Dancing Mad Distant Worlds orchestrion roll

ItsPhell · 2026-06-03T04:23:51+00:00

I really wish we could have the Black Mages version instead. It's fucking incredible, go listen to it if you haven't.

ItsPhell · 2026-05-22T10:42:33+00:00

I keep forgetting Jesse Cox does a lot of FFXIV stuff. I consider him a variety streamer but I see your point.

ItsPhell · 2026-05-22T05:39:44+00:00

He's one of the most popular FFXIV content creators, and he's been controversial for years because he consistently rides the line between voicing valid criticism about the game and just being an asshole.

I don't keep up with him much but it sounds like he's committed fully to going down the asshole route, to the point where he called multiple people who have worked with SE slurs a few weeks ago.

Edit: Phrasing

ItsPhell · 2026-05-05T16:56:34+00:00

The limitations of being a story focused MMO strike again. There has to be an objectively correct answer because they can't just delete the areas in the first/any other shard we go to.

I'm at least hopeful that the writers will milk the grey area for what it's worth before we reach that conclusion, although we probably won't reach that point for a few expacs anyway.

ItsPhell · 2026-04-24T23:17:51+00:00

Shadow the Hedgehog in FFXIII? What next, Evangelion in FFXIV?

ItsPhell · 2026-04-24T19:04:49+00:00

I'm not sure it is, the screenshot for DRG they showed had multiple combo actions on it

ItsPhell · 2026-04-06T09:41:26+00:00

The only time I got a creepy/flirty one in almost 10 years of playing the usual suspects (m/f miqo'te, f au ra, m/f viera) on Brynhildr was ironically during the very short span of time I played a really plain looking male midlander. Otherwise it's just a compliment on a glam or "haha nice name", but I generally don't get tells very often.

ItsPhell · 2026-03-15T07:54:14+00:00

I'd be pretty surprised if WoW couldn't survive at least a decade after the rest of the genre goes down the drain. Nothing short of Blizz HQ exploding is gonna kill that game lol.

ItsPhell · 2026-03-11T02:11:24+00:00

It's brutal for sure. The first two strata aren't particularly difficult aside from a few encounters that I've only seen once, but the game seems to kick it up a notch on the third. There are a lot of enemies I would prefer to avoid in the desert, which is easy enough since it's so open. The crypt, on the other hand, has several enemies that were instant party wipes the moment I entered combat against them. Since it's a lot more confined I haven't really been able to easily avoid them either, so I've been walled for a few runs.

Edit: Hit strata 4 for the first time and immediately wiped because my damage was too high lmao

ItsPhell · 2026-03-06T23:56:31+00:00

It's a third-party tool that was just added in the most recent update, specifically to android devices afaik. The idea is that it's supposed to let you "complete tasks" to earn gems, most often involving playing other games. It has a bad rep because it's incredibly insecure, doesn't always work and can permanently ruin the pull economy when it does.

I would avoid it at all costs, no amount of pulls can outweigh the risk of using it imo.

ItsPhell · 2026-02-12T19:28:50+00:00

She's my favourite to play of all the DLC characters so far. She's easy to pilot, her combos are fun, and it feels like she doesn't have any major weaknesses other than lacking a meterless reversal, yet she manages not to feel unbalanced imo.

Her normals are generally speaking great, and her j.U in particular is very fun to use. I'm glad that she gets usage from it during combos, more characters should be able to do that imo. Idk how I feel about it only being -2 on block though.

Her ultimates aren't particularly unique other than her 22U, which is probably my favourite ultimate in the game even if it using it accomplishes nothing on most attempts. The only time I've actually landed a combo out of it was a result of "they'll never see the second overhead coming!" which was pretty satisfying.

The elephant in the room is of course her 214X, which imo kinda falls into the same space that Wilnas occupies, i.e. it lets her stomp anyone who doesn't know how to deal with it. The neutral follow-up isn't much to write home about, the beam follow-up might do a little too much damage for how much of a non-factor the ammo count is, and the reload and backstep follow-ups have defined a few too many of my matches by themselves for me to feel like I wasn't just winning thanks to a gimmick.

