Game Journalist Tries To Make A Final Fantasy XIV Guide And Fails Miserably | Xeno Reacts

In this video Xeno Reacts to an article written by Sean Clarkson for GameRant titled "Final Fantasy 14: 10 Broken Character Builds That Are A Lot Of Fun". How come every game journalist has no idea about the game they are writing about?
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[@okidoll]

I read this the other day. It was so unbelievably stupid. They had no idea what they were talking about . Edit - Looks like they pulled the article.

[@holmesholmes.8784]

good

[@ruggedlemmings9163]

I wonder how many "wtf are you talking about?" reaction videos it took for them to pull it.

[@okidoll]

@Rugged Lemmings I think it was the scholar that tipped me off, and I don't even play scholar.

[@joeyb8621]

Praise be. Hate when people make articles they have no knowledge about their subject.

[@xscarlettb4598]

GOOD! Could you imagine new players/raiders reading this article, doing what it says and then wondering why their getting laughed at when they finally get into prog. 😂😅😅😅

[@gk0511]

Author of the article must've Chat GPT'ed a query to write an article about MMO FFXIV and it ham-fisted every known element pertaining to UwU r/FFXIV subreddit.

[@solidsnake434]

Prvably

[@Aquilenne]

Nah, it's too up to date and consistent. ChatGPT tends to get really bad when it comes to video games, and would probably be suggesting old expansion gear. So sadly, someone really did manually write this.

[@sunn7615]

@@Aquilenne This company has allegedly pivoted nearly entire to AI writing starting in Feb of 2023, according to what I've been hearing. And lately icyveins and thebalance websites have the latest updated information (with some exceptions) for chatgpt to pull from, so it's pretty likely.

[@rtbear674]

And chatgpt quoting another chatgpted website like the one xenos read a while back.

[@rexex345]

​@@sunn7615 chatgpt isn't connected to the internet though, so they'd have to actively input the information themselves... Which tells me they probably just had an intern put in the context without much if any context of their own

[@Adu767]

As a Samurai player I look down on all the Samurai with selfish builds. I meld my gear with fresh baked cookies so I can provide my party with a snack on top of smelling nice. I make sure to type encouraging messages into party chat as part of my rotation, to keep people on top of their game. For my potion I just bring water to remind my party to stay hydrated. All these Samurai that focus only on damage are really letting their team down.

[@ThatOneCloudGuy]

"amazing fun builds" >tells you to get abyssos gear and lunar ring for every class Wow so creative and fun

[@Incensement]

This was actually painful to read, I hope this was written by an AI because almost absolutely everything was incorrect. If a real human wrote this then I'm seriously questioning their sanity.

[@aliceblack3533]

That's how game journalists work; they play a game for 4-6h and then write about it. And when I was starting out, RDM sounded like a healer-dps hybrid & way more fun than it actually is.

[@PurpleAlzir]

@@aliceblack3533 That is precedent for RDM in the series as a whole but sadly does not work so well for a DPS/Healer/Tank trinity MMO.

[@tjparkour24]

@@PurpleAlzir Funny enough if you buffed Vercure, gave them an AoE heal, nerfed the damage a bit, and called them a healer, they would pretty much be the perfect healer/dps hybrid. Of course all healers are healer/dps hybrids right now so that helps make this argument work.

[@quack3891]

​@@tjparkour24 to be fair, having a healer decide that it wanted to be a healer like a discipline priest then it'd be interesting to see where that goes.

[@peppermint7152]

Strummer, if you'd been paying attention, you'd notice the guide says to use pentamelded augmented rinascita for DNC. Insanely strong. So strong, in fact, Yoshi P had to ban that build.

[@cjn0423]

Thank you for bringing this up.

