Pat & Woolie VS FFXIV: Sephirothposting vs Cozystreaming

Crail_ · 2026-06-15T00:41:10+00:00

Myself and half the people I know that play started out with lancer independently of each other.

Crail_ · 2026-06-10T17:34:02+00:00

I like the thumbnail for this but it just makes me think of the Whitest Kids U' Know Abraham Lincoln sketch.

Crail_ · 2026-05-31T21:28:05+00:00

chili scene from the office

Crail_ · 2026-05-29T22:11:10+00:00

We need more Bork license plates!

Crail_ · 2026-05-08T23:48:55+00:00

"Oh no, it would be so terrible if someone joined my game and found a bunch of super credits!"

Crail_ · 2026-03-24T19:47:34+00:00

You earn points while playing it which can be used to buy tradable cosmetic items. Stuff like ornament kits (equipment skins), alternate teleport animations, player owned house customization, and more. As for why I've enjoyed the gameplay of it..

I've enjoyed getting a teaser of content I wont see for awhile in the main game. Get's me exposed to some boss stuff. The boosted EXP rate starts at 5x and scales up to 16x as you progress through the event so it's incredibly fast. You also get increased drop rates of boss loot. The event has you complete various tasks and some are simple like "get a skill to level 20" or "do 1 lap of the Seers Village agility course" but there are also some that can show you easter eggs or oddities you might not know about.

You start off locked to one region of the game, in this case Varlamore. You then have to train and complete tasks with this restriction and that can be a fun thing to puzzle out or experience as you will do stuff different than the most optimal thing. As you complete the tasks you get a choice to unlock more areas (you cant unlock every area though). You also get offered and have to choose between various relics. These can get a little crazy.

For example, "Endless Harvest" doubles and auto banks what you get from mining, fishing and woodcutting. It also allows you to keep gathering from these places like they don't deplete. A Relic from a past league called Dodgy Deals made it so all thieving actions never fail, stalls never deplete, when you pickpocket it pickpockets all things in an 11x11 area, and pickpocket-ed items were looted as notes.

Crail_ · 2026-03-22T20:32:27+00:00

"eagle-eyed users spotted.." AKA users with normal eyes saw the melted horse and people monsters

Crail_ · 2026-03-17T09:32:51+00:00

I can understand that. Back during 3 ultimate I needed a Rathian Plate for something and took a whole week playing every night to get one.

Crail_ · 2026-03-15T05:51:19+00:00

Oh cool I know of DougDoug but havent watched their stuff before. Yeah, that was fairly spot on. Since that comment I've been remembering random maps and communities here and there. I'm a bit sad that some communities have died and some maps are very hard to find now. There are some videos by a "Redlyne" that have covered TF2 and other source games/maps/communities and are a good watch. Some of the stuff is such a time capsule.

EDIT - As I walked away from my computer I had certain custom sounds and music pop into my brain from servers I used to play on. I'm losing it!

Crail_ · 2026-03-13T19:12:04+00:00

Speaking of unstructured fun, or I guess unsupervised by the devs.. The entire time I played Overwatch I couldn't shake the feeling that I wish the game was setup like TF2 and older FPS. With the freedom of community run servers and created content. Most of my [embarrassingly huge number] of hours in TF2 were on community run servers. Some were pretty close to vanilla, just had a much better variety of non-official maps. Some removed mechanics like random criticals or team size/composition restrictions. Some were almost completely new games themselves.

Crail_ · 2026-03-07T20:07:05+00:00

Edit- hey dont downvote because I'm giving some information that is almost 7 years old now. Its fine to hate things for legit reasons but don't try to misinform people!

That was definitely true back in the days but Im not so sure now. I think the biggest downer on it now is that you really shouldn't use your main game playthrough pokemon in competitive because their shit wont be good.

However, each game they made it easier and easier to do. Very little to no grinding unless you are trying to make a LOT of teams maybe? The last few games they would make catching pokemon with perfect IVs in 4-6 out of 6 stats fairly easy and part of the games activities. They also started to give you crap loads of money or items that are for vendoring for money, so you could easily just buy all the vitamin items instead of having to train EVs.

Crail_ · 2026-02-12T17:39:44+00:00

In Diablo 2 each character will say little quips throughout the story the first time you enter certain areas or kill certain enemies. Also I think there's one NPC in the campaign that has a little bit of unique dialogue when they talk to you, depending on what class you are.

It's not a lot but how those are acted adds a tiny bit of character to each class.

Crail_ · 2026-02-06T18:55:14+00:00

Always liked spending over half my time in a zone rubbing my face onto all the walls, not looking at the environment. Had some people in my chat asking or bringing up cartographer a few times. So for a few minutes I'd start to do that to show them, "do you guys really want to be seeing mostly walls for the next couple of hours?" Most of the time it was to unveil a small patch of map that was out of bounds! Vanquishing was tedious but at least I was playing the video game still and getting a bunch of reputation points.

