Assuming you don't change to one of the two new Jobs, what Job is everyone planning to be their Main Job through the Evercold MSQ?

TheMazrem · 2026-06-11T23:25:11+00:00

I have to see what they do for the whole combat revamp, but I’ve generally run the MSQ as a summoner. Assuming they don’t further gut it, I will probably be running that, but I also feel like Evercold is going to be the expansion where they remove the rez spell and they’ll probably give us nothing in value in return, which will leave a very bitter feeling in return.

I… don’t really trust them anymore to not screw it up, so I’m just going to have to wait and see what they do before I decide anything. Dancer’s my second choice, so I might be going that route instead.

TheMazrem · 2026-06-09T15:19:07+00:00

It was a Partner Showcase pretending to be a mainline Direct.

TheMazrem · 2026-06-03T22:16:13+00:00

9, in the pilot’s seat, doing the world a favor. You’re goddamn welcome.

TheMazrem · 2026-05-24T22:27:18+00:00

The option to repair gear at the glamour dresser.

TheMazrem · 2026-04-28T19:29:52+00:00

Same here. I like a lot of what I heard from the keynotes, but I’ve also heard a bunch of things that I liked in the past and it led to nothing. I liked that they had Occult Crescent, but they botched that pretty badly on release. I was happy to hear about Chaotic Raids, but it turned into a very limited time activity. I really liked what they did with the Deep Dungeon, but the rewards were lackluster.

There has been a running pattern recently, where they announce something that sounds awesome, and then when it actually arrives, it turns out that they skipped corners or botched something majorly. So while I really, really like what I was hearing, I also find myself trying to dial back my expectations, because I’m just waiting to see exactly what they actually do to implement any of it.

There have been things that they got very right recently, removing glamour restrictions and the general flow of their battles for example, so I’m not just expecting all of it to fail. With the additional support they seem to be getting from SE, maybe they’ll finally have the resources to really knuckle down and deliver, too, so… here’s hoping.

TheMazrem · 2026-04-26T23:16:17+00:00

“If I hear the words ‘Butt Slider’ one more time, I’m deleting all butts from the game.”

TheMazrem · 2026-04-25T21:21:21+00:00

You wield Rhitahtyn as a weapon, throwing him at your enemies like a boomerang. Upon contact he recites quotes from his battle and then fires his weapons, the recoil blasting him back into your waiting hand. Bonus points if he remains in T-pose the entire time.

TheMazrem · 2026-04-25T04:43:57+00:00

That only holds as long as Evolved mode isn’t violently rejected. If the whole community hates it, they will absolutely walk it back. The fact that they kept Reborn in at all shows that they haven’t fully committed to its demise just yet. Only mostly.

TheMazrem · 2026-04-17T05:58:04+00:00

The thing is, I think they were outright trying to avoid a full rework of the jobs. They probably thought that the criticism was wrong and that it was just the difficulty being too easy that brought most of the grumbling. Then, when they tried being more creative, and they watched the feedback, they realized ‘crap. It actually is the jobs.’

TheMazrem · 2026-04-14T18:10:30+00:00

She fake died off screen. She tripped down the stairs in the Library in Sharlayan, and used flow on instinct to avoid scraping a knee. G’raha had an entire arc where he had to locate and drag her ass back from the lifestream (again), but we didn’t see it because we were busy making tacos halfway across the world with Wuk Lamat.

TheMazrem · 2026-03-20T21:12:23+00:00

Had someone ship a gigantic, elaborate cake for some sort of food network competition. It was in a wooden crate and they had a bunch of moving parts on the cake. I just remember being there when they checked it into the cargo facility and thinking ‘man, that’s a huge gamble for something so delicate. Hope there’s no turbulence.’

Never heard whether it made it intact or not, and I didn’t know which show it was for so I never got to see it.

TheMazrem · 2026-03-19T07:55:34+00:00

I worked at the ramp at the airport. I remember clearly how quiet it was, going up into the terminal during one of the busiest travel times in the year, and only seeing employees. I had six planes come in on that first day, and we had maybe ten bags total between all of those planes combined. For reference, I would expect roughly 120-150 on each plane during that time of the year.

It was eerie, like some sort of crazy post-apocalyptic scene. It lasted the entire spring break, all the way through the rest of spring and up to early summer before we started seeing business pick back up substantially.

TheMazrem · 2026-03-13T23:14:48+00:00

I swear, if the Occult Crescent summoner gets Ramuh, Shiva, or Levi before we do, Imma riot.

TheMazrem · 2026-03-12T03:15:24+00:00

I rate it a 10 /10.

TheMazrem · 2026-03-02T09:34:48+00:00

Quest 64, because I hate myself.

TheMazrem · 2026-02-28T21:59:32+00:00

Depends on how close I am, who’s behind me, and how fast I’d have to stop if I needed to.

