I originally play as Paladin in other games so I was drawn to playing Paladin again in XIV.\u00a0 In XI, I played a paladin there as well.\u00a0 My brother originally wanted someone for his raid team so he asked me to pick the game up and give it a try but what he needed was a paladin so I just chose it.\u00a0 Although by the time I was raid ready, Heavensward was coming out and he took a break from the game so I joined a static.<\/p>\n
Has raiding become easier or have we become better or did they evolve how the jobs work to the point where it’s possible to pug clear w\/o having to rely on statics?\u00a0 Or is it a combination? \u2013 Kya Purrcy<\/strong><\/p>\n I have a lot of thoughts about this but I\u2019ll type them out to answer this question.\u00a0 My answer might be complicated to follow. \u00a0I\u2019ll just type out my thoughts here so you can follow along.<\/p>\n Raiding Omega savage has been easier than raiding Alexander if we\u2019re comparing the first two tiers.\u00a0 Most people couldn\u2019t pass A3S and A6S because they were harder mechanically and had extremely tight DPS checks.\u00a0 Most casual groups ended up beating Omega Deltascape savage and are soon to beating Sigmascape savage when they couldn\u2019t beat the first two tiers of Alexander before.<\/p>\n I had different answers typed out but it’s a combination of a lot of things.\u00a0 Raiding is much more manageable now and the player base did get better.\u00a0 There’s a lot of self-improvement tools to help players up their game when it comes to increasing their DPS or just overall awareness.\u00a0 The actual content getting easier has some truth to it but it’s mostly because the developers made huge mistakes in the past that made it extremely intimidating to raid.\u00a0 For example, Faust used to intimidate so many people to the point where raiding was nearly dead because they couldn’t pass the different types of checks the Faust brought.\u00a0 In Stormblood, the “Faust” now exists on the last floors as a gateway to the true boss fight.<\/p>\n Stormblood has Ultimate which satiates the hunger a lot of hardcore players have for wanting harder content and it\u2019s been successful so far and I\u2019m sure they are looking forward to the next encounter in the series.\u00a0 The smartest thing they did was making sure players cleared O4S before they got to access Bahamut Ultimate so people have to be at least remotely competent to be able to do Ultimate.\u00a0 Not many people will beat Ultimate and that\u2019s fine but there needs to be content like that in this game.<\/p>\n There\u2019s still a lot of class balancing issues that need to be addressed.\u00a0 People have cleared with all kinds of comps but they still need to look at buffing specific classes just so they can have viability.\u00a0 I stopped having balance complaints long ago.<\/p>\n One thing I am finding interesting though as a possible topic is the evolution of the raiding system in FFXIV.\u00a0 Once upon a time you were server bound to find people then during late HW you could use Cross World PF \u2013 Kya Purrcy<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s interesting to me because I survived the Great Gordias Migration where I was the guy the statics left behind.\u00a0 Midas with Raid Finder coming out was also really cool because we could have friends snipe us in queue which was hilarious when we did it (thanks Maguro!).\u00a0 You could sense that cross world party finder was on its way.<\/p>\n For servers like Famfrit where raiding was nearly extinct, it was important that cross world party finder came out because groups were dying and there was no way they could replenish their ranks quick enough.\u00a0 Some people also don\u2019t want to pay money just to be able to raid.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually hard to imagine a world without cross world PF even though I\u2019ve experienced it.<\/p>\n What is it like to be looked up too the way you are in your FF community? \u2013 Akane Oto<\/strong><\/p>\n People look up to me?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019m good at this game but I\u2019d like to think I play an “exciting brand of raiding” although it can come at the expense of damage because I want to see how certain ideas would come into play (Tank LB after Grand Cross Omega).\u00a0 The decision making of raiding and hearing it on stream also stuck out for some people because of how I was describing my thought process and then getting to execute it even if it ends up terrible. \u00a0When I was teaching, I know a lot of people really liked how I broke down a lot of mechanics which helped a lot of people learn Deltascape. \u00a0My commentary and calls for certain mechanics are hilarious and I like to keep things a little more light-hearted but I also know when we need to focus.