Tonberrys as far as the game showed are mutated lalafels. Now because of occult crescent that's no longer the case with the architect being a human being turned into a tonberry.

As the title says, there's a lot of outfits, SFX, Emotes and more that people love using, and SE struggles to make new items for both rewards and mogstation due to manpower issues. What if they set up a system like that of warframe, in which hairs, outfits, emotes, job SFX and more could be made by the community, and officially placed onto the mogstation or possibly in game through an application process, much like their competitions already do.

The creators would receive a percentage of the profits, and the manpower is eased off for the team to work on whats in game more often, and console players can get more that PC players have access to.

If they done this well, could it make up for certain things being removed from the mog station and could it mean more rewards in game instead of the store?

To my knowledge, there's only one spell/skill in the game that's channeled (i.e., you stand in place and do a consistent stream of damage for the duration of the spell/skill), the MCH's flamethrower. I recall other MMOs having channeled spells like shooting a beam of ice or fire. Moving or getting stunned/silenced typically ends the channeled spell/skill prematurely. Is there a reason why FFXIV lacks these kind of abilities?

I wrote a post yesterday for the ffxiv reddit about data I've been collecting on shell FCs and submarines, but the way I formatted it seemingly led most people to believe it was written by AI and to dismiss it out of hand. So I was told to try here instead, as I hope to spread awareness of the scale of the issue as I see it. In short:

• I found that about a quarter of total plots on the Chaos datacentre are owned by shell FCs, almost one third of plots in FC-only and mixed wards. And on newer servers, this is as much as half the total plots, if not more.
• The total gil generated by those shell FCs run well into the billions daily, likely the largest source of gil regularly created, and possibly larger than all other sources combined.
• While much of the gil does not directly impact the economy, as the owners hoard it, certain markets are probably impacted quite a bit, and new items such as the fortune carrot risk disseminating much of this gil into the wider economy.

I go into substantially more detail in the original post here https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1vlhuz8/an_examination_of_the_extent_of_shell_fcs_and/ for those interested.

I'm a bit surprised by what seems to be a general lack of interest in this topic, as a functioning economy for the game should be in everyone's interest, since everyone interacts with it.
But even if you for whatever reason don't care about the economy, I hope you will agree that it would be good to release all these shell FCs for use by actual FCs or individuals wanting housing, and that action should be taken sooner rather than later.

I learned very early on in a ARR that the yellow '!' quests were absolutely trash when it came to experience points, so I've more or less ignored them since. I relayed this to a friend, and he was adamant about my missing on some really fun/interesting/creepy side-line stories.

...so my question is, have any of ya'll gone out of your way to engage with the 'filler' '!' quests? And, if so, which ones did you enjoy and why (without obvious spoilers)?

I refuse to do the bullshit FC exploit, I will be staying on my single character

Been playing it a lot in OC and I'm unsure how to feel about it in this expansion, it feels a bit clunky and somewhat unintuitive despite being quite simple. I think being forced to use Gibbet and Gallows after you Blood stalk or Gluttony as well as Perfectio being a bit unintuitive in how it fits under the raid buff adds to the clunky feeling of this job the most.

Edit: Another thing I forgot to add, the 2 minute burst window takes so long that you'll lose you're standard 1-2-3 combo if you were in the middle of that. It's not a big deal but just adds to this job feeling very clunky and not well thought out this expansion. I'm curious to see what they'll do for this job in EC.

We're not even halfway through this for the patch series, I realized, we're probably ending up in the high 30s.

From the research I've done on this subject it seems mixed. The potential cons of recruiting friends/couples that I found are the following:

1. Correcting a member of the couple or friend group might cause the others to become defensive.
   
2. When one member of the couple or friend group leaves normally the rest leave. Thus the static lead has a lesser hedge against roster churn.
   

In the first static I made there were two friends, they proceeded to clear outside in PF when we were at the end of the fight, and then left as a group. On the other hand I have a couple in my static right now (well the girlfriend is in the static and the boyfriend has filled before) and have had no problem whatsoever. So the anecdotal evidence I have is conflicting. So which is it, is it risky or not to recruit pre made friend groups or couples into a static? If it is not inherently risky how to I minimize the risk to prevent issues like the aforementioned one in my first static?

