So let me preface a bit with a quick history of myself. I've played mmos as early as the early 2000s (runescape, rappelz and adventure quest albeit the latter not really being an mmo), and used to have a lot of fun with them but somewhere down the line, I picked up a certain moba we've all probably heard of and countless other mmos that came out after 2010. During the past 11 or so years, games really took a nose dive into a toxic cesspool that we call gaming communities and myself becoming more of a "tryhard" and rushing to get things done and over with just to meet some random ass point. Recently, I've (hopefully) put BDO down for good and have been looking to move onto greener pastures.
Fast forward to, well, yesterday when I finally sat down and considered what I should really be looking for in a game. I wanna have fun and I'm about the "esports" or competitive stuff much anymore. Getting older, gotta watch my blood pressure, etc etc yada yada. That's when I thought about FFXIV and how I've never given it a fair chance. I LOVE grinding mmos where I can skip quests and the latter has always been a huge hurdle for myself with this game. However, I approached things differently and decided to just buy the expansion, get the lvl 70 jump for BLM, skipped up to Heavensward and just play the game and learn stuff.
I wasn't expecting to be so drawn in by everything honestly. From the expressions and emotes my character makes, to the reintroduction to the holy trinity most games have dropped nowadays, all the way up to the countless parties I've been in in the past 24 hrs that had absolutely zero issues with me being new; I have been completely blown away. I went as BLM for a few dungeons since it was what I was most comfortable on and people were super nice about everything and every party aside from one had multiple people start off with "hi" or some sort of variation of it. It actually feels insane that so many people can be so nice compared to what I'm used to. At one point, I accidentally wiped our party and people were like "ah its ok" and stuff like that. I also did a few dungeons as Dark Knight cuz well, edgelord and I kinda like tanking in some games but never had the fps to do so prior. My first group had a healer that pointed out that I should put on tank stance (I had no idea where it was) and even told me where to find it while everyone kindly waited. Then the healer told me to spam my aoe attack thingy so I did that and it make things a lot easier. Super glad there's like an honor system because so many people have been super nice and/or helpful today. Although it doesn't bother me much now, I'm used to getting flamed or seeing someone else get flamed for minor mistakes or just outright leaving. But here? That feels like it'd hardly happen. I'm sure I'll eventually run into the bad apples but I can't see it really making me that upset with how kind this community is.
And lets not forget about the music and environments. Man I feel SO immersed in this game. It's been a very very long time since I've stopped what I'm doing just to look at the environment. I'm huge on being able to see stars in games which is lacking honestly so the night sky on this game just makes me wanna stand there and look at the sky for a good while.
Idk I'm just super happy and excited to play more of this game. It's been a while since I've felt like this and its super awesome. I've been watching a ton of FFXIV content from guides and the such to memes (please send more meme videos). I'm so glad I dropped the usual games I'd play and gave this another, good look and hopefully I'll meet some awesome people along my way to wherever I'm going in this game.
If anyone wants to add me and run dungeons or something, my IGN is Mana Penumbra and I main EXPLOOOOSION (i.e. let's stand in the no-no circles and hope we don't die while smashing all the buttons).
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Fast forward to, well, yesterday when I finally sat down and considered what I should really be looking for in a game. I wanna have fun and I'm about the "esports" or competitive stuff much anymore. Getting older, gotta watch my blood pressure, etc etc yada yada. That's when I thought about FFXIV and how I've never given it a fair chance. I LOVE grinding mmos where I can skip quests and the latter has always been a huge hurdle for myself with this game. However, I approached things differently and decided to just buy the expansion, get the lvl 70 jump for BLM, skipped up to Heavensward and just play the game and learn stuff.
I wasn't expecting to be so drawn in by everything honestly. From the expressions and emotes my character makes, to the reintroduction to the holy trinity most games have dropped nowadays, all the way up to the countless parties I've been in in the past 24 hrs that had absolutely zero issues with me being new; I have been completely blown away. I went as BLM for a few dungeons since it was what I was most comfortable on and people were super nice about everything and every party aside from one had multiple people start off with "hi" or some sort of variation of it. It actually feels insane that so many people can be so nice compared to what I'm used to. At one point, I accidentally wiped our party and people were like "ah its ok" and stuff like that. I also did a few dungeons as Dark Knight cuz well, edgelord and I kinda like tanking in some games but never had the fps to do so prior. My first group had a healer that pointed out that I should put on tank stance (I had no idea where it was) and even told me where to find it while everyone kindly waited. Then the healer told me to spam my aoe attack thingy so I did that and it make things a lot easier. Super glad there's like an honor system because so many people have been super nice and/or helpful today. Although it doesn't bother me much now, I'm used to getting flamed or seeing someone else get flamed for minor mistakes or just outright leaving. But here? That feels like it'd hardly happen. I'm sure I'll eventually run into the bad apples but I can't see it really making me that upset with how kind this community is.
And lets not forget about the music and environments. Man I feel SO immersed in this game. It's been a very very long time since I've stopped what I'm doing just to look at the environment. I'm huge on being able to see stars in games which is lacking honestly so the night sky on this game just makes me wanna stand there and look at the sky for a good while.
Idk I'm just super happy and excited to play more of this game. It's been a while since I've felt like this and its super awesome. I've been watching a ton of FFXIV content from guides and the such to memes (please send more meme videos). I'm so glad I dropped the usual games I'd play and gave this another, good look and hopefully I'll meet some awesome people along my way to wherever I'm going in this game.
If anyone wants to add me and run dungeons or something, my IGN is Mana Penumbra and I main EXPLOOOOSION (i.e. let's stand in the no-no circles and hope we don't die while smashing all the buttons).
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