honestly the amount of bad zesteria ship discourse has me reconsidering even being in this fucking fandom
its ok buddy. bad ship discourse is....everywhere... unless you get in a 10 person fandom and even then there will be Some Asshole who shows up
q____q i wish there was one where i could be free....where we could all be free
i mean...ive basically retreated from all fandoms in public and just post my fic and junk and i was like oh my twitter is just mostly friends it wont be tht bad!
i...i was wrong,
yeah I feel you tbh I was out of fandom for months until voltron dragged me back and now I am living with extreme secondhand embarrassment
i feel like im just too old for 90% of this bs
sssammmmmeeeeee
i see teenies fucking with vas and being rude in general and I'm just like were you raised with no manners Jesus Christ
YEAH P MUCH
and like, having my actual degree in media studies and going on to get my masters+phd in the field
im also just like
you are categorically wrong,
the suffering is real
Truly It Is
i hope blacklisting dezrose dingdong will bring u some peace tho cuz following a boner is 100% not worth it tbh
same
:')
Q_Q
im still sorta talking to them but they keep being like...yeah i only play tales for the stories! on normal! im using a guide i hope i can do the older games
nd im like
Oh Honey Do You Have A Big Storm Fucking Coming
LOL
good luck playing the older games on baby mode
bc zesty is such a fucking JOKE in terms of difficulty the only reason we had a hard time was because its mURDER with four people
yeah i am gonna be 100% honest
i am hardcore as fuck with jrpg battle systems
by the time i beat zesty i was literally just still hitting buttons
yeah. so were we.
yeap
and we've 100% graces on chaos.
like it's overcomplicated and you don't need to actually do any of it anyway
yeah
and its TERRIBLE for multiplayer
so why bother just mash buttons
its honestly literally unplayable with four people
yikes i bet lmao
i tried controlling characters that weren't rose or sorey and really did not like the playstyle much
so we had to drop the difficulty to easy because the camera is miserable and the horrible armatisation system??? we were all so fucking upset about it
god yeah the camera angles are REALLY BAD
so this person is like oh ill start abyss on normal so i can drop it to easy!!
nd im like
LOL
LMFAO CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU DO THE FIRST DIST/ARIETTA FIGHT
HHHHAAAAAHAHAHA
OR HELL, THE QUEEN LIGER FIGHT BEFORE JADE COMES IN
abyss doesn't really get Easy Mode until ng+ when you can use all those buffs and keep your artes
yeah
and symphonia has aged so badly there is no easy mode any more
if you suck you're gonna be salty til u figure out how to use mystic artes then if you figure out how to spam them you can play baby mode but otherwise like... good luck
unless youve already played it 10x and know how to break your character
i beat nebilim & the coliseum fight on unknown so
yeah, same
does graces even have an easy mode
does that even exist on graces...
abyss's battle system is so good like there's enough simple stuff that you don't HAVE to go balls deep into it but if you want to there are so many fucking little things you can do
LOL i don't know cause tbh i didn't play graces like i hear the system is great but i do not think i would enjoy the game itself
the system is so good, its soooooo good
and i already had the great battle system shit game experience it's called star ocean 4 :|
but its like. one of those systems where its ridiculously complex
but once you learn how to break it boy can you BREAK IT
GOOD
did you play destiny?
not yet!
graces' system is based on destiny and pascal casts the same as philia and
philia
let me tell ya, it sucks to get the hang of but once you do hoooooooooly shit :')
coliseum fight flashbacks
lmao
we were getting 300+ combos by the end bc its got THREE different mystic arte systems
that's fuckin baller
na i didnt get into tales until abyss and i've done SOME backtracking but i still have a lot to do
i need to play star ocean...ive been hearing so much good stuff about it
eternia and destiny are two of my favs
i love them both so much and by them both i mean i love rassius luine so much i want to hold him and give him a cookie and make everything not terrible
star ocean is like... hm. i have heard raves about the second game and i probably will play it at some point, i really do love the third game and think its flaws are charming but tri-ace has like
THAT AND LEGENDIA...i wish it had gotten a better release its such a beautiful game
publicly apologized for 4 so i do not recommend it
not to mention all the personal frustration and pain that came with that game
wow
hedy's playing 5 and has been super happy w it so far so...ill look into 3 at some point
its on my list of after i get my phd and have a fucking life again games
yeah i have heard 5 > 4 and some good things about it so
LMAO YEA RIP
IM TOO BUSY IN FFXIV THATS MY WHOLE LIFE RN
mmo is king
me b4 mmo: how do you spend so much time on mmo
me after mmo: will i ever be free from gearing endgame hell
me after mmo: will i ever be free from gearing endgame hell
BBBBASSSSIICAAALLLYYY
like i'm playing blade and soul casually cause my static is either playing other games/not playing mmos anymore for the most part and losing that is like someone trying to feed me poop and saying its chocolate
ITS FUNNY BC B4 WE HIT EDGAME IW AS LIKE "IM A CASUAL ILL STOP WHEN WE'RE DONE W THE STORY" and now its like, i have never been so wrong about anything IN MY ENTIRE LIFE
YEAH THAT IS MISCONCEPTION #1 LMAO
oh god losing your static is like, id rather cut off my arm tbh
IT'S SO FUCKING BAD. IT'S HORRIBLE.
