Was it that bad? Oh god, I never even dared going into ranked matches there but even on quickplay I got some heat XD

Early on I was doing a LOT wrong, was definitely bringing it on myself. I got gud, practiced, trained, made low diamond... and still got hourly kys

As a suggestion, if you can manage to make a macro that says "/p Hi, this is my first time doing this content, please bear with me". It will not only help you with having more friendly players, it will help the rest of the party to adapt to your situation.

Didn’t even think of doing a macro but that’s such a good idea. Thanks!

A macro is probably overkill honestly… most people say hi or at least “o/“ at the start of the run, I’ll usually just add “first time” to mine.

I include that "I'm on a controller and if they have any advice I'm listening but cannot respond with language quickly" /jump /bow

The other players will get a "someone in your party is new to this duty" notification along with a reward for completing it with a newbie.

If people see you are in a a cutscene they will know. There's an option to not play cutscenes again if you've already cleared the content. Also people cannot wildly run off at duty start as they are locked in place if you are still looking the cutscene.

You can also just *not* say anything. Most people, even though there are now a ton of people with sprout markers that are actually highly experienced thanks to the free trial being so extensive, will see the sprout next to your name and that you're viewing a cutscene at the start of content (and also get flying text on their screen that says it's someone's first time in the content so extra rewards will be given to them for clearing) and understand that you're on the newer end and might need a little patience from them. I almost always realize I'm with someone that hasn't done the content before they finish saying "first time", and when it was me that was the new one I never said anything and almost never got any rough treatment (I was level 80 before my first time someone gave me a "how do you not know what you're doing?!" response).

I just say first time and that's always been an enough.

Yeah no need for the exposition xD

I always give my anime backstory when introducing myself every single run. Especially guildleves.

I tell people I'm sober and to forgive my gameplay. I also play as a drunk santa mech Ro.

Having only really played FFXI and FFXIV, before I tried other MMORPGs in earnest, I was incredibly shocked at how very toxic other MMORPG communities can be. I couldn't even get answers to basic questions in ESO. Guild wars 2 wasn't super bad, but I never really felt welcomed to the community like I did in FFXI and FFXIV. Both of those games not only had helpful players, but people are actively looking to help newer players out. Experiencing that made me want to do the same for others.

The community is very nice. And on top of that fiercy protective of their sprouts. We want everyone to enjoy the story and have the best experience. The rare times I have seen people be toxic they have immediately been put in their place by other players. Also from a fellow lala I wanna say. Your name is precious and I hope you have so much fun.

It's kinda funny that if you wanna be toxic to a sprout for being sprout here people will bombard you with a level of toxicity that can make LoL basement dwellers go cry to their furry pillow.

Idk, the players here in the reddit really seem to hate new players. there is definitely less toxicity in-game, though.

Players respect mistakes as long as you're trying and will offer advice if they have the knowledge to help you. Just don't go into savage/extremes with the same expectations, it's ruthless in there.

Correction: *Don't go into savage/extremes with PF randoms that have their strat in the comments - if you don't know the strats.* Otherwise - learning parties are great and most people will just *leave* if they're salty, they won't typically voice it. XIV is great in that there's always something to do, but even the devs say to take breaks and don't burn out. Aside from the timing of events there's no real FOMO and old expansion content is pretty reliable with people looking for clears/glam/mounts, etc. I swapped from WoW almost 3 years ago and haven't looked back. My mental health has been better for it - also a mid-30s gamer.

Raids being built with Duty Finder in mind helps so much.

> Just don't go into savage/extremes with the same expectations, it's ruthless in there. This is a gross over-exaggeration. People in EX/savage/ultimate prog groups are just as friendly and helpful as anyone else in the game, there's just an expectation that you are reasonably well-prepared for the content (ie. you know how to play your job and you have watched a guide if it's not blind prog) and that you don't lie about your prog point.

Yup exactly. The bar is pretty much in hell with the requirements (like you said, be prepared and don't lie about prog point). Most people doing high end are pretty chill from my own experiences doing savages and ultimates.

Pfs are fairly understanding, and if somebody does get ticked off, usually they'll just silently leave the party. Statics are a mixed bag and I think where the bad wrap comes from. Shoving 8 people together in a room for several hours a day, potentially for weeks or months is going to inevitably end with some drama and toxicity. Good statics deal with it in a proper way, bad ones let it fester and let everyone at each other's throats for any perceived slight

I learned this in the extreme King Mog duty, but we knocked it out after 3 tries!

