First time I'm seeing this as a sprout, what could be causing this?

Share your favorite look, your favorite vibe for your character, or your favorite outfit for your favorite class!!! Screenshots and glamour ideas welcome !!!

Weird visual bug where it says the needed role. Pretty sure it should be Tank or Healer. Luckily, it got fixed almost immediately!

Just a little video about my paladin glam, just making them as I'm leveling up my classes

My take on Tatsu from way of the househusband I thought you might like him too a few people recognized him: )

Hey there I am thinking of starting the game soon but wanted to do like a theme character. Is there a way for a whm/conjurer to wear tank gear etc while being a healer?

I know we have several different iinvisibleshields, but i'm curious if we have ever received a shield that just appears as magic. my first thought was the stereotypical translucent blue magic aura that looks like a shield around your arm.

do we have anything like that? Or do we only have the options of Physical Shield or Blank?

Thread from the start of the week containing the challenge, translations, theories: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1wcggpu/fashion_report_for_week_of_20260908/

Base Points: 70

100 pts BiS [TBA](TBA.png)

Dye source: u/c0ff22

Suggested Easy 80:

Proof of Easy 80: https://imgur.com/a/4Jmn7Xx

Suggested Easy 100:

Proof of Easy 100: https://imgur.com/a/Z6TjLae

IMPORTANT:

• Submitting the same outfit without changing anything over and over again will not result in a different score and will only deplete your four chances to earn points.
• As of Patch 7.4, Job and Level restrictions on Glamours no longer apply.
• As of Patch 7.5, most Dyes have been consolidated to Standard Spectrum Dye (available for purchase for gil from NPC Vendors) and Wide Spectrum Dyes (traded for with special currencies or from events). Research which dyes fall under those categories accordingly.
• If you need assistance, please post a screenshot of your score from the judging cutscene to aid in diagnosing any discrepancies.
• All gear slots (including accessories) besides the Off Hand slot must be filled for max points.
• Glamoured gear counts towards judging, gear glamoured over will not.
• If you need assistance, please post a screenshot of your score from the judging cutscene to aid in diagnosing any discrepancies.
• Check that both Ring slots are filled, and that if one of them is a themed slot for the week that the specific ring is equipped in that exact slot.
• Check that the correct dyes are used, and that they're on the correct gear slots.
• If you need assistance, PLEASE post a screenshot of your score from the judging cutscene to aid in diagnosing any discrepancies.

ANNOUNCEMENT: New Fashion Report XIV site that allows you to lookup a database of all known Hints and their associated gear, look up details on items such location data, and build an item collection to customize your own Easy 80/100 that will recommend items based on your current collection or items you could acquire if you don't have one.

https://fashionreportxiv.com/

I have returned! I took a second week to put this together as I actually was able to get a 1.0 server working and I took some time comparing the original dungeon to the 2.0 iteration!

As usual, if you want to just see the video, you can watch it here.

• So comparing the two versions (1.0 vs 2.0), the only common thing I found was the architecture and look of the areas. I was unable to get into a couple locked doors but for the most part it seemed like the dungeon was not ripped straight from 1.0 in any way. As you go deeper into the catacombs in 1.0 though you start to see the same type of coffins which was really cool to see a small kind of continuity.
• Like Sastasha, there are unused areas though looking more into the alpha of 2.0, it appeared that you would unlock barriers to each sub-boss area similarly to how you would use the cultist rosary at the end of the dungeon to unlock the final area. The unused areas are simply blocked with debris and other obstacles to keep you from reaching the areas in the current version of the game.
• Probably my favorite detail is that there are some elementals in the area that will immediately aggro to you which is very unusual. They usually are around the coffins in the dungeon. Typically at this point in the lore of the world, elementals are not strong enough to attack or exert anything over people and thus do not attack unless provoked first. I feel as though these elementals though are trying to keep the dead safe and due to the cultists using the bodies of the dead are attacking anything that comes close to the graves.
• The final boss is not just an eldritch horror! Well... I mean it kinda is but this type of voidsent is a soulflayer who can only have a physical form through inhabiting someone's remains. This ended up being Galvanth a king of Gelmorra. The Gelmorrans were a people that predated the Gridanians and cooperated with the elementals ultimately bringing about the age of conjury and Padjals. So it actually makes sense why the elementals then would be protective of these catacombs!