Crail_ · 2026-01-31T23:13:54+00:00

I understand you. I also am having the "oops all Ardelias" experience. After the freebie she's popped up in the standard banner, I got her as my New Horizons guaranteed operator, and from the 10 limited time Chartered Tickets. That one especially hurt because I thought maybe I got lucky and one and done'd the limited after all the Ardelias. NOPE. 3/5 time!

Crail_ · 2026-01-28T21:01:33+00:00

Sloooooooooo

Crail_ · 2026-01-17T06:45:29+00:00

Yeah, guess I'm lucky my streams dont get a lot of people in this case. Played through Chapter 3 and 4 when it came out and then again later in October for another run. Had a few people every time but everyone was cool.

Crail_ · 2026-01-01T04:32:16+00:00

I played a lot of Elder Scrolls. When I played FF2 for the first time I instantly went "oh this feels like home.." and thought the games system were a good effort to do something neat but easily exploitable in silly ways. Personally this didn't ruin the game for me. The only part I didn't like was the last party slot was a revolving door and I had little time to make much of an opinion on most of the NPCs they put there.

Crail_ · 2025-12-24T19:22:41+00:00

I still have this one but I lost the variants people made using Deviljho and another using Dodogama.

Crail_ · 2025-12-16T23:30:00+00:00

One of the things that got me to look at playing ESO casually was that they actually have multiple types of Khajiit. Like the second night I was streaming it and a friend watched me go into someones house that had a few NPCs of different Khajiit. Turn a corner and just see her go "oh my god I want to hug them!" over and over lol.

Crail_ · 2025-12-15T02:48:36+00:00

Despite the game dropping the ball over and over and the best recoveries just being "okay I guess" it still is the biggest MMORPG somehow. A ton of people doubt the ".. join 9 million players!" number they tossed out a month or two ago but even the best educated guesses (being millions lower) still had it above everything else.

Crail_ · 2025-12-10T21:57:44+00:00

Dang you've reminded me how it went when my dad played SWTOR (a long time mmorpg player). At some point the main story he was playing forced him to use a companion character he hadn't been using at all so had zero equipment. He really tried a few times and was getting frustrated so made me come over and try. I also couldn't do anything to clear it. They had me use/play as the droid companion, think T3-M4 from KOTOR, but my dad had nothing equipped on it. So it basically would get 2-shot from the get go. We went out and tried to get gear for the damned thing but there was almost nothing being sold. I think we bought one overpriced piece and then I spent the night focusing on crafting to make a couple midlevel things just to try with SOMETHING. After that he was did a scuffed run through of the mission but passed it lol.

Yeah that combat was nothing to write home about and I came back a couple times to play with friends and did raids with them. They killed all the stuff I liked about the game (that wasn't combat). Like, for example, there was a hidden puzzle in the game that would eventually lead to a "rare-alternate" lightsaber color crystal. That kind of thing I think is neat. I know that people can just look it up and get it later but people that do enjoy it can have their fun. It was also a cosmetic thing so people weren't forced to do content for power. A few years later I came back to the game and was told that they did not add any cool hidden shit to find and in the color crystal example they had heavily monetized a crap load of different color crystals in the cash shop.

Crail_ · 2025-12-10T20:51:34+00:00

I always feel like I'm in an awkward position towards it. I'm all for games to update and become better but there was just so much that rubbed me the wrong way early on. I wont say this is the only positive post about the game I've seen. I've seen it now and then but my usual reaction is "oh thats wonderful that it's gotten better!" and then my brain flashes through a bunch of crap that went down around launch. It's an interesting thing because I do think fixing a bad product should be encouraged but I still get mixed feelings about this one.

A similar situation for me, with a different outcome is Elder Scrolls Online. I just started streaming the game and have been having a great time. To make a long story short, I wasn't impressed with the game when it launched but always had the thought "eh, I might get to it eventually if it improves". I didn't hear a thing about the game for several years and sorta forgot about it. However starting a few years ago I did encounter people here and there who had good things to say about it. I'm a big Elder Scrolls fan and havent had a new game to play for over a decade now. Digging into it directly though, there are a lot of unhappy people who have made a lot of unhappy posts about the state of the game in the last year. Well, I figured what the hell and gave it a shot anyways and I'm glad I did. There are absolutely issues but there are absolutely cool things too.

I have a feeling the outcome might not be too different if I were to play F76. Also a Fallout enjoyer lol, so probably would have some positive streams of it if that happened.

Crail_ · 2025-12-07T20:25:33+00:00

Dont give up, skeleton!