[@FF-tp7qs]

Is this a joke, because last I looked, augmented crafted sets have never been able to overmeld

[@cielametsuki]

@@FF-tp7qs thats the point

[@namira6592]

@@FF-tp7qs 🤓

[@FF-tp7qs]

@@namira6592 I don't wear glasses, or have big front teeth, I admit to being a nerd though

[@mattdzeph7985]

The only thing that may effect a “build” is gcd. Your rotation can change slightly if you stack skill speed/spell speed

[@aurumvale9908]

yeah I once tried a max speed gnb and damn it actually was really fun to play but it still didn't change that much

[@SakuraShuuichi]

some jobs change more than others and the viability of speed varients change basically every raid tier. i agree that the article is pretty terrible and stupid, thier half assed attempts to convey the existance of alternative gearsets/stat builds on some jobs doesnt reallywork because they haven't written any of the detail of what it is and why it works, or why it is fun. there are real sps smn's and it is good/better in some fights and worse in others, just like there are crit blm and sps blm(it is the same gearset and melds aside from weapon)

[@Crystan]

@@aurumvale9908 To be fair, even 'max speed' has very little difference. We're talking fractions of seconds compared to your default gear. Besides which, you usually don't want your rotation to change much since it means skills align with other player's buffs and attacks for burst damage.

[@bananagher7555]

"Balance said BiS in UCOB matter" meanwhile a group cleared with 91 deaths because they were trying to figure out how much you could die and still clear because the dps checks are a joke.

[@sirkyrxon936]

For someone that ACTUALLY played the game with over a thousand hours, I tried to apply to be a writer for these game websites while looking for work, but it's just sad reading these when they didn't even play the game and they got the contract instead lmfao Another part of me thinks that this is an april fools joke because...... BUILDS and DIVERSITY in ff14? xDDDD

[@rainmaker6456]

They want human bots, not passionate people.

[@mareczek00713]

I mean, I guess you could use DPS items on a tank, that's all in regards of diversity. Unfortunately gaming journos are neither gamers nor good journalists...

[@quack3891]

@@mareczek00713 closest you get for that is GW2, but then when you're in the open world in GW2, a lot of stuff that wouldn't typically work, works anyways.

[@davood123]

it reads like an AI wrote it

[@miorioff]

I was thinking the same, but if you read old 2010 articles before AI it's still equally as dumb. Looks like journalists are just re-arded

[@ikeaira8701]

If: "I've never played the game and my child explained it to me" was an article, this be it.

[@TrueChaoSclx]

For shiggles, I checked what the theoretical fastest GCD for Dancer is. It's 2.21, using Pentamelded Rinscita weapon/pants/boots/ring, Ornate Rinascita Body with pentamelded skill speed, Abyssos gloves/bracelet/ring, Augmented Lunar Envoy head/earring/necklace, and Melon Juice. Average ilvl of 620 so lol

[@Spectacular_Insanity]

Clearly the best "build", lmfao.

[@teraniel2500]

Why would you torment yourself with this? Any piece of gear with sks for dancer is just another unnecessary obstacle...

[@ColeEvyx]

BUILDS???????? IN FFXIV????????????????????????????? Outside of Bozja and Eureka... never heard of it :x been a long while since we even allocated main stats...

[@ColeEvyx]

Okay where we MIGHT have "options" is skillspeed tiers. Like that can be a thing for VERY SPECIFIC jobs. Summoner arguably could go SkS. Monk has breakpoints, etc. But um... creativity is very limited :x

[@Tryptameen]

As a ninja main I can confidently say, skill speed is almost never a priority 😂 this is why you get a buff specifically for skill speed so you don’t have to meld it 😂

[@undercoverspy123]

Yeah kinda weird, NIN dps is strange cause if Hyosho Ranryu gets the big crit you look like a god.

[@JiooguProductions]

As a nin main, the 2.12 gcd was correct tho? 2.10 and 2.12 are the only current choices and the difference in dps is negligible, there was no talk of skill speed in that part, just "speed"

[@fakechannelname8235]

@@JiooguProductions the article says the build 'reduces' your gcd to 2.12, when that's just the standard gcd with huton lol

[@undercoverspy123]

You are in agreeance then, Its not a priority and it has next to negligent effect on NIN, were simply getting skill speed just from the raid ring, and with the 2.12 we have to use a 620IL ring since we cant wear duplicates. Direct Hit and Crit variance are the super important things were aiming for on NIN with high potency moves in our burst phase.

