#Alex plays ff14

[alex-multiverse]

[authoralexharvey]

Alex Does NaNoWriMo - Day 4

Made a huge leap in word count purely because I forgot I wrote outlines for all the chapters and thus wasn't counting them in my word count. I decided I'm going to because it is still something I wrote even if it'll get deleted as the chapter is wrote. Anyway I'm gonna play FF14 now.

Let's talk stats before I do.

Words wrote today: 3,962

Total words: 7,151

Excerpt:

Araceli sputtered, releasing her. “But we need a new Scribe!”

“And we will find one. Not that it’s any business of yours."

A heavy pause filled the space between them. Then, “You know, just because you’re Scholar Selene’s favorite doesn’t mean you need to be such an uptight bitch.”

With this, Araceli retreated. Moments later, a door slammed down the hall.

Katalin pinched her nose and huffed. What a troublesome woman. She’s going to get herself killed.

[keykidpilipili]

Guys what is the name of the rmusic that plays in the very first Deltascape cutscene when they look over the hole?

Edit: it was Discordance!

[ro-chan]

Day 66: Favorite Gear Set

The original called for favorite gear slot, but my FC mates and I changed it to gear set since that is what we originally understood it as. I will say that FF14 is one of the few games were the entire set of gear created are actually nice and worthwhile wearing. I choose the witch set from the 2015 All Saint’s Wake event not just because it’s a set I like, but because it holds special significance to me.

Back when FF14 was first released, my sister and I heard all the poor reviews so we skipped it in favor of Guild Wars 2. When ARR was released we heard about the miracle rebirth and decided to check it out. We loved the feel of Final Fantasy and just how pretty it all was. We invited a few of our long time friends and we started playing. It was a rough start, many had never really played an MMO before and I was still new to the entire idea of end game so I was super slow at leveling and very casual. Over time people got bored or quite because they were a white mage trying to do Titan EX back before the server lag was fixed. So it ended up being me, my sister, and a one monk leveling to 50. Once we reached 50, the Golden Saucer was released (I told you super slow here) and we tried to get them to come back but to no avail. So we finished ARR, watched the cut scenes and uninstalled.

When Heavensward was released, one of the six of us came back to the game to try it out. This guy is notorious in our circle for inviting people to play a game with him and then leaving after a bit of time. Therefore many of us were not inclined to join back in, since it would potentially mean we’d be abandoned after three months. Time went on and he managed to convince the WHM who had raged quit (landslides never forget) but she had started to get bored and quit after obtaining this particular event set.

At this time I was bored of GW2 and had been hoping around MMOs for a bit (WoW, Wildstar, TERA) doing all the Halloween events in the games that had them, when my sister casually mentioned: “I wonder what FF14′s event is?” Curious, I checked the lodestone and fell in love with the Witch Set. I wanted it and so I resubscribed. My sister followed suit and brought a friend with her who had never played. When the guy who had been trying to get us to come back saw us return, he messaged the WHM and she begrudgingly came back. A week later two more came back and now there were 7 of us trying to catch up Heavensward. An old friend of my sister and mine saw we had started up and got in contact with us working with her guild to fudge some EX runs through DF. Eventually we moved to her server and made a static of 8 and tried out doing Goridas normal, next raid tier we tried Midas savage, lost two members of the static and mingled with more raiders enlarging our pool of friends and players.  We replaced our two missing members and when Alex came out we raided savage again this time stopping at A11S before raid tier ended.

We’re still playing together (although we’re about to lose a member so she can raid with her long time friends). Enjoying every minute of our journey with no current plans to stop. We are having a blast and it’s all thanks to this one gear set.

[wikimb]

That part about tall race having reasonable proportions feels real to me because that's why I can't play male norns in Guild Wars 2 and only female norns look good (they're like fem Roes). Male norns are huge but also really wide... you can look it up to see what I mean XD

I like that in FF14 you can have a tall guy but of elegant kind. After getting better armor on Alex, which isn't too bulky I get to see that the way he moves or walks is very graceful. I really like that and it fits him, his overall vibes I envisioned for him for his GW2 self (he is ""human"" there...).

