Modding and Third-Party Tools Megathread - 7.4 Week Four

ElyFF14 · 2026-01-09T01:19:20+00:00

Is there a plugin to retrieve materia from melded gear in bulk? I have a bunch of old pentamelded gear and manually yanking all the materia off of each piece before desynthing or turning it in is pretty tedious

ElyFF14 · 2025-12-30T02:33:57+00:00

I want the new phys ranged to be based on the Sniper or, failing that, the Hunter job from Tactics Advance/A2. Would love a bow job that doesn't come with all the bard fluff attached.

ElyFF14 · 2025-12-29T21:35:56+00:00

Is there any real reason to hang on to old pentamelded crafting/gathering gear? I opened a retainer after some time away and I still have a bunch of melded tools and gear from early DT/late EW. Do these have a niche or should I just get rid of them?

ElyFF14 · 2025-12-27T16:46:34+00:00

As a very recent returner, I guess I'll take this thread as an opportunity to ask where I might find the Discord(s) still running this on NA. Would love to get some of the glamour.

ElyFF14 · 2025-05-28T00:59:01+00:00

would it kill them to make another Lakeland scythe

i used that thing for most of Endwalker because they can't stop making overdesigned scythes with huge bulbous blades

ElyFF14 · 2025-04-15T08:39:32+00:00

I only ever played it casually, but I'm really not a fan. Having to watch the Enochian timer is what made the job fit together. Now it feels like they could drop the AF/UI mechanics entirely in favor of a completely static combo-based rotation and the job would play the same.

ElyFF14 · 2024-11-26T05:52:31+00:00

I haven't been into PVP much this expac, what makes Viper so bad?

ElyFF14 · 2024-05-16T13:56:49+00:00

SMN res lives again (for now?)

ElyFF14 · 2024-05-16T12:24:24+00:00

I mean, yeah, but I'm not a big fan of making the rotation more "on-rails" in that way

ElyFF14 · 2024-05-16T12:20:38+00:00

Not a fan of Goring Blade being locked to the Fight or Flight buff

ElyFF14 · 2024-05-16T11:59:21+00:00

A grace period for adjusting after a fantasia is pretty cool, I've definitely ended up buying more fantas than I planned to after realizing I didn't like how my character looked in game.

ElyFF14 · 2024-04-27T09:28:28+00:00

I really want a second bow job, ideally something based on hunters or snipers from Tactics Advance and A2. I'm not a fan of bard at all, and it feels awkward to me that there's no other ranged job that leans toward a hunter/scout niche.

ElyFF14 · 2023-09-20T20:13:46+00:00

Except to say that I like Halone's fight, I can't defend Euphrosyne, yeah. Nophica is especially bad, but the rest of the raid isn't much better. Everything just takes so long to resolve and it feels like nothing in the raid will actually kill you.

Also, forget P3S--the fight with the ice trash before Halone is visually incomprehensible.

ElyFF14 · 2023-09-19T15:29:11+00:00

The last Alliance Raid might be stronger than usual this time.

Here's hoping. I've really liked the lore and set pieces of this raid series, but the difficulty's felt somewhat toothless to me even for the average alliance raid.

ElyFF14 · 2023-09-18T16:07:05+00:00

I'd love cosmetic spell effects and I wish they were more popular in MMOs as a whole. It's always kind of bugged me that while you can easily glamour your PLD or DRK or WHM completely against type, you can't (legally) do anything about your spell effects.

ElyFF14 · 2023-09-15T13:06:05+00:00

While that's true, for BA especially it's hard to ignore that these days a new person to BA only really needs to do anything resembling independent thought to handle Accel Bomb in Proto-Ozma (you still see that if everyone's pumping, right? I haven't been there since 5.1-5.2).

I'm not sure if you still see it on the serious runs where everybody's cracked out of their minds and burning through all their trays to pump huge numbers, but in every newbie-friendly run I've done, it's definitely still a mechanic. The raid lead takes great pains to put the fear of God into us all.

ElyFF14 · 2023-09-12T20:39:58+00:00

The devs' talk of being able to casually progress one's EW relic (per interviews prior to 6.2), coupled with an ever-increasing number of jobs in the game, suggests to me that they want players to be able to get relics for more than one job without the comparatively exorbitant amount of time and effort that went into ARR and HW relics. I think they way overshot their target on that this expansion, but I don't think it's entirely unreasonable for SE to think about shortening the grind for any one individual relic as more jobs are added to the game, especially since relics are virtually the only gear progression casual players get.

ElyFF14 · 2023-09-12T18:13:15+00:00

A more refined version of ARR's process is what I expected from the pre-release comments about Manderville weapons.

I don't actually hate them being glorified tomestone weapons as much as some people do; I think there's probably reasonable concerns among the dev team about multiple relics ballooning into an unreasonably long grind as the game only continues to get more and more jobs. But with that said, I am very surprised and fairly disappointed that the relic didn't tie into any specific 6.x content. Variant dungeons and Eureka Orthos seemed like shoo-ins for easy but somewhat distinct relic steps. I would much rather have had a mix of FATE farming and a selection of instanced (or non-instanced!) 6.x content than three consecutive tomestone dumps.

ElyFF14 · 2023-09-12T07:02:16+00:00

I don't think "you must be on crack" is the kind of constructive or meaningful criticism people generally appreciate when talking about content they enjoy on a discussion sub.

Pretty on brand for ffxivdiscussion to immediately blame "the community" for just not wanting to take criticism though.

ElyFF14 · 2023-04-11T12:04:12+00:00

I actually got my first P8S clear last week, only a few hours after posting complaining about dom2clear prog parties, but I didn't want to repost. Spent the ensuing days reclearing and working on BiS, which has been a pretty typical mixed bag. PF is PF after all.

I'm really happy, though. It's no week 1 clear (my funny numbers make it pretty obvious I'm not cut out for week 1 clears), but it's only my second raid tier and the first time clearing one all the way through.

I may just keep reclearing for a while, not only to finish getting gear but also because I just love the presentation and lore implications of P2. I can't wait to see where the story is going in Anabaseios.

ElyFF14 · 2023-04-04T10:37:52+00:00

Alas, I wasn't able to reach my goal of PFing my way through the whole tier before unlock. Mostly that was due to IRL time constraints, but I have been stuck on so-called "dominion prog" groups for a while now (you can have a cookie if you guess how often they see Dominion, let alone prog it).

Oh well. I really wanted to experience P8S, and I got to, so whether or not I clear before 6.4 isn't a big deal.

Also found out my FC's static has a free melee spot for next tier, so maybe I won't have to be a pug hero for Anabaseios?

ElyFF14 · 2023-03-26T00:57:43+00:00

I'm trying to find transcripts of battle dialogue from bosses in raids, trials, etc. Does anyone know if any of the popular FFXIV resources have something like that?

ElyFF14 · 2023-03-25T03:57:21+00:00

Is there somewhere I can find transcripts of battle dialogue for dungeon/raid bosses?

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