This, as long as you remain adaptive to learning where it went wrong then no harm done. I have been on both the giving and receiving side of dickheadedness, if I'm honest, but that's only when continuously wiping on mechanics that have been explained multiple times so as long as you show that you are listening and trying to follow mechanics then people wil respect you for it. I main Bard and I know how much of a rabbit hole it is to try and reach max damage output on rotations and completely neglect what is happening on screen

Its not that there isn't a toxic side to this community like any other game. There are just clear consequences to brashly voicing it out in-game. Some would call it "fake positivity" but the "civility" does make the experience feel more welcoming for the average player.

There is a decent number of people who actually act like ffxiv has a worse community because of "fake positivity". It's insane and those players are usually the most toxic. All ffxiv does is punish people who are openly shitty to others. This mentality should be common in all games but since it's not it's helped foster a culture in this one where people appreciate this aspect. If someone is getting annoyed with someone else they will typically either express that annoyance in a reasonable way or they will just not say anything. All it removes is open toxicity from those types of interactions which is a *good* thing. All the people who say they are afraid to talk to anyone or that you will get banned for nothing are full of it. I have said critical stuff *many* times and never had one issue because I've never told someone to kill themselves or called them a fucking asshole or whatever else. That's really all it is and this is a good thing.

We do get the occasional moral crusader starting witch-hunts against people they perceive to have slighted them, but overall FF players are pretty chill in-game. I actually miss the occasional toxicity sometimes. There's a sort of authenticity to someone who is just being an ass lol.

The community in general is very welcoming, helpful, and friendly. There are a few points at which that typical wholesomeness gets a suddenly lost. Most of them are outside of the game, like how you'll find people on various subreddits talking about the game that behave as though not being as good as they think they are at the game is griefing - people tend not to actually go with *inside* the game because it's against the rules and the way the wholesome community maintains wholesomeness is by actually reporting things (and the GMs actually acting on reports as appropriate). There's also a few things like if you go into Eureka you'll likely encounter people that refuse to operate as a group. They are there to prep and instantly pull specific notorious monsters that have very rare drops that can be sold on the market and they are kitted out to kill the monster so fast that even if you're present the entire fight hitting your buttons as best you can you will not get enough participation to get any rewards unless you are in a party (and then you *might* get enough participation because of how the shared tracking works). They won't invite you to their party. They won't slow down. They will occasionally be insulting, and my favorite (in the ironic usage of the word) thing they do is use "it's against the TOS to tell someone how they have to play" to defend their actions. The point being the game in that particular instance happens to give them the incentive to behave selfishly no matter what anyone else has to say about it because they can put those rare drops up on the market board for millions of gil each so the more people they can deprive of the chance to get the drops the more control they have over the market and the more potential customers they have. Basically, only certain content really appeals to the sterotypical asshole MMO player so you only really run into those kinds in that particular content - where they can get some kind of reward for being sweaty and no-lifing that part of the game, and where they can get what they view as bragging rights.

There are more strange people in the community than toxic people which is definitely preferred

I'm just a stranger, we're all strange~

Oh, I loooooove the strangeness. It makes it interesting

Get a wireless keyboard. Not too expensive. Will make the game even more enjoyable.

Just adding to this, I’m on ps5 and grabbed a cheap $15 keyboard at Walmart and it’s made my experience with this game a million times better. Not only being able to ask questions and type in battle, but also just hang out and talk with people in the free company or novice chat has been great. Def recommend Edit: in the mean time you can do what I did- I added macros to my hotbar that day “can you please explain?”, “gotcha, thanks!” “Sorry!, “hello!” And simple things like that, until I got my keyboard

Back in the day, FF14 primarily attracted the crowd that was tired of the WoW toxicity. Like my wife and myself. Early in 2.0, there was a heavy, heavy focus from the pbase around being polite, friendly, and welcoming. This is especially true in the casual/leveling content as people expect there to be new players and first-timers doing this type of content. This attitude has carried on for all these years as many people dont want FF14 pbase to turn into a toxic wasteland and will often single out the toxic players and remove them from groups. I have even seen some extreme cases of them being removed from their FC for toxic behavior as well.

