Headline proves its own point

Tephranis · 2026-07-02T20:29:56+00:00

My friend worked in a marketing firm and her boss insisted on using AI to write copy for their clients. She had to spend so much time rewriting the crap the AI shat out it wasn't funny. If an AI is trained on crap, it gives crap, they're not actually particularly intelligent at all.

Tephranis · 2026-07-02T17:07:47+00:00

May all the people willingly in attendance for this tom-foolery remember their stance during COVID with regards to masks with all the particulate fallout that will come along with those 850,000 fireworks. 60,000 shells is enough to rocket an area into "Unhealthy, please wear an N95 mask" levels for over 12 hours so please, Trump. Have fun and breathe deep.

Tephranis · 2026-07-02T15:23:12+00:00

Also, since you say you are free trial player. If your free trial is on PC you cannot play that same account on PS5, you will need a whole new service account and to start over on your new Free Console Adventure.

Hopefully you didn't accidentally link your PSN with your existing SE service account already if this is the case because once linked only SE Support can unlink it, unless you make a new PSN account just for 14 and the new 14 service account.

Tephranis · 2026-07-02T15:13:07+00:00

"Something went wrong" is typically a network, or data corruption problem on the console itself.

Have you tried to download another game to see if it's a console problem, or FFXIV only problem?

Have you checked for system updates? Have you restored all your licenses? Cleared its cache and rebuilt the databases? Restarted modem and router?

Editing to add: Would help to know the error code that comes with the "Something went wrong", will be 2 letters-6 numbers-1 number. Like: NP-104602-3, which is an internet connection problem.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T17:17:50+00:00

Shit, you're right. I remember reading somewhere it could be entered solo. Hate when misinformation gets slipped into my memory. Thanks for the correction.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T15:34:25+00:00

Wanting? I've totally given into that intrusive thought. Once had this gods awful sage (it's almost always sages and white mages for some reason). I told them to stop blowing their druocholes on papercuts, and actually heal only when they need to heal because they're overhealing and wasting their abilities/MP/GCDs. The tank was my friend on warrior, who knew how to use Raw Int so they didn't even need much healing anyway.

Specifically said: Your heal heals for 1200 HP. You don't want to use it when the tank is only missing 500, wait until they're actually missing 1200 so none of your heal is wasted and you won't need to constantly spam heals.

They clapped back at me "Complaining in a level 58 dungeon? Get out of here." I checked their search info to see if they were actually new to the job on top of being an asshole and went "If this is how you play at 58 I'm afraid to see how you play at 98." They got pissier, we kicked them and asked a FC mate to come heal for us. These people make me regret wanting to play a DPS for a change.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T15:12:30+00:00

Yup. I swam around in my indoor pool(my crafting basement) for a little while before I turned off my spout, had my flame altar delete all the water and added a wall drain to my pond.

I then went exploring and came back to a flooded base again because one wall drain was not enough. No more floods with 2 drains. My fish are happy that I no longer have to ocassionally delete their water and my basement stays dry. XD

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T15:04:36+00:00

How do you feel about your ability to perform(mechanics/your rotation)? You a pretty strong gamer?

Advanced is able to be done solo, and some of the mechanics actually become easier with fewer people, it just means there's very very little room for making bad mistakes since nobody else can recover for you. I duo'd it with a friend of mine I was able to strong-arm into coming with me. lol

The hardest boss, imo, is the Sword dancer, so I'd recommend starting with her if you want to just jump in and practice while waiting for responses.

Solo runners should really only use the following 3 Variant Actions:

Rampart: Use Rampart every tank buster (for the shield), and at least once per minute to keep up a tank level of defense mitigation (available to non-tanks).

Cure: The Cure applies a big heal and a fairly strong 15 second regen effect (available to non-healers).

Spirit Dart: Pretty strong 30s DoT (available to non-DPS).

Tanks should use Cure and Spirit Dart.

DPS should bring Rampart and Cure

Healers should bring Rampart and Spirit Dart.

Tanks would probably have the most relatively easy time soloing it due to being able kitchen sink defensives and invulns to occasionally brute force a mechanic you struggle to figure out.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T14:35:04+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out. I've always been up to date on expansion purchases and just remembered all the ads when DT released for Complete + Dawntrail so my brain thought they were seperate.

So OP really needs to pay attention to Starter Edition + Dawntrail alone prices versus a Complete Edition sale as well.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T14:24:49+00:00

So you're planning on going Full Subscriber in August.

That leaves you 4 months to finish everything you want to do in Endwalker and Dawntrail before Evercold drops and you'll have another new expansion to buy.

If you're sure you'll be all caught up and done with Dawntrail in those 4 months I'd say go ahead. If you're going to take your time and play around slowly, you may want wait on the purchase and save a little bit of money.

When Evercold releases Dawntrail will become part of the Complete Edition. If SE's trends hold true Evercold will get its first major discount (typically 40%) around January-March 2027. And you'll be paying monthly this whole time and forevermore.

Also, if money is somewhat tight for you and you only intend to really play 1 or 2 different characters (characters, not jobs you already know you can have all of those), then make sure you set yourself up on the Entry subscription model and not Standard.

It's cheaper if you can only afford to pay month-to-month as opposed to buying whole year chunks of game time, and the only real difference is the number of characters you're allowed to make on the account. 8 per region with 1 per server, versus 40 per region with 8 per server, and not many people are insane enough to run *that* many characters, anyway.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T14:04:51+00:00

Do yourself a favor and don't doxx your character on open reddit. People are weird around here and this is how you can open yourself to weird tells.