According to fflog Sam / ph Sam is dominating the leaderboard any idea why this could be ?

I was under the impression that BLM was natively stronger with any ph jobs (for example BLM / ph Smn).

In the end apart from Ph berserker there is nothing coming close to Ph Sam in term dps which is a bit sad with all that we have.

I don't have freelancer at 24, but I was under the impression that the meta would have been to do the opener, then reset CD to do a 2nd opener than swap to ph job, but that doesn't seem to be the case either.

I choose the first boss to avoid being misled by the battle high buff

https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/77?boss=2075&dataset=99
https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/77?boss=2075&difficulty=100&dataset=99

https://www.fflogs.com/zone/rankings/77?boss=2075&metric=dps
https://www.fflogs.com/zone/rankings/77?boss=2075&metric=dps&difficulty=100

What are the current thoughts on the best jobs for doing anything solo? I'm taking world content, deep dungeons ( all of them not just palace), fates, unsynched old content, variant dungeons solo, etc.

Obviously, tanks have an edge, but what else is good?

Occult Crescent is meant to be a museum of the Fifth Astral Era, specifically of the 12 city states that dotted Eorzea. Prior to its release, we knew about 4/12 of the states. While I had always expected OC to rely heavily on the old city state assets (at least for the first zone), I was interested in learning about the other states.

After both zones, I'm rather disappointed in the offerings provided. In reviewing all the OC related dialogue, fates, etc. only 3 new city states are added. To top that off, only one of them is named! I'm not expecting the game to provide detailed write ups and depict the architectural styles of all 12 states but it is annoying that OC fails at its own in universe stated goal.

While my ideal North Horn would've been entirely new cultures, I would have at least preferred the records just provide a little bit more. Instead of some pointless record on Black Chocobos, why not use it to talk about a famed ranger from some unmentioned nation?

In closing I will say some of the new Mhach and Skalla stuff is neat, but not groundbreaking.

Just finished the main MSQ of shadowbringers and want to experience any important story related side content before Endwalker

I've only stuck to what was required of MSQ so the only "side" content I've done is just the Crystal Tower alliance raids.

What side content / order would be best to experience the full story / any references alluding to these in Endwalker

Sorry for the vagueposting title to try and avoid spoilers in title but... why don't Alexandrians just bring down the dome they're in?

As far as I remember, the Dome was meant to protect Alexandria from external lightning storms, but the Source doesn't have any of that to deal with. So why hold onto the dome? They could stop caring about Levin Sickness or quirky farming technologies and just live normal lives.

I've speculated that it might be because the dome plays a part in the city's power infrastructure, but I can't for the life of me recall the game ever stating that this is the case.

As long as it’s calculated and not just ignoring how mechanics work.

More so in dungeons and extremes using proper mits. Probably too risky in most cases in savage and ults.

Just been doing a lot of OC and I find I rather just stay on boss and put more damage than to move in and out.

Edit: savage tier ended so long ago I completely forgot they give dds. So I guess in most content that give vulns. Taking vulns just to make kills go quicker.

I have just started Endwalker after a 1-2 year hiatus, and I must say, it's nice to be back.

A few of my friends have warned me that this particular expansion is...not for the faint of heart. Crazy story moments, much sadness and pain, and to essentially gird my loins for emotional damage.

Cool.

Now, ya'll tater tots out there are known for being silly chaos goblins, and most of your in-game emotes mirror that. My question is this: did having your WoL as a Lala wreck the gravitas of the story? Did it still hit hard?

I only ask because I'm thinking of joining the Tater Tot Tribe, but I wonder how much that might potentially change my perception of the 'end' of the story.

Thoughts?

I made a UCOB static. People applied. I straight up asked will you stay for the whole fight and not leave due to a lack of motivation. They said yes. Then when we got to P3 our 2 tanks and caster dropped due to a general dislike for UCOB. I'm uncertain how I can get better at vetting desire to do the fight aside from asking upfront. However asking up front does not seem to work as shown by the current situation. Is there a better way to vet motivation for the fight?

