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> When I first started playing and was a fem Lala eternally bonded to a masc Roe

Watching this back through after having played through dawntrail is pretty lit.

Granblue Fantasy Relink comes to mind in what XIV should do but I just got name called and downvoted so much in XIV subreddit.

To make FFXIV gameplay interesting or, something more engaging than before, I feel like there's atleast 3 things that has to be involved even if it's in a MMORPG. Boss Involvement, Mechanic design and Job Engagement. Also this became big and I apologize. xD Overall with FFXIV boss, Endwalker tried to change things up by having everyone be more engaged in the mechanics while taking away a bit more job-engagement compared to HW/SB and somewhat of SHB content, but in return they did a bunch of things that REALLY made raiding very bare-bone for everyone. Boss Involvement: End-Game fight design have to involve more than just Players "doing" mechanic, avoiding, spreading and stacking as needed. The first one, is we need WAY more Tank-and-Boss relationship, where the tanks have more freedom to MOVE the boss as needed before mechanics. Whether it's moving the boss to certain position for up-coming mechanics, or re-positioning the boss back to the middle or such, they lost ALOT of that when bosses will teleport back to the middle before big mechanics. Along with that, including mechanics that is designed for 2 Tanks is a must, outside of just Tank-Busters. 2 Bosses at once, Adds, More Tank-Busters overall, those kind of things. For healers, if Square wanted them to feel more like "Healers", then there needs to be more constant damage going out for healers to actually "heal". Last tier of EW did a decent job, but we need more damage coming out to "encourage" healers to GCD heal as much as possible. While I'm also all for giving Healers a bit more engagement in DPS, we definitely wanted to avoid the Healer-Cleric-Stance-Or-Not stance from HW. IF they want healers to feel like healers, then for the love of god just add more constant damage going out here and there, it doesn't even have to be raid damage either, constantly keeping tanks up because Autos hurting, or random damage going out to DPS, give this to them. If simply adding more and more damage will cause more stress than anything, then they have to re-design healers more, either give them more DPS rotation similar to casters, or turn them into more supportive jobs with defensive/offensive buffing abilities for parties and some heals. DPS another time for now. Mechanic: They have to start mixing in more RNG-based Mechanic design here and there now, where mechanics aren't always design with "Tank/Healer will get one set of mechanics, DPS get another". I personally don't mind the rhythmical-pacing and design of Mechanics in FFXIV at all, but having more randomized moments in fights would be a nice change of pace, or an annoying one, we'll see. But the biggest one we need more, is we need overall fight-design to involve the environment WAY more. Pandaemonium 10 Savage did a more decent job with this with having us create bridges/walls for specific mechanics. Even Omega Raid 5 and 6 (Doom Train and Painting) was immensely fun in it's own unique way and I LOVED it. Making arena's being more than just "This is the area you can fight in", and have more gimmick would simply be more engaging. Have different platforms spawn so groups have to split up with different people, going into seperate rooms to do small mecahnics and such. Job Engagement: We all agree that 1 and 2 minute burst window is not fun. I know this came about when players complained to Square that some jobs cannot line up with certain Raid Buffs (As a DRG, none of my best buffs EVER, lined up with Trick Attack which back then was the best raid buff), and then they OVER-did it by making every job have a 1 and 2 minute. At this point, I feel completely giving up on having everyones raid-buff line up more often, and taking it back to the original 6 minutes would be immensely better overall (Back in SB, buffs had either a 60, 90, 120 or 180 second CD, meaning every 6 minutes they'll definitely all line up...As long as people didn't drift xD), and give jobs more of their own unique mini bursts once again. Give one job constant small burst every 1 minute while another job has it every 2. Or give a job have a stronger burst but it's only every 3 minutes, or some jobs having very different burst at random timing. I want to feel job individuality once again more than anything over what we currently have. I want players to focus on their OWN rotation and damage, and treat raid buffs/utility as "extra" rather than "mandatory". Making jobs different from each other, in rotation length, oGCD count, burst window timers and so forth will bring alot of fresh-air back again in playing different jobs again. I could go into more but, at this point it'll become a novel. xD

The Hans animation of him falling is so damn funny

Aged like Milk

the puffer fish bit kills me EVERY TIM E its so GOOD

As a BLM main... Im unsure how to feel

I do kinda wish fights had more "choice". An easy example is have the fight spawn two adds who cast different abilities with enough HP that the party can't kill both, with each cast giving a different buff to the boss that way each group can choose what they would rather deal with as a mechanic. Another I'd like to see is soft enrages, which they have had in some dungeons. an example is a raidwide that does damage and applies a damage up stack, which the boss keeps casting until it starts one-shotting people until the party or boss is dead.

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Not in the same expac, but oml the amount of times we had fillers get mounts first when we were farming Shadowbringers mounts was ridiculous. I can remember maybe ONE instance where we had fillers get their mounts last.

Lemur's voice when she admonished Rhaya for killing her😂😂😂😂😂😂 it hit a bassy brassy tone that hit all the happy parts of my brain

Just think like Corey they are not real people.

IDK how anyone could dislike keaton, her laughs are absolutely hysterical

Cannot find that clip of woops yelling "CORN!?" and starts the korn growling xD

5:01 as someone who heals on the side, I feel this.

100 percent, if you said that to Sophie, you wouldnt be able to finish the sentance because you would be rescued off the map at the sound of "heal me"

Ah I missed these videos!! I'm so excited the EW ones are up

But what about the craftrta and gathererz?

While these ideas are interesting, I think it's vital to recognize the way that the dev team's decision to simply remove mechanics that people complain about has contributed to the increasing staleness of the game. To that end, it's very important (even more so than looking for new mechanics, I would say) to revisit old mechanics, both boss and player, and consider how they can be improved to handle player feedback without simply removing them from the game. Some examples follow: -Higher damage output, with a nod to recent healer complaints that they no longer have anything to do. -Secondary bosses, to give the off tank something to do. -Non-uniform mechanics, where some party members have to do a thing but others don't. -1hp mechanics, maybe even some God Kefka style "lawl you can't even heal it" style mechanics. -On that note, unique punishments such as "if you're not at full hp by the end of this cast then the length of the debuff it gives you is tripled", or Nabriales-esque "all your buffs and debuffs are multiplied in length during this section". -More interesting adds, piggybacking off of the success of Criterion dungeons. -Smaller hitboxes and less rigid boss positions. Aside from how little sense it makes for a boss who's literally just some guy to have a hitbox the size of the arena, this rigidity simplifies the fight to an unacceptabke degree and also mean that the tank has much less to do. And finally, -for the love of god, stop enforcing the two-minute burst window via enemy mechanics. Burst times should be organic and being off cooldown should be player choice. Neither of these things should be mandated.

Good ol "Find a Hole Fill a Need' Rhaya. well done

4:43 Marc sounding like a tie fighter god damn