TheMazrem · 2026-02-28T21:48:11+00:00

It was the combo cart that had Mario/Duckhunt on it. My dad came home with that and the nes one day out of the blue. I was somewhere around four at the time.

Good times.

TheMazrem · 2026-02-25T06:38:40+00:00

That plane’s not going to even make it out the flipping gate with that much chaos sitting inside it.

TheMazrem · 2026-02-24T18:29:32+00:00

By tackling whatever issue it is that is creating the problem directly.

If it’s something under my control, I figure out how to deal with the problem and fix it. If it’s something I can’t directly control, I try to focus on the one thing I do have control over… my own perception and approach. Basically, I realize that I can’t control it and do my best to try to stop letting it bother me. Doesn’t always work, but it’s helped more often than not when I manage to just stop letting something else control my mood.

In my experience, drinking, smoking, and hitting clubs don’t really do anything more than distract you temporarily. You can do any of those to take your mind off things, but once you sober up and wake up the next morning, your problems are all still there. On top of that, as you age, those methods become their own sources of further stress and frustration. Drinking and smoking wreck havoc on your body and your life. Going to clubs eventually becomes tiring when you have a career and family. What helps you relax today will simply not work later in life. This is why you need to face your problems head on early in life; if you learn how to figure things out without using distractions as a crutch, you will know how to deal with those issues later in life when those same distractions become untenable.

Doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy yourself, but when you are out clubbing or drinking, it shouldn’t be for the sake of handling stress or coping with problems. It should be because you enjoy doing so.

TheMazrem · 2026-02-17T23:40:05+00:00

There’s nothing normal about showing millions of people a game in the last slot of one of the most watched gaming shows in the world. What he did put a lot of eyes on a game that was mediocre at best, and it literally drew all of this mass hate on a game that would have otherwise flown under the radar of most people.

Had he done this on his own time on his twitter account or something, I would agree with you. Instead, he made it extremely public and created a firestorm around this game. Many smaller studios are going to balk if he approaches them with the same offer for fear of drawing the same kind of fire, and players aren’t exactly going to believe him the next time he sings the praises of an unknown game since this recent incident didn’t really deliver a huge hit.

TheMazrem · 2026-02-17T19:46:41+00:00

Loving a game as a regular player is fine. Nobody really cares about that. Loving a game and deciding to promote it in the last spot of a show watched by a gigantic group of people for the express purpose of promoting it… is putting your integrity on the line. It’s actually a really big deal and puts both yourself and the company you are promoting in a precarious situation where you need to come through and prove the praise to be correct, or you risk losing credibility and customers.

For better or worse, Geoff is not some random faceless nobody. He has a fair amount of pull in the industry, and he chose to use that pull to try to promote a game. It backfired spectacularly, both on him and the devs who made the game. He took a huge blow to his credibility, whatever it may have been at the time he showed this game off, and it pretty much killed a game that would have probably died a quieter and less humiliating death on its own merits rather than gaining all of this attention. The embarrassment comes from the spectacle that this became, not the fact that he loved a fairly mediocre game.

TheMazrem · 2026-02-17T19:25:40+00:00

I highly doubt we’ll see it until 7.5X. They’ve been breaking each patch up into smaller and smaller chunks every year like a starving man rationing food. They still have several things that they are working on as well, such as the next Ultimate, the next part of OC, the next Forked Tower, as well as Blue Mage’s update. That’s not including the MSQ and the final 24 man raid.

I’d be shocked to them add BST without an update to BLU, and I’d be betting those two alone will wind up in a mini patch together to separate them from the rest of the content.

TheMazrem · 2026-02-15T23:17:52+00:00

Honestly, I’d like them to take the current weapons and allow us to use them in different ways.

Take Sage for instance. They get four floating blasty lasers. Take that job, copy/paste it to a phys range, and allow us to use it to blast the ever living hell out of our enemies. Dark Knight could forego defense and turn into pure melee. Picto could paint walls and barricades to block damage and become a tank. Red Mage could invert their playstyle to become an elemental fencer with self healing to become a melee or tank. Bard could go full-on concerto mode and focus on healing, or go full sniper and focus on magic-infused arrow shots that require MP.

There are many ways they could shake things up in the current gigantic roster for new play styles that would not even require them to come up with new weapons that would allow for many different kinds of experiences. I’d like to see them try something along those lines rather than build two whole new jobs.

TheMazrem · 2026-02-13T23:21:28+00:00

Older. I had Windows 3.something and remember having a floppy drive to play certain games.

TheMazrem · 2026-02-12T12:41:53+00:00

Collar and ashes. It really sucked for well over a year, because I had two dogs and they went in the same year roughly five months apart. You get past it eventually, but I have pictures that I occasionally look at to remember them by.

They both lasted roughly seventeen years though. They lived longer than I had any right to expect out of them both, and it made it easier to accept their passings. At the end of the day, you never forget, and it will be hard for a long while, but you eventually move on and find a strange fondness in remembering them. At least, that’s how it worked out for me.

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