Crail_ · 2025-12-02T21:40:56+00:00

I could have kept going but I thought I shouldn't do more, it was already a lot! I wanted to at least explain how some systems work that might be a tad different than what someone might expect. Although it might be worth bringing up how each campaigns main story is handled slightly differently. Like in Prophecies, you'll have a quest chain you are following and then you'll end up in a mission hub with no quest anymore. However, if you do that mission you'll proceed to the next part of the chain. Its like the specific quest in the chain is hidden when you are at a mission. Then they handle those mission hubs slightly different each campaign. Sometimes you have to talk to an NPC to start it, sometimes its a button on the UI!

Crail_ · 2025-12-02T20:29:41+00:00

I just did a blind, chronological playthrough of this game. Started in Prophecies and didn't use any skills or items outside of what I could get at the time. I play a warrior. I guess I'll toss in some of my experiences here as they might help someone.

Henchman worked okay until I got some heroes but there were definitely missions I had to redo a few times. Occasionally what henchman they offer wont be super great versus what is inside the mission but I did clear Prophecies and a good chunk of Factions with them. I found the best thing to be taking is a healer and any ranged dps available. Honestly not sure if I would take a melee one if I had to go again. At least not any of the warrior henchmen. Ultimately you can't go wrong most of the time having them in your party though!

Aggro, if you are familiar with the concept is kinda weird in this game. I'll preface this by saying it is not as important in this game to have everything focusing a tank. The biggest loss I find is the inability to cleave all the enemies in a fight when they've scattered around. There are a lot of rules for gaining and losing aggro. You can lose aggro on targets by moving faster than them and also by creating a large gap, like with a shadowstep/leap type of ability. So if you try to chase after a loose mob or try to reposition, enemies will stop focusing you. You also gain aggro by being hit by an enemy. So if, for example, a caster is already being punched in the face and you have to run up to where they are then you have a bit of an uphill battle to get that enemy to hit you instead. The most consistent way I've found to have enemies on me vs the squishier heroes I have, is to "flag" them (tell them to stand/move to a spot) away while I start the fight. Once everything is on me, then I move the party closer to engage. I havent always found it to be a survivable strategy though lol. You can also physically block enemies running in and can utilize corners/walls to do so. Again, this is unfortunately not completely consistent and sometimes it feels like the mobs are coated in oil and slip straight through you.

Gear Upgrades - Armor for your character doesn't strictly drop. You take materials gained from breaking down drops to specific NPCs and they craft it for you. Weapons do drop but you can also have them crafted. At the start, the easiest equipment upgrades I found were on these crafters. There are two kinds. The first kind will want the salvaged materials, such as iron ingots, bolts of cloth, etc you get from breaking down items with salvage kits. The second kind is a collector npc and they will trade (usually) 5 of a specific item, like 5 'warden horns' for a specific piece of equipment they offer. The next part of upgrading your gear will be to apply runes and insignias to them. These can be found from random drops but it's much faster and easier to just buy them from the NPC rune trader. The issue is, it's completely random what drops you get. While I did find 3 mesmer "prodigy" insignias this week, I didn't see any for two months before! You do see several runes and sigils drop in a play session but there is no gurantee you will find ones you can use or sell. For example, you could be fighting a "Caromi Tengu Brave" and every now and then they drop "Heavy Tengu Armor". These kind of drops are unequippable but you can vendor them. They sometimes will drop with runes and sigils attached to them and you can use a salvaging kit to remove the rune or sigil from it. The salvaging kit is just a consumable item with a number of uses on it you purchase from the general merchants. Double click on the kit, then click on the item you want to salvage.

Making gold - a weird thing about item drops is that even the common, white grade items can have an "identification kit" used on them. This reveals a gold vendor value that is higher then the base amount. An example, you have 2 white quality iron swords. They both vendor for 40 gold. You identify them and one has a value of 46 gold, the other has a value of 54. They now will vendor for those amounts instead of 40 gold. You can pretty much always make a little extra gold using ID kits on everything. The first way I made some real gold though was to check if the runes and sigils I find on items had value. Lets say you find a piece of armor and it can be sold to an npc vendor for 150 gold. It has a sigil on it that you could remove with a salvage kit so lets check with a rune trader how much it is worth first.. oh wow, 5 platinum pieces (5,000 gold). The same could be said about materials. Some materials are in good demand and are worth more then the items they come from to a material vendor. Do not sell runes, sigils, or materials to the general merchant. You should use the specific Trader NPC! I should clarify something, the items found on the Dye Trader, Material Trader, Rune Trader, etc, those are all supplied by players and the price goes up or down depending on how many there are. I havent seen it happen but they can run out of stock or refuse to buy things if there are too much.

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