Like anyone who plays this game wouldn't know that already. And the rest doesn't care for more than 3 sec anyway. No reason to imagine an overly dramatic "chopping block".
@@Gloriankithsanus given what has happened with some content creators getting or not getting invites to media tours and stuff, making this kind of content is essentially chair labeling himself as a giant brand risk and closing some doors as opposed to someone like zepla or whatever (no hate intended at zepla)
@@Gloriankithsanus with how many people will slam you for speaking on issues with X job, no it doesn’t seem like people know it already, they and can’t handle anyone criticizing their favorite game.
I'm the villain with SMN lovers. I used to fav the class as my 2nd best. But hate how slow Ifrit is in it. I just wanna play a pet class that has a pet that acts like a party member like Mimic in Elden Ring. I wanna also spread poison. Single target and group. SMN now can do that and neither can any other. People tell I should just be happy that SMN is good now.
I remember how you hated Summoner in Shadowbringers due to fact that it was junky, but never due to it being hard. Your content is good. Keep it up evil cat enjoyer.
I don't mind it being easy but it so boring, summon, spam a button. rinse and repeat. Favor being so late it just boring for 95% of content. There also what the point of the summons besides giving something to do before baha/nix pop. You need them to access the elemental but don't need on them to access baha/nix.. I level summoner to have both mdps and healer for role quest but I might just level rdm and sge in 7.0 for the role quests.
@@Gamemaster-64 honestly personally i’m using summoner right now for reclears since it’s brain dead as fuck and the only thing i have to think about is wether or not if i’m uSing garuda or ifrit for movement and when i am casting their special abilities compared to BLM, SMN is weak shit right now; which is sad because i genuinely like smn (and sch give me the dots cowards)
@@Gamemaster-64 Summoner looks like it would have been a great job during Heavensward or Stormblood and just missed all the entire stuff to busy up the rotation other classes got since then.
I thought you mained Samurai but after watching this im convinced you leech out energy from suffering like a true dark knight, truly the anti-hero we needed
I really feel this video on a personal level. Keep your amazing content coming, regardless of any nitpickers or haters. 99.9% of people do love your content, me included ! Oh and fu.. those Reaction TH-camrs ! *Goes Live on Twitch to React to Something
@@stupefy777 >B-But it's okay when i do it! Lmao all ff14 breadtubers are the freaking same. Chair and lucy are the only one's who don't completely milk their audience
Chair and Xeno are now officially the Joker and Harley Quinn of the FFXIV community and I love it. A story is only as good as its villian(s) after all. Real talk though, making videos you want to make instead of ones you feel like you have to for maximum profit only stands to benefit the content.
Incredibly based take. This idea that difficulty should all be loaded into the content itself is really bad. That just makes dungeons and other casual content feel miserably boring because there's nothing to think about.
agreed. The notion of “just play savage if you want any challenge” feels so dismissive. What’s wrong with wanting to feel engaged during a daily dungeon? Why do I need to reach the last 5% of the game before I’m expected to know what a GCD is? Why is knowing stack/spread/protean supposed to be where all the fun comes from? SE has been taking baby steps towards adding more difficult mechanics in new content, but that’s just cancelled out by the rate they’re taking away job difficulty. It’s a net loss in the end
@@batsoup2647 slow down on the shilling. As much as I dislike recent FFXIV changes, Lost Ark doesn’t really replace what I DO like about the game. People who enjoyed the story, writing, and music in FFXIV aren’t gonna find those in Lost Ark, for example. Plus not everyone digs the Korean MMO aesthetic, the Diablo-esque ARPG style of gameplay, or alt grinding
im actually one of those who saw asmon watch ur video and came over to ur entire channel. that video was so funny i watched it a few times, and i genuinely would shoot myself if i had to watch it every time while seeing his face and pausing every 4 seconds to state something obvious. I'm glad he watched it though, because trying to delve into ffxiv content creators is, like anything else, trying to find a needle in a haystack. and i got lucky. or you did. idk. keep making ur videos dude, you know how to lean into ur sense of humor.
I wish they would just stop simplifying every single God damn class. It's fine if every role has an easy class (Dancer, Red Mage, etc) but I wish all the other job complexity didn't have to suffer.
Yeah, some jobs should be complicated and remain that well, as well as having the benefits of being complicated. The homogenization of classes is bad thing IMO, especially since the game is well balanced enough that any collection of classes can complete any content.
I feel like if they just make the base unoptimized rotation easier that’s great since sometimes I just want to play a class in a dungeon because it looks cool but yeah the actual rotation should stay with an easy medium hard class divide like with ranged and casters.
This is what i said about what they did to Summoner, Instead of fixing the jank they decided to make it the most brain dead class that every glue eater can pick up and play with their room temperature IQ as if the previous Summoner was hard at all. Sad af.
@@Red-tn3wm imo all they really needed to do was somehow fix the pet jank or work the changes for endwalker into the preexisting kit instead of going for a complete rework. I can get wanting to make it less of a dot mage and feel closer to how summoners behave in other FF games but they absolutely went too far. I'm sure the devs could have relatively easily improved the flavour of being an actual summoner while also not completely gutting it.
I was originally brought here due to Asmongold, yet stayed for the Misshapen snark. The fact there's collaboration with Lucy Pyre on occasion is also a big fat bonus. I enjoy both muchly.
Unbelievably based. Nowadays it seems like giving any sort of criticism on the blatant casualization of job mechanics will get you ostracized with people always mentioning things like button bloat, accessibility, or that more people being able to play that job now is like a huge deal for some reason, even more than people who already play it still enjoying it. It'll be nice to have at least someone big who's on the other side of the argument.
I played summoner before the rework. Don't get me wrong it needed some QOL changes, but I was so upset to see that the classes gameplay is now literally just press one button over and over again, and seeing other youtubers praise it for that. I didn't enjoy summoner because it was simple, I enjoyed it because it was complex, and they made it the complete opposite.
My favourite is when someone comments a slight criticism in the game then there’s 60 replies absolutely savaging them to pieces over it. But in the same breath best community come play with us 😂 🔪
I like the honesty, and appreciate you saying what a lot of us are probably thinking. Personally, as someone who's below average at this game because I suck, I also don't like the game slowly becoming easier and easier. Endgame content should be challenging, because challenge is ENGAGING. And it helps me go from being a trash player to a mediocre (at best) player. I shouldn't have to queue into an Ultimate (an incredibly small percentage of content considering there are only going to be a total of 4 duties) for my main role (healer) to feel engaging, but apparently that's what I'm supposed to do now.
If Yoshi-P and his team don't learn from the backlash incited by their sudden and unnecessary changes to Samurai, then they will be in for a rude awakening. They should have listened years ago with the complaints about Healer and Tanks being unnecessarily simplified. Some jobs are going to be harder or easier depending on the player. Let the dam player learn how to play the game and stop being such a freaking overbearing mother hen over over creaking community, Yoshi-P and team!!!
@@SniperKing-O To be honest, the issues Healers and Tanks have could be fixed very easily by just going back to what made FF14 2.0 a success to begin with: looking at World of Warcraft. It was what safed the game after all. Wow solved the issue of what to do with tanks after aggro wasn't much of a thing anymore, outside of situations where a class underperforms, by introducing active mitigation and make mitigation something that is a part of your rotation and unique to each healer. Death Knight and Demon Hunter are self-healing focussed healers like Warrior, only that they don't just push a 25 second cd that is useless for most of the time, their self-healing is part of their core gameplay loop of builind ressources and spend them in self-healing abilities. Monks mitigate by just turning a percentage of their incoming damage into a dot instead, postponing it and relying on cleansing it, whenever the dot starts to tick too highly. Paladins, Druids and Warriors have to upkeep their defensive abilities through ressources they gain from their offense and make the coice if they rather have mitigation or self heal in the case of druids and warriors. Same story with Healers, the game embraced healer dps outside of the sad asshole who decided to make half the talents of the DF skill tree focussing on healing casts which nobody even uses anymore and most healers have bigger dps kits than their FF14 counterparts and many have active synergies between their healing and damaging abilities. Hell, one of the nice thing about covenant abilities was that due to them being shared between all specs of a class, most of them had to have synergies between healing and dps. discipline priests are just plainly better Sages, they throw in shields which are actually useful and integral to playing the job because they come with atonement, their version of kardia, which is a limited buff and instead of set healing, half of their dps with the exception of a few skills is converted to healing on every atonement target. This forces the class juggle atonement and push as much dps as they can, because it directly translates into healing, with their heal casts all coming with active drawbacks, like shadow mend placing a dot on every target you heal, while shadow covenant, despite it not being used much currently, is an interesting aoe heal that results in a buff for your offensive shadow spells but locks you out of your supportive holy spells. Restoration druid has little synergy between its healing and dps toolkit, but it has the ability to cat weave, that is basically like cleric stance, only that you can go in and out ot if at will and instead of just a dps buff, you get a basic version of your roguelike melee dps specs rotation. Paladin and monks are melee healers, Paladin builds ressources and shorts the cd of its core healing spell through his dps abilities, monk triggers heals and extend its hots with them. Healers and Tanks in WoW are active, distinct and especially healers have simple yet satisfying ways to deal dps. FF14 would be a better game, if Yoshi-P would draw inspiration from their version of healers and tanks. Especially with tanks, many ways of active mitigation could be well adapted into current ff14 tanks. Warriors could surely self heal with the beast cage, similar to Death Knights with runic power. Shuffle could be nicely adapted into death Knights, by them using the darkness to strengthening their body, at the cost of extending their suffering. Paladins get a more active use of their oath gauge, maybe even coupled with an ogcd shield of the righteous style ability.
Hey Chairman, i came over from asmon's video. in truth, your content didn't show up on my feed, but after seeing two of them featured on his channel i can see definitely is my cup of tea. glad to have discovered you.
"I don't want cactbot to tell me what to do, I wanna fuck it up until I don't" is an absolutely fucking great quote and will be my discord status for the foreseeable future.
Nin was really fun back in shb with dream within dream and assasination back to back. The animation is so good. Then ew came and things look eh. I level nin up to 90 and just leave it there, dont have the motivation to play it. Now they just move trick att to 2 mins window, nin is dead to me for now unless they change it. When i start the class, mudra sys is kinda intimidate for me but after lvl nin, i love the class and its sys. Unique and contribute to the whole team. Feel good whenever u do trick att within raid buff window and deal tons of dmg. Nin feel fast, precise and unique in its playstyle; now just another melee job that have a 2 min buff like every other melee dps. Heck all melee dps in ew, in its simplest form, are the same. Take away all animation and just look at the core of the class, they are all the same
@@akiramurakami3177 That's a rather hot take to me. Melee out of all the roles is probably the least homogenized. Nin losing Assassination is good, that ability's animation lock was god awful. I just worry about them neutering the mudra system at some point. Otherwise I do agree making us having just another 2 min removed something unique to ninja's kit. Gonna feel weird people not asking me when trick is.
@@Verd254 they already neutered mudras. They didn't share CD with weaponskills, you had to weave them between attacks, but it was too hard for people. Yeah sure they're stronger now, but it's the same boring burst window shared with your weaponskills.
