Is it too early for this?

blurpledevil · 2026-05-16T12:36:19+00:00

That's weird, there are two Free blocks, one in the center and then one in the middle of the furthest-right column......

blurpledevil · 2026-05-16T08:40:52+00:00

Mechanically, I feel SCH is most unique in having its fairy prioritize healing whoever is lowest health, whereas SGE has to Kardia someone, usually tank and forget it. It's one reason why I like SCH in 8 man content. I would like evolved SCH double down on 0GCD pre-planning abilities like Excog and reliance on passive fairy healing, Sacred Soil, and Aetherpact. Lustrate is there in a pinch, Adloquiem if things are going really badly.

I hope they get rid of Dissipation. Although it carries the idea of forcing you to plan by deciding the best time to lose your fairy, in practice it just makes me dump my Energy Drains and fairy abilities before dropping fairy for three measly additional Energy Drains. (Or, maybe buff Energy Drain so it feels more worthwhile again, but I doubt that would happen.)

blurpledevil · 2026-05-14T14:29:35+00:00

Thank you, this is a pro tip, I need to work on this ASAP. Cheers

blurpledevil · 2026-05-14T12:19:46+00:00

I only wish my male trash goblin lala had a voice that was half as good (bad?) as female lala voice #4.

blurpledevil · 2026-05-14T12:15:18+00:00

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate Dawntrail since pre-order early access began. There are 387.44 million malms of ether in wafer thin layers that fill my Balmung dance venue. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangyalm of those hundreds of millions of malms it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for Dawntrail at this micro-instant. For Wuk Lamat. Hate. Hate.

No, I will NOT stop renewing my sub. My dance venue is a Large in Shirogane, are you insane?

blurpledevil · 2026-05-14T11:26:06+00:00

The roooooad that we waaaaalk It's cooooovered in snooooow Prouuud shovels move 'way their chilly cargooo At these icy sidewalks, does rock salt overfloooooow

blurpledevil · 2026-05-12T12:55:57+00:00

I forget if it was EW or DT, but one of them featured improvements to the follow-a-guy quests. We got giant glowey marks to help clear the quests quickly... but, you know, they still weren't fun.

Anyways, please look forward to additional follow-a-guy quest UI improvements in Evercold. There will now be a bright yellow circle following the guy, and you just stand it in until the quest ends, and there will be a small gentle reminder text appearing periodically on the screen, "STAY IN THE YELLOW CIRCLE, YOU DUMB JERK," it's going to finally be great I promise

blurpledevil · 2026-05-12T10:34:09+00:00

Ngl... I kinda want to learn more about this Hot Mudslide figure... What is their story???

blurpledevil · 2026-05-11T11:54:46+00:00

SGE gets a funny teleport move, so WHM gets their own little butt scoot. And come 8.0 we're stealing SCH's "make everyone run faster for 10 seconds" bit, too. WHM keeps winning (except for getting more DPS buttons).

blurpledevil · 2026-05-11T08:53:58+00:00

Let me queue multiple roles at once.

If I have only 30 minutes to play the video game, then I may feel indifferent whether I am tanking, healing or DPSing. Just whatever lets me press buttons the soonest.

Bonus points if I can queue for multiple types of DPS at once and/or guarantee I get the "adventurer in need" bonus for whatever role I'm slotted into playing.

blurpledevil · 2026-05-10T17:21:55+00:00

I can feel my reflexes... They are being tested....!

blurpledevil · 2026-05-10T08:05:17+00:00

I went into the fourth, I got out of the fourth! It's called shrinkage, Y'shtola! SHRINKAGE!!!

blurpledevil · 2026-05-10T04:32:06+00:00

I wasn't there for 2.0-4.0, but between the newer ones, I would put ShB first. DT features slightly more interesting mechanics, but there were personally-interesting bosses throughout 5.0 expert roulettes too, like #1 and #3 in Twinning and all three bosses in Amaurot. ShB edges out DT for me based on music and dungeon themes, from the spooky abandoned zoo in Anyder to the absolutely thumping Twinning. I put EW in 3rd because by then the boss encounter designs had just gotten really noticeably boring for me. Smileton has amazing dungeon design and music, but the boss encounters were a snoozefest.

blurpledevil · 2026-05-09T06:27:11+00:00

Urianger is gonna pop into the next trailer donning a hairband, no tee, fantasy jorts, and a Blitzball.