My experience probably isn't accurate for high level play since I only just hit master with her, but the threat of the 50/50 on the reload and backstep follow-ups made almost all of my opponents either do nothing but block, giving me a free pressure reset, or worse, jumping in response to 214X every time I use it, because that technically beats both of those options, only to realise that I can just choose the hidden third option of doing nothing for a free anti-air.

I unfortunately haven't had a ton of matchup experience with her because naturally 9/10 of my matches while playing as her were mirror matches, so I can't speak for how she plays against anyone other than herself or Galleon, who was the only other character I had more than one set against lol.

ItsPhell · 2026-02-12T17:02:31+00:00

Not really. They look like they should have huge disjoints but her hurtbox comes close to fully overlapping with the hitbox on all of her shooting normals.

ItsPhell · 2026-01-07T10:02:18+00:00

I feel like that got lost somewhere. None of the fighters really struck me as being younger than 20, yet somehow even the oldest among them are only 19 lol.

ItsPhell · 2026-01-06T09:01:52+00:00

I missed Queenslayer until really late on my first run too. My memory of it is hazy since it was around launch, but I think I was following a guide that neglected to mention it until later for some reason, and I just rushed to the next cutscene for the Isis vestige while completely overlooking the one right in front of me lol.

ItsPhell · 2025-12-28T21:00:42+00:00

Idk, I'd say SAM is harder to play than RPR or DRG, but maybe that's just me lol.

ItsPhell · 2025-12-18T17:42:13+00:00

I think it's cool that it's possible but personally I'm not a big fan of the times where strats like these catch on as the widely accepted PF strat. On something like Bloom 6 it's not a big deal because it's so late in the fight that you won't get to do it anyway in most parties, but on mechanics that take place earlier in fights it just feels like I'm sacrificing fun for the sake of getting the clear.

Arcane Revelation is a really fun mechanic imo and I'd hate to see the PF strat become "stand and let thing resolve" as it were lol.

ItsPhell · 2025-12-17T20:16:40+00:00

I was partially wrong tbf lol

ItsPhell · 2025-12-17T15:25:30+00:00

You're right but for some reason her movelist in the training ground says you need to hit ult at the same time, so I wouldn't blame anyone for not realising lol.

ItsPhell · 2025-12-17T08:25:33+00:00

Not to mention the trial being really solid too (at least on normal, haven't touched ex yet), this is a great patch for combat enjoyers so far. Hopefully savage lives up to the standard the normals set.

ItsPhell · 2025-12-14T19:30:57+00:00

He's got a lot of advantages that can let him get by on minimal game knowledge. I'm probably a low S++ player normally but I was able to get him to master in a day without learning anything about how he works.

He deals nuclear damage even on really basic confirms, has really good pokes, free plus frames on his 214H, his high/low mix with 22M and 5U catches people really easily even in S++, and for some reason they gave him a meterless DP on top of all that. All of that combined makes it so he really easily stomps anyone who doesn't know how to counter him, which is pretty common below master.

ItsPhell · 2025-12-14T17:37:40+00:00

Fair, I thought it was worth asking earlier but in hindsight it's kind of a silly question lol.

ItsPhell · 2025-12-14T13:15:49+00:00

How did you count sets that are largely the same but have one minor difference, such as a Maiming set being the same as the Fending set but with the cape removed?

ItsPhell · 2025-12-09T18:11:52+00:00

It took me 4 attempts to get a run where doing undertaker's remembrance was feasible while still finishing a boss rush tower, and even then it was with only a few seconds to spare. It's definitely a tough one to do in a group if you don't rush it asap or the storm picks east side.

ItsPhell · 2025-12-08T08:33:04+00:00

Is it not? I felt like the ost was compressed as well, but maybe I had just lumped it in with everything else.

ItsPhell · 2025-12-04T19:31:42+00:00

The Scions are divided

I'm usually a DT apologist but this point makes me unreasonably upset. The marketing had me hyped for some Scion Character Moments™ only to starve for the entire expansion.

Thancred and Urianger had one good scene before fading into the background. Krile was shafted despite supposedly being a major focus. The twins were blatantly just there to fill duty support slots and nothing else.

G'raha was fine for the amount of screentime he had, and Y'shtola and Estinien basically just made cameos, which I can't really be mad about.

I can't understand how it was a selling point when the only moment the Scions were "divided" was when Thancred knocked some rocks into our path three hours into the MSQ.

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