I actually found you by complete accident: I just done leveling MCH and was looking for a nore advanced guide. I knew what the actions did but I didn't want do read a huge Balance document. And then I saw your "A middle of the road Guide to Mechanist". And while not being quite what I expected I loved it and immediately binched all your guides and just for entertainment purposes. And I even got what I was looking for: how to do reopeners and other things to look out for after the opener itself. I think your guides are a great mix of useful information and great memes. I love your humor and I 100% agree with your take here. Tbh. I don't even think it was that hot of a take. I think it was more of a... Mediocre one. °L°
I know this will probably get buried, but i played Paladin since ARR, and with "Glowing Lady in Endwalker" i did my first ever Extreme content and was hopelessly struggling with playing my rotation while learning the fight. A friend recommended me to try warrior finallly, i leveled it and loved it. I'm not a pro player, and warriors rotation allows me to focus more on the mechanics. Do i want them to make paladin easier because of this? hell no, it still feels awesome and engaging in content below extreme. it's just not FOR ME in extreme.
i am curios what you stuggled with in the Paladin rotation given its relativly straight forward i think the only "anoying" part in EW paladin rotation are the prepull having you wasted most of FoF and a pot and that you need to drop one resource every minute if you want to be fully optimized
@@weberman173 i know how the rotation works, and i can do it rather consistelty in dungeon content etc. My problem ws thst i always either lost count where i am in the rotation and dropped half the spells/screwed up the requescat combo or forgot debuffs. Or i did the rotation and died because i was too focused on counting/lpokong at my bars to see where i am and missed the boss-queues (blue/red etc).
@@Thandwar hopefully you come back to it as your main job. I main Warrior and have used it to prog and clear E9-E12S, and after a while of just knowing the mechanics by instinct and sound, it just felt right (and fun) to play them as something more difficult, like Black Mage, or have a completely different position, like healing in E12S.
I like where this going. Looking forward to the next vid. As a sam main I was a so glad somebody talked about the sam changes. Somebody had to set the record straight. This game really does need a content creator villian.
They should definitely cut out a decent chunk of OG content on upload and be like "now watch the rest over here". Or maybe some kind of revenue share based on views. I feel like this should already be implemented, but I have no idea how any of this works.
Hard agree on “if people don’t like the jobs’ play style, play another one.” I just leveled SAM not a month ago, and pressing kaiten before the big boy moves was genuinely a treat. The most dopamine I’d had in the game, and it’s an absolute blast. As much as I love this game, I may just quit if they keep homogenizing classes. It’s obvious enough that despite only having 2 at max and leveling others as I feel like it, I can tell you exactly what the minute differences are. But don’t tell anybody that differences in skill needed can make something fun or some bonk-brain uber redditor will say “as long as it gets more people to play it’s good.” Those people are genuinely more dumb than the people Squeenix is trying to appease: their answer to “Theseus’ ship” is genuinely “as long as it’s called ‘Theseus’ ship,’ there is no difference, even if it’s actually a vintage gen 1 foil charizard Pokémon card.” It feels like they’re trying to “listen to the community” without asking about what’s fun; without stopping to think why things are good and why people enjoy them as-is.
they aren't even listening to the majority of the community, they're listening to the 0-skill actual cry babies(can't believe i've used that term but it's the most literal and accurate term for them) who cry the loudest and most frequently on the forums and social media that go berserk when someone asks them to please use their tank stance or please do literally anything besides spam cure 1 at level 70+ and kick you and spend 8 months trying to prog normal, people like the healer i had in SoS ex in ShB that had us wipe for 4 AND A HALF HOURS before i finally left because she couldn't do the STACK mechanic for the meteors at the beginning of the fight.... she was my partner i was main tanking, i ended up saying "DO NOT MOVE... I WILL COME TO YOU!" this lady would stand there, i'd go to her, she'd wait... aaaaand move right as the thing went off.... for 4 and a half hours.... and she had absolutely no idea why people were mad or annoyed and why she couldn't get it right.. (tbh neither could i.. the idiot literally just had to take their hands off the keyboard but that's besides the point lol) and got frustrated that we all left, swear to god it's people like that that the devs are listening to because that is sure what it seems like.
I like that as a casual I can come and go from the game as I want. I also realize that as a casual that means there will be content that I likely will never master, and jobs I wont enjoy as much because I have not invested enough time into them.
I saw your video on Asmon's channel and hated how long his interruptions were and found it irritating, so I came here instead and watched the video from start to finish because I love the flow of it and everything you pointed out were on fucking point. Enjoyed every second of it, cheers mate you have my sub.
Ninja main here…losing trick attack as a raid buff literally feels like they’re removing the job. That is the job. You are the 1 minute timer, and 1/4 of the time, it’s everyone’s job to pay attention to your big orange debuff.
@@Gamemaster-64 the thing is before trick attack was something you got from managing mudra which are the key spotlight mechanic for ninja which most of their kit stems from. now its completely divorced and a generic press every 2 minutes button.
I started watching your guides as a sprout way back in [previous expansion] and that got me hooked onto your style of content. I'd rather you keep making the kind of videos you want, when you want. Stick to your fuckin' guns, and good luck Chair.
Goddamn, I can only like this video once! Now that the Endwalker MSQ rollercoaster has died down for me, the small gripes and glaring flaws of this game are starting to become more apparent... made more so by creators like you who aren't afraid to not pull some punches. Keep it up: I'll watch your villainy over corporate simpery anyday...
you're 100% correct. I ended up here cause of Asmon and they should at least make a video that references the source material rather than posting whole cloth. keep it up I don't play ff or any MMO games anymore cause of teh cash shops but your content looks great and I hope you keep up the effort.
Hey chair man, im a fresh FF player, and pretty new to your content but am enjoying both immensely. Just wanted to say thanks, and stick to your principles. People who find their niche and enjoy what they do are rare among the sea of youtube content creators. The world sucks enough with your mediocre class guides, and would just be a little worse off without them.
Man I’m so about this video. I think it’s time for the FF14 fans to stop simping so much for the Dev team and YoshiP. It’s pretty obvious the direction this game is inevitably leading into. I don’t care for the job changes at all and this huge push for every job to be so simplistic and have little to no identity to the next is getting sad. I never wanted to be the guy who said “ the casuals are killing this game” but since they’re the ones who play the game the most and the dev only caters towards them that’s kinda how I’m starting to feel. Pretty sad honestly.
Its genuinely starting to feel like a rp social sim first and an actual game second. I don't mind casual content or people who enjoy them, I like making glams and shit as much as the next guy. But the sheer amount of people just barely participating when running content these days is extremely frustrating. And it's not even a lack of knowledge, it's willful ignorance to just not even try but then throw a hissy fit when savage/ults aren't easy enough to clear pull one 😒
Don't speak for everyone, some people like the decreese in button bloat. I cleared the current raid tier and could do without having to worry about the rotation, one button is all I need :D
@@luckylucii262 pretty much what FFXIV has been though for years. Ive been playing since heavensward and even back then FFXIV was known more for glamming, social stuff, rping, etc. "Hardcore" wasnt something youd hear often associated with FFXIV.
Cry about it you masochistic losers. Wahh i no longer have to spend 4 days leveling up a class i dont even like to get cross class skils!!! Wah i dont have to press all 24 buttons on my hotbar anymore wahhhh! Go play elden ring.
@@luckylucii262 seriously man, lately if i even so much as suggest that people put in a shred of effort in msq roulette so it gets done faster i get absolutely ripped like i insulted everyone's mothers... "DUDE RELAX ITS MSQ ROULETTE GET OVER URSELF" "im watching netflix chill out" "DUDE WHO CARES IF THEY'RE AFK ITS MSQ ROULETTE" I FKING DO DUDE I DON'T CARE IF IT'S MSQ ROULETTE I DON'T WANNA SIT HERE ANY LONGER THAN I HAVE TO! shame on the devs for locking the single biggest exp dump in the game behind 45mins of cutscenes, if their community is "soooooooooooooooooo great" it shouldn't be an issue for new people to do prae, and at this point who cares if it's unsynced it would be better for them anyways, NO new player goes into prae and thinks "whoa that was great!" they lag behind the group... the bosses die before they get there or maybe they get 1 or 2 hits in with their 4 abilities they have unlocked at lvl 50.... and next thing you know they forgot the key and they're teleported to the end boss which i've solod a bunch of times in group finder by d/c'ing so i wouldn't have to sit thru 4 min 57sec of cutscene(saying that to show how easy it is and how fast it dies) and it's over....... why does that need to be preserved and protected so badly????? just give us the damn xp and let us move on, or raise the exp for the other roulettes so people aren't FORCED to do msq to lvl up their 10th job etc. and the savage stuff.... oh boy.... getting yelled at for "only" doing 12k dps in e10s on my first savage tier by the leader(other healer... doing 8k dps and about 2/3 my healing according to ACT, usually would not ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever rez, not ever.... did i mention ever?) who was supposedly v. experienced and had supposedly cleared e12s but always had other people explaining everything lol, LITERALLY every single other group was an absolute disaster that either disbanded before even running 1 thing, or couldn't clear e9s. now i haven't even finished endwalker and i've been playing since day 1 of early release because i can't do roulettes with people because they kick you for asking to "please use your tank stance" or "please do literally anything besides spam cure 1.... it's a lvl 72 dungeon" and there is no other efficient way to level allllllllllllllll the jobs besides freaking bozja/zadnor for the 3000th hour
Job identity, variety, skill expression. All these things are dying because the XIV community seems to be actively hostile to the idea that not every job is White Mage. People still come into The Balance and tell people in the MNK channels that they're stupid for trying to optimize because a meme parse that hit 99 while spamming one button exists, while those same trolls also don't understand why that even happened to begin with. Can't wait for the entire MNK rotation to be on one button like Continuation because the concept of having multiple things to press for different situations is too hard. Fuck it, put everything on auto-attack & just move the stick around. We'll all parse 99 that way, right? Seriously why is the idea of effort treated so hostile by a ton of people in this community, including the devs? I get that we don't want toxicity like some other online games, but the toxicity is still made manifest. Just in a different way. Anyways, good video Chair. I'll always watch you first before the react videos.
While I do understand the frustration at the constant attempts to simplify jobs for no reason, I would like to throw out that not *every* attempt is for no reason or benefit. Gnashing Fang combo, for example, had no real reason to be three separate buttons - your goal was to press them all in succession just like your 123, and if you didn't you dropped it. Button bloat *isn't* just a meme or a fake thing people cry about because things are too hard like some people (not yourself) might imply, it's a real thing that causes unnecessary space to be filled on a hotbar that could be used for other things. It being all moved to one button is a boon more than not, because there is no real loss other than personal preference for just having more buttons to smash - it's not like you *weren't* just going to press them all in-a-row one right after the other mindlessly anyways, right? On the other hand, removing buttons that *serve* a purpose such as Kaiten on SAM are simplifications that *have* a detriment - it removes another element of resource management from the job that *wasn't* vapid, in Kaiten's case. Sure, you were *supposed* to use it on Midare every time you had it, but there were fights where the timing of that wasn't always possible, so you might settle for Kaiten'ing another skill just to use the kenki. Wasn't *optimal*, but it was a decision you could make for circumstance that you can no longer make. Like Chair says, there is a middle ground here, and while it's sad to see this trend of *over*simplification continue, it's also important to make sure we understand which changes are actually oversimplification, and which are simply QoL. Because I could also name several times I've seen people freak out at the first sign of patch notes and cry bloody tears that their job is being oversimplified when... it's just Gnashing Fang combo being moved to one button which is functionally identical, or something similar. Currently, the patch notes I've read through trend towards the oversimplification, and that is something to rightly criticize. Why remove Kaiten when it was an active decision people have to make during their fights? Trick Attack being moved to Mug is whatever, and I guess now NIN have a personal DPS buff in Trick Attack, but it was also really the only thing that Suiton had to its benefit - why not *instead* upgrade Mug *to* Trick when leveling and make Suiton have a unique purpose other than being "the precursor to Trick mudra", or something similar? If you're going to take complexity of one part out, maybe perhaps think about throwing something similar back as a bone? If Kaiten was too boring a resource spender for the devs, why not add a similar resource spender in its place - one that might be easy to *use*, but interesting to tinker around with to optimize. In fact, IMO it would be *great* if more (if not most) of FFXIV's classes started to move towards an "easy to learn, hard to master" philosophy. It's not a shame to have your classes so that everyone can pick up and *play* like the devs want, but bring the damn ceilings up! Allow people to take the complexity you're offering and optimize it! Allow people to (constructively) argue over which opener is better during what fight, and encourage experimentation by giving people more options, and only *remove* things if people truly don't see them use and you somehow *can't* fix it. That way, people aren't sad that it's gone and can find hype in something else possibly more interesting to tinker with replaces it.
Give me my damn positionals back on MNK, that job was my main for 6 years and they stripped all the fun away and even made its burst window feel disjointed from its rotation.
I love how Chair made this whole video to get negative comments and yet most of the comments agree with him and give him compliments. The irony of TH-cam.
not even irony, think people are really just sick of the constant pussification of everything and major dumbing down of everything, god forbid anyone have to use their brain or think or try, god forbid anyone be offended or the guy who can't be bothered to learn a fight or even their own class that they played for 90 levels and the entire MSQ and will happily waste 7 other people's time for hours/days/weeks be inconvienced or bothered at all, i think alot of people are just super fed up of it lol i sure am
I've been a subscriber (and youtube member!) of yours for a while now, and the only reason is so that when I meet people who say that FFXIV players are losers, I can at least say that some of us are fully and painfully aware of that. Keep up the good work, hero.
I love your content, even picked up samurai as my first dps job after watching your video (i always played tank before) - i hope you will keep making new videos, i really enjoy your sense of humor
Misshapen chairs job guide videos helped me want to play the game where 6 tries and getting told from 3 separate friends over the years that my fault in not enjoying is simply that I need to love the story I just want to fit a character aesthetic and press buttons to have fun and misshapen chair helped me skip the BS to get to that and plan out what would be worth trying to enjoy
Had a similar moment talking about Heavensward with my friends after beating it for the first time - talked about how certain fights felt way toned down for as good as they were on paper. Turns out back when this was fresh you had twice the amount of buttons, far less gear level, and far less action potency. Kind of makes me regret not starting to play this game as it's expansions were being developed because even as a sprout I'm getting to that point of comfortable where I want to improve more and have something really push me.
Let it be known I was here before Asmon's reaction video I ran into you not bc of Asmon but bc I'm autistic and you showed up in my yt recs as a special interest relevant thing. Normally this means I'm only vaguely invested in the person for said special interest, but I stay bc I love your humour. You're fucking hilarious man. Always boost my mood. And I need that actually.
I'm one of the people who came from Asmongold's reaction all the way back with the hierarchy video. Have since watched every video on your channel that you've uploaded, but I can definitely see what you mean by the majority not caring. It's just tough to find new youtube content creators organically, so his reaction videos have actually helped introduce me to a lot of different content creators. Kinda in the same vein that your collabs with Lucy introduced me to her content that I would have never watched without them.
i'm new to FF and started watching your job guides. i love the jokes and the effort you put into them. I agree that jobs shouldn't get easier because i love failing in this game. i genuinely love that i'm forced to confront my lack of current skill and seek out ways to improve. there is no better feeling than getting ground to a paste by a boss to beat them later on. i need that failure to tell me i should become a better WHM or BRD. if you're not in the game for challenge then pick the fun easy class and leave me be to remembering to press peleton and iron jaws because that's what gives ME serotonin.
When you master those I highly recommend Black mage. They have made much easier than what it once was, but its kit is so tightly tuned to whatever the raid tier is due to you having to not only learn fights, but also learn how perform 4 sec casts in the middle of the fight. Im horrible at blm, but damn it ima finish this tier with it if it kills me.
Not enough staff, really. When you realise there's like 4 people designing all the jobs, all of them have other responsibilities, and that their healer playtester was replaced for being too good, then things start to make sense. IMO, the game desperately needs more staff and more gametesters, because the homogenization doesn't seem like a 'player' issue, but a resource one. One of the other issues is that whilst most content has actually gotten significantly harder (actual Ultimate mechanics showing up in current Savage content), the higher end of the playerbase has improved by a greater extent, which means players who've cleared every Savage tier are clearing week 1 or 2, and everyone else is throwing themselves at a brick wall (P3S) trying to clear, when they haven't had the previous Savage experience. I'd like to see something that introduces people to Savage, that isn't either insultingly easy unless someone fucks up (P1S/P2S), easily cheesed (EX1), a clusterfuck of gimmicky mechanics (Literally everything current that isn't EX1 or P3S/P4S), or just plain badly designed (P3S).
Replaced for being too good? I mean... Why would you do that? It looks and feel counterintuitive. Someone who's an expert at the job can feel where a newbie would struggle for lack of experience.
@@MyNameIsMir not him but as someone currently progging it as a SCH with a WHM cohealer I'd say the sheer disparity between the different healer jobs at certain mechanics. The big one is having AST vs not having one on Death's Toll/Life's Agonies (basically all but requiring healer LB3 without without a very specific plan), but other highlights include Seraph completely trivializing Fountains of Fire and subsequent raidwides, and the ridiculous snapshotting on certain aoes seriously screwing those with limited spot healing resources. Also the whole Firestorms of Asphedelos mechanics probably should have been thought through a bit more. Elmo in particular, while a legitimate strategy, has made PF a goddamn nightmare with people defaulting to that strat without understanding how exactly the mechanic works and subsequently wiping runs because one person positioned wrong.
@@MyNameIsMir Besides what SarkanArkhas said, the fight itself also has several design issues. Namely the overuse of red and orange in the entire fight making it an absolute nightmare to recognize AOEs there for anyone who's red/orange colorblind and a pain to look at for anyone who isn't, to the point it really begs the question if anyone playtested it. I ended up having to make a reshade preset to mitigate the eyesore it would cause after hours of progging (basically less color saturation and adding a black fog effect past the arena so the sky wasn't also red/orange) and it was a MUCH better experience from then on. Titan also had a similar issue in UWU with the gaol markers being the same color as the ground, but this one is just plain worse.
What's so bad about P3S? Besides the god awful abundance of orange and retina damage I'll say it's a good fight and I say this as someone who fucking hates it with passion.
I had a run of Thordan Normal in trial Roulette a few months ago and someone opened up the party chat with 'greetings travellers' Wasnt you, but I did catch it, and we did have a giggle. One commend. Guess who.
3:40 This exact reason mentioned is why I still see party finder doing damage down intemperance strat for P1S months later. Thank you for saying what needed to be said, you beautifully-misshapen Chair you!
Wow.. that was literally the first video I have ever seen of yours. I just started playing FF14 for the first time and was browsing the TH-cam community attached to it. Just... wow sir. Intense. This was intense, not in a bad way though. Best of luck to you.
6:59 "You really want every job in the game to be the exact same thing with a little different flavor on top of it" that's what i really felt on my experience when i'm maxing out Tanks and Healers, until suddenly i got to play Sage and everything felt so off. Then I realized "yeah maybe it's not for me", and it should be normalized that way
Honestly i found you through youtube's algorithm surprisingly enough and i'm always thankful for it your content is hella great and i always enjoy it. Take care of yourself and just always make sure you enjoy it at the end of the day.
You may call yourself a villain but i kinda think of you as a hero who is not afraid to say that the dev can get something. I started when shadowbringers came out and have slowly seen more jobs become more simple and simple (cough summoner). I am a souls player but i think everyone needs to understand that you need to have some level of complexity in a job to make it fun. Thanks for a the great content and i will always come to you for the your videos not Asmon :D
Aw, a Shadowbringers baby complaining about job simplification. How adorable. To be serious for a moment though, yes, simplification has been a major issue since the release of Stormblood and got even worse with Shadowbringers and now Endwalker. At least with Summoner you can try to justify it by it being a complete rework and planning ahead for 7.0 so it can gain a lot in the next expansion, though that's probably just wishful thinking on my part.
@@cassiusbright1062 there’s no need to flex playing a video game longer than someone else. If someone “new” like OP can notice the game’s gotten too simplified after just one expansion, that’s a clear sign something’s wrong
I used to be bored with the healer damage rotation, so I did what YoshiP said, got into Savage and Ultimate. And the healing damage rotation there is still fucking boring. Ffs add at least one more damage button, not like its ever going to affect the Cure I machinegun WHM that doesnt cast damage GCDs in dungeons.
@firstbass789 WHM wants to do damage just as much as the other classes except with it has a poor MP economy, which AST ignores while not having to cast any healer GCD’s this raid tier. The problem this game has is that there isn’t enough damage going out to make you heal much, with the obvious exception of ultimates. Leaving you with pressing 2 damage buttons(glare,DoT) for 7+ minutes for a lot of fights, which is stale as fuck.
Talking topic about it going too easy. Suprisingly enough, i gotta agree, and i didnt even get to the really hard stuff. Example : Ninja. I played up to roughly lv.69 before endwalker release and now i hate the job. Massive changes in OGCDs that affect rotations, the evened-out CDs of big skills make it feel dull and boring compared to the slight fluid changes you had before, by making it easier the game actively feels more stiff, and as the semi-sadist that does almost all content capped with randoms, i want the struggle, overcoming the challenge and helping each other to grow. Not try to evaluate how evryone should do it ezpz without practice
It seems you really woke up and chose violence today. Going off your aura alone, you'd make a great DRK. I'd welcome you with open arms. (kinda) Jokes aside, everything you said seems pretty valid to me. Moreover, I think this is a an importance stance that many people NEED to hear but don't want to hear. Needless to say, you made the right call by maintaining the "vow of silence" in which you avoid in-game chat. As you continue to grow, more people will target you for speaking outside of the game by abusing the game's botched reporting system, so please tread carefully. Other than that, try not to get to miffed about the current issues as best you can and keep pushing. Creators like you and Lucy bring something truly unique to the table, so press on, become what you must, and walk your path no matter how hard it seems so long as you deem it a worthy journey/cause.
So Asmond reacted to this video and uploaded it to TH-cam.. He ended inviting chair to asphodelos. I'm pretty happy for finding this channel when the whm guide was uploaded, I have a similar attitude towards the game and people not even trying to make the bare minimum in regular content
Unfathomably based. I'm a pretty casual player too and don't like hating very much but If there's one thing that's always irked me about the game is the almost cult-like positivity and overly casual, lowest common denominator approach to content from some (weirdly vocal) segments of the community. It's normal to want harder stuff. It's normal to want complex stuff. And it sure is normal to criticize changes you don't like. Grow up.
I learned recently that the MSQ solo instances have an easy mode if you die during them. I didn't even know you COULD die with the MSQ echo buff. Understanding that those players exist gives some level of sense to these changes recently.
Solo Duties go "Normal", "Easy", "Very Easy". Those who just want it done, and either cannot or will not watch a video guide, will intentionally tank the first attempt for the opportunity to reset to Very Easy and breeze through.
The addition of easier difficulties for the already braindead easy MSQ content was the biggest mistake the devs have ever made, and I say this when I was an AST main pre-ShB. It completely removed even the slightest filter that the MSQ had.
tbf... its Super easy to be overleveld(and partially overgeared)= in the MSQ if you focus on a single class If you level 2-3 classes at the same time you are often just right at level, with often substandard gear. now depending on class you pick some solo instances are just harder then others, as paladin almost non of them where a challenge besides some 1v1 fights... as a DPS more possible fights are a problem because of the lack of self sustain
I actually found you this way. I started watching ff stuff because the yt algorythm suggested the asmo video. And because of my personal ethics I always open the original of react content in another tab. But you where so entertaining that I decided to subscribe to you and your guides have actually helped me decide on what to level/play next. keep doing what you are doing !
You and Lucy are easily my favorite two FFXIV creators, y'all represent the part of our community that is still weird but in our chill way. Love the content!
I like how people bring up Miyazaki when the games he makes have gotten progressively more accessible to more people. Souls andies don't even get their own franchise. XD
The thing is when these reactionaries reupload your entire video to the same platform as the orgiinal it acts as direct competition and can hurt future viewership numbers. I.e. when i heard about your FF social hierarchy video i searched for it and ended up accidentally clicking on the asmon vid due to the views being so high on his video. So sick that you get robbed twice, once on stream and once on the same platform you originally uploaded to.
i share in this frustration of how FFXIV has become too streamlined and homogenesized i've complained about it and tried to offer opinions and advice to advocate for positive changes rather than worse ones but people are so quick to blame the devs cause they work and make things happen but dont see the true culprits as to why this game is going down hill. which is actually some of the players themselves, corporate greed, investor meddling, and bad influential figures constantly spreading false hype when they know things are shit. its regrettable that its taken this long for people to finally SEE and i fear now that the only thing that force the hands of SQuare Enix is another 1.0 backlash level of escalation that or enough people myself included just drop the game to the point the game barely has any profits left to sustain itself and yoshida is forced to make a difficult choice to either quit as producer for ffxiv or to set it all ablaze before he is fired to send a message to Square Enix that they need to stop pushing things into a shithole of terrible game design and god awful monetization
Show me your fflogs and i will judge if you can say this game has shithole terrible game design in its jobs and you understand whatever problems there are, and show me you also played this game in ARR- Stormblood job design era for a great comparison
@@Britmadny you sound like a boomer bro "show me your logs" the game revolves so much more around other content than just raiding and hardcore fights which accounts to a very low percentile of the playerbase. try again with your response otherwise you just prove mine and Misshapen Chair's point about a fanbase that is self destructive to itself. your beloved raiding used to be more than a glorified amped up trial boss it used to be like a dungeon which go figure the act of raiding something denotes steps and paths to take not jumping into random platforms. the PvP has never been good and rather than improve upon that challenging aspect they oversimplified, rewarded failure, and time gated. Ultimate is also just an intensified "trial" but they tag the name on it to make it feel like its special but again its just one platform constantly every single time how is that innovative or creative??? this current fandom sucks a metric ton and Yoshida and Square Enix keep bootlicking it for money rather than listening to whats wrong with their game design philosophy. this is going to lead to a decaying and slowly disappearing game.
@@DeusGamezI mean, the dude in the video really doesn't mean the same as you in that sense, so i don't think putting his name on your back is justified at all as he is mostly talking about job design in this case heavily and how they are cattering to casuals to which by the way are 95% of the playerbase of ff xiv, a very casual game and it has always been, more unfriendly before yeah. Also i dont really think you are qualified to say boomer to other persons when you think trash mobs that bring nothing to the table are better than just fighting a boss where the meat is, adds were always trash in this game previous to the boss and it was a good riddance, though they could have done it like what they did with BA and Delubrum and it would be pog, but both are better iterations than having shitty adds that just pad time. I would say the one with the most boomer and uninformed viewpoint is you here, you sound like a huge l4d2 boomer bro. Arena's could be more innovative for sure, but ff xiv fights right now are literally top tier in mmo's together with the legion raids in Lost Ark, they are peak raiding experience, accesible and complex in their own right, which doesn't mean there's no room to grow or be more innovative. There's really no logic or arguments behind what you say, it's just like pent up rage and big ad hominems towards SE and the game design like its on the end of days and your life depends on it. It's definetely a problem if all the classes end up feeling the same, which currently it doesnt happen that heavily outside of drk-war which job's identity overlaps a shit ton and it could get worse, but we will have to wait and see. And btw, believe it or not, an fflogs profile makes me believe and trust you, random in the internet, that you have knownledge of the game and have cleared its hardest content and how much have you played it actually to really get into the neaty gritty of job design and that you aren't making shit up, i think it's pretty fairm though i was just having fun, i love my homies writting essays
@@Britmadny well its clear you replied to my initial post because you were cruising to defend the things that alot of us don't want. i bring up the creator of this video because i agree with his points, and to me it appears you haven't done your research at all even the casuals dont want over simplified jobs, and for the game to become over homogenisized to the point a monkey could play it one handed lol. literally all players of all different playstyles didnt ask for these changes and they have the right to be upset about it because this game is not some free to play sandbox or pay to win nonesense the industry keeps shoving down our throats its a paid for live service and when you're a paying customer to a development company you have the right to challenge decisions they make on your behalf if you disagree with it or you can simply stop paying for their service to show your discontent. i am sorry if my extreme opinion of the situation hurts your precious feelings but if you are someone that claims to love this game and enjoy it you'll stop this nonsense of asking for people's endgame logs and instead you'll tell us why you agree or disagree with Square Enix period, dont waste both our times with rhetoric as to why we should excuse the developers an or director for their misteps and mishaps. that make you out to be a white knight, or fanboy/girl eating up whatever crap you're fed as long as you get satisfied.
@@DeusGamez I don't really see where did i say i don't agree with anything of this or i am white knighting at all, i just think the way you talk with insults in between every phrase and being so mad is really funny and dismisses most of your points being made because you just seem so asshurt, and funnily most of the time people that cry so hard about homogenization can't play this piss easy jobs at even a mediocre level. I just wanted you to show me if you really are that type of guy, which you seem honestly going by how you talk with all these big words and insults in between every sentence bro, show me some real gamer stuff my man
I can't believe Chair had an entire gamer moment on camera
I can't tell if this is a real meltdown or a joke meltdown
@@Bronimin Schrodinger's meltdown, it depends on which is funnier at any given time
I didn't hear any N-bombs, when does he drop it?
@@SylvAlternate So they both exist until further observation
@@CptManboobs You mean "Nya"?
I can't believe chair decided to become DRK on TH-cam right before our eyes
Mans thought Fray was making a youtube video to talk to chair's audience
hope that's HW /SB DRK not shit the class has became after
Dude went IN and I'm not even mad. All he said was facts
Went IN on hes a jealous incel? Sure lol
More content creators need to speak up about the direction the game is going in. Thanks for putting yourself on the chopping block, for our sake
Like anyone who plays this game wouldn't know that already. And the rest doesn't care for more than 3 sec anyway. No reason to imagine an overly dramatic "chopping block".
@@Gloriankithsanus given what has happened with some content creators getting or not getting invites to media tours and stuff, making this kind of content is essentially chair labeling himself as a giant brand risk and closing some doors as opposed to someone like zepla or whatever (no hate intended at zepla)
What a man he is
@@Gloriankithsanus with how many people will slam you for speaking on issues with X job, no it doesn’t seem like people know it already, they and can’t handle anyone criticizing their favorite game.
Misshapen Chair may call himself a villain, but he's in truth a fallen hero.
A Misshapen hero
I'm the villain with SMN lovers. I used to fav the class as my 2nd best. But hate how slow Ifrit is in it. I just wanna play a pet class that has a pet that acts like a party member like Mimic in Elden Ring. I wanna also spread poison. Single target and group. SMN now can do that and neither can any other. People tell I should just be happy that SMN is good now.
He's the hero we need
@@tiduswhiteblade8535 but don't deserve
You either died a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become its villain.
13:04 and i busted RIGHT THERE!! thanks for not releasing this video during november king
NNN is simply a state of mind
You two need to just make out already.
Has it been proven that they aren’t the same person yet?
@@jaskim5723 Oh hey, you're the guy from 14:20
Odd that Chair would go into his alt account to simply add a comment on his own content.
I remember how you hated Summoner in Shadowbringers due to fact that it was junky, but never due to it being hard.
Your content is good. Keep it up evil cat enjoyer.
I don't mind it being easy but it so boring, summon, spam a button. rinse and repeat. Favor being so late it just boring for 95% of content. There also what the point of the summons besides giving something to do before baha/nix pop. You need them to access the elemental but don't need on them to access baha/nix..
I level summoner to have both mdps and healer for role quest but I might just level rdm and sge in 7.0 for the role quests.
@@Gamemaster-64 honestly personally i’m using summoner right now for reclears since it’s brain dead as fuck and the only thing i have to think about is wether or not if i’m uSing garuda or ifrit for movement and when i am casting their special abilities
compared to BLM, SMN is weak shit right now; which is sad because i genuinely like smn (and sch give me the dots cowards)
Just play LA man. Quit this dogshit game
@@Gamemaster-64 Summoner looks like it would have been a great job during Heavensward or Stormblood and just missed all the entire stuff to busy up the rotation other classes got since then.
I thought you mained Samurai but after watching this im convinced you leech out energy from suffering like a true dark knight, truly the anti-hero we needed
I really feel this video on a personal level. Keep your amazing content coming, regardless of any nitpickers or haters.
99.9% of people do love your content, me included !
Oh and fu.. those Reaction TH-camrs ! *Goes Live on Twitch to React to Something
Hey man, isn't your most recent video a reaction vid?
@@stupefy777 >B-But it's okay when i do it!
