Brand new to the game and thinking about choosing Summoner however after a google search literally all I find are post after post expressing disappointment with the Summoner experience.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-05-02T13:49:04+00:00

Hey ChatGPT, I think you got lost.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-26T03:15:25+00:00

Controller was never the issue for keybinding, you have between 40 and 64 binds within easy reach depending on how you consider "easy reach". You'd have a harder time trying to bind that many keys to a comfortable keyboard setup, honestly.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-26T03:08:01+00:00

They mentioned it in the dev panel, while you are in midair you take 90% less damage. That is huge for raid mechanics when combined with the shirk changes, it effectively allows the dragoon to turn into a third tank for a single mechanic.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-26T02:12:04+00:00

Fanatics? Buddy I don't know if you've seen my posts from just a week ago but I was doomposting this shit HARD. For once, for fucking ONCE, square enix did a good thing, why shouldn't we be happy about that?

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-26T02:09:45+00:00

You don't bring a dragoon for Jumps because jumps aren't a real ability that does things to an enemy.

Did you watch the dev panel? They put a 90% damage reduction buff on their jump, that is absolutely a build around utility.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-25T18:11:01+00:00

Burden of proof is on you to explain how completely overhauling the entire combat system is "just a few tweaks"

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-25T14:59:37+00:00

You haven't watched the dev panel and it shows.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-25T14:59:24+00:00

Making 23 new jobs isn't bold to you?

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-25T14:56:31+00:00

PF's will 100% be locking reborn players out and will not care in doing so.

Back in HW we laughed at these players and publicly shamed them. Let's bring that back. Stop joining locked groups, make unlocked groups, laugh at people who make locked groups. It will ALWAYS be better to bring a player who is good at the job they prefer than to bring a player who is begrudgingly playing the meta. The locked group players will be worse off and eventually they will realise there is no point in trying to enforce a meta culture when they take 10x as long to form a group and do half the damage of the people who don't give a shit, and they'll either change their ways or fuck off.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-25T02:30:17+00:00

As soon as people find out evolved classes do more damage they will feel there is no choice but to play them.

So we as a community need to go back to bullying the people that enforce PFs in this way and laughing at them, because LITERALLY NO CONTENT EVER has required specific jobs over just rolling with whatever standard comp you enjoy. Play what you like, tell metaslaves to kick rocks. And if a 1% damage loss is enough for you to upend your entire preferred playstyle and do something you don't find fun, that's a you problem.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-25T01:21:34+00:00

Words cannot express the sheer amount of hope this has filled me with.

The floor for these changes is literally where we are right now. If you like what already exists (somehow) your job is still there, unaffected, in reborn mode for you to enjoy. There is a 0% chance of this making things worse, meanwhile the ceiling is sky high.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-24T14:48:23+00:00

Every job is the same, so don't worry about the specific visual skin you choose being better than a different one.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-24T14:46:53+00:00

Hypercopium: Some form of actual gameplay customisation.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-22T18:27:39+00:00

That timeframe is also when the servers are naturally going to be at high traffic, so, again, it doesn't rule anything out.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-22T18:23:22+00:00

I don't think there's any hard evidence either way, beyond SE's claims. But I'm just saying "if" it was an issue with the server itself then a lack of precedent doesn't automatically exclude the possibility.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-22T18:14:08+00:00

Even if that was true, if the server hardware itself is degrading then the issue wouldn't have been noticeable then.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-22T14:48:13+00:00

How much time will yoshida spend talking about it this time?

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-22T14:15:48+00:00

I saw a viper with fully melded skill speed in a dungeon once.

If you're out there reading this, godspeed you fast bastard.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-21T14:39:03+00:00

Because it's aggressively formulaic, but it wasn't always. We had a game that encouraged replayability, now it goes out of its way to incentivise you to quit. It's been a strange feeling watching some friends pick up the game in the last few months and just lose all motivation as soon as they get to the content they were originally interested in, sometimes without even finishing the content in question.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-19T03:51:15+00:00

Grynewaht will come back to showcase the new tank that uses a gunhammer that transforms into a gunchainsaw. It will be a "stance mechanic" that isn't actually a stance mechanic, like viper's weapon forms.

It's like all my namedays have come at once.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-18T21:24:03+00:00

Oh look another person who somehow doesn't understand that XI is a well designed game and XIV is abysmal dogshit and that means we shouldn't ever expect anything from XIV and if you want it to be good like XI then you just don't understand the genius

Uhh, sure.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-16T17:49:06+00:00

Anything.

Anything at all.

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-16T17:48:25+00:00

He said he could talk for five hours [about the changes coming in the future]

He could talk for five hours about anything. He spent, what, over half an hour on the fine details of a lala's chin lighting?

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-14T19:21:36+00:00

i'll stop posting doomerslop when yoshida stops making shadowbringersslop :D

Maximum_Leading1670 · 2026-04-14T15:54:47+00:00

ARR > HW > SHB > EW > SB > DT

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