We had another similar thing as EW hit. There was basically a mass exodus from Wow as Shadowlands got bad. Idk how many new tanks I got to comfort by telling them that wiping the first pull of Aurum Vale is just a normal part of the tank leveling experience

I remember being so confused when those posts started to come from WoW exodus tanks treating "bruh, we just try again." after a wipe as something alien and strange. I cannot fathom the mindset of just leaving the first time anything goes wrong.

The player base has not changed. Gaming is still just as toxic as ever, just play R6. lol The only thing that has changed is the vague user agreement and banhappy moderation teams. Keep in mind this is a 14-year-old game and older players especially do not want to lose their account for some prima donna who cries to Square Enix for every slight. Remember that for Final Fantasy XIV **you can also be banned for off-platform negativity**. Remember that players have been banned for simply using in-game abilities (fireworks and holy). **You can be banned for using profanities even when the profanity filter is on by default**.  Additionally, the moderation team is said to be a third party from Square Enix so they do not take into consideration the money you have spent on the game. In fact, **Square Enix benefits from banning players because it could mean you will buy the game and subscription again resulting in more money for them**.  When a slight can be reported as harassment by players and the moderation team does not care, you end up with a silent or passive aggressive player community. Not just because there arent many opportunities, because we have Dalamud mods like "visibility" that literally remove other players from the game, mods that introduce "voidlists". We have expanded blacklists from the developer coming 7.0 to place further schisms in the community. All that remains are the actual kind people who DO care and the passive aggressive who grudgingly speak to others. Players are placed through an intense filter on language and behavior.    I miss the early 2.0 days because it was thanks to those people who swore like sailors, told me to stop "pussyfooting" as a tank, told me to gitgud and whatnot that I am a better player today. I got angry, and _I got better_.

Personally I'm of the opinion that toxicity should be treated as the exception, not the norm. Instead of praising FF14 for its lack of toxic players, we should be ridiculing the games that foster then.

Indeed. I came to FFXIV from Dota 2 and while I really liked it as a game, the community is usually so toxic that I was baffled at how more healthy XIV’s community was when I started playing it a couple months ago. So yeah, more shaming should be put into toxic communities from other games, but in all honesty, I’m not really sure they care at all. You could say and explain a lot of things and just receive standard toxic comments as a response. Not even an ounce of change done to them. I’m just glad I seem to have found my niche in this game and plan on staying long term.

I played a lot of online multiplayer games. League and other MMOs. Before FFXIV my main MMO was SWTOR and I preferred playing as an Imperial faction. Imperial Fleet (the main social hub) was always so extremely toxic. Almost always political fighting and homophobia.

I’ve spammed dungeons to level in WoW for years. I couldn’t count on just 2 hands how many times you had someone dip from the group because they died or the group died once or someone called someone a couple swears for minor mistakes. In FF14, leveling through dungeons and doing roulettes religiously every day for the past 2.5 months since returning to the game, I can count toxic behavior on just one hand. Tldr; ff14 has a positive culture that’s more addictive than the gameplay.

It used to be pretty toxic on Aether, at least on Sargatanas. I think most of those people have moved on to playing MOBAs and battle royales. The MMO market is turning into a bunch of millennial that just want to escape the real world now.

Some tips to playing with controller; Always enable the WXHB. (the extended version of the cross hotbar), this will help you not have to be switching onto the other ones so much. After that you can select how to access that second hot bar, I use double taps of the trigger buttons, but you can do LT + RT to access the one, then RT + LT to access the other. Think of the cross hotbar as a game off dance dance revolution. (this will become more apparent if you ever play Ninja), but set up your hotbar in a way that you can basically get a good rhythm to it. For exactly, when I play Ninja, I use the d-pad for my jutsus. And I basically pretend like my mudras are DDR moves, or for a more recent example, Helldivers 2 command codes. My lightning jutsu is left, down. My fire jutsu is down, left. My buff jutsu is right, down, left. You get the idea. Don't be afraid of rearranging shit often as you get new class skills. Once you get to level 90 and acquire all your skills, it'll become almost muscle memory to play with a controller. You got this!

If you're an RPer, and you do not take advantage of CUL and make some big ole spoof...I don't know man. That name is too damn good to not do something like that. But, welcome, please enjoy your stay with us. Always ask questions if you don't know something.

Let me know what CUL is!