\u00a0 I definitely know people find what I have to say hilarious.<\/p>\n I think on Famfrit people really liked the raid charts Kal and I did for the server to give a more tangible incentive to raid.\u00a0 We\u2019ll do one this tier but only one because we want to save the other chart for Ultimate but no group on Famfrit has cleared.\u00a0 The idea came to me when I was looking in the official forums and the raid progression chart that servers had inspired the graphically updated ones that are posted on the site.\u00a0 When it comes to ideas, I just keep grinding despite the nature of where the ideas come from.<\/p>\n You reminded me that I have to set up a spreadsheet for book runs.<\/p>\n What is it like trying to copy someone else\u2019s strategy that\u2019s widely used versus discovering your own through persistence? \u2013 BobaTime<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ll only answer this from an XIV perspective and not SC2 or Dota because it would take hours of text just to describe builds, nuances, and adaptations.<\/p>\n I think if we went into content blind and did world progression this would be a very different answer.\u00a0 We\u2019re a casual to midcore group that watches guides and streams just because we want to know what we\u2019re dealing with.\u00a0 We learn the pug strategies because we go to other groups to sub a lot and we like going in with a general familiarity with what people are using.<\/p>\n While discovering our own strats sounds cool, it just doesn\u2019t work when we work with the general public.\u00a0 We run into new issues like \u201cwell my group does it this way\u201d and that person is normally the first to die because they didn\u2019t adjust to the other seven players and end up wasting everyone else\u2019s time.\u00a0 In raiding with pugs, time is a precious commodity and people like knowing that everyone around them is on the same page as strats go.<\/p>\n How do you determine playing time for raiding? \u2013 BobaTime<\/strong><\/p>\n They have to earn it by killing the dummy and now we check their gear to see if they have the right melds because we\u2019ve ran into too many problems with people not doing enough damage or they melded their gear wrong.\u00a0 There are special circumstances where we could take anyone if we\u2019re just farming for books and assuming the gear gets unlocked because of the weekly cap.\u00a0 I know for Shinryu EX we just took random groups just to learn how each phase works.<\/p>\n A lot of times with players we think are good, there just isn\u2019t enough playing time for because the slots are limited so we have to set a day where they can raid.\u00a0 Last tier, we had two groups going with people playing for both and it was hard to find a time for everyone else that wanted to progress.\u00a0 It did suck knowing that people were being left out but because I had obligations to two statics and two FC community groups that were progressing, I had to keep pressing forward with the two community groups that were close to beating the raid tier.<\/p>\n How do you keep from getting burnt out from the game after clearing savage raid content? \u2013 Kira Kitsune<\/strong><\/p>\n Honestly, I just raid log and PvP and I don\u2019t really remember the last time I did a roulette outside of Frontline.\u00a0 Once weeklies are done, I just log out and watch basketball or play another game.\u00a0 Sometimes seeing another game or doing something else can be really refreshing and can help with burnout.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to answer this question because I\u2019m trying to bring back Sunday raiding which adds more days but it also helps me to play with other people which can also be refreshing.<\/p>\n I also took a break for a bit after I took some of the FC community groups through O4S.\u00a0 Taking so many groups through it really took a toll on me mentally so I had to take a break.<\/p>\n What would it take to get you to play WHM in raid? \u2013 Alesha Phoenix<\/strong><\/p>\n This is hilarious.\u00a0 It would have to take a giant miracle and we would have to literally not have any healers available for me to take up WHM in raid.\u00a0 I think the situation actually happened a few times in Gordias, one time for Scarlet Walker\u2019s group in Creator Savage, and Shinryu EX.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t impossible but I think we actually lack tanks sooooooo I have my tank slot locked.\u00a0 Honestly speaking, we might have a shortage of healers pretty soon so I might take up WHM if it comes down to it.