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Gravemind said:
I haven't heard a damn thing about FRU.
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Some faggot from world first got caught using Moogle Telegraphs (MMOMinion) and everyone shit on Pixel Perfect (Dalamud) because the average IQ of the XIV player is below room temperature
 
Gravemind said:
Ultimates definitely don't mean much anymore, especially when RP and gposing fags can organize loose statics together and clear them like they're nothing, like what I saw was happening before Dawntrail.

I just remember when UWU and UCOB were notable. I remember when TEA was the hot shit, even with people paying for clears. I remember when DSR was kind of a big deal for a while there. I barely remember much coming out of TOP other than that one incident where a WF fag or something got caught out on using zoomhacks, and, like I said, I haven't heard a damn thing about FRU.

It's really not a pretty scene.
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Depends on the ult imo. I think there's basically three tiers of difficulty in the ults now.

Bottom tier is UWU, UCOB and TEA. TEA is the only ultimate I haven't went into yet so I can't be 100% sure about that placement, but the fight doesn't seem too wild. I think phase 2 probably looks like the most difficult bit tbh (though a lotta people tend to say wormhole is harder).

Middle-tier only has FRU in it right now. It's definitely harder than the three beginner ults but they do a lotta stuff that makes it easier to resolve (light rampant tethers are baited, debuffs normally apply in predictable ways on roles groups, etc).

High-tier is the two Endwalker ults. DSR and TOP. DSR is incredibly long and has an extremely brutal sixth phase at 13 minutes in where you can kill your entire group extremely easily. And TOP probably has the most complicated mechanic in the game with Run Dynamis Delta. And because the mechanics in these fights are full-random, you need to be able to do the mechanic with every possible role responsibility (Dynamis Delta has six or seven different things based on what tether you get, if you need to bait an arm laser, which tether you get and if you get Hello Near World or Hello Distant World).

I'll be interested to see where the next ultimate will end up. I want to see if FRU was just them giving people a bit of a break before they chuck you with something insane again, or whether Endwalker will just be known as "the expansion that had the hardest ultimates for some reason".
 
Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer said:
Bottom tier is UWU, UCOB and TEA. TEA is the only ultimate I haven't went into yet so I can't be 100% sure about that placement, but the fight doesn't seem too wild. I think phase 2 probably looks like the most difficult bit tbh (though a lotta people tend to say wormhole is harder).
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I wouldn't put TEA alongside UWU and UCoB. Wormhole is probably one of the hardest single mechanics - it's like the other mechanics you described where it's not role-specific so there's 8 different numbers and you need to know them all. But yea phase 2 is probably the hardest phase because the Judgement Nisis make just moving dangerous. Personally I'd put it alongside FRU in the middle tier.
 
I was kinda interested in the 50% off discount campaign for FFXI but it's pretty pathetic when I actually looked into it. 6 dollars off of your first 12 dollar subscription once you've already bought the game for 30 and played for over a month to complete the free playtime period and receive your discount.
At this point why not just drop the entry fee and offer it as part of an upgraded XIV subscription? I really can't imagine many XIV players already paying $12 a month choosing to pay full price for another game that'll eventually double their subscription just to further divide their time by investing into a 20-year old game.
 
Sheep King said:
I was kinda interested in the 50% off discount campaign for FFXI but it's pretty pathetic when I actually looked into it. 6 dollars off of your first 12 dollar subscription once you've already bought the game for 30 and played for over a month to complete the free playtime period and receive your discount.
At this point why not just drop the entry fee and offer it as part of an upgraded XIV subscription? I really can't imagine many XIV players already paying $12 a month choosing to pay full price for another game that'll eventually double their subscription just to further divide their time by investing into a 20-year old game.
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Just play on Horizon FXI. There is almost no real reason to play retail since at this point in the games life you are paying a sub for a single player RPG with the trusts.

Part of my previous complaint about 14,. is that it used to steal all the great ideas from it's compeition, and all the competition has outpaced it and it refuses to change.
WoW and the sub giving access to both classic and retail is one such thing they should steal.
 
