Occult Crescent is so... boring. I'm trying to give it a good shot but ugh. It's like everything about is based on tedium. Literally everything about it takes waaayy too long. I'm -still- just trying to get the demiatma for the first stage of the relic weapon. I can go hours without getting another.

Genuinely, what am I supposed to do with the earlier Cosmic Tool Prototypes (for the DoH/L area)? Chuck them??? Why didn't they just....upgrade the previous tool version, i.e. -replace- it instead of giving a new one?

Becoming a master chef in Eorzea means you can make one chicken egg turn into three ✨ boiled eggs.

ok i’m finally done turning all current deadlock characters into animal crossing animals.. feast ur eyes.. i’ll go thru them individually

My flatmate and I, both avid xiv players, have had periodic just hours-long discussions on our vehement disappointment with Dawntrail. lmao Just pointing out how badly implemented story beats are, pacing, a drastic lack of or just poor character development, and forcing us to like X without reason.

Doing an alt walkthrough, and I got to -that- event at the Waking Sands. I'm playing as a White Mage. I just ...don't attempt to help the one survivor??? That's fucking me up. "ah, there's nothing I can do..." HEAL THEM

Is there a replacement for makeplace yet for doing interior designs? 👀 ...if not, I guess I'll learn how to do all the glitches. 😭 Wish the housing furniture system wasn't so archaic.

All my currently updated glams since the unlock. ✨ 1/3 #ffxivglam

sticker idea #ffxiv #ffxivart

Made it through Mistwake, finally! Now...do I dare try doing the trial using controller... I barely managed to bumble through with duty support for the dungeon. 💦

Have glams, post-unlock. WAR and RDM are the ones I'm definitely done tinkering with for now. (Low res since I'm currently only steamdeck capable lol )

I still haven't made it through Mistwake because I keep getting booted during it. :X

whoever's banging up the server connections on a patch day sure does know when to sour the mood. :Y got punted from the first duty support (I like to see if there's any lore tidbits from the characters) partway through. booo

I spent way too long making new glamours in the glam dresser before starting the patch MSQ lmao so much FREEDOM and I can finally get rid of the duplicates that Iwasnevergoingtousebutkeptjustincase

" I... I guess they're really over. You're adventures in Tural. ... I--" -gets disconnected from the servers- LMAO

LOL See, when you do a lot of price-hunting by repeatedly world hopping at the only major aetherite closest to the MB, you get very good at spinning the camera, spot the tree, and keep the tree on the left side of your view. But yeah no, it's such a disorienting plaza.

I'm so glad that healers will soon be FREE FROM ROBES Like, striking/scouting (and sometimes maiming) usually have the much better and slimmer profile 'drapery' gear. Healers always look like they have a bedsheet dropped on them (especially if you play a bigger race like hrothgar or roegadyn, UGH)

Definitely get up on this, my fellow Aussies!

High level crafting is breaking my brain, even with the help of teamcraft. I just don't have a enough stats?? But in order to get better stats through gear, I need more stats to craft the gear that gets me better stats???? And I'm only trying to get lvl 90 gear rn, not lvl100, w/o the MB!!

Where do folks get those stats overlays for your WoL screenshots? :0c I see them every so often, but no one ever links to what they use. Like, it has all the jobs and the ones you have can be highlighted/colored, your main, your playstyle for the game, youre msq progress, etc. Is everyone's custom?

I hope this is clear enough.

the post said not to summarize buuuuuuuuut~

THE FIRST RULE OF FFXIV IS

Minor annoyance with the recent Dawntrail patches. Why the fuck is Galool Ja still in rags??? Original!Sphene got a fuckin makeover immediately. But the good little bean king is STILL IN RAGS?!

Now that I'm resubbed, I should... do things. I'm not entirely sure what is actually interesting to me at the moment. All the new "exploratory regions" like OC and CE are too... grindy, and honestly not engaging enough. All the other things I would want to catch up on, no one's doing bc it's "old".

Almost losing my house because I hadn't resubbed in a month was something. 😅😐

Started up an alt WoL (another one bc why), doing a healer start, and finally got to Sastasha ... Tank's first time tanking. So being supportive and they do a biiiig pull and I'm like YEAH rolls up sleeves --they drop like a sack of bricks. ...weird. -checks their gear- ✨all lvl1 glam✨ 🤣😂

pure evil

The M8 raid (Cruiser M4), with Howling Blade is ROUGH. Even more so when you have to effectively predict aoes because youre not on the same continent as the Data Center and they're tight. Also ffffuck the pillars. For casual content, it's really not that far from savage levels.

