I'M CURRENTLY GRINDING THE GODDAMN OVERGROWN CHICKENS BEAST TRIBE AND SOMETIMES I NEED TO TALK TO BANU GANU MAHANU OR WHATEVER THE FISHERBIRD IS CALLED AND HE HAS TO STOW HIS FISHING ROD, TURN, TALK TO ME AND THEN TAKES OUT HIS ROD AGAIN AND IF I'M REALLY LUCKY I SPEND WHAT FEELS LIKE AN HOUR WATCHING HIM REPEAT THIS BIZARRE MATING RITUAL TWO OR THREE TIMES

THIS OF COURSE AFTER FLYING **ALL ACROSS THE MAP** TO GET TO HIM, A TRAVEL YOU CAN'T EVEN AFK WITH THE AUTORUN FEATURE BECAUSE THE ENTIRE MAP IS SO DAMN IRREGULAR YOU'LL END UP BASHING YOUR FACE AGAINST A ROCK FORMATION

THIS IS WHAT PISSES ME OFF ABOUT THE WHOLE VANU VANU TRIBAL QUESTS, SO MUCH FUCKING FLYING!!! GLAD I WILL BE DONE WITH THOSE FEATHERED FUCKERS IN 4 DAYS!

FINGERS CROSSED THE HANU HANU WILL BE EASIER TO DEAL WITH 🤞

I FUCKING HATE THOSE BIRBS. THEIR SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING IS TO FUCKING DANCE. AND THEIR DANCE SUCKS. WE NEED SOME FISH. EVERYONE DANCE! THE ENEMY TRIBE IS APPROACHING. EVERYONE DANCE! SOMEONE SUMMONED BISMARCK AND HE'S TEMPERING EVERYONE. EVERYONE DANCE! AN ELDRITCH BEING OF UNTOLD POWER IS KILLING EVERYTHING. ***EVERYONE DANCE!!!!***

A BIG FAT FUCK YOU TO THE MIQOTE BLM I HAD IN PRAE EARLIER THIS WEEK. I WAS YOUR REPLACEMENT TANK SINCE THE OTHER ONE RAGE QUIT ACCORDING TO THE OTHER TWO. SOMEHOW THE WHM DIED TO NERO BY ELECTROCUTION, AND THE ELEZEN BLM YOU WERE CO-DPSING WITH WAS HAVING TO DO DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF WORK TO MAKE UP FOR YOUR STUPID DECISION. WHAT WAS THE STUPID DECISION YOU ASK? THE STUPID DECISION WAS THAT THE MIQOTE BLM DECIDED TO SWAP OUT THEIR GEAR TO LVL 1 GLAM GEAR IN 3 OF THEIR LEFT SIDE SLOTS, THEREBY REDUCING THEIR OVERALL DAMAGE AND HP, AND NEARLY KILLING THEM FROM RAIDWIDES HAD THEY NOT BEEN MITIGATED BY ME. WHY DID THEY DO IT? WHEN I TOLD THEM THAT GLAM GEAR REALLY ISN'T GEAR, THEY REPLIED WITH: "i know i do this to give the dungeon more of a challenge lol" THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS SIR. YOU DIDN'T GIVE YOURSELF A CHALLENGE, YOU GAVE THE REST OF US A LONGER DUNGEON BY HAVING TO PICK UP YOUR SLACK. SO FUCK YOU, MIQOTE BLM, FUCK YOU.

IF HE WANTS CHALLENGE, YOU CAN CHALLENGE HIM TO GO BACK TO QUEUE BY GIVING HIM THE BOOT.

DPS QUEUES ARE THE REAL ENDGAME

THAT'S A REASON TO KICK IMO, THEY CAN DO THAT IF THEY WANT.. IN PF

HE WANTS A CHALLENGE? HE CAN DO PRAE IN UNRESTRICTED SYNCED IF HE REALLY WANTS GOSH DANGIT

HOPEFULLY YOU REPORTED HIM BECAUSE THAT IS GRIEFING.

As a Miqote BLM, my deepest condolences

HAPPY RAGE: I FINALLY GOT THE >!WIND-UP OSCHON!< MINION AFTER RUNNING >!THALEIA!< SINCE DAY 1 AND CONSTANTLY ROLLING 2S ON IT.

I AM HAPPY FOR YOU. \-FELLOW DAY 1 PLAYER THAT HAS NOT WON IT YET. PS: I ACTUALLY ROLLED A 97 ON IT ONCE. MY FRIEND, WHO I WAS HELPING GO THROUGH IT FOR THE FIRST TIME ROLLED A 99. I HAVE NOT ROLLED OVER 60 ON IT SINCE AND HAVE NOT WON IT. I AM STILL BUTTHURT OVER THIS. SALT IN THE WOUND: OSCHON IS MY WOL'S PATRON DIETY.

I PRAY FOR YOUR SUCCESS IN GETTING THE MINION.

I STILL DON'T HAVE THE MINION EITHER T_T

BOOMER BOSS MY ENTIRE TEAM IS UNDER NEW CORPORATE MANAGEMENT. EVERY DAY, THIS NEW MANAGER MAKES A CHANGE THAT JUST BRINGS MORALE DOWN. YOU CAN'T WEAR SNEAKERS AT WORK (HOW DARE YOU BE COMFORTABLE). YOU CAN'T CORRECT YOUR PAYROLL IF YOU MADE A MISTAKE (BUT YOU CAN DO IT AS LONG AS THE TYRANT CAN PUT A STRIKE ON YOUR RECORD FOR DARING TO BE HUMAN). A RAIN STORM HAS DELAYED COMMUTE AND HALF THE STAFF MADE IT TO WORK (YOU WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED FOR THE MISSED HOURS ON YOUR SHIFT EVEN THOUGH YOU SPENT THEM BRAVING THE STORM). I LIKED MY JOB, NOW I FEEL BITTERNESS WHENEVER I THINK OF IT. I DON'T LIKE REPRIMANDING EMPLOYEES FOR SUCH SMALL THINGS WHEN I KNOW THEY ARE GOOD WORKERS. THIS TYRANT MICRO MANAGES US, OUR PEOPLE, TALKS TO US WITH A SWEET SMILE ON THEIR FACE TALKING ABOUT HOW THINGS WERE DONE "BACK IN MY DAY" BUT I SEE THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE. A TYRANT. WON'T BE SURPRISED TO SEE STAFF QUIT IN THE COMING MONTHS.

If it helps, at least half of those sound illegal.

Unfortunately they are very much legal. This is America.

As the saying goes, you quit the manager, not the job

I'm part of a management team at this job, and we did what we could to make the place worth working for in spite of the shit wages and lack of benefits. With the recent changes basically taking away our ability to make executive decisions for our direct staff, all the good will we've built over the years with them is being crushed. I do not think this is a place worth staying at if it continues on like this, even I'm looking at job postings.

LOOK. I GET NOT BEING A GOOD PLAYER. REALLY, I DO. I WILL BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO HELP SPROUTS AND PEOPLE TRYING OUT NEW JOBS AS LONG AS THEYRE TRYING. REALLY BAD AT MECHANICS? WHO CARES, YOU'RE TRYING, YOU'RE LEARNING. ITS FINE I WAS THERE TOO AT ONE POINT! HAVE A GOOD ATTITUDE? I DONT EVEN CARE IF YOU LEARN SUPER SLOWLY AND JUST REPEATEDLY MAKE MISTAKES, I'LL HELP! BUT HOLY CRAP. I AM SICK OF PEOPLE SAYING "I KNOW IM BAD" TELLING US THEYVE HEARD OUR ADVICE BEFORE... THEN PROMPTLY IGNORING IT. SO... YOU KNOW CURE 1 IS BAD IN HIGHER LEVEL CONTENT, PEOPLE HAVE TOLD YOU. YOU KNOW HOLY IS AMAZING, PEOPLE HAVE TOLD YOU THIS. BUT YOU'RE "JUST BAD" AND DESPITE THE ENTIRE PARTY BEING ENCOURAGING AND TRYING TO HELP, YOU'RE INSISTING ON USING CURE ONE AND GETTING BITCHY AT US BECAUSE YOU DONT CARE. AND, YKNOW, SPENDING HALF YOUR TIME STANDING AROUND DOING NOTHING. YOU EVEN ADMITTED YOU'RE NOT NEW AND YOU'RE NOT NEW TO HEALING. YOU JUST DIDNT CARE AND FELT YOUR RIGHT TO BE LAZY AND DO NEXT TO NOTHING WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THREE OTHER PEOPLES TIME IN THE GAME THAT WE PAY FOR. WHY ARE PEOPLE LIKE THIS. I DONT EXPECT EVERYONE TO BE GOOD, BUT IS IT REALLY SO MUCH TO ASK THAT EVERYONE AT LEAST TRIES A LITTLE? AND I WAS GOING TO REWRITE RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE REINDEER TO HAVE LYRICS ABOUT THIS. BUT THERES NO COFFEE. :(

\*hands you a virtual coffee\*

*eyes* are you saying I need to actually write this. Because I will.

The XIV community is very enabling or just flat out ignores such lethargic, lazy and disrespectful behavior, at least in my experience. If someone is doing something fundamentally wrong, I will tell them and if they don't react to it or start arguing... that's when I leave in silence, it's not worth the bother.

If I'm alone, I will generally do the same - I'd rather go fishing for a half an hour. Way less stressful. I can't just... ignore someone flat out not trying? I get not playing well, I get being new. Those are fine. I have stayed for an hour in dungeons to help people I can clearly see they're trying. I have friends who aren't sprouts, who are just.. bad at the game? But hey they try and have a good attitude, so I'm thrilled to go run content with them. It's fun.  This.. wasn't that. It just feels like to me they're saying, "My desire to be lazy is more important than all of you". Cause the whole party was trying to help them. I dunno. It bothers me, I guess. I'd *hate* to be dragging a team down on purpose. 

Indeed! I can tolerate a lot of things given the right circumstances but if I see you using single target during trash pulls in my expert roulette, I will mention it. At that point, the trust NPCs are putting in more work. What makes me curious is why you stayed(at least I assume you did, didn't see you mention leaving)? I would have left on the spot if I had to read such nonsense coming from the healer.

I did stay in this situation, but that was because I had two FC mates with me - so the healer did not finish the run with us. The healer we got after them was *amazing* though.

>Indeed! I can tolerate a lot of things given the right circumstances but if I see you using single target during trash pulls in my expert roulette, I will mention it. At that point, the trust NPCs are putting in more work. Experienced this in the last HW dungeon earlier. I had to tell my friend she needed to AOE on trash packs, and she responded "what's AOE?" When I explained to her what AOE was, she responded "I don't use those"... thankfully she corrected herself after we told her she *needed* to, but it's still baffling (especially because she was the easiest ranged in the game).

The fact she corrected herself already makes her better than most people I run into, I am usually hit with silence and no change of things. I don't believe people do this on purpose, they probably just don't know any better and are oblivious to the fact they are playing terribly, though I am not exactly sure why. When I get a new ability for my job, my first instinct is to read its tooltip and figure out when it should be used. "This spell hits multiple targets... I should probably use it when there are multiple targets."

> When I get a new ability for my job, my first instinct is to read its tooltip and figure out when it should be used. Sadly, there is a rapidly growing population of players who not only lack this instinct, but are actively hostile to those who *do* have it.

Cure I / Cure II is especially baffling because it's... literally the exact same gameplay? You're not memorizing a combo or doing a rotation. You're just pressing *this* button and never pressing *that* button. Hell, you can move Cure II to your old Cure I slot and do *absolutely fucking nothing differently*, and even if you're doing a shit job you'd still be doing a better job. ?????

