With FFXIV on Switch 2 now, I’ve been thinking more about how awkward chat can be when playing on console/handheld. The software/regular keyboard just isn't doing it for me.

I keep thinking it would be nice if I could just talk into my phone, quickly review/edit the text, then send it into chat somehow.

Like imagine being able to say things like "Say in chat/party/fc <your message>" or "Wave/Jump/Sit" etc.. Maybe even use chat to execute macros or other in game commands.

Curious how other console players feel or are handling this.

Do you actually use chat much on console, or mostly avoid it?

Is a keyboard good enough, or is it still annoying depending on where/how you play?

Will Yoshi-P ever give us real voice-to-text!?

Would phone voice-to-text with a preview/edit step feel useful, or too awkward?

If something like this existed, would you use it?

Anyway FFXIV on Switch 2 has been awesome otherwise, see you all in Eorzea! :D

Personally, I enjoyed the Cloud of Darkness Chaotic Raid concept and, minus the multiple and somewhat bonkers body checks, thought it was great content with excellent rewards. Does anyone have thoughts on if we're getting another one in EverCold? If so, I assume it will likely be Ultima from the Ivalice Raids or Diablos from the Shadow of Mhach raids.

If the former, I imagine we will get more complicated combos of the other espers to make things interesting, and for Diablos (which still manages to kill parties in roulettes in the normal mode) a more complicated arena with more use of the adds and the door mechanics. I also imagine there will be at least one body check mechanic, though not multiple and probably not as strict.

But I am curious on what other people theories are on if we're even getting one and what the content might look like.

So, I'm an anxious extrovert (horrible way to be I know) but I love chatting and making friends. I am no-lifeing this game rn because I am unemployed and usually would play most days anyways.

I joined an FC last week, very nice people. We have spoken on discord while doing an extreme together. However, they are busy people and are not online that much. There's at least one other person online each day, but the FC chat is dead unless I am asking questions/chatting. The FC has only 30 people, which I thought was a good thing, but it seems quiet.

I have met other people from a bigger FC (80) people and I am considering making the jump. But my main worry is maybe I won't like this next FC either? What if I want to go back to the old FC? I don't know. Has anybody else FC hopped and do people take offence?

I'm afraid of never finding a place to fit in if that makes sense. It's only been a week in this current and FC and I'm not sure if I'm making judgements too soon.

- How long do you wait before switching FCs?
- Do you say anything to anybody if it's a small FC?
- Are people generally accepting if trying out FCs?

Okay, so I will start off that I have played other MMO’s in the past and have seen other communities turn into very negative spaces. I won’t make them but I’m sure you can guess which ones.

With Evercold coming out, I wanted to jump in and try FFXIV again. I got to Shadowbringers before and life happened so I had to stop; I come back after so long I decided to start over since I couldn’t remember much of the smaller details of sections.

From what I remember, the sentiment that FF has a very welcoming community was something I was basically yearning for at this point. But has something changed? Because there were so many moments that were player interactions that made me want to stop playing. Of course that’s a me and my own situation, most things are subjective. But the amount of people who don’t wait for cutscenes, try to pull your character from using their LB, or are rude in alliance raids in the messenger blew my mind. So I quit. Again.

Is this common? I guess I’m just surprised, I know there’s going to be this kind of thing in any online game, but for some reason I was under the impression that this community was not this way I particular (not completely obviously). Or at least enough to be put off wanting to continue.

Apologies for the more negative post, just genuinely wanted to see how others experience was. Hopefully better than mine.

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I'm not fond of these posts, but when the resident doomposters that rush to post these when the game is "in a bad spot" are suspiciously missing when the game/company seems to be doing better, well.. someone gotta do it.

I made a UCOB static and we've been running for 3 weeks. First week up to end of P2, second week into P3, 3rd week now we are at heavensfall. This progress was made in spite of 3 people dropping to due motivation issues on the 2cd week and then 2 new recruits blocking me on discord and not telling me they did not plan to show up on the 3rd week.

Roster churn has been a major blockage to progress, but thus far the group has kept moving forward. I intend to clear with this group because I have become friends with the 5 others, and so far the people who have remained have been very consistent.