The GCBTW is at it again

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The review score also flipped from being 24% positive in the last 30 days to 37% after this tweet, so they obvious brigaded it with positive reviews to spite the "haters"
 
SuffahWhorse said:
The GCBTW is at it again

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Absolute surface level takes on story themes like this always make brain hurt.
People dont like it because it's for fighting for happiness? We literally just fought off an apoclaypse by fighting for everyones happiness and hope?
All the way back in heavensward, fighting to bring peace between two races with ancient grudges? Fighting for individual freedoms in stormblood? Fighting for a better future for others through personal sacrifice? All things that an absolute surface level story knuckledragger like that can say "hurr people no like cause they are sad/bad people who just want to spread their misery" at any minor critcism of any expansion's story.

Maybe the story is just shit, bro?
 
SuffahWhorse said:
The GCBTW is at it again

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The review score also flipped from being 24% positive in the last 30 days to 37% after this tweet, so they obvious brigaded it with positive reviews to spite the "haters"
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The usual buzzwords are in there. Incels and Right Wingers.
Because everything has to be a political pissing contest with these dumb niggers and they can't fathom the idea that people just don't like DT because it was a shit expansion.
 
SuffahWhorse said:
The GCBTW is at it again
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Yeah, rightoids like us would never understand the appeal of watching a sheltered royal smashing her way through problems to protect her docile population of smiling generic serfs. I find the political angle hilarious because I think the other expansions are far more "woke" or liberal leaning in terms of the actual story and setting and not just lipservice.

I’ve given plenty of reasons I feel nothing but disdain for Dawntrail’s story but after recently making a new character and powering through all the sidequests in Thanalan (skipping most MSQ cutscenes because I’m not that mentally damaged) I realised the real reason I despise Wuk, Tural, Sphene, the reason I can find no redeeming qualities in this tasteless slop, is because almost all the characters in Tural are jeet-level bugmen.

I think one of the best qualities of XIV’s writing, at least in earlier expansions, is that it really tries to make the world feel real and diverse (not just meaningless diversity, the real kind) through all the sidequests and flavour texts. There’s a lot of personality given to the ordinary people; Ul’dah is full of greedy merchants, Limsa has belligerent drunks, Gridanians are crabby, the regular rank-and-file Ishgardian soldiers complain about heretics, dragons and their own commanding officers in equal measure. People swear, they cheat, they make dirty jokes.

One of my favourite sidequest locations in Thanalan is Drybone, because it adds a lot of humanity to the Ul’dahn way of life. Their culture is just a fantasised version of the American dream, to the point where even their afterlife is based on wealth and status. Drybone’s community is built around a graveyard for the paupers who died in the Calamity; one of the sidequests has a woman who asks you to gather flowers so she can scalp them to mourners at a premium. But she also has a quest to find good meat for a dying man’s last meal. Small things like that make me ten times more attached to these shitty desert potato people than any number of Disney insert-songs or speeches about peace. Thanalan is a rough place where the regular person could lose their life to banditry, thirst, monsters, whatever; people are hard, opportunistic and selfish; but even if you die without a gil to your name, someone will still see that your body is taken care of, and you receive your proper rites. The game is rigged, but everyone’s in it together.

This is why I hate that Dawntrail has almost no religion outside of some lip service paid by the Hanuhanu or Yok Huy. The teachings of Nald’thal are more than just a set of traditions in Ul’dah, they’re a spiritual philosophy that informs their understanding of the nature of the material world, what they prioritise, why they work hard. People in Tural just seem to be happy doing whatever they’re doing, whether their merchants, farmers, soldiers, hunters or miners. There’s a few Yok Huy in Urqopacha trying to revive their lost empire, but what are the others doing? They seem to just preserve tradition without any greater purpose. Tuliyollal is supposedly a newly formed nation of warring tribes and yet everyone’s culture slots neatly into the broad notion of multiculturalism and co-operation without any real conflict, like no real thought has been given to these people’s inner lives. The Hanuhanu and Mamool Ja have rituals but almost no time is given to cosmologies, origin myths or afterlives. Not every character in a medieval fantasy setting has to be religious but leaving them with the trappings of a traditional culture without any spiritual depth completely flattens their culture in exactly the way people usually cry cultural appropriation for.

