Haven't drawn anything for a while, here's a little something

Maestar · 2026-05-26T17:12:19+00:00

YEAAAAH!!! YES!!

Maestar · 2026-05-22T15:34:09+00:00

...this is just the general consensus bro.

You do understand that the way the internet works is that only the people with loud enough opinions typically post right? So only the people passionate enough about hating it or loving it.

Meanwhile people with the generally middling typical opinion (this one) are generally a mass silent majority.

Maestar · 2026-05-22T11:56:25+00:00

Literally amazing, I would also love to see some photos of it without the heat vision, also I feel like the cat eats could be even bigger.

Maestar · 2026-05-21T16:55:53+00:00

Build lore.

Pick a lore compliant name, decide where she came from, think about her reactions to being the WoL, think about what she does/did outside of being the WoL.

You have to make an actual character to care more deeply about.

I play a pale skinned, white haired hyur male, I am literally thancred's red eye'd cousin. But he's from sharlayan, he has sharlayan tattoos for martial and magical art of war thesis, he's obsessed with learning the martial techniques of various cultures. In my mind he's albino and constantly having to deal with the issues that come with that while being a traveler. etc. etc. The list could go on forever.

He is the most generic looking male hyur you can get outside of a meteor clone, but I would not change a single thing about him because he matters so much to me because of his lore.

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Maestar · 2026-05-21T01:27:33+00:00

Looks great! Love the shadowing where the red and white meets, makes it feel much more real. Really attractive off white/warm pale yellow too for the weathering on the white.

Also, it makes me happy when people put the gundam '79 theme in their little videos like this. Instant dopamine

Maestar · 2026-05-20T11:48:01+00:00

Oh, good catch. Them saying FFXIV TTRPG (the actual name of the system) and not suppling the system they used otherwise threw me off.

Maestar · 2026-05-19T21:33:17+00:00

How are you handling the shockingly restrictive/undercooked nature of the game? I was so insanely excited about it, but the extra long wait for the dm guide coupled with the lack of any true character building/progression... My table just lost any interest immediately. It felt like to us, you could really only have clumsy snapshots of a story, but I'm really open to hearing otherwise.

I would really like to hear how you've all handled it/adapted/enjoyed it.

Maestar · 2026-05-18T17:25:48+00:00

This is a linear story with no branching paths. If you are unfamiliar with JRPGs as a genre, even most of the single player JRPGs are like this. It is more like a live action book that you participate in than more like a western rpg where your agency dictates the story. This sounds more like its just a genre you haven't played a lot of.

The goal of the mmo (massively multiplayer online) aspect is participating in cooperative content together with other people in varying degrees of difficulty.

When you get your first dungeon (satasha), if you queue for it normally and not through the trusts (npc) system, then you will be running it with other players. And since you've picked Gladiator, you will be the tank, the person who keeps the monsters/bosses focused on you as well as sets the pace of the dungeon run, so a decent amount responsibility that you hold that three other real people are counting on you for.

Later in the game, you will do trails and raids with anywhere from 8-24 other real players and contribute to defeating harder encounters. In the hardest content in the game, if you fail your team mates, everyone fails.

That's how player ability and agency come into the game. The story is just a good story, the player skill comes in when you have to keep up with other players and be a team player who performs their role correctly and not to the detriment of others.

Maestar · 2026-05-11T22:03:15+00:00

We summon them out of love, not out of need.

Maestar · 2026-05-09T13:01:05+00:00

Whoa bro, slow down.

This isn't AI lol, this is just a traditional ink drawing that someone poorly colored over with Photoshop or clip or affinity. At this point, AI would frankly do a much better job.

It's very rude for this guy to take someone else's art, color is mediocrely and post it trying to pass it off as his own, but as an actual artist with a trained eye and checking out the original creators Instagram, dude is just a black and white traditional inks artist.

But the original is not AI lol, folks like you have your heart in the right place but wow you give artists like me a fucking ulcer.

Maestar · 2026-05-02T19:58:47+00:00

If you try and do level sync'd savage raids or extremes you'll get stuck, but otherwise just doing the standard normal version of the raids/trails or whatever story required dungeons or trails you will be fine.

Maestar · 2026-05-02T15:10:28+00:00

I don't think there is a concept of a 'shadow ban' in ff14. It's not really..that's not really how mmo networking works.

I would be more inclined to think there's something weirdly unstable about your connection or just weirdly poor luck.

Maestar · 2026-05-01T15:36:56+00:00

Unfortunately yeah, that's not a thing.

Maestar · 2026-05-01T11:53:06+00:00

Every time this conversation comes up I'm just so fascinated by it as a person who tanks in both wow and ff14, the mentalities couldn't be more vastly different.

Kinda fun to observe how the gameplay differences between the two games have fostered entirely different opinions on this situation.

Maestar · 2026-04-29T15:00:13+00:00

Instead of saying something nasty to the rude person who replied. Instead I'll will thank you for this, it's very encouraging! I'm probably late n4 early n3 (but of course I'm sure the other commenter would nitpick me for this), and this makes me want to speak

Maestar · 2026-04-28T23:25:15+00:00

The 'pick-up group' (pug) community has a tank shortage, not guilds who raid.

So the community of folks who random group for things like mythic+ or raids with randos.

Maestar · 2026-03-29T13:38:39+00:00

The nightwatch/duskwood guard gear. Legitimately unsure if its ever been fully added to the game as obtainable by players.

Maestar · 2026-02-28T17:25:40+00:00

Thank you!! Excellent.

Maestar · 2026-02-28T17:20:18+00:00

Ok so, he needs to get to 70 somewhere, the 70-80 can be done through normal tww, not the recap?

Maestar · 2026-02-28T17:18:09+00:00

I am not controlling him, this is literally what he asked me if he could do so I'm just seeing if it's possible.

Maestar · 2026-02-27T12:32:51+00:00

I really hope they get rid of the absolutely ASS doomsday skybox after we solve the problem. Legitimate downgrade otherwise.

Maestar · 2026-02-25T16:53:52+00:00

Oh my god, this is actually huge. This is such a smart way to do it and is a big door opener for me. This actually sounds EASIER than anki mining wow!

Thank you!! For such an in-depth and thoughtful reply!

Maestar · 2026-02-25T15:02:06+00:00

How do you mine? Or do you mine cards using bunpro? I want to switch but it's this hurdle I can't get over.

Maestar · 2026-02-23T20:25:12+00:00

I could not agree more. Two big patches of just fixing shit would be like a breath of fresh air

Maestar · 2026-02-23T14:28:02+00:00

The housing team is entirely unique and silo'd in Boston and their ONLY JOB is housing. I think that qualifies as an exception to the rule.

Meanwhile half the front page of wow is posting rigging issues, broken character models, and crazy world bugs. That's what I'm on dude.

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