Cosmic Exploration is one hell of a grind when you're levelling a crafter. :'D ...well, it's a grind in general, but that's just crafting/gathering. Haven't done DoH/L stuff in a while and eughhh I'm feeling it. Also feels like the credit gain is....very slow? I get needing pacing but damn.

LIVE LETTER TODAY WHERE ARE OUR HATS!?

Doing shared fates in old areas is -so tedious- kicks and screams at least in the Dawntrail shared fates they broke up the last 60 into two further parts. Felt more like you were actually making progress with 30 rather than trying to get -60 fates dones-.

I kind of really really really want this to be kind of canon, like how we have Midgardsormr. ;v; I want Niddy to be a tsundere little shit

I have a couple of extra alts, that I grab event stuff for when I remember to. On one, I also spent some time progressing MSQ (ARR so it's just slow) and I was struck by how distant everything is when you don't have flying. And also how so many areas don't feel /barren/ anymore, post plant update.

Thinking about the fact that you never -truly- fought Nidhogg. What you fight is figuratively and then literally a shadow of him, a true dragon of the first brood. (also it was pointed out that the dragons are truly powerful because Midgardsormr arrived /post-sundering/ )

Always looking forward 🐺 #FFXIV #Hrothgar #FFXIVgpose #FFXIVHrothgar

It would be nice if the devs made opposing versions of the Hrothgar starter gear. But only purchaseable? Or craftable? Not cash-shop, tho. So a female Bozjan gear version and a male Turalian gear version. ( Biased bc I just want a male version of the incredible Turalian gear the femroths have. 😭 )

[ #wolqotd What languages, either real world or otherwise does your WOL/OC speak/read? ] Guld understands Common ofc, with Bozjan as his mother tongue. Probably picked up some Garlean while his family migrated to avoid occupation and some Roegadyn due to where they settled. 🤔

Oh, just realized I didn't grab the mochi serpent from the new year event before my sub ran out and I took it as a break. :c Ah well. Wasn't all that keen on anything else, so. ...is it just me or are the rewards lately incredibly low bar? Or is this more normal and we just got great stuff in EW?

-sees shorts/memes on new players not having enough gil to teleport- ...how? The game literally throws money at you. Do your daily rolos, at the very least. Get that daily bonus. Join any FATEs on your way to quest points. Don't just sell your monster drops to vendors, check the marketboard first.

Been giving Guild Wars 2 a go here and there and I feel like I've been spoiled by XIV. 😂😅 I have no real idea what I'm supposed to be -doing-? So I've just kind of aimlessly done -things-. And the uh abilities are kind of confusing. 😂

You may have seen this post circling talking about how important it is to tell creators when you appreciate what they do. The irony is it's MY post from Tumblr stolen by someone else. Please reskeet THIS post & NOT the stolen one bc we support creators making their own work on bluesky.

Yeah there's another video circulating about some douchebags views on Hrothgars once again. Not here for it. Hrothgars represent >15% of the XIV population. Sure we do degen stuff. But that's not what we're all about. >Most races do it< Just tired this one track perception. It's boring. Move on.

I wish that gear could have their job specific attachment removed when added to the glam dresser. I just want to wear the deodochos maiming/striking/scouting jacket on all my jobs. It's so good 😭

Oh yeah, I forgot to post this after beating Jueno on release. Went in as Dancer, with a huge group of folks in VC. There was a lot of screaming as it was the first blind run after release. 😂 #XIV #hrothgar

If there is one thing that truly annoys me, it's that while every other job's little extra weapon bits get matching designs, machinist's fucking lunchbox is -always- the same. Astro has the card holder, right? Effectively the same thing. Sits on the hip, has no real purpose. Gets fancy vfx. WHY?

✨⭐Well Done!⭐✨ SouLucky they were rescued! #FFXIV #FF14

Generative AI art skeeves me out because it is so unsettling to consider outsourcing your literal imagination. What do you mean you need to generate this. Why don't you just sit and think about it

Oh they gave the mandervillous weapons double dye slots? Neat, I hope it's the effect that we can change the color of. .... ......... That would have been pretty cool, huh? (: