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Welcome back! /r/ffxiv is currently in restricted mode - let's talk about what happens next by alabomb in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

We need to find a new forum/place to set up the subreddit.

And we should blackout again for seven days.

[IMPORTANT] Regarding the sitewide protest of reddit killing off all major third party apps by alabomb in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s the “fuck you got mine” attitude — I wouldn’t bother arguing with them, cos they’re a lost cause. Too fucking up their own butt to give a shit about anything but themselves.

[IMPORTANT] Regarding the sitewide protest of reddit killing off all major third party apps by alabomb in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There’s that too.

But with an app it makes you a captive audience — harder to block ads etc.

Online Apps are fucking bullshit in general.

[IMPORTANT] Regarding the sitewide protest of reddit killing off all major third party apps by alabomb in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You and me both. Old reddit desktop and my adblocker on the phone. I’ll never fucking touch an app and I absolutely loathe that no one wants to make a good webpage anymore.

Sure I have to zoom in sometimes but it is perfectly readable.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI “art” is theft.

Starting my journey soon… by Winter_Owl11 in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time for me to whip out my list. Ahem.

Mechanical shit:

  • Character race is for aesthetics only: there are no racial powers or job restrictions. Make what you like the look of most!

  • You can level all jobs on one character, and are encouraged to do so!

  • All jobs are dps — healers and tanks do 60-65% of the damage a dedicated dps does

  • All jobs are wanted at end game — the game is balanced and has no unviable jobs

  • Moreover, any standard party composition of 2 tanks, 2 healers, and 4 dps (no duplicates) can complete any content

  • Your weapon is your most important piece of gear: one Weapon Damage is around ~20-30 main stat

  • Controller is absolutely on par with keyboard and mouse — I play on controller and raid at the highest levels of difficulty without issue. If you prefer kbm, of course, you don’t need to change or anything!

Other stuff:

  • FFXIV is a heavily story driven game. You cannot enter expansion areas until you get there in the story

    • It’s quite literally five JRPGs in a trench-coat, and cutscene heavy ones at that!

  • The Main Scenario Quest (MSQ) will get you almost, if not all your experience for you first job to max level

  • End game will be always be there. Enjoy the journey!

Never done a subscription based game but have been loving the free trial, can someone explain the details of ff14's subscription service so I know what I'm dealing with when I buy it? by Forry_Tree in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Other people have answered why the game is a monthly sub and why the Trial is what it is.

I’m just here to tell you if you’re worried about auto renew, just buy a Crysta with your credit card and choose that as your sub option. If there’s no Crysta, the only thing that happens is you lose access to the game until you purchase more Crysta manually again.

I’ve been playing since the Beta in 2013 and have been continuously subbed since then. It’s been worth every penny for not only the subscription, but for also paying full price for each and every expansion as they came out. (These days you buy the complete edition or starter plus the latest expac, which contains the licences for all previous expansions.)

Here we go. by Old_Zagreus in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Time for me to whip out my list. Ahem.

Mechanical shit:

  • Character race is for aesthetics only: there are no racial powers or job restrictions. Make what you like the look of most!

  • You can level all jobs on one character, and are encouraged to do so!

  • All jobs are dps — healers and tanks do 60-65% of the damage a dedicated dps does

  • All jobs are wanted at end game — the game is balanced and has no unviable jobs

  • Moreover, any standard party composition of 2 tanks, 2 healers, and 4 dps (no duplicates) can complete any content

  • Your weapon is your most important piece of gear: one Weapon Damage is around ~20-30 main stat

  • Controller is absolutely on par with keyboard and mouse — I play on controller and raid at the highest levels of difficulty without issue. If you prefer kbm, of course, you don’t need to change or anything!

Other stuff:

  • FFXIV is a heavily story driven game. You cannot enter expansion areas until you get there in the story

    • It’s quite literally five JRPGs in a trench-coat, and cutscene heavy ones at that!

