Strider Hiryu

Bah, fuck those cutscenes. I've seen them so many times I can quote them word for word. I miss the old days when we could skip them (it's the main reason I don't run MSQ Roulette anymore even though it gives 300 Poetics. Fuck 45 minutes on a dungeon that takes less than 10 minutes if you skip cutscenes). Now-a-days, if I run them, I just afk and do something else until I'm needed. Bard's support abilities are pretty much the same as they were in the past it's just that song's did different things and were actually continuous while consuming MP (like Mage's Ballad gave casters MP regen up the wazoo while Army's Paeon gave TP regeneration to everyone else (which TP no longer exists)). I do miss Foe's Requiem but it's a minor loss (though that increased magic damage was nice for the casters). I believe you get Nature's Minne at 60 (it could be 70, don't remember) that increases healing recieved for the target you place it on but as of right now you have all the support abilities you get at 50. At 80 Army's Paeon gets a buff that does one of two things depending on how you use it (not entirely sure, haven't played much of Bard at 80 yet). Honestly though Bard is a hell of a lot more fun to play now (even more so then its original re-work in Stormblood) and I'm even thinking of shelving Samurai to main it going forward (I just hit 80 on Sunday and I'm having so much fun playing Bard). Heavensward was probably the best the story ever was until Shadowbringers came out and has one of the saddest moments in the game for me. Dark Knight's story is probably the best out of all the jobs I've done so far and I hear the level 80 job quests story is fucking stellar (the main reason I'm now leveling Dark Knight to 80 instead of Monk). You got more then a few loose ends to clear up before Heavensward like killing 3 more primals and going through the actual finale of ARR (which is pretty fucking dark). I highly suggest you do the Crystal Tower series of quests if you haven't done so yet. Great story and raids and the story ties in with Shadowbringers and will answer a lot of questions you might have when you get that far.

Could be as it does seem he doesn't have a positive relationship with EA anymore (though Jack was pretty positive about BF1, there were just a few things that irked him). I know Matimi0 doesn't have one as they don't contact him anymore after his complete shit on Hardline back in the day (he was at the BF1 thingy but that's the last thing he was invited to). Level might be in the same boat as well as he's been shitting on BFV for quite awhile now but I don't really follow his content anymore.

Heh, I always pass on gear unless I need it in dungeons but sadly I don't need low level stuff anymore (my lowest level job is 30 and I have all the gear needed to level it to 80 when I need it). Honestly nobody will roll against you if you need it that's the great thing about FFXIV. There are still dicks out there that will but once you get to post-ARR content everything is Job bound so only those of that job can roll on it so as long as there isn't a Dancer, Machinist, or another Bard with you you're guaranteed the drop (armor and accessories are always limited based on role (which for you is Physical Ranged so you're grouped with the other two in that category) and weapons are always Job/Class restricted) as long as you roll need. The only time the loot system sucks is when you're trying to gear up an alt job on you're main and you can't roll need and you have someone of that role rolling need even though they obviously don't need it (24 mans are nightmarish for this. I hate trying to roll on Bard gear on my Sam only to lose out to the bard/machinist/dance who obviously doesn't need the gear and is rolling on it to turn it in for tickets or desynthing it).

Now you know what my issues are with him Sledge. Jeremy is just an overbloated, opinionated asshat that wants attention. Don't get me wrong some of his stuff can be good and I agree with some of it but the majority of it now is just shit. It's either attacking women, other games journalists, or other youtubers (don't get me wrong I know PhillyD isn't exactly a saint but his piece on him awhile ago pissed me off (hey I like Phil's content, it's one of my major sources of news since I fucking hate watching traditional news coverage anymore)). He doesn't have a Patreon but has something similar (I can't remember the name of it but he talked about it in one of his videos, he needs to make all the money he can now that he launched his new Exclusive Games website. Gotta pay those writers and editors now). Jack has been pretty much done with BFV for awhile now. He still plays it but I haven't really heard him say anything good about it in months (outside of one or two things). Jack is also pretty upfront with what content he's paid to talk about (well that and it's law) and I've seen him bash games he's paid to praise (though underhanded and slight, can't make it too obvious). I don't watch his stuff as often as I used to (other, more entertaining things to watch) but I still drop in for some of his more goofy videos or the ones covering BF4 and BF3 (where he does live commentary while playing it, those are some of his best vids imo). Quite honestly there is only one youtuber who's opinion actually matters to be and that's MrHappy but mostly because he's an FFXIV content creator (see I told you I'm addicted to this game, I even follow FFXIV content creators because of my love for it). His guides for dungeons, raids, and primals is top notch and he's very open about everything he's paid to do (and only takes on sponsors who's products he actually likes). He's also has very similar tastes to mine when it comes to game and I respect his opinions on them (hell it was him and someone else that convinced me to buy FFXIV).

I have that mount (It's a mogstation one). Hey don't look at me like that, it's cool and it's a two seater. Have you seen the Regalia yet? That bitch can sit four people and is way out of place in this game.