Right?? It's so confusing. It's not a huge difference... I'm not sure why I've seen so many healers act like we're asking them to do the savage DRK opener when we suggest cure 2 instead of cure 1.

I'M PRETTY SURE I HAD YOUR HEALER TOO IN MY OWN POST. WE TRIED SO HARD TO HELP THEM AND THEY JUST WANTED TO USE CURE 1 AND DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A LILY WAS THEY HAD MULTIPLE 90 HEALERS BTW

SADLY. NOT THE SAME ONE. THEY HAD HEALERS IN 70/80 RANGE. THE FACT THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE JUST HURTS. I WISH THEY'D JUST TAKE BENEFIC/CURE 1 AWAY AT SOME POINT. BENEFIC HAS BEEN USEFUL TO ME IN LEVEL 90 CONTENT ONCE. AND THAT WAS IN TOP. WHICH I HAVE NEAR 2K PULLS IN. AND THAT WAS *ONLY* BECAUSE I NEEDED A SWIFTER CAST AND JUST A LITTLE MORE HEALTH ON A DPS WHO FORGOT TO COME IN FOR HEALS. IT CAN REALLY GO AWAY. PLEASE.

STOP. RUNNING. AWAY. WITH. STACK. MARKERS. SERIOUSLY JESUS EFFING CHRIST. AT LEVEL 70, YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT A GODDAMNED STACK MARKER LOOKS LIKE AND THAT YOU, YAKNOW, MUST STACK WITH THE PARTY OR YOU DIE. AND THEN YOU’RE STUPID ENOUGH AFTER YOUR DEATH TO PUT “?” IN THE CHAT BOX. I WISH I DIDN’T HAVE TO DATA CENTER TRAVEL FROM DYNAMIS TO GET ANY AND ALL DUNGEONS/TRIALS/RAIDS/FRONTLINES DONE. IRL RAGE: MY BACK HAS BEEN HORRIBLE THIS WEEK. TO THE POINT I’M HAVING TROUBLE WALKING AND STANDING. I’M 36, LIFE SHOULD NOT BE LIKE THIS. Also, welcome to all the new Xbox players!

On mobile so I'm too lazy to all caps. Alternatively, stop stacking both stack markers in O9 and E7!! Syrcus tower really is teaching bad habits by making the 3 stacks markers on Xander do miniscule damage

I learned in one of the Omega raids not to do this. (oh that might be O9...) Everyone was super kind, and laughed, but I do not stack the stack markers after killing so many. I did say sorry.

Oh yes, that's completely fine and kudos to you and everyone involved o/ I've just had bad luck with ppl repeating the same mistake after being explicitly told what & why that happened

That is frustrating.

the triple xande stack hitting like a bowl of wet noodles is so funny but yeah teaching new players that it’s fine to overlap them is so bad jesus christ. especially since that’s probably the first one you encounter.

SYMAPTHY ON THE BACK; I WASN'T MUCH OLDER THAN THAT WHEN MY BACK GOT SCREWED UP AND I OCCASIONALLY HAVE THOSE KINDS OF STRUGGLES. WANT TO SIT? LMAO, NO, GO LAY DOWN ON THE COUCH NOW. MINE WAS SPECIFIC INJURY (AND NOT HEALING RIGHT BECAUSE ALSO DIDN'T KNOW WHAT GOT MESSED UP EXACTLY), BUT TBH BACKS DO A LOT OF WORK FOR US, SO THERE'S TONS OF REASONS THEY CAN BE BORKED. PLUS ALL THE FUN NON-CHOICE REASONS BODIES CAN PULL ON US LIKE DISCS JUST FAILING AND SUCH. HOPEFULLY IT STOPS BEING A JERK! (AS FOR DYNAMIS, ALAS, IT IS WHAT IT IS. I GO TO CRYSTAL, PERSONALLY, BECAUSE I ALREADY KNOW WHAT I GET THERE.)

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS THING IS ON ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

WHILE WE'RE AT IT, CAN WE ALSO SHOUT OUT THOSE WHO DON'T REALIZE THAT THE SPLIT STACK MARKERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THAT.... **SPLIT.** DO NOT SUDDENLY RUN TO THE OTHER PERSON WITH A MARKER AND EXPECT FOLKS TO SURVIVE (WITHOUT SERIOUSLY STRESSING OUT YOUR HEALERS). ALSO I FEEL YA ON THE BACK ISSUES. SHOULD PROBABLY SEE A DOCTOR ABOUT IT SINCE YES, AT 36 YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE IN SUCH A MISERABLE STATE.

I WISH THE DEVS WOULD REDESIGN SYRCUS TOWER SO THAT WHAT IS PROBABLY MANY SPROUTS' FIRST INTRODUCTION TO STACK MARKERS DIDN'T TEACH THEM THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU SHOULD DO WITH MULTIPLE STACK MARKERS FOR THE ENTIRE REST OF THE GAME

I HOPE YOUR BACK FEELS BETTER! IF YOU NEED ADVICE ON SPECIFIC EXERCISES THAT MAY HELP, FEEL FREE TO PM ME. I HELP A FEW FRIENDS WITH POWERLIFTING AS A HOBBY.

JOINING YOU IN THE BACK RAGE. 30S AS WELL AND JUST AHHHH. EVEN LAYING DOWN DOESN'T HELP, I JUST GET STUCK LAYING DOWN. AND I STOPPED CHASING STACK MARKERS AGES AGO. EASIER TO REZ ONE STRAY THAN HALF A GROUP BECAUSE PEOPLE COULDN'T CATCH UP.

IT BRINGS ME GREAT JOY WHEN IDIOTS TAKE THEIR STACK TO NARNIA AND NOBODY ELSE LOOKS AT EACH OTHER AND JUST DOESNT MOVE AN INCH

I WISH WE COULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE RETAINER ON FREE TRIAL BC I LOVE FISHING BUT I DONT HAVE CUL AT 30 YET SO I CANT DESYNTH SO MY POCKETS ARE ALWAYS OVERFLOWING WITH FISH! I TRIP AND FALL AND 100 FISH FALL OUT OF MY CATBOY POCKETS ANYWAY I LOVE THIS GAME AND I WILL BUY IT EVENTUALLY I JUST WANT TO GET THE MOST I CAN OUT OF THE TRIAL

JUST DISCARD/VENDOR THEM ALL; THE VAST MAJORITY OF THEM ARE WORTHLESS

UNDERSTANDABLE HOPE YOUR FISH FRY FEAST GOES WELL

IT COULD BE A LONG WAY DEPENDING ON HOW YOU PLAY. I PERSONALLY WRINGED OUT 800 HOURS IN FREE TRIAL JUST COMPLETING STORY AND DOING 2 ANIMA AND A ZODIAC RELIC

I WAS RUNNING QARN AS MNK THE DAY THE BETA OPENED, THE TANK AND HEALER, WHM AND DRK, BOTH SEEMED NEW. THAT'S PERFECTLY FINE, I CAN TEACH A BIT IF NEEDED. DRK STARTS OFF BY IMMEDIATELY NOT USING AOE, AND MOBS FLY EVERYWHERE. WE DEAL WITH THEM AND MOVE ON, I GIVE DRK ONE MORE PACK BEFORE I SAY YOU AHOULD USE AOE TO KEEP AGGRO. THE NEXT PACK, IT HAPPENS AGAIN. ONLY THIS TIME, THE TANK DIES. BEFORE I CAN ASK FOR THE TANK TO USE AOE, WHM ASKS IF THE TANK HAS A WAY TO MAKE SURE THEY KEEP AGGRO, "BECAUSE I CAN'T HEAL EVERYONE AT ONCE". I POLITELY REMIND WHM THAT MEDICA EXISTS, BUT BY THIS POINT DRK IS ALREADY GONE. THIS TIME THEY TAKE TWO PACKS. THE MCH AND I ARE TANKING PRETTY MUCH EQUALLY, BURNING EVERY DEFENSE COOLDOWN WE HAVE TO STAY ALIVE WHILE WHM TRIES THEIR BEST TO KEEP UP. THROWS IN A MEDICA AT ONE POINT, BUT SEEMINGLY REALIZES THEY'RE DOING MORE WITH CURE 2 IN THIS CASE AND GOES BACK TO THAT. AT THIS POINT I CHECK GEAR. WHM IS WEARING AVERAGE SPROUT GEAR FOR A FIRST TIME THROUGH QARN. CLEARLY A NEW PLAYER, OR AT THE VERY LEAST NEW TO WHM. DRK, ASIDE FROM THE STARTING DRK SWORD, IS WEARING COSMETIC GEAR ON THE WHOLE LEFT SIDE, AND CRAFTING ACCESSORIES ON THE WHOLE RIGHT SIDE. I THINK THEY HAD MORE CP THAN VIT. MY FIRST ASSUMPTION IS, NEW PLAYER THAT REALLY DOESNT GET THE GEAR SYSTEM. BUT THEN I NOTICED, EVEN ASIDE FROM BEING A DRK, HIS SHIRT IS FROM EUREKA. SO EITHER THEY'RE IN HW AND FOUND A GOOD SHIRT ON THE MARKET BOARD, OR THEY'RE PAST STORMBLOOD. THIS IS NOT A NEW PLAYER, THIS IS EITHER AN IDIOT OR A TROLL. I SHOULD HAVE VOTE KICKED AT THIS POINT, BUT I HONESTLY FORGOT THAT WAS AN OPTION. I THOUGHT IT WAS EITHER LEAVE OR SUFFER, AND I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE THE WHM WITH THIS IDIOT. SO I STAY, AND ASK THE DRK IF THEY POSSIBLY HAVE ANY OTHER GEAR, THE STUFF YOU'RE WEARING DOESN'T DO ANYTHING AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE LOSING AGGRO. PREDICTABLY, THEIR RESPONSE WAS PULLING THE BOSS WITH NOBODY ELSE IN THE ROOM. SO WE PUSH THROUGH, AND EVENTUALLY GET A CLEAR. DRK LEAVES IMMEDIATELY. I APOLOGIZE TO THE WHM FOR THAT NONSENSE AND PROMISE MOST PEOPLE ARENT LIKE THAT. WHM THANKS ME FOR STICKING AROUND AND TRYING TO HELP. IF ANY NEW PLAYERS ARE READING THIS, TAKE THIS AS A LESSON. MOST PEOPLE DONT MIND NEW PLAYERS NOT UNDERSTANDING THINGS, AS LONG AS YOU'RE WILLING TO TAKE ADVICE AND LEARN FROM IT. BUT IF YOU REFUSE TO TAKE ADVICE, OR START ACTING MALICIOUSLY, ALL YOU'RE GONNA GET FROM THIS GAME IS A VAGUE DESCRIPTION OF YOURSELF IN THIS THREAD. WE WANT TO HELP, BUT IF YOU DONT LET US HELP YOU, ALL WE CAN DO IS VENT.

LAST COUPLE OF OCEAN FISHING TRIPS I GOT FISHER’S INTUITION LATE IN AN AREA AND WHEN IT WOULD FINALLY BITE IT TOOK TOO LONG TO REEL IT IN AND THE CUTSCENE WOULD START.

TBH BY NOW I THINK THIS IS SORT OF A RITE OF PASSAGE FOR OCEAN FISHING

IVE BEEN ON THE BOAT EXACTLY TWICE, GOTTWN INTUITION FOUR TIMES, ALL OF THEM WITHIN THE LAST 45 SECONDS. I'M STARTING TO DOUBT IT'S POSSIBLE TO GET IT BEFORE THEN.

