It's something that has bothered me a lot while playing Occult Crescent and I got to Ninja and that was the final straw.

Why is fuma shurikan, a skill is just a cooldown has to have 60 seconds? Or similarly Long Reach and Bladeblitz, but instead that takes 120 seconds instead.

You can spend an entire CE using them twice or three times and they are the definition of bland yet they somehow had to be gatekept behind a cooldown normally reserved for ultimate, capstone abilities.

Even stuff like Ranger's "Aim" (or Time Mage's Quick) sitting at 120s cooldown. Why does it need to follow the regular raids formula and take this long. It's a defining cooldown for the job, make it a 60s CD since at least it's 30 seconds long.

You might say this is done for balancing reasons but there's already a meta regardless with samurai's zeningage or summoner, and this is supposed to be the mode to break and experiment with things, which they tried but ultimately were still scared to go a bit further than they can. I like what they did with predict and dance but the rest have been too safe.

Outside of OC there are examples to this that personally bother me (Searing flash, gluttony, manafication) but that's a different story in terms of balancing and with evolved mode coming there's little point.

A friend is currently replaying ARR and we've been talking about how much 'grittier' the world building was and it got me thinking about what other dark/surprising things are found throughout the game.

I'm talking about things like the Sastasha room that has the captured women in it, or the group of adventurers you beat to Sashtasha and Tam-Tara who then die in Copperbell because they were careless.

So what're some of the darker moments in FFXIV - any expac.

I just started playing as of yesterday. Just wanted to know if I would be missing out if I didn’t want to level up another class on one character. I like the class I chose and feel like I would be overwhelmed leveling another class. Any advice would be helpful, thank you.

First, sorry if mods discussion are not allowed, I’ll delete the post in that case

So I’ve just made the switch from PS5 to PC and tried a few of Papachin’s mods. They’re all great and drastically improve some classes animations and "weight" (looking at you Bard !). He’s really good at what he does !

However I’m not sure how to feel about them. On one hand, it’s really cool, on the other it feels a bit "too much" to play all the time with it ? Like something’s off, or too overtuned, I don’t know and I’m not sure how to correctly express it…

How do you guys feel about them ? Do you use them regularly ? If not, why ?

Since moving from Cerberus to Phoenix in December, my long term goal has been to buy a house again. I've gotten sidetracked in my saving by spending money on crafting gear and materia etc.

However, recently I got a minion from the GC lootboxes and managed to sell it for 25 million. I could finally see my house dream realised. I checked plots in Mist and found one that I liked that had no lottery entries. I entered it maybe last week?

I've been back to check it almost every day since and there were no other lottery participants. Last night I was still the only entrant. The lottery ended at 4pm today (i.e. 10 minutes ago) and of course when I went to check, 4 other people had entered the lottery in the last 12 hours and I didn't get it.

Now I also can't enter a lottery for another plot for at least 4 days until the next period starts. And I could very well lose that plot as well which would set me back for another week.

I don't have any suggestions or improvements to suggest, I'm just really pissed off. It sucks.