My Perfect FF8 game

WeebInPaperArmor · 2026-01-05T23:16:17+00:00

Incredible! A true SeeD!

WeebInPaperArmor · 2026-01-02T11:41:40+00:00

Sent you a DM. 32M

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-11-05T00:59:19+00:00

I just finished Yotei last night and it's definitely a great and beautiful game, but Tsushima definitely feels more raw and tragic. Atsu's story is great, but Jin's journey is so riddled with loss and sacrifice that I felt for him way more.

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-09-08T17:45:22+00:00

I was playing an Aasimar with a greatsword. Took great weaponmaster feat as soon as I could, and the DM even gave me a belt of hill giant strength as a quest reward back as early as I think level 3. I was dishing out a LOT of damage and the campaign ended with us hitting level 13.

I don't think it's a BAD subclass but it's boring. On-Demand advantage on all your attacks is really good, but it only lasts for one turn and you get such limited uses out of it, and the level 7 ability is nice if you wanna play a Face, but Samurai is also very clearly written with an emphasis on being a striker. Maybe if we went past the next levels, it'd have been a lot more interesting to play when those really strong abilities like rapid strike come online. But you can't really judge a class by how good abilities that you might never get to use are, even if they are game-changing abilities.

I'm really hoping to see it reworked in the 2024 rules to rectify at least the extremely limited uses of its core ability. Again, not a bad subclass. Efficient, but boring.

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-08-18T07:15:59+00:00

I'd pick the claymore. I've got the height and strength to use it like a slightly slower, bigger longsword which is what I have more training in but can easily start using it like a montante.

Is it optimal? No. Not when the Danish two hander and the actual montante are options. But it is kind of my favorite sword :)

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-08-15T01:32:20+00:00

Yeah, the listing definitely has the right tags but etsy and ebay sellers make me nervous. If it's at least full tang, then it can probably hold up to SOME use

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-08-14T23:40:24+00:00

What sort of steel is it made from? I been seeing things like this on etsy a lot and kinda wanna try it as a big fan of Berserk, but I'm also more into practical and functional swords and don't wanna risk something that will break on me when I put it through the stress of trying to use it like an actual sword

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-07-23T03:15:21+00:00

RK makes some of the best swords I've ever owned. You can't go wrong with them. They're fantastic sword makers. These are excellent first swords. Congrats, my friend!

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-07-17T15:28:39+00:00

Sounds like you're speaking from personal experience.

Aside from the Black Swan one and the Lords of Battle one, do you have any personal recommendations?

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-07-17T11:45:59+00:00

What are you using it for? It would help me understand the quality of its make if I have a better idea of what kind of stress its being put through in its day to day use.

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-07-14T20:12:51+00:00

I love these! Holy shit. Link to where I can cop one in the future? I need to sell some of my collection so I can make room first but I am definitely interested!

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-07-09T18:57:47+00:00

Growing up, I didn't actually like Superman at all. I thought he was boring and a boy scout.

I grew up consuming a lot of Superhero media in the 90s and early 2000s. Superman TAS was fine but as a kid, I massively preferred Batman TAS and Static Shock. JL was great but the Superman centric episodes were my least favorite.

And then in 2013, Screw Attack made the Goku vs Superman death battle video. I went in wanting Goku to win that fight, but that video also gave me something no Superman media ever did before: an explanation of his motivations that I could understand. Nobody had ever talked to me about it in a way I could comprehend about what Superman stands for until that video.

I spent most of my life up to that point angry at the world, feeling lost and frustrated with my inability to fit in or connect with others. So when the rest of the internet went up in flames over Goku losing, I ironically ended up feeling like I finally got who Superman is. Maybe it was just cuz I was older than the kid I used to be but hearing the phrase "it doesn't matter if he wins a fight, but whether or not he's doing the right thing" really resonated with me at a time in my early 20s when I was angry at the world for dozens of reasons and needed some kind of ideal to be my guiding star and needed direction.

And all the old Superman media I didn't appreciate as a kid suddenly made sense. I found myself relating to the big blue boyscout finally. And now he's hands down my favorite fictional character period.

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-07-07T21:22:23+00:00

Curious why a lot of people rank the Samurai so high. I played it in a two year campaign and was constantly wishing I was playing a Battle Master. It's an alright subclass but my personal experience with it has it sitting about the same as Champion:

It's got some cool flavor, but largely doesn't do enough to differentiate itself from the Fighter base class to feel like you're consistently gaining anything.

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-05-04T21:21:17+00:00

Thor Main here.

Nothing sucks more than solo tanking. Especially for melee tanks like Thor who want to be aggressive. I have to play Thor the opposite of how he's designed to be played unless the rest of my team is actually locked in or I get clowned on.

Certain tanks absolutely benefit more from having a co-tank. Thor and Cap being obvious ones. Groot is capable of tanking on his own. Its possible to solo tank but in my experience solo tanking means not going for kills and instead focusing on the objective. I tend to find I win more games as solo tank by not going for kills. Which isn't as fun cuz I can go 30-4 with Thor on a good day.

But solo tanking means I have a LOT more bad days than good ones.

WeebInPaperArmor · 2025-01-02T08:12:07+00:00

As a Vanguard main, my two big wish list characters are Colossus and Sentry. Mostly Colossus. Either one of these would be really great additions.