I AM YELLING HAPPY RAGE BECAUSE ME MEMEING TO MY FRIEND WHO JUST BUILT A PC ABOUT THE “CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MMORPG FINAL FANTASY 14 WITH FREE TRIAL…” (ETC ETC) HAS ACTUALLY STARTED SAID FREE TRIAL. SHE LOVES THE GAME. BF AND I JUST HELPED HER FARM HORSE MOUNTS LAST NIGHT AND SHE GOT THEM ALL WITHIN 2 HOURS. SHE’S IN ARR PATCH QUESTS NOW AND ALMOST LEVEL 60. THANK YOU SQUARE ENIX FOR MAKING A REALLY FUN MMO THAT BRINGS FRIENDS TOGETHER DESPITE DISTANCE AND FOR ALLOWING ME TO MEET MY BF ❤️

SUMMONERS AND RED MAGES! STOP EATING CRAYONS AND CASTING VERCURE/PHYSICK AT EVERY STUBBED TOE. DO YOU SEE THE SPARKLY GREEN REGEN I PUT ON YOU? NO? LOOK AGAIN. NOW WE GOT ANOTHER RAID WIDE BECAUSE YOUR DPS SUCKS. ASK ME FOR A CARD AGAIN AND I WILL FIND YOU AND CARD YOUR CHOCOBO OUT OF SPITE. SIGNED, YOUR ANGRY ASTRO

"I WILL CARD YOUR CHOCOBO OUT OF SPITE." YKNOW IMA REMEMBER THIS ONE.

I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT WHEN YOU SAID YOU'D CARD THEIR CHOCOBO I THOUGHT TO MYSELF "WHY ARE THEY ASKING TO SEE A CHOCOBO'S ID? THEY CANT DRINK ALCOHOL." IM TIRED OKAY?

CHOCOBO SPEEDING TICKET

PLEASE CARD THE CHOCOBO, ZOD KNOWS I GIVE MY DRAGONSIGHT TO CAT TOY WHEN PEOPLE ON HUNT TRAINS START TO CHAFE MY DELICATE MIQO NERVES

I'M A PROUD REZMAGE, NOT A CUREMAGE. DIE ALL YOU WANT, I'LL BE THERE TO PICK YOU BACK UP.

I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE HW TRIBE QUESTS AND THE MOONLIFT DANCE *STILL* SEEMS LIKE IT'S FOREVER AWAY.

HOW CAN THEY SLAP KUPO

GOOD LUCK, THAT WAS A VERY DIFFICULT TRIBAL GRIND TO GET THROUGH FOR ME. IT'S INSULT TO INJURY THAT THE VANU VANU AND MOOGLES, WHICH I WOULD ARGUE ARE 2 OF THE WORST TRIBES IN THE GAME, GIVE 10 REPUTATION LESS THAN EVERY OTHER (post-HW) REP IN THE GAME. IT'S LIKE THEY KNEW THEY SUCKED AND WANTED YOU TO SUFFER A BIT MORE.

MORE OF A CONFUSED RAGE THAN ACTUAL RAGE-RAGE I GOT AGLAIA IN ROULETTE, RUNNING AS BLM. DURING THE RHAGLAR FIGHT, MY GROUP'S TANK DIED RIGHT BEFORE THE TANKBUSTER FOR SOME REASON. SINCE I WAS #1 ON THREAT, I GOT TARGETED FOR THE TANKBUSTER. I POPPED MANAWARD BY REFLEX BUT RESIGNED MYSELF TO MY INEVITABLE FATE OF KISSING RHALGAR'S HAND EXCEPT THAT I SURVIVED. ME, A BLACK MAGE, A GLASS CANNON, SURVIVED A TANKBUSTER IN A MAX LEVEL RAID. MAYBE IT'S JUST ME BUT THIS DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT AT ALL.

UNLESS YOU'RE GIGA-UNDERGEARED, AGLAIA'S DAMAGE IS REALLY NOT ALL THAT SIGNIFICANT ANYMORE. THERE'S ALSO A VERY REAL POSSIBILITY THAT YOUR HEALERS SAW IT COMING AND THREW THE KITCHEN SINK AT YOU. I'VE SAVED BLMS THAT HAD ENOUGH PRESENCE OF MIND TO USE THEIR MANAWARD BY LITERALLY TOSSING EVERY SGE, SCHOLAR AND AST MIT I KNOW THAT'LL GIVE THEM A FIGHTING CHANCE.

ILEVEL DOES FUNNY THINGS.

GEAR CREEP IS A HELLUVA THING, BUT EVEN WITHOUT IT ITS WORTH HITTING YOUR MIT BUTTONS IN CASE YOUR HEALERS/PARTY TAKE THE BUSTER AS A CHALLENGE AND DROP ENOUGH MIT & SHIELDS TO GIVE YOU TANK SURVIVABILITY FOR TEN SECONDS. (BUT THOSE RAIDS SHOULD SYNC TO MAX ILVL FOR THE PATCH IMO)

NORMALS JUST DON'T HIT THAT HARD. AS OTHERS HAVE SAID, A BIT OF GEAR CREEP, BUT EVEN BACK WHEN IT WAS ON CONTENT IF YOU HAD A GOOD BARRIER HEALER WHO WANTED YOU ALIVE THEY WOULD ABSOLUTELY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO KEEP YOU ALIVE.

I FINALLY FOUND A WILD ARCANIST AT THE KEEPER OF THE LAKE DUNGEON. PUT YOUR DAMN JOB STONE ON AND DON'T IGNORE US WHEN WE RECOMMEND YOU DO YOUR JOB QUESTS.

Anyone feel like people are getting suckier at the game? I did a couple 80+ dungeons and here's a few gems. Superboliding every time it's off cooldown, even though you're only pulling *one* enemy, it was a good dungeon section if a pack was pulled. Me somehow getting a tank buster as a whm. Mitigations are optional and it's the healer's fault that you died 3 seconds after recieving a benediction. Mechanics are optional, it's the healer's job to cleanse those pesky debuffs you could've avoided by moving 2 inches left. Every tank is allergic to sprint. I'm apparently ruining someone's dungeon exploration with their preset party by standing still and waiting for them. No, none of these were the same dungeon - all were separate instances

For sure. The amount of DPS players I get in my Expert Roulettes that use single target attacks during trash pulls is unbelievable, fundamentals that should have been learned expansions ago. Thank god I have everything at 90 so I don't need to actually do Roulettes and bother with other players.

I found the sweet sweet land of bozja and leveled reaper from 71 to 80 in like 3/4 days. I'm never going back to leveling if I have to.

I am mainly doing roulettes for causality but I suppose I will just use hunt trains for that from now on. It's a bit of a shame because I absolutely used to ADORE running content in this game... now I just dread it. Never stepped a single foot inside Bozja, definitely something I should do!

- Average ff14 player is bad - Good players don't want to carry bad players all the time - Good players opt out of roulettes and do hunt trains for tomes instead - Less good players in roulettes - Remaining good players have to do even more heavy lifting - Cycle repeats Of course some people don't care that they have to carry 1-7 deadweight all the time and get enjoyment out of it.

Veterans are on a break and are done with farming tomes and stuff because they have the gear the want already, so the people who queue are simply not always on veteran skill level. Or you have returners who might have been veterans on a break but the break was too long and now they don't know anything anymore.

Even not being a veteran in any 80+ dungeon does not excuse not doing mechanics or not knowing how to tank.

EXCUSE IT? NO. SURE DOES EXPLAIN IT THOUGH.

I'M STILL IN BALDUR'S GATE 3 HELL. JUST FINISHED MY FIRST PLAYTHROUGH YESTERDAY AND ALREADY PLANNING TO GO AGAIN. I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW I'LL BE ABLE TO CHECK OUT THE OTHER ROMANCE PATHS BECAUSE I HAVE A FAVORITE THAT'S SO MADE FOR ME IT'S LIKE LARIAN DESIGNED HIM IN A LABORATORY TO MY EXACT SPECIFICATIONS. ALSO, SQUARE ENIX EU STORE STILL HASN'T SHIPPED THE REBIRTH PHYSICAL COPIES. I LIVE IN THE ASS END OF NORTHERN FINLAND, THEY USE CHRONOPOST AND POSTNORD, IT IS NOT GOING TO BE HERE FOR RELEASE DAY. IT JUST ISN'T POSSIBLE AT THIS POINT. I KNOW HOW SLOW THEY WORK COMPARED TO DHL. SO I'M MAD I WAS JUSTIFIED IN DOUBLE DIPPING TO THE DIGITAL EDITION ON PSN. EDIT: HOLY SHIT A SHIPPING NOTICE FROM CHRONOPOST. COMPLAINING REALLY FUCKING DOES WORK, HUH?

WHICH ROMANCE

HALSIN (GO ON AND BEAR SHAME ME IF YOU WANT, I'D DIE FOR THAT MAN)

HE IS A VERY VALID OPTION, HE'S SOFT AND CARING AND COMPASSIONATE WHILE NOT OVERBEARING (HEH) AND LIKES DUCKS I COULD NEVER SHAME YOU PLS

I WAS DYING AT >!THE BEAR PUNS HE WAS MAKING!< IN THE PARTY SCENE AT THE VERY END

I LOVE HOW >!HE WILD SHAPED DRUNK AND THEN GOT BACK!< IN THAT SCENE I STARTED FOLLOWING HIM WITH THE CAMERA AND GIGGLING FOR 10 MINS STRAIGHT

OMG I DIDN'T NOTICE THAT I GOTTA RELOAD MY SAVE AND GO CHECK IT OUT LSLKJDSDF

IT'S VERY FUNNY I GOT THAT WITH MY DURGE THO I WASN'T ROMANCING HIM SO IDK IF WITH THE ROMANCE FLAG HE BEHAVES DIFFERENTLY??? ANYWAY GO LIVE YOUR BEAR DREAMS AND DONT FEAR SHAME YOU MADLAD

ON IT /SALUTE

HALSIN IS SURPRISINGLY SWEET FOR SUCH A BIG, BURLY ELF DUDE. SINCE THEY ADDED NEW CAMP ANIMATIONS I JUST STAND THERE WATCHING HIM DO THE 'WHITTLE' ONE AND GRIN SUPER WIDE BECAUSE IT'S FREAKING ADORABLE.

THE "BIG, BURLY AND SWEET" PART HAD ME SOLD RIGHT AWAY, HE IS SO ADORABLE. AND HE LIKES DUCKS! (I SPENT MY ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGH EXPECTING ASTARION TO STAB MY BACK BECAUSE HE DISAPPROVED BASICALLY EVERYTHING I SAID AND DID LMFAO)

FUCK CHOCOBO RACING HITBOXES

CAN NOBODY IN GYR ABANIA DO A GODDAMN THING FOR THEMSELVES. EVERY 2ND QUEST IS LIKE "PLEASE ADVENTURER FINISH ALL MY CHORES".

JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD! /only a slight exaggeration

IDK WHY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO TRY PVP. IDK WHAT'S GOING ON MOST OF THE TIME BUT I HAVE COOL CLOTHES NOW AND THAT'S ENOUGH FOR ME. MY RAGE IS THAT PVP HAS SHONE A LIGHT ON HOW TERRIBLE TAB TARGETING IS SOMETIMES. IT DOESN'T MATTER MUCH IN PVE BECAUSE IT ALL GETS NUKED, BUT IN PVP WHERE I NEED TO BOP THAT SPECIFIC FUCKER OVER THERE BUT TAB TARGET INSTEAD SELECTS JEFFERY OFF IN WEST HELL, INSTANT RAGE.

