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Hey FFXIV players? I don't care if you've sunk thousands of hours into this game, I don't care if you have all the ultimate weapons, I don't care if you're a mentor—if you play healer and Sprint into mobs and then pull the tank along using Rescue and then insist that the tank follow your pace even when they ask you to stop fucking doing that, you're a piece of shit.

Not everyone plays at the same pace you do. Not everyone plays with your level of experience. If you can't cooperate and give grace to another player who's trying their best, if you can't deal with another player playing at a pace you deem inefficient, don't fucking play multiplayer games.

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Behold.

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kids these days don't even know how good they have it. they don't even know about the final fantasy 14 artificial housing crisis

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SOON.

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I wasn't paying attention when I joined a PF looking to beat Ravana EX, I just saw "first time" and went "ooh second chance points" but despite never having done Ravana EX at the proper sync'd level and wiping thrice before we beat it, it was fun and restored my faith in FFXIV players after the absolutely shitty healer in yesterday's leveling roulette ✨

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Just finished the VPR questline for Hyllizirn and if she wasn't happily in love with Kirika I would absolutely ship her with Keshkwa lmaooo what a good guy!! And his face sort of grows on you too (laughs)

Also before the (frankly predictable) reveal I was already really liking Golias for how cute he was and was making tentative plans to ship him with Canso, but with the reveal of his role in the questline and the fact that he's probably married (Innocent Stork threatened his family if he said a word, but his parents are dead. It could've been siblings, but I'm more inclined to think it's a wife and kids) those plans have obviously fallen by the wayside lmao

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It took three and a half years, but I'm finally up-to-date with my hi-res jobstone illustrations. I started with the Summoner during summer of 2021, and I just finished my last one (Viper) a few days ago.

This project started because it annoyed me that there weren't any official hi-res images of the jobstones. I just really wanted to look at the pretty rocks that played such an important role in the game!!! So hopefully someone else who is obsessive about in-game items can derive some pleasure from this.

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Obviously I'm coming from a biased standpoint here (SHADOWBRINGERS NUMERO UNO) but I feel like Dawntrail's role quests feel lacking because there's no connection between them and the WoL, in a sense. In Shadowbringers, the WoL is tapped to help vanquish the Cardinal Virtues, shades of Ardbert's friends and former Warriors of Light themselves. We learn more about them in the process, tying into our adventures across the First with Ardbert, and it works so well precisely because the relationship between the WoL and Ardbert lends weight to uncovering the truths behind the Cardinal Virtues. It makes us care for them. Everything is interconnected—Ardbert has been with us from the very first, was instrumental in both the past and present fates of the First, was basically the only reason we could survive the Light corruption and take down Hades, and now in the role quests we learn more about his friends and free them from their shackles. That's why Shadowbringers felt like such a tight expansion; it all flows smoothly from the beginning to the end, with almost every content related to the First's past and future including the role quests.

You can argue Endwalker's role quests are of a similar nature; they feature the various city-state leaders we've become acquainted with throughout our adventures and revolve around handling blasphemies in each city-state, but they lack the same degree of connection that we had in the Shadowbringers role quests. Sure it's fun to go around investigating things with Aymeric or meeting the Admiral's old friends, but there's a degree of separation between them and the WoL. In the Shadowbringers role quests, the various NPCs you help out like Giott, Cerigg, Taynor, Lue-Reeq and Granson eventually become your close companions; they remain at the Crystarium and you can visit them anytime to have a chat. The city-state leaders? Arenvald and Fordola? Gone after the quests are done. And the culmination of the role quests aren't anything to shout about either: just them banding together to stop a blasphemy from causing havoc in Garlemald. That's basically another day in the second half of Endwalker! It's a nothing burger! No connections were tangibly created! We did not bond!

That degree of separation from the WoL is why, even if you argue the Endwalker and Dawntrail role quests were vital in providing more lore about the city-states and the peoples of Tural, it feels more like the WoL (and by extension we the player) are strangers looking in from the outside as opposed to truly being a part of it. And it makes sense within the context of the story; the WoL's not some super heroic figure who's automatically accepted into the fold everywhere they go. They're still an adventurer who can't be too familiar with the city-state leaders when they rank above the WoL in status. They're still an adventurer who's practically a stranger to the Turali peoples looking for assistance in getting their relics back. Of course the WoL is not going to be an integral part of the story; it makes sense.

But the trade-off is that we don't feel part of the story, and that's why we don't feel as attached or connected to the Endwalker and Dawntrail role quests, and why they don't feel as impactful as the Shadowbringers ones.

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Finally finished Dawntrail! Will be updating the recap posts before I head into patch content etc.

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💙💚💙💚 It is his nameday today (21/04) 💙💚💙💚

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I truly don't get why the common stereotype of tank/healer MMO couples is surly toughguy tank and anxious people-pleaser healer because every time I queue in as a healer I can feel myself physically turning into the devil

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whenever characters have a weird dad and a missing/dead/unmentioned mom the fandom tendency is to assume she's normal to balance it out. but it's always valid to instead assume she matched his freak. that she was freakier. if canon won't give you enough insane women to work with it's always morally correct to fill in the blanks with your own

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Itching to do YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse for most of my characters not just because it's the best alliance raid story and hit me in the kokoro the hardest, but also because the YoRHa gear make such fantastic glam pieces oughoughghghh I want them so badly........

Most of my characters are only in Stormblood/post-Stormblood, though...........

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4/7/25

What is a job your wol(oc) wont/cant learn? why?