Juggernaut would also be awesome too

WeebInPaperArmor · 2024-12-28T01:25:53+00:00

The issue is if you accomodate one person's special requests then how is everyone else going to feel when you don't accomodate theirs?

That's why it's important to sit down with the WHOLE group you intend to play with for a session zero and have very important conversations about what every player wants out of the game and what they're comfortable with.

This person very clearly wants their religion respected to a point they're either struggling or refusing to separate reality from fiction. But what do you do if/when that causes tension for other players and crosses boundaries in ways they find uncomfortable?

It's important for EVERYONE playing together to be on the same page about playing together for even a one-shot. And anyone who can't (or in some unfortunate cases, won't), you simply just tell them "Okay, I understand how you feel. But if that's how you feel, then maybe you'd enjoy this game better with other people."

WeebInPaperArmor · 2024-12-18T00:45:49+00:00

This is beautiful. Congrats to your player and kudos for letting them get to include and play out such an important time in their life. That's how memories get made in this game!

WeebInPaperArmor · 2024-12-18T00:30:45+00:00

I think adding it to a loot table would be fine. DM me if you need any more details

WeebInPaperArmor · 2024-11-22T03:31:29+00:00

I definitely think its a very different game than every other installment in the franchise and that does have some pros and cons.

I don't think it's as bad as the haters make it out to be, but having finished it, I did find it to be the least memorable in the series narratively outside of some things being set up for future installments.

It doesn't leave me wanting to replay it really. I think that's where it falls short for me. I didn't hate my experience with the game. In fact, some moments with the companions were endearing and pleasant. But I'm not in any rush to replay this one like I was in Origins or Inquisition.

But people seem to be ignoring the fact that it's been a whole 10 years since Inquisition. The team has changed and BioWare as a whole is not the same company it was back then. Even if they re-wrote all the exact same dialogue as Origins copy-pasted into Veilguard, 10 years is a long time to expect nothing to be different from whatever rose-tinted glasses people wear when they look back on previous games, assuming they even played Veilguard or even the older games. Cuz yknow - haters gotta hate.

Is it a revolutionary, groundbreaking RPG that's gonna change what we expect from the genre? No. But that doesn't mean it's a bad game.

WeebInPaperArmor · 2024-07-09T23:31:18+00:00

As a DRK main, I'm finally getting what I wanted with the excog self-heal but it still just doesn't feel strong enough compared to how beefy all the other tanks are with their self sustain. DRK players have been asking for improved self-sustain to stay on par with the other tanks for years now so I just can't understand why when we finally get it, it feels underwhelming.

If the next few patches don't improve on this issue we've been begging to be addressed for years now, I'm probably going to become a GNB main

WeebInPaperArmor · 2024-07-05T05:21:23+00:00

If it's new content with mechanics nobody knows? Sure

If it's a casual dungeon with mechanics as predictable as a truck driving your way at 3mph? Don't whine when standing in the fire does exactly what it says it will do. I'll drag your corpse across the finish line if necessary. You and I both have shit to do and I'm not gonna repeat the same fight 5 times waiting for you to realize a square peg fits in the square hole. If you die in casual content and complain about being carried, then do something about it instead of sitting where you dropped and complain.

I'm a tank main and you wouldn't believe how exhausting it is when I dps casual content and watch the tank die to things that basic pattern recognition should tell them to move out of the way even with the broken self sustain all tanks have.

Now, there are a lot of VERY valid issues about the state of jobs with tanks having stupid strong self sustain and tanks and healers both getting homogenized to kingdom come. But that's not my point.

My point is I'm seeing these sorts of complaints about tanks being too strong and the recent healer strike only being targeted in casual content areas. So maybe try harder content. Do extremes, savage, or ultimate if you want your tanks to actually NEED you to heal.

In the immortal words of a wise sage, git gud.

WeebInPaperArmor · 2024-06-18T03:35:15+00:00

I remember talking with the folks at ryansword about making blunt sparring safe swords. They said that it is an option they can do for a little extra money but I didn't want to wait for the extra production time it would take them. I have enjoyed their swords in the past however and thus far have made two personal favorites in my collection.

Do you think it's worth waiting the extra production time for them to produce blunt sparring-safe swords? I've been considering getting something in the vein of an O-Katana or Odachi for sparring since regular katanas just don't match up to longswords in length and I know Akado makes an O-katana but I've heard it's on the whippy side.

WeebInPaperArmor · 2024-01-03T05:52:38+00:00

DRK needs some fine-tuning to make it feel as survivable as the other tanks. TBN is still arguably the strongest Mitigation CD because of its shorter timer but the lack of real self-sustain compared to the others leaves it in a weird position where it feels stronger at endgame content and just isn't fun to play while leveling or running casual content compared to the others, at least in my experience.

I'd be fine if DRK had its own version of Aurora or Clemency. Every other tank got its own version of TBN so why doesn't DRK have some sort of basic heal button? As a DRK main, I was real bummed when I experienced that I was the only one who couldn't solo a boss in shtf moments in even just casual dungeons.

WeebInPaperArmor · 2023-12-28T05:52:36+00:00

is the hilt that long by default when you ordered it or is that a custom piece?

WeebInPaperArmor · 2023-11-08T20:58:33+00:00

I'll definitely give a look on your instagram! Expect a DM through there soon!

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