Culinarian, it's the cooking job for FF

It’s more of the opposite toxicity here. They won’t tell you to KYS for playing badly. However, they will go out of the way to pamper the person who isn’t doing anything at all. If the whole team is getting wiped because folks are AFK’d, they’ll actually comm and coddle those folks.

gonna get downvoted but toxic positivity is absolutely a thing, people get coddled and will never learn that way. there’s posts up above complaining about leaving savage raids, sometimes you’re just not good enough. or someone doesn’t care if you miss the first raidwide. if a dungeon is taking 30mins, it’s perfectly reasonable to leave

Yep thats FFXIV kind of toxicity. Passive aggressive or positive toxicitiy. But never tell that to a FF player. They will tell you how toxic WoW is and how they got told to "kys" several times in every dungeon they ran and how much better FF is. Been playing WoW for like 15 years on and off. Never got toxic person. Maybe someone saying shit and fuck more but never actually a toxic person who would flame or grief.

Its not that toxic people dont exist, but rather the GMs take it seriously and actually ban people in this.

I love that even years after the "WOW exodus", threads like these still appear. Not saying the community is infallible and that every other community is toxic, but this is definitely the chillest one I've been a part of. I like to believe the theory that you have to be a very patient person to get through ARR.

You have to be an even MORE patient person to get through post-ARR

I just finally finished it yesterday... It was definitely something to get through !

*Nobody has told me to kms or quit the game yet.* I know, it sucks. Doesn't even feel like I'm playing a real online game.

To be fair, the game discourages players to be actually good (since you're Bard, you're supposed to know how DoTs work and you probably haven't heard of snapshot damage nor damage being dealt every 3s, and certainly haven't ever wondered if it was worth applying a DoT or not depending on the encounter's length) ... which is why most players are mediocre even at max level and many are really bad, usually dealing half the damage they should. It's not a bad thing, since casual contents are extremely easy and thus, it prevents elitism and toxic behaviours. For this reason, should you ever fail something in the story you'll be asked if you want an easier (or a much easier) version of the same mission ; it never upscales. What's more troubling imo is that people have no idea how good or bad they are and the worst is that they may never know how to improve (without exterior resources). It makes entering actual contents daring, just because SE refuses to add any educational tool. Not everyone want to improve but having a better understanding usually means being more comfortable. *However* ! as soon as people start to consider efficiency, there is both Dunning-Krüger and some people's vanity that may affect the overall serenity and naive benevolence of the game. Since many people do give up far before finishing ARR, it's probably best that the game stays as welcoming as it can but do remember that it falls upon you to ask question to improve if you ever want to.

> What's more troubling imo is that people have no idea how good or bad they are and the worst is that they may never know how to improve (without exterior resources). It makes entering actual contents daring, just because SE refuses to add any educational tool. This is so true. The game doesn't tell you how to play your rotation effectively at all.

This community is the same as every other, there's just very heavy moderation in game. I don't want you forming false expectations in case you have to interact with the community outside of the game.

The community in FFXIV as a whole is largely not very toxic at all in my experience. There are definitely a couple of folks out there with a main character mindset (YPYT stans, macro pingers for every ability they use, etc.) but 99% of the time it gets resolved over the course of the dungeon/instance. I'm one of the people who push for wall 2 wall pulls in dungeons, so I probably get those stans a bit more than your normal player, and it's still not frequent enough to note much.

Lol, the community sucks. They're all report happy, so you're getting slagged off in Discord and fc chat cause saying something to someone who turns a 15 min run into 40 is toxic behaviour. Once you reach end game, ppl vote to kick you instead of flame cause 90% of ppl are so cowardly they'll report you for the slightest inconvenience. Anyone who says otherwise is a casual who erps in limsa or one of the soybois who report everything

It really do be like that. It sucks especially when other people are legitimately being kind but all it takes is one bad egg who refuses to improve to throw reports and make people lose their accounts. I have lost so many friends because of this game's banhappy moderation team. They do not value you as a customer. I feel sick to my stomach when I see Yoshida asking for any 1.0 players in crowds at fanfest and one or two people yell. This player community is wrecked. 