[@iphoneShothand]

I feel like whoever wrote this guide did it purposefully to trigger Xeems

[@LM-nb7rj]

I thoroughly believe that ChatGPT wrote this article 😂😂😂

[@Hadosama]

Chat Gpt would write a waaay better article.

[@garbagebandit5934]

For Machinist, the reason you use the unaugmented Lunar Envoy ring (or the augmented crafted ring; it ends up being the same either way) is for that 2.5 gcd. Doesn't really matter much damage-wise, like you said, but without it, your Drill, Air Anchor, and Chainsaw get wonky cooldown timers and it becomes a real pain in the ass to keep your shit aligned. Skill Speed is the bane of my existence.

[@mahuk.]

True, but do notice the article is saying "more speed" when the bis makes you slower at 2.5. Using the abyssos ring puts you at 2.49 which should be the goal of this wao awesome faster build, right? Absolute bonkers

[@jijonbreaker]

Spell speed on SMN causing bahamut desync ;-;

[@SakuraShuuichi]

@@jijonbreaker ya but sps smn is a real thing that people actually use and is mostly fine and better in some fights(mostly it either keeps up or is slightly worse on average)

[@sylvieclos]

They should've released this on April Fool's

[@BushidoBlake]

My degenerate self clicked this as soon as it popped up on my notifications.

[@elara6969]

I know man. Me too.

[@nevik5815]

same bro

[@Pepemigas]

Same brother

[@MrBankhead3133]

I came for the Xeno melt down. Never fails, lol.😂😂

[@python953]

I just checked and for TOP at least, 48/50 of the top damage tank kills are DRK... and those last 2 are GNB who crit well so yeah no the Game Journalist is totally right DRK needs to do more damage please buff my class thank you Yoshi-P :3

[@Prepaidcomp]

i will say this about the machinist one, it feels a lot more comfy to play the class at 2.50 than 2.47 with the raid ring, because of the way the shit lines up with clipping being an issue at anything other than 2.5, for me at least. so i run two tome rings, that's about it

[@ryoujiarisato7308]

depends on the content

[@Talcor]

"top 10 broken character builds" picks the lowest dps samurai, honestly it writes itself

[@IamQuh]

I suspect the writer knows FFXIV and was hired to write a "build guide" and is struggling to come up with ANYTHING

[@Leon-dragneel]

I saw this article headline randomly today and even without opening it, I was like wtf ff14 has builds O.O. The article is removed now so I am happy I stumbled upon this video lol

[@wolfwyvern3662]

this is definitely one of the FFXIV articles of all time

[@IceFire1800]

How to make a build: Step 1. Equip a job crystal

[@VTClips_PreshaOrion]

Dark Knight in dungeons is actually super powerful. I was memeing it, being a warrior main, just to see how it played and fell in love with the 25k damage sustain on packs of mobs. It literally melts the double pack pulls.

[@ms.mittenz]

Drk best tank. Sorry, love me my shields

[@Chonkyexp]

Drk can literally out damage most dps

[@psivampire13]

You can make builds in FFXIV. Just remove the skills you don’t want. Want to be a DPS WHM? Remove all the healing spells from your bar and make your whole party hate you. Support WHM? Keep DPS and Healing spells. Healer WHM? Healing spells only.

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

I'm a DRK main and I felt PERSONALLY offended by everything written in this article, but I considered sending a pipe bomb specifically for the Dark Knight portion. Almost nothing they wrote there has been true since HW.

[@Hanjikara]

BRO I SAW THE TITLE IM LIKE WHOO IN THE WORLD SAYS THAT!? WHAT! Im a Paladin main and seeing that made me pissed. Like the fuck! Dude DRK does the best tank damage, Paladin does like fricken toothpick type damage (Im roasting my own class but its truth i cry but its fine). DRK = dps tank for a reason. This article is cringe galore like what the hell. Anyways love your content Xenos keep it up bro ❤

[@nicklagrange7978]

"Astro need more breathing room to regain that mp." Astro literally has MP regen built into the cards as well as astrodyne and Lucid dreaming. If you're an astro and you can't hold onto mp, that's less of a astro problem and more learning your rotations problem.