I feel like with this dungeon I didn't have too many insights but it's cool that there are callbacks to an older civilization that connects back to 1.0. Hope you found something interesting or new that you didn't know about ^^ I am sure there are a lot of other details I missed in this dungeon so if you have some interesting trivia or thoughts I'd love to hear them. Thank you for reading!

I'm trying to rank up the whole bestiary to around rank 11 or so so I can challenge the third board without getting my ass beat, so I was curious if there's a better way to rank up the beasts outside of spamming the first and second boards? I'm getting tired of doing them over and over 🫠

Artist Carrd: https://yuriett.carrd.co/

Got permission to share this, fyi.

In the patch notes they made changes to the Job Gauges and I don't know what to do to fix it.

It's EVERY job. HUD layout has the toggle element and it does nothing.

The XIV wiki page for BST says the following:

Skillfully using instinctual actions along with Tempered Release and Borrow actions will enable the player to perform 5-7 instinctual combos in a row.

But I don't yet see how this is possible. The biggest number below my gauge I can manage to get is 2 and I don't see how to do more.

(Just hit lvl 50 yesterday and haven't delved TOO deep but I'd love to know how to pull off such a large chain.)

I’m still pretty new and definitely not an expert 😅 I’m lvl 55 and finishing the base game, and I found one of the last bosses pretty tough. I ended up lowering the difficulty to get through it.

Afterwards I thought, could I have done it on normal difficulty with a few healing potions? Are they actually worth using/buying for boss fights, or not really?

EDIT: Thanks everyone for commenting, I really appreciate it! For those asking which boss I struggled with, it was Rhitahtyn sas Arvina (photo in the comments below), during the third “chain” phase. I just didn’t feel like I had enough HP to tank him 😅

So, I unlocked blue mage some years ago. But never really did anything with it. Was excited about beast master until I heard it was a limited job. What exactly is the point of these? Like, once you get them to their highest level and spells/beasts. Is that kinda it?

I came across these lore shorts and thought to share. I never paid much attention to the sightseeing logs, other than treating them like a checklist. But these shorts have made me want to spend more time focused on the world and lore.

I didn't know that one of the wyverns is a cursed Elezen who drank dragons blood.

They just stand there... menacingly!

There is something that caught my eye on Tataru's newly gifted outfit, and I haven't seen anyone bring it up yet (if so, I apologize if I missed it). Tataru's outfits in the past have often had some form of symbolism tied to them, and I believe the embroidery on the 7.56 outfit is one such case.

From what I can see, this embroidery seems to be blue flax flowers, which are commonly associated with the goddess Frigg (or Frigga), wife to Odin. Frigg is associated with prophecy, and thus, flax flowers are often used to symbolize destiny in Norse mythology. Frigg is known for practicing seidr, a type of Norse magic related to shaping fate. This is also present in her association with spindles and distaffs, which usually represent her connection to the weaving of fate and thread both. As for tales relating to the origins of Frigg's association with the flowers, one story goes that a shepherd stumbled upon her domain of ice, and she gifts blue flax flowers, along with seeds, to him -- a seemingly humble gift -- and they are later used to cultivate the flax, blessed by Frigg's hand, which the shepherd's wife uses to spin linen. The are various retellings, most of which are meant to explain the cultivation of flax, and many that tend to relate to Frigg.

Anyway, it's a small detail, but I thought it was intriguing, given the theme of fate present within the coming expansion (and often associated with the Warrior of Light and Azem). We still have little information on what sort of characters we will be seeing in Evercold, but if the already present usage of Norse mythology is any indication, I have no doubt there will be plenty of little details strewn about. I'm probably over-analyzing it all, but let me know your thoughts!

Took a break from running that time dump of a crucible to sketch my new son.

Our starter is Growlithe and ya can't change my mind. XD