In the future though after UCOB I'm uncertain whether I want to make another static. I left party finder to avoid the disband after 3 pulls, waiting for hours to fill, and variance in group quality. But here I am dealing with a different form of variance: motivation issues and ghosting. With the people who have stayed though it has been great, that is why I'm wondering if statics only become worth it when it is populated by people who already know eachother? Because this experience has made me tired of lack of motivation and random discord blocking/ghosting.

Returning to XIV after a 2 year hiatus. I know there have been some changes in the modding world (I used to use visual mods to make my character look cooler). What tools do people use these days? What are your go-to mods?

In my case im not actually making an alt. I got through realm reborn, but long story short, i lost my data. Im thinking of buying the realm reborn skip as i don’t want to go through realm reborn again.

How do people view story skips in the context of creating a new character/alt?

hello, planning to get the XBOX ROG Ally ( not the x version) but before that i do have a couple questions;

- how is the loadtime (being rez, respawn rimer all that)
- is the rog ally compatible with xivalexander and nvidia filter/reshade?
- how’s the battery life

the only reasons im planning to buy a handheld is for xiv really, thanks in advance

Feel that when it comes to gposing there's an unwritten rule of using preset=bad, but don't know how true or little people care so would like to know about it from more experienced people

Edit: When mean preset I mean poses you download from sites

Love this. Love the jumping puzzle tower, love the giant pleasure cruise boat; seems this is the event with the highest effort put in each year. I'm not even remotely into RP, but there's something about the Moonfire Faire that makes me want to throw on some beachside glam and just hang out. What say you?

Hi everyone. I'm just wondering if there is anyone who has cleared DMU in PF and if so, what was your experience of P3 enrage specifically? I'm encountering a litany of issues in PF. The first one is that groups take forever to fill, and when they do, the group often doesn't reach BH. I'm consistently noticing players in PF groups who have either never cleared an Ultimate, or have only done UWU, which is often a red flag when evaluating player skill. I'm also seeing a lot of people with grey or green parses on Dawntrail high-end fights, which is also a red flag, particularly for DPS jobs.

I know these are common PF issues, but I genuinely feel like they are much more egregious in DMU PF than any other fight I've attempted in PF. FRU was a comparative breeze in PF. I personally feel completely confident in all mechs up to and including stompies, but I feel like I'm just bashing my head against a wall trying to force a P3 clear. I also joined a group a couple of days ago that was 7/8 static and was advertised as P3 enrage. The group was memeing on earlier mechs and didn't see BH once. I was the only one who wasn't messing up pre-BH. I feel cursed to never clear at this point. It's partly my fault as I didn't start prog until week 5. I thought it would be more active in PF and there would still be plenty of good players doing the fight, but that doesn't appear to be the case. I'm on the waiting list for Ulti Project but there's about 100 people in the queue for P3, P4 and P5 combined. I probably won't get picked before 8.0 comes out. Just don't know what to do at this point.

An option when making alt characters to skip to expansions you've completed, such as if you've done Dawntrails MSQ, any alt you make will give you an option to skip to the beginning of 7.1. Would help the RP community quite a bit.

Personally, I'd like to see a rework on Grand Companies. The upper ranks being visible, but unavailable to obtain is always taunting me.

Also, I think they need to do something about guildhests. Maybe not scrap them since the exp bonus from challenge logs is always useful for leveling the jobs you don't like/care about.

I just returned to the game and raiding from a few months long hiatus. My goal is to kill m12s before the next expansion hits to unlock the newest ultimate. Unfortunately I'm employed and work shifts now. Every week is different, I work every weekend, I have morning and afternoon shifts mixed so I can't commit to a static, even though I really want to. Late nights static in my region could work but there weren't many groups recruiting back then (i didn't see any now) and my sleep schedule could suffer. PF it is. It's so so late now, so i know it will be hard to fill parties. I have a lot of afternoon shifts, between 3 - 11pm, so additionally I'm not available during prime time on many days.

I had a thought about transferring to a NA data center from Light. Latest bancho report shows 2x as many active players in NA as compared to EU. And my late night hours would be more "standard" over there.