[@cormeaga]

Or your playing in a random alliance raid that keeps dying as you are desperately trying to keep everyone up.

[@VForceWave]

Xenos is right that it "doesn't matter" in ucob or uwu, but sps SMN is literally the best dps by like 200 rdps.

[@TheSoundNinja]

Dark Knights do damage - it's just emotional damage requiring years of therapy to unpack.

[@READERSENPAII]

I dont play ff but this dude is hilarious. Question about sam though. People say its a selfish job but doesnt having really good DPS make it worth having atleast one in your group? I mean, not all classes have to have utlity does it? Are there not a lot of DPS checks in raids for ffxiv?

[@Magflyer]

I think they already took down this post. I saw this as a recommended topic, then just showed 404 lmao

[@jopet216]

Rip!! 😂

[@Sammysnows]

another stupid thing of this author is YOU CAN'T PENTAMELD THE AUGMENTED CRAFTED SET!!!!!

[@bellamango6708]

me melding INT on every class to help them write better articles

[@apparit10n]

You sure this wasn't typed up by a remote employee who's in a time zone where it's already April 1st? LOL.

[@Madrock7777]

There is a spell build for SNM, though crit tends to be better. Spell speed tends to mess up raid buff window if you have too much of it. Ok, also gotta say this reads like a AI made this. I've seen a few ChatGPT pieces and this seems very similar to how it writes.

[@victorpurificacao2855]

This is 100% chatgpt. I asked similar questions there the other day for memes and it gave similar awnsers written in the same way this article is.

[@HarumiYu]

Nah, the sad part this is human creation, is not too random, chat gpt bring up way too many random stuff, even past expansions rotation/gear and mix up skills.

[@colemcgrath644]

Seeing piety on Astro was the biggest cringe sentence to ever fucking exist. The class with 2 lucid dreaming charges and cards that give 500mp every 30 seconds needs more mana? With 90% of its big heal toolkit being OGCD heals with no mana requirements? There is 0 chance a human that actually has played this game wrote this

[@chrma_]

Unfortunately, the crafted Rinascita gear requires level 90 to equip So take that as you will 💀

[@shadowsage2636]

I have came a pon game rant for various games goggle searching, and they often have wrong or inaccurate information, it seems like they just listen to what someone told them about a game and then writes an article.

[@SakuraShuuichi]

sps smn is a real thing the goal is to get more casts during bahamut and phoenix, and get through titan and ifrit faster as spseffects the gcd of everything except garuda itis a real stat build but it isnt broken, samurai has multiple specific sks that work to keep its rotation lined up. astro is the only healer that definatelydoesnt ever care about piety they have an over abundance of mp always, the other healers dont really need it either but it is nivce to have for prog. the person that wrote this though doesnt seem to know any of this and just regurgitated stuff they overheard and vaguely remember that someone else over heard and didnt explain well.

[@ui8087]

I love having so much skill/spell speed that I clip when I try to double weave. Playing suboptimally makes me feel like a badass trying to break the mold. (Satire)

[@Leife22]

The author really loves skill/spell speed. Must love pushing buttons

[@elegyxiaolong]

they should play blm where its actually viable, but I'm afraid their brain might melt if anyone teils them about nonstandard

[@Shatterstar]

As a AST main who's in prog, I don't have ANY piety materia in my gear. You don't need it. If you do your job, chuck out cards, and fire off Astrodyne after three cards, mana is literally not a issue what so ever. It's only a issue if you die and even then, hit Lucid Dreaming and start chucking out cards.