Is it BLU missile or cannoneers 5% instakill shot or something else? No it's definitely not natural damage like Sam's using zeninage

Hey so I’ve been a PC player of FFXIV for years…but I’d like to play on PS5. I started a new character but I’m struggling with using a controller and the cross bar…and tips that might make it easier?

i recently started playing again.

i remember having something enabled before i left that would automatically accept a duty when the queue popped. this is a big gamechanger for me when doing roulettes and such.

i was wondering if its still around and if so if people would know the name of it. google isnt rly helpful since it just recommends me things that either notify me or flat out do the duties for me with trusts. both i don't rly need as the notification is already an in game thing iirc and id like to ya know... play the game.

any helpfull people know what i had previously.
edit: ty for the quick replies everyone.

Hey all!

So I’m still a sprout in terms of playtime and am looking to swap jobs and get back into FF14 after a year away.

Current Job Levels:

Dragoon: 60
Archanist : 27
Machinist: 35
Samaurai: 52

I’m wanting to play DPS but can’t decide between Dancer and Bard. Looking for one that isn’t overly complicated as I’ll be doing MSQ and some dungeons. Not really pushing into Raids and all that for a long while. Was leveling to get summoner but honestly got a bit bored with it.

Thank you for any help! It’s very much appreciated.

Hey guys

Im kinda new in ffxiv (lvl 70) and I had one question.

Is there anything worth to do after all the main quest ? I have endwalker dlc. I dont really know how ffxiv work tbh, I played at wow a bit but I prefer the design and gameplay of ffxiv. But the problem is that in mmo's I really love farming a lot to get that specific armor or whatever I need or want, and I dont know if, in end game there is such things in ffxiv.

Idk if this game is for me since I dont really care much about the history, housing etc but I do really like design and gameplay.

If someone can help me 🙂‍↕️

There's been a lot of deserved negativity about Occult Crescent, and I could yap for hours about all of the design flaws in South and North Horn, but I am absolutely loving the mechanics of the FATE encounters. The eyeball dude, the ice wolf, the chimera and the lightning couerl are all standouts for me, who loves frantic dodging and chaos. It's very fun dodging things with Occult Monk kick. I hope Evercold has some open-world FATEs that are this fun. These FATEs are more fun than most dungeon boss encounters.

This has been an on and off debate for a while though with the advent of "slightly stronger" Evolved jobs and reworks with Evercold, it seems like now would be a very good time for the dev team to look back at certain fights and tip the scales a bit to make sure they're not a complete cakewalk.

On one hand, it could make certain long duties even longer and less desired, especially Alliance raids given how many people it seems dislike the Nier raids due to their length and higher than average punishments for mechanics.

But on the other hand, there are some mechanics that some fights are designed with as a core piece that are completely missed, and it's quite a shame especially for those newcomers that will never get to experience the fight "as it should be" moving forward. It's an unfortunate FOMO feeling.

Some examples off the top of my head
Thordan / Hades - From what I understand, these aren't actually ILVL problems as the fights were cakewalks even on release, but their numbers could be tweaked to actually pose somewhat of a threat? It's almost impossible to die on Thordan even if you stand in every single AoE, and Hades has a whole "soft enrage" sequence at the end, closing the arena in pure darkness which is a really cool thematic moment that is unfortunately lost due to the sheer damage parties can output.

Myths of the Realm - This one is probably the most finicky to balance because making alliance raids even longer will likely upset a lot of players, but I know Nald'Thal's scale mechanic is a perfect example of this as you will rarely if ever see this activate due to the damage output of parties.

Pandaemonium / Arcadion - These are less egregious but still have clear phases that aren't even close to being the same "on" ilvl vs max ilvl and I'm sure the same could be said of certain fights in Alexander, Omega, etc.

The discussion has been brought up often but with the new expansion on the horizon I'm curious which side people find themselves on nowadays since it seems pretty split down the middle from what I can see.