Lmao all ff14 breadtubers are the freaking same. Chair and lucy are the only one's who don't completely milk their audience
@@stupefy777 Caught in 4k
(1080p actually, because Twitch still sucks)
@@DiegoGangWeedBrando Damn those Creators ! What are they thinking?!
@@DesperiusFFXIV I mean Asmon is at least a good react streamer,literally add at least over double the commentary.
Chair and Xeno are now officially the Joker and Harley Quinn of the FFXIV community and I love it. A story is only as good as its villian(s) after all.
Real talk though, making videos you want to make instead of ones you feel like you have to for maximum profit only stands to benefit the content.
Xeno es way too loud and annoying imo.
@@Plasmacat1 Sounds like a perfect Harley Quinn to me
Xen-who?
Who's Xeno? I'd like to search them up.
@@varia2354 xenosys vex
i feel so validated after watching this. Im really looking forward to your Joker arc.
I honestly originally watched your guides for the "stupid jokes", your gunbreaker guide was so funny. Good luck out there chair
Incredibly based take. This idea that difficulty should all be loaded into the content itself is really bad. That just makes dungeons and other casual content feel miserably boring because there's nothing to think about.
agreed. The notion of “just play savage if you want any challenge” feels so dismissive. What’s wrong with wanting to feel engaged during a daily dungeon? Why do I need to reach the last 5% of the game before I’m expected to know what a GCD is? Why is knowing stack/spread/protean supposed to be where all the fun comes from?
SE has been taking baby steps towards adding more difficult mechanics in new content, but that’s just cancelled out by the rate they’re taking away job difficulty. It’s a net loss in the end
Lost Ark is so much better than this shitgame now. Dont be like hardcore wow fans and make the switch to LA
@@batsoup2647 slow down on the shilling. As much as I dislike recent FFXIV changes, Lost Ark doesn’t really replace what I DO like about the game. People who enjoyed the story, writing, and music in FFXIV aren’t gonna find those in Lost Ark, for example. Plus not everyone digs the Korean MMO aesthetic, the Diablo-esque ARPG style of gameplay, or alt grinding
im actually one of those who saw asmon watch ur video and came over to ur entire channel. that video was so funny i watched it a few times, and i genuinely would shoot myself if i had to watch it every time while seeing his face and pausing every 4 seconds to state something obvious. I'm glad he watched it though, because trying to delve into ffxiv content creators is, like anything else, trying to find a needle in a haystack. and i got lucky. or you did. idk. keep making ur videos dude, you know how to lean into ur sense of humor.
asmon man bad >=(
"why did she leave me?"
Wait, you and Lucy split up? This is truly the darkest timeline.
"Some aerosol sucker drifted their Trick Attack," I feel personally called out. But in all honesty, this video speaks the truth.
I wish they would just stop simplifying every single God damn class. It's fine if every role has an easy class (Dancer, Red Mage, etc) but I wish all the other job complexity didn't have to suffer.
Yeah, some jobs should be complicated and remain that well, as well as having the benefits of being complicated. The homogenization of classes is bad thing IMO, especially since the game is well balanced enough that any collection of classes can complete any content.
I feel like if they just make the base unoptimized rotation easier that’s great since sometimes I just want to play a class in a dungeon because it looks cool but yeah the actual rotation should stay with an easy medium hard class divide like with ranged and casters.
This is what i said about what they did to Summoner, Instead of fixing the jank they decided to make it the most brain dead class that every glue eater can pick up and play with their room temperature IQ as if the previous Summoner was hard at all. Sad af.
Did you say simplify more classes? BLM will now have a single button rotation and all OGCDs will be removed. Thanks for your feedback
@@Red-tn3wm imo all they really needed to do was somehow fix the pet jank or work the changes for endwalker into the preexisting kit instead of going for a complete rework. I can get wanting to make it less of a dot mage and feel closer to how summoners behave in other FF games but they absolutely went too far. I'm sure the devs could have relatively easily improved the flavour of being an actual summoner while also not completely gutting it.
I was originally brought here due to Asmongold, yet stayed for the Misshapen snark. The fact there's collaboration with Lucy Pyre on occasion is also a big fat bonus. I enjoy both muchly.
dev team is trying to Rejoin all the jobs into one super job
"Become what you must. Become the Warrior of Darkness."
Alexa, play Potemkin's theme from guilty gear strive
Unbelievably based. Nowadays it seems like giving any sort of criticism on the blatant casualization of job mechanics will get you ostracized with people always mentioning things like button bloat, accessibility, or that more people being able to play that job now is like a huge deal for some reason, even more than people who already play it still enjoying it.
It'll be nice to have at least someone big who's on the other side of the argument.
I played summoner before the rework. Don't get me wrong it needed some QOL changes, but I was so upset to see that the classes gameplay is now literally just press one button over and over again, and seeing other youtubers praise it for that. I didn't enjoy summoner because it was simple, I enjoyed it because it was complex, and they made it the complete opposite.
My favourite is when someone comments a slight criticism in the game then there’s 60 replies absolutely savaging them to pieces over it. But in the same breath best community come play with us 😂 🔪
maybe because yall are the literal minority? get with the times boomer
criticizing anything in ffxiv gets me called a wow player everytime. it’s weird as shit some identity issues going on or sumn
@@angelo423 oh man u said boomer lmao u r so savage slam dunk broskini gottem 1!1!1!1
I like the honesty, and appreciate you saying what a lot of us are probably thinking. Personally, as someone who's below average at this game because I suck, I also don't like the game slowly becoming easier and easier. Endgame content should be challenging, because challenge is ENGAGING. And it helps me go from being a trash player to a mediocre (at best) player. I shouldn't have to queue into an Ultimate (an incredibly small percentage of content considering there are only going to be a total of 4 duties) for my main role (healer) to feel engaging, but apparently that's what I'm supposed to do now.
From Yoshi-P’s mouth, too. Basically: “lol do ultimates then, nerd”
If Yoshi-P and his team don't learn from the backlash incited by their sudden and unnecessary changes to Samurai, then they will be in for a rude awakening.
They should have listened years ago with the complaints about Healer and Tanks being unnecessarily simplified.
Some jobs are going to be harder or easier depending on the player. Let the dam player learn how to play the game and stop being such a freaking overbearing mother hen over over creaking community, Yoshi-P and team!!!
@@SniperKing-O To be honest, the issues Healers and Tanks have could be fixed very easily by just going back to what made FF14 2.0 a success to begin with: looking at World of Warcraft. It was what safed the game after all. Wow solved the issue of what to do with tanks after aggro wasn't much of a thing anymore, outside of situations where a class underperforms, by introducing active mitigation and make mitigation something that is a part of your rotation and unique to each healer. Death Knight and Demon Hunter are self-healing focussed healers like Warrior, only that they don't just push a 25 second cd that is useless for most of the time, their self-healing is part of their core gameplay loop of builind ressources and spend them in self-healing abilities. Monks mitigate by just turning a percentage of their incoming damage into a dot instead, postponing it and relying on cleansing it, whenever the dot starts to tick too highly. Paladins, Druids and Warriors have to upkeep their defensive abilities through ressources they gain from their offense and make the coice if they rather have mitigation or self heal in the case of druids and warriors.
Same story with Healers, the game embraced healer dps outside of the sad asshole who decided to make half the talents of the DF skill tree focussing on healing casts which nobody even uses anymore and most healers have bigger dps kits than their FF14 counterparts and many have active synergies between their healing and damaging abilities. Hell, one of the nice thing about covenant abilities was that due to them being shared between all specs of a class, most of them had to have synergies between healing and dps. discipline priests are just plainly better Sages, they throw in shields which are actually useful and integral to playing the job because they come with atonement, their version of kardia, which is a limited buff and instead of set healing, half of their dps with the exception of a few skills is converted to healing on every atonement target. This forces the class juggle atonement and push as much dps as they can, because it directly translates into healing, with their heal casts all coming with active drawbacks, like shadow mend placing a dot on every target you heal, while shadow covenant, despite it not being used much currently, is an interesting aoe heal that results in a buff for your offensive shadow spells but locks you out of your supportive holy spells. Restoration druid has little synergy between its healing and dps toolkit, but it has the ability to cat weave, that is basically like cleric stance, only that you can go in and out ot if at will and instead of just a dps buff, you get a basic version of your roguelike melee dps specs rotation. Paladin and monks are melee healers, Paladin builds ressources and shorts the cd of its core healing spell through his dps abilities, monk triggers heals and extend its hots with them.
Healers and Tanks in WoW are active, distinct and especially healers have simple yet satisfying ways to deal dps. FF14 would be a better game, if Yoshi-P would draw inspiration from their version of healers and tanks. Especially with tanks, many ways of active mitigation could be well adapted into current ff14 tanks. Warriors could surely self heal with the beast cage, similar to Death Knights with runic power. Shuffle could be nicely adapted into death Knights, by them using the darkness to strengthening their body, at the cost of extending their suffering. Paladins get a more active use of their oath gauge, maybe even coupled with an ogcd shield of the righteous style ability.
Hey Chairman, i came over from asmon's video. in truth, your content didn't show up on my feed, but after seeing two of them featured on his channel i can see definitely is my cup of tea. glad to have discovered you.
"I don't want cactbot to tell me what to do, I wanna fuck it up until I don't" is an absolutely fucking great quote and will be my discord status for the foreseeable future.
They took kaiten....they took off his power limiter....ye gods....
This what happens when a sam main gets too much Kenki with nothing to spend it on
I will always be on the side of a chair who plays Nekopara for the story.
i'm here for the eight monks supremacy
I'm not sure if we're physically ready for 8 monks let alone 6.
It must be done. We need the ultimate brotherhood check-in.
the grand shitpost would be if lucy did a reaction video to this video.
I can’t believe Chair is a hot tea drama channel now
Given ninjas lack of popularity and these changes, im fuckin scared bros. I don't want them to give us the summoner treatment.
Nin was really fun back in shb with dream within dream and assasination back to back. The animation is so good. Then ew came and things look eh. I level nin up to 90 and just leave it there, dont have the motivation to play it. Now they just move trick att to 2 mins window, nin is dead to me for now unless they change it. When i start the class, mudra sys is kinda intimidate for me but after lvl nin, i love the class and its sys. Unique and contribute to the whole team. Feel good whenever u do trick att within raid buff window and deal tons of dmg. Nin feel fast, precise and unique in its playstyle; now just another melee job that have a 2 min buff like every other melee dps. Heck all melee dps in ew, in its simplest form, are the same. Take away all animation and just look at the core of the class, they are all the same
@@akiramurakami3177 That's a rather hot take to me. Melee out of all the roles is probably the least homogenized. Nin losing Assassination is good, that ability's animation lock was god awful. I just worry about them neutering the mudra system at some point. Otherwise I do agree making us having just another 2 min removed something unique to ninja's kit. Gonna feel weird people not asking me when trick is.
@@Verd254 they already neutered mudras. They didn't share CD with weaponskills, you had to weave them between attacks, but it was too hard for people. Yeah sure they're stronger now, but it's the same boring burst window shared with your weaponskills.