<\/p>\n What types of esports have you been exposed to and how are they different? Is one more fun than the other to be apart of? \u2013 Kal Jhin<\/strong><\/p>\n Wow a non-XIV question!\u00a0 Dota 2 and Starcraft 2 extensively.\u00a0 StarCraft 2 is a strategy game with an emphasis on 1v1 while Dota 2 is a 5v5 team game.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think one was necessarily more fun than the other to be extensively involved in because I was doing both at the same time mostly because I always involve myself in more than one game at a time to prevent myself from getting bored.\u00a0 Both games are fun to play but they present their own seriousness which can make the experience extremely stressful.<\/p>\n Commentating wise, StarCraft is easily the better game to cast because there\u2019s always something happening even in the driest games.\u00a0 Dota was alright but I think making content for it was way better than actually casting just because I can pick and choose what I want to highlight whether it\u2019s a jungling guide or top\/derp plays for Machinima Realm.\u00a0 Competitive Dota can be extremely dry because the most epic team fights are only ten seconds tops and there really isn\u2019t anything going on after that.<\/p>\n Has socializing with players within a game(s) community caused you to enjoy the game a lot more than you would have playing it alone? And why? \u2013 Kal Jhin<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes!\u00a0 I\u2019ll only answer this from an XIV point of view.\u00a0 It\u2019s a whole new game in itself and I want to talk to people and make some new friends.\u00a0 It keeps the experience fresh and exciting.\u00a0 If I played a game like XIV alone, I probably would\u2019ve quit a long time ago just because I would have gotten bored doing roulettes.\u00a0 I attribute a lot of how I built the raiding house because I was socializing with other people and now we have a lot of people to do book runs with.\u00a0 We’ve actually discovered new players this way and now I’m raiding them them.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure you have different groups of friends in FF14 that don\u2019t clash well, how do you manage these situations? \u2013 Kal Jhin<\/strong><\/p>\n I just limit their exposure to each other.\u00a0 There\u2019s always going to be some awkwardness but if I know people have real problems with each other then I\u2019ll make sure they never get into contact with one another.\u00a0 Most people understand that they need to work together to clear things and these people will understand that there is a greater common goal.\u00a0 Separating people would be the most extreme if it came down to it and it has happened.<\/p>\n Considering your experience in the game with your current Job class: If you were able to start XIV as a brand new player would you do a different Job class or would you go and continue with your main Job class? \u2013 Khatylana Steelmane<\/strong><\/p>\n I had to give this a lot more thought because it\u2019s hard to find myself playing something outside of tank and occasionally White Mage.\u00a0 My original answer was that I would have tried to pick up bard or machinist because I would try to pick up a ranged class to get a different viewpoint.\u00a0 In this game, there isn\u2019t a true supporting role just because of the game design otherwise I\u2019d play the class with the most support auras for the group although it would be game breaking.\u00a0 I did try black mage for a while but I could never learn the fights from a DPS point of view so I gave up on that.<\/p>\n I mostly play tank because it\u2019s just needed.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about the feeling of being useful but it\u2019s just needed and I just want to play.\u00a0 You just reminded me that I need to jump my alt that\u2019s going to be a tank!<\/p>\n Have you ever had a moment where you considered quitting the raid community? \u2013 Erika Thorne<\/strong><\/p>\n The Gordias Migration and Midas killing raid groups didn\u2019t deter me from quitting.\u00a0 Although it was sometimes hard to log in because the game was just dead.\u00a0 I did take a break a bit after the summer ended just before 3.1 dropped although I was always in contact with my FC at the time.<\/p>\n In the time before Stormblood, I wanted to quit because I was losing interest in the game and I was growing apart from my Creator savage group and my raid support crafters.\u00a0 The dissension mostly stemmed from me leaving ROR to join AVLN and our raid meeting where I said that everyone needed to improve since we lacked a lot of key things (healer DPS\/healing in general and NIN needing to get better).\u00a0 It took too long for them to beat A12S when I had four or five clears before the group got their first one.