#aether dc

[demita-ffxiv]

T h e m | One of my fav shots

[brattygrymblade]

Do you like shitposting while being chill with a bunch of friendly folk while attempting hard content?

Our static is looking for a MELEE NON-MONK DPS to step in full time on NA servers.

Come enjoy as we make each other cry in laughter from antics such as the tank 360 No-Scoping the DPS, or accidentally pulling while the dancer was AFK. Or how about raising each other in poison puddles?

Our raid times are TUES, WED, THURS, from 6:30pm PST to 8:30pm PST, we're currently on P10S, so Let Us Know, send a message!

Our motto is: Don't worry about it!

[bloodyboi]

[desertleviathan]

A guide to choosing a North American Data Center for your first FFXIV character

Final Fantasy XIV doesn't really require you to have Alts, since one character can see and do Everything. But I have a ton of alts anyway, and they're spread out enough that I've learned a bit about the quirks and cultural differences of all four North American Data Centers. What follows are my observations about the Pros and Cons of playing on each DC, which may help a new player figure out where they feel most comfortable.

In any case... the variances I'm describing are strong enough to be noticeable, but not so strong as to be overwhelming. Your experience is going to be mostly the same regardless of where you wind up. The FFXIV community at large is friendly, welcoming, and helpful. But some places are more so.

AETHER: I have a frankly ludicrous eight alts on Aether DC, including my main character, so I know this community best of all.

PRO: Seems to be the most populous NA DC, probably because it's first on the list alphabetically. There will be other people to do content with at all hours of day or night.

PRO: A larger portion of the Raiding Community seems to have gravitated here. If you are interested in High-End content (Extreme/Savage/Chaotic/Ultimate/etc.), your odds of finding a group seem to be noticeably improved on Aether.

PRO: Many Streamers and Community Personalities are on Aether. A majority of the ones who are willing to disclose where they are, anyway. This is probably related to the overall presence of the Raiding community.

PRO: General gameplay competence is noticeably higher on Aether. I see far fewer wipes on old content, reach completion much faster, and feel a lot less pressured to queue for the Alliance Raid Roulette as a Red Mage to be a resurrection bot.

CON: It's... the most populous NA DC. Aether's servers will have the Congested status more often than not. Login queues will be longer. And good luck finding a House.

CON: It's full of Raiders, and Raiders can sometimes be unpleasant. I think even the majority of Raiders will agree that there's a larger concentration of toxicity in that part of the game than in the general FFXIV population.

CON: Because the general experience level is higher, the level of tolerance towards inexperienced players can be lower. The norm for all of FFXIV is definitely to be kind to new players, but I see violations of that norm a lot more often on Aether. Aether people in particular seem have a very hard time waiting for first-timers to watch boss cutscenes, or responding in a helpful manner to players who screw up fight mechanics in a way that gets other characters killed.

CRYSTAL: I also have five major alts on Crystal and a couple placeholder characters who may or may not get promoted to regular play.

PRO: The NA Roleplay community is heavily concentrated on Crystal, especially on the Balmung and Mateus servers.

PRO: People are just overall very nice here, above and beyond the baseline for FFXIV. If someone's handing out free stuff or offering to escort new players around for map completion or taking time out of their gameplay to help someone out that they've just met, it's more likely to happen on Crystal than not in my observation.

PRO: After Aether, Crystal is easily the next most populous, and probably takes first place during the long span between patches, because Ather players are more likely to let their subscription lapse when there's no new content to throw themselves at, but Crystal players are more likely to focus on things that are always there like housing decoration, glamour collection, and roleplay.

CON: Again, populous servers equals congested server - it can be hard to even get your foot in the door on Crystal. And Housing is so popular on Crystal that it's hard to even find an Apartment on some servers. Good luck!

CON: Crystal players, especially Roleplayers, sometimes lack a sense of how to share space with people who have differing levels of comfort with suggestive and sexual content. If someone expresses discomfort, it can be a crapshoot whether others will respect that and take things to a private space, or whether they'll just pile on and heckle the person who spoke up.

