Some information about upcoming job adjustment.

In particular interesting is that they listened to the specific request of adding artificial emnity to the now-damage-less gapclosers of GNB and DRK, and that they are once again wasting the chance of giving Astro an actual mobility tool in favor of further baking Lightspeed into the 2m-burst. Sigh.

Main link is to the EU site, also got:

• US download link
• JP download link

The results are remarkable, lighting looks worlds better than before.

Hey I got 79/100! Not bad I would say. 😅

Also I learned what a 'sandbag' is in a group. Apparently.

They're going to fix the lighting in the character creator that makes the new models look worse than ingame. Also working on the remaining textures and all, so things are more comparable to how it'll be in the final product.

Hey peeps, let me preempt this by saying IM DISABLED.

OK let me explain, I enjoy playing ff14 but unfortunately I have arthritis and carpal tunnel which makes it painful to stretch my hands too much to press all the buttons necessary. When I played wow I was able to get by with the use of their extensive macro communities and add-ons.

Unfortunately the same communities and add-ons don't really exist and the community seems to be by in large unintentionally ableist, at least by my research. All I see is variations of 'don't use macros because you'll lose .5 seconds and suck!'.

I don't play hardcore endgame content not do I have any intention to play it with random. I mostly play with friends and they don't care if I use macros or not, they understand my situation and just want me to have fun.

But here I am asking for help with macro creation and possibly class choice. I'm currently playing a summoner as they don't seem to be very hard and I can macro a couple of things together to ease my pain.

What tank and healer class would be the easiest to play for someone like me and possibly what macros could they use to give me a hand?

For summoners, is there a way to macro the summons with gemshine? Plus add a modifier in there for aoe. That way I can trim down 5 buttons to 3. I know it was possible in wow but as I understand it ff14 has a limited macro system on purpose.

I hope some of you understand my situation and spare me the criticism. Most of the ff community has been lovely and understanding, I just get the rabid folk when I mention combat macros.

It's out!

Interesting details:

• We have a better ambient occlusion option now.
• DLSS/FSR is available.
• Character lighting is smoother, eyes are better, mouth animation is amazing, hair looks better. Sadly difficult to see in the character generation due to the lighting but if you let the benchmark play with it, it becomes rather obvious.
• When selecting voices for a character, you can now also select which type of emote you want to hear as an example.

Damn, did not know a design this trivial in nature can be protected. They're not marked as registered logos in images, hence me thinking they'd be okay, and they had already removed all verbal mentions of FFXIV, Square-Enix and the job names and so on.

Shame, the necklaces were super pretty, I was looking at getting an Astro one, pricy as they are.

In case the status changes, here's what the page looks like right now:

> MMORPG INSPIRED ✧ Necklaces is the subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable.

And when clicking on the claim details:

```MMORPG INSPIRED ✧ Necklaces [Submitted by Square Enix, Inc.]

Date: 2024-03-28T17:13:03.000-07:00

Sender [Private] Square Enix, Inc. 999 N. Pacific Coast Highway El Segundo, CA 90245 US

Sent via online form

Recipient Kickstarter, PBC 228 Park Ave S PMB 59430 New York, New York 10003-1502 US USA

Re: MMORPG INSPIRED ✧ Necklaces

Description of copyrighted material: Material from FINAL FANTASY XIV, specifically the icons for the different jobs in the game. You may find information about the FINAL FANTASY XIV job icons here: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/battle/

Description of infringing material: Necklace designs using copyrighted FINAL FANTASY XIV job icons as part of the design. ```

Also, here's the known issues after this patch:

> In the FINAL FANTASY XVI Crossover Event: The Path Infernal, during the quest of the same name, the Duty List display will not update from "Speak with Clive" even if the quest objective is completed.

> This is only a display issue with the Duty List; progression of the quest itself is not affected and we have confirmed that the Duty List will update upon re-login. For this reason, if you should encounter this issue we ask that you log in again in order to cause the Duty List to update.

> The next Letter from the Producer LIVE will feature as part of our upcoming 10th Anniversary Celebration 14-hour Broadcast. Join us for the latest look at what’s to come in Patch 7.0, along with our segment "A Realm Resplendent with Warriors of Light," in which we showcase some fun FFXIV statistics!

Times are:

> Saturday, 13 April 2024 at 4:00 (GMT) / 5:00 (BST) / 14:00 (AEST)

The maintenance that is currently underway on all Worlds is now scheduled to end at approximately hh:mm (GMT), hh:mm (BST), hh:mm (AEST) on on Apr. 2, 2024.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

[Date & Time] Apr. 2, 2024 3:00 to 6:45 (GMT) Apr. 2, 2024 4:00 to 7:45 (BST) Apr. 2, 2024 14:00 to 17:45 (AEDT)

• Completion time is subject to change.

[Affected Service]

• FINAL FANTASY XIV

Bit weird how the fancy one is for display purposes only and non-functional. But hey, you get a full Xbox with it, and what else would you use your X-account for nowadays except to spam shit like this?

Coming March 14. The mount is a bit lame imo.

Game pass ultimate subscribers also can get the Starter Edition for free, for a time.

The FF15 crossover event returns. According to the page it's the exact same event as in 2019 and 2021, so this is mostly for those who had not done it before.

If you have not, the principal reward is a 4-seater mount:

!

As one of the (probably few) FFXIV players who actually has access to an Xbox Series X, it is a bit disappointing that there is no way to participate in the beta.

Hope the people who have an Xbox and are interested in FFXIV but didn't pick it up yet for any other platform enjoy the beta. All 10 of them.

!

If you have not done it in the years before (it's the exact same event, it's not like the seasonals) the FFXI crossover event The Maiden's Rhapsody is coming up again.

Sorry, forgot to post these when they were going up, here are the full patch notes for 6.55 including the changes to frontlines balance and to the ice map.

This is from a summarization of an interview. The original interview (linked in the article) is interesting, but the highlights are that he doesn't feel like he's in any situation where he might get removed - which makes sense, seeing how big FFXIV has become in the MMORPG space and hence how much good marketing it provides for Square.

From the Fanfest keynote, the 6.55 update will come with a full 24-hour downtime while they work on replacing the JP server infrastructure.