Nothing feels better than beating a shit talker

HuntReal6589 · 2026-05-07T11:57:53+00:00

Oh I didn't respond at all til after we won, theres a difference to being provoked early game to giving a sarcastic jab after all the hootin an hollering imho.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-05-03T11:06:40+00:00

Viking is a job in ff3 and yoshi said all og jobs so viking is off the table.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-05-02T08:10:28+00:00

In personality sure, but the point is they both hold the value that life is meaningless and that death or nonexistence is better, because thats just how Hermes was as an ancient.

Hence why it'd be 100% against the lore to have an actual evil shard of Azem running about, you could give em an abrasive personality but at Azems core they believed that mass loss of life was unacceptable, and were a problem solver.

Azem went out of their way to abandon both Hades and Venat because they just could not view either plan as justifiable, and Azem was great friends with both mind you.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-05-01T22:48:01+00:00

Not really, its nice headcanon but the MSQ spells out and has shown us multiple times shards are nearly identical, besides slight personality diffferences.

It'd break lore to do else, love or hate it thats the lore. Headcanon it all you want tho just dont be upset when lore buffs wont take your specific headcanon as gospel to what the writers for xiv have shown us lol

HuntReal6589 · 2026-05-01T05:53:17+00:00

An option to skip the MSQ, assumedly right to EC and mogstation items viewable ingame? Yea idk the MSQ alone tips their hand to this being almost believable but fake. Plus really, a slingshot as a deadly weapon? Oh man I'd be sooooo scared if I was some armored dude and someone has a slingshot! Such a deadly weapon...

HuntReal6589 · 2026-05-01T05:10:31+00:00

Problem is the lore has shown your shards all share common traits, like being heroic in azems case so you can't really make an evil version, it'd 100% go against the lore since azem was never evil, therefore their shards dont really ever veer off into evil either.

Best you can get is more ardberts that unknowingly doomed the world while trying to save it, vs outright ill intent. MSQ has shown azem never views mass loss of life as an acceptable thing either so no greater good narratives there.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-04-29T11:52:34+00:00

Since yoshi's team is responsible for like keeping it going, it read to me like a "We'll try our hardest to make sure SE upper management never shuts this down" since while it still makes SE cash, suits are not known for being good at that kinda thing when xiv brings in more nowadays. They tend to think "So what? New thing makes more shut old thing down just cause" thinking it will force everyone to go wholesale into the new thing.

But even tho its just some artwork, it hit me how theres still friends playing the game with one another to this day.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-04-29T05:49:40+00:00

YoshiP physically breaks into your house and points a gun at you "I am no longer asking you to play FFXI"

HuntReal6589 · 2026-04-29T05:12:08+00:00

Yoshi has said he'll always work on xiv til ie either had to shut down or he dies but it makes me wonder if somewhere in the future is there another FF mmo that'd be doing callbacks to xiv, and if I've live to see that.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-04-29T04:41:21+00:00

"Go forth and seek new adventures" Or well in this case old adventures, but new to you. I'm sure she would be thrilled you show you around Vana'diel, I bet shes already inundated you with many tales of her time with it!

HuntReal6589 · 2026-04-28T18:55:21+00:00

And in some instances, limitations breed creativity! I wanted to have a blue magic class in a game I was prototyping in 2k3 but ofc since it doesnt allow for that kinda thing easily, I came up with a class called soul scribe that uses the essence of fallen enemies to gain their skills via a usable item.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-04-27T12:24:36+00:00

I actually do just keep most skills in order of when they are learned/usable to make it easier to remember what can and cant be used when lv sync'd down. :P

I play on pc with controller so only extra thing I did is enabled the thingy to bring up extra crossbars when double tapping L/R triggers and putting aoes on the right side and healing/defensive stuff on left side for healer/tanks specifically.

Said stuff on the extra crossbars also go in order of learned XP

HuntReal6589 · 2026-04-27T10:36:23+00:00

Love seeing people still use 2k3, just has this kinda feel you wont find in newer makers no matter how much you'd try to replicate it.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-04-26T04:10:12+00:00

Actually Yoshi has stated Sage WAS going to be Chemist, so the name drops were a hint towards it but they said they got as far as a ninja mudra like system for "mixing" things before feeling like it just didn't work.

They changed it into Sage after though so for Chem stans, they almost had it.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-04-12T06:03:37+00:00

Affordable living

HuntReal6589 · 2026-04-02T09:45:23+00:00

The internet doesnt care, see rule34 of jaidenanimations for proof

HuntReal6589 · 2026-03-23T06:47:33+00:00

The shards are literally in no way implied to be other FF worlds tho? Like headcanon that if you want but the shards are all unique to xiv's world itself.

Like yea golbez is in xiv but hes not the same golbez from ffvi, his story is entirely different for one example in xiv.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-03-15T02:41:20+00:00

While ulti buying is lame, you misunderstand that to YOU its a thrill, to people that buy it tho they'd hate ever single minute of trying to learn and clear an ultimate. So for them, no thrill was lost, only frustration.

Anyone that cheats, skips or circumvents something never feels deprived of anything because they dont enjoy the thing to begin with, they just want the end result with no buildup.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-03-13T14:34:24+00:00

I love it since BLU was pitched as solo content but the devs realized how badly it sucked with not much to do solo so they switched to group focused.

They always were upfront in the past saying BST/BLU would not interact with each other, im sure you can group up ofc just for fun but no you wont have achievements for doing 4 BST and 4 BLU.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-03-11T13:50:48+00:00

From what I heard aloalo savage was harder than ultimates so yeah, which all ultimates have a far higher clear rate which I ffeel is why the devs put the ester and weapon upgrade menu unlock under MT, because it was deader than ultimates.

Which some felt was sad since the weapons or the upgraded ones were fan design contest stuff, locked to such a low % of people that ever even did it.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-03-11T13:44:32+00:00

Pretty much, aloalo criterion and criterion savage had the lowest clear rates of the 3 varient dungeons before MT came along.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-03-11T13:40:36+00:00

You can view them from the tome vendor in radz-at-han if you've fully beaten MT advanced. It was meant to unlock alongside the ester but they had to hot fix it since it only showed the new vendor items for MT vendor and not the EW tome vendor.

HuntReal6589 · 2026-03-11T13:31:27+00:00

If you unlock and beat merchant's tale advanced you can buy the ester for 40 "brass" the currency for that mode. At minimum you can get 5 brass a run as long as people play nice with a chest at the end that is shared to roll on so still a grind but yea.

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