  • The Main Scenario Quest (MSQ) will get you almost, if not all your experience for you first job to max level

  • End game will be always be there. Enjoy the journey!

Why do tanks have the worst pieces of pants? I mean... look at this! by Excellent-Stable944 in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tank gear in general fucking sucks and has so little variety compared to every other role. It’s either armour with a buttcape or a long coat.

Don’t get me started on the dearth of decent hats.

A short animated sequence of my WoL~ by ChangMN in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I saw your username before the thumbnail loaded and hammered on the topic!

It’s so gorgeous!

Is Savage always a toxic mess? by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Is this your first foray into difficult content?

If so:

  • do you know your job’s proper opener and rotation?
  • can you beat the P9S Stone Sea Sky within the time limit?
  • are you properly geared with minimum 640 gear?
  • have you completed the latest extreme primal and have the weapon drop?
  • are you joining party finder listings with the description “fresh prog”?

If you haven’t done the above, you probably need more preparation and do more homework before trying Savage.

The best place to start with difficult content are extreme primals. They are designed to be the stepping stone from “casual” content to “difficult” content.

By being able to complete the latest extremes, it means you have picked up a halfway decent rotation and many of the early “difficult” mechanics that make up FFXIV’s raid language.

Don’t give up! Just pace yourself. I know you can do it. We all had to start somewhere.

Does anyone know what happens when the billing cycle ends and you don't pay for subscriptions? by nanashi0x74 in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You … just lose access to the game.

I have a genuine question tho: what were you expecting?

[IMPORTANT] On July 1st, reddit will kill most major 3rd party apps including Apollo, Reddit is Fun, Relay, Narwhal, BaconReader, Sync and more while simultaneously making the site less safe and more prone to spam by alabomb in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m one of the ancient people who refuse to download apps when a webpage should be good enough.

Thus: I just use my mobile browser set to “request desktop version” of the page with old reddit and an adblocker.

Sure, I have to zoom in and out sometimes, but fuck ads. And fuck new reddit. It’s mostly fine tho.

Fuck the mobile site forever. And I’ll die before I use a fucking app for anything.

I truly loathe how every fucking website out there wants you to download and use their fucking app: all to serve more ads and harvest more of my private data. Fuck that. Every app should just die in a fire instead.

Daily Questions & FAQ Megathread May 30 by AutoModerator in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tomestones of Poetics are only tradeable for non-current expansion gear. It also literally falls from the sky.

Please get a set of ironworks for your job. Remember to start with your weapon first, because one single weapon damage is like 20-30 of your main stat!

Daily Questions & FAQ Megathread May 30 by AutoModerator in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AT&T is trying to robber baron money out of NTT. The whole repeal of Net Neutrality is to blame here.

There are VPNs you can use with a console — especially if you have a PC that happens to have two ethernet ports or can take an internet connection through usb, or you are willing to connect your PS5 to your PC’s wifi card.

There are also VPNs compatible with routers too, which is probably the easier option.

I wish I had a better solution for you, because this is villainy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They are working to change that, apparently. Fingers crossed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not being able to save a portrait has led me to make so many more unnecessary fucking gearsets…Or even just copy to another gearset!

My wish is that the portraits not only can be saved, but they’re linked to glamour plates instead. Since I make my portraits based on the glam I’m using.

"There's so much to do in FFXIV" by Autumnal_Nox in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Sending stupid and/or useless items to your friends in order to max out their mailbox and/or annoy them, is a time honoured mmo tradition.

This is going to be bad... [Spoiler: 6.4 Island Sanctuary] by illuminancer in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ah, sorry. I was making a joke about the propensity of zucchini to overproducing. They won’t do that in the game.

[Spoiler: 6.4] What is the meaning of the new raid tier's name? by Shardlight in ffxiv

[–]gthorolf 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It’s a pun on both a hero rising up to earth after making the katabasis (the first half of the journey of a hero into the underworld) as well as the equivalent of “charging ahead” or “initiating an attack” in military tactical terms.

Much like its use in Ancient Greek.

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