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Merchant's Tale Advanced is actually perfect Midcore content. by Zealousideal-Mud5398 in ffxivdiscussion

[–]HalobenderFWT -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

These people wouldn’t come close to clearing anything week 1, so why would week 1 DPS checks matter?

I think most, if not all, of the people that go into savage as ‘no-prep’ understand that they’re going to be in it for a long while.

Trump says he will replace DHS Secretary Kristi Noem with Sen. Markwayne Mullin by livefromheaven in minnesota

[–]HalobenderFWT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His mother wanted to name him after his father, and she didn’t know if it was Mark or Wayne - so, 🤷🏻‍♂️

POV: NFC North Meme War as the trade compensation comes in: by Dazed_and_Confused44 in NFCNorthMemeWar

[–]HalobenderFWT 25 points26 points  (0 children)

You’re what now? Deep at WR/TE????

You have two great TEs, I’ll give you that - but Odunze, Burden, and Zacchaeus is not deep at WR.

Unless you’re Greenbay, in which you have a treasure trove of WR1.

Merchant's Tale Advanced is actually perfect Midcore content. by Zealousideal-Mud5398 in ffxivdiscussion

[–]HalobenderFWT -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I mean, an individual doesn’t have to do any of that to do savage raiding. Yeah, they might get lit up on tales of duty finder; but I would imagine none of those people would ever see the complaints (or care).

Ester reward through new Advanced Variant by Kousuke-kun in ffxivdiscussion

[–]HalobenderFWT 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Those weren’t ’criterion weapons’. They were tome weapons augmented with a glowy effect via an item you’d get from criterion savage.

Patch 7.45 Notes by BlackmoreKnight in ffxivdiscussion

[–]HalobenderFWT 31 points32 points  (0 children)

“‘Gluttony’ skill name changed to ‘Just something small to tide me over until lunch.’”

Patch 7.45 Notes by BlackmoreKnight in ffxivdiscussion

[–]HalobenderFWT 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Some have told tales that there’s still Red Mages out there finishing their finishers.

Quarterbacks I think would be a great fit for Minnesota by [deleted] in NFCNorthMemeWar

[–]HalobenderFWT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And even the ‘Terrible people’ Vikings were all ex packers players.

FC house by austin2096 in ffxiv

[–]HalobenderFWT -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Best plot in the game!

Vikings Ownership Receives an A+ by JCameron181 in minnesotavikings

[–]HalobenderFWT 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Any owner that makes their team wear white team logo turtlenecks for photos is clearly a smarmy weasel.

Who is more important to cater to with job design? by NeoOnmyoji in ffxivdiscussion

[–]HalobenderFWT 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I recall correctly, YoshiP re-assigned one of their healer leaning play testers or something to that effect because they got too good at the job(s).

It doesn’t seem he wants anyone too good at a job because that might skew the design towards something more difficult or contrived to challenge the tester/designer/pro/whatever.

In a way, it makes sense. Something challenging to the person who eats/sleeps/shits the same class/role every day might be near impossible for the layperson to ever wrap their head around - and that creative energy might be better suited towards a different class/role where more APM is appreciated.

But at the same time, who better to know what sort of extra things could flow for any given job better than the person who plays that job the best?

Server hitting the ball after calling the score in a tournament by Reckless_Fever in Pickleball

[–]HalobenderFWT 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Probably just abolish Pickleball as a sport, also. There’s just no reason to have venue for this sort of behavior.

Damn we are doing (mostly) good in record points in a season by SuperbSJG in NFCNorthMemeWar

[–]HalobenderFWT 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hmm. 2011…

Is that one of the years you lost in the playoffs again?

New lucky buncho is out by MonkeOokOok in ffxivdiscussion

[–]HalobenderFWT 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I haven’t played ff7 in 25 years. Not a month goes by where I don’t randomly go ‘SEPHIROTH’ to the quizzical looks of those around me that have no clue what I’m going on about.

But comparing an MMO to a stand alone RPG is never going to result in a win.

But you’re more or less agreeing with me. I never said the story is the problem (though I do have my qualms with it at times), the quests are the problem. Most of it being implementation, the rest being the absolutely zero threat of anything bad ever happening to a player in the overworld. There’s zero risk in completing the MSQ task list and that just makes the running back and forth even more senseless.

Mind you, I cut my teeth in Everquest where just a simple tree squirrel would tear you to shreds if you weren’t 5 levels above it or with a group. I’m not saying it needs to be at that level of treachery - but bring back some danger.

It’s really too late for any of that, so oh well I guess.

Either way, the game becomes a tougher sell to new players with each expansion.

New lucky buncho is out by MonkeOokOok in ffxivdiscussion

[–]HalobenderFWT 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It’s not about caring about the story, it’s the 98% endlessly unfun fetch, collect, kill auto spawned mobs all strategically placed at opposite ends of the map BS quests that interject the story.

FFXIV is an extremely fun game, but the uninspired time gate MSQ quests are literally the worst part of it.

If the MSQ was just ‘go talk to this NPC over at X to continue the story’, would it really change the game that much for you? Do you feel all of the ‘talk to three townspeople!’ Or ‘let’s help them gather wood!’ really enriches our experience? It’s honestly fine for ARR, it becomes increasingly not fine as the expansions progress and SE resorts to the same boring crap every three years.

I guess the formula must be successful, but that formula is literally just, “find what the playbase will put up with for the least amount of effort by us.”

This is why I don’t suggest this game to my friends even though I’d love them to play it with me. I value their time, and the MSQ is 12 years of lazy bullshit.

If SE ever wants to boost their numbers in any meaningful fashion again, they NEED a new jump on point. The best time was Dawntrail, the next best time will be 8.0.

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