[@fraserfarmer1557]

I tried to click this article late yesterday and got a 404 error lmao

[@Sethinnol]

Yeah, think they deleted it. Really feels like the author farmed it out to ChatGPT

[@squish3885]

Me, bringing my MCH gcd down to 2.24 for fun.......................... yes

[@CutmanXTREME]

Uses huton "my sweet new speed build"

[@Phantom-kf6bp]

I think they already removed the article from the site. I can't find it

[@hey_its_me_ur_brother]

This article feels like those "must have 200 words" essays where you just pull stuff out of your ass so it is longer but even then this still looks like an article about nothing.

[@kefkaslaugh498]

I wish I saw this video first. I just built all those jobs the way journalist man told me to SMH SMH SMH

[@vrslayercat]

Dark knight DOESNT DO DAMAGE. ...said not a single fucking person ever.

[@a_call_beyond3164]

The only thing that can be called a build are specific stat specs through gear. Either you want a 2.47 gcd or a 2.42 gcd or a 2.5 gcd. That's all.. you dont play your rotation differently. So .. idk.. I find it strange to speak of builds in ffxiv. They are barely different from another. Aaaaand about summoner.. as a fellow Bahamut worshipper I have to say, that summoner actually needs a bit of spell speed materia. This results in one extra cast in Bahamut/Phoenix phase and is a direct dps increase. Its definetly worth it.

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

Maybe it's a rogue AI that confused FF14 with another MMO. Or a troll who wrote a FF14 article like it was another game. I can't even imagine this level of incompetence...

[@LordDaedhelor]

There is a ~2.00 GCD SAM build. It just requires you to burn more Sen with Hagakure to maintain the 2-minute loop. It's all but strictly worse than the 2.14/2.15 GCD SAM set, but it exists.

[@KaguyaEne]

Technically, yes. But in an ideal world you don't Hagakure any Sen away and use Meikyo to gather your missing Sen when burst windows come up no matter what speed you're at. The problem with 2.00 vs 2.14(5) is that you somehow cannot shove all of Samurai's burst into 20 seconds, much less 15 for Brotherhood, with a 2.00 GCD. You'd need something like 1.96 to be able to do it comfortably in addition to any lag. So it's not worth losing some 400 points of crit, 200 det, in exchange for a faster GCD that doesn't necessarily make your burst better with a few more Shintens. That said, it's a problem in a high optimization environment but basically negligent in casual, no one can align anything, content. 2.00 is technically more forgiving if you will lose GCDs to downtime or having to disengage because you have so much more required filler and might feel a bit more smooth if you happen to switch from Monk, but you will never be able to use the same set for Monk as it will produce a Monk GCD of ~1.86 and will really feel the DPS loss.

[@sirhc1528]

I took a look on that website and they shit out like 6 "guides" or articles per hour. Must be high quality with that amount. My guess would be partially AI generated, copy pasted from other sides or copy paste and translated from different languages.

[@RED_XLR]

This Article copy pasted some random builds they "found" online. Some good and correct but most are bad. XD

[@UserSG13]

Whoever wrote this was under the confused impression that the multi-class in a single character system was build diversity, and that every class, and the gear you equip when playing as that class, was a different build. then it just went downhill from there with trying to mention materia GCD and such, basically the only thing you can change, sounds like it was writen by someone who didn't play themselves for sure, and on top of that as if it was from hearing bits and pieces of information threw a game of human telephone. Blue Mage is the only class with "builds" but...... BLU isn't a real full-game current level content class more of a mini-game within a game classified as a Limited Job, it can't queue in party finder and it's max level is always below current content. You have the spell book pick a set of spells limit with 100+ spells to choose from, though in most cases you pretty much always use the same majority of spells except for niche situations/content/purposes, the tank/healer/dps mode buff/spell sets for blue mage only runs, or a buff/spell set for running dungeons solo, only dps blu really has any diversity in spell sets, or a healer blu only half focused on healing and half dps. But besides that core gameplay mechanic, blue mage also actually has a little bit of gear diversity aside from Materia, being a mix and match of tombstone gear and mirage gear at lvl 70 letting you change the 2 sub stats you have for all armor and accessory slots on top of Materia, to stack high spell speed, and BLU has a lot of 30/60/90/120sec cd spells effected by SS on top of reasons to have low GCD, more so for healer/tank Blu than DPS blu, DPS blu however gets a big crit/DH buff, so u can instead mix and match your lvl 70 gear to stack that instead of SS, could go into more depth with it but i won't.. (Still waiting for the blu mage max level to raise from lvl 70 to 80 now that current content is level 90)

[@alternatelevi2099]

Couple of seconds into the vid and already amazed. What builds? What game does the OP think this is?