the only one who still plays is my girlfriend and duoing isn't as fun in this game as it was in aion so
our bard/althealer is on a raid break rn and it's been a fucking nightmare
we just slack off and occasionally grind shit tho she goes harder than me since she's made some kind-of friends and i am just like NO. I REJECT.
oh god losin the healer no
dudeee.....if youve gt the interest come check out xiv because we have a damn solid guild and everyone's
like
we'd all be super hardcore if we didnt all work full time and have Real Lives
ill ask her about it! though tbh we are pvp hounds more than pve, or rather we used to be
so instead, we're just hardcore on saturday afternoons and otherwise salt SUPER hard
now we just kill this big dumb yeti 500 times a day
second season of pvp being streamed now 
also pve is a lot more fun in xiv from what ive heard from my hardcore mmo friends; since it is a ff game
hmm i heard that the pvp content wasn't that solid in xiv which is why we didn't talk about playing much when the Split happened
but i'll take a look tbh
yeah, its a lot better than it used to be
yeah! anything is better than aion pve that literally just made me want to eat my eyeballs
theyve been putting a ton of effort into buffing it and sharpening it up and putting it into shape
NICE
and like, gearing it to be way more fun so its really taken off in the last like 3-4mo
ive tried it and even tho i hate pvp its SUPER fun
good good and tbh i imagine it's pulling players from blade and soul because of the arena problems
yeahhhh i fucking love pvp like my static was honest to god top 10 na, we weren't the best but we could hang w/them so it was FUCKING AWESOME
yeah it probably is, espec. since we're in the middle of a patch cycle rn so there's actual content
and now playing without them i am like oh yes 5 people just killed me, i am going to do something else
our static isnt that good but mostly because we're all lazy pos, i know some of the bigger servers have some wild pvp
me+husband play on aneu server but the na ones are pretty crazy; my brother in law is on gilgamesh and thats like world first clear server and all hardcore
yeah rl ended most of us tbh cause it'
s like look this game is literally a fucking full time job to even try and keep up
plus it got really gear dependent and to get the best you had to spend mad $$$ to the point it actually went p2w and i was just like nah i am out lmao
jesus christ no xiv isnt like that at all
its not even that bad in terms of gearing time
GOOD
aion's latest update has it so that if you fail an enchant (rng is pretty bad for it anyway) your gear just. breaks. LMFAO
like right now to stay on top of non-like, full static hardcore gear is two raids+four/five dngs a week
and even the hardcore static stuff is just one clear per person in a raid group a week
wew nice yeah that is not a bad commitment
they do their best to keep it balanced so that people can like, do other stuff
because Real Life
i'll definitely ask my gf when she wakes up see if she feels like trying something else cause we're both a bit burned out on blade and soul after the server merge took us from like
low pop to highest pop server in na
so now there are little gremlins everywhere
if you decide to check it out we're on chaos data centre, moogle server! and im happy to help out w clears and stuff 
plus the free trial is honestly, so nice
AYE TY i learn pretty fast and once i get it down i can get her through it, she's really good tbh but also very anxious until she learns so that is my job
honestly also what ill give xiv is that
its like. so nice about single/multiplayer
you can do so much stuff all by yourself and only do dungeons/trials with other people and its really nice
no commitment to people required unless you wanna
BALLER
that is one of the things i like about b&s pve content like you can be pretty fucking antisocial and either solo if you're good enough or just pug everything