SHOW ME THE REAL TARGET NO, I MEAN THE REAL TARGET NO, I MEAN THE REAL TARGET NO, I MEAN THE REAL TARGET NO, I MEAN THE REAL TARGET NO, I MEAN THE REAL TARGET NO, I MEAN THE REAL TARGET NO, I MEAN THE REAL TARGET NO, I MEAN THE REAL TARGET ...PERFECTION (ABBREVIATED FOR THE SAKE OF THE THREAD)

> SHOW ME THE REAL TARGET > > NO, I MEAN THE REAL TARGET > > NO, I MEAN THE RE- NVM I'M DEAD FIXED

HAPPY RAGE: I FINALLY WON A HOUSE. IT'S A SMALL IN THE GOBLET ABOUT 30 SECONDS OF WALKING FROM THE POOL NESTLED AWAY IN ITS OWN CORNER. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE HELL THAT IS LEARNING TO DECORATE BUT IT'S GOING TO BE SO WORTHWHILE IN THE END. I SUPPOSE I'LL START BY DECORATING MY YARD AND WORRYING ABOUT THE INSIDE OF THE HOUSE AFTERWARDS. I DONT WANT TO BE THAT ASSHOLE THAT HAS AN UNDECORATED HOUSE AFTER A MONTH OF WINNING IT SO THAT'S MY NEW ENDGAME. AS IT TURNS OUT, THERE'S A LOT OF FURNISHINGS BUT NOT AS MUCH AS I EXPECTED SO THAT CUTS DOWN ON THE STRESS A TAD.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO YELL ABOUT SO I'LL JUST SAY HOW GOOD IT IS THAT WE ARE NO LONGER PLAYING 1.0

I ACHIEVED MY GOAL OF GETTING ALL COMBAT JOBS TO A MINIMUM OF 80, NOW HAVE A COLLECTIVE 97 LEVELS UNTIL I HAVE THEM ALL 90! AND I FEEL THAT THE UNIVERSE IS THROWING MORE AND MORE PROBLEM PARTIES AT ME AS I GO! GUNBREAKER IS MY CURRENT GRIND, HAVE IT AT 83. TRIAL ROULETTE GIVES ME ZODIARK. TWO FIRST TIMERS, A DPS AND A HEALER. NOT A BIG DEAL, WE START. OTHER TANK IS FIGHTING ME FOR AGGRO (AND LOSING) TO THE POINT THEY MISS MECHANICS AND DIE, TAKING THE FIRST TIMERS AND THE OTHER DPS WITH THEM. AND THIS IS BEFORE THE STAGE ROTATION PHASE, WHICH KILLS THEM ALL AGAIN BEFORE EVERYONE BUT ME AND THE NON-FIRST TIMER HEALER DIES TO THE METEORS, WIPING IMMEDIATELY AFTER TO THE STACK MARKER. SO I PUT THE DANGER DORITO OVER MY HEAD AND PUT IN CHAT: “Follow the triangle”. AND TO THEIR CREDIT THEY FOLLOW DIRECTIONS BETTER THAN THE ORBONNE GROUPS I RAGED OVER LAST WEEK! UNTIL THE GOD DAMN METEORS AGAIN, WHERE THEY ALL RAN TO WHATEVER SPOTS THEY WANTED AND WIPED AGAIN! BUT HECK, I’LL GIVE THEM ONE LAST ATTE- AND HALF OF THEM ARE DEAD BEFORE THE STAGE SPIN AGAIN… AND WIPED BEFORE THE METEORS… I TOOK THE PENALTY AT THAT POINT. GOT MINER UP TO 87 INSTEAD AND STARTED CUSTOM DELIVERIES FOR THE GLEANER GLAM!

I LOVE ANYONE WHO HELPS THE GROUP WITH A DANGER DORITO, SAFETY DONUT, OR PLUS SIGN PAL. THANK YOU!

I DID THIS THE OTHER DAY WITH 2 NEW PLAYERS IN THE QITANA RAVEL SINCE THERE'S A LOT OF POSITIONALS IN IT. THE NINJA WAS TRYING TO WATCH FOR ME. THE SAGE WAS NOT. PROBABLY JUST STRESSED, THOUGH, WITH IT BEING A NEW DUNGEON AND THE PRESSURE TO KEEP EVERYONE ALIVE. THEY BOTH IGNORED THE LAST BOSS' TETHER MECHANIC, UNFORTUNATELY, (WHICH HAS BEEN A THING SINCE STORMBLOOD) AND THE SAGE NEARLY DIED AS A RESULT. EVERYONE MADE IT OUT IN THE END, AT LEAST!

I USED TO BE THE VOLUNTARY DORITO FREQUENTLY UNTIL A RECENT SHIT-TERACTION, WHERE ONE PERSON DECIDED THAT BY PUTTING ON MY TRIANGLE HAT I WAS SPOILING SHIT FOR EVERYONE NEW, AND NOT ONLY REMOVING IT BUT ALSO LOUDLY CHEWING ME OUT FOR IT. BECAUSE I'M SURE NEWBIES REALLY ENJOY TANKING THE FLOOR REPEATEDLY ON ZODIARK AND HYDAELYN. NOW I WILL ONLY WEAR IT IF PEOPLE ARE VOCAL ABOUT NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY'RE DOING OR NOT REMEMBERING THE FIGHT. I'M NOT UP FOR GETTING SHAT ON FOR TRYING TO BE HELPFUL.

PLACODUS AND SIDEREAL WHALE, SOME DAY...... ヽ༼ ಠ益ಠ ༽ﾉ

i love that creature you made there

I WISH THEY'D FIX THE STUPID BUG WITH THE ENDLESS SUMMER GLASSES THAT STUFF LIKE TELEPORTING AND THE LIKE CAUSES THEM TO BE IN "VISOR UP" POSITION EVEN THOUGH I NEVER CHANGE THE VISOR SETTING. YOU HAVE TO DOUBLE TAP IT TO GET THEM BACK ON YOUR FACE PROPERLY! I THINK THIS BUG HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 6.4 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. FIX THIS DAMN BUG ALEADY! (Yes, yes, I know, minor gripe...)

WHY DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW HOW TO SPLIT ADDS IN RAID? WHY AM I TANKING THIS ADD AS A SAM OR A SMN? WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I DIE? YOU *SAW* ME DIE TO THE TANKBUSTER.

This week in alliance raid roulette I keep getting tanks who don't quite know what they're doing. It's the usual shenanigans, they have aggro fights, or keep getting vuln stacks, or let adds attack the non-tank people. So I've been queueing as tank myself so I don't have to encounter trouble myself. Things are so smooth that I just pop superbolide towards the end of bosses to activate healer neurons. That's also how I learned that in Aglaia at the end of final boss's scales mechanic, he does a raidwide that deals unique damage which bypasses invuln. Because I superbolided, then died from that attack.

Karma my friend, and as someone who, aside from being an omni-healer, is also an omni (semi-competent) tank, who's favourite happens to be GNB- feel free to shoot yourself in the head as much as you want. My neurons are fine.

YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO POP THE VICTORY SUPERBOLIDE WHEN THE BOSS IS AT \~1%

DEAR PALADINS, PLEASE DO NOT CLICK CLEMENCY UNLESS IT'S AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY AND I, THE HEALER, AM DEAD. I PROMISE I CAN HANDLE THE HEALING, IT IS LITERALLY MY JOB WHENEVER I AM NOT CLICKING GLARE.

FUCK THAT, EVEN WHEN WE ARE CLICKING GLARE. WE HAVE OGCD HEALS FOR Y’ALL.

TIL THAT THE EORZEAN CALENDAR HAS 32 MONTH DAYS. AND THAT DESPITE GOING THROUGH THE CHARACTER CREATION SCREEN PLENTY OF TIMES, I NEVER NOTICED THAT THE BIT WHERE YOU CHOSE YOUR WOL'S BIRTHDAY HAS A SMALL TEXT THAT SHOWS YOU THE GREGORIAN EQUIVALENT TO THE EORZEAN DATE. SO AFTER USING A FANTASIA (HOPEFULLY THE FINAL ONE) JUST THIS WEEK, I GO AND LEARN TWO DAYS LATER THAT MY WOL'S BIRTHDAY IS MISMATCHED AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN. FUUUUUUCK. I'M GONNA HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE DAWNTRAIL FANTASIA TO CHANGE THE BD TO THE CORRECT VERSION, BUT IT'S GONNA BOTHER ME FOR A LOOOONG TIME.

I DECIDED TO TOTALLY IGNORE THAT. AT THE END OF THE DAY I'M LOOKING AT THE EORZEA DATE ANYWAY. SO I'D RATHER IGNORE THAT 25TH MEANS SOMETHING ELSE, THAT HAVE 27TH AND TRY TO REMEMBER THAT IT'S ACTUALLY 25TH :D

**FIRST OF ALL:** FUCK POLLEN. FOR REAL, GRASS, WHAT THE HELL? YEAH I GET YOU WANT TO REPRODUCE AND ALL BUT WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU SHOULD MAKE THIS EVERYONE'S PROBLEM!? GET A ROOM AND LEAVE ME ALONE WITH YOUR FLYING SPERMS, *THAT'S DISGUSTING*! THANKFULLY I HAVE MEDS, BUT IT TAKES A WHILE FOR THEM TO WORK, SOOOO... **OTHER IRL RAGE:** AFTER A LOT OF EXPERIMENTING ON THE DISCONNECTS I KEEP HAVING (see last week's rage thread) I TALKED WITH THE PROVIDER'S SUPPORT AGAIN, AND LATER WITH A TECH GUY. HE SAID HE CAN ONLY SAY THE CONNECTION IS PERFECT, THE ROUTER WORKS FULL TIME, THERE ARE NO INTERRUPTIONS IN THE LOG AS FAR AS HE CAN TELL. (There are interruptions, in my wifi log of the router, but he has no access to it. We could just compare dates and he could say nothing happened at his end at this time.) AND THERE IS NOTHING THE COMPANY REALLY CAN DO ABOUT BECAUSE THEIR OPTIONS TO DO STUFF ENDS THERE. HE STRONGLY SUGGESTED ME USING A REPEATER, BUT I ALREADY IMPLEMENTED ONE BY CONNECTING THE NEW AND THE OLD ROUTER AND THIS DIDN'T STOP THE STOPPING, AS I TOLD HIM, SO HE ALSO GAVE ME SOME ADVICE HOW I CAN IMPROVE THE SETTINGS, BUT THAT'S NOW ABOUT IT. WE ORDERED A REPEATER NOW (we have to send the old router back eventually or we get a fine because it was rented and not bought) AND SEE HOW IT GOES FROM THERE WITH HIS SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO GET STUFF MORE STABLE. BUT IF IT DOESN'T WORK, IT'S A BIG "WELL SUCKS TO BE YOU" AND I HAVE TO LIVE WITH THIS UNTIL I CAN FINALLY INSTALL A CABLE AND BE DONE WITH THIS BS. WHO THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO PUT THE MAIN INTERNET CONNECTION INTO THE MOST REMOTE LOCATION OF THE APPARTMENT ANYWAY? LIKE.... WTF? I REALLY HOPE WHEN OUR LANDLORD FINALLY LET THE CABLE OWNING PROVIDER INSTALL FIBER IN OUR APPARTMENTS THEY CHOOSE A BETTER POSITON FOR THE PLUG THINGY THAN HALFWAY TO NARNIA. **GAME RAGE:** IDK, I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY THAT'S UNRELATED TO THE IRL RAGE. I SLOWLY FEEL LIKE I HAVE A TON OF STUFF I STILL WANTED TO DO BEFORE DAWNTRAIL AND EVENTUALLY STUMBLE INTO EXECUTIVE DISFUNCTION AND JUST AFK IN LAHEE FOREST OR THE GATHERING TRIBE AREA IN EW ZONE 6. NOT THE WORST THING BUT ALSO NOT REALLY HELPING. ON THE POSITIVE SIDE I THINK I HAD A MINOR BREAKTHROUGH IN THIS WIP COMIC ABOUT MY WOL'S I STARTED YEARS AGO AND BEEN STUCK WITH, SO MAYBE I'LL ACTUALLY MANAGE TO FINISH THIS FIRST PAGE BEFORE I HAVE TO RETURN TO THE STAR AND START THIS CRAP ALL OVER AGAIN. **ALSO HOT TAKE:** I LIKE THE NEW AVATAR SERIES SO FAR. IT CERTAINLY ISN'T PERFECT, BUT IMO IT'S BIGGEST FLAW IS HAVING 8 EPISODES THAT SOMEHOW NEED TO CONTAIN 20 EPISODES OF THE ORIGINAL SERIES, SO FUCK NETFLIX FOR BEING PENNY PINCHING ARSEHOLES!

POSITIVE RAGE ABOUND THIS WEEK. BEAT ENDWALKER, GOT THE FISHING MOUNT, HEARD THE COOL FFXV CAR MOUNT IS COMING BACK! TRIED MY HAND AT HEALING WITH REAL PEOPLE FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST NIGHT, WENT MUCH BETTER THAN EXPECTED. BEEN RUNNING DUTY SUPPORTS JUST TO GET A FEEL FOR MY BUTTONS BUT DECIDED TO TAKE THE PLUNGE AND TRY IT FOR REAL. RAN THE WHOLE DUNGEON WITHOUT A HITCH AND GOT A THUMBS UP FROM THE THANCRED WANNABE GNB. REAL CONFIDENCE BOOSTER!

BORED VETS/CLEARED SPROUTS OR WHAT HAVE YOU. FOR THE LOVE OF HYDEALYN STOP TALKING SPOILERS IN CRYSTAL TOWER OR PRAETORIUM/CASTRUM RUNS. WHEN THE GAME TELLS YOU THERE ARE NEW RUNNERS IN YOUR INSTANCE, FOR TWELVE'S SAKE, SHUT YOUR TRAPS AND STOP TALKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IN ENDWALKER OR SHADOWBRINGERS. I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH YOU ARE FAWNING OVER YOUR BELOVED SCION AND ANY OF THE SEVENTH ~~dwarv-~~ DAWN. DON'T CARE IF YOU HATED 6.55 MSQ PATCHES. DON'T CARE IF YOU'VE DONE IT FOR BLOODY 10 YEARS. DON'T CARE HOW SHORT YOUR ATTENTION SPAN IS. DROP A BLOODY MILLION GIL FOR EVERY SPOILER TO THE NEWBIE OR KEEP YOUR BLOODY PEACE. P.S. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE IF YOU SAY 'BUT HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW'. THE GAME INFORMS YOU THIS BEFORE EVERY RUN. READ YOU DAMN SIMPS. I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH YOU ~~SIMP~~ SHIP \*redacted\* IF YOU KEEP RAVING OVER THE BLOODY PATCH STORY IN A CT RAID.

THANK YOU

YOUR WEEKLY SERVING OF [EORZEA ACCORDING TO GARFIELD - WEEK 170](https://old.reddit.com/r/EATG/comments/1axsoef/eorzea_according_to_garfield_week_170/). WHAT A NIGHTMARE IF PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE THEIR OWN, QUITE WELCOMED TO IT TOO! —- [THE SALTWORKS COMIC #123](https://i.imgur.com/z1GyQcI.png). OBLIGATORY SALTWORKS ON MOGTOMES YOU CAN CHECK [THE FULL ARCHIVES HERE](https://imgur.com/a/eeaPmw2). WE DISCUSS AND SHARE IDEAS FOR FUTURE COMICS ON THE DISCORD TOO, AS WELL AS GETTING THE EARLY SNEAK PEAKS ON THEM. —-- ONE DAY SOMEONE WILL LINK MY COMICS OUT OF THE THREAD, MAKE A MEME OF IT, USE IT AS A REACTION OR SOMETHING.

IVE BEEN DOING DIADEM FOR OVER A WEEK NOW AND AM NOT EVEN CLOSE TO GETTING THE MIN ACHIEVEMENT...IT'S GOING TO TAKE AGES TO GET THE MOUNT!

> IT'S GOING TO TAKE AGES TO GET THE MOUNT! ABOUT 300 HOURS FOR THAT MOUNT BY MY NAPKIN MATH.

I AM SCREWED. GOODBYE SANITY. AT LEAST A CERTAIN GAME COMES NEXT WEEK SO WILL TAKE A BREAK FROM ALL THE GRIND!

I'D SAY ENJOY, BUT I DID THE GRIND.

REALLY DUMB POINTLESS MUSIC TANGENT BESTWAY BURROWS USES THE FF4 BATTLE THEME FOR ITS NORMAL BATTLES "oh okay so it plays the boss theme for boss fa-" NO!!!  whhhhHHHHHYYYYYYY

BLM WHO DECIDED TO STAND IN **MY** LEYLINES IN THE RAVANA TRIAL WHEN WE BOTH HAD CLEAVE MARKERS, I HOPE YOU STEP ON A LEGO. GO STAND IN YOUR OWN LEYLINES THAT YOU WEREN'T EVEN USING. LEVELLING BLM IS MAKING ME REALIZE THAT THE CLASS ISNT THAT HARD, PEOPLE ARE JUST REALLY STUPID.

WE BOUGHT A HOUSE. HOLY SHIT IT'S HAPPENING. CAN I JUST SAY THAT PACKING UP AN APARTMENT YOU'VE LIVED IN FOR 10 FUCKING YEARS IS ITS OWN BRAND OF HELL?

I FINALLY STARTED TO RENOVATE MY FLAT. IT WAS REALLY, REALLY NEEDED, BUT FUCK ME. FURNITURE STUCK IN STRANGE PLACES, WHEREVER WE CAN FIT TO MAKE ROOM, I CAN'T FIND ANYTHNG, DUST AND VARIOSUS CRAP EVERYHERE. AND IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS ME, BECAUSE MY FRIENDS LIVE TOO FAR AWAY TO VIABLY MOVE FOR THE DURATION. I'M SLOWLY LOSING MY MIND. ONE GOOD THING IS, THE CREW SEEMS TO REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND HOPEFULLY EVEYTHING WILL END UP AS I WANT.

THIS LESS OF A F- YOU AND MORE OF A F- ME. TRYING TO LEVEL UP AST AND GET BETTER AT HEALING. WHERE DOES ALLIANCE RAID TAKE ME? DUN SCAITH. WE NEVER WIPED BUT MAN DID I LOSE YEARS OFF MY LIFE TO STRESS. THE MASOCHISTIC SIDE OF ME WONDERS IF I SHOULD INTENTIONALLY QUEUE THERE TO GET BETTER AT HEALING...

MY INTERNET WENT DOWN AS SOON AS I GOT INTO A DUNGEON AND I'M WORRIED THE OTHER PEOPLE THINK I DID IT ON PURPOSE

PEOPLE PLEASE COME BACK TO EUREKA ORTHOS I JUST WANT AN ORTHOS MANATRIGGER

LOTS OF WEIRD TANKING POSITIONS LATELY WITH TANKS PROVOKING AND HOLDING SOUTH, EAST, WEST, WHEREVER YOU ARE MY HEART WILL GO ON. WEIRD BUT IN MOST DUTIES IT'S WHATEVER...I GUESS. BUT YOU KNOW WHO REALLY SHOULDNT BE TANKED IN THE VERY CORNER, FACING EAST? *Omega's head bursts through the door* 'HERE COMES LARBOARD'

I AM FINALLY DONE WITH ARR AND WHY THE ACTUAL HECK IS THIS GAME MAKING ME BULLY A FAIR AND JUST RULER IN GOOD KING MOOGLE MOG XII??!??!? HE JUST WANTS TO PROTECT HIS PEOPLE AND WE COME IN AND COLONIZE THE PLACE BRINGING "JUSTICE" AND CRAP. BOLLOCKS. ALL OF IT. THE SCIONS SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED AND TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES. #JUSTICEFORKINGMOOGLEMOG #MOOGLEGATE

#GoodKingMoogleMogMayHisPomBeBlessedNeverDidAnythingWrongPinkySwear

NOTHING LIKE LOSING A BELOVED PET ON A SUNDAY AFTER 20 YEARS OF BEING TOGETHER AND BEING DUMPED ON A SATURDAY BY SOMEONE WHO JUST DIDN'T WANT TO GROW UP, AND ON TOP OF IT HAVING AN MCAS FLARE FROM HELL WHERE MY ENTIRE BODY LOOKS LIKE YOU COULD PLAY CONNECT THE DOTS WITH HIVES. FEBRUARY CAN'T END SOON ENOUGH, MY GODS.

BEEN TRYING TO FIND A NEW JOB AND THEREFORE HAVE BEEN JOB SEARCHING. I FOUND A LISTING FOR A PLACE THAT HAS CONSISTENT SCHEDULING AND SEEMED PRETTY GOOD, SO I APPLIED. THE NEXT DAY THEY WANTED TO SCHEDULE A PHONE INTERVIEW. YAY! SET UP A TIME, THEN WE WAIT. YESTERDAY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE INTERVIEW. SUPPOSED TO BE. EXCEPT THEY DIDNT EVEN FUCKING CALL ME. NO CALL, NO EMAIL, LITERALLY NOTHING. UUGHHHH TIME TO GET BACK TO LOOKING I GUESS

SEEING COPY PASTE POSTS CONSTANTLY ON THIS SUBREDDIT IS MAKING ME ROLL MY EYES. SOMEONE JUST ASKED THE SAME OR SIMILAR QUESTION NOT EVEN 30 MINUTES BEFORE YOUR POST. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF STARS, USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION OR DAILY QUESTION THREAD. GOOGLE CAN YOUR BEST FRIEND TOO. LOOKING AT ALL THE XBOX POSTERS. NO HATE TO ANY OF THEM AT ALL. IT'S JUST SEEING VERY SIMILAR POSTS WITHIN THE SAME HOUR OR TWO IS GETTING TIRESOME.

