Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[Baron Reginald]

Could you imagine if the team was actually creative? Dancers could swap their partners to help out whoever might need more resource generation. Monk could have a stance that restores MP to the party when they correctly hit positionals in it. Summoners could bring out something that reduces MP consumption for the entire party while it's out. Viper could apply different poisons that trigger after the player has done a certain amount of damage to the target, bursting in an AoE splash to provide healing or MP or whatever in a cycling, semi-random rotation. All of this could be done with minimal button-bloat of they combined 1-2-3-no-variance "combos" and without even chewing on the idea of "specializations" for the jobs.

But none of that's ever happening. You're getting Lucid Dreaming (Evolved) and you're going to like it. Or more realistically, you're going to stop playing healer as CBU3 continues to dumb the role down because no-one except sprouts and curebots can put up with how mind-numbing it is.

Yeah, I honestly like a lot of your ideas. Every job having their own themeatic way to contribute to party resources or output is far far more interesting to the game that 2 minute rotation.

And do not be fooled by the evolved combat removing two minute rotations. They will still exist. The difference is raid wide 2 minute cooldowns are being removed and the jobs will all function similiar to the selfish dps jobs where they only need to worry about their own burst windows. I am calling it now and engraving it into stone tablet. I do not think healers will recieve any meaningful changes, since you only need to look at what they have done to AST over the years to what they consider a "good healer change" is. Every time they touch a job it becomes less fun and engaging to play with less and less actual decisions to make.

 

[electrician's apprentice]

are all the jobs still the same?
I leveled up WAR, MCH, SMN, and SAM
I didn't notice anything different between 90 and 100
Like maybe there's one more button but other than that it might as well be the same

 

[Lord Nelson]

This would be my preferred solution. I don't even mind if it's only like... 5% more dps if you do the whole rotation over just glare/broil spamming. Give me something to do as skill expression with a little reward on top, and then tune harder content to require some mastery of playing the job optimally.

Healer's skill expression should be keeping the party alive, not how much damage they can pump out between occasional heals. They should just outright remove all self-healing from tank and DPS roles, or make it so that their self-healing comes with large hit to damage they do. That way healer's job would actually matter instead of it being a shitty DPS who throws few oGDC heals.

 

[Lou's Sentient Backfat]

are all the jobs still the same?
I leveled up WAR, MCH, SMN, and SAM
I didn't notice anything different between 90 and 100
Like maybe there's one more button but other than that it might as well be the same

Pretty much, they just slapped damage increases through traits and added an extra button you press after one of your other buttons for the most part.

 

[Nimbat Out Of Hell]

are all the jobs still the same?
I leveled up WAR, MCH, SMN, and SAM
I didn't notice anything different between 90 and 100
Like maybe there's one more button but other than that it might as well be the same

Scholar got forced to wear a dress, and that's why I stopped playing Scholar this expansion.

 

[Road Work Ahead]

I miss 2,X SCH so bad. Balancing your 4 DoT spells and healing was a ton of fun.

I did switch to AST in HW because gambling is fun (until they ruined that too).

 

[Kane Lives]

I miss 2,X SCH so bad. Balancing your 4 DoT spells and healing was a ton of fun.

I did switch to AST in HW because gambling is fun (until they ruined that too).

Those were the days when you could use your fairy as an emergency tank if you really were desperate to save a run.

 

[electrician's apprentice]

started leveling my crafting and grathering jobs and its the most fun I've had since I came back to playing lol

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

started leveling my crafting and grathering jobs and its the most fun I've had since I came back to playing lol

Start scamming idiots on the Market Board and you'll be rich in no time

 

[reformed alert]

Start scamming idiots on the Market Board and you'll be rich in no time

I remember I used to buy materials for very very cheap sometime during early Endwalker, craft it into HQ gathering accessories and sell it for easily 10x the price of the materials required for it. Was actually criminal how easy gil that was. All was well until some fucking LALA with a market board bot started undercutting me constantly. Fucker sat in his apartment 24/7, had only one combat job levelled, and would undercut me on all my items in <15 minutes every time. Reported him a bunch of times but of course nothing happened to him.

 

[Baron Reginald]

Pretty much, they just slapped damage increases through traits and added an extra button you press after one of your other buttons for the most part.

The FF14 special.
All your skill upgrades are passive changes that if you are lucky get a new animation, but otherwise it's a 10 potency bump and if you are REALLY lucky you get one extra button to push added to your finisher every expansion.

 

[ProvokedData60]

Coming back after a break to wrap up EW and to start on DT, I distinctly remember taking a break three-quarters the way in because the story started to lose me and whew that still was the case. Can't wait to see what the deal with DT is first hand, I've tried not to spoil myself on it especially since I've heard its so mixed.

 

[Pigeon Enthusiast]

Those were the days when you could use your fairy as an emergency tank if you really were desperate to save a run.

It was also the days where the fairy could just decide that it was go time now, and decide to pull the boss on its own. Which was pretty funny, ngl.


Anyway, the problem with (and reason for) the insanely overpowered OGCD healing toolkits in this game is actually fairly simple.
The core of this game's fight design is ultimately a DPS race. It has always been, it will likely always be.
And pre-5.0 when healing was actually a responsibility that forced you to walk a tightrope balance between putting out heals and contributing your part to the group's DPS (stance dancing with Cleric Stance and such), it put an extremely obvious spotlight on good healers and the ones who were... less so.
This was also a problem with tanks, since bad tanks that couldn't manage aggro properly needed to gimp their DPS with aggro combos while staying in tank stance, for that matter.