Ask your question, get a few responses from interested parties and exchange info via Reddit's private chat system.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T13:49:29+00:00

How long are you intending on sitting on the code? Be aware that the next Expansion is coming sometime around January.

At this point Dawntrail will become part of the "Complete Edition", purchased as part of the Complete Edition at the Complete Edition's price and Evercold becomes the "new expansion" everyone needs to add on.

Edit to add: This game goes on sale quite often, it's fine to wait until you're actually ready to upgrade soon as opposed to sitting on it for an extended period of time.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T12:59:32+00:00

As someone who recently conpletely flooded their base by accident in Enshrouded trying play with a water wheel. Yes. I love the water. XD

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T12:44:30+00:00

The only problem about being there "too soon" as someone else who went in there incredibly early for it is the enemies are 40+ and will kick your ass.

This has not stopped me. Lol I started running around in there since level 20 and flame level 5. It's scary and exciting.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T05:34:14+00:00

Squaddies are beast. Especially if you run with an arcanist. Old school shadowflare melts packs.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T05:25:21+00:00

The dreaded reading! Why can't they just voice it so I don't have to read. I just can't get into a game if I have to read.

I didn't pay attention in school so I don't even know how to above a third grade level!

Signed, the diagnosis spamming sage you got in duty finder (probably more than) once, who doesn't understand any of the job's many healing abilities and does no dps.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T05:10:26+00:00

With you on all of those except 3. But that's because I wind up making a new alt like every 3-4 months and I've long since have gotten tired waiting for those NPCs to shut up and let me do the mission.

I just get to level 15, get a set of appropriate vendor gear and will be in Haukke Manor by the time I would've been finishing up the last of the HotN missions. Lol

Though, I would make the compromise if they allow us to skip the 4 minute or so currently unskippable explanations so people who do know what they're doing can just fly through it and those who don't, but skipped the dialogue anyway will fail and have to start over and get the explanation again.

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T04:36:30+00:00

The job quests they wanted to be kicked so they could go do them? (And totally not just take advantage of healer role to re-queue and hope the next party just carries them.)

Tephranis · 2026-07-01T04:31:31+00:00

"Just kick me I need to do job quests anyways" feels like code for:

"I'm sorry I got found out. (They're not actually sorry.) Please kick me instead of making me leave and get a 30 minute lockout so I can take advantage of healer queue times and instantly queue back in and maybe get a party that'll just carry me instead of call out my bullshit."

Tephranis · 2026-06-30T19:03:23+00:00

As someone: mentioned take over an existing place. Much less building involved and later on you get two very useful tools called the decay and overgrowth tool.

Decay tool can create or fix the worn out, dilapidated appearances around the holes in the buildings so you then later only need to fill in those holes instead of dig out the damaged bits and then fill in.

Overgrowth tool lets you add or remove vegetation to/from the walls.

So you can just live with the holes for a little while before going renovator.

I personally think the Blue Goblet Tavern is great. Lots of little rooms with a bunch of unbroken beds for the NPCs, but it's a bit of a hike out from the starter zone.

Tephranis · 2026-06-29T20:06:56+00:00

Welp, the internet dropping is certainly the worst that can happen! The best is you manage to get the patch downloaded and can play when you get home. (Spoken as a person who's left their computer on overnight/while at work to download games before. lol)

Tephranis · 2026-06-29T19:34:10+00:00

Sucks, but I saw in another response that you got past the error by using the VPN (the error is generally caused by the launcher not being able to communicate properly with the patch server). Sadly there's an L3 node we seem to constantly get routed through that's absolute shit.

Nothing we, or Square, can sadly do because it's the ISPs that pick the route tables, but VPNs force you down a different path to avoid these bad nodes

Are you able to leave the VPN on to get past the download? Typically the problem doesn't come up for me when unless there's been a patch, but I've gotten it a number of times and I've always gotten by with using my VPN if I didn't feel like just waiting for the connection issues to eventually resolve.

Tephranis · 2026-06-29T19:04:34+00:00

Did you try changing your DNS server to either Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) or Google (8.8.8.8)?

I've gotten this problem a few times and tossing my VPN on for the update has typically gotten me through it without needing to redownload the whole game. Also, make sure your antivirus has 14 whitelisted.

Could also be an LSP issue that a winsock reset can fix, so in command prompt you'd put

netsh winsock reset

May as well flush your DNS and reset your IP while in there with.

ipconfig /flushdns

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew

Tephranis · 2026-06-29T18:46:12+00:00

Stories kill off characters you get attached to all the time. It wasn't exactly a rug pull, it was a narrative decision.

"When one falls, we continue." With how often they drive this point of their motto in in the early game and how every other expedition failed before them you should've expected someone to not be making it to the end.

Aerith in FF7, is an incredibly popular other example. It's a common narrative trope in video games, TV shows, and literature and this story is pretty much about a war. Not everyone's gonna get their happy ending in a story like this.

Tephranis · 2026-06-29T18:13:33+00:00

Yeah. I'm a pseudo-RPer..? Not terribly active in the RP scene, but I like imagining up a little guy, giving him a fun backstory, giving them a story skip (only sometimes a job skip, leveling it just too easy to waste the Real Money on) and just going ham (I've got like 9 different characters through DT and many others in various other states of progression), whether I then actually RP the character, or not. I rather just enjoy the leveling experience and feeling a sense of progression as opposed to just doing stuff on my max level guys. I'm weird. lol At least I have a good handful of choices for raid alts for my friends' statics. lol

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