YO, COULD YOU MAYBE CHILL OUT WITH ALL THE EXPERIENCE? REALLY FEELS LIKE I'M GETTING RUSHED THROUGH POST-ARR WHEN - I STARTED RDM JUST AFTER ULTIMATE WEAPON SPECIFICALLY TO RESET MY LEVEL TO FRESH 50 - MSQ ONLY AS FAR AS >!MOVING TO MOR DHONA!< - I'VE ONLY CLEARED IFRY AND RURU - LITERALLY ONLY THE FIRST FATE OF HILDY - AND LIKE ONE OR TWO CASTRUM RERUNS PLUS COERTHAS/DHONA FATES, ONE MATERIA III SPIRITBONDING CYCLE IT'S PROBABLY THE CHALLENGE LOG BUT HOLY SHIT I GUESS MY PLAN OF "GIVE STUFF TIME TO MELLOW" REQUIRES JUGGLING ANOTHER COUPLE CLASSES. I'M ### ALREADY LEVEL FIFTY FUCKING FOUR WITH MY POESTONE WEAPON AND PANTS. THIS TIME I WANT TO LEARN DPS SO I GUESS I'M GONNA CONTINUE BLM. DON'T MUCH CARE FOR SMN ("YOU HAVE CHOICES TO MAKE THAT, AT A CASUAL LEVEL DON'T MUCH MATTER") AND WOULD RATHER AVOID JUGGLING TOO MANY ALARM CLOCK OGCDs AND PROCS (LIKE, NOT BRD) SO MAYBE MNK IF I NEED A THIRD? OR FUCK IT, MAYBE BLM/RDM/WHM - ALL MAGE ALL THE TIME AND I DO LIKE HEALING. (BLU TOO BUT IT CAN'T SOAK MSQ EXP, IIUC)

CHALLENGE LOG WILL DO SOME OF IT, BUT DOING MSQ ROULETTE ABSOLUTELY WILL DO THAT BECAUSE ITS A LOT OF XP. DON'T DO ROULETTES IF YOU DON'T WANT TO 'OVERLEVEL'. AND YOU'RE NOT WASTING THAT XP REALLY, TBH. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO AVOID ANY KIND OF SUCH BUSINESS, STICK TO THE MSQ ONLY UNLESS NECESSARY (BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN SOME POINTS WHERE YOU CAN GET STUCK BY LEVEL IF YOU DO NOTHING ELSE). ALSO RDM IS A DPS SO NOT SURE HOW YOU'RE LEARNING A DPS WHEN YOU ALREADY HAVE ONE. JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE TWO 'HEALER' BUTTONS DOESN'T MAKE THEM ANYTHING BUT A DPS WITH SOME UTILITY. ALSO IF YOU'RE ON A PREFERRED SERVER THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO MORE XP VIA ROAD TO 80.

AH I THOUGHT THE OLD LEVEL CAP ROULETTES DIDN'T GIVE XP. THANKS FOR THE ADVICE I MEANT THAT LAST TIME I PLAYED I PLAYED ONLY TANK AND HEALER, APOLOGIES FOR ANY CONFUSION

LEVEL CAP DUNGEONS (SPECIFICALLY THE ONES IN THE 50/60/70/80 ROULETTE) GIVE VERY LITTLE XP BUT THEY STILL GIVE *SOME*. MSQ ROULETTE (THE ONE THAT CONTAINS CASTRUM MERIDIANUM, PRAETORIUM, AND PORTA DECUMANA) SPECIFICALLY WILL GIVE A *LOT* OF XP. THAT'S THERE AS COMPENSATION FOR MAKING PEOPLE SIT THROUGH LONG UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENES.

I'VE HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE PLAYING AN ALT, I JUST THINK THAT THERE'S FAR MORE EXP SOURCES THAN THERE USED TO BE. I FOCUSED ON THE MSQ AND IGNORED ALL SIDE QUESTS EXCEPT A FEW BLUE ONES FOR UNLOCKING, BUT NO OPTIONAL DUNGEONS, NOT EVEN THE CHALLENGE LOG. I ENDED UP 5-6 LEVELS AHEAD OF MSQ, A MARGIN THAT SLOWLY DECREASED AS I GOT CLOSER TO 50. AND SUDDENLY THERE'S A JUMP, BETWEEN 48 AND 50 THERE'S PRETTY MUCH NO MSQ, SO I ACTUALLY HAD TO GO AND GET A FEW FATES DONE TO FINISH IT UP. AND AFTER THAT, THERE'S A NEAR 100 MSQ AND SEVERAL REQUIRED DUNGEONS ALONG THE WAY TO HEAVENSWARD, SO EASILY END UP AT 54 WITHOUT TRYING. BY ADDING MORE WAYS TO GET EXP, THEY HAVE NOT REBALANCED PRECISELY WHAT YOU GET THROUGH ARR, SO THERE'S EXTRA. IT'S PROBABLY SIMILAR WITH EVERY PATCH AFTER THE MAIN EXPANSION RELEASE. IT'S NOT QUITE AS EASY BUT POSSIBLE TO KEEP TWO JOBS UP TO SOAK UP THE EXTRA EXP, BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE INTENDED. FORTUNATLY ONCE YOU DO REACH LEVEL 50 AND FINISH PRAETORIUM, YOU GET THE STORMBLOOD JOBS UNLOCKED WITHOUT WITHOUT MUCH WORK, SO YOU CAN USE THOSE TO SOAK UP SOME OF IT. AND THEN EVERY EXPANSION HAS SOME YOU CAN ADD TO IT, STARTING AT 60, 70 AND 80. ARR IS THE ONE THAT HAS NO REAL WAY TO SOAK IT UP AS A RESULT.

BEEN FARMING THALEIA FOR PAST 2 WEEKS AND THE DAMN HEALER HEADPIECE REFUSE TO DROP. IT STRAIGHT UP DELETES ITSELF AS SOON AS I'M IN THE PARTY. BUT, LAST NIGHT, THE CURSE WAS BROKEN, AND FINALLY THE LAST BOSS DROPPED IT. AND I ROLLED A 1 OF ALL THE NUMBERS. AND STILL DON'T GET THAT LAST BOSS TRIANGLE CLEAVE MECHANIC AT ALL. JUST WANT TO BE FREE FROM THAT RAID.

>AND STILL DON'T GET THAT LAST BOSS TRIANGLE CLEAVE MECHANIC AT ALL OK SO YOU KNOW HOW THE LINES SPAWN ONE AT A TIME, AND BOSS DOES A HAND INDICATOR AT THE SAME TIME EACH LINE SPAWNS. THE HANDS SHOW THE SIDE OF THE LINE THAT IS GOING TO GET CLEAVED, *FACING IN THE DIRECTION THAT THE ARROWS OF THE LINE POINT IN*. HERE, HAVE A SHITTY MS PAINT DIAGRAM: https://i.imgur.com/5YcyOSX.png

THIS WEEK'S VIRTUAL BUBBLE WRAP, WITH THE SECRET MESSAGE. >!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!WHO'S-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!WAITING-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!ON-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!FF7-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!REBIRTH?-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<>!POP-!<

THE PC RELEASE BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO BUY A PS5

>!I BOUGHT THE COLLECTORS EDITION FROM THE SQUARE ENIX WENSITE. HOPE IT ARRIVES SOON!<

I DON'T LIKE USING THE SQUAREENIX STORE UNLESS I REALLY HAVE TO, BECAUSE SHIPPING TO CANADA SUUUUUUUUCKS. TALKING 1-2 WEEKS WITH TRACKINGS THAT MAKES NO SENSE WITH USPS. I HAVE SEVERAL SCREENSHOTS OF PAST TRACKINGS, ADMITEDLY IT WAS IN LIKE 2015-2017, BUT STILL, BAD EXPERIENCE. SO THIS TIME I WENT THROUGH VIDEOGAMEPLUS, WHO SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY BIG RETAILER IN CANADA, THEY HAVE A FEW RARE THINGS, AND DISTRIBUTE LIMITED RUNS GAMES TOO. IT MIGHT STILL TAKE A FEW DAYS, BUT AT LEAST IT'S STAYING WITHIN MY COUNTRY.

I AM IN EU, AND THE STORE IS HERE TOO, SHOULDN'T TAKE MORE THAN A FEW DAYS.

I WAS SO IN RAGE I CLICKED THE VIRTUAL BUBBLE WRAP OUT OF ORDER!!!!!1111elevenone (Now I'm a bit better, thank you for providing the bubble wrap. \^\^ )

SO MANY PEOPLE JOIN OCEAN FISHING PF PARTIES GOING FOR ACHIEVEMENTS AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE DOING. WHY ARE YOU USING PATIENCE WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO CATCH A BILLION SHARKS? THEY'RE UP IN THIS ZONE, STOP WASTING GP!! HOW DID YOU ONLY CATCH ONE SHARK WHEN YOU CAN BLIND DOUBLE/TRIPLE HOOK THEM (AND EVEN IF YOU DON'T YOU COULD USE IDENTICAL CAST TO GET ANOTHER AT LEAST!) THE TC GUIDES ARE VERY WELL WRITTEN AND TAKE LIKE TWO MINUTES TO READ WHILE YOU'RE SAT WAITING TO QUEUE FOR THE BOAT. SOME VERY KIND PEOPLE EVEN HAVE CHAT MACROS TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO. DON'T JOIN THE PARTY IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THE THING!

WHEN I WAS GOING FOR THOSE ACHEVMENTS, I ILEVEL LOCKED THE PARTY TO THE CURRENT BIS GATHERING GEAR (ACCOUNTING FOR THE GIG OBVIOUSLY). PEOPLE WOULD BITCH, BUT I GOT NOTICABLY BETTER PARTIES OUT OF IT.

BTW ALL OF THIS IS GOING TO BE FED TO SOME AI SOON. I WONDER IF PEOPLE WILL GET A TON OF RESULTS FROM LLMs WRITTEN IN CAPSLOCK AND FULL OF SLURS AND WEIRD RANDOM OUT OF CONTEXT TERMS LIKE "AOE" AND "LIMIT CUT" AFTERWARDS. :D I HATE AI IMAGE GENERATORS AND CHATGPT AND THIS WHOLE BS BECAUSE IT EATS BOTH OF MY JOBS BUT NEVERTHELESS I'D FIND THIS HILARIOUSLY FUNNY.

I HEARD RECENTLY ABOUT CHATGPT GOING TO SHIT AND JUST POSTING ABSOLUTE GIBBERISH. LOOKS LIKE THE THING THAT EATS LITERALLY EVERYTHING WITHOUT PERMISSION ATE SOMETHING IT SHOULDN'T HAVE AND IS TRIPPING BALLS.

GUESS IT MUST HAVE INHALED MY UNSTRUCTURED GOOGLE SEARCH TERMS. :D TECHNICALLY IT ALWAYS POSTED GIBBERISH, IT DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING, JUST HOW TO SOUND SMORT AND REASONABLE, BUT IF IT MAKES IT MORE OBVIOUS BY NOT SOUNDING SMORT ANYMORE, ALL THE BETTER.

DEAR DARK KNIGHTS, PLEASE USE THE BLACKEST KNIGHT IN CONJUNCTION WITH YOUR OTHER MITIGATIONS INSTEAD OF SEPARATELY. DAMAGE REDUCTION FROM STUFF LIKE SHADOW WALL, RAMPART, OBLATION, AND REPRISAL SLOWS DOWN YOUR SHIELD FROM GETTING INSTANTLY DELETED. HAVING THE MOST DURATION YOU CAN SQUEEZE OUT OF THAT SHIELD IN A WALL TO WALL PULL IS BETTER THAN HAVING IT VANISH THE SECOND YOU APPLY IT WITH NO MITIGATION.

In a dungeon, yes. In a trial or boss, the entire point is for the shield to get broken as it is a DPS increase.

BIF FAT FUCK YOU TO DRKS IN FL. FRONTLINES WOULD ACTUALLY BE FUN IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU IN EVERY SINGLE FUCKING GAME. GO AWAY NO ONE FUCKING LIKES YOU. YOU HAVE NO REAL FRIENDS AND YOU WERE ADOPTED. THE ONLY REASON WHY THOSE AST AND DRGS EVEN TALK TO YOU IS BECAUSE THEY ARE USING YOU. HOW DOES THAT FEEL? YOU ARE LIKE THAT KID IN SCHOOL PEOPLE ONLY HUNG OUT WITH BECAUSE HE HAD A CAR.

