Holyshoot posted:

Lol if your guild wasn't 20 manning MC to get their tanks the over powered as poo poo TF drops.

Holyshoot posted:

Those outfits look dumb. But that is because I prefer plate looking armor.

Technogeek posted:

We have reached peak official forums.

Kuvo posted:

Games > The MMO HMO > FINAL FANTASY XIV: muli pulling disrespects the content

loquacius posted:

Ul'Dah is the best-looking city (it reminds me of the city from FFXII) and my character started off there so I was tempted to go Flames, but Maelstrom is cooler even despite those

Leofish posted:

Every day I play and I get further along in the story, and I regret starting as a Lancer in Gridania when I should have been a Marauder or Arcanist and hung out in the port city with ships and that bomb-rear end lighthousecrystal.

Also, I should have been a Sea Wolf.

Oh well, the forest is still pretty cool and there's moogles.

megalodong posted:

Belzac posted:

Where did all our casuals go?

Belzac posted:

Oh, I guess we should bring them back by putting materia slots on raid gear. That will get them back right?

Eej posted:

Yeah but they also have informal banlists on various chan sites where people anonymously gather to poo poo talk people and shun them from groups, justified or not, because they don't want to be seen publicly stirring up poo poo so you know, grass is greener.

Mr. Nice! posted:

Dude you don't have to still be salty about being wrong. I'm wrong all the drat time. It's ok to be wrong, accept it, and move on. If people continue to give you poo poo about it and you make a big deal of it, people will continue to give you poo poo because it's funny.

Dr Pepper posted:

Are you a gimmick poster like Technogeek? Where are you getting these from?

Belzac posted:

Look at these guys who don't know me. I've been shitposting in XIV threads before you were even a Warrior of Light.

Technogeek posted:

Sorry but I think you're wrong. I've invested 60m+ into my airships, ALONE, and over 10m in housing glam, ALONE. I spam dungeons for gear to accumulate 50-100 cerulean tanks a day, paid for own house, and worked with family to build my freecompany. Some butthurt person in the future, has no rights to any of that, regardless of how much they don't like my thought process, or what I say.

This mentality right here is what keeps me from inviting anyone to my FC. I'm sitting at 8 people, 4/5 active, and I'll likely forever keep it this way knowing people like this are out there.

TheRagamuffin posted:

This is more how I'd imagine it working. I just miss playing a primarily CC-oriented class, and Blue Mage seems like a perfect fit for that.

Empress Theonora posted:

if you want a game that neglects all other activities in favor of raiding world of warcraft is right over there

you'll have ten months to catch up with the current expansion before the next patch, too!

drunk asian neighbor posted:

Don't even get me started on the IZJS. Great concept, dismal execution, especially since you can very easily gently caress yourself out of even a half-decent party composition if you don't do your homework beforehand.

drunk asian neighbor posted:

I didn't realize any of that. Makes sense that they make the game a little easier when you can only designate 1 person each to cast the stronger magicks in the game. The original version of Yiazmat was like a 3-4 hour fight with all your characters' License Boards unlocked fully, and thinking about trying that fight with only 1 person each who can cast Full-Raise/Full-Cure and Flare/Scathe/whatever BLM spells gave me a mild stomachache.


Also you forgot that as bad and one-dimensional of a character Vaan was, they pushed so hard for him to be the protagonist that they gave him an even more one-dimensional support piece in Penelo. What a pair of worthless characters.

The Grimace posted:

The specifics behind a lot of the backroom issues of FF12's development are still kind of hush-hush. The general idea seems to be that Vaan was added fairly early into development, but the actual script for the main story wasn't terribly rewritten from Matsuno's original vision. The game starts off with Vaan wanting to be a sky pirate and then as soon as everyone leaves Rabanastre, it goes full into the Princess Ashe storyline, turning Vaan into a completely ancillary character. He quips up here and there like you said, but he never actually does anything to strengthen his own character development... and Penello just gets kidnapped, that's the extent of her character.

Then, at some point Matsuno had a physical and mental breakdown, forcing him to leave the project. Hiroshi Minagawa and Hiroyuki Ito stepped in after that, but it's hard to say how much they changed of the game's actual story. They are both very competent people though: Minagawa, having worked on every other Ivalice title but Revenant Wings, and Ito being the creator of the ATB and one of the driving forces behind FFs VI and IX. At the end of the day though, I would really have liked to have seen what Matsuno's original plan for XII was before the draft was changed and he was forced from the project due to extreme pressure.

For what it's worth, I really like Vaan. Not so much because of XII, but because of Final Fantasy Tactics A2, in which he actually has a plot presence and is represented to be pretty cool. They also give him a shirt, which makes him more bearable.

Black_Oni 165 posted:

Progress update.

Started as Lancer, got to 15, got the class skill and then went and got all basic classes unlocked from the various cities.

Someone please convince me to not go craft/gathering crazy and build stuff for literally each class.