CON: Crystal players can be noisy. There's a greater tendency to treat /yell and /shout chats as general-subject chatrooms, especially on the Roleplay servers mentioned above. I don't want to be the grouchy old man in the room, but topic and tone of conversation skews very immature. It often feels like being trapped in a junior high lunch room.

CON: There's no nice way to say this, Crystal players are noticeably worse at playing the game. Out of all my negative observations, this is the one I'm most ready to back up with Numbers. I had a spreadsheet going for a while when I was leveling my Aether and Crystal mains at the same time where I'd compare completion time for the same set of roulettes on the same day, and Crystal was reliably 10-25% slower. Wipes are a lot more common. On the plus side though, since everyone's a little sloppier on average a lot fewer of them get rude or abusive towards people who do mess up.

CON: There's no drama like Roleplayer Drama. If you want to see some real messy soap opera crap getting aired out in a public chat channel every single day, this is the place to look for it.

DYNAMIS: The newest NA DC was host to a "book club" style MSQ replay I participated in for quite a while, and I continued to play the character I made for that long after the group disbanded. He's been moved to Crystal now though, so I don't currently have an active Dynamis alt.

PRO: The newest servers. At the time I'm writing this 6/8 Dynamis servers still have the "New" status, which awards bonus EXP to characters made there, and if I recall correctly gives them a large gil reward for reaching a certain level threshold early on.

PRO: Dynamis is under-populated overall. Why is that a good thing? Swift logins and available housing, mainly. Some servers still have wards that haven't been made available for purchase yet, because currently open housing wards are still not full!

CON: On the other hand, Dynamis content queues can be slower outside of prime time, because of the smaller population numbers. PvP queues are never great, no matter what time of day.

CON: The economy is still kind of weird here - a lot of items simply aren't available, or have wildly fluctuating prices.

PRIMAL: The "Chill" DC, sitting back and just living its life while Aether and Crystal compete. Fun fact, my two Primal alts were copies of my Aether main who I originally made to attend friend's weddings, then kept playing.

PRO: Lacking either the temperamental perfectionism of Aether's raiders or the juvenile drama of Crystal's roleplayers, people here are just... there. If you want to just go about your business without being bothered, Primal is the place to be!

PRO: I have no idea why, but Primal's economy is way more buyer-friendly than the other servers. When I'm looking for the cheapest copy of an expensive item, 90% of the time I wind up hopping to Primal to get it.

PRO: This may be personal bias talking, but the Primal House Decorating community seems to be on another level. I see very cool designs everywhere of course, but when I'm hopping DCs to look at something cool I saw on Bluesky or here on Tumblr I'm more likely to wind up on Primal as a result.

CON: The economy being buyer-friendly means it's seller-unfriendly. You won't score as much from selling a rare drop here as you would elsewhere. It's a noticeable enough difference that I've helped Primal players transfer goods to their Aether or Crystal alts to sell, and transfer the money back to Primal.

CON: Folks mostly minding their own business means it's sometimes harder to scrounge together players for content here. Duty Finder Queue times are fine, but Party Finder participation seems poorer, and if you're reduced to shouting for help in a city you may find the response underwhelming.

[gothambarista]

It was too late/early in the night to try to sleep after patroling with Nightwing on the insane schedule the bats have. Gar had figured he wouldn't be getting sleep that night, and it's not like this was his first (or last) time pulling an allnighter but now was starving. He saw that a cafe nearby was open and might have some vegetarian options for him so he walked in giving the guy behind the counter small wave.

@that1greendude

The guy behind the counter waved back, a faint smile haunted their face.

"Good evening, what may your order be?"

It wasn't that they looked weird. They looked kinda nice, but something didn't feel right about this guy.

"Aether" was wroten in their apron.

Despite the late hour, Aether seemed quite at ease. Even comfortable as if they were in their element.

[j4ck0falltrades]

Did some investigating. I'm assuming Lysandre and Evan are in Belle Reve or some other facility. Possibly DC. I will make a trip there soon, but I have some preliminary investigation going on there as well.