[@lilzael]

This has got to be ChatGPT. Idk how anyone that actually plays this game can write anything like this

[@takumi3069]

The article looks like an April Fools joke (esp since it's today) but it's not

[@ImTofu0001]

I wonder if this was posted for April fools day

[@vivivachi]

We can pretty much guarantee this dude fed ChatGPT a prompt for this article- the confidently incorrect way it suggests such specific things while being so blatantly wrong.

[@sejekokoru]

im not advocating for SpS summoner, but it is an actual thing and can preform okay in end game content. It focus's on the demi rotation and just getting it out, giving a more consistant DMG since it doesn't rely on crits. (Crit is still better in probably every way except in maybe a couple fights) With crit you just do your rotation and make sure bahamut aligns with searing light; while SpS you just rip shit on cooldown and dont care about aligning with searing. Its actually super fun to do in a non-serious HC setting.

[@ItMayBeStreetcar]

im completely new to FFXIV (MNK/DNC) and this entire article feels like sludge, like I never look at or trust anything with titles like "OOOOOH THIS BUILD IS SO BROKEN"! And this type of thing is like an issue with almost every game that even has a semblance of build-crafting and it feels gross there too. God this article was also a whole lot of nothing, it literally tells you nothing but "item" and "number"

[@OurHereafter]

i hope this is not the last we see of the rapid broil summoner

[@WeiderMystic]

Xeno, the many choices the player has to make when they hit max level, is which class they are going to level next and how to store the gear.

[@Mochachocakon]

"Impressive 2.46" meanwhile WoW players stacking 36% haste on a 1.5 base GCD: I LOVE FFXIV, but I just cannot feel the effect of SKS materia

[@mareczek00713]

The only "build" in FFXIV you can do is effectively running DPS items on a tank to deal some more damage if you're sure your character can tank the content you plan to run. That's it, no more, it's an excellent game but it has no horizontal progressing beyond acquiring better gear and gear effects lack unique effects like GW2 vampirism and rune of water (heal on crit or on every other hit, don't remember anymore), you can't build a healer thief dropping self-heal on crits and AoE heal every few hits which he trigger frequenly by skill 3 on dual pistols. I refuse to believe that either a human that played the game or any AI wrote this article, somebody clearly asked some drunk on the street to write it.

[@rosebrigade]

Okay so the article is garbage but I gotta disagree with something you said. "The ring doesn't matter".. It kinda does? Depending on the class your using, the gear from different sets, even ones if similar or equal iLevel gives different stats. Example Abyssos ring of Casting gives Crit hit Spell Speed for it's 3rd and 4th stat, while augmented Lunar Envoy gives Det and DH for its stats instead. Everyone will tell you in this case Abyssos is better because of the bloody crit obviously. But then when you look at Fending Rings for tanks, Abyssos gives Tenacity and Lunar gives Crit. Every tank who's worth their salt will tell you take the Crit. Which means taking the lower iLevel Augmented Lunar Envoy because while Tenacity is a tank stat, you can ask any tank and they will tell you "Crit is better". And it is. Higher iLevel gear doesn't always equal best. Sometimes you gotta go 1 step or so lower to get those damage numbers boosted. But I'm just a filthy casual, what do I know. I don't fit in with the mindset of the raiding community :)

[@rachelloof7569]

Casually me as dark knight main and helps with clearing elidabus in msq : W> it makes me MOTIVATED XD (all jokes aside this is an interesting vid well done)

[@concentratedregret6394]

As an astro main, let me just say this. Astro is piss easy, the entire class is just weaving and you really have to suck (or things have to go to hell) with astro to run out of mp seeing as 90% of your skills are OGCDs. Also you have two MP restoration skills! Three if you really want to count the 500mp from card draws

[@ChocobosinSpace]

Argh, was about to comment it live too but it was removed from Gamerant XD

[@ThemisElidibun]

Late to the party, but wow, this article just completely killed Game Rant's credibility to me. Looking at the date though maybe it was an April Fool's joke (please!)?

