Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

  • 🏰 The Fediverse is up. If you know, you know.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
RIPRhongoBongo said:
I wish the AI wasn't literal paste-eating retarded. Had to force-wipe Amaurot god knows how many times because no one besides Thancred has the script that says, stay out of bad (I didn't trust Duty Finder to pop soon enough)
Click to expand...
The bots are pretty janky and they do shit dps. Even if you're DPS you'll still probably get done faster just waiting in DF.

I was testing out the new SB additions and I wiped because the healer fell through the floor at one point.
 
std::string said:
The bots are pretty janky and they do shit dps. Even if you're DPS you'll still probably get done faster just waiting in DF.

I was testing out the new SB additions and I wiped because the healer fell through the floor at one point.
Click to expand...
I just said fuck it and went Paladin. Died 1 last time for the lulz. Now on to Emet-Selch, where I hope I don't get even more retarded people. Although, the Power Ranger suit is good for a laugh as glam
 
Resunoit said:
I’ll probably finish Endwalker and then just stop playing this game. Dawntrail looks boring. I have no desire to play “filler: the expansion.”
Click to expand...
Gonna be honest, while I didn't hate Endwalker (I just think it squanders great potential and that turns it into a mid product, it's still leagues above stormblood) the post EW patches are absolute fucking dogshit and the only reasons I have kept playing are:

1. the 6.1+ story is so fucking bad I can't stop looking
2. I enjoy autistically crafting and collecting while becoming lord of the shekels too much, you could say I am genetically predisposed to do it.

I could absolutely see how a casual story mode player would have no reason to continue, on that end the game is possibly the worst it has been.

Reserving my judgment on Dawntrail, because Lord knows the EW trailer was not representative of the final product.
 
I will say at this point, I’ve played an actual good part of Endwalker. That’s the point from when you arrive in Garlemald all the way to fighting Zodiark. But that’s it. Slogging through 25-30 quests just for it to get good. Shadowbringers was good immediately. And from looking at the quest list it looks like it’s time for me to talk to the space bunnies, so it’s gonna be cancerous until I get to an actual good part of the expansion again.
 
Unlocked the Nier Alliance Raid, but was too lazy to give it a shot tonight. Need some friends to drag my corpse through this apparently
 
RIPRhongoBongo said:
Unlocked the Nier Alliance Raid, but was too lazy to give it a shot tonight. Need some friends to drag my corpse through this apparently
Click to expand...
Got to warn you that they are quite long as Alliance Raid goes, nearly 40 minutes each with competent players. Do it if you got spare time.
 
So I’m now in Elpis. It doesn’t need to be said but the space bunnies were extremely boring, but once I got to Thavnair the expansion got very fucking good again. I loved how the sky turned red and you had people turning into grotesque creatures, and the music too was so good. It gave me massive Drakengard vibes, and I love that type of dark fantasy. Elpis isn’t too bad. The stakes lowered once I got there but it’s actually interesting talking to ascians instead of retarded space bunnies.
 
Resunoit said:
So I’m now in Elpis. It doesn’t need to be said but the space bunnies were extremely boring, but once I got to Thavnair the expansion got very fucking good again. I loved how the sky turned red and you had people turning into grotesque creatures, and the music too was so good. It gave me massive Drakengard vibes, and I love that type of dark fantasy. Elpis isn’t too bad. The stakes lowered once I got there but it’s actually interesting talking to ascians instead of retarded space bunnies.
Click to expand...
Unfortunately, you will still need to wade through yet another filler episode after Elpis, so enjoy while you can.
 
Savage prog update: P12S phase 2 is hellish.

The fight realistically only has two difficult mechanics. Caloric Theory and Pangenesis.

Caloric Theory is essentially a bunch of spreads and stacks with a debuff that limits how far you're allowed to move during the mechanic before you explode and take everyone with you. Main difficulty here is that it's a semi-random mechanic which requires you to know fully how the mechanic works since you need to move to very specific positions based on what you get, and if you fuck up, you can't correct yourself. Light DC uses Rinon strat which is worse than Papan imo just for being a lot less braindead (Papan strat essentially has everyone finish th
 
Resunoit said:
So I’m now in Elpis. It doesn’t need to be said but the space bunnies were extremely boring, but once I got to Thavnair the expansion got very fucking good again. I loved how the sky turned red and you had people turning into grotesque creatures, and the music too was so good. It gave me massive Drakengard vibes, and I love that type of dark fantasy. Elpis isn’t too bad. The stakes lowered once I got there but it’s actually interesting talking to ascians instead of retarded space bunnies.
Click to expand...
The entire Lopporrit section felt like them hammering the brakes after they did the whole kill the original antagonist of the whole ass game as a midboss. I was apparently the only person in my friend group that felt that way.
 
