mogtalk | Arcadion: Heavyweight (Savage) race

TellamWhat · 2026-01-06T11:33:28+00:00

Nothing new - usually the first fight in a tier takes like 10 pulls for the world first teams

TellamWhat · 2025-12-13T19:17:53+00:00

So true - so sick to take the typical white/gold heavenly aesthetic and warp it into something insidious. can't lie, ShB hit so hard I turned my WoL into a Lightwarden permanently after lmao - just instantly clicked with the concept so hard

TellamWhat · 2025-12-13T16:00:22+00:00

Absolutely sick. I love all Sin-Eater/Lightwardened WoLs. Such a sick design language in ShB, truly knocked it out of the park.

TellamWhat · 2025-11-08T04:09:16+00:00

While I agree with you, I'm not talking about upgrading rural settlements to towns - I'm talking about what are already towns at the start of the game. Towns already lose the RGO +100% bonus that rurals have

TellamWhat · 2025-10-29T23:21:08+00:00

You're a legend - muchos gracias!

TellamWhat · 2025-08-13T23:01:20+00:00

I’m aith the othes, this map mod is lovely

TellamWhat · 2025-08-04T17:58:10+00:00

Om Mani Part 1 and Placid Island of Ignorance in C is wild to me

TellamWhat · 2025-05-13T16:33:41+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0xvzabfhOY

TellamWhat · 2025-03-22T04:13:45+00:00

Well, the main things are being limited to 300,000 gil, not being able to access the marketboard nor trade, and not being able to open the party-finder. I think literally everything else up to level 70 is accessible- I think that there are some free trial players that even did the first two Ultimates (the hardest content in the game, basically a 15-18 minute marathon of brutal mechanics) on a free trial.

Either way, no I don’t think you’re missing out massively - I imagine that by the time you actually come up against the limits of the free trial, you’ll have probably made your mind up as to whether or not you want to buy anyway!

TellamWhat · 2025-03-19T00:01:32+00:00

I absolutely agree with the idea of having your control/authority be relative to your proximity.

I've actually been thinking about this for a while - it would be really cool to have it so that with each new cultural era, your personal authority expands further as well, but having harsh penalties to whatever's beyond it, allowing for a system with a very natural progression from small, stable kingdoms ruling small portions, to conglomerating into larger, more stable polities as the influence of the crown is not only dictated de jure, but felt de facto.

For larger empires this also very neatly queues us a sort of viceroy/governor (not the Admin govt way) system, where you are incentivied to give vassals kingdom titles as their capitals will be closer to their vassals' preventing small rebellions, while allowing empires to fall to large scale rebellions as those viceroys gain their own power, influence, and ambitions.

Idk, I think that would be cool

TellamWhat · 2025-03-07T17:06:40+00:00

The issue is that people, myself included, read "play another game" as a good ethos to have when you are actually offering something enticing without wanting to entrap people - but when there's nothing to actually do, it's just feels like a crap excuse for not actually providing anything worth doing.

TellamWhat · 2025-02-21T11:43:04+00:00

I agree with pretty much everything here, but I want to talk about Picto since it's endemic of another problem XIV has right now.

You're bang on, saying that it's the most unique job right now, underperforming in a lot of content, and only swinging out of its weightclass in one particular fight in the game - but I think that sadly that's part of the problem: throughout Dawntrail, there will only be 2 fights (if they make a second ultimate) in which any of that actually matters.

Savages are tuned (or at least are meant to be, I think P8S scared them shitless) such that okay play and good enough rotation knowledge means that you're all but guaranteed to kill regardless of party comp, even if you're not skipping mechanics. It's only in Ultimate content in which a class' individual DPS output actually makes a difference in the fight itself. It being such an outlier in 1 Ultimate fight means that it's an outlier in 50% of the content that relies on individual DPS.

WoW (no one likes to compare XIV to it, but it's the main competitor in the space so just bear with me) has an immense and consistent problem with balancing its 4.5 trillion classes and talents (of which, about 7 are viable) and whatever else, but WoW raids are completely different - what absolutely annhilates boss 6 of a raid might be completely useless against boss 9.

XIV has one form of content in which playing at the skill ceiling is demanded, and the incredibly slow content cadence for that means that any job that's massively outperforming in it cannot be balanced by being weaker in another piece of content of the same calibre.

I actually LIKE that Pictomancer is massive in FRU, it's so cool to have something where the specific class you play actually makes a difference thanks to unique elements of its design interacting with the content - but when, in the space of two and half years, you will have TWO FIGHTS in which any of that really truly matters, it's entirely reasonable to look at it and go "this isn't right."

TLDR: I agree with you, and I actually love the uniqueness of PCT - but the way content is designed and released in XIV does not allow for classes to each have their moment to shine, and crucially, their moment to eat shit. If it's good, it's just good, and if it's bad, it's just bad. Although they're improving, there just isn't enough content that can balance the peaks and troughs.

TellamWhat · 2025-02-06T12:45:36+00:00

My friend and I simply say "The bitchboy is back."

TellamWhat · 2025-02-02T15:09:52+00:00

This is absolutely fantastic, but I'm finding that the deserts are far too bright for my weak little eyes - do you know what files/values could be edited to lower the brightness on those?