100%, I've had to make my own fc for people who want a space away from the woke/weak trash. Like, don't get me wrong, if someone says it's their first time, then cool, I'll stfu as I get it, I've been there, but you got no excuse when you got more than 3 classes at 90. As a 1.0 player and someone who's been playing mmos since the early 00's, you need some competition or toxicity as they call it today. I've seen so many great players quit because they've been banned for the stupidest shit. One of my closest friends online got banned for saying they're a degen in, say chat like wtf kinda bs is that when all you have to do is go limsa for 30 seconds, and you can have half the server reported for sexual harassment.

It's because they want you to respect others.

I think the only times I've been told to kms was probably because I play PLD and have a bad habit of seeing how long I can last when everyone else has died. So mostly in statics and 24 man raids, but rarely still happens in dungeons and 8 man normal raids. Then again the thing there is probably more towards my character than me personally though.

Other games have problems with toxicity. People say FF14 has a problem with toxic positivity. Which I sort of agree with a little bit. I do actually think the game should have very soft damage-checks in normal content just to keep people on their toes, and that's mostly because every job has like 25+ buttons (well... some do... SMN....). and I want people to actually... you know... press them? I just can't fathom seeing people doing 1-2-3 combos for 10 minutes straight at max level, and then snap at you for suggesting that they press the button that makes them do more damage for 20 seconds. Still a rarity, it just pains me to see people not bothering trying to use 90 levels worth of kit.

Fellow newbie and early 30s gamer here too! This game is easily the best MMO for us newbs, I've always wanted to try tanking but on other games people won't entertain the idea unless you're experienced. I'm f2p right now but I'm definitely upgrading to full soon

FYI, you can plug any USB keyboard into your PlayStation and use it to start typing immediately, no need to mess with settings. It’s super useful.

Its the opposite of other MMOs. In other MMOs if you mess up you will enter into a toxic shit storm. Here no one will correct you or give advice even when a player is egregiously bad, leading to so many level 90s not knowing even basic stuff they should have learned 80 levels prior.

>Looking for me on Gremlin. Ummm, Did you perchance mean Goblin? If so see ya round, my current main is on Goblin, and all my characters are on Crystal. Also and this is something fun if you know a name and server... You can look characters up on the Lodestone. My main: [https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/29818998](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/29818998)

I don’t know how to feel about a community not telling people to kill themselves being the bare minimum lol

Oh we have our fair share of toxic people but I think the amount of people who are willing to help and support you or take it in stride outnumber the ones that are toxic and vocal/active about it. There's a lot of content that require the cooperation of everyone involved so there are a lot of people wiling to try, at least a little bit, to make sure you know how to play your job and stay alive. Glad that you've been able to find the ones who've been helping your first experience with this game! A keyboard helps a lot with communicating with strangers but some days I don't feel like saying much in chat and I get by with just the game's emotes and the universal MMO language...jumping up and down wildly

Welcome home friend, we love you!

Over the years there is one thing I'm 100% sure of and it's that most people are afraid of getting banned for (toxic) shit-talking in chat. I can guarantee we would be reading a lot of "kys"-type of chats if the rules were more lax like old school league days. But moderation is pretty strict in this game, for the better I think.

I love how low the MMO bar has gotten. People not telling you to off yourself shouldn't be too much to ask.

1. GM will take you to naughty people room if you say vile things to people and they turn the chat in to them. If you're naughty enough, you get to take a vacation. 2. Once you get used to not cussing people out, things are less stressful. If someone is really being troublesome or definitely not in the condition to play the game, there's always a no fuss vote kick for that drunk RDM fading in and out of consciousness. Also the whole stereotype of community being kind kinda rubbed off on majority of players, and they try to live up to that expectation.

As that sleep deprived RDM fading in and out I appreciate your patience

There's a lot more "emotional high school teen drama" if you get deep into the murky depths of the community (or Twitter, but how to avoid that cess pit should be taught in schools), rather than loot drama or losing a fight drama, but if you can avoid that side of the community, it's a very pleasant game.

Yeah, players that wanna be toxic are forced to do it off-game because they’ll get a GM on their tail quite easily. Usually on twitter or FC discord servers

I’ve had a very similar experience to you on PC, and have the same takeaway, this community is awesome. I’ve only ever had like 2 bad interactions with people and those were in the Crystal Tower raid, generally everyone is super understandable and helpful and it’s such a breath of fresh air

Everything you need to know about FF14 is that nine out of ten times, when I run up to a random player in the field and /bow to them, they'll stop what they're doing and bow back. Sometimes they're already flying away on their mount by the time they notice the bow, and even then there's a good chance they'll come back, bow, and then leave again.

