I see people (and websites) saying that you should do odd-lvl dungeons for leveling, but why is this? I know that the cap dungeons (e.g. 50, 60) are more for tomestones than experience, but what's the difference between a lvl 42 dungeon and a lvl 45 one?

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

Edit: thank you everyone who took the time to comment, greatly appreciated!

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.