Been playing the game after a. Long break. I gotta say for the tank classes (tank main) the jump from 80-90 really does feel minimal. Excited to try out the corsair class in dawntrail though. I hope the weapon is cutlass and gun combo.
 
Got a question; anyone have any recommendations for Ranged DPS? Because I've been trying out all three of them, and they're all good; part of me was considering leveling Dancer as my main Ranged, because it seems simple enough and still good overall, though Bard and Machinist are also pretty solid. Any thoughts?

EDIT: Also, going to go ahead and ask; which Melee jobs do you guys prefer? Do you like Samurai, Reaper, Dragoon, etc.?
 
Last edited:
I finally decided to go through the Endwalker story this week, and I have never flip-flopped this hard on a 14 expansion before. Heavensward is great, Stormblood is weak all around but it still had a hook or two I cared about, Shadowbringers is pretty good, and then Endwalker comes stumbling through the door at 2AM drunk off its ass pissing itself.

Garlemald I enjoyed even if some of it felt pointless, shame it isn't its own expansion, but Elpis is some of the most retarded time travel I've ever seen. The "main" villain dies not even halfway through the game after all the effort that went into talking about/showing him, but it did subvert my expectations that I was going to get a good expansion, so that's cool. The Loporrits are allegedly comedic relief from previous events, but they're just an interruption. Thavnair is half-and-half: the final days stuff is good, but it only lasts about an hour or two in real time before it gets neatly swept under the rug. All the insane emotional blackmail toward the end was shit: I knew they weren't going to kill these characters because nothing of true consequence has actually happened in the story up to that point. The emo bird girl was dumb, everything to do with the Ascians was dumb, the raid tiers were half shit-half good, and the alliance raids were garbage. Did COVID really screw them this hard? I'm having a hard time buying that.
 
Managed to drag my broken, beaten corpse into Endwalker after 3 months. I just can't with Zenos anymore. Also, Fandaniel can rope too
 
If we're gonna talk about the Loporrits again, I was thinking of them in FF16 after you defeat Titan and have to help build the boat. Very similar thing where you have this huge, awesome fight and then the team doesn't just slow it down to give you a breather, they bring things to an immediate halt and keep you there in a bunch of mind-numbingly boring tasks, so it may just be how the team is these days. Guess we'll see in Dawntrail.
 
From what I remember reading; Endwalker WAS actually supposed to be two expansions, originally. The first expac was supposed to be the build-up towards and invasion of Garlemald - with I think Zodiark being the finale of it, story-wise, though that's just my theory - while the second one was supposed to be dealing with the Final Days and such. So, you're all not wrong when you state the pacing is a bit fucked; it's literally two expansions crammed into one.

If I remember correctly, the reason why Endwalker turned out the way it did was because the devs just... wanted to finish up the story. I think, because this story was over 10 years old at this point, the devs just wanted to finally wrap it up. Can't say I blame them for wanting to finish the story... but the pacing of the finale certainly suffered, especially when it comes to dealing with the damn rabbits.

Ironically, I think Endwalker is my personal favorite expansion; not saying that others are bad, mind, I just really like it for some reason.

EDIT: Found the interview where they confirmed that Endwalker was supposed to be two expansions: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/tg7lgz/spoiler_60_famitsu_interview_with_yoshida/
 
Last edited:
Scream Aim Fire said:
Got a question; anyone have any recommendations for Ranged DPS? Because I've been trying out all three of them, and they're all good; part of me was considering leveling Dancer as my main Ranged, because it seems simple enough and still good overall, though Bard and Machinist are also pretty solid. Any thoughts?

EDIT: Also, going to go ahead and ask; which Melee jobs do you guys prefer? Do you like Samurai, Reaper, Dragoon, etc.?
Click to expand...

I personally prefer bard but it's awkward to play in a dungeon IMO. bard really lends itself to being in an 8-man environment. dancer is better in that regard but its contribution really suffers if your dance partner sucks at DPS. machinist is the ego class but I've never really found it engaging to play.

as far as melee jobs, it depends on what you want out of it. ninja, monk, and dragoon are what you might refer to as "skill" classes because optimization is heavily reliant on consistent cooldown alignment (and in the case of ninja/dragoon, memorizing long openers and cooldown phases). samurai and reaper are mostly brain-off button-mashers (SAM mains will screech at you for saying this). I personally prefer reaper because it's less repetitive. I'm normally a caster DPS main, but I've been focusing on reaper this patch just to switch things up.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom