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[@CelticShaman.]

Yeah doing my first playthrough on SGE and now leveling AST, I'm definitely noticing more moments of 'wait, you should be fully healed' based on my 'healing muscle memory', if you will. But yeah, I'm definitely happy with the healing I've done so far. Outside of the first dungeon, a lot of mechanics have caught me off guard too.

[@kirigherkins]

Healing is definitely noticeably more engaging even in casual content now. Really looking forward to the alliance raid and having no MP at all for the entire first month lmao

[@Kzar5678]

Just to add real quick to "how does potency work" in case this is what they wanted to know. It's linear. So a 200 potency skill is twice as strong as a 100 potency skill. 300 potency is 3x as strong as 100 etc

[@dazzlemasseur]

and a 10% buff on a 100potency skill makes it deal 110 potency.

[@Keryusupercoologuy]

"VIper: Don't read anything" is so freaking true about the job. Trying to figure out the skills from reading made me so darn confused, but just playing around with it after unlocking made it so easy to understand.

[@SekundesCCFFVII]

#MrHappyMondays Hello Haps, hope you're doing well. First wanted to say that seeing you work out and get in shape acts as a motivator for me to try and keep up doing the same, so thanks ! Hope the Dawntrail streams were a good time as well ! Then, wanted to ask your opinion about something I thought on about improving MCH. Outside of "Please make Auto-crossbow proc Double-check/Checkmate like Blazing shot COME ON". The other big pain point of MCH for me is Flamethrower, and I got two steps to improve the feel and use of it : 1 - Adjust the animation so that the fire storm you channel isn't freakin silent 2 seconds into the channel, it feels bad. And make the damage of Flamethrower actually show up as your damage on the screen and not like a DoT/Pet damage. 2 - Make the power of Flamethrower scale off your Battery Gauge, making it your AoE Battery spender that is lacking from MCH's kit. I can't think of why it wouldn't be a good idea, but maybe you'll have another perspective, thank you and have a great day :)

[@brandonn161]

#MondayWithHaps Hi Haps, hope all is well. Just a couple of quick questions for you: 1: Do you have any plans on making a guide for the job in this expansion? 2: Any tips for maintaining/soften short beard and mustaches like yours? My gf said my beard and mustaches is too prickly, so I'm trying to looks for ways to soften and maintain it better. Since my length is similar to yours if not shorter, was hoping what ever it is that you're doing will work for me as well.

[@laffytaffeh]

Just use a facial moisturizer and scrub it in good

[@kayffxiv]

#happymondays Hi happy, last week someone mentioned the topic of adding an entirely new role, and this brought me to a slightly different thought. Why is it that we have ranged roles seperated by caster and phys to begin with? Is there a real reason historically? My reason for asking is that, I find the phys range role to be sorely lacking in identity/usefulness especially in recent years. They are jobs that you take by necessity, and they fail to fill any interesting niche. Caster I feel is also experiencing an increasingly troublesome identity crisis, with the barrier between BLM (and PCT), and RDM/SMN growing to an all time high. So my suggestion is, perhaps grouping them into 'pure damage ranged', (BLM, PCT, MCH) which would allow for MCH to become the high damage powerhouse that it deserves to be, and adding more utility/mitigation to the others (DNC, BRD, SMN, RDM). This way you have one supportive DPS in every group, they can all fulfill their supportive fantasies more wholly, and they serve a real identifiable purpose in groups. Could you see a shift like this ever happening, in 8.0 for example?

[@bagnetic8910]

#mrhappymondays Hey there! Question about job feedback consistency. Where do you draw the line for when QoL should become a standard, rather than be kept different between jobs to prevent them from becoming samey? In your Dancer thoughts video, you mentioned how it was strange that Dancer still had an ability that grants 50 gauge instead of just granting you a free use of (blanking on ability name, but you know what I'm talking about). On one hand, I understand that it's good that certain QoL gets standardized. On the other hand, I feel like the push for making every job have the same QoL regardless of the job's design is part of how we get to the point where everything feels samey. For example, DRK no longer needing to budget their blood usage to summon Fray is a boring change, because you now need to think even less about how much blood you have. Making sure not to overcap resources is a skill (even if it's a low bar), and I don't know if I agree that most jobs in the game should not need to think about it anymore. Thoughts?

[@aaronkettelhut]

Regarding 2:55 as a personal anecdote, I've tried this a few times with my static during the ex trials and it seems to have a stop gap baked into Tempera Coat if you try to convert it when damage snapshots. You literally "dodge" the shield from Tempera Grassa if you try to do the pepsis tech on it, which while sad it's also funny seeing everyone in the party dodge your shield lol.

[@astrealove2247]

#mrhappymonday Seeing that they have buffed Addle, Feint & Reprisal to last 15 seconds, do you think that this will be impactful and/or especially useful for certain mechanics? Like would it be a time where you'd have to apply all 3 at once just to be able to survive for the full 15 seconds?

[@Narmotari]

Really? Not even a hello?!

[@alexrelo9753]

25:00 the alliance gear being on any trader has already been done , the crystal tower gear is on pvp vendors maybe not the same exact gear but arguably better being level 1 and dyeable

[@arzedeunebulus9232]

Sir, Mr. Happy, I'm not happy. I feel called out about the whole not doing things with friends because we have to DC travel. ...but I hope your day has been well. I can never think of a question to ask. But listening to others is good. Now, prepare for the Arcadion!!!

[@jacobnguyen8372]

From what I know, the Tempera Coat effect will actually cause you to dodge the spread effect if it tries to apply after Tempera Coat is broken! Been levelling PIC first, and thought I'd let you know!

[@Gabbypit1]

#MondayWithHappyMr Heya Haps! To go back to the savage/ultimate raid topic a bit, how far do you think people will go to grab further advantages as new tiers come out? This whole things make me think about the most recent raid race in Destiny 2. How teams completely stopped streaming video and just had audio and even sometimes muted that to keep an advantage. At first it was just muting for comms, then censoring the buffs, then blacking out the full screen. It honestly made for such a terrible spectating experience that while I was enjoying the game it killed any hype for me at the time and honestly since then. Can you think of another way to mitigate addon usage in WF runs that wouldn't involve anticheat since other parts of the community would be gutted by something like that?

[@tidioustidus8906]

#mrhappymondays Hey Happy, haven’t asked a question here in years and I’m writing this on Sunday Afternoon so hopefully I made it in time, glad to see you still making these vids, always enjoy hearing other people’s perspective on FFXIV stuff! Anyways, got some short and easy questions hopefully 1. Is there any reason why Heart of Light/Dark Missionary has to be specifically magic damage mit? If memory serves, HoL was general mit back in ShB but was changed. 2. Any realistic possibility that GNB will eventually get a skill to replace Rough Divide in name only? Maybe an upgrade to Bow Shock or something, so that we have all 4 limit break skills at once.

[@ryuichiro.sakuraba]

#MondayswithMrHappy #welcometoDawnTural Hope you are well, the cats are okay, and an extra bunch of hellos for those who forgot. Have been enjoying Dawntrail so far, and was wondering if we could have a few things I noticed for PCT. 1. On Subtractive Palette buff, the RGB combo is grayed out in favour of using the CYM spells. Was wondering if the RGB buttons could switch under Subtractive instead, sans the W and K skills (Holy and Comet), as the RGB ones are unusable during Subtractive. 2. Also, just a nitpick, but Magenta feels a bit awkward being the last part of the combo makes it CYMK instead of CMYK that I am used to (had worked with print media before so yeah lol). However, I do understand that Lightning is a force to be reckoned with so I suppose Thunder in Magenta makes sense as the last part and the highest potency spell in the combo lol. Also, loving the glow up. Keep up the good work and hope you get lots of rest and hydration XD PS. Quite enjoying healing so far this expansion. The fight design so far keeps me a bit busier than the past expansions, and looking forward to what's in store for us in the following content releases XD

[@SodamanFn]

#mondayswithmrhappy Hi Happy! Looking forward to your dawntrail thoughts video. I recently hit 3 lines and got my gold cert from wonderous tales. What should I really be doing with it? How often do they unlock new cosmetic rewards for the gold certs, and is it worth waiting for that vs spending it on a raid gear piece when savage unlocks? How should I pick which gear piece if that's the best option? Thanks!

[@zose270]

#MrHappyMondays Hey there happy, hope all is well. Recently I was reflecting on offhand glamour. You've been asked variations that kind of question many time before from people wanting to glamour things like nin and vpr swords separately. While I agree with you they would never introduce new off hand items for combat jobs what do you think of the idea of making a "off hand" glamour slot like the facewear option. Something where you can take a main hand item you already have and glamour the off hand section letting people mix and match like they want without creating new items.

[@djdert]

#MondayswithMrHappy Hey Haps, You doin' aite? Hope you enjoyed seeing the full story from the playthrough. I've seen you tout Gunbreaker's new mitigation with "baked in Thrill of Battle" a couple of times, but what's the best use of temporary HP? Of course I'll always use Nebula for the 40% but is it just for the 20% heal? I normally throw away Thrill of Battle with Shake it Off everytime, so never noticed any gain on Warrior. Also, do you think with the gap closer changes, we'd ever get a disengage-gap closer for a tank job? Similar to Reaper's? Maybe change Dark Knights, Shadowstride to a Shadow step? I just think it would give at least one of the Tanks a different flavor at least, plus personally I find a lot of times when a quick disengage from a point blank and gap close would be beneficial on a tank. Perhaps Copium. Thanks for the Dawntrail content so far.

[@AxelRize]

#MrHappyMondays Heya Haps wishing you a good week and fast clears. Just wanted to ask if you'd seen Zidane's Mage Mashers for Viper anywhere yet. I was hoping they'd be the CE weapon but chocobo brush.

[@djman256]

Hey there Haps. #MrHapsMoonday. I wanted to say this as you're answer to al asking about viper seems to be yolo it. I know you said exactly "Don't read the guide or skills". To me, it's effective the same. I wanted to point out that a fair number of people, like myself, either want or need to understand how the skills work, which requires reading them, in order to play the job. For myself, I cannot see the dotted lines, so that's not helpful. However, a friend did share the infographic and thus laid out the rotation for me to help out and this did considerably help. Perhaps yoloing putting all the actions on your bar and just following some dotted lines works for you. but I do not think your advice is sound enough in this matter as it doenst'cover everyone. Though, realistically, there isn't a good answer as everyone learns differently. My question is this. Will you please make a video about how the rotation is supposed to work to help the clearly moderate amount of people that keep asking about it?

[@Keith-gm9nx]

Nice

[@amphrosia4557]

#mrhappyandcatmondays Hello Mr. Happy! Hope you're doing well, and thank you for your coverage of Dawntrail thus far. I had two questions if that's alright. 1. How does mitigation work, if say for example: A paladin uses Passage of arms that states: "In which party members will only suffer 85% of the damage" With other mitigation tools? I know Scholar has a similar effect with sacred soil. 2. Do you feel the hitboxes/server ticks are off with the first boss in the Strayborough deadwalk with the dolls? I feel like those hit me quite often, when they shouldn't. (Feel free to hide the second question, if you are still trying to remain spoiler-free.)

[@yubeo_ff]

1 is a localisation inconsistency, they're still % reductions and display as such in JP

[@AtypicalWarrior]

#MrHappyMondays they lowered the cost of tome gear, is that a permanent change?

[@johnsheehan8063]

#Mondayswithmrhappy Hey, haps. Question about job choice for raiding in the PF. Given that you can’t rely on the performance of your party as much in the PF as you can in a static situation, does it make more sense to prefer a “selfish” DPS like SAM or MCH vs. one like DNC that is more reliant on the output of your teammates for your overall damage (assuming an equal skill level with whatever job you’re playing).

[@Saadrud]

#mondayswithMrhappy Hello, back on the start of Endwalker we got a sort of a roadmap to the upcoming major patches and its content that was the reveal the we’re getting two ultimates. When should we expect that announcement in DT?

[@Deakore]

#MrHappyMondays Hey haps hope you are well and hyped for raid release! Minor spoiler question for Dawntrail more related to how Endwalker ended and going forward. Why, just why, has not a single person mentioned the final days? did Tural not experience this? was it localised to simply where it was story convenient to occur? It really didn’t happen that long ago supposedly so surely there would be mention of Turals people loosing hope and turning into monsters if it had effected them? Feels very much like the man in the ocean from eternals for the MCU already and that’s not a good thing imo

[@daxmichael6855]

Dude you have a voice made for radio/podcasts lol.

[@nick_as_tolliver]

Rude!

[@urbansamurai261]

​@@nick_as_tolliver he said voice not face

[@JGenuis89]

He really does he has a very attentive voice real easy to listen

[@yubeo_ff]

#MrHappyMondays Hello there! Did you know Huton is listed as fire damage, and that Wind/Fire's reply isn't listed as physical wind/fire? Now you do Now for the actual question, do you think it would be possible they would make the role-actions more job-appropriate like they did with Tactician? the entire role-action system just seems like a relic of the past seeing that a PGL heal and a GLD mit be our default. It's also a bit boring seeing the same actions for 7+ years. What are your thoughts?

[@martinmp19]

Wait why cant you do new game plus on dt?

[@Elidan1012]

I think it's added later. Not sure why it's not in at launch

[@pitta3114]

iirc It's only added once the next patch's msq drops. so on 7.1

[@JCee20]

#MrHappyMon Hello Signore Contento! I have a game physics question that maybe you can help answer. Back in 1.0 Player characters used to have different movement physics like a slowdown when stopping and character tilt and such. I'm not sure what the reason was for removing those when transitioning to 2.0. My guess was either PS3 limitations or something they had to cut out due to the game becoming more faster paced. If the reason was the former, with the introduction of mounts now being able to tilt while on the ground and air; do you think maybe they could re-introduce the character tilting from 1.0? Or, is there another reason why that might not be possible?

[@Taresh084]

#mondayswithmrhappy Hi, longtime listener, first time asker, lifelong Dark Knight. While the new gap closers for DRK and GNB are fine (I'll miss plunge and Trajectory should've been them blasting themselves forward and not a kingdom hearts glide) Do you think the gap closers could stand from having some extra effect on them? Like being able to gap close to allies, a small Mit for a couple of seconds like 5% for even 3 seconds (help with that first auto or shared tankbusters)? Or even having their ranged attack make their next gap closer have the 100 potency? (because you'd never want to put a ranged attack in your rotation for the benefit of one weak ocgd. But it'd be at least something to make it more interesting. Personally I'd love the flavour of having shadow stride become Plunge for a couple of seconds after using Unmend.

[@jeb_the_pleb]

#mrhappymonday Hola happy, I was just curious about the fact that melee DPS is the only role that doesn't share gear across all the jobs and instead just has each armor only work for two of them. I just find it weird. Has square enix ever given a reason for why its that way? Have they ever mentioned thoughts about changing it to make them all share gear? Alternately, have they ever mentioned thoughts about splitting up armor for all the other roles so it works like how the melee DPS gear does?

[@dazzlemasseur]

@mrhappymondays Hello Mrhappy, you doing aight ? My question is kind of specific and related to fflogs. I checked some people's logs being on higher percentile to know what I should do to improve, and I notice their attack counts are way higher, is it just because their uptime is better ? In any case, what do you think I should do or keep in mind to improve more. If I can rephrase : What do you do to improve your dps aside from practicing ?

[@suparicky8889]

Msq was ok but after we finish the 1st part of msq it really got good

[@AcraViolet]

Absolutely. Had a blast for the first part of the girl shonen but the moment *Spoiler* appeared the story went downhill unfortunately...

[@katerinaquinn5482]

Also why can't I put my level 99 gear in my glamor chest?? You can put all the others there why not this one

[@MattiasCL]

They could've nerfed Plunge to 1 potency and changed nothing else. Then it would still feel good to do but you wouldn't have to weave it.

[@renarenacat]

#mrhappymonday do you think new expert dungeons are too hard for the community? I'm seeing huge outrage in japan saying they don't want to do expert roulets anymore since if they got bad party member it takes too long to clear and lots of my friends also saying the same. Especially the first boss of Strayborough seem to be hated by melees. I had a tank that left after our healer died twice which is the first time I see some one do that in xiv after 6000h. I personally love both of them but I wonder if its more harm to the community?

[@bunnyhound824]

#TheDayAfterSundayWithMrHappy Howdy howdy. How do you deal with people who don't take criticism/suggestions well. Especially in raid environment.

[@katerinaquinn5482]

Why is nobody talking about the fact that square fucked up the tell system?? It used to be you could set the chat to tell and it would stay on whatever character you chose and you could talk to them as much as you want for however long. Now you have to click on the person's name with every sentence you type because it reverts back to say or whatever mode it was on. Now the setting is just like shouts where you have to click on shout every time

[@korul4]

oh, so I wasn't imagining it

[@JCee20]

I think they mentioned in a post that its a bug.

[@Navi_xoo]

RIP Plunge RIP Dark arts RIP Power Slash. DRK is a shell of its former self. The only good dash they added to old jobs was the WHM one it feels really nice.

[@roronoazoro7317]

Imagine only playing drk for plunge

[@Navi_xoo]

@@roronoazoro7317 Hey butt boy there was an expansion called Stormblood where the job was unique and played entirely differently. I know you are dumb and a new player but you don't have to out yourself like that.

[@Navi_xoo]

@@roronoazoro7317 You have no idea what you're talking about. You don't even know what Dark arts is.

[@ich3730]

ngl removing the power slash animation was a tragedy, shit looked cool AF

[@brandonm3621]

No interest in the main focus character so I skipped the story...however, by the end my curiosity was peaked at what exactly was going on so I'll play through the MSQ with cutscenes on my lalafel alt. The level up dungeons and zones were extremely enjoyable...loving Pictomancer and Viper (who I leveled to 100 through MSQ) too!

[@martin2304]

Please don't mistake my tone, I'm asking genuinely out of curiosity, but why would you have no interest in the main story character and therefore feel you need to skip the whole thing? Isn't that person just part and parcel of the world you're inhabiting and there's still a story to be told and appreciated? I know you probably can't say because of spoilers which I understand - I'm not quite finished yet!

[@VampireNoblesse]

all world 1st players need to stream their runs... or only console player groups will be allowed to called world 1st

[@andrewclear8905]

Syncing skills down would break syncing of the content, that is why it isn’t done. There would be no need for min ilvl as the new abilities, even synced down, would break the balance for older content.

[@Zaela_Zhezzaia]

I am worried about the viper change. I love the viper as it right now. If they butcher it. I think I might just quite FF14 forever. I find most of the game boring. Infact I stopped my sub after 6.0 endwalker and did not pick it up tell 7.0 launched. Yes while most people where doing dawntrail. I was playing 6.1 as viper. The story is really the only thing I enjoy in this game and frankly I have no problem stepping away and watching spoiler streams. Cause I can not stand this dumbing down all the jobs and making combat so boring it not worth paying for the game. Like I hope 8.0 they make the jobs fun to play. I also should not be forced to do extreme, savage and ultimate to have fun. The game should be fun form day one and level one. Fun for everyone. Not exclusive to extreme max level raiders.

[@BigChilla420]

The classes are the way they are so that savage and extreme can be as fun as they are mechanic wise... you refuse to do anything other than casual normal difficulty, yet are complaining while missing 50% of what makes the game fun despite its simple rotations. No one is forced but to complain when the solution or at least something that would help alleviate your situation is literally to just try harder content is plain silly.

[@martinmp19]

First

[@oszaszi]

The one totem is absolute crap. Just because I have nothing to do it doesnt mean I want to do the same shit 99 times... and dont tell me "aaah but you don thave to do 99 times" - yes, yes I do, im unlucky okay? I already done 99 times the first one cause the drop rate is crap. Now i despise the freaking run and dont want to see it ever again. This idea to "force" people to play content via shitty drop rates is not the solution to make a good community. Do you think the guy that just wants a totem and get done with it, will be patient with newbies that just recently about to clear or just cleared?? Hell no... they will just leave / disband and thats the good case, bad case is when they star shittalking. My plan was to get the mount on my main job, go practice tank and heal. There is no way im gonna do that now. My sanity cannot. I also want to do other content, and I already missed out on the biggest wave of fate farm because I was sitting in extreme farm. Also can we PLEASE freaking make it a thing that if you have 8 people playing 8 jobs, the random gear (that drops with the chest) is not going to be a gear for a job that is not even in the freaking instance???? Why is this not a thing???? We have the chests and totems for those who want to farm for alts with their mains. Why not make this a thing, not just to extremes but to savages too, please...

[@BigChilla420]

I feel bad for whatever zero vibes, no talking, 7 people in discord PF trial farm groups you're getting in because I've always found farming them pretty fun with the right people. The trials that give 2 totems per run are definitely less painful and should be the norm though don't get me wrong.

[@Navi_xoo]

You spent probably 30 + hours actively grinding out a boss when you can't even purchase the mount yet. How is square really to blame here? The mounts are supposed to be unique and then eventually they add them for totems and buff the totems / drop rates. By that time everyone is so overgeared the bosses melt. If you don't want to waste your time you simply just wait. You chose to run it 99 times in less than 2 weeks lol. They have to incentivize people to run it or the content will just instantly die and nobody will want to run it or help new players. If you want to save time on gear get a static or organized group to share coffers / weapons.