Welcome to end game pulling where tanks pull everything to get the dungeon done faster. I still can't figure out why people think they can pull huge in the early game when you're missing most of your mitigation abilities and have 1/4th the health (and the fact your healer is stuck with little in the way of healing spells or wtf healing spells). Meh, dps queues aren't overly bad. On average I wait 5-10 minutes as long as it's a roulette, queuing for specific dungeons is where you fun into ungodly queue times for dps since tanks/healers rarely single dungeon queue. Oh you've been to the Gold Saucer have you? Yea welcome to probably this biggest waste of dev time the game has ever had. I go for two reasons and that's the mini-cactpot and the weekly jumbo cactpot. Chocobo racing was fun while it was big now it's just boring. Everything else is meh unless you want to spend the time grinding stuff. There are some cool glamour pieces and some pretty awesome mounts if you have the time to grind the MGP (Fenrir, probably the best mount there, is 1,000,000 MGP. Took me roughly two years to grind the MPG for it. Now I'm grinding for the Cactaur mount that looks like the Gold Saucer but it's 2,000,000 MPG (and I'm at a measly 284,000. I was at 500,000 but I bought the Regalia when the FFXV cross-over event was going on)) but otherwise is just a waste of time. Heh, I pay the monthly fee for TOR and barely play 5 hours a month I should probably cancel it.

Alas you're on Primal and I'm on Crystal, it wasn't meant to be (I'm on Coeurl server, been my happy little home for 6 years). Yea, it might be a while before you can transfer since Shadowbringers upped the populations of servers pretty massively and it probably won't die down for another couple of weeks. You might get lucky though, I have heard of some people getting lucky and making characters on Coeurl even though we're shut down for character creation. Yea, the little ones are for town travel and the only way to use them is to right click on them and pick a destination in town to go too. They're not usable on the map so you'll have to use you're list or click on a big aetheryte closest to where you need to go if you're attuned. I kinda wish they'd allow you to use the map to use in-town aetherytes but sadly it's not a thing (maybe someone will get lucky and talk Yoshi-P into doing it). Eh, don't worry about it. As much as I want the mount (I'll sucker someone else into it or get my other friend to re-establish their subscription just so I can get it (nah, I wouldn't do that. He didn't enjoy it enough to continue playing)) I was more going for getting you some goodies. I'm just happy to hear you're enjoying it enough to buy it.

You let me know if you wanna pay for the sub, I have a referral link that will get you some nice in-game goodies (like a helm that gives 25% more experience gained and 99 aetheryte tickets for free teleports) and get me closer to my Twintania mount. Now that the selfish plug is out of the way I'm glad to hear you're enjoying FFXIV. You can actually use the map to teleport to any aetheryte you are attuned to but if you're not attuned it will not allow you to do so (so you don't have to use the list unless you want to, I do but I'm so used to to it from 6 years of playing). Then again at your level your list is nowhere near as full as mine (I kid you not my list is a nightmare). See global cool downs are the norm for me since I come from playing WoW and other more traditional MMO's so when I did play GW2 that was something I could never get used to (not a knock on GW2, BDO has a similar free flowing combat system and I love it) and it just never felt right to me. Not saying I didn't enjoy my time with the game but to me FFXIV is far superior in the things that matter to me (mainly the story, amazing soundtrack, and developers who go beyond what is necessary to provide for their player base). You will actually get your mount from the story quests around level 20 if you're not on a preferred world (it's around the time when you need to join a Grand Company (which should always be the Order of the Twin Adder. I'll have no complaints as it's obvious the best one (I kid but I am a Serpent Captain))). You'll have to do a short little quest but it's not difficult at all and you can also use your chocobo in combat once you do another quest located in the Central Shroud. Outside of that you aren't missing out on anything with the free trial. SE made it so you could experience the game at its fullest up until level 35 with very little restrictions. Sadly you're restricted to the chocobo until you either buy another mount later on (there are special currencies with certain NPC's that allow this), get a lucky drop in end-game content, or buy one off the Mogstation (which I own every single one, yea I know but I like collecting mounts). If I were you focus on Main Story quests and leave side-quests for other classes/jobs if you decide to level them. FATE grinding is a chore to level with just to warn you (which is sadly something I have to do now for my other jobs in Shadowbringers, thankfully they added a new reward system to them to make them worthwhile), it's not bad but once you've grinded the same fate 50 times you get a little sick of it. I digress though. If you ever have any questions if you decide to continue on with a sub let me know. I'm more then willing to help (you'll also need to tell me what server you're on (since I'm sure you're not on mine as we're kinda locked for character creation at the moment due to the influx of new people)). If we're on the same Data Center I can come visit you and help out if we're on at the same time (the new server visit system is quite awesome for this) since I've pretty much done everything outside of the Savage Raids and certain extreme mode primal. It's quite obvious I love this game and SE has done nothing but cement my trust in them as a company (as seen by the obscene amounts of money I throw at the Mogstation and on other merchandise (like the Lore Encylopedia's and art books)). Out of every MMO I've played SE has done just about everything right and 10x better then most other companies that require a monthly payment (I say just about but my only grievances are with how they handle certain in-game things at endgame but they're minor inconveniences).

I'm sold, I'll be getting CBS All Access just for this. Not only Picard but they're bringing back Seven of Nine, god damn am I hyped.

It's a god damn tragedy. Waking up to news of this was not how I ever wanted to start my day. KyoAni is responsible for the majority of my top 20 anime and it gave the world the masterpiece that is Violet Evergarden. Such horrific news and I hope the asshole responsible for this is tried to the maximum extent of the Japanese legal system (I'd prefer he burn for this but that won't happen). 33 wonderfully talented people dead because one man had a grudge against the studio. My thoughts and heart goes out to the survivors and the families that lost loved ones. For once I actually have to give Jeremy props for a video, this was very tasteful and very well done.