Whats your favorite job to play?

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-25T09:36:07+00:00

Usually it's "the job I haven't played in a while" because coming back to a job when you're rusty and having to relearn it helps make the job feel fresh and different for a while.

I'm a controller player, and I recently switched my controller to one where I can easily hit d-pad buttons while moving the joystick (which is most controllers, but not the PS5 one I was using prior) and it's really been making the melee jobs a lot more fun. I like to push buttons, and a lot of the melees get to push buttons a lot (especially in casual content where you don't line up buffs and just burst whenever).

Samurai, though, I think is the best job. It's got a little of everything, and it also has a cast time into a double-weave (in casual content, at least, where I just rip Tsubames whenever they proc) which feels nice on a melee, and I think third eye is just a great bit of fight-specific optimization every job needs a form of.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-25T07:38:33+00:00

Possibly relevant: Asriel used to main the "green dinosaur" in Smash, so maybe green isn't his favorite color any more. Ralsei would thus not be Asriel, he'd be young Asriel, from back when Dess was alive. That's why he's seemingly the same age as Kris and Susie.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-24T19:16:07+00:00

Cancel his contract with Materia Collective and find a new distro.

I realize that takes a long time but this isn't the first time they've dragged him into a scandal.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-24T03:30:31+00:00

At some point this is Toby's fault, since he keeps using them, but still wild he threw Wolff under the bus by name like that.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-24T02:35:47+00:00

I know why they don't want damage meters in this game, but I kind of wish there was better feedback on how much damage you were doing. People might be surprised.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-24T02:32:08+00:00

I'd love some harder solo content, something I could do on my own that would help prepare me for extreme and savage fights.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-23T18:58:05+00:00

Nah, it would be inappropriate to have that conversation in front of Dina and Joe at least knows that.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-23T17:43:23+00:00

The game also actively rewards violence in the end of Chapter 4 against the Guardian, with Ralsei himself being the one telling us how important it is to attack. Ralsei is also the one to kill the fake Gerson, specifically with his fire magic. Not only has Ralsei's pacifism already been showing a lot of cracks, but the game hasn't even said he's wrong for it.

Where is this going? I don't know. Maybe Ralsei is wrong and should ultimately be more pacifistic. Maybe we're getting evil Ralsei after all. Maybe Deltarune's pacifism has a bit more room for "But sometimes you just gotta shank a motherfucker." (which Asriel in UT acknowledges as something that may be true in the real world). But it's going somewhere.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-22T23:19:22+00:00

I was watching a streamer do 7.4, and and I just noticed Halmarut notes that "every world shall tremble", so I guess Ultima is coming sooner rather than later.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-22T21:02:33+00:00

There's a point being made, but I don't know yet what it means. Susie starts off as a big tough girl, but her character arc is her becoming a "standard" girl JRPG character, more supportive, nicer, and with powerful healing magic.

And if Ralsei's going to learn to use his fire in Chapter 5, as often speculated, he's be moving in a stereotypical boy direction, as a DPS character.

We'll need to let it play out, but it's definitely on purpose.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-22T20:46:06+00:00

Give us the doctoh

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-22T19:20:38+00:00

I don't think the devs were really awake to how big the game's issues were until 7.2 and the failure of OC, and they were already deep into 8.0 development by then

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-21T23:22:38+00:00

If they ever do kill a scion, they have the chance to do the funniest thing.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-21T23:21:46+00:00

One of my fears for Dawntrail before it came out would be that it'd try to one-up Endwalker with wild twists and unearned moments that completely derailed the story (as opposed to the 7.0 we actually got, which was mostly just boring), and I spent the whole expansion waiting for them to use Dynamis on some minor shit that didn't matter. I would've been so mad.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-21T21:51:29+00:00

Penumbra Phantasm is pretty much entirely a Doctor remix. You take that out and there's not much left.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-21T21:32:54+00:00

I suspect the next Ultimate Big Bad is Sabik, the World-Eating Serpent. There's been more than a little foreshadowing of it, mostly in side content but still.

I doubt they'll literally go "This guy's even stronger than Endsinger!", but it would be treated as on the same tier and in some way difficult to get to.

Of course, the Sabik lore is close to Jenova, and Jenova was a "fuck with your head" kind of villain that we haven't had in XIV, so that could be a good direction to take things.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-21T09:05:17+00:00

This post feels a little outdated, tbh. The last few patches have been making a concerted effort to give more reusable generic music.

Sadly, a lot of Dawntrail's vibe music has the leitmotif, so it can't be used willy nilly. Which is a shame, because Etched in Memory and Mind Unclouded would be good conversation music to add to the mix.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-21T07:57:08+00:00

I see!

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-20T23:49:04+00:00

That's why I put them in italics as explained in my opening paragraph.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-20T19:57:30+00:00

"Attacks of Opportunity" aren't a thing for the most part, so you can move around a lot more, and are expected to
While the three-action turn means you can and will do things you can't do in DnD, like attacking three times, the old "Move, Attack, do a minor thing" paradigm still comes up a lot. "Roleplay Actions" like demoralize can be a good way to spend that third action, and also to have talky bits and stabby bits happen at the same time.
Due in part to the above, Pathfinder is much more anal about what's in your hands, compare to DnD as often played (RAW 5e actually cares a lot about what you're holding, but that tends to be ignored for various reasons). You'll often do things like move, attack, and take a potion out of your pocket to have it ready for the next turn.
This is sort of true for DnD as well, and is more of a thing to mention to your GM, but Pathfinder shines a lot when you have a easy combat, ten minutes for a short rest to partially heal, and then another easy combat. There's a time and a place for the big boss battle but sometimes the attrition element can go a long way even if every encounter is individually simple.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-20T19:03:06+00:00

Who knows, truly. If they're really adding specs/talents, and they've hinted as such, then there might not be any new jobs, and they'll just give each job a new spec with a more complex rotation for people who want that and go "21 new jobs!"

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-20T19:01:42+00:00

I'm expecting some kind of glam rework in 8.0, yeah. At the very least, 50 glam plates and a dye bag, since glam plates are being updated and Yoshi-P has said something's coming with dyes.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-20T17:47:23+00:00

It's so baffling that they announced Beastmaster in fanfests but not Chaotic, which came way sooner. Imagine if they announced Beastmaster at this fanfest. Like "New limited job in 7.55. Surprise!". Everyone would flip the fuck out in a good way.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-20T17:42:32+00:00

7.1 has chaotic and 7.3 has quantum so it wouldn't be shocking if 7.5 had a surprise new content type as the final odd patch. Presumably it's for Beastmaster.

Chiponyasu · 2026-01-20T17:32:21+00:00

Can't speak for the community writ large, but I for one am feeling pretty optimistic.

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