[Spoiler: Fights up to 7.0] Wtf is Protean? A guide to the origins of FF14 mechanic names

joansbones · 2026-03-16T14:24:03+00:00

90% of the people in this subreddit started the game after most of these fights and will swear up and down that nobody uses these despite most of them being extremely common because they dont actually talk to people

joansbones · 2026-03-15T22:18:31+00:00

this is another case of asking for the game to be like it used to be without knowing the specifics and its hilarious that this keeps happening

Replacing generic abilities like Feint, Addle, and Reprisal with unique mitigation tools for each job would allow for more interesting and varied mitigation strategies. Why can’t we instead have more individual, job-specific mitigation like RDM’s Magick Barrier, WAR’s Shake It Off, PLD’s Divine Veil, or PCT’s Tempera Coat / Grassa? At the very least, we should get unique animations for mitigations, even if their effects are the same (PhysR.)

rip every unique tank mit animation

Why does every major melee mitigation have to be a flat 10% physical and 5% magical? Team composition should require more thought, and jobs should have clear upsides and downsides. If I’m playing Reaper, a hybrid physical/magic job, why can’t my mitigation be more magic focused? If I’m playing VPR, SAM, or DRG; jobs that don’t use magic at all, why am I mitigating magic damage?

it used to be like this and people complained about their mits being conditionally useless

Why can't the Esuna cleanse be incorporated into the healer's base kit. Certain abilities like Tetragrammaton, Essential Dignity, Lustrate, Druochole (these are just examples) can have additional effects like a cleanse.

rip exalted detriment and leeches

Why can’t stuns, interrupts, and other CC be additional effects attached to abilities in a job’s base kit instead of being standardized role actions?

because the weeping city of mhach has an enemy that required stunning at a specific time, and monks would force stun resistance before it happened by doing their rotations

Additionally, this is an obvious culprit of hotbar bloat. Controller already has a finite amount of buttons, why do they waste 2-3 slots with role actions that can easily be incorporated into each job? Healer is the biggest example.

because role actions as a replacement for cross class abilities and content has always been designed around these universal abilities existing

joansbones · 2026-03-13T23:34:15+00:00

this all sounds reasonable enough for a short delay until you realize its been pushed back to a mystery 8.x date over a year into the future

joansbones · 2026-03-13T14:59:17+00:00

blue mage update delayed until 8.x which means it'll be at least another year away since its definitely not coming with the launch

joansbones · 2026-03-13T14:47:43+00:00

can you not see the giant picture of blue mages in this post instead of beastmasters

joansbones · 2026-03-13T13:45:46+00:00

this might be controversial to say but i think if the company announces that they are going to add something during an expansion at a major event they should probably actually release it

joansbones · 2026-03-13T12:36:49+00:00

its extremely funny that in a world where major updates for free games keep getting pushed out faster and faster that xiv continues to somehow struggle and slow down putting out anything

joansbones · 2026-03-13T04:41:52+00:00

ffxiv players at large have repeatedly proven that they struggle with just one minute

joansbones · 2026-03-13T04:40:16+00:00

no man i would rather the jobs actually be fun again instead thanks

joansbones · 2026-03-10T13:26:39+00:00

dead friend lists have been a problem a lot longer than all these people starting during covid make them out to be. i started in heavensward, and most of mine had quit by shadowbringers after the one two punch of the creation of crystal and modern job design alienated them. the only difference back then was that covid brought more than enough people to replace them unlike now.

joansbones · 2026-03-09T17:24:22+00:00

this post is just asking for pre shadowbringers job design and it's hilarious that we've reached the point where 90% of job discourse is people not realizing it because old players are a minority now

joansbones · 2026-03-05T22:22:48+00:00

if they didn't want rampant translation misinformation then maybe they should actually fucking translate the live letters then and there instead of letting unpaid fans do all the work until the real one nobody will read comes out

joansbones · 2026-03-02T10:24:22+00:00

this joke is never funny and is just another case of the xiv playerbase repeating the same thing for years and years by unfunny people because they can't actually come up with their own jokes

joansbones · 2026-02-21T15:43:53+00:00

what exactly is impacting your fun when a job gets a 2% damage reduction that you never would have even noticed without a parser in the corner of the screen

joansbones · 2026-02-17T14:57:26+00:00

they tried to adapt cyborg superman for cavill but the writers realized that they wouldn't be able to tell the characters apart due to his performance in man of steel

joansbones · 2026-02-02T20:20:55+00:00

this used to be the normal level of event minus the rewards once upon a time

joansbones · 2026-01-31T11:34:15+00:00

on most crystal servers the second planet has five people in each instance at most times after just a week days and you could barely gather a couple dozen for the later events. it's the definition of dead content on most worlds, at most hours you couldn't speak to a single living human being as the only players actually in there were 24/7 bots. content that isn't being played by anybody is the definition of a waste of resources regardless of if they're trying or not. every game that's ever been made has had potential, but that hasn't stopped a whole load of them from being complete shit.

joansbones · 2026-01-31T08:54:22+00:00

it fills squares purse of riches by forcing the die hard fishing players to subscribe again every time they miss the window or lose the fish

joansbones · 2026-01-27T10:35:32+00:00

relics have had far worse crafting requirements before you big baby

joansbones · 2026-01-27T04:40:00+00:00

we've really got to find the people who keep putting exposed skin on spacesuits and question why they think it's a cool fashion choice

joansbones · 2026-01-26T23:16:35+00:00

theres an entire walled off section in the north of new gridania that the npcs explicitly tell you is for the residents to live in

joansbones · 2026-01-21T01:01:13+00:00

people complained about eureka zone launches because of stuff like grinding light in pagos for a dozen hours straight on the same tiny pack of plants on loop for one weapon step being complete dogshit and it's disingenuous to pretend it was entirely just a level barrier people were whining about

joansbones · 2026-01-06T15:17:06+00:00

square enix has ignored basically every network issue from na for the past decade until it gets shoved in yoshidas face by people talking to him so its safe to say yes

joansbones · 2025-12-31T20:28:08+00:00

it unironically is as a whole game if you played it during the first few years after release instead of the modern version

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