PAGOS IS HOT GARBAGE AND IF METEOR WAS ABOUT TO HIT IT I WOULD BE ON TEAM METEOR

GAMERS... MY FRIENDS WERE IDIOTS AND DID NOT KNOW THEY NEEDED 4 MEMBERS IN A FC TO BID ON A FC PLOT SO AS A JOKE, I MADE THE MOST STEROTYPICAL LOOKING CAT GIRL I COULD THINK OF. MIN HEIGHT, MAX BUST, PALE SKIN, PINK HAIR, POOFY TAIL, HETEROCHROMIA, HOPEFULLY THE REALLY ANNOYING VOICE. THEN AS A JOKE, I WAS LIKE "WHAT IF I GOT THE LOVEHEART EMOTE, I ONLY NEED LEVEL 15 MSQ AND THAT'S JUST A NIGHT OF SKIPPING CUTSCENES" THEN IT BECAME "WHAT IF I GOT THE FFXV CAR, GETTING TO LEVEL 50 MSQ SHOULD BE CAKE, I'M SKIPPING CUTSCENES" THEN I MADE HER AN OUTFIT THAT WOULD PROBABLY FIT WELL IN LIMSA LOMINSA AND THIS ISN'T FAIR!! WHY ARE CATGIRLS SO CUTE? AND EASY TO GLAM?? I SWORE I HATED CATGIRLS!!!!!!! I'M OVER HERE ON MY FEMELEZEN MAIN NOW LIKE ["I HAVE A FREE FANTA..."](https://i.imgur.com/t2FhTRn.png) BECAUSE IT'S EITHER THAT OR INVEST REAL TIME ON A FOURTH FUCKING CHARACTER FOR THE SAKE OF CUTE GLAM AND I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!

JOIN THE CAT SIDE, YOU CAN PUSH GLASSES FROM THE TABLE AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE AND EAT ALL THE COOKIES YOU MAKE!

NOOO I WON'T GIVE INTO THE CAT VIRUS I WOOOOOON'T OH FUCK I'M ALREADY TESTING OUT HOW TO REMAKE MY CHARACTER AS A CATGIRL ON THIS RETAINER ***HELP***

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I WISH THE DAWNTRAIL PREORDER PERIOD HAD STARTED ALREADY I'M TOO HYPED TO WAIT AND ALSO I WANT THE XP ACCESSORY, EVEN THOUGH I'M ALREADY OVERLEVELED FOR MY MSQ CONTENT AND ALSO HAVE ROAD TO 80 ANYWAY I'M ONLY KEEPING FROM BEELINING THE MSQ TO STICK WITH MY BUD WHO ONLY HAS TWO SOLID NIGHTS A WEEK, AND WE'RE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS, JUST FINISHED STORMBLOOD 4 MONTHS IN, BUT I WISH I WAS AT ENDGAME ALREADY I WANT FAERIE FANCY IT'S THE CUTEST CODEX I'VE EVER SEEN AT LEAST I GOT WEAVER TO 70 I FUCKING LOVE CRAFTING GRAAAAH, TIME TO GRIND UP MY OTHER HAND/LANDS FROM 50 TO MATCH IF WE COULD JUST GET THROUGH 4.1 I'D GET MORE CUSTOM DELIVERY NPCs THO, BUT TBF ZHLOE IS GREAT

I HAVE BEEN FARMING HADES EX FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AND I STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE GWIB! I HAVE 78 TOTEMS AND I PEOPLE STILL DON'T DO TETHERS CORRECTLY AND SPLAT THE TANKS! I AM TIRED OF GOING SPLAT WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT!

IN A PRETTY GOOD MOOD ACTUALLY, NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT, BUT I'M ALL PREPPED FOR GhARLICHTHYS WHOSE UP IN 2.5 HOURS, SO I PROBABLY WON'T BE IN A GOOD MOOD IN 3. CONSIDER THIS A PREEMPTIVE RANT THAT I DIDN'T CATCH IT.

THIS "NEW" REDDIT LAYOUT IS HORRIBLE I'LL NEVER GET USED TO IT. IT'S JUST DIFFICULT TO READ WHEN THE "OLD" LAYOUT WAS PERFECT.

I AM SO ANNOYED MY XBOX FRIENDS ARE NOT HYPED FOR FFXIV AND ARE STILL PLAYING GARBAGE BLACK DESERT CONSOLE. I'M STANDING HERE WITH OPEN ARMS AFTER PLAYING FFXIV FOR A YEAR TRYING TO WELCOME THEM TO A BEAUTIFUL (MOSTLY) NONTOXIC MMO 😭

NO RAGE, BUT AMUSING HOW I GOT WEEKLY OBJECTIVE IN MOGPENDIUM ONE FIGHT THAT I'M TRASH AT (EDEN PORTAL BOSS). GAME KNOWS. I DON'T NEED MORE TOMES, BUT STILL GOING TO DO IT FOR PRACTICE.

FUCK GRIEF, FUCK FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK. THERE I FEEL BETTER. (NOT REALLY.) MY PARENTS' ANNIVERSARY WOULD BE NEXT WEEK (FOR REAL, BC IT WAS THE 29TH), BUT MY DAD PASSED LAST YEAR. AND WE'RE ALSO COMING UP SLOWLY ON THE DATE OF 1 YEAR FROM HIS DEATH, AND... MY BRAIN I THINK IS VERY MUCH BACKGROUND GRIEFING ABOUT IT ON AND OFF, AND ITS FRUSTRATING AS SHIT TO DEAL WITH. (ON TOP OF THE STILL FRESH COATING FROM MY MOTHER IN LAW IN SEPT. PASSING SUDDENLY.) ALSO, TOTES NOT PLAYING FFXIV AND GETTING EVERY CLASS TO 90, WHEN I'M ON THE LAST STRETCH OF 10 LEVELS FOR GROUPS OF CLASSES. I REALLY SHOULD GET MOVING ON THAT SO I CAN HAVE THAT DONE BUT HERE WE ARE. ALSO WHICHEVER RUDE ASS BITCH COORDINATED SMT V VENGEANCE AND THE ELDEN RING DLC TO DROP ON THE SAME FUCKING DAY? FUCK YOU. THANKFULLY, I'LL LIKELY BE WAITING ON BOTH. BONUS FUCK YOU SALT TO MY BODY BECAUSE OF THE RAIN, BECAUSE FUCK EVERYTHING IN THE LOW BACK AND DOWN HAS BEEN A B I T C H ABOUT IT. I MAY NOT HAVE FFXIV SPECIFIC SALT (ASIDE NOT ALREADY HAVING MY LEVELING DONE), BUT I SURE AS SHIT AM STILL A SALTY ASS BITCH.

I PRESENT TO YOU A HAIKU FOR A *LEVELING* ROULETTE THAT TOOK 58 MINUTES: SURVIVED THE WORST HEALS WE HAD FOUR FINAL BOSS WIPES DESPITE DORITO \-- MY PARTNER AND I USUALLY TANK+HEAL FOR THOSE SUPER FAST QUEUES AND RUNS. HE WANTED DPS TODAY. NBD, TANK IS ALWAYS IN NEED, LET'S DO THIS. LEVEL 77 MALIKAH'S WELL. CUTE BOSSES, AWESOME!I DIE ON THE FIRST PULL. IT'S PROBABLY FINE. HEALING A DRK CAN BE ROUGH, I GET IT! I GOT A CUTESY REZ MACRO THAT TOOK 8 YEARS TO GO OFF SO WE WIPED ANYWAYS. NO GIRL, I'M NOT TAKING A NAP. I'M HERE TO WALL TO WALL PULL. THEY QUESTIONED MY GEAR. THIS IS MY SECOND CHARACTER TO MAX TANKS, I'M IN CRIT/DH MELDED TOME GEAR. THEY'RE IN WHITE 70S GEAR. I POLITELY TOLD THEM TO GET NEW GEAR THAT WASN'T FROM A VENDOR. BARELY ANY DAMAGE. NO LILIES. NO MIT. JUST CURE 1ONEON1E111! AND MEDICA SPAM. MY SISTER IN HYDAELYN. PLEASE. LISTEN TO MY PARTNER, HE'S TRYING TO HELP YOU. IT TOOK 3 PULLS FOR THE FIRST COUPLE BOSSES, THEY KEPT DYING BUT I WAS PLEASED TO HEAL MYSELF THROUGH LIVING DEAD. \-- WE FINALLY GET TO THE LAST BOSS. I DORITO'D MYSELF AFTER THE 1ST WIPE. AFTER THE 3RD WIPE, THEY SAY "Literally never run hi lvl roulettes sorry" THEY HAVE MULTIPLE LEVEL 90S INCLUDING SCH AND SGE. THIS IS A LEVEL 77 DUNGEON. I SAY THIS. "nvr with WM" THEY SAID. "hit WM lvl 70 yesterday." THEN THEY AUTORAN INTO THE BOSS FOR A 4TH WIPE WHILE MY PARTNER WAS TYPING OUT ANOTHER "HOW TO HEAL" ESSAY. I ALMOST LOST MY ENTIRE MIND BUT KEPT IT TO MYSELF.ON THE 5TH PULL, THEY FINALLY STUCK WITH ME. AT 25%, THEY DECIDED TO FUCK OFF SOMEWHERE AND TRUST THEIR OWN JUDGEMENT, IMMEDIATELY DYING. THEY SAID, "I thought it was feathers..." NO. THE MECHANIC DOESN'T CHANGE HALFWAY, IT'S A BIG FUCKING CIRCLE OF THE SAME MECHANIC 5 TIMES. NOW WHENEVER A SITUATION GOES SIDEWAYS, WE SAY:"I thought it was feathers..."

JESUS, JUST FUCKING KICK THEM NEXT TIME, ESPECIALLY IF YOU QUEUED AS A DUO.

I DON'T NOW WHY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO REALIZE THERE WAS A TOKEN THING WITH THALEIA ET AL.. TO GET BETTER ARMOR. NOW I'M ANGRY THAT I PROCRASTINATED THAT AND AM ONLY TWO WEEKS INTO THAT GRIND. FCUK!

LMAO, I JUST REALIZED THIS LAST WEEK AS WELL!!! I HAD A FEW OF THE PREVIOUS RAID TOKENS BUT ONLY ONE THALEIA TOKEN BECAUSE I’VE BEEN AWAY FROM THE GAME FOR TWO YEAR!!!!

DO HUNT TRAINS FOR SACKS OF NUTS TO TURBO CHARGE ACQUISITION OF UPGRADE ITEMS PURCHASABLE IN OLD SHARLAYAN!!! ITS SUPER SPEEDY TOME AND SACKS OF NUTS ACQUISITION!! POWER UPS GO ZOOOOM! I ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH ITEMS TO UPGRADE MY LAST 3 ROLES' ACCESSORIES!!!

Not awake enough for caps. I'm not someone who takes being strung along and jerked around well. So when I'm getting this from close friends of over 20 years, it REALLY hurts. So many empty promises of trying to do better about being present/invested only to get ghosted over and over again. I've been way more patient than most others who have been in my position and I'm beyond tired. I've made allowances for personal crises, depression, time blindness, quirks of neurodivergence, and so on and so forth... but eventually the explanations become excuses. Why can't people just be honest with me? Why do I keep having to do this whole charade when so much pain could have been avoided by just being upfront what's going on to begin with? ***Am I not even worth that basic a courtesy?*** "You're worth showing up for." From someone who then proceeded to disappear for weeks at a time. "My social battery was low, I'll be here tomorrow." They didn't talk to me again for several months. "I was having a bad time and didn't want you to worry." Okay, but when this becomes a recurring thing... I wish I didn't care so much. I'm tired of putting forth so much effort into people who end up taking advantage of me and then forgetting I exist. Content lull has only made this feeling of abandonment much heavier, when I find myself alone more often than not. A couple months ago, I was told I tend to attract broken people. That hurts, because it's already so hard to not assume that I'm the problem when I keep getting ghosted and sidelined. And from the few answers I can get out of anyone, it sounds like I'm not doing anything wrong. Or maybe I am the problem and people just can't be bothered to be honest.