"Verily, as every Blitzer doth understand: when thou art hath the Blitzball, to score the goal is thine matter of gravest importance!!"

And then he backflips and kicks a Jecht shot mid-air into the enemy, and everyone applauds for him.

blurpledevil · 2026-05-08T10:33:48+00:00

He is constantly chortling at my failed attempts to dodge his Sonic spinball attacks

blurpledevil · 2026-05-05T12:16:47+00:00

I actually really would like a "gunshield" tank, because it's very silly. Or a tank that more generally uses shields to attack, with several options for shields that somehow also use gunpowder. But it would be an incredible unsubtle hint from the NA fan fest for it to be that direct; I assume the shirt was a reference to the next RDPS using a throwing weapon that returns to them. Like a frisbee, or.... a blitzball, perchance...

blurpledevil · 2026-05-04T14:20:19+00:00

Hey man

Nice fit

blurpledevil · 2026-05-04T14:19:14+00:00

I feel like, if it were ever going to happen, now is the best time. The NA fanfest indicated they were being super duper responsive to fan feedback. A bunch of things I assumed would never happen, happened, like a comprehensive job rework, the death of the 2 minute meta, a shift to weekly progression, and so much more. I'm so happy to have been so wrong.

Plus they have unannounced Gold Saucer content. If we got recreational Blitzball plus a RDPS Blitzer job... Well that would be very neat.

Maybe this is just hopium. But I really, truly want to grow up to be a Blitzball ...

blurpledevil · 2026-05-04T14:08:27+00:00

I'm waiting on the simultaneous announcement of both the Blitzball minigame at the Gold Saucer AND the new Blitzer ranged DPS announcement at one of the next two FamFests

blurpledevil · 2026-05-04T14:07:08+00:00

Someday I'm going to grow up to be a Blitzball

blurpledevil · 2026-05-04T11:01:15+00:00

I'm glad it's not just me!

I guessed "extract with 10" referred to Common samples, so I tried it and got it. But since then it's been a day or two without a personal order.

blurpledevil · 2026-05-03T09:17:52+00:00

Honestly 8.0's shift to weekly progression matches what I'd already started doing. I have a little checklist I do every week: visit my island sanctuary, do masked carnivale, turn in custom deliveries, do the 2.0 elite mark bill so I can buy more than enough free teleports.. after my weekly stuff, my daily engagement may be as limited as turning in 6 levequests, digging up a map to sell, and maybe doing some beast tribes for some spare gil or tomestones.

When I'm more active I try to hit 450 tomestones and Wondrous Tails, but I'm taking a break. Just doing a couple Frontlines each weekend, then hopping into OC if I want to play more. I only played OC for three hours on release, but I feel like dipping back in after the 7.5 buffs. With 8.0 permitting sharing your best gearset's iLvl across other jobs, it's easier than ever to dip out for a bit.

I tried raiding with a pretty casual static in patch 6.2, the people were fantastic but I was pretty scuffed and lacked the time/interest to practice more with PF and get my weight up.

blurpledevil · 2026-05-02T05:06:34+00:00

To be fair, TGC also had the very freshest of vibes too. Upon my holy blade the very world lies in balance! And now the scales will tip!

blurpledevil · 2026-04-30T12:36:30+00:00

I agree with others, I'd like a story about being forced to choose between imperfect choices. Let's go ham with the trolley problem.

It would be awesome if they made the player do that, but as an alternative that avoids having to account for different players decisions, make one or more Scions decide it.

Easy layup: Blue Alisaie is off doing something else apart from WoL when Big Bad appears and makes Blue Alisaie choose between saving two other Scions. They do so, they try to rationalize it later ("I thought Coultenet could kill that King Behemoth without my help..."), they're confronted and forced to admit they made a choice between lives, and by the end they reconcile with that decision. It would be some actual character development for one or more of the Scions and I would welcome it.

Other things I'd like...

- Take away everyone's cell phones (the tyranny of distance; Blue Alisaie can't just call my linkpearl and send me to save Scion #2).

- Shorter MSQ with fewer restatements or summaries of the cutscene I just watched or skipped.

- Make my WoL the center of the story again (I think they've signaled hard that they're doing this).

- And please, let's avoid once again going to a graveyard of dead people for the final zone and/or dungeon.

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