So for both of them, this was the main reason that 5.0 ripped the guts out of both roles:
The high ceiling of both roles when played at a high skill level resulted in necessarily trivialized DPS checks in high end content, solely because if you'd put the floor higher to account for healer and tank DPS at the level that actually good players could put out, then it would have filtered a fuckton of people who couldn't or didn't want to use their toolkits properly.
So SE said "fuck it", tore out those systems from the game entirely, and made both roles into thinly disguised DPS with comically overpowered abilities to fulfil their nominal roles. For tanks it's having a full DPS rotation with a 10x aggro generation stance you can just keep permanently on to never lose aggro ever, and for healers it's their insane OGCD toolkits.

The problem with this that made healers feel bad and boring whereas much fewer people have much to say about tanks being neutered is, of course, that while both are basically DPS in a thin coat of blue or green paint since Shadowbringers, the tanks got their role stuff rolled into a tolerable DPS rotation and healers got a single button they do nothing but press over and over until they get an RSI.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Realistically they should have gotten rid of Cleric Stance but they also removed 95% of all actually good spells healers had (the 5% being WHM Holy).

The only way they can make healers feel different is getting comfortable with different healers performing at different levels in different content - SCH was nerfed into the ground early on because as pulls got huge - DOTs + Bane would do real actual damage and WHM had no version of it.

Either healers need something more to do in combat or have Evercold introduce Subjobs so you can bring in a few damage skills from a different class.

 

[Molag Bal]

So guys, I haven't played this game in years and don't know how to navigate.
How do I identify trannies inside the game?
I'm asking for finger pointers both on how to find individual people, and also entire FCs/communities to pick a name from.
The more psychotic they are and the more flaggotry/reporting/report brigading they engage in, the better.

 

[Baron Reginald]

So guys, I haven't played this game in years and don't know how to navigate.
How do I identify trannies inside the game?
I'm asking for finger pointers both on how to find individual people, and also entire FCs/communities to pick a name from.
The more psychotic they are and the more flaggotry/reporting/report brigading they engage in, the better.

Any RP venue or large FC, and in the party finder they almost ALWAYS advertise "LBGTQWOP+ friendly".
Any "Goth gf" looking character, more than likely a tranny.

Either healers need something more to do in combat or have Evercold introduce Subjobs so you can bring in a few damage skills from a different class.

I find it incredibly funny that more and more solutions that people suggest to make the game interesting used to already be in the game in some form or another and then they removed it.

 

[Quoth The Raven]

So guys, I haven't played this game in years and don't know how to navigate.
How do I identify trannies inside the game?
I'm asking for finger pointers both on how to find individual people, and also entire FCs/communities to pick a name from.
The more psychotic they are and the more flaggotry/reporting/report brigading they engage in, the better.

A lot of them are pretty open about it so if you see shit like "F+"/"M+" in someone's search info, you found one. "Egg" is something I see quite a bit in FC tags and names, plus you can always look through Community Finder if you want to vet FCs before joining. Nightclub/bathhouse venues always have trannies involved in them somewhere, more traditional RP can vary but sadly most will have some kind of "LGBTWTFBBQ+ friendly" shit somewhere. FCs and communities without that can vary between tolerant of them to quietly excluding them. Most big XIV communities like Faloop and the big plugins will have trannies involved somewhere too but you can still use those without having to really interact with them.

 

[Agarathium1066]

A lot of them are pretty open about it so if you see shit like "F+"/"M+" in someone's search info, you found one. "Egg" is something I see quite a bit in FC tags and names, plus you can always look through Community Finder if you want to vet FCs before joining. Nightclub/bathhouse venues always have trannies involved in them somewhere, more traditional RP can vary but sadly most will have some kind of "LGBTWTFBBQ+ friendly" shit somewhere. FCs and communities without that can vary between tolerant of them to quietly excluding them. Most big XIV communities like Faloop and the big plugins will have trannies involved somewhere too but you can still use those without having to really interact with them.

"F+/M+" is generally ERP shorthand for a "woman" with a cock or a male with a vagina from my experience. It's to basically wink-wink-nudge-nudge to the character being a genderspecial. If you want to observe them in their natural habitats nightclubs will have some (usually as the worst DJ on earth with a shitty Vtuber model).

 

[Nimbat Out Of Hell]

Most big XIV communities like Faloop and the big plugins will have trannies involved somewhere too but you can still use those without having to really interact with them.

the NA "Field Ops Enjoyers" discord (successor to the old "Primal Forays" Eureka/Bozja server) is really good if you're interested in anything to do with Baldesion Arsenal, Delubrum Reginae Savage, Forked Tower, or so on... but literally the second thing in the Channels & Roles is this lunacy.

Spoiler: composite of all the options

I consider myself pretty informed on LGBBQ insanity, and there's one or two here I haven't actually heard of

 

[Quoth The Raven]

"F+/M+" is generally ERP shorthand for a "woman" with a cock or a male with a vagina from my experience. It's to basically wink-wink-nudge-nudge to the character being a genderspecial. If you want to observe them in their natural habitats nightclubs will have some (usually as the worst DJ on earth with a shitty Vtuber model).

One of the things that really pisses me off in game these days is how sexting in nightclubs with self-inserts has been categorised as RP (or even ERP!) when it's people just using the game as virtual Tindr. Granted there's gendernormies who do that too along with the whole e-dating crap, but trannies seem more prolific with it and swapping/sharing partners. It's fun to passively watch FCs on your world pop up, grow, explode and reform under names as they have their fallouts. I wish SE would crack down on the PF ads though, especially with all the "18+" stuff. Reminds me of shit I've seen in the Roblox thread.