[@ich3730]

Imagine playing an MMO and complaining about grinding a boss fight for a cosmetic xD

[@VampireNoblesse]

sims are for noobs . . . . . . . jk.., cause i can't access them xD... T_T

[@ticien1]

MSQ is great idk why people are bitching. its the beginning of a new arc so its setting up more to come. think its great.

[@RyouEmerald]

I personally think it had a really bad first half and a really good 2nd half. I just don't find it particularly gripping or well written. It doesn't help that I feel the main character, Wuk Lamat, doesn't have any meaningful character development.

[@xshadiusx]

I just didn’t like how little the WoL and scions had to do and I felt like Wuk Lamat wasn’t really interesting enough to justify how much screen time she got

[@Mashangi]

The actual story of the MSQ is good. But the Fact Wuk Lamat is glued to your hip and dominates dialogue in every.single.quest. gets REALLY tedious. Her involvement should have dropped right off after zone 3.

[@Jerler91]

I think your just not gonna like it if your goal is to run through it as fast as possible.

[@ronin1361]

@@RyouEmerald hard disagree, you may or may not like her, but one thing is a matter of fact, she evolves and matures as a character throughout the MSQ, very naive and go getter at first and then more mature and understanding towards the end without changing into a completely different character, she is basically a less annoying Lyse in StB or less edgy Estinien in HW with a lot more screeen time. It's obvious you either skipped a bunch or didn't read enough, so saying that DT wasn't well written on top is very ironic, ngl.

[@cr082080]

I feel like if they do another stat squish so far it will kill the game because it will create a precident in many players mind that it isn't worth powering up your character because the devs will just take it away to make their jobs easier.

[@herebejamz]

The numbers are fiction. They aren't important. If you're doing some sort of competitive play parse percentages wouldn't really change and any existing records would still stand. If you're doing time clears, that's just a recorded time. If your entire perception of character growth is "bigger number make brain go brrr...." you would likely not notice a difference.

[@TheRetifox]

GW2, gets super-advanced housing while having 2 mid-expansions in a row, while Yoshida spams "follow npc" missions in 2024 as if that's something to be proud of. I wonder where all of that money goes.

[@Elidan1012]

Your comparison makes no sense. Why are you comparing added housing to MSQ quest design? What is GW2's main story question design? I doubt you don't just run around and talk to people and fight some mobs here and there. I'm not saying that the quest design is good mind you, because it is not. It's a vehicle to delivery the story. The story is the reward for doing the menial tasks. There doesn't exist a mechanical engaging way for you, as a blank slate WoL, to have a conversation with an NPC. At least not in a way that is realistic for FF14 as an MMO to do.

[@ItsTheS7]

Surely we're not going to act like GW2's quest design is better than FFXIV's. GW2 is "sit around for mandatory 10 minute instanced dialogue" followed by a simple kill quest. FFXIV's housing is also extremely in-depth. As for the money, have you considered the massive graphical update? The fact that we're going to be getting the most content of any FFXIV expansion ever in Dawntrail? You sound so bitter and uninformed.

[@jude2214]

There were two follow quests in the msq and one in a sidequest. There are over 50 quests in dt msq and twice as many sidequests. How in the world is that spamming

[@BigChilla420]

GW2 intro to its last SOTO expac felt like I was playing an indie browser mmo. It felt like a flash game or a PowerPoint presentation. Zero production value outside of it's slightly impressive yet overused and often annoying voice acting both in story and open world. No FMV movie, no well made cutscenes in engine or rendered outside of it. They finally got decent housing after 12 years of being fully released? Good for them, now can they make the game not run at 30FPS in certain zones or with more than 10 players on my screen? I don't mean to roast but I gave that game a try and theres literally no comparison to any other AAA mmo, not WoW not ESO not XIV. It's a weird indie game with a weird cult following.

[@Skyztamer]

@@Elidan1012 As a GW2 player too, you are correct that its a weird comparison they were trying to make. As for the answer, GW2's quest design is more or less similar to FFXIV but the pacing is usually faster and solo duties are more frequent (but can be played co-op too). This ends up being a detriment for story enjoyers like myself however because unlike the campaigns in FFXIV, the campaigns in GW2 conclude before the game has given you sufficient reason to care about the characters and events. Character deaths especially in GW2 fall flat because we don't spend much time to really get to know the NPCs that would otherwise give their deaths (or near deaths) impacts for the player.

[@darkwolf9ball]

I liked the 2nd half for later story implications