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll touch upon this more but I think leaving ROR to join AVLN actually helped me stay in the game after experiencing what it felt like to be in a real community.\u00a0 A lot of people in ROR were very selfish and it created a very toxic culture especially with the raid groups that were there because they all saw each other as competition instead of a community.\u00a0 My only regret was not discovering AVLN, RF, and the rest of you sooner because we could have rolled together for a very long time.\u00a0 So joining AVLN definitely extended my lifeline in this game and it\u2019s been wonderful.\u00a0 Now that I think about it, I\u2019ve been in AVLN longer than ROR in the time that this gets released.<\/p>\n On the topic of FCs, I did consider joining Omega and Reign.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think Reign was the right fit for me and I already didn\u2019t get along with some of the people over there because of previous static issues but otherwise there were some cool people I wanted to hang out with.\u00a0 Another thing is that their line of thinking just seemed to be really dated when it came to certain situations and things like streaming.\u00a0 Reign could take a lot of lessons on what a real community looks like.\u00a0 If I didn\u2019t join AVLN, I was joining Omega because I love all the people there and I was extremely close to joining but I wanted something new so I went to AVLN.<\/p>\n Bellator Lucis and his FC definitely kept me playing at the beginning of Stormblood which is 90% of why I stuck around.\u00a0 I think it took us all of half an hour to down both the primals when they came out.\u00a0 When I heard other groups were taking days to clear Susano, I was surprised because we all thought it was brain dead easy. Joining Alesha and Hrist’s static kept me in the game mostly because the group as a whole were pretty cool and full of memes.\u00a0 Avis and Viri’s group became my alt group and I thought they were all cool and the drama along the way made it far more entertaining than it should have.<\/p>\n After Avis’ group beat NEO, I thought about stopping for a long time but then I didn’t because all of you wanted to raid so I kept going.\u00a0 \u00a0I definitely needed a break after all of you beat NEO because my wrist injury was getting to me.\u00a0 Although I’m fine I just have this wobbly feeling occasionally.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n IF you were masked rose, what would your outfit be? \u2013 Avis Dreaming<\/strong><\/p>\n What food in game would taste the best in real life? \u2013 Viridiana Maus<\/strong><\/p>\n That Takoyaki raid food that gives Crit and Skill speed.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of other food I feel like would be pretty good like Eft Steak.\u00a0 Actually Takoyaki and Baked Pipira Pira would both tie it for me.<\/p>\n Do you think FFXIV needs savage 4-man content? \u2013 Jojomun Kokomun<\/strong><\/p>\n I think you touch upon a greater issue and there is a lot of 4-man content that\u2019s missing but that there\u2019s a lack of content to do in the game’s downtime.\u00a0 4-manning Alexander Savage would be interesting if there was an achievement attached to it and the rewards were worth it.\u00a0 The bigger issue with what I just said is that there are also no rewards for min ilvl runs. \u00a0\u00a0Savage dungeons sound interesting on paper but there would have to be a lot of balancing involved and the rewards would have to be good but not better than running 8-man savage raids.\u00a0 If the 4-man dungeons had save points and were built exactly like going through the 24-man raids, that idea could be something cool they could look into.\u00a0 I will say that the game really misses an updated POTD.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading!\u00a0 That’s going to wrap it up for this Question and Answer session and I’ll be back with these monthly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Screenshot credit: Illeana Grace This idea sprung from people on stream and private DMs asking questions so it sprung into this article and we plan to do these every month while there’s a small content drought.\u00a0 Also Famfrit raid chart should be coming out in the next week or so but we just have to… Read More »Final Fantasy XIV: Questions and Answers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":11551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16493,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions\/16493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ffxiv_03182018_225406.png\")
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