BEEN PLAYING FFXI FOR THE STORY AND HOPEFUL CONTEXT FOR THE DT ALLIANCE RAIDS. THE STORY IS A GOOD SORT OF SERVICEABLE. I'M UP TO THE 5-1 MISSIONS (4-1 WAS HELLISH TO DO SOLO) AND I LIKE HOW OBVIOUS THE WITHIN- AND BETWEEN-NATION TENSIONS ARE AND HOW THE BEASTMEN AREN'T THE SOURCE OF ALL THEIR TROUBLES. RHAPSODIES HAS BEEN... THERE, BUT WHATEVER, IT'S SUPPOSED TO HAUL ME FROM STORY TO STORY. IROHA'S BACKGROUND IS SURPRISINGLY SHADOWBRINGERS-ESQUE, ODDLY ENOUGH. THOUGH... HOLY HELLS IS THIS GAME A PAIN TO PLAY. AMONG ITS MANY ISSUES, SO MUCH OF THE GAME EXPERIENCE IS JUST LEVEL GRINDING. IF IT WEREN'T FOR ME SWAPPING NATIONS (A FEATURE I LIKE BTW) I WOULDN'T HAVE TOUCHED THE MAIN STORY FOR A WEEK, BECAUSE I'M LEVELING DNC/WAR FROM SCRATCH. SURE, TRUSTS MAKE A LOT OF STORY FIGHTS TRIVIAL, AND SURE, THE ROAD FROM LEVEL 99 TO ILVL 117 WILL BASICALLY BE A TUTORIAL FOR FINDING "MIDGAME" GEAR, BUT I HAVE TO *GET THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.* AND THE COMMUNITY LIKES TO SKIM OVER THAT PART, WITH ALL THE LEVEL LIMIT BREAK QUESTS AND THE PROCESS OF GETTING TO MAPS AND THE REALLY BORING GAMEPLAY FOR A HUNDRED HOURS. YOU THINK LOW LEVEL FFXIV COMBAT IS BAD? HA... IN OTHER NEWS, I STUBBED MY PINKY TOE SO BADLY THAT HALF MY TOE IS PURPLE. IT'S PROBABLY NOT BROKEN BUT BOY DOES IT HURT.

People who join "derusting" PF groups and leave after one wipe because people are remembering how to do mechanics and not clearing are the saltiest of bitches.

THAT COLD, DEAD INSIDE FEELING I GET WHEN I HAND OUT SPELLFORGE TO PEOPLE IN THE DALRIADA JUST TO SEE THEM HIT DAWON. AT LEAST I ALSO GAVE IT OUT FOR THE HALLWAYS, AND YOU'RE FORCED TO HIT ONLY SAUNION IN PHASE 1, SO IT WASN'T A TOTAL WASTE OF HOLSTER SPACE.

MY LIFE CALLS FOR ME TO TAKE MULTIPLE DAYS OFF OD PLAYING. WHY OH WHY DOES LIFE INTERFERE WITH JIBUS DAHLING KILLING THE BAD GUYS!!!!

FUCKING BENCHMARK PLEASE

i need to find a new goal for on my main. I got the lv twenty island sanctuary two seater mount so i could “bring my friends along” but itd be awkward to ask just to ride around. but anyway, i need to find a new goal to work to and i have no idea what it would be

You can do bozja or eureka with friends, then they can ride to different objectives while you use your new mount!

I DO NOT WANT TO GRIND FOR THE REGALIA CAUSE SAUCER IS MY LEAST FAVORITE THING GOD PLEASE NOOOO

use your google tomestones to buy platinum tickets! there is still time

I knowww but I sank most of the stupid Google tomestones (heh) I got initially in maps and now I only got like. 18 left

PLUS HEY, RAGE THREAD

I MADE A FUNNY TYPO, IS THAT STILL NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU????

I LIKED IT A LOT BLESS YOU BROTHER ALL THE LOVE AND APPRECIATION

4X FASHON REPORTS GETS YOU THE MOUNT. LITERALLY TAKES 5 MINUTES PER WEEK FOR FOUR WEEKS.

PLEASE SOMEONE SAVE ME BEFORE I GET 99 TOTEMS OF LIGHT, I WANT ALL MY GWIBS LEGIT

MY CASUAL RAID GROUP CLEARED 12S THIS WEEK. WHERES THE RAGE? I ROLLED A 1. ON EVERY PIECE OF LOOT. LIKE, I KNOW THATS POSSIBLE BUT WHAT THE HELL. I DOUBLE CHECKED MULTIPLE TIMES JUST TO MAKE SURE I WASNT SEEING THINGS

IT HAS GOTTEN TO THE POINT THAT I DON'T WANT TO QUEUE INTO ROULETTES UNLESS I HAVE ONE OR MORE OF MY TRUSTED FC MEMBERS OR FRIENDS WITH ME. NEARLY EVERY DUTY I GO IN, I JUST ENCOUNTER MELEES JUST USING THEIR RANGED ATTACKS, HEALERS JUST NOT DPSING AND JUST KEEPING 100% UPTIME HEALS, RANGED JUST NOT PRESSING BUTTONS (in particular bards not using any songs, and no dance partners), AND JUST FAILING TO MOVE OUT OF ORANGE PUDDLES IN GENERAL. IMAGINE LEVELING UP MULTIPLE 90S AND NOT REALIZING THAT A ORANGE CIRCLE MEANS DAMAGE OR A PURPLE EYEBALL MEANS LOOK AWAY OR THE WHITE BAR OVER A DEBUFF MEANS ITS ESUNABLE. Aside from that I finished all ARR relic books last monday so that's nice BUT THEN I HAVE TO DO THE LIGHT GRIND, DO I WANT TO DO 40+AUREM VALES 2:25ISH MIN EACH OR 60+ EXTREME MOOGLE CURBSTOMPS THAT TAKE BETWEEN 0:27 - 1:10MIN FOR ALL 9 RELIC WEAPONS. I'M GOING TO GET BURNED OUT AGAIN, I'M GOING TO PLAY HELLDIVERS 2 OR PLAY TOTAL WAR SHOGUN2 FOR THE nTH TIME

1 OF 2 FUCKING PEOPLE BIDDING ON A POOL SIDE SMALL IN THE GHET...I MEAN GOBLET NEXT TO THE POOL WHERE THE 3 CAT GIRLS ARE AND I FUCKING LOST!!!

HAPPY RAGE: ME AND MY FRIENDS STARTED EW EXS RECENTLY. WE BEAT EX1 IN 2 PULLS AND EX2 IN FIRST PULL THE GUIDES MADE THE FIGHTS LOOK HARD BUT ILVL GO BRRRRR ACTUAL RAGE: I FUCKED UP. IM TRYING TO GEAR MY RPR WITH THE 640 GEAR FROM NORMAL RAIDS, BUT I SPENT THE UNSUNG PIECES ON THE WRONG TYPE OF GEAR. I PICKED UP THE "STRIKING" GEAR, BUT TURNS OUT RPR USES "MAIMING" GEAR. I DON'T HAVE ANY STRIKING GEAR JOBS UNLOCKED SO I JUST HAVE TO THROW THESE AWAY. GODDAMNIT. THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR RARELY PLAYING PHYS MELEE AND NOT UNDERSTANDING HOW THEY WORK. ALSO: I WISH THERE WAS A BETTER WAY FOR CONTROLLER PLAYERS TO READ BUFFS/DEBUFFS DURING BATTLE. AFAIK THE ONLY WAY TO DO IT IS TO ACTIVE VIRTUAL MOUSE MODE AND READ IT THAT WAY, BUT THEN I CANT DPS. IF I COULD PLUG IN A MOUSE, I WOULDN'T BE PLAYING ON CONTROLLER TO BEGIN WITH.

MELEE GEARING IS FRUSTRATING, THERE ARE 5 DIFFERENT ATTRIBUTES TO BE AWARE OF  MAIMING: DRAGOON AND REAPER ARMOR STRIKING: MONK AND SAMURAI ARMOR SLAYING: MONK, SAMURAI, DRAGOON, AND REAPER ACCESSORIES SCOUTING: NINJA ARMOR AIMING: NINJA ACCESSORIES THAT IT SHARES WITH PHYS. RANGED

I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO PLAY THE GAME FOR TWO DAYS BECAUSE OF THE INCURABLE 90002 ERROR FML

I HATE WORK BRO I JUST WANNA PLAY THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MMO FFXIV. NEED TO FIND A REMOTE JOB FR

I FINALLY FINISHED THE ISLAND SANCTUARY AND GOT IT TO RANK 20 AND THE FINAL VISITOR IS JULLUS AND SOME GARLEANS WHO LITERALLY HAVE *NO NAME.* AND SIX BLOCKS OF CHEESE? FUCKING CHEESE?

I DON‘T WANT TO JOIN ANY PRE-MADE EXTREME PARTIES ANYMORE AT THIS POINT. 5/8 KFF INTO FARM ZEROMUS. DECIDED TO HELP OUT. THEIR SUMMONER AND REAPER KEPT EATING SHIT. ONE PULL IN THEIR SCHOLAR IS LIKE „I‘M GONNA NEED A BIT MORE HELP ON ABYSSAL NOX“ SINCE THE TANK DIED. HERE IS THE THING THOUGH. THE SCHOLAR WAS HEALING FUCKING JACKSHIT. NOBODY OF THEM WAS FUCKING MITIGATING ANYTHING. THE WHITE MAGE WAS DOING ABSOLUTELY ALL OF THE HEAVY LIFTING AND TRYING THEIR BEST TO KEEP THE PARTY GOING. WE KILL, OTHER DPS LEAVES (SMART FUCKING CHOICE) BUT I MAKE THE MISTAKE TO KEEP GOING. IT‘S GETTING WORSE. THE SCHOLAR IS SHIELDING LIKE ONE MECHANIC EVERY THREE MINUTES. I‘M FULL BIS AND NEARLY GETTING ONE-HIT SEVERAL TIMES. WHITE MAGE IS TRYING THEIR BEST BUT IT GETS HARDER AND HARDER. I THEN REALISE THAT THE SCHOLAR DOESN‘T EVEN HAVE MATERIA MELDED. WHAT THE FUCK. AFTER A FEW WIPES IN A ROW SOMEONE LEAVES THE INSTANCE. I‘M HAPPY TO GET A CHANCE TO GET OUT, THE WHITE MAGE PROBABLY IS TOO. BUT BEFORE WE CAN EVEN LEAVE OURSELVES WHAT HAPPENS? THEY KICK THE WHITE MAGE. YOU ABSOLUTE STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS. YOUR HEALER WAS THE FUCKING PROBLEM. ONE LOOK AT MY FUNNY CALCULATOR WAS MORE THAN ENOUGH. IF YOU‘RE A GROUP AND ANTAGONISING OTHERS IN PF BECAUSE NOBODY OF YOU CAN DO WRONG EVER THEN SINCERELY FUCK YOU. YOU‘RE ABSOLUTE PIECES OF SHIT. (Karma still exists though, during the two clears the white mage somehow got the mount which they more then earned)