I actually found you by complete accident:
I just done leveling MCH and was looking for a nore advanced guide. I knew what the actions did but I didn't want do read a huge Balance document.
And then I saw your "A middle of the road Guide to Mechanist".
And while not being quite what I expected I loved it and immediately binched all your guides and just for entertainment purposes. And I even got what I was looking for: how to do reopeners and other things to look out for after the opener itself.
I think your guides are a great mix of useful information and great memes. I love your humor and I 100% agree with your take here.
Tbh. I don't even think it was that hot of a take. I think it was more of a... Mediocre one. °L°
I know this will probably get buried, but i played Paladin since ARR, and with "Glowing Lady in Endwalker" i did my first ever Extreme content and was hopelessly struggling with playing my rotation while learning the fight.
A friend recommended me to try warrior finallly, i leveled it and loved it.
I'm not a pro player, and warriors rotation allows me to focus more on the mechanics.
Do i want them to make paladin easier because of this? hell no, it still feels awesome and engaging in content below extreme. it's just not FOR ME in extreme.
i am curios what you stuggled with in the Paladin rotation given its relativly straight forward
i think the only "anoying" part in EW paladin rotation are the prepull having you wasted most of FoF and a pot
and that you need to drop one resource every minute if you want to be fully optimized
@@weberman173 i know how the rotation works, and i can do it rather consistelty in dungeon content etc. My problem ws thst i always either lost count where i am in the rotation and dropped half the spells/screwed up the requescat combo or forgot debuffs.
Or i did the rotation and died because i was too focused on counting/lpokong at my bars to see where i am and missed the boss-queues (blue/red etc).
@@Thandwar hopefully you come back to it as your main job. I main Warrior and have used it to prog and clear E9-E12S, and after a while of just knowing the mechanics by instinct and sound, it just felt right (and fun) to play them as something more difficult, like Black Mage, or have a completely different position, like healing in E12S.
This was _oddly_ inspirational.
No, I don't care to elaborate.
"I play every job at the top of the bell curve" must be the best way to say you're perfectly average at everything.
I like where this going. Looking forward to the next vid. As a sam main I was a so glad somebody talked about the sam changes. Somebody had to set the record straight. This game really does need a content creator villian.
removal of kaiten really got to him
They should definitely cut out a decent chunk of OG content on upload and be like "now watch the rest over here". Or maybe some kind of revenue share based on views. I feel like this should already be implemented, but I have no idea how any of this works.
When i say I have mad respect for this chair, I mean i have mad respect for how oddly shaped it is. Watch out everyone he's a hero, O7
*This is literally the first time here watching this ff14 video. Subbed. Your rant on difficulty made me smile. Well done.*
Hard agree on “if people don’t like the jobs’ play style, play another one.”
I just leveled SAM not a month ago, and pressing kaiten before the big boy moves was genuinely a treat. The most dopamine I’d had in the game, and it’s an absolute blast. As much as I love this game, I may just quit if they keep homogenizing classes. It’s obvious enough that despite only having 2 at max and leveling others as I feel like it, I can tell you exactly what the minute differences are.
But don’t tell anybody that differences in skill needed can make something fun or some bonk-brain uber redditor will say “as long as it gets more people to play it’s good.” Those people are genuinely more dumb than the people Squeenix is trying to appease: their answer to “Theseus’ ship” is genuinely “as long as it’s called ‘Theseus’ ship,’ there is no difference, even if it’s actually a vintage gen 1 foil charizard Pokémon card.”
It feels like they’re trying to “listen to the community” without asking about what’s fun; without stopping to think why things are good and why people enjoy them as-is.
they aren't even listening to the majority of the community, they're listening to the 0-skill actual cry babies(can't believe i've used that term but it's the most literal and accurate term for them) who cry the loudest and most frequently on the forums and social media that go berserk when someone asks them to please use their tank stance or please do literally anything besides spam cure 1 at level 70+ and kick you and spend 8 months trying to prog normal, people like the healer i had in SoS ex in ShB that had us wipe for 4 AND A HALF HOURS before i finally left because she couldn't do the STACK mechanic for the meteors at the beginning of the fight.... she was my partner i was main tanking, i ended up saying "DO NOT MOVE... I WILL COME TO YOU!" this lady would stand there, i'd go to her, she'd wait... aaaaand move right as the thing went off.... for 4 and a half hours.... and she had absolutely no idea why people were mad or annoyed and why she couldn't get it right.. (tbh neither could i.. the idiot literally just had to take their hands off the keyboard but that's besides the point lol) and got frustrated that we all left, swear to god it's people like that that the devs are listening to because that is sure what it seems like.
I'm still mad that my mudras are on gcd because apparently it was too hard to weave. I'll never not be mad about that.
"I want to fuck it up until i dont" hold my beer, just gonna frame that
I like that as a casual I can come and go from the game as I want. I also realize that as a casual that means there will be content that I likely will never master, and jobs I wont enjoy as much because I have not invested enough time into them.
Asmon has issued a challenge. pls accept.
I saw your video on Asmon's channel and hated how long his interruptions were and found it irritating, so I came here instead and watched the video from start to finish because I love the flow of it and everything you pointed out were on fucking point. Enjoyed every second of it, cheers mate you have my sub.
Ninja main here…losing trick attack as a raid buff literally feels like they’re removing the job. That is the job. You are the 1 minute timer, and 1/4 of the time, it’s everyone’s job to pay attention to your big orange debuff.
You still have it though. It just on a different button
@@Gamemaster-64 it’s a generic two minute button completely divorced from ninjutsu
@@nuclearbiologist well they could add a trait to change mug into something else that ninja-e.
@@Gamemaster-64 the thing is before trick attack was something you got from managing mudra which are the key spotlight mechanic for ninja which most of their kit stems from. now its completely divorced and a generic press every 2 minutes button.
@@nuclearbiologist Well you still need to do that for the self debuff TA gets. Though I wonder what the pots will be cause of it.
I started watching your guides as a sprout way back in [previous expansion] and that got me hooked onto your style of content. I'd rather you keep making the kind of videos you want, when you want. Stick to your fuckin' guns, and good luck Chair.
Goddamn, I can only like this video once! Now that the Endwalker MSQ rollercoaster has died down for me, the small gripes and glaring flaws of this game are starting to become more apparent... made more so by creators like you who aren't afraid to not pull some punches. Keep it up: I'll watch your villainy over corporate simpery anyday...
you're 100% correct. I ended up here cause of Asmon and they should at least make a video that references the source material rather than posting whole cloth. keep it up I don't play ff or any MMO games anymore cause of teh cash shops but your content looks great and I hope you keep up the effort.
Hey chair man, im a fresh FF player, and pretty new to your content but am enjoying both immensely. Just wanted to say thanks, and stick to your principles. People who find their niche and enjoy what they do are rare among the sea of youtube content creators. The world sucks enough with your mediocre class guides, and would just be a little worse off without them.
Man I’m so about this video. I think it’s time for the FF14 fans to stop simping so much for the Dev team and YoshiP. It’s pretty obvious the direction this game is inevitably leading into. I don’t care for the job changes at all and this huge push for every job to be so simplistic and have little to no identity to the next is getting sad. I never wanted to be the guy who said “ the casuals are killing this game” but since they’re the ones who play the game the most and the dev only caters towards them that’s kinda how I’m starting to feel. Pretty sad honestly.
Its genuinely starting to feel like a rp social sim first and an actual game second. I don't mind casual content or people who enjoy them, I like making glams and shit as much as the next guy. But the sheer amount of people just barely participating when running content these days is extremely frustrating. And it's not even a lack of knowledge, it's willful ignorance to just not even try but then throw a hissy fit when savage/ults aren't easy enough to clear pull one 😒
Don't speak for everyone, some people like the decreese in button bloat. I cleared the current raid tier and could do without having to worry about the rotation, one button is all I need :D
@@luckylucii262 pretty much what FFXIV has been though for years. Ive been playing since heavensward and even back then FFXIV was known more for glamming, social stuff, rping, etc. "Hardcore" wasnt something youd hear often associated with FFXIV.
Cry about it you masochistic losers. Wahh i no longer have to spend 4 days leveling up a class i dont even like to get cross class skils!!! Wah i dont have to press all 24 buttons on my hotbar anymore wahhhh! Go play elden ring.
@@luckylucii262 seriously man, lately if i even so much as suggest that people put in a shred of effort in msq roulette so it gets done faster i get absolutely ripped like i insulted everyone's mothers... "DUDE RELAX ITS MSQ ROULETTE GET OVER URSELF" "im watching netflix chill out" "DUDE WHO CARES IF THEY'RE AFK ITS MSQ ROULETTE" I FKING DO DUDE I DON'T CARE IF IT'S MSQ ROULETTE I DON'T WANNA SIT HERE ANY LONGER THAN I HAVE TO! shame on the devs for locking the single biggest exp dump in the game behind 45mins of cutscenes, if their community is "soooooooooooooooooo great" it shouldn't be an issue for new people to do prae, and at this point who cares if it's unsynced it would be better for them anyways, NO new player goes into prae and thinks "whoa that was great!" they lag behind the group... the bosses die before they get there or maybe they get 1 or 2 hits in with their 4 abilities they have unlocked at lvl 50.... and next thing you know they forgot the key and they're teleported to the end boss which i've solod a bunch of times in group finder by d/c'ing so i wouldn't have to sit thru 4 min 57sec of cutscene(saying that to show how easy it is and how fast it dies) and it's over....... why does that need to be preserved and protected so badly????? just give us the damn xp and let us move on, or raise the exp for the other roulettes so people aren't FORCED to do msq to lvl up their 10th job etc.
and the savage stuff.... oh boy.... getting yelled at for "only" doing 12k dps in e10s on my first savage tier by the leader(other healer... doing 8k dps and about 2/3 my healing according to ACT, usually would not ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever rez, not ever.... did i mention ever?) who was supposedly v. experienced and had supposedly cleared e12s but always had other people explaining everything lol, LITERALLY every single other group was an absolute disaster that either disbanded before even running 1 thing, or couldn't clear e9s. now i haven't even finished endwalker and i've been playing since day 1 of early release because i can't do roulettes with people because they kick you for asking to "please use your tank stance" or "please do literally anything besides spam cure 1.... it's a lvl 72 dungeon" and there is no other efficient way to level allllllllllllllll the jobs besides freaking bozja/zadnor for the 3000th hour
"I didn't get this far by playing it safe" hell yeah man go get it
Job identity, variety, skill expression. All these things are dying because the XIV community seems to be actively hostile to the idea that not every job is White Mage.
People still come into The Balance and tell people in the MNK channels that they're stupid for trying to optimize because a meme parse that hit 99 while spamming one button exists, while those same trolls also don't understand why that even happened to begin with. Can't wait for the entire MNK rotation to be on one button like Continuation because the concept of having multiple things to press for different situations is too hard. Fuck it, put everything on auto-attack & just move the stick around. We'll all parse 99 that way, right? Seriously why is the idea of effort treated so hostile by a ton of people in this community, including the devs? I get that we don't want toxicity like some other online games, but the toxicity is still made manifest. Just in a different way.