I read too much Reddit posts being like "Elezen bad, ugly, weirdly proportioned" although my approach was like - in-character for Alex - "Cry about it, I don't care for your human standards" but that's a pleasant surprise to see someone so into them!

I overall always liked elves. When I was a kid I had a brief period of playing some free to play MMO and my first character was an elf, a mage class. Now while much older I made one in DnD, in BG3 and now in FF14 but didn't expect them to be this huge in this game.

I can't wait to get to that expansion but for now I gotta do post-ARR grind first XDDDD

My character had a moment of legitimately not fitting the cutscene frame. This is what Alex has to do, to fit the frame next time! The pain of being Elezen.

A bonus below is what happens next to (poorly drawn) Lalafell instead lol.

Under the cut there is a screenshot in which the frame was not enough for Alex... and inspired the whole thing XD

[spinesaw]

hey for any of you that follow me and play FF14,

I stopped playing like right before Savage Alex?? i think came out because of whatever reason. I was wondering what I’d missed slash what new shit is in + what I can do to catch up since afaik my ilevel is only like 200 which was ‘really good!!’ at the launch of heavensward but ain’t too hot now.

me and my wife are prob gonna tinker w/ it on our off nights from WoW just b/c WoW is kinda ehh when we aren’t raiding since we’re both like 900 ilevel lol

[faridahmalik]

24-28 for the video game asks!

24. Hardest boss fight you’ve been in?

MHHH. I don’t. play a ton of games with like. hard boss fights. and with Vi around ff14 early content hasn’t been difficult. does the debt pile in animal crossing count? just kidding!!

for me, a tank, personally, since you can’t duo the Labyrinth of the Ancients for the Crystal Tower raid set, the last boss there was hard because I am slow to respond to AOE auto kill. Phlegethon is a fucker. also fuck anything that has a body count minimum to do.

25. Video game you wish you could burn from your memory?

deus ex: mankind divided. i’m still going to stream me properly playing it when i get a chance so you all can see me be bad at games and how fucking stupid i find the writing. I’ve watched both Vi and Alex play and just. s i g h.

26. Favorite gaming series?

i do really love borderlands despite the fucking horror show pitchford is. if they do get rid of that bastard i’ll actually buy bl3. bl2 basically was an anchor during a horrible period of my life, and me and my best friend adore the games.

also saints row and deus ex (despite my issues with DXMD)

27. Do you skip tutorials, or find them useful?

DEPENDS. i could live without the first ten levels in ff14 at this point, but starbound needs a better tutorial. dxhr’s tutorial is really good despite the fact if you go for the pacifist achievement you gotta do that and survive without any stun weapons.

28. Best online gaming experience?

in general ff14 is actually pretty okay. i don’t do a lot of online gaming bc rsd is a bitch and then you add anxiety onto it.

said LoTA raid was a nightmare due to it. panic is fun

[arcana-punk]

Well, started playing ff14 tonight, made a lizard person archer. Got to level 10. Can't wait to be able to quest with a nerd that decided to start a thaumaturgy character.

[alex-multiverse]

Ranking arr class quests from lamest to coolest

Ff14 has a lot of jobs. And we all love them for different reasons. One of said reasons often includes the job quests, which help with contextualizing the flavor and place they have on the land of eorzea as a whole.

But what about the first step before achieving said job?

Today, im going to rank all the class quest plots in a realm reborn, from what i consider to be the most poorly executed, to the best story in this batch of content. This includes every starter combat job from levels 1 through 30. So no hw jobs who start in arr territory nor crafters or gatherers.

9.- Gladiator

The most boring of the class quests by a mile. The whole guild feels like a bunch of wannabee heroes who stick out their heads in places they shouldnt, and aldin, the focus character, kinda steals all the spotlight from the guild and the wol, even in the final lvl 30 duty. Mylla is cool otherwise and seeing every single gladiator sent to do plot things being near death in an obvious trap is something hilarious to me. And the plot to poison the sultana is funny on hindsight cause its not going to be the first time it happens.

