into changing then jumping into hardcore content then messing up because they arent used to it so I wanted to ask your opinion as a more experienced raider if people should change for the QoL or stay the same and use what they are comfortable with hopefully this isnt too much of a rant

Been awhile since Ive checked out Mr. happy, is he on drugs now? looks kinda different.

#MondayswithMrHappy hey haps! a very merry unbirthday to you! i'd love for them to work on the guildhests. stop laughing! hear me out :D so, we have dungeons. lots of dungeons. and they are all pretty much a straight line. guildhests are more open. just keep it events that happen somewhere out in the existing zones. little side stories. and have them play out more like some msq instances. different goals to reach in more open areas. it can't be just a boss arena. we have trials and raids for that. there could be many different scenarios (maybe even utilizing combat vehicles etc. occasionally). making the guildhests be their own thing. ideally scaling from 1-4 players, 8players ones and maybe even a special 24man. (one can dream) also harder difficulty versions like trials and raids. i really like the familiarity of the places where the old guildhests play out. it hits different than a duty you can't reach without queuing into it. at least i think that they feel distinct enough from the other duties to warrant giving them some love. how about you? you into guildhest savage?

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