Anyways, good video Chair. I'll always watch you first before the react videos.
Each day that passes I miss the first couple years I started playing FFXIV back during Stormblood and Shadowbringers.
@@director5325 I started in shadowbringers and it’s felt like a downhill adventure ever since 5.3
While I do understand the frustration at the constant attempts to simplify jobs for no reason, I would like to throw out that not *every* attempt is for no reason or benefit. Gnashing Fang combo, for example, had no real reason to be three separate buttons - your goal was to press them all in succession just like your 123, and if you didn't you dropped it. Button bloat *isn't* just a meme or a fake thing people cry about because things are too hard like some people (not yourself) might imply, it's a real thing that causes unnecessary space to be filled on a hotbar that could be used for other things. It being all moved to one button is a boon more than not, because there is no real loss other than personal preference for just having more buttons to smash - it's not like you *weren't* just going to press them all in-a-row one right after the other mindlessly anyways, right?
On the other hand, removing buttons that *serve* a purpose such as Kaiten on SAM are simplifications that *have* a detriment - it removes another element of resource management from the job that *wasn't* vapid, in Kaiten's case. Sure, you were *supposed* to use it on Midare every time you had it, but there were fights where the timing of that wasn't always possible, so you might settle for Kaiten'ing another skill just to use the kenki. Wasn't *optimal*, but it was a decision you could make for circumstance that you can no longer make.
Like Chair says, there is a middle ground here, and while it's sad to see this trend of *over*simplification continue, it's also important to make sure we understand which changes are actually oversimplification, and which are simply QoL. Because I could also name several times I've seen people freak out at the first sign of patch notes and cry bloody tears that their job is being oversimplified when... it's just Gnashing Fang combo being moved to one button which is functionally identical, or something similar.
Currently, the patch notes I've read through trend towards the oversimplification, and that is something to rightly criticize. Why remove Kaiten when it was an active decision people have to make during their fights? Trick Attack being moved to Mug is whatever, and I guess now NIN have a personal DPS buff in Trick Attack, but it was also really the only thing that Suiton had to its benefit - why not *instead* upgrade Mug *to* Trick when leveling and make Suiton have a unique purpose other than being "the precursor to Trick mudra", or something similar? If you're going to take complexity of one part out, maybe perhaps think about throwing something similar back as a bone? If Kaiten was too boring a resource spender for the devs, why not add a similar resource spender in its place - one that might be easy to *use*, but interesting to tinker around with to optimize.
In fact, IMO it would be *great* if more (if not most) of FFXIV's classes started to move towards an "easy to learn, hard to master" philosophy. It's not a shame to have your classes so that everyone can pick up and *play* like the devs want, but bring the damn ceilings up! Allow people to take the complexity you're offering and optimize it! Allow people to (constructively) argue over which opener is better during what fight, and encourage experimentation by giving people more options, and only *remove* things if people truly don't see them use and you somehow *can't* fix it. That way, people aren't sad that it's gone and can find hype in something else possibly more interesting to tinker with replaces it.
You know you fucked up when monotone memeguy isn't monotone anymore.
asmon asked for a collab
here to pay my dues after watching the last 4 vids through asmongold's stream
Give me my damn positionals back on MNK, that job was my main for 6 years and they stripped all the fun away and even made its burst window feel disjointed from its rotation.
It still feels weird not needing to use bootshine from rear
positionals made me FEEL like I was beating the shit out of whatever I was hitting. I want em back bros
@@fivesidedpixels4991 that said EW MNK Is probably the best iteration so far , i miss tornado kick as ogcd tho
I love how Chair made this whole video to get negative comments and yet most of the comments agree with him and give him compliments. The irony of TH-cam.
not even irony, think people are really just sick of the constant pussification of everything and major dumbing down of everything, god forbid anyone have to use their brain or think or try, god forbid anyone be offended or the guy who can't be bothered to learn a fight or even their own class that they played for 90 levels and the entire MSQ and will happily waste 7 other people's time for hours/days/weeks be inconvienced or bothered at all, i think alot of people are just super fed up of it lol i sure am
I truly enjoy your vods and happy you started working with lucy pyre. I find the vods very entertaining.
I've been a subscriber (and youtube member!) of yours for a while now, and the only reason is so that when I meet people who say that FFXIV players are losers, I can at least say that some of us are fully and painfully aware of that.
Keep up the good work, hero.
I love your content, even picked up samurai as my first dps job after watching your video (i always played tank before) - i hope you will keep making new videos, i really enjoy your sense of humor
I can't believe he made this whole video just to convince us that he and Lucy Pyre
I can't believe he made this whole video just to convince us that he and Lucy Pyre
I can't believe he made this whole video just to convince us that he and Lucy Pyre
I can't believe he made this whole video just to convince us that he and Lucy Pyre
I can't believe he made this whole video just to convince us that he and Lucy Pyre
I can't believe he made this whole video just to convince us that he and Lucy Pyre
Misshapen chairs job guide videos helped me want to play the game where 6 tries and getting told from 3 separate friends over the years that my fault in not enjoying is simply that I need to love the story
I just want to fit a character aesthetic and press buttons to have fun and misshapen chair helped me skip the BS to get to that and plan out what would be worth trying to enjoy
Had a similar moment talking about Heavensward with my friends after beating it for the first time - talked about how certain fights felt way toned down for as good as they were on paper. Turns out back when this was fresh you had twice the amount of buttons, far less gear level, and far less action potency. Kind of makes me regret not starting to play this game as it's expansions were being developed because even as a sprout I'm getting to that point of comfortable where I want to improve more and have something really push me.
Let it be known I was here before Asmon's reaction video
I ran into you not bc of Asmon but bc I'm autistic and you showed up in my yt recs as a special interest relevant thing. Normally this means I'm only vaguely invested in the person for said special interest, but I stay bc I love your humour. You're fucking hilarious man. Always boost my mood. And I need that actually.
I'm one of the people who came from Asmongold's reaction all the way back with the hierarchy video. Have since watched every video on your channel that you've uploaded, but I can definitely see what you mean by the majority not caring.
It's just tough to find new youtube content creators organically, so his reaction videos have actually helped introduce me to a lot of different content creators. Kinda in the same vein that your collabs with Lucy introduced me to her content that I would have never watched without them.
Watching this felt like a fever dream and I wouldn't have it any other way.
i'm new to FF and started watching your job guides. i love the jokes and the effort you put into them. I agree that jobs shouldn't get easier because i love failing in this game. i genuinely love that i'm forced to confront my lack of current skill and seek out ways to improve. there is no better feeling than getting ground to a paste by a boss to beat them later on. i need that failure to tell me i should become a better WHM or BRD. if you're not in the game for challenge then pick the fun easy class and leave me be to remembering to press peleton and iron jaws because that's what gives ME serotonin.
When you master those I highly recommend Black mage. They have made much easier than what it once was, but its kit is so tightly tuned to whatever the raid tier is due to you having to not only learn fights, but also learn how perform 4 sec casts in the middle of the fight. Im horrible at blm, but damn it ima finish this tier with it if it kills me.
Not enough staff, really. When you realise there's like 4 people designing all the jobs, all of them have other responsibilities, and that their healer playtester was replaced for being too good, then things start to make sense.
IMO, the game desperately needs more staff and more gametesters, because the homogenization doesn't seem like a 'player' issue, but a resource one.
One of the other issues is that whilst most content has actually gotten significantly harder (actual Ultimate mechanics showing up in current Savage content), the higher end of the playerbase has improved by a greater extent, which means players who've cleared every Savage tier are clearing week 1 or 2, and everyone else is throwing themselves at a brick wall (P3S) trying to clear, when they haven't had the previous Savage experience.
I'd like to see something that introduces people to Savage, that isn't either insultingly easy unless someone fucks up (P1S/P2S), easily cheesed (EX1), a clusterfuck of gimmicky mechanics (Literally everything current that isn't EX1 or P3S/P4S), or just plain badly designed (P3S).
Why exactly is P3S badly designed?
Replaced for being too good? I mean... Why would you do that? It looks and feel counterintuitive. Someone who's an expert at the job can feel where a newbie would struggle for lack of experience.
@@MyNameIsMir not him but as someone currently progging it as a SCH with a WHM cohealer I'd say the sheer disparity between the different healer jobs at certain mechanics. The big one is having AST vs not having one on Death's Toll/Life's Agonies (basically all but requiring healer LB3 without without a very specific plan), but other highlights include Seraph completely trivializing Fountains of Fire and subsequent raidwides, and the ridiculous snapshotting on certain aoes seriously screwing those with limited spot healing resources.
Also the whole Firestorms of Asphedelos mechanics probably should have been thought through a bit more. Elmo in particular, while a legitimate strategy, has made PF a goddamn nightmare with people defaulting to that strat without understanding how exactly the mechanic works and subsequently wiping runs because one person positioned wrong.
@@MyNameIsMir Besides what SarkanArkhas said, the fight itself also has several design issues. Namely the overuse of red and orange in the entire fight making it an absolute nightmare to recognize AOEs there for anyone who's red/orange colorblind and a pain to look at for anyone who isn't, to the point it really begs the question if anyone playtested it.
I ended up having to make a reshade preset to mitigate the eyesore it would cause after hours of progging (basically less color saturation and adding a black fog effect past the arena so the sky wasn't also red/orange) and it was a MUCH better experience from then on.
Titan also had a similar issue in UWU with the gaol markers being the same color as the ground, but this one is just plain worse.
What's so bad about P3S? Besides the god awful abundance of orange and retina damage I'll say it's a good fight and I say this as someone who fucking hates it with passion.
I had a run of Thordan Normal in trial Roulette a few months ago and someone opened up the party chat with 'greetings travellers'
Wasnt you, but I did catch it, and we did have a giggle.
One commend. Guess who.
A Chair video with some actual emotion. That's quite a nice change. Also welcome to the TH-cam game and the depth of reaction content.
3:40 This exact reason mentioned is why I still see party finder doing damage down intemperance strat for P1S months later. Thank you for saying what needed to be said, you beautifully-misshapen Chair you!
Or won't move up a few spaces to allow people to do uptime Act 2. It's crazy how they get so much say-so
Wow.. that was literally the first video I have ever seen of yours. I just started playing FF14 for the first time and was browsing the TH-cam community attached to it. Just... wow sir. Intense. This was intense, not in a bad way though. Best of luck to you.
6:59 "You really want every job in the game to be the exact same thing with a little different flavor on top of it"
that's what i really felt on my experience when i'm maxing out Tanks and Healers, until suddenly i got to play Sage and everything felt so off.
Then I realized "yeah maybe it's not for me", and it should be normalized that way
Honestly i found you through youtube's algorithm surprisingly enough and i'm always thankful for it your content is hella great and i always enjoy it.
Take care of yourself and just always make sure you enjoy it at the end of the day.
You may call yourself a villain but i kinda think of you as a hero who is not afraid to say that the dev can get something. I started when shadowbringers came out and have slowly seen more jobs become more simple and simple (cough summoner). I am a souls player but i think everyone needs to understand that you need to have some level of complexity in a job to make it fun.