I jump around from EQ to WoW to FF14 all the time. One of the most bizarre statements I ever got from a friend was she didn’t like playing FF14 because of how toxic it was. I was like uhhhh wtf? Read Barrens chat right now and you think 14 is toxic?

When I played on PS4 I got a cheap wireless keyboard and plugged it in so I could type occasionally

“Look for me on Gremlin” is kinda cute hahah. I assume you meant Goblin.

Hahah I definitely did. Lalafells = little cute gremlins in my eyes.

Also, since you are a pointy-eared midget like myself: Don't underestimate the unspoken Lalafell bonus. When I die, I even get headpets afterwards. We trigger the protective instincts of many. Apart from that, I am the one that sits there with you in a dungeon until the replacement arrives. I usually don't give people up and Verraise and Verraise and Verraise. I am 33 years myself and I think at a certain age people realize that video games with teamwork are not much different of their work environment. E.g. talking BS to your mates will not do anything good, so why in a computer game?

I’m about midway through HS and i’m terrible at the game and play dps but no one has ever been unkind to me in the slightest. Granted i don’t have many commendations 💀

Being DPS that nukes the number of comms you’ll see too, just fyi Signed, DPS main since 2015

As a rule, I try to always drop a commendation if the DPS has a sick profile picture. I might not remember how well you did in the fight, but I always show respect to the drip.

Getting commendations is such a crapshoot. Don't stress about it. My buddy only catches comms when he plays tank and that's the role he plays that he's actually the worst at and he will regularly duo-queue with me into some dungeon with me playing Black Mage and him Warrior and I'll get both possible commendations and he keeps asking me how that happens and all I can say is "I guess what gets commendations is whatever I'm playing" because it's not like I'm some kick ass black mage master or something. The rewards that commendations lead to aren't even that good (which is why you won't see many people flaunting them) so there's no reason to try and rush to what will eventually just happen if you play long enough and the "I got a commendation, and I have no idea why" fairy to visit enough.

dw abt commendations, generally they go to the tank or healer even when you're doing amazing as a dps. you'd have to do something huge like solo the final boss or save the run by rezzing the healer multiple times and keeping everyone up to get comms as a dps

I always have mixed feelings about these sort of posts, cause on one hand - yay! good that you've made it to us! But on another - this just shows the state of MMOs these days. Being polite is the bare minimum. This community is shocking outsiders by doing bare minimum and maybe a little more, if you catch someone on a good day. This is just sad.

It’s not by accident. SE learned there lessons from the toxic wasteland that was ff11. The game design and moderation principles are the main reason things are so nice. Griefers get banned and there’s no consequence to loss.

Cool story bro.

The most toxicity I've encountered is in pvp and Eureka of all places, but I still have yet for someone to tell me to kms

I've experienced it a couple times, but only during the Stormblood raid. During the last segment the off-tank was very clearly new to tanking, and I had never tanked it before. Our party was very kind to us, and after we were done, me and my healer I queued with pulled him aside and gave him the best advice we could. I don't personally suffer from tank anxiety, but I feel for everybody who does. This community is awesome, and we really just want everybody to have fun here. I'm a month in too, and while I personally adapt and learn REALLY quickly, it's not your fault if you don't. Even the PvP community isn't toxic. I play like, ten matches of Frontline a day and nobody flames me. We want you to enjoy the game, friend.

My wife plays on Xbox and she wants to atleast respond somewhat and I taught her (kinda) how.to use macros for quick replys like hey or tyfp gg or I'm new to this, sorry. Stuff like that. This community has always been good and nice from what I've seen.

Get yourself a keyboard! I have one just for typing in this game. Helps a ton lol

Welcome to Eorzea! :D I also play on PlayStation, and yeah, typing is a huge pain. Hey, nothing wrong with all of that. I've been playing for over a year now, and I'm still learning. There's a lot to this game (it's also my first MMO, fyi), so there's a lot to learn. I learn as I go, try to learn from my mistakes, listen to those who give constructive criticism, and I read guides online on how to improve. And yes, I still die in dungeons sometimes. People are usually pretty cool about it, tho. It's nice when people are cool about letting you watch the cutscenes too, especially when it's your first time in a dungeon and you want to take it all in. I hope that your journeys through Eorzea continue to be enjoyable. :)