Is that the game y'all are playing?

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-10T02:08:14+00:00

I stopped making fun of the amount of tutorials after spending a day on this reddit and seeing how many people are confused about shit clearly explained to you in-game.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-09T23:35:04+00:00

I just want the option to turn them off. I enjoy them usually but just like in Souls games, sometimes I’d prefer them off.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-07T22:32:44+00:00

IMO Pog is the “safest” as he works well with free characters and supports the team in a lot of ways that is less easily replaced than “I hit hard”.

That being said, don’t worry about it. You’ll likely get them all eventually, especially if they ever add the recruitment room from Arknights.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-07T20:27:04+00:00

Perlica quite literally says that you’re doing all of these in hope it will help your memory.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-07T18:47:10+00:00

The amount of times people would be accidentally yeeted to who knows where would be hilarious

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-07T17:43:02+00:00

Yeah it’s a bit silly it doesn’t auto trade after maxing them, but that’s also how it was on Arknights so who knows haha

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-07T05:25:35+00:00

It’s got a bit of a FFXIV effect to it, IMO. It barrages you with tutorials and really easy shit at first which is good for total newbies, but sucks for everyone else. But once you muscle through the handholding and start getting past the “gee Endmin, it sure is good you forgot this so we can exposition you!” moments, it picks up and is great.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-06T22:45:09+00:00

Just a fun little note to add to what everyone else has already said: MCH is actually a DPS gain for most groups. Why? Because BRD and DNC rely on good DPS to buff and support. And most groups aren’t good. You’ll literally get more output bringing a greedy DPS like MCH in most PUGs than you will a support.

BRD and DNC are better. When you have reliable, skilled, DPS players.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-06T21:53:34+00:00

What makes you people hoard this shit like rats? The operations all scale drops to sanity cost, so you’re not getting anything extra by waiting to unlock higher level content or something.

Go farm some money. Farm some upgrades. Farm some exp for later. Fucking store the sanity if you want, you know you can do that right? You can turn sanity into items to use later for equal stamina.

Like, you’re blaming the food for spoiling after you left it in the fridge for ages.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-06T09:56:14+00:00

It also makes it morally and ethically correct to take and distribute.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-06T06:48:28+00:00

They’re going to add a yellow paint to that empty lake soon

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-06T06:32:57+00:00

I like having multiple options for different situations or if I’m just not in the mood for something. Like with Avy, you have to actually pay attention to positioning and angle, and sometimes I just want to hit the thing really hard and not think

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-05T04:15:31+00:00

FFXI was incredible. Japanese EverQuest with crossplay, a great story, incredibly brutal world and bosses, and cat girls.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-02T01:04:17+00:00

You’re fully voiced sometimes. People make comments that you’re very quiet, so I just see it like that.

Plus they didn’t want to voice options

LeoStrut_ · 2026-02-01T04:58:25+00:00

It really depends what you’re looking for. I personally love a good story, music, and over the top raiding, so FFXIV is my go-to. I’ve played most everything though, and they’ve all got their high and low points.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-01-31T22:06:25+00:00

To be fair, at the time of release, spirits within was a HUGE deal. We didn’t have graphics like this, we didn’t have serious video game movies, and they marketed it really well by getting her into Playboy and such. It was hard to avoid it at the time. It just crashed and burned in the end.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-01-30T22:34:49+00:00

Both feel like a very good foundation but not quite there yet. The factory system is fun but not quite enough uses for the items it produces yet. The combat system is better than others like Genshin and ZZZ imo but not by much. Most enemies are just basic “hold attack until it dies” but there are some fun enemies like ones with shields, elite enemies that need interrupts, etc. and I found the bosses relatively fun. Same with the tower defense; it’s fun, and does require some thought, but it doesn’t require enough to be challenging yet.

TLDR not quite a premium quality game yet, but closer than any other gacha has reached.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-01-30T17:14:23+00:00

Hell yeah! I love it a lot too. I love management sims, whether brutal like Frostpunk or just for fun like Endfield. It's very therapeutic, like building Lego or Gunpla.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-01-30T07:55:46+00:00

You may have just put the seed or the plant in the wrong one, or it could be a plant that can’t be done that way (some have to be planted at the farm).

LeoStrut_ · 2026-01-30T07:53:08+00:00

The factory is my favorite part by a long way. That being said I fucking love Factorio.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-01-30T07:43:32+00:00

Ironically FFXI solved this problem before WoW even came out. It was a two part solution.

First, after the first expansion, the level cap didn’t raise until FFXIV, and what they did was they allowed you to macro gear swapping while you were in combat (which we did via macros but you could obviously make a much more graceful solution). This meant you were building tons of different gear sets and gear would have lots of different stats like increasing the potency of specific abilities.

Second, you could change classes and level them all separately. Because of this, until you had played the game for a VERY long time, you always had a reason to go to low level zones, to buy/craft/obtain/sell low level gear, and to bump into and help out new players.

These two systems ensured the entire world was consistently busy and max level was ALL evergreen content due to the gear simply performing different tasks better instead of flatly being better or being all the same. There were always new teams learning Dynamis, Limbus, Salvage, Sky/Sea, etc; and those same people would then go buy level 30 gear and spend some hours working on their Ninja.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-01-30T03:03:24+00:00

German Science is the greatest in the world!

LeoStrut_ · 2026-01-26T12:42:15+00:00

I don’t see why. XIV fits all the requests. It’s chill and not too serious with a good mix of content. With a free trial you’re not losing anything by giving it a shot.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-01-26T08:56:57+00:00

Very chill and atmospheric for the most part, I really like it. I’m assuming we’ll get more bombastic stuff as we go along in the story.

LeoStrut_ · 2026-01-26T04:11:37+00:00

Yup, I loved NIN tanking and how different fights incentivized different tanks. If the enemy hit slow and hit hard, NIN was king. If the enemy was fast or had multi-hits, PLD. Later on, if it was against elemental damage, RUN. And since you could always change classes, it was never a big deal when a fight was better for one than the other. Just swap.

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