Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Ehrgeix
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I’m only halfway through (third dungeon) but the writing is pretty far away from 5.0 levels of good - if it was a single player game I had just picked up I’d probably ditch.
First trial was very weird to have as a first trial but I am enjoying the moon / sharlayan thread. Garlemald was alright I guess.
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I still think shb 5.0 is miles above most of the rest of the wiring with a few exceptions like drk story, arc story, the better bits of heavensward, etc. ARR and half of SB are just bad. The rest kind of mediocre.
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Finally, the follow quests and the imperial soldier quest can fuck off.
First trial was very weird to have as a first trial but I am enjoying the moon / sharlayan thread. Garlemald was alright I guess.
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I still think shb 5.0 is miles above most of the rest of the wiring with a few exceptions like drk story, arc story, the better bits of heavensward, etc. ARR and half of SB are just bad. The rest kind of mediocre.
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Finally, the follow quests and the imperial soldier quest can fuck off.
Byr
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Chris
Potato del Grande
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Well I finished it. I'm satisfied with the ending but there's definitely more that could have been done with some of the story concepts.
It's definatly wildly inconsistent from the highs of Garlemald to the lows of Labyrinthos. All the spoiler zones and trials are batshit insane in a good way.
However as boring as Labyrinthos is on both vists (other than the dungeon and trial), it's not worse than some of the boring bits of Shadowbringers like Khlousa or Ill Mehg (excluding the dungeons and trials those zones have which are not boring).
I don't think Labyrinthos should have been a zone but it has parallels to the later on zones I guess. I'd have liked Magna Glacies to be a zone instead to give Garlemald more time.
While it's all story heavy and little combat, it's very clever in how it sets up the insane stuff in precious zones. Also the final zone and dungeon is just really fucking creepy.
It's definatly wildly inconsistent from the highs of Garlemald to the lows of Labyrinthos. All the spoiler zones and trials are batshit insane in a good way.
However as boring as Labyrinthos is on both vists (other than the dungeon and trial), it's not worse than some of the boring bits of Shadowbringers like Khlousa or Ill Mehg (excluding the dungeons and trials those zones have which are not boring).
I don't think Labyrinthos should have been a zone but it has parallels to the later on zones I guess. I'd have liked Magna Glacies to be a zone instead to give Garlemald more time.
While it's all story heavy and little combat, it's very clever in how it sets up the insane stuff in precious zones. Also the final zone and dungeon is just really fucking creepy.
Valorath
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Really glad to hear that. I’m going to finish up MSQ tonight, leveling AST is next on the list.
Grizzlebeard
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Unlikely to do that much but might improve a bit.
AST didn't look particularly more fun now but maybe I'll give it a try over WHM which definitely looks boring, although it's strong.
Doing SCH atm, the 1.5s nuke change is godlike qol and it really sucks it took this long. Can use all my 12000situational tools whenever I want now without having to weight whether it's worth the potency loss of having to use Ruin II if I don't have an energy drain to double weave with it. Also fairy is more responsive, still has some delay and using 2 abilities in a row still has a lot of delay(the fairy basically uses GCD skills when you order her so while you can queue several orders as oGCDs, she still needs ~3secs for each skill) but for the initial cast it feels a lot snappier which is great. New Broil sound is meh though.
Will probably do a tank next just so I have one leveled, likely GNB although WAR looks tempting with the changes. I wish they changed Overpower to a circle though shit is still unwieldy as shit. At the very least should be a 180° frontal instead.
AST didn't look particularly more fun now but maybe I'll give it a try over WHM which definitely looks boring, although it's strong.
Doing SCH atm, the 1.5s nuke change is godlike qol and it really sucks it took this long. Can use all my 12000situational tools whenever I want now without having to weight whether it's worth the potency loss of having to use Ruin II if I don't have an energy drain to double weave with it. Also fairy is more responsive, still has some delay and using 2 abilities in a row still has a lot of delay(the fairy basically uses GCD skills when you order her so while you can queue several orders as oGCDs, she still needs ~3secs for each skill) but for the initial cast it feels a lot snappier which is great. New Broil sound is meh though.
Will probably do a tank next just so I have one leveled, likely GNB although WAR looks tempting with the changes. I wish they changed Overpower to a circle though shit is still unwieldy as shit. At the very least should be a 180° frontal instead.
Fyff
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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It's really not. The best way for them to counter what's happening is to go back to restarts every 6 hours. This has been an issue since the first expansion. Adding 4k to the queue probably won't do much. They were having this issue years ago before 'most players ever'
Araxen
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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Logged in to a queue of 35 before work this morning, and now I baby sit it till I get off work. I don't mind sitting in the queue, but the 2002 error has pushed me over the edge. AFK babysitting it is.
I fear I'm going to get dumped anyway tonight because when they say they are performing maintenance on the 8th that is Japan time. For the US that is during primetime tonight.
I fear I'm going to get dumped anyway tonight because when they say they are performing maintenance on the 8th that is Japan time. For the US that is during primetime tonight.
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Goonsquad Officer
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thats my stance. i'm going to try ernestly to log in when i get home from work. if it gets retarded i'm going to start logging in at 630 AM, and use steam link to tap W every half hour or so.
Koushirou
Log Wizard
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Finished as well. To put it short, this felt like the Endgame to ShB’s Infinity War. It was going to be hard as fuck to top that. Still very much enjoyed it, had some slow parts but some good strong points as well. I loved the last zone. Where the hell do they go from here?
Definitely could have done without the tailing missions for sure. Not sure who thought those were a good idea. The little escorts were fine except for not being able to mount with them. It was fun to actually have some difficulty on the trials and take a few attempts.
Definitely could have done without the tailing missions for sure. Not sure who thought those were a good idea. The little escorts were fine except for not being able to mount with them. It was fun to actually have some difficulty on the trials and take a few attempts.
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Aazrael
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Finished the 1st trial and it was pretty rough with mostly new people, I fucked up at the star thing every time... On another note, I feel like 80-83 story would have been an antire WoW expansion, with patches in between for the story to go forward at a snails pace and mostly fetch Bear Asses quests along the way. Really thought Anima would be a trial and was shocked it was the dungeon boss. 
Was kind of prepared that Zodiark would be an early thing though when YoshiP talked about the story pace.
Was kind of prepared that Zodiark would be an early thing though when YoshiP talked about the story pace.
Cinge
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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I don't mind the escorts so much. I'm not sure what "Railing" is, but if its the metal gear solid missions, with all the sneaking, distance, hiding, I agree.
Koushirou
Log Wizard
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Angerz
Trakanon Raider
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I actually really like the escort missions, since so many quests are just "run from A to B", having the character along and those little extra conversation zones was neat. Would have been better if they could hop in my Regalia and listen to some tunes on the way, but maybe next time.
The stealth missions tho, can suck a dick.
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Chris
Potato del Grande
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They need a new MSQ which new players can choose to follow instead of the old one. They can't keep adding to the same linear story.
The problem is that a new MSQ would have to be both lv1-100 for new players in one expansion and lv90-100 for old players. That can be done via scaling but would feel really weird and not incentivise use of the old zones for levelling content.
Alternatively they could just release a lv1-50 expansion similar to 2.0 with some raids for lv90 players, but now you have new players stuck at lv50 and old players forced to level new jobs for the new content (so you need to add several new jobs).
It's going to be tough. Maybe we just get lv90-100 and screw new players.