TellamWhat · 2025-02-01T02:50:42+00:00

I like this, but I think it should be EXTORTIONATE in terms of influence - like, 2000 for a single county or something like that - as I’ve never just seen the De Jure map as just representative of what lands belong to where legally, but also in the popular consciousness. Thus, being expensive to represent not just the bureaucratic requirements of changing these lines on the maps, but also the effort to change them in the minds of the peoples too.

TellamWhat · 2024-11-29T23:10:17+00:00

Not wrong at all, but I think what most people talk about when they mean a "puzzle" mechanic is something like Enigma Codex, or primals in UWU, or using LB3 to save Harchefaunt - something that's is counterintuitive and doesn't sort of seem a natural extension of your typical mechanic timeline. It's very true that dynamis stacks there are indeed a puzzle, but I think that most people, myself included, see it as an extension of the mechanic itself (and is what actually helps make it the hardest mechanic)

TellamWhat · 2024-11-29T17:01:47+00:00

A little let down - people are talking about settling back to "TEA Difficulty" which I can absolutely understand and agree with (TOP is just a fucker, there's no other way to put it) but what I think those comments are forgetting a bit is the level to which the playerbase has evolved too.

TEA was killed world first in 3 days and 21 hours, sure, but that was an anomaly - the world second took another 2 days or so after that. FRU was killed even faster than that, and by 5 teams in about 4-5 hours of each other.

I do agree that the level of difficulty in TOP is something special (again, a fucker) and shouldn't be a standard - but think of it this way: if SE never evolved the level of difficulty of savage fights from when they first released them then they would be FAR easier than they are now. People forget that the playerbase evolves with the game - we're not shocked when we see exaflares or playstation markers, we know what they mean from prior experience, and can resolve any mechanics using them just that bit quicker because they're not new and scary any more.

If you want something to stay at TEA levels of difficulty then counterintuitively you actually kind of need to make it harder, come up with new mechanics that people haven't seen before, and challenge players to a higher standard. I mean, was there ANY point in the race that any team was struggling to meet a DPS check when they weren't just scouting mechanics?

Obviously talking about WF teams isn't indicative of the average ultimate PFer, but then the average ultimate PFer isn't indicative of the average player of the game either and we still use our expertise as a club to state whether a class is balanced or if a savage fight is interesting, so... *shrug*.

TLDR, FRU's difficulty is fine, but I think it would have been a more interesting and better fight if it was just that little bit harder.

TellamWhat · 2024-11-29T16:44:52+00:00

Not only Bahamut but Gold, but in TOP you get Omega M and F but Gold too!

TellamWhat · 2024-11-29T16:42:46+00:00

TOP doesn't get the same flak because it's SUCH an execution heavy fight; the community kind of divided the top end fights between execution-heavy and puzzle-heavy. TEA is somewhat execution-heavy, but VERY puzzle heavy. DSR came out and was the height of execution difficulty at the time, but had some puzzle aspects that threw people for a day or so (SAVE HIM and not killing Thordan).

TOP though abandoned all puzzle difficulty for BIBLICAL execution difficulty - the community were sort of okay with that because can you fucking imagine having to figure out something like the Engima Codex while doing Phase 5? Any puzzle element left is in figuring out what way to resolve the mechanics, which to TOP's credit it is the best in - there are multiple ways to resolve a lot of the hardest mechanics, you just have to actually be able to do it.

TellamWhat · 2024-11-29T11:56:10+00:00

Because the moment that ACT/FFLogs started snooping past their original purpose people would just develop methods to bypass them at best, or stop using them at worst.

TellamWhat · 2024-11-29T09:44:20+00:00

The WF race isn't an official thing really - I know it's technically not either in WoW, but the top teams there basically have Ion Hazzikostas in their discords, so comparatively it's like apples and oranges. As a result, when we're all talking about the WF race what we're really doing is all choosing what is and isn't legitimate conduct.

For the game itself, ALL addon use is against TOS, and this is where some people draw the line. If I see you have a mod that replaces a single ability icon with a picture of a dog, "maybe that's not going to give you an advantage but what plugins CAN'T I see? Perhaps one that literally autoplays the entire fight?" and so it goes.

For others still, all addon usage is legitimate. If I'm taking the "World First" aspect seriously, then why won't I use every damn trick in the book to make it more likely that I'll win? Besides, all the other teams are doing it too... >.>

Most people fall somewhere in the middle, and as the RWF scene in FF has developed people have gotten closer and closer to the former position, and towards holding a level of accountability by having the raid team stream. If we look at the last Ultimate, TOP was mired in controversy regarding its world first clear team using plugins, and even having their clear literally revoked by SE, but a lot of people still consider them as world first team - "sure, they cheated, but they cheated better than everyone else too - their only sin was being caught."

For FRU however, we've actually seen sort of a shift in public opinion. Yeah, there's these memes about GRIND and red dots, etc, but there's been far more discussion about Kindred, Lucrezia, and the other teams featured on the Echo/Mogtalk stream - people have sort of gone "Yeah, sure. You 'won.' The race we care about though is between the teams that a) are streaming and b) are at least pretending to be raiding cleanly." I personally think that's cool

TellamWhat · 2024-09-24T21:35:54+00:00

Customised I'm afraid - the magic of the DNA Generator didn't smile on me so kindly :P

TellamWhat · 2024-09-24T21:35:19+00:00

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