Overall kinda boring, and still, it was better than dealing with paladin after hw

8.- Archer

Xenophobia: the class quest. While it is a good story that contextualizes the systemic issues thst gridania has, the main conflict between Silvairre and Leih isn't entertaining to watch. And the fact that the elezen's shittiness isn't really adressed and leih just kinda puts up with so they get along. And the whole "subduing the vil poachers" feels off when you consider the lore of the keepers of the moon in the twelveswood and their whole "actually living in peace with the elementals and being branded as poachers by the gridanians" all ends up leaving a bad aftertaste in ones mouth.

7.-Lancer

Drk isnt edgy as Dragoon is, and its predecessor is also quite edgy at times. Lancer quest focus character is Folques, who is yet another victim of gridania's aggressive culture towards outsiders, except he is a murderous bastard who thinks that getting stronger via murder is cool. So we prove he's wrong as we become stronger by killing him instead.

Overall kinda meh story about a rude rival that foreshadows some of the themes of revenge to occur in heavensward and stormblood.

6.- Conjurer

Weird how all gridanian class quests are relatively low.

However, conjurer is one i genuinely enjoy. Sylphie is sn amazing character and the explanation of the way conjury works is so good. Reason of it being a tad low, is because e sumi yan is a bad teacher, and sylphie is a terrible student. Other than that, im happy they returned for sb whm quest, closing a book on conjurer in a really good way that ill speak about later.

5.- Arcanist

Our favorite custom officers are a fun quest for beginners, fitting as summoner is the easiest job in the game. I particularly love k'lyhia's energy, as well as how the job includes aspects of its future job incarnations and its own core with her. The power of the summoner and the strategic might of the scholar.

Only complain is that i miss k'lyhia, and i need to see her in dawntrail.

4.- Marauder

You kinda just break rocks and chase after a big animal for 30 levels. Which is to say, they make work with what they had, and had to set in the conflict between beast and man to follow up with Gorge in warrior. Its not terrible, but its obviously just there for the warrior set dressing.

3.- Pugilist

Slapstick plot. The most hilarious class quest solely because hamon is such a riot to be with, abd his solo duty when you kicks his ass and he starts to level up is the best gag in all of a realm reborn. Besides that, the quest isnt particularly memorable besides the average ul'dahn crime sindicate plot.

2.- Thaumaturge

The cocogang is just shadow wizard money gang if it was real. I really love their whole "evil priest that do shady things in the shadows" except the shadows are 2 feet away from the place they do burials and stuff. basically they are all chunnibyious and im all here for it. Plotwise is really cool; it introduces voidsent and also adds some fun conflict in the form of the youngest -and magically deficient- of the coco brothers, and it ends with all of them broadening their horizons. whats not to love about this gang of arsonists?

1.- Rogue

The last addition to the basic classes, also is my personal favorite class plotwise. The rogues guild is full of character and so fun to have around. The whole concept of them being the actual people who punish pirates for their heinous crimes is genius, and the dumb rivalry they have with the yellowjacket captain is hilarious in the same way that lupin the 3rd does with inspector zenigata, and that one gag of Jacke being hanged in the hooks upstairs because he ate a sandwich is hysterical. couldnt expect less from ishikawa.

if i had to nitpick, is that the job loses me a lot aesthetics wise when it becomes ninja instead.

Will make a ranking of the arr job quests later when i feel like it. hope yall understood the weird ramblings of my mind

[alex-multiverse]

Man's a small ball of violence, justice, greed and charisma

[alex-multiverse]

Paladin job quest

[alex-multiverse]

ff14 has a new years event and...

suddenly 2023 doesnt sound so awful

[keykidpilipili]

Shame you can’t use aether fishing to pull Y’Shtola’s soul out of the lifestream that would have been freaking amazing/hilarious.