Consider also that in previous expansions we went around interacting with ordinary people. There was plenty of time given to hob-nobbing with important people and rulers like Hien or Aymeric but we spent a ton of time away from them as well. Arguably the setup for Shadowbringers is the working-class people of the Crystarium trying to rebuild their lives after the religious authorities and the chosen hero accidentally brought about the end of the world.
Dawntrail does have a large amount of time talking with the everyday people but it’s almost never about their lives, or us helping them, it’s always through the lens of helping Wuk Lamat, the future ruler. Out of the main characters in this expansion, Erenville is the only halfway normal one who isn’t raised into royalty or born into some special role. The sequence in Shaloaani is the only section where we are going out of our way to see people’s ordinary lives. Almost like the entire continent and all its peoples are an afterthought to their benevolent ruler, Wuk Lamat. Alexandrians? They’re almost literally sheep being herded by their all-knowing queen. I can’t think of any cultures in previous expansions that felt so much like *accessories* to their childish, one-dimensional rulers. Yes, Dawntrail is about “protecting the smiles” of one’s country, in the most facile sense, because it reduces people to nothing but subservient smiles to be protected by their benevolent leader.

Sorry for sperging but it amuses me to no end that these media-literate dipshits are blind to the fact that for all its token diversity quotas, Dawntrail is closer to the kind of “fascist” writing they claim to be experts at sniffing out than any other expansion so far.
 
SuffahWhorse said:
The GCBTW is at it again

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The review score also flipped from being 24% positive in the last 30 days to 37% after this tweet, so they obvious brigaded it with positive reviews to spite the "haters"
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>Thirsts for Asahi
>Wants to portray him as good.
>Thinks Dawntrail has a good story.

Folks I think this might be a real woman, only they are dumb enough to think a blatently evil war criminal is good purely because they want to fuck them.
 
Sheep King said:
Tuliyollal is supposedly a newly formed nation of warring tribes and yet everyone’s culture slots neatly into the broad notion of multiculturalism and co-operation without any real conflict, like no real thought has been given to these people’s inner lives. The Hanuhanu and Mamool Ja have rituals but almost no time is given to cosmologies, origin myths or afterlives. Not every character in a medieval fantasy setting has to be religious but leaving them with the trappings of a traditional culture without any spiritual depth completely flattens their culture in exactly the way people usually cry cultural appropriation for.
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This expansion was made for Disney adults, full stop. Also, anyone remember when the Mamool Ja were trying to (and failing at) breed 2-headed variants? That could have been a neat B-plot instead of whatever 7.1 was
 
The Stranger said:
I wouldn't put TEA alongside UWU and UCoB. Wormhole is probably one of the hardest single mechanics - it's like the other mechanics you described where it's not role-specific so there's 8 different numbers and you need to know them all. But yea phase 2 is probably the hardest phase because the Judgement Nisis make just moving dangerous. Personally I'd put it alongside FRU in the middle tier.
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I can buy that.

From what I've seen, it's basically Wormhole and Nisi which is the tricky parts of the fight. Everything else seems pretty easy. Dolls in P1 seem tricky at first but since it's right at the start that basically mitigates the difficulty massively.

Racial Slurs the Movie said:
Folks I think this might be a real woman, only they are dumb enough to think a blatently evil war criminal is good purely because they want to fuck them.
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I bet you that 90% of what they're paying a sub for is to gpose and they probably consider alliance raid to be extremely hard content.

RIPRhongoBongo said:
This expansion was made for Disney adults, full stop. Also, anyone remember when the Mamool Ja were trying to (and failing at) breed 2-headed variants? That could have been a neat B-plot instead of whatever 7.1 was
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You take a look at what the defenders say and holy shit it's the most surface level shit going and mostly just amounts to "Wuk Lamat is wholesome chungus 100" and "haha I love the silly funny summer vibes".