ALSO WE'RE ABOUT TO GET ALL NEW CLASSES TOO??? IM FUCKING PRAYING @ BASED YOSHIP COME ON WHERES SAMURAI
but we all know the average intelligence of a fucking pug so i rerolled to the carry class
you can honestly pug everything without any difficulty
up until like, high-end raiding stuff, on moogle at least
all story is pugable, so even is some stuff
*at high ends
yeah story on b&s is full solo then it just dumps you right the fuck out there and tbh doesn't limit player entry the way it should so
i know on gilgamesh, my brother in law has cleared all his top content in pug
you end up in an endgame dungeon pug with someone who is three levels under and has like. 1/3 of your damage if you're lucky
ohhh god no xiv has so many lockouts
there's ilvl lockouts, level lockouts
THANK GOOOOOD
and like, honestly, if you arent good enough at your class you CANNOT clear the solo instances and there are some for every job class
like, god, lucy and me and james were running on me +james alts on ultros earlier tonight in a dungeon
and im tanking on my alt (i dps on main) and we got this healer
who was like...so bad, so, so bad
and i was like, you're never gonna clear story like this LMFAO
LMFAO YEAH
THEY WERE LIKE "ITS THE TANKS FAULT HE DIED!!" I WAS USING FUCKING BOSS TANKBUSTER COOLDOWNS TO SURVIVE THROUGH CLEARS AND THEY WERE "EMERGENCY CURING" AND TRYING TO DPS IN HEAL STANCE
im nice to bad healers though like i used to play the tank class on aion and now i play what should be a dps class but i tank everything on it since no one can hold aggro
LOL
i usually just ignore them because at this point all lower level content is so easy and fun fr me if i wipe im like, eh, whatever, nbd
magilou。
needs
more WTF UNINSTALL TRAHS NOOB
after wiping w my static for literally five hours straight on something honestly dying to some random mob is kinda fun
yo those are the best times though
they really are
so many memes, so much screaming
aion pve is IMO pretty easy but one time we definitely went to a 12 man with just the 6 of us then took the first 6 people who applied
all of which were either really terrible or DRASTICALLY undergeared, then cleared it
it was so fun yelling on teamspeak like YOU AND YOU GO OVER TO RIGHT SIDE KILL THEIR ADDS etc
you can do that on like, clearing lvl50 stuff unsynced
like we went in blind to the final lvl50 raid and cleaed first try SCREAMING EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
BEST WAY
but on the 60 content its like good luck shoving your fist in your mouth and DYING
LOOOL that is kind of how b&s is now honestly like most of the endgame dungeons are mechanic heavy and while one or two max people can carry the mechs
someone can still fuck them up
LIKE...THEY JUST ADDED A NEW STORY TRIAL IN THE LAST PATCH and it was so hard that casuals...actually had to have it nerfed
LOL RIP
we cleared it first try and tbqh i still dont see the big deal
people really do not like to read their skills tbh
no god they dont
#1 thing i hate in f2p mmos is the english pop who screams and yells at esl folks when they don't read their god damn skills either
i mean look at least he has an excuse
me all the time always
i play the dot/pet dps class and i am constantly astounded by how few people actually know how the fucking dots work like
DOTS ARE SO COMPLICATED FOR PEOPLE OH MY GOD
DO YOUR DOTS BREAK CC
if you wanted to blow shit up play black mage
THEY CAN
THE STRUGGLE
I CAN ALSO RIP AGGRO OFF OF PRETTY MUCH ANYBODY,
every time one of my friends landed a clutch ass cc and all of a sudden here comes dumbo
like not only is smn the dot/pet class its also is the aoe class
so if the tank isnt paying attention...welp,
yeahhh rip
but so many people dont keep all their dots up and im like
Can You Not, Please
I KNOW RIGHT LIKE THAT SHIT ADDS U[P
Cease And Desist
USE THE FUCKING DOTS
AND FUCKING CONTROL YOUR PET
PLEASE...DONT LEAVE IT ON AI
PLEASE.
Y E S
DON'T LET THE PET GO WILD
IM BEGGING YOU, ON MY HANDS AND KNEES
also a fav >cc > THERE GOES THE PET BOIS
hONESTLY THE NUMBER OF "THERE GOES GARUDA" FUCKING JOKES IN OUR STATIC
im really glad and sad that this is universal cause
yep
i accidentally instasummoned my tank pet in a raid one time instead of my caster one and everyone was so confused why it was there that we instantaneously wiped
"how the fuck did the cleric wake up" "...........sm pet"
we all forgot the mechanics and died
L O L
one time she...pulled a raid boss while we were still prepping
AH YEP
i mean thats happened like five times
SURPRISE PET AGGRO ALSO GREAT
SOMETIMES, THEY JUST GOTTA FIGHT
BASICALLY
the best is rly tho
"why is the pet dead"
YEP
why IS the pet dead. will we ever know. when did she die. how did she die. what killed her? questions well never know the answer to, because shes just inexplicably gone
LMFAO GOD
bns pets are just annoying in pvp tbh but god in aion you had to Watch That Fucking Pet cause the sm has a move to sub all damage to the pet
and if you don't cc them and/or murder that pet, gg that's a wipe
my favorite is that ok they had four pets, different levels of hp/defense, smart ones would use the tankiest pet
yeah one of the pets in xiv has a move that extens all your dot length by 30sec+30%higher cast time
every time someone subbed on the damage pet i would just start hooting
and when people dont use it im like Why Are You A Moron
YEAHHHH
I HAVE A BAD SMN BINGO AND THATS THE FREE SQUARE AT THIS POINT.
LMAO GOD
i have a bad force master bingo and it only has 1 square
basically you get a huge damage buff as long as you keep a burning debuff on the enemy and you get that debuff by using a detonate skill
the bingo square is "auto detonate" which just AUTOMATICALLY BLOWS THE 5 STACKS FOR ALL FMS
my bad smn bingo has a lot of squares because there are so, so many bad smns. because people are idiots. so many bad smns.
so you literally cannot put burn on it
WOW
and lose 40% dmg
rifp
i literally begged 1 guy to turn it off
because we were doing like one of the hardest dungeons and i had tolerated it ALL THE WAY UNTIL THE LAST BOSS but he is like "nah not really feeling it"
wh y
see they just released the new set of raids in xiv and the first is LAUGHABLY easy like its not honestly hard at all, so everyone was like WE WANT SOMETHING HARDER
so the devs were like. you want something harder, you say. HARDER, they say
SO I END UP STILL FUCKING TANKING THE STUPID THING AND THAT MOTHERFUCKER HURTS so dingdong is not actually outdpsing me in the first place and. i was just raging on discord like GOD FUCK AUTODET DELETE IT
and if youve played ffix they put fucking. ozma. in. as a raidboss. AND NOBDY CAN DO IT. NOBODY CAN DO IT!!! ITS SO LIKE
OH MY GOD YES I
YES
LMFAOHAKHGKHGB
players: harder!
devs: harder???
players: ...nOT THAT
devs: harder???
players: ...nOT THAT
magilou。
is
IT RNG LIKE OG OZMA THO
BUT THE BEST PART IS?
YES.
YES IT IS.
G O O D
walk up get meteor insta die
HONEST TO GOD THO, THERES TWO BOMBS
IF YOU DROP THEM WHERE YOU GO
you dont wipe
ITS TOTALLY AVOIDABLE BUT FUCKING NOBODY KNOWS WHERE LEFT IS
that is way, way too difficult for the average mmo player
god i love it so much its my fav fight in the entire game but watching people eat shit and die to it im always like why @ god
LMAO ALWAYS
its also gorgeous...hd ozma is like
id like to thank god and also jesus
bns has really simple cc like you have 2 black bars. you need to use an attack of that cc 2 times. it's easy as fuck. PEOPLE STILL FUCK IT UP AND JUST RANDOMLY THROW OUT 1 CC THEN EXPECT IT TO BE FINISHED
OR USE SOME OBSCURE ASS ONE THAT NO ONE ELSE HAS SO YOU EAT THE DAMAGE
omg thats so good tho
everyone is dumb :')
the bar even SAYS
"STUN!"
"KNOCKDOWN!" etc but no. no this is too much.
omg,
OK I REALLY, REALLY HAVE TO SLEEP ITS LIKE AN HOUR PAST MY BEDTIME BUT I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER AFTER #SALTHOUR
come to xiv
so now i play the class that has 2 easy as fuck double ccs but at the same time......i have BAD FPS SO PEOPLE STILL!! RUIN IT!!1
fight the giant pope
AAAHH OKAY GOOD NIGHT salt hour was realllll
and ye i will ask her
things to come to xiv for: cute glamours, fighting the giant pope, squonk