Thanks for a the great content and i will always come to you for the your videos not Asmon :D
Aw, a Shadowbringers baby complaining about job simplification. How adorable.
To be serious for a moment though, yes, simplification has been a major issue since the release of Stormblood and got even worse with Shadowbringers and now Endwalker. At least with Summoner you can try to justify it by it being a complete rework and planning ahead for 7.0 so it can gain a lot in the next expansion, though that's probably just wishful thinking on my part.
@@cassiusbright1062 there’s no need to flex playing a video game longer than someone else. If someone “new” like OP can notice the game’s gotten too simplified after just one expansion, that’s a clear sign something’s wrong
I used to be bored with the healer damage rotation, so I did what YoshiP said, got into Savage and Ultimate.
And the healing damage rotation there is still fucking boring.
Ffs add at least one more damage button, not like its ever going to affect the Cure I machinegun WHM that doesnt cast damage GCDs in dungeons.
@firstbass789 WHM wants to do damage just as much as the other classes except with it has a poor MP economy, which AST ignores while not having to cast any healer GCD’s this raid tier. The problem this game has is that there isn’t enough damage going out to make you heal much, with the obvious exception of ultimates. Leaving you with pressing 2 damage buttons(glare,DoT) for 7+ minutes for a lot of fights, which is stale as fuck.
This chairman here is about to fall harder than Daigo
and I am enjoying every second, chair's content truly is a oasis in the desert of ff14 content
Talking topic about it going too easy. Suprisingly enough, i gotta agree, and i didnt even get to the really hard stuff. Example : Ninja. I played up to roughly lv.69 before endwalker release and now i hate the job. Massive changes in OGCDs that affect rotations, the evened-out CDs of big skills make it feel dull and boring compared to the slight fluid changes you had before, by making it easier the game actively feels more stiff, and as the semi-sadist that does almost all content capped with randoms, i want the struggle, overcoming the challenge and helping each other to grow. Not try to evaluate how evryone should do it ezpz without practice
Coming from Asmongold's reaction video. I love the personality your videos have, so just keep putting work into them my dude.
ever since the announcement of the new 6.1 job changes, it's had me really worried about the direction and future of the game
It seems you really woke up and chose violence today. Going off your aura alone, you'd make a great DRK. I'd welcome you with open arms.
(kinda) Jokes aside, everything you said seems pretty valid to me. Moreover, I think this is a an importance stance that many people NEED to hear but don't want to hear. Needless to say, you made the right call by maintaining the "vow of silence" in which you avoid in-game chat. As you continue to grow, more people will target you for speaking outside of the game by abusing the game's botched reporting system, so please tread carefully.
Other than that, try not to get to miffed about the current issues as best you can and keep pushing. Creators like you and Lucy bring something truly unique to the table, so press on, become what you must, and walk your path no matter how hard it seems so long as you deem it a worthy journey/cause.
My man doing a Chris Jericho-level heel turn. Yes, that is a wrestling reference.
Stopped playing summoner just because it was so damn boring to even fail. Really wish they would go more complex not less.
So Asmond reacted to this video and uploaded it to TH-cam.. He ended inviting chair to asphodelos.
I'm pretty happy for finding this channel when the whm guide was uploaded, I have a similar attitude towards the game and people not even trying to make the bare minimum in regular content
Unfathomably based. I'm a pretty casual player too and don't like hating very much but If there's one thing that's always irked me about the game is the almost cult-like positivity and overly casual, lowest common denominator approach to content from some (weirdly vocal) segments of the community.
It's normal to want harder stuff. It's normal to want complex stuff. And it sure is normal to criticize changes you don't like. Grow up.
I hope more speak up about the direction of some of the jobs, especially as someone who joined FFXIV for the complexity of many of the jobs.
I learned recently that the MSQ solo instances have an easy mode if you die during them.
I didn't even know you COULD die with the MSQ echo buff.
Understanding that those players exist gives some level of sense to these changes recently.
Solo Duties go "Normal", "Easy", "Very Easy". Those who just want it done, and either cannot or will not watch a video guide, will intentionally tank the first attempt for the opportunity to reset to Very Easy and breeze through.
The addition of easier difficulties for the already braindead easy MSQ content was the biggest mistake the devs have ever made, and I say this when I was an AST main pre-ShB. It completely removed even the slightest filter that the MSQ had.
tbf... its Super easy to be overleveld(and partially overgeared)= in the MSQ if you focus on a single class
If you level 2-3 classes at the same time you are often just right at level, with often substandard gear.
now depending on class you pick some solo instances are just harder then others, as paladin almost non of them where a challenge besides some 1v1 fights...
as a DPS more possible fights are a problem because of the lack of self sustain
I actually found you this way. I started watching ff stuff because the yt algorythm suggested the asmo video. And because of my personal ethics I always open the original of react content in another tab. But you where so entertaining that I decided to subscribe to you and your guides have actually helped me decide on what to level/play next.
keep doing what you are doing !
You and Lucy are easily my favorite two FFXIV creators, y'all represent the part of our community that is still weird but in our chill way. Love the content!
Man this video actually really helped me overcome something, thank you. Keep it up
Thank you for that rant at the beginning. Seriously. I do love FFXIV, but EW has me very concerned with the direction the game is taking.
Tbh, your content is pretty good. Some extremely creative editing with this kind of script and you will be one of the best FFXIV content creators.
I like how people bring up Miyazaki when the games he makes have gotten progressively more accessible to more people. Souls andies don't even get their own franchise. XD
The thing is when these reactionaries reupload your entire video to the same platform as the orgiinal it acts as direct competition and can hurt future viewership numbers. I.e. when i heard about your FF social hierarchy video i searched for it and ended up accidentally clicking on the asmon vid due to the views being so high on his video. So sick that you get robbed twice, once on stream and once on the same platform you originally uploaded to.
The bald lord + Chairman vs Pandemonium (Savage) who wins? Who lose? You decide. Also subbing to pay my dues lmao
Your Samurai Kaiten removal video appeared in my recommended and I watched every video since.
i share in this frustration of how FFXIV has become too streamlined and homogenesized i've complained about it and tried to offer opinions and advice to advocate for positive changes rather than worse ones but people are so quick to blame the devs cause they work and make things happen but dont see the true culprits as to why this game is going down hill.
which is actually some of the players themselves, corporate greed, investor meddling, and bad influential figures constantly spreading false hype when they know things are shit.
its regrettable that its taken this long for people to finally SEE and i fear now that the only thing that force the hands of SQuare Enix is another 1.0 backlash level of escalation that or enough people myself included just drop the game to the point the game barely has any profits left to sustain itself and yoshida is forced to make a difficult choice to either quit as producer for ffxiv or to set it all ablaze before he is fired to send a message to Square Enix that they need to stop pushing things into a shithole of terrible game design and god awful monetization
Show me your fflogs and i will judge if you can say this game has shithole terrible game design in its jobs and you understand whatever problems there are, and show me you also played this game in ARR- Stormblood job design era for a great comparison
@@Britmadny you sound like a boomer bro "show me your logs" the game revolves so much more around other content than just raiding and hardcore fights which accounts to a very low percentile of the playerbase. try again with your response otherwise you just prove mine and Misshapen Chair's point about a fanbase that is self destructive to itself.
your beloved raiding used to be more than a glorified amped up trial boss it used to be like a dungeon which go figure the act of raiding something denotes steps and paths to take not jumping into random platforms.
the PvP has never been good and rather than improve upon that challenging aspect they oversimplified, rewarded failure, and time gated.
Ultimate is also just an intensified "trial" but they tag the name on it to make it feel like its special but again its just one platform constantly every single time how is that innovative or creative???
this current fandom sucks a metric ton and Yoshida and Square Enix keep bootlicking it for money rather than listening to whats wrong with their game design philosophy. this is going to lead to a decaying and slowly disappearing game.
@@DeusGamezI mean, the dude in the video really doesn't mean the same as you in that sense, so i don't think putting his name on your back is justified at all as he is mostly talking about job design in this case heavily and how they are cattering to casuals to which by the way are 95% of the playerbase of ff xiv, a very casual game and it has always been, more unfriendly before yeah. Also i dont really think you are qualified to say boomer to other persons when you think trash mobs that bring nothing to the table are better than just fighting a boss where the meat is, adds were always trash in this game previous to the boss and it was a good riddance, though they could have done it like what they did with BA and Delubrum and it would be pog, but both are better iterations than having shitty adds that just pad time. I would say the one with the most boomer and uninformed viewpoint is you here, you sound like a huge l4d2 boomer bro. Arena's could be more innovative for sure, but ff xiv fights right now are literally top tier in mmo's together with the legion raids in Lost Ark, they are peak raiding experience, accesible and complex in their own right, which doesn't mean there's no room to grow or be more innovative. There's really no logic or arguments behind what you say, it's just like pent up rage and big ad hominems towards SE and the game design like its on the end of days and your life depends on it. It's definetely a problem if all the classes end up feeling the same, which currently it doesnt happen that heavily outside of drk-war which job's identity overlaps a shit ton and it could get worse, but we will have to wait and see.
And btw, believe it or not, an fflogs profile makes me believe and trust you, random in the internet, that you have knownledge of the game and have cleared its hardest content and how much have you played it actually to really get into the neaty gritty of job design and that you aren't making shit up, i think it's pretty fairm though i was just having fun, i love my homies writting essays
@@Britmadny well its clear you replied to my initial post because you were cruising to defend the things that alot of us don't want. i bring up the creator of this video because i agree with his points, and to me it appears you haven't done your research at all even the casuals dont want over simplified jobs, and for the game to become over homogenisized to the point a monkey could play it one handed lol.
literally all players of all different playstyles didnt ask for these changes and they have the right to be upset about it because this game is not some free to play sandbox or pay to win nonesense the industry keeps shoving down our throats its a paid for live service and when you're a paying customer to a development company you have the right to challenge decisions they make on your behalf if you disagree with it or you can simply stop paying for their service to show your discontent.
i am sorry if my extreme opinion of the situation hurts your precious feelings but if you are someone that claims to love this game and enjoy it you'll stop this nonsense of asking for people's endgame logs and instead you'll tell us why you agree or disagree with Square Enix period, dont waste both our times with rhetoric as to why we should excuse the developers an or director for their misteps and mishaps. that make you out to be a white knight, or fanboy/girl eating up whatever crap you're fed as long as you get satisfied.
@@DeusGamez I don't really see where did i say i don't agree with anything of this or i am white knighting at all, i just think the way you talk with insults in between every phrase and being so mad is really funny and dismisses most of your points being made because you just seem so asshurt, and funnily most of the time people that cry so hard about homogenization can't play this piss easy jobs at even a mediocre level. I just wanted you to show me if you really are that type of guy, which you seem honestly going by how you talk with all these big words and insults in between every sentence bro, show me some real gamer stuff my man
i just dont want to have to play [OTHER MMO] in order to have satisfying healer gameplay....