Leonidas' disappearance is a league matter, so direct your inquiries to Jessamine. I will have her handle most of that ( @winged-demons-and-co ) I will do what I can with it, but Jessamine knows more about the league than I do.

As for Aether...that trail is quite cold, but I shall continue working at it. You neglected to tell me that's she's not quite human.

Solei, you neglected to tell me many things.

@best-detective-since-sherlock

Sorry, in my humble defense Lysandre gave me clear instructions on how to describe these kind of things and while I thought of giving you more information about the matter, I know how seriously Lysandre takes his contingency plans.

And well... Aether is quite a difficult case. I was never sure what she was actually.

As far as I knew she was either a very very strange meta or she was an eldritch horror.

- ☀️

[the-w0nderlands]

A serious meeting.

Location: Mount Star, Necrostella. New Jersey

Date: Thursday 1st, May. 12:10 pm

A group of nine people were sitting down in a living room while one stood up with a whiteboard.

The group was... very diverse. Very diverse, in fact:

- A local cryptid (Atropos)

- Dr House if cryptid and used they/them pronouns (Aether) (also the responsible adult)

- Cocky Pinocchio who will bite (Ciel)

- Zombie with anger issues (Alejandro)

- Speedster with anxiety (Lucas)

- Sapphic battle-obsessed siren (Jessica)

- Ghost little miss perfect (Aemie)

- Alien child (Orion)

- A sorcerer who stress bakes (Leo)

- 12 y.o pyromaniac in making (Evan)

So yes. Quite a sight.

- Local cryptid (Atropos)

- Dr House if cryptid and used they/them pronouns (Aether)

- Cocky Pinocchio who will bite (Ciel)

- Ex-talon (Alejandro)

- Speedster with anxiety (Lucas)

- Sapphic battle-obsessed siren (Jessica)

- Ghost little miss perfect (Aemie)

- Alien child (Orion)

- A sorcerer who stress bakes (Leo)

- 12 y.o pyromaniac in making (Evan)

A boy with googles raised his hand.

"Because... I blew up a car? I covered my tracks! And the owners were mean to Orion when we were shopping!" The boy huffed.

Aether sighed in disappointment. "No Evan, I didn't know that. Good for you to learn about how to cover your tracks..."

At this point, Aether was at least trying to see the good side of this entire thing.

( @arsonistic-tendencies )

[garden0fpoison]

If I had a nickel for every traumatized half ghost person I know, I would have 4 nickels

Which isn't a lot, but at least two of them half died and that's concerning tbh

[shivapvoid]

maybe once my wifi is fixed ill go back to savage raiding <- words of someone who's only done ex's and panda savage tier 1

[puppetmaster13u]

Flight Rising Flash, Kid Flash, & Impulse <3

[zylphiacrowley]

Aether stop being closed. Be open instead!

[demita-ffxiv]

Happy Holidays from Yarita!

[little-tainted-angel]

๑ A Heaven left on flames

๑ Angel | Michael | Mike ๑ Principal account. ๑ 18 ๑ Pronouns ๑ Masterlist ๑ S.Masterlist ๑

Hello, you may call me Angel. I'm just a silly person that wishes to write in here. Mostly centered in Male readers because they also deserve love ♡

I don't mind if female aligned persons read my content, just know I won't write about a female reader (your guys are chill though 🫶).

I might write gn readers too if you request it as such.

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The fandoms I will work with will be;

๑ Genshin Impact.

๑ DC

๑ BSD (Bungou Stray Dogs)

And I might work with other fandoms or characters if you request them.

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The NSFW category is now open!

No smut content with minors.

[bloodyboi]

for your "what do you hate about smut fics" post. When authors make a character speak aave and act ghetto.

omg yes. As a black person, please stop. Act like a real writer and write.

[agentukelele]

Tell me how good my Jonathan Crane fancast is you guys.

[gothambarista]

Ms. Aether…could I ask a favor?

@pipertheseapancake

Oh, of course dear

Ask, please