[@Znagol]

Don't buff DRK let us suffer. Let us watch the spite boil up in our party members. Let them know our pain. NERF DRK! NERF DRK!

[@linuxguypc2123]

I think the only jobs with a build is if you wanna do a piety build on a healer (that is not AST because it has so much MP already) or BLM crit vs sps.

[@boanoah6362]

This was written by someone that never played FFXIV but googled it a lot somewhere along the line just started reading Diablo class guides and couldn't remember which was which.

[@jebusfishy]

That whole thing feels hard AI generated

[@tmacfan2132]

Broken character builds???!! What?? This isn't Destiny or Division 2. Journalism of all kinds is useless nowadays.

[@RAM23Wolf]

Game articles are usually memes because they get paid the same amount regardless of facts or quality. So most "game journalist" just throw up a random article for the quick buck. It's about quantity not quality with these articles. Yet, the entertainment value is high quality lol

[@Kaeldo]

I main Dark Knight since it came out an when he read thaat i was like, sorry what? You talk about Dark Knight..one of the TANK classes feels Squishy?

[@Tyrbris]

I'm afraid to even watch this out of fear of dying of cringe.

[@Yimo92]

This really reads like some bad a.i. written article. chatbot level shit.

[@obliviouschipmunk6539]

I love how absolutely anyone who has reasonable access to the gear they're suggesting will immediately be able to see how full of s*** this article is so there's 0 middle ground of people who might assume this is helpful. 😂

[@xvideogamerx1941]

The whole "tierlist" feels like this writer was back in school trying to fulfill a word count requirement. And no surprise, already a dead giveaway that he's jsut talking out of his ass.

[@brettwerdesheim9767]

If this was back in FF11 sure since the merit system did allow you to go in a direction, but man this is lazy shovelware journo garbage.

[@rudebox5688]

LOL'd when I opened the video to a gamerant page. That site is so bad. They consistently pump out the most garbage articles about the elder scrolls.

[@travisleedahl1823]

Variety of fun builds? Sounds like he’s treating the gameplay like Stranger of Paradise LOL

[@ApexGale]

My favorite bit about the Monk section is the encouraging of SkS materia to bring the GCD down to 1.93...from Monk's natural 1.96 that you get by equipping BiS. 0.03 extra seconds on a job that already has a tight double weave window in its opener, surely nothing will go wrong

[@bicks4436]

It's actually right(ish), you want 1.94 so your rof lasts through both blitzes on your opener/2min windows If you wanna have fun on mnk you gotta call up cousin alex, no way around it

[@mikec5400]

This game literaly has no flexibility. You pick a class and play it how every single player plays it..the only distinguishing thing about players is the shitty glamor they have on

[@Exeeter1234]

"I think what this person is trying-" Im gonna stop you right there...

[@weirdboy7699]

not even 60 seconds into this video and I feel like this was written by a chatbot that took a WOW article or something and substituted WOW related terms for FF related terms

[@Extra_Onions]

Technically there is a small variety of stat and spell builds but that's only for the small sect of BLU weirdoes like me :)

[@dains6623]

they took down the post 🤣

[@amethist6774]

10:40 to be fair, i do feel like the dark knight is kinda squishy, and yes i don't do much high end raiding. also as a blm main, i do enjoy the idea of having a bit of spell speed, even if it does'nt matter...

[@Tom-zc7xp]

Oh I'm glad I wasn't the only one that thought this. They clearly didn't touch this game before writing this 😅

[@VGPorage]

Now I am no expert on the matter but I am pretty sure that hacking Broil on to your Summoner like this article suggests is against tos.