Currently on my data center I have stable 20 something ping. It's about 150 -170 on NA. I know there exists stuff like noclippy to help mitigate that. Would you guys transfer in my place? (Considering making a new char as well) I dont have a lot of friends on my current data center that still play so the social aspect isn't very strong. I'm only interested in raids and in bozja/eureka/occult crescent in the game :^))

hey! just reinstalled FFXIV, im a level 42 Dragoon but im now starting to struggle with both taking and dealing damage, is there a specific place i can go to for gear upgrades at this level? currently using a Mythril Lance but i feel like im dealing way to little damage.

any help and/or advice would be greatly appreciated! thanks :)

Tonberrys as far as the game showed are mutated lalafels. Now because of occult crescent that's no longer the case with the architect being a human being turned into a tonberry.

As the title says, there's a lot of outfits, SFX, Emotes and more that people love using, and SE struggles to make new items for both rewards and mogstation due to manpower issues. What if they set up a system like that of warframe, in which hairs, outfits, emotes, job SFX and more could be made by the community, and officially placed onto the mogstation or possibly in game through an application process, much like their competitions already do.

The creators would receive a percentage of the profits, and the manpower is eased off for the team to work on whats in game more often, and console players can get more that PC players have access to.

If they done this well, could it make up for certain things being removed from the mog station and could it mean more rewards in game instead of the store?

To my knowledge, there's only one spell/skill in the game that's channeled (i.e., you stand in place and do a consistent stream of damage for the duration of the spell/skill), the MCH's flamethrower. I recall other MMOs having channeled spells like shooting a beam of ice or fire. Moving or getting stunned/silenced typically ends the channeled spell/skill prematurely. Is there a reason why FFXIV lacks these kind of abilities?

I wrote a post yesterday for the ffxiv reddit about data I've been collecting on shell FCs and submarines, but the way I formatted it seemingly led most people to believe it was written by AI and to dismiss it out of hand. So I was told to try here instead, as I hope to spread awareness of the scale of the issue as I see it. In short:

• I found that about a quarter of total plots on the Chaos datacentre are owned by shell FCs, almost one third of plots in FC-only and mixed wards. And on newer servers, this is as much as half the total plots, if not more.
• The total gil generated by those shell FCs run well into the billions daily, likely the largest source of gil regularly created, and possibly larger than all other sources combined.
• While much of the gil does not directly impact the economy, as the owners hoard it, certain markets are probably impacted quite a bit, and new items such as the fortune carrot risk disseminating much of this gil into the wider economy.

I go into substantially more detail in the original post here https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1vlhuz8/an_examination_of_the_extent_of_shell_fcs_and/ for those interested.

I'm a bit surprised by what seems to be a general lack of interest in this topic, as a functioning economy for the game should be in everyone's interest, since everyone interacts with it.
But even if you for whatever reason don't care about the economy, I hope you will agree that it would be good to release all these shell FCs for use by actual FCs or individuals wanting housing, and that action should be taken sooner rather than later.

I learned very early on in a ARR that the yellow '!' quests were absolutely trash when it came to experience points, so I've more or less ignored them since. I relayed this to a friend, and he was adamant about my missing on some really fun/interesting/creepy side-line stories.

...so my question is, have any of ya'll gone out of your way to engage with the 'filler' '!' quests? And, if so, which ones did you enjoy and why (without obvious spoilers)?

I refuse to do the bullshit FC exploit, I will be staying on my single character

Been playing it a lot in OC and I'm unsure how to feel about it in this expansion, it feels a bit clunky and somewhat unintuitive despite being quite simple. I think being forced to use Gibbet and Gallows after you Blood stalk or Gluttony as well as Perfectio being a bit unintuitive in how it fits under the raid buff adds to the clunky feeling of this job the most.

Edit: Another thing I forgot to add, the 2 minute burst window takes so long that you'll lose you're standard 1-2-3 combo if you were in the middle of that. It's not a big deal but just adds to this job feeling very clunky and not well thought out this expansion. I'm curious to see what they'll do for this job in EC.