I'm hoping that the next expansion gatekeeps them by having moral complexity that they can't understand.

I still find it fucking wild that 7.1 glossed over the secret laboratory where Zoraal Ja seemingly undertook experimentation on his own citizens, many of which were against their will and likely would have created a mystery about disappearing citizens in favour of learning how the Hhetsharo make tea out of cow shit.

At this stage, I'm here for the content, and I'm here for the Arcadion story. I'm hoping we have Dawntrail wrap up in 7.3 like they did in the past and we can just have 7.4-7.55 be the setup for a better story.

I'd say I hope they "do a Lyse" on Wuk Lamat and bin her after the expansion, but that's kinda harsh on Lyse tbh.
 
Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer said:
I still find it fucking wild that 7.1 glossed over the secret laboratory where Zoraal Ja seemingly undertook experimentation on his own citizens, many of which were against their will and likely would have created a mystery about disappearing citizens in favour of learning how the Hhetsharo make tea out of cow shit.
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Calling it now: all the cool plot ideas are getting the Krile treatment and the fluff is going get all the exposition it doesn't need
 
Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer said:
I still find it fucking wild that 7.1 glossed over the secret laboratory where Zoraal Ja seemingly undertook experimentation on his own citizens, many of which were against their will and likely would have created a mystery about disappearing citizens in favour of learning how the Hhetsharo make tea out of cow shit.
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I still find it absolutely fucking insane we brought an already deeply traumatized child through the warcrime zombie laboratory still freshly reeking with the dead and covered in blood and literally everyone's reaction to it in the moment is just "Yeah, this is messed up, but this is fine. AND YAY, WE GOT WHAT WE CAME HERE FOR!"
 
Gravemind said:
I still find it absolutely fucking insane we brought an already deeply traumatized child through the warcrime zombie laboratory still freshly reeking with the dead and covered in blood and literally everyone's reaction to it in the moment is just "Yeah, this is messed up, but this is fine. AND YAY, WE GOT WHAT WE CAME HERE FOR!"
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What bothers me is we literally just had a theme park dungeon in 7.0. We could've taken the lil guy to go on the teacup rides and instead we brought him to the Josef Mengele daycare.
 
Dawntrail fans are a full on cult now with the defense force. Also they white night the shit out of fictional female characters, accusing people who hate them of misogyny and being incels, accuse people who hate Wuk and her voice and VA of transphobia and misogyny, etc. Yet at the same time they will happily shit all over SHB and EW, both expansion packs with a woman as the main writer. They’ll also whine and get angry over people liking Ishikawa’s writing as a whole and rage about all the praise she gets. Meanwhile Dawntrail was mainly written by a man, meaning they’re hating a woman’s work to praise a man’s work. I take it they don’t see the irony and hypocrisy of their views and lack self awareness. Though yet again Ishikawa is a very successful, well liked woman which is something none of the members of this community will ever be.

Also I today learned that Asahi has simps that want to fuck him.
 
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SnowBall said:
Dawntrail fans are a full on cult now with the defense force. Also they white night the shit out of fictional female characters, accusing people who hate them of misogyny and being incels, accuse people who hate Wuk and her voice and VA of transphobia and misogyny, etc. Yet at the same time they will happily shit all over SHB and EW, both expansion packs with a woman as the main writer. They’ll also whine and get angry over people liking Ishikawa’s writing as a whole and rage about all the praise she gets. Meanwhile Dawntrail was mainly written by a man, meaning they’re hating a woman’s work to praise a man’s work. I take it they don’t see the irony and hypocrisy of their views and lack self awareness. Though yet again Ishikawa is a very successful, well liked woman which is something none of the members of this community will ever be.
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I mean, it's obvious they just hate women. That's why they project it onto others.

SnowBall said:
Also